Saatva, Denver, Tuft

[phoenix]

Hi Bromo,

Thank you for your prompt reply. As I said in my initial post, we are moving tomorrow and therefore under pressure to get a mattress asap to minimize the number of nights we sleep on an air mattress. I get that you believe Saatva is less bang for the buck than other brands; however when I look at the websites of MU’s recommended vendors, most if not all have mattresses that are a minimum of 1/3 more than the cost of Saatva.

You probably aren’t making apples to apples comparisons but there are many options available from the online list that are significantly less than Saatva if price is your only concern regardless of the quality of the materials (some less than $200).

Some of the lower budget latex and latex hybrid mattresses I’m aware of are also listed in posts #3 and #4 here and there are also some other types of lower budget mattresses listed in post #4 here as well.

One point. Although I’m very impressed with your site, as a digital marketer, I think it would be more helpful to me to see brands compared by price as well as feature set.

This wouldn’t be a good idea at all for all the reasons that are mentioned throughout the tutorial post (and the many posts it links to) and in other posts such as here. It would be much more misleading than helpful because it wouldn’t help anyone learn how to compare the value of any mattresses they were considering (see post #13 here) and they would end up making a mattress purchase for all the wrong reasons and there is far too much of that in the industry already. One of the goals of the site is to help educate consumers about how to make better choices not just repeat all the mistakes that are already happening in so many online sites and throughout the industry. Brand shopping is one of the worst ways to choose a mattress.

When I look at the merchants with innercoil hybrids —or for that matter Denver, which does appear to be an an option although we would have to buy it without testing first—there’s not much there at that Saatva/Denver price point in NYC. which is why I was writing in the first place.

While Denver mattress wouldn’t likely be a good choice for you because you are too far away and they aren’t set up to sell outside of their area and because of the shipping involved if they did and the lack of return options you would have … they do use high quality materials for their price range and there are no weak links or “borderline” foams in their mattresses in terms of durability even in budget ranges that are lower than the Saatva. Even something like the Ikea HEGGEDAL is in the same price range and uses higher quality materials and components and there are other lower budget options in the New York area as well.

Phoenix