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Are we being taken for a ride?
$5000 for a mattress??
even $2000 for an ‘ok’ mattress?

Is there technology involved, or space materials I am not aware of?
 
$5,000.00? They must be asleep because they are obviously dreaming ...
 
You can get a very comfy, well-made, made in USA, healthy mattress for $2000. It will last you a decade or so.
Healthy = no PFAS or other VOCs that can cause chronic illness and/or cancer.
 
They're sold like cars. You'll pay whatever you're willing to pay. Also, the save mattresses are sold at many places under different names to make it difficult to comparison shop. So go to a few places.
 
Been sleeping on an adjustable mattress for more than 25 years. Can't sleep on a regular one unless drugged out of my mind. I take an air mattress with me when traveling and inflate it for on top of the hotel bed. When I get up off a regular bed, I look like I was just extracted from a major car crash and walk that way for a couple of hours before things settle down.
 
And good luck finding a conventional mattress you can flip over from time to time to extend the life. Those seem to have vanished, yet another victim of planned obsolescence.
 
Everything seems to be some kind of memory foam or traditional with memory foam on top now. Is there something about the $2-5k ones that’s THAT much better than the sub-$1k ones? Seems like an outrageous price for a slab of foam to me.
 
A few years ago we bought, from Costco Canada, a $500 Obus Forme foam Queen mattress. It has been good. It has three layers of different foams, 1200 (probably plastic) springs molded right into the main layer of foam, all wrapped in a nice fabric. The top layer of foam is memory foam, which makes things feel a bit weird when you roll over and your body has to re-form the stuff.

That mattress was all encased in a big plastic bag that was sucked down so hard that it flattened that mattress, then it was folded and rolled up and stuffed into another plastic bag and sucked some more, then shoved into a cardboard box. That was a heavy box.
 
GaryM said:
And good luck finding a conventional mattress you can flip over from time to time to extend the life.
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Why would you want to? Old standard innerspring mattresses are garbage compared to modern mattresses. But you can still find them if that's what you want. Just look for a prison or cheap motel. :D

www.originalmattress.com

Oasis Mattress

Get a better night's sleep on the Oasis mattress (formerly Classic). Available in a variety of mattress sizes.
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But if you sleep on that for 10 years, half the weight will be dust and dead skin.
 
Last time I considered buying a new mattress (read as last time my wife started getting on my case that we should buy one) I saw the prices of them and immediately hard no’d it in my head. I worked in a factory making mattresses the summer after graduating high school and there was ZERO reason for the prices being that high. “I’d sew two canvas drop tarps together and stuff it with straw before I payed that much for one”. Still haven’t bought a new one, but I have actually looked very closely at a number of rope frame/ tic mattress beds in a number of museums since then and absolutely will be using modern materials and going that route to build my own one, one of these days..
 
We bought a Casper mattress vacuum packed in a box at Sam's Club a few years ago for our daughter. The floor manager made a point to tell us "there is a 30 night money back comfort guarantee, and don't try to bring the mattress back, all we need is the UPC code from the box to get reimbursed by Casper." ;)
 
Craig said:
Been sleeping on an adjustable mattress for more than 25 years. Can't sleep on a regular one unless drugged out of my mind. I take an air mattress with me when traveling and inflate it for on top of the hotel bed. When I get up off a regular bed, I look like I was just extracted from a major car crash and walk that way for a couple of hours before things settle down.
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In the course of my travels i have tended to be partial to Hampton Inns - and it came to my attention that the beds found therein were more comfortable than in other chains. I looked
into the matter and found to my surprise that they sell their beds to the public! i guess others have noticed as well: https://www.shophampton.com/product.aspx?mattress-and-box-spring
Rather pricey, though. I read somewhere that they are made by Serta.

Anyway, I was suffering bouts of lower back pain - which I concluded was due, at least in part, to the mattress I had been sleeping on. So I embarked on a search for a replacement - and finally
settled on a brand called Dream Cloud - designed specifically for side sleepers (which I am). I have had it a couple of years now, and while sleeping on it did not have immediate results, over time
it appears to have resolved the issue with my back. It cost, IIRC, around $900. I just checked and found that the same mattress can be had for $649 now - although the bedding "Sleep Bundle"
(which came with mine) adds $179 to the price. I consider it to have been definitely worth the money.

Dave
 
catmandu said:
We bought a Casper mattress vacuum packed in a box at Sam's Club a few years ago for our daughter. The floor manager made a point to tell us "there is a 30 night money back comfort guarantee, and don't try to bring the mattress back, all we need is the UPC code from the box to get reimbursed by Casper." ;)
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They generally send someone local to pick them up and dispose of them. I know someone who makes decent money doing that and selling the sanitized mattresses. Maybe that's only some brands though.
 
