Hi SusanPS,
[quote]Our zip code is 33710 (St. Petersburg) and the retailer is Bed Pros.
As far as the “law tag”: they don’t have the actual mattress at their store. It would come from their warehouse. What info would i need to get from the tag? Just the manufacturing date to be sure it is within a certain time frame? Thinking i could ask them to take a photo of the tag and send it to me. They have a 30 day comfort guarantee and stated that the mattress has a 20 year warranty.[/quote]
Bed Pros is an authorized dealer for Pure Latex Bliss so they do carry their mattresses which means it’s possible that the mattress has been in their warehouse all this time although it would be unusual to stock a mattress that was several years old. You can find out the manufacturing date from the law tag (and if it was me I would want to know when it was manufactured) but I would be cautious and ask enough questions to satisfy yourself that this mattress is new and wasn’t a floor model or a return which would invalidate the warranty (see here).
You can see the specifics of the older PLB mattresses in post #1 here and they use high quality materials and there are no weak links in the design so if you are satisfied that the mattress is new and if your testing has confirmed that it’s a good match for you in terms of PPP then it would be worth considering although I would look at their “mattress only” pricing and wouldn’t buy the foundation and I would probably look for a bigger discount so it would be less than other mattresses that are available to you that use a similar amount of blended Talalay latex in the range of 9" - 10" because if it’s an older model they would likely be happy to sell it so they can replace it with a newer model (see post #6 here about negotiating). I would use some of the latex mattresses that are listed here as reference points for “value” and as a baseline for negotiation.
Subject to the guidelines here … the better options or possibilities I’m aware of in the Tampa/St Petersburg/Clearwater areas are listed in post #143 here.
Phoenix