To continue the saga I will give a list of which locations I have visited (and either kept a business card or wrote down something in my notebook something). Below is in no way my recommendation for which stores are “best” only which ones stood out with a product/service.
Saturday
Taylor’s Furniture
601 Pearl Road
Brunswick, Ohio
There are 2 buildings, one for mattresses and beds the other for chairs etc. I was allowed to test the beds without any sales people near me. The only bed which I took note of was a Queen size latex bed for $1499, it was not exactly what I want; I would tyr to describe it as being too “on” and not enough “in”.
Metrohome/Sleep source (I believe they are the same company?)
5100 Pearl Road
Cleveland, Ohio
The sales person was extremely friendly, not at all pushy, and I was told that due to the neighborhood there were not enough sales of latex mattresses. However, they had a 20X larger building over in Mentor about 30 minutes away which had 15 latex mattresses… See below.
Metrohome
7835 Mentor Ave
Mentor, Ohio
Salesperson was pushy, continually made false claims such as “This mattress has a bamboo topping” me “No it does not.” “Yes it does look at the tag… it has a good quality (insert not bamboo material) topping.” The mattress I was trying to be sold was by “Natures spa” price tag $3599, marked down to $2499, floor model $1299. I was told at a nearby store that the “regular” price is actually $1699 for that mattress. Anyway, the mattress did not feel quite right, maybe it was too soft or too much cushioning which was adding too much pressure to my lumbar, I do not know, but the mattress was not exactly what I want.
Original Mattress Factory
4930 Lorain Road
Cleveland, Ohio
The sales person was extremely friendly and there are little cutout examples of most of the mattresses so you can see what is inside of the mattress you are testing. However, I walked in a little before 5 and within 5 minutes half the salesmen were leaving… I did not notice that they closed at 5 so I very quickly jumped onto the last beds, I apologized multiple times for not knowing and left quickly. There were 2 mattresses which were good for me: Serenity Latex $1,905.12 and Orthopedic Super Pillow Top $1,084.32. The latex is not worth that price in my probably poorly informed opinion, and I am not overly interested in a pillow top.
MattressMatters
17100 Royalton Rd
Strongsville, OH 44136
The salesman probably would have been helpful if I asked. I walked in, told him I wanted to just test them out so he sat behind the desk for most of it letting me roam freely. He did explain how the store was setup (which were springs versus foam versus hybrid) and he did point out which type of springs were used (pocket) in the ones directly behind him. I assume he knew much more but he was trying to not be pushy so he came off as a bit too careless. As mentioned in a previous post there were (4) latex mattress all made by Restonic which I tested. I did test other mattresses, but none of the other ones suited me as well.
MattressMatters
7525 Mentor Ave
Mentor, OH 44060
Salesperson was EXTREMELY knowledgeable I would state without any hesitation. If I am not mistaken he and I spent well over an hour talking about and trying beds. There was some form of testing setup where the machine plays some advertisement and measures how soft/hard of a mattress best suits your body. It was interesting, and I was correct as to how soft/hard I should sleep on. I would VERY strongly without any hesitation recommend this particular store to anyone in the area even though there were no mattresses which suited me.
MattressMatters
5712 Brookpark Rd Cleveland, OH 44129
I had met the salesperson 1 year ago. She is very friendly, not pushy, although I am not certain how much she knows about mattresses. She was able to answer any questions I had.
Mattress Warehouse
7741 Mentor Ave
Mentor, OH 44060
The salesperson was straightforward, seemed to know a lot, although I believe he did lie at least once. He said that I would not find any 100% latex mattresses for under $5k, which I am almost positive that I have seem multiple which were all under $3k. While not pushy, he did make a good suggestion for a latex-like mattress: Dormeo Octaspring. He had a little sample of it and supposedly it uses memory foam in the form of sponges/springs which allows it to feel more like latex while still being memory foam? While it would not be a bad purchase, I preferred the feel of other latex mattresses.
Sunday
Basista
5295 State Road
Parma, Ohio
The salesperson was very hands-off, I was led to the areas with mattresses to try and left alone to try them. One of the 2 mattresses I was interested in the salesperson had “never tried” so could not tell me much about it. More about this later.
Mattress Warehouse
I do not have any written down address for this location.
I was told that there were no latex mattresses in that particular store. However, there were 2 other locations which each did have the same Dormeo mattresses which I had already tested at another location. I was given the address of one of the other mattress warehouse locations. When I got to the address I was at a mall and there were zero mattress warehouses which I or my GPS could find.
Levins
No location written down, but this is probably true of all of them.
I walked in, walked through, saw nothing of interest and walked out.
To summarize
-Taylor’s Furniture: was very hands off, I have no idea if anyone knew anything as I did not bother to ask any questions.
-MattressMatters: all 3 were great, the worst which could only be said of only 1 of them was that since there was only 1 salesperson he was not very hands on, the other 2 were both great.
-Metrohome/Sleep Source: the first had a very friendly salesperson who either was misinformed or lied about the second location, the second location was very pushy about the product and made several patently untrue statements.
-Original Mattress Factory: very friendly, great visuals to see what is inside of the mattresses, willing to stay late when you stumble in near the closing time…
-Mattress Warehouse: First location seemed knowledgeable, made worthwhile suggestion for non-latex. Second had no floormodel to test and gave me either the wrong address or needed to mention WHERE at that location the store was.
-Levins: even at 50% off the prices were still quite high. Not worth the drive to get me there BUT I did get a free hotdog out of t.