Mattress shopping is worse than car shopping! (sets, reviews, Tempurpedic)

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by Sunnysee

YES it is! lol and I learned the hard way. I shopped for a mattress and after laying on the dreamiest one for ten minutes I was shocked that it was not as soft when delivered. Uhhh....the models in the stores get so very nicely broken in by all of the folks like me that try them out that we have to break-in our news ones....

I was soo dang disappointed, so I put mine on the floor and did calishthenics and jazzercise on it till I was confident it was ready and it was.....uh...almost as soft.

ConsumerReport said this, in the old issue that I read. It is so commonplace that the mattress that you try out in the store is NOT the one they deliver, which is more cheaply made, even though the tags are the same. How can you prove that they sent you inferior goods? Cut both mattresses?

They implied that mattress sales is a field rife with crooks and the only way that they saw around it was to pay top dollar to a store that stands by it's quality, like Macy's.

This is one field in which you probably get what you pay for. I would not look for deals, but go to a major department store with a good reputation, not a discount store of any kind.

I would probably get a Temperpedic, though. Or get latex, maybe.

[Lolipopbubbles]

I'm going to be looking for a new mattress and box spring soon too.

I'll say right now never, never, never buy a Sleepy's Series 400 bed. It is horrible. First it sort of flops like its on a spring and the sides ever so slightly but noticably tilt downward. See the mattress and box spring both have a board that goes vertically right down the middle. Needless to say that board of wood is hard as a rock when the mattress flattens and doesn't spring back into shape. And the bed frame has the cross metal going vertically down the middle instead of 2 horizonal. I have had this entire bed for one year come November 2011 ( just past the warranty) It was a $2k bed and already I need a new one.

Goldengrain, I agree. I now consider Sleepy's a cheap discount crap mattress store. Macy's is where I will go from now on and I won't by the Sleepy brand there either. Macy's brand or maybe the temperpedic from now on. I will check out the temperpedic only because I got a pillow that is temperpedic and it's still holding up quite well. It's very comfortable though it did feel hard at first but evenually it softens just slightly and wow I wish I had a bed like this pillow. I just fear with my luck it wouldn't be as good as my pillow and I would sick in it and have trouble getting out of bed LOL. I'm kind of big so I could sink in real easy.

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by Lolipopbubbles

I'm going to be looking for a new mattress and box spring soon too.

I'll say right now never, never, never buy a Sleepy's Series 400 bed. It is horrible. First it sort of flops like its on a spring and the sides ever so slightly but noticably tilt downward. See the mattress and box spring both have a board that goes vertically right down the middle. Needless to say that board of wood is hard as a rock when the mattress flattens and doesn't spring back into shape. And the bed frame has the cross metal going vertically down the middle instead of 2 horizonal. I have had this entire bed for one year come November 2011 ( just past the warranty) It was a $2k bed and already I need a new one.

Goldengrain, I agree. I now consider Sleepy's a cheap discount crap mattress store. Macy's is where I will go from now on and I won't by the Sleepy brand there either. Macy's brand or maybe the temperpedic from now on. I will check out the temperpedic only because I got a pillow that is temperpedic and it's still holding up quite well. It's very comfortable though it did feel hard at first but eventually it softens just slightly and wow I wish I had a bed like this pillow. I just fear with my luck it wouldn't be as good as my pillow and I would sick in it and have trouble getting out of bed LOL. I'm kind of big so I could sink in real easy.

Sometimes Temp. has stores in malls, and I tested one out in Brookstones at a mall. I also have had a latex mattress purchased from a Swedish import company in New York which has lasted me for decades. I like a firm mattress and I think Temp. now makes different firmnesses. I don't know what to think about that. You'd think that the one with the least air bubbles would last longest. What is latex, but some sort of rubber foam, pumped full of air bubbles? (Well, maybe it is not rubber, I don't know)

[SandyCo]

Mattress shopping is a terrible experience. I realized I needed a new bed well over a year ago. I went to various mattress stores, department stores, and looked online, especially at this website:

Best Mattress Reviews

They have a forum, with pages and pages of complaints from various customers. It scared me so much that I still haven't bought a bed! If I sleep on my back, I wake up with back pain, as my mattress is sagging just enough to be a problem now.

Memory foam feels like sleeping on a brick. I think the floor would be more comfortable! I'm not happy about the Sleep Number bed, either, since I heard about mold issues.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do at this point, but it's overwhelming. I bought a car after doing the appropriate research and test driving a dozen different ones. I'm paralyzed at the thought of buying a mattress, especially considering how expensive they can be, the various stores' return policies, and the fact that I'll be spending at least six hours a day on it!

