Hi Cyd,
I’m sorry to hear about your experiences but I appreciate your post about your experiences because it helps to highlight the importance of all the steps in the buying guide and even though your experiences weren’t ideal … it will certainly help others to avoid the same mistakes and I appreciate you taking the time to share them as openly as you have.
A few comments …
The temperature of a mattress when you touch it will have little to do with its sleeping temperature over the course of the night. There is more about the factors that combine together to affect sleeping temperature in post #2 here. With gel foams the “touch temperature” when you touch it is more about marketing and can be very misleading because when temperatures equalize when you sleep on the mattress the memory foam will become an insulating material.
Tempurpedic is price controlled so it’s not likely you were comparing the same mattress. there would be something to account for the price differences which could be different mattresses or different foundation or adjustable bed included in the price. The price on the Tempurpedic website for a king size Rhapsody Breeze with their basic foundation is $4499 and with the Tempur Ergo base is $6499.
the key is always in making apples to apples comparisons based on all the materials in a mattress, everything that is included in the purchase, and all the other factors that are important parts of your personal value equation.
I hope you have a better experience with your new Tempur Rhapsody Breeze and thanks again for sharing your experiences and insights and I am sure they will be helpful for other members here who read them.
Phoenix