Massage Chair Industry Update - January 23, 2019

Hello, I'm Dr. Alan Winder of Massage Chair Relief Calm and today is our bi-weekly

massage

chair

industry

update

for Wednesday, January 23,

2019

. I had a pretty hectic time at the Consumer Electronics Show two weeks ago in Las Vegas , where I was able to visit and by the way, you can see the video of my visit to CES in my interview with Cliff Levin of Furniture For Life and the talks I had with the representatives of a human or non-human touch, sorry I couldn't see. human touch but cheers mate and LaRocco and Dreamwave but anyway you can watch the video on my YouTube channel but when I went to CES I had the opportunity to interview Cliff Levin about his new line of

chair

s called Dreamwave now it's a little bit and it's a little complicated because most people know that the name dream wave is the Anada dream wave chair, which has been a best-selling model since it was introduced to the market in 2009 or whenever, but anyway the name Dream Wave always was owned by Cliff Levin, the president of the US, and now Furniture for Life, which is the parent company of you, now for us, Panasonic, has a positive stance and now the Dream Wave

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chairs, but they .

We've taken that name, the term dream wave, and attributed it to a whole category of chairs, so they're launching a whole new line of chairs called the M series, M as in Mary that M, and they'll have it there starting with the m dot eight model and then there's the M dot eight deluxe, the m dot eight audition and we talked about that in the interview, but the entire new Dreamwave line is an L track chair with assembly and testing. and some of the components made in Japan, of course, come from imported Chinese components which most chairs have to some extent today, but these chairs are very nice and will be priced at ninety five. price range from one hundred to ten thousand dollars with their special edition model which is priced at fifteen thousand but what makes it unique is that it has the side armrests actually open like doors so if you have if you're like maybe older and you have trouble sitting in the traditional massage chair that has the ottoman in front of you, which is a little difficult to negotiate or you have a lot of lower back pain and you can't move very easily and believe me, I've had that I know how.

I mean, you can open the doors like the side armrests and you can slide in from the side and I point that out in the video, although the audio when I showed the videos is really bad so it's probably not how you can. I don't listen to it, but you can see it even though my recording is pretty bad too, but there's a new Dreamwave series, so, and this is where it gets a little confusing now that nothing, it's not a dreamwave, which It has been a very, very puppet chair. I already told you that I already mentioned that the chair is now so B since its name has been changed to Dream Wave Classic and that chair will be moved to the new Dream Wave category, so you will not find the NADA Dream Wave under add category under anata you will have the anata nest and the amount of flex 3 talking about e nada while I was there at the Consumer Electronics Show, the e nada family from Japan had a booth there, a small booth with a new model called Lu penis and it's L upin us, don't go crazy with that name but it is a very interesting chair, very interesting design, it has a good look, watch the video and you will see that it has an arm and calf massage that looks like big hands, big fingers massaging the muscles, it is quite interesting.

I never had a chance to sit on it, but it looks great anyway, you can see I don't know if that will be distributed. United States I don't know, you're not from the US, he's not bringing it so there may be another distributor that could do it and I think maybe that's why they were at CES to see if there were any potential partners for that chair of all modes so you know the new Dreamwave line you will see that soon we have been asked to change our category or add the Dreamwave category to our massage chair categories, brand categories and a brand called dream wave and then the m8 will eventually be part of So, I understand that there are some stores that will have some at the end of this month, but for the mold for most of us I have been told that we have to wait probably until May, May or June to be able to get a floor model and be able to give it a try. review and make videos, etc., but we'll see what happens when we get to that point, but anyway, the new Dreamwave line, the new family, is not a chair, which I don't know. was it going to be in the United States or not and then we also visited Larocco and they are updating the legends of LaRocco to the legend of LaRocco plus very similar to what they do with AI robotics and the legend of LaRocco plus will be introduced on 1 February, but I will tell you that the price will increase from sixty-nine ninety to seventy-nine ninety, so if you want the legend of LaRocco, which was the first non-Chinese L track and to this day is the only one.

