About

SlumberMAAX was started by me, Spencer Jan. The first time I came to China was in 2001. Back then I came as a college intern. I spent six months travelling up and down the Yangzte River as a tour guide on a river cruise boat. I had a blast!  After my internship ended, I headed back home to the US and finished up my college degrees in International Relations and Mandarin Chinese.

After I graduated, I took a job that sent me and my wife off to Nanjing, China. A year later I was transfered to Suzhou where we enjoyed the small city life for a year. Now we're enjoying the bright lights of Shanghai and we're loving every minute!

I've been involved in sourcing and export for the past 5 years. I've seen a lot of products and visited a lot of factories. It's always interesting to see how different brand names are often all manufactured at the same factories. These days, everything seems to be made in China.

I started sourcing ordinary spring mattresses for the US market a couple years ago and when I started I thought to myself, "Hey - I could use a nice mattress here in China." After all, years of sleeping on the regular rock hard Chinese style mattresses had taken a toll on my body. I, like many of you, made many attempts at padding those hard Chinese mattresses with inferior pads from Carrefour and extra blankets. With limited success I did what most of you have probably done, somehow learned to live with it.

As I began exporting regular spring mattresses, I took the liberty of ordering one from our supplier for my wife and I to try out. I looked over their line of spring mattresses and went ahead and got one. It was pretty nice! But as time went on, the support started to sag and my wife and I eventually started feeling like we were sleeping in pits. That's about the time I discovered memory foam mattresses.

I've always heard about memory foam mattresses but was never able to actually afford one (Tempur-Pedic mattresses cost thousands of dollars and are so expensive that they actually provide financing to their customers - YIKES!). Since my previous spring mattress had left me wanting more. I had to try one. When I did, it was AMAZING! And, unlike my spring mattress, it's still amazing to this day. I couldn't believe what I had been missing. Why did we put up with all those hard Chinese mattresses for all those years?

Like many other Shanghai expats, when you find something good over here in China, there's a natural tendency to want to spread the word and help out other fellow expats. So that's what I'm doing and that's how SlumberMAAX began.

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