Charles P. Rogers

[phoenix]

Hi LindaKD,

Welcome to the Mattress Forum!

Like many folks here, I have spent weeks/months looking for a replacement mattress and everyone out there says they are ‘top rated’ it seems. In any case, there also are several out there who claim to be ‘mattress experts’ and I’ve read what they had to say. Increasingly I observe that the mattress industry seems to be dog eat dog with a lot of brand bashing.

Yes, it can be a frustrating process when shopping for a mattress, which is part of the reason for the creation of this site, helping provide people the tools to objectively assess the componentry within any mattress, regardless of brand.

I did check with Charles P Rogers since Consumer Reports rated them so well, and they immediately got back to me with schematics of all the content and layers of their mattress models that I inquired about. There are some Youtube videos with more information too.

That is wonderful that you were able to get complete specifications. If you’ve done even a little searching here on the site, you’ll see that getting exact specifications has been an issue for some site members (most recently in this thread, but the member was able to eventually get some good information ). I’m not aware of any youtube videos that provide out the detailed information listed here to allow people to compare that information to the durability guidelines here to make an educated shopping decision, but if you are aware of such videos, it would be a great benefit to let other members here on the site know of them, or even better if you could post back the specifications that you were able to acquire for the models you were considering. It would be a great benefit to anyone considering these mattresses.

I further asked if the president of their company was the daughter of the “Old Bed Guy”, who also seems to be the target of disdain on this forum. I was told that his daughter is not president of Charles P Rogers.

I think you may be referring to this post, which you may wish to read through completely, and my repeated attempts to reach out to TOBG. Regarding his daughter, she is still listed as the CPR President by the BBB and a CPR executive, but that information could very well be outdated. The mention of this back in 2014 was in reply to a site poster about a specific pattern of TOBG recommendations, and of course not something to consider regarding the construction of the CPR mattresses.

It is little wonder that we poor consumers find the process of simply trying to find a qualify comfortable sleep surface to be more difficult than trying to find a spouse or a needle in a haystack. Just some observations from someone relatively new to the mattress market since last time I bought one was 14 years ago.

I thoroughly understand. The best advice I can provide, regardless of the stores you’re visiting or brands or manufacturers you’re considering, is to use the guidelines I linked to earlier in my reply for the mattress shopping tutorial. The steps presented there will assist you wherever you go to shop for a mattress – even online.

I’ll be happy to do my best to answer any questions should they arise, and I hope that you’ll be able to post and share that information you said you acquired on the CPR beds with the others here on the Mattress Forum!

Phoenix