Hi mdgail1,
Unfortunately … your recent posts are crossing the line into being overly “promotional” vs educational and I would ask you to read the rules of the forum here.
In addition to that … some of the comments you are making aren’t factual or correct and it seems that your inexperience in the industry or about mattress construction and design or about the quality of different types of materials is becoming apparent.
The only thing that is similar between the Casper mattress and the Tuft & Needle mattress is that they both use a 1.8 lb polyfoam support core. The Casper uses a combination of synthetic latex and 4 lb memory foam in the comfort layers and the Tuft & Needle uses a high performance 3 lb polyfoam in their comfort layers which are all very different materials. Both the Casper and the Tuft & Needle use synthetic foam materials and outside of the microcoil in the Helix Sleep mattress they use mostly synthetic materials as well (their latex is a blend that is mostly synthetic rubber). These are all very different mattresses and some people may prefer one and some may prefer the other.
This is also simply not correct and there are many thousands of couples that sleep on both mattresses (and many other mattresses that don’t have side to side splits) that are very happy with their choice and that both parts of the couple are sleeping very well on the same mattress design. Couples that have different sleeping positions or that have different body weights don’t necessarily need different mattresses and there are mattress designs that can accommodate different sleeping positions and weights other than a side by side split (see post #2 here).
I hope that this is true and that you aren’t connected in some way with Helix since you are “promoting” their mattress based on incorrect or incomplete information that you and any others that read your posts need to know isn’t completely factual or correct.
As you hopefully know from your reading here … while other people’s comments about the knowledge and service of a particular business can certainly be helpful … I would be very cautious about about using other people’s experiences or reviews on a mattress (either positive or negative) as a reliable source of information or guidance about how you will feel on the same mattress or how suitable or how durable a mattress may be for you and in many if not most cases they can be more misleading than helpful because a mattress that would be a perfect choice for one person or even a larger group of people may be completely unsuitable for someone else to sleep on (see post #13 here).
There are many mattresses that would certainly make great quality/value options for many people outside of the “simplified choice” mattresses but the members here will know how to find them if they read the information and links in the tutorial or include some of their local options in their research. The simplified choice group of online mattresses certainly aren’t the only good quality/value options that are available to the members here.
The issue I have with some of your more recent posts is that you are providing incorrect or misleading information that someone else may not realize isn’t accurate or that may not apply to them and they may unknowingly take your “advice” to heart not realizing that it is just an opinion that applies to only one person. You are certainly right that there are many preferences involved in choosing a mattress but there are also more objective considerations that have little to do with opinion and it’s always important to differentiate opinions from fact. Each person can also have very different criteria in choosing a mattress that is “best” for them in terms of comfort and PPP, the quality and durability of the materials, and all the other parts of their personal value equation that are most important to them so what is important or “valuable” to you may not be as important to others.
The goal of this forum has always been to help educate and inform and to help people identify the criteria that are most important to them and to help with “how” to choose not “what” to choose.
Before I developed this site I was one of the most frequent posters at another forum and one of the biggest challenges there was separating or differentiating some of the more knowledgeable members who posted informative and fact based and more “neutral” information from some of the other posters that also wrote with “seemingly” good knowledge but who were only passing on information they had “heard” somewhere and had come to believe or were just promoting their “favorite” mattress. This last group was often misinformed or held extreme positions and did as much to mislead or confuse (in spite of good intentions) as they did to help in many cases. New members can have a very difficult time separating accurate and factual information from all the conflicting information that may be more about someone’s own personal preferences or opinions than they are based on their actual knowledge about the mattresses they are “suggesting” or “promoting” and this type of conflicting or often unreliable information just leads to a mishmash of conflicting and competing suggestions or advice and is one of the things that I very much wanted to avoid when I developed this site.
Searching for a mattress is confusing enough without having many people promote their own personal preferences and opinions or “favorites” as applying to others as well and which generally leads to many different people each “suggesting” different mattresses without any more objective or individualized way to differentiate and choose between them.
Phoenix