On the gas part, what I meant was driving around testing mattresses. I had tried out a flippable plush Dutch Craft that was priced okay for my budget and felt alright, so planned on just getting that and not do anymore driving around doing mattress testing.
I’ll give Dutch Craft a try again first before I try a mattress retailer. As I find mattress retailers to be full of dumbasses. They themselves can’t even answer basic questions about things they should be able to answer. It’s not just mattress retailers, its also other similar type of businesses and situations and places like the government. A lot of it is just laziness, as they don’t want to take the steps to get the information to answer your question or provide you with correct info. So they usually just BS you with made up stuff, or try and act like the answer to your question isn’t needed, etc.
For example, I was at one of the mattress retailers that sell Dutch Craft. And some of their signs weren’t up. But I asked what the height was of a certain mattress. And just trying to find that out was a chore as the guy acted like he didn’t want to find out the answer. But he ended up just grabbing a ruler to measure it. But I had to ask him if the mattress height he just measured was the same for all the different sizes as the size on the floor wasn’t the size I was looking at. And he still didn’t go find the answer but told me he assumes all sizes had the same height.
So in that example it was a lot of work just to find out the height of a mattress, and even then didn’t even find that out as the size mattress I was planning on going with wasn’t even on the show room. Plus who knows if the guy even knew how to measure correctly with his ruler. He should have went and found the information the proper way. So I’m pretty sure it will be a failure to depend on someone like this guy to found out things like spring count and gauge, foam thickness, density, foam type, etc.