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Curious: Did you consider the Purple? I tend to get pretty hot at night (no AC) and that one seems to boast the best marketing jargon with regards to cooling. C

Curious: Did you consider the Purple? I tend to get pretty hot at night (no AC) and that one seems to boast the best marketing jargon with regards to cooling. Can you speak to the breathability of the others you've tried?

birken 9y ago
I haven't tried Purple, so I can't speak to that, but I have ordered 2 mattresses and returned them both (Helix, Leesa), and I'll second that the return process was easy for both of them. The Helix support actually convinced me to try a different variant of their bed which I'm trying next, which should show you there is no judgment on their end when you try it and return it. Obviously check reviews and everything, but I've found that as helpful as the reviews are, nothing is even close to your experience with the mattress and how you sleep on it. So if there is some brand of a bed that interests you, you should just get it and then return it if you don't like it. One note though: The return process is easier if you buy it directly from the company and not through Amazon.
jbooj 9y ago
Purple is wonderful and extremely cool (Had one since June and it's the best bed I've ever owned)
- gregd 9y ago
  I just recently bought a Purple pillow. Good god, I love this thing! I've tried every kind of pillow to help alleviate my neck pain and sweating and while some got pretty good at eliminating the sweatiness, none did squat for my constant neck pain...until the Purple pillow. The only issue (and it's a very slight one at that) is the weight of this pillow. I think the shipment said it was just shy of 10lbs. The best way I can think of to describe this pillow is that it's like a sack full of ass fat.
  - bitmapbrother 9y ago
    Have you ever looked inside of it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuN73uwKwek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuN73uwKwek
jawns 9y ago
We bought a Nolah mattress a few weeks ago, partly because one of its selling points is that it's "made without the heat-trapping viscoelastic chemicals used in memory foam." I'm still not entirely sure what differentiates its material -- which it calls Air Foam -- from memory foam, because it feels very similar to other memory-foam mattresses. And the website doesn't do a very good job of explaining precisely how the materials differ. It hasn't seemed any warmer than our old spring mattress, though, so I guess its "100% temperature neutral" claim holds up. But as OP's post points out, the mattress review sites are very little help. It seems like they're all affiliate-link driven. I spent a good long while trying to find a review site that seemed trustworthy and that didn't make its money through referral links, and I finally gave up and decided I'd just have to try my best to evaluate each company's claims on my own. Speaking of referral codes, it seems as if for Nolah, there's an almost constant $100 off code that is advertised on the site itself. Nolah also runs a customer referral program, where if you use my referral code, you get $75 off and I get $100 for the referral. Which is crazy. Why would you ever choose the $75 discount instead of the $100 discount? It's almost like you have to be willing to screw your friends over to participate. That said, if anybody wants to PM me and obtain my $75 referral code, I will be donating any proceeds to the Trappist Caskets Child Fund, which provides caskets free of charge to families who have to bury a child: https://trappistcaskets.com/child-fund/ https://trappistcaskets.com/child-fund/
TheGorramBatman 9y ago
I'm in the market for a new mattress, and Purple has great advertising. But as far as I've seen in reviews, it hasn't lived up to the hype. That being said... https://www.reddit.com/r/Mattress/comments/69yukn/purple_mattress_suing_reviewer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Mattress/comments/69yukn/purple_mat...
- kemiller 9y ago
  I have one and love it, fwiw.
  - yroc92 9y ago
    My wife and I also love our king sized purple.
- mkhpalm 9y ago
  The past few years I've just been buying T&N mattresses. Simplified my life since they are cheaper and, to be honest, I've never actually noticed anything I would consider better.
- function_seven 9y ago
  Here's an update of sorts to that. The Court has decided quite heavily in Purple's favor: https://33ao321eg6ir3l6jee4fcxzi-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-09-22_preliminary_injunction_order___dckt_191_0_.pdf https://33ao321eg6ir3l6jee4fcxzi-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
My boss has a Purple and loves it. I just bought a mattress and had considered getting one. I shopped quite a bit before I made my decision, but after doing hours of research I’m of the opinion that mattresses in general are overpriced and pretty easily fall victim to marketing hype. I looked at Casper, Tuft & Needle, Purple, and several others and finally decided on a $350 CoolGel king from WalMart. Works perfectly. I’d bought a Contura queen, also from WalMart for $275 6 years ago and it’s sitting in our guest room right now working gloriously and we always get compliments on how comfortable it is. We went with the CoolGel because the Contura sleeps a little bit hot and we live in a warm climate. The Contura is fantastic in the winter, but we really only get about two months of winter here. Bottom line takeaway, and many might disagree, you can get a perfectly sleepable great mattress for less than $500 and anything more than that is straight up marketing cost or at the very least severe diminishing returns on your value.
skookum 9y ago
We bought a Purple and gave up on it after three nights. The foam portion of the mattress compresses a lot and the purple grid on top has this weird property where it holds weight up to a point and then collapses completely after that point - there's no progressive compression property in that grid. Those two aspects of the foam + grid amplify one another to result in something that has deep valleys where you have your most weighted points of contact (for example hips and shoulders for a side sleeper) and peaks where you don't. For me this meant that my legs would be coming at an uncomfortable angle out of the hip valley placing weird stress on my knees and my core/torso would similarly be forced into a weird curve over the peak between hips and shoulders. I woke up every day feeling like I'd been mildly beaten up and my wife compared it to a torture device - she has never experienced back or neck pain in her whole life but three nights on the Purple were close to debilitating for her. The telling aspect of their marketing/FAQ is they actually tell you to expect this: they claim that years of sleeping on poor mattresses has conditioned your body to the wrong position and so it will be painful for 1-2 weeks while it corrects to their one true mattress. This seems like a load of bs. I've slept on hundreds of mattresses across the spectrum, from quarter inch closed-cell foam pads on top of rocks/roots to various hotel luxury mattresses and everything in between - and never experienced this level of painful need to "get used to a good mattress".

birken 9y ago

I haven't tried Purple, so I can't speak to that, but I have ordered 2 mattresses and returned them both (Helix, Leesa), and I'll second that the return process was easy for both of them. The Helix support actually convinced me to try a different variant of their bed which I'm trying next, which should show you there is no judgment on their end when you try it and return it. Obviously check reviews and everything, but I've found that as helpful as the reviews are, nothing is even close to your experience with the mattress and how you sleep on it. So if there is some brand of a bed that interests you, you should just get it and then return it if you don't like it. One note though: The return process is easier if you buy it directly from the company and not through Amazon.

jbooj 9y ago

Purple is wonderful and extremely cool (Had one since June and it's the best bed I've ever owned)

gregd 9y ago
I just recently bought a Purple pillow. Good god, I love this thing! I've tried every kind of pillow to help alleviate my neck pain and sweating and while some got pretty good at eliminating the sweatiness, none did squat for my constant neck pain...until the Purple pillow. The only issue (and it's a very slight one at that) is the weight of this pillow. I think the shipment said it was just shy of 10lbs. The best way I can think of to describe this pillow is that it's like a sack full of ass fat.
- bitmapbrother 9y ago
  Have you ever looked inside of it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuN73uwKwek