L track without any Chinese components, you have until February 1st to be able to get that chair that you will know the current legend still at the previous price of 6990 and here are the main differences that you will find. it looks exactly the same, the remote will be very similar, but the legend plus will have bluetooth capability so you can pair your phone with your chair and play your music through the speakers or you know, a laptop or ipad or whatever , but you We know that most people use their phones also when the roller rail is going to go up another three centimeters to the neck, so the chair in the past has been ideal for people up to six years old, although we have discovered Some people who are six to longer in the torso, the roller still doesn't reach the top of the neck, but now with three, now with three centimeters more in the neck, it will be able to fit taller people.

They say in their specifications that it can. They fit up to six five now, so that remains to be seen until we have the chair in our showroom and can test it, but they have also improved the airbags in the armrests for a more comfortable and effective massage experience. . I'm not exactly sure what that was or what it is, but I know they have elbow massage, which is great. It is the only chair that has that type of massage where there are air bags for the arms that compress the extensor, the extensor and flexor muscles of the elbow, the wrist flexors, the extensor muscles in the elbow or they originate and that's where you know golf elbow and tennis elbow originally usually have symptoms in that area so although I don't know what exactly air pockets have done to them but they have, they say they have, address those air pockets for the elbows to make it a little bit easier to get in and out of those airbags and use them and that's the LaRocco legend coming out on February 1st and again priced at a thousand dollars. jump so if you want to get the legend now before the price goes up then do it because the cost of the chair also goes up for us but anyway I thought you would want to know now.

I'm going to the Furniture Market this next week on Monday and Tuesday to check out the new Infiniti Overture chair that's on the way, which is apparently similar to the current Infiniti Presidential but will have calf rollers, air ionizer, let's see what else it is a god, he has voice recognition. It will need airbags in the calves or what they call oscillation and it will have a wireless remote control so Oh Andy the heated rollers that one also has but it will also have a USB charging station so that's the new proposal and we plan to have that our showroom as well, probably to replace the presidential ones, what will be the new chair, we will not discontinue it, but we will not sell it in our showrooms when the new one arrives.

The new overture is coming out, but I'll go this week and see what that chair looks like. Somehow it feels like talking about infinity. They've improved their warranty now, which is fantastic. The payoff used to be pretty typical for Chinese chairs, one year, parts and labor one second. year of parts into a third year of build and then if there are extended warranties, they were a year of parts only, the second or two years of parts only or a three year extended warranty for parts and labor, but they have changed everything that now, now its guarantees are one. one year on parts and labor at home, still three years on parts and five years on a five year structure, so it's very similar to the human touch warranty for their premium chairs, but their extended warranties have been that the extended parts warranties have been removed so now you still have the three year warranty for parts and labor at home for 399 and now they added a five year extended warranty option for 5.99 and that will be and That's it, and that's parts and labor at home, so anyway it's interesting to note that there are these changes with your warranty, which is better for you, the consumer.

I also thought I would mention that the used vehicle still owns our used vehicle directory, if you are looking for good deals on stocks, I know these chairs keep going up and now the price is higher, the dream waves are going to come out, you know , the $10,000 price is the Panasonic maj7 that we have added to our site or added to our site this week and that is here is $99.99 and we are seeing these chairs go up and up and up. and they go up in price and there are still less expensive chairs, but you know we're seeing a difference in quality for the most part and you know that with higher failure rates, maybe a lower mortality rate, if you will, for those lower priced cameras, but I can still get some decent chairs priced at 3-5 thousand dollars.

Brand chairs. Brand chairs that have that. and for which we also apply our lifetime job peace of mind, but what I wanted to mention is that we have, well, let me take a look at it right now while I have you in the hallway, everything that I have. Attention, but some of the chair offers that we have right now in our second-hand directory and these are popular chairs because there are certain chairs that we sell a lot, such as the maestro or the novel Human Touch XT or the Osaki Econ. And these chairs, you know, the more we sell, the return ratio is the same for them, so we'll get more returns, so now we have the Infinity Presidential and for an Infinity Presidential for 59.99 that chair is listed at $99. .99 and a new one we usually sell for $79.99, so $59.99 is a good price.