We have bought several of the "mattress in a box" units - rolled-up foam affairs that you cut the plastic binding them and they expand to shape. Have been very satisfied with them. To be honest, they started out as "place holders," mattresses to use until we moved the "better" mattresses from old home to new home, but no change being made.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/Sweetnight-Queen-Mattress-Box-Individually/dp/B07CQ25KB1 <--- Update on one we bought, and sleep comfortably on every night.
 
cessna182b said:
In the course of my travels i have tended to be partial to Hampton Inns - and it came to my attention that the beds found therein were more comfortable than in other chains. I looked
into the matter and found to my surprise that they sell their beds to the public! i guess others have noticed as well: https://www.shophampton.com/product.aspx?mattress-and-box-spring
Rather pricey, though. I read somewhere that they are made by Serta.

Anyway, I was suffering bouts of lower back pain - which I concluded was due, at least in part, to the mattress I had been sleeping on. So I embarked on a search for a replacement - and finally
settled on a brand called Dream Cloud - designed specifically for side sleepers (which I am). I have had it a couple of years now, and while sleeping on it did not have immediate results, over time
it appears to have resolved the issue with my back. It cost, IIRC, around $900. I just checked and found that the same mattress can be had for $649 now - although the bedding "Sleep Bundle"
(which came with mine) adds $179 to the price. I consider it to have been definitely worth the money.

Dave
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Westin Hotels has had their "Heavenly" bed series for sale for decades. I've even seen them on display in some hotels. Dunno who manufactures it, but it's been "a thing" to market hotel mattresses for a long while.
 
My mattress cost $200 and came in a box. Most comfortable thing I've ever slept on.
 
I have a saatva mattress. Spent around $2000. I think that’s just the going rate for a decent mattress now. It’s got a 1 year return policy so that’s a big selling point
 
We rented a VRBO in FL a few years ago. When I sat on the bed I thought there was no way I could sleep on it; it was memory foam but as hard as a rock. Turned out to be the best sleep I'd had in years. We couldn't find a manufacturer or anything, and I emailed the owner to ask and they had no idea where they'd got it. Based on the design I found what I thought was the source. I ordered one of their "firm" foam mattresses (came rolled up in a box) and it was way too soft. We ended up putting it in our guest bedroom; everyone loves it. We ended up buying a mattress from a local store where we could try it out before buying. WAY more expensive. Ridiculously expensive.
 
I have a Purple and combined it with a Tempurpedic bed frame. Most comfortable setup I've ever slept on. Except maybe my air mattress at OSH 2016 with a light drizzle on my tent under the wing in the North 40.
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I have an older mattress. I am not even sure what brand it is, possibly a Sleep Sherpa.??

When I go to bed it is undoubtedly one of the most uncomfortable mattresses I have ever been on. But when I wake up at night and in the morning, it is so comfortable I hate getting up.

I had a rather nasty fall last April and as a result I have a constant pain in my pelvis. When I wake up, I am pain free for an hour or so.
 
wellknow said:
whats wrong with lightspeed boom?
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My LightSpeed boom only goes one direction. I've had to stop a couple kids putting it on backward then trying to force it to the front.

Regarding the Layla, yes, it has soft/firm sides. I like the firm for stomach sleeping, but like the soft side more for side sleeping. The firm side made my shoulder hurt a bit after a month or two.
The soft works fine for stomach sleeping, and I use it for that all the time, I just prefer the firmer side for that.
It also does soften a little bit over time, and after getting it a little warmed up.
This one had the 'copper infused' option, which I thought was gimmicky, but I actually think it does help keep the sleeping surface against your body a little cooler.

I paid I $899 total price delivered, and it came with two of the bamboo pillows (negotiated). Both the pillows and mattress are the most comfortable I've ever slept on long term.
To be fair, I haven't tried the Purple, a Tempur-pedic, Casper, etc., but I did have two Sealy Posturepedics along with a Sam's club memory foam mattress for the last three or so decades. The first Posturepedic was spring, and lasted fairly well for about 10-15 years, but was done, and causing me some back pain. It had a 20 yr warranty, so I got a full refund, which blew my mind. I put that toward a new Posturepedic which was a full Talalay foam with a pillowtop. It was a dream for the first year, and pretty great for about 10 years, but then back pain again. The Sam's club memory foam ($450) lasted about 5 years and was just flat worn out. It was nice for about 3 years though.

I've had the Layla about 5 1/2 years, zero back pain, and it still feels amazing.
 
wellknow said:
whats wrong with lightspeed boom?
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The boom is on the left side and you can't change it. My Bose X (and I've read up to at least the A20 model) allows you to mount it on either side. In my experience, the wind noise causes way too much pops when hitting the mic, even with a muff on. Between the juice can vents or my open window the pops are nearly constant and annoying. Do not have that issue w/ the Bose. Having it on the right just seems more intuitive as well given the open space between you and a front seat pax.
 
I buy what I like. That used to be Temperpedic. Now those have been replaced by Sleep Number. Not cheap, but the best never is. No regrets.
 
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