Green Choice Mattress at Denver Mattress

[phoenix]

Hi neocacher,

You can see some comments about the Green Choice mattresses in posts #9 and #13 here and the rest of the topic. Unfortunately they use lower quality/density 3 lb memory foams which would generally be a significant weak link in the mattress.

What’s not to say it will last 6-8 years? Only time will tell. I was treated nicely buy the sales people, got 4 years 0% financing and payments of $37.50 a month. You can’t beat that. On top of that, I have a 90 day free exchange on the mattress and 1 year test on the Ergo. Their are not many franchises that offer that. I highly recommend Denver Mattress at this point if you live in an area that has a store.

My question to you (admin) is how long do you expect a “higher quality” memory foam mattress to last? After all in my opinion, a mattress is only as good as its warranty, since as you admit, many “cheaper quality” ones feel good at first.

A mattress is only as good as the quality of the materials inside it and this is a “low quality” Chinese memory foam mattress not a high quality mattress by any means. I would also be aware that a mattress warranty only covers defects in a mattress and not the gradual (or more rapid in the case of lower quality materials) loss of comfort and support that is the main reason that people need to replace a mattress and mattress warranties are more about marketing than anything else and have very little to nothing to do with the durability or useful life of a mattress or when you will need to replace it at your own expense (see post #174 here about mattress warranties).

There is no way to know for certain how long any mattress will last or maintain it’s comfort and/or support for any particular person or how long it will take before any particular person crosses the thresholds between sleeping well on a mattress to sleeping “OK” to tolerating a mattress to finally deciding to replace it because there are too many variables involved but a mattress that uses lower quality materials such as these would generally have a useful lifetime of anywhere from months in some cases to a few years in others. In some cases if the mattress is already on the edge of being too soft for a particular person in terms of PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal preferences) when it is new then even the initial break in period (usually from 30 - 90 days) may take them over the edge of the comfort/support range that would be suitable for them (see post #2 here) but this is more of a suitability issue (choosing a mattress that is too soft) than a durability issue.

Having said that … with lower quality materials such as these a useful lifetime of 5 years would be unusual and for most people it would probably be considerably less. There is more about the many factors that can affect the durability and useful life of a mattress relative to different people in post #4 here and the posts it links to.

Phoenix