Please help me choose a Costco Memory Foam Mattress

[phoenix]

Hi Betsy80,

I’m sorry to hear of your experience with your bed. I can imagine that it must be frustrating and disappointing for you.

So anyway, I am feeling overwhelmed because I am back at square one, needing both a new bed for sure, and likely new mattress.

The best way I know to deal with “overwhelm” is to work with the experts who already know what you would otherwise need to learn. In your case I would strongly lean towards buying locally and not online

I am thinking about going back to Bed Co because they have so many mattresses. But I thought I read somewhere, maybe even here, that Restonic only has 50% happy customers? Is this true? Most of what they carry is Restonic.

Every major mattress company makes better and worse quality mattresses. A mattress is only as good as the materials that are in it and it’s always the materials that are important … not the manufacturers label that only says who put the materials inside the cover. Everything depends on what is in the specific mattress you are talking about and Restonic makes some very good quality as well as some lower quality mattresses. I would also consider that the knowledge and experience of the people you are dealing with is at least as important as the number of mattresses they may have on the floor.

Phoenix, I cannot, I simply cannot, tell which bed is right for me based solely on laying on it. I don’t know if it’s because I have not met the bed of my dreams or close to, or because I am a person that needs to sleep on a bed to know. But based on everything I have said and complained about, are your suggestions the same for the 1 or 2 parklane mattresses you mentioned or has it changed? I need to sleep on a mattress to know, but I am hoping based on all I have shared about likes and dislikes, that there is one you feel is right for me. That’s where I am at, I need to be told what I need. I promise if you tell me and it turns out to be wrong, I won’t say, “Phoenix you told me wrong.” I just think I have the best shot of getting it right from someone knowledgeable because on my own I strike out. Please?

I think I need to be very clear here that I don’t tell people what mattress to buy. I also need to be clear that I haven’t suggested any of the Parklane mattresses except as possibilities that you need to verify for yourself. The whole goal of this site and the forum is to help people with “how” to buy, not tell anyone “what” to buy and this is something I don’t do and wouldn’t be suitable for a forum anyway no matter how much anyone wanted to be told what to do. I personally believe that your own personal testing is the most accurate way to buy a mattress but as I’ve mentioned before if you don’t trust this then the next best way is to talk with the people who know the most about their mattresses which is Parklane themselves. They are good at what they do and are a much better source of information about their mattresses and which may be the most suitable for you than I am.

The best suggestion I could offer you with the circumstances and challenges you are facing is to avoid online merchants that don’t know anything about the mattresses they sell and to work with some good people that are available to you locally that have the knowledge and experience to help you make the best possible choices.

If you do choose to work with an online manufacturer or retailer … then at the very least I would work with better ones such as the members listed here that have more knowledge about their mattresses, will take the time to talk with you in detail, can help you make better choices, and have options available if you make the wrong one.

Phoenix