In 1981 my wife and I purchased a great platform waterbed, solid oak drawers underneath, drawers up top and lots of solid oak (would cost about $5 grand to replace it alone. It is a California King with the standard 72x84 dimensions Hard Side. We are on our 3rd waterbed mattress (9years old now) it is a 6 layer fiber WB by American Manufacturing in Corona but, at 65 it’s starting to wear on my wife and I! So, time to move on I think… I"m just not getting the right support anymore…
So, Saying that we have been out looking locally at beds, reading what ever we can on line and have found some that seem could be a good choice. They are mainly Hybrid Beds. The really only local stores were Mattress Firm (which even in our small county have I think 3 stores) We went in and other than their “House Brand” they seem to push the Simmons beauty-rest line, they have a bunch of Sealy but none of the Sealy I tested felt good to me… They have a new I serta (I think) all foam/Latex style which I don’t feel comfortable on… so, that is why I headed to the Hybrid. To try to narrow this down they showed us the “World Class” (which now is the Platinum according to Simmons) and then they almost overwhelm you about two of the Beautyrest Black products the Gladney and The Alcove. It is amazing all 3 of the local sores all seem to push those two beds heavily and my guess there is a big sales spiff on them.
The hard thing is Mattress Firm has those two “Names/labeled” Simmons sewn up and they offer very a very little discount on either of them. So, we kind of said if we were going there perhaps the Alcove would fit… it has 1 1/2" memory foam then, 3" cooling gel foam and since it is a Hybrid it has 850 coils. It seems like the Simmons on this product has a set price on the product… is it really that good of a bed? I"m not 100 percent sold, my wife is closer than I am on it… but for $2200 it seems like alot of money for what you get… and with how hard the sales push is I am guessing those two products are the highest profit in that line and a great commission-spiff goes along with it.
In looking at the Simmons website, they of course do not show that model, and any google searches don’t bring any other reseller up other than Mattress Firm or Snoopy’s that is now part of Mattresss Firm chain.
Does anyone have any comment of the Simmons Bueatyrest “Black” Hybrid line of beds… I have to say that after owning our water bed for so long and a matterss chance out was always less than $250.00 ea it is shocking to see folks say that a $2000-2500 mattress will have to be replaced in 8 or 9 years .
We live in the 37087 area just east of Nashville, Some folks say wait until Memorial Day sales… .will it the sales really be that big on Memorial day… Of course Matteress Firm claims they now have their Memorial Day sales going on… the bed is $100.00 lower than what it was before the sale… .so, I guess the big question is, what kind of discount will be a Good Discount on these type of beds… even the Mail order stores are not much different in pricing on these products of Like product.
Any suggestions will greatly be appreciated…
Dave