The economy one is listed at $79.99, we have it on sale for $49.99 and we have a sakeless master, which is an extremely popular chair and that one is listed at eighty nine ninety nine. for forty we have one for $49.99 and most of these are between one and three months old so you get a great show and we have a Melville XT human touch for $59.99 so we have a lot of chairs oh I should mention that we just put on sale our osaki japan premium 4.0 floor model which is a regular tea chair made in japan it was $59.99 or $54.99 we have it on sale for $29.99 that's our floor model unit at California Solar, but anyway, if you want a good deal, if you're looking to get good deals, you don't want to spend all the money being asked for on these chairs.

Now go to our second hand directory found on our website. You can see it under the current deals tab in our header and go check it out. we have and that changes day by day because we sell chairs and bring new chairs. If we sell a floor model or a return comes in, we will put it there, so please keep the used chairs in mind anyway. They come with the guarantees that come. We still offer our peace of mind. Lifetime workmanship guarantee. We include free shipping. Sales are final for used vehicles, but most people who buy them already know what they want.

They were just looking for a better deal. and those are good deals and all of these chairs have been inspected although they may have a little wear or tear is the best word I can use to describe it like a little wear or scratch if it's plastic but it's so insignificant. and so insignificant that you may not even notice it, but the chairs look great and work perfectly and of course you have a warranty, so if something goes wrong with the chair, you can always get the warranty coverage to fix it, of all modes. Just thought I'd tell you about our second hand directory now next time.

I'll post a video next week after I went to the furniture market in Las Vegas and by the way the furniture market is a it should be one of the seven wonders of the world it's huge it's just huge and that's where all the wholesalers go of furniture to find distributors to sell their products and then it's more or less by invitation or if not by invitation it's for people who sell their products there and pay for a stand or pay for a showcase there, but it's really an amazing place, just incredible floors and floors and buildings upon buildings of furniture and household stuff, quite remarkable anyway, I'll put up a video showing my experience withInfinity Overturn and I'll see more of Dreamwave there.

I think Dreamwave, the new Dream-Life chairs, have a stand, they're like the. I usually visit them every year anyway, but I'll go and maybe get more videos a little quieter, maybe get the audio fixed a little better. I can do a better review or you know.maybe not a full review but it will give my impressions about that chair. Oh, and that reminds me, I want to end this by talking about my reviews. I received a comment from one of my colleagues, another retailer, who contacted me and she is Someone I have a professional relationship with who we know talked about what is happening in the

industry

and she always has good information for me and I hope to have information for her, but she came up to me and said that.

One of her clients visited my website but didn't believe any of my reviews because she thought all my reviews were paid for by the massage chair companies that I do reviews for and she couldn't believe it because, how can you, I say that my reviews They are not my reviews, they are quite unbiased. I mean, sometimes I say something that maybe I don't like a chair or I really like a chair, but I don't get any compensation for my reviews. In fact, these reviews, every review I have done, every video I have done, every interview I have done, have been for my money in my time and strictly for my own clients as well so that they have information on how to buy a chair, the The problem is that there are so many models out there and so many retailers and then so many lines of marketing aimed at consumers that they don't really know who to trust or what to do and that's why I started going all out.

The articles that I write, I write reviews, I write on my blog, in my article library, I do video reviews, all of these are on me, no one pays me for these things, so if you think that if you come to my website, you think . so I'm just a paid shill, you know, annatto or Oh love or for the infinite or LaRocco oh, you're very wrong, if they paid me, I would probably make prettier, better quality videos with better effects that they don't have. It was professionally edited elsewhere, but they're all pretty complicated, so that's how I do it.

My videos are very basic so please don't think that because I am doing a review on a chair that is paid for or that I am being compensated, in fact I am not. I'll be honest. I've gotten pushback from some of the companies I've reviewed their chairs for or done reviews on their videos because I didn't do it. So I was so upfront and honest about some of the things about the chairs that maybe I didn't like, but of course I always say the things that I like about the chairs, but I still try to be pretty impartial. and not try to, you know, step on any toes or hurt any feelings, but sometimes I do and if I got paid I wouldn't say any of that at all, so anyway I just want to throw out those two bits in value for now and all Anyways if you found this video helpful please feel free to be featured like us on our YouTube channel and of course if you want to share this video please do so on your social media platforms and help us spread the word about massage chairs but if you have any.

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