:ohmy: I’m new to this forum, but have been doing research pretty intensely for the past couple of days. I’ve found this site to be invaluable. The information available and quick answers, explanations and recommendations are wonderful.
In this case, I’m not certain if this is going to be seen as appropriate, so if it’s not, please feel free to let me know and/or delete it. I won’t be offended.
My husband and I are looking for a new mattress. After a lot of research coupled with some in-person shopping for a bed for my son a few months ago, we feel confident that we are looking for either latex or memory foam. I know the feel is completely different, and I haven’t spent any time on a latex mattress, so I went out looking today just to lie down on a couple to get a basic feel for it. In the meantime, we are leaning heavily toward SleepEz if we go the latex route, due to their reputation for quality and service, and the variety of what they offer, combined with price.
I stopped today in a chain store that I’ve only heard of a bit. I wasn’t really thinking I’ll buy there, but as I said, I want to get a feel for latex vs memory foam. I asked for latex, and he led me to one that is memory foam with some latex, and told me there was no such thing as a completely latex mattress. I was informed that nobody sells them anywhere, and if I even tried to have such a thing made, it would be a $700k mattress. That is NOT a typo.
That was by far the most outlandish thing I’ve heard during this endeavor (frankly the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in years). I did stop in 4 mattress places today, and in every single one, they either told me that latex didn’t exist, or that there were latex mattresses but there was no such thing as custom configured ones, or that you can’t buy them online, or a bunch of other things that I know were at best incorrect, and at worse purposeful obfuscation.
All this to say that I’ve learned a very big lesson since buying my son’s mattress, which is that I shouldn’t rely on anything I’m told in walk-in stores. Maybe some of it is correct, but given my experience today, I won’t do anything at all now without thorough research first. In effect, the information you guys have on here has become my mattress bible.