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[phoenix]

Hi zebo42,

I wasn’t ver clear re Costco. We saw a Cloud Supreme King we liked at a retailer, though pricy as you have suggested. Costco seems to have the same thing, though I haven’t called to confirm. Considerably cheaper, so I wonder if it is special for Costco that is different. I have seen that before for Costco., but never with the same name brand like here.

Tempurpedic is a price controlled mattress and they normally don’t allow any discounting but based on the picture the Cloud Supreme that is being sold at Costco is the old model that was replaced at the beginning of 2014 which means that it would have a different cover and a slightly different design and memory foam layers than the current model so it may not be an exact “match” to the Cloud Supreme that you tested in the store although it would be fairly similar.

The old model had 2" of the Tempur ES 4 lb memory foam over 2" of their Tempur 5.3 lb memory foam over two layers of convoluted polyfoam.

The new model has 1.2" of the Tempur ES 4 lb memory foam over 2.75" of the Tempur 5.3 lb memory foam over two slightly thicker layers of convoluted polyfoam.

The price is certainly in a more reasonable price range compared to the “regular” tempurpedic prices for their current models (it’s $1000 less than the current model in a king size) although it may still not be in the same “value” range as other very similar memory foam mattresses that are sold by other manufacturers that use similar quality/density materials so I still wouldn’t put it in the “best value” range even with the lower price.

I also wasn’t so clear re this - I guess my interest is getting a good quality recommendation for the materials and then it is up to me to find right PPP. What I meant was a manufacturer or retailer that you felt had good quality materials.

I don’t make specific recommendations for materials (which is a preference choice not a “better/worse” choice) or specific manufacturers or mattresses because there are too many unknowns and variables and individual criteria involved. Outside of PPP … a mattresss is only as good as it’s construction and the quality of the materials inside it regardless of the name of the manufacturer on the label and most manufacturers make a range of mattress that use both lower quality and higher quality materials. My focus is on helping with “how” to choose and how to make more meaningful comparisons and to help the members here make sure that no matter what type of materials they prefer that the mattress they are considering uses good quality and durable versions of that material and that there are no weak links in the design relative to their body type and their budget range. I do recommend the members here “as a group” and the tutorial post also includes several links to some of the better online options I’m aware of but there are also many other manufacturers across the country that make good quality/value mattresses and are transparent about the quality of the materials they use so you can make good comparisons.

Again … the guidelines I would use regarding the quality/durability of the materials in a mattress are in post #4 here.

For example, it turns out I am a couple miles from Bed in a Nestbedding and bedsetz which are next to each other. So I figured I would check them out this weekend and Flexus. What I meant to ask is whether you know enough about these companies to generally feel they have quality beds (excluding the 3 lb part about memory foam), apart from me needing to find our own PPP etc.

If the materials in any of their mattresses meet the quality guidelines I linked then they would be well worth considering (or at least comparing to some of the other options that are available to you) and if they don’t or you aren’t able to find out then I would pass them by. None of the mattresses that are sold by Flexus have any lower quality materials or weak links in their design.

Lastly do you have a post on Bed in a Box, seems to do well in Consumer Reports.

You can see my comments about Bedinabox in post #2 here and I would tend to avoid their memory foam mattresses along with any other mattress that used more than “about an inch or so” of lower density memory foam in the 3 lb range in the comfort layers of the mattress.

You can also see some comments about Consumer reports mattress ratings and recommendations in post #2 here and in this topic. As you can see I (and most knowledgeable people in the industry) would consider them to be a unreliable source of guidance about purchasing a mattress.

Phoenix