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[quote]For reference, I’ve read the mattress buying tutorial and found it really helpful.
Sunday was the first time I really bought a real mattress for the first time. I visited a Mattress Warehouse (22152) and bought a Kingsdown Chardonnay for $1800 after some deliberation since I needed a mattress for moving to a new place. Today we had a snafu with the delivery folks and after an extremely frustrating experience on the phone, I’ve decided to just cut my losses and get a refund and move on.
I’ve decided to do a little more homework by reviewing sleeplikethedead and this site as well. I figured a good place to start looking for mattresses were sites with Columbus day deals and IKEA. I’m currently sleeping on a $200 ikea foam mattress and would really like to get an upgrade (hence the Chardonnay). After searching, I see that a lot of folks on here had bad experience with Kingsdown in general.
So a good place to start for me is here: slickdeals.net/f/8150990-us-mattress-sal...9-much-more-free-s-h
Kohls, Costco and USMattress are having the Columbus day sale on their mattresses and I was hoping if folks can shed some light on what their experiences with these mattress have been like? I never slept on any of these brands before.[/quote]
I would strongly encourage you to “reset” how you are looking for a mattress and to reread the tutorial which includes all the basic information, steps, and guidelines that can help you make the best possible choice … and more importantly help you know why and how to avoid the worst ones.
Two of the most important links in the tutorial that I would especially make sure you’ve read are post #2 here which has more about the different ways to choose a suitable mattress (either locally or online) that is the best “match” for you in terms of “comfort” and PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal preferences) that can help you assess and minimize the risks of making a choice that doesn’t turn out as well as you hoped for and post #13 here which has more about the most important parts of the “value” of a mattress purchase which can help you make more meaningful quality/value comparisons between mattresses in terms of suitability (how well you will sleep), durability (how long you will sleep well), and the overall value of a mattress compared to your other finalists (based on all the parts of your personal value equation that are most important to you).
While I can’t speak to how a mattress will feel or how different mattresses will compare in terms of comfort and PPP for someone else … outside of “comfort” and PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and your Personal preferences) the most important part of the value of a mattress purchase is durability which is all about how long you will sleep well on a mattress. This is the part of your research that you can’t “feel” and assessing the durability and useful life of a mattress depends on knowing all the specifics of its design and construction and the type and quality of the materials inside it regardless of the name of the manufacturer on the label (or how a mattress feels in a showroom or when it is relatively new) so I would always make sure that you find out the information listed here so you can compare the materials and components to the quality/durability guidelines here to confirm that there are no lower quality materials or weak links in a mattress that would be a cause for concern relative to the durability and useful life of a mattress before making any purchase.
All the major brands (such as Sealy/Stearns & Foster, Simmons, and Serta) tend to use lower quality materials in their mattresses than most of their smaller competitors that will tend to soften or break down prematurely relative to the price you pay and I would avoid all of them completely along with any mattress where you aren’t able to find out the type and quality/durability of the materials inside it (see the guidelines here along with post #3 here and post #12 here and post #404 here).
In other words … I would avoid every one of the mattresses you mentioned and all of them would make a very risky purchase that would be very likely to soften and break down prematurely relative to the price you paid or relative to many other mattresses that are available to you that use higher quality and more durable materials.
These are all retailers that sell a wide variety of mattresses that are all very different from each other but for the most part and with a few exceptions they are all selling major brand mattresses that I would avoid.
You can also see some comments about the type of “fake sales” that often happen on holidays in the guidelines here and in post #5 here. I would treat these types of sales as a red flag because good quality/value mattresses are available every day of the year from better retailers or manufacturers that don’t need “fake sales” to create a false sense of urgency.
If you are looking at an online purchase then the tutorial also includes several links to lists of the better online options or possibilities I’m aware of (in the optional online step).
If you are also looking at local options then if you let me know your city or zip code I’d be happy to let you know about the better options or possibilities that are reasonably close to you as well.
Phoenix