Hi shane,
Buying a mattress without reviews doesn’t matter, as reviews or other people’s experiences in general won’t tell you much if anything about the suitability, quality, durability, or “value” of a mattress for yourself or any particular person (see post #13 here). If you instead follow the steps and guidelines in the mattress shopping tutorial you will shift the odds of success in terms of making a good quality/value choice from being mostly against you to be greatly in your favor. This site was never designed to be a review site (and doesn’t even have a review section on the site) but is meant to educate and inform about “how to choose” a mattress … not “what” to choose.
Phoenix