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by SandyCo

Mattress shopping is a terrible experience. I realized I needed a new bed well over a year ago. I went to various mattress stores, department stores, and looked online, especially at this website:

Best Mattress Reviews

They have a forum, with pages and pages of complaints from various customers. It scared me so much that I still haven't bought a bed! If I sleep on my back, I wake up with back pain, as my mattress is sagging just enough to be a problem now.

Memory foam feels like sleeping on a brick. I think the floor would be more comfortable! I'm not happy about the Sleep Number bed, either, since I heard about mold issues.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do at this point, but it's overwhelming. I bought a car after doing the appropriate research and test driving a dozen different ones. I'm paralyzed at the thought of buying a mattress, especially considering how expensive they can be, the various stores' return policies, and the fact that I'll be spending at least six hours a day on it!

I have heard that Temperpedic now has different softness mattresses.

Actually, I used to live down the block from a business that sells foam/latex cut to size. It was a small family business grandfathered into the neighborhood. Maybe you should look in the yellow pages and talk to someone in such a business. You could probably get a good chunk of foam in the softness you want really inexpensively.

People bring old cushions from their too soft sofas to get new ones made, and padding for their boat and trailer home seats, etc.

Try looking in 411.com for foam rubber in your area, why don't you?
Just call and ask if they deal with the public.

I think a small family neighborhood business is less likely to cheat you.

You might save enough to get a zip on cover custom made.

[printingray]

Always go for comfort not for price. I am using a mattress for last 7 years and experienced it good. I purchased it online.

You can't find and choose your desired one from a huge variety of stocks from a retailer store, especially when the salesman's arguments are included in your selection.

Internet is the best place where you can opt different types and brands at the same time and select one which you want.

[Dereksdad]

Printingray, that makes no sense. How can you choose by comfort on line? You can't feel a mattress on the internet. If you said to find a lower price online, that would make sense. The problem is most manufacturers change the model name for different stores, so even if you find a bed you like in a store, you won't find it on line to compare anyway. If you found a good bed online, congratulations. But I would say you were lucky it felt like you wanted it to.

[Jaxson]

Glad to find this thread I'm mattress shopping and the more I read the more I'm confused. Leaning towards a Tempur-pedic only then I read reviews where folks aren't happy with those. Paying that kind of money I'd like to enjoy my purchase just like the rest of you.

goldengrain the Tempurpedic does come in various firmness, they have built in "massage" but it is more like weak vibrating I wouldn't spend the extra money on that.

They also have where you can raise the head & feet but I don't know if that would make the mattress weaker in those areas. Seems like it would since it would be flexing the same way a lot but who knows? They can't be flipped to like other mattresses can.

My main question is does the memory foam eventually stop popping back up more like compacting where you lay the most?

[nitram]

Originally Posted by Jaxson

Glad to find this thread I'm mattress shopping and the more I read the more I'm confused. Leaning towards a Tempur-pedic only then I read reviews where folks aren't happy with those. Paying that kind of money I'd like to enjoy my purchase just like the rest of you.

goldengrain the Tempurpedic does come in various firmness, they have built in "massage" but it is more like weak vibrating I wouldn't spend the extra money on that.

They also have where you can raise the head & feet but I don't know if that would make the mattress weaker in those areas. Seems like it would since it would be flexing the same way a lot but who knows? They can't be flipped to like other mattresses can.

My main question is does the memory foam eventually stop popping back up more like compacting where you lay the most?

No, the Serta Memory foam has a 25 year guarantee agains this. Tempurpedic retains heat and one of the biggest complaints is they are hot to sleep in. We tried them first and found them not only hot but hard to turn over in. We have a Serta memory Foam (Genius model) that is firm and is cool and bounces back to normal every morning when we get up. Not even the slighest bit of indentation. And they do not ever need flipping. It's been the most comfortable bed we've ever had.

[Jaxson]

Originally Posted by nitram

No, the Serta Memory foam has a 25 year guarantee agains this. Tempurpedic retains heat and one of the biggest complaints is they are hot to sleep in. We tried them first and found them not only hot but hard to turn over in. We have a Serta memory Foam (Genius model) that is firm and is cool and bounces back to normal every morning when we get up. Not even the slighest bit of indentation. And they do not ever need flipping. It's been the most comfortable bed we've ever had.

I'll have to look online for those Serta because no furniture store in our area carries them that I've seen. Restonic is big around me then tempurpedic.

Even with the mattress cover the tempurpedic was to hot? Thank you for your reply it is helping a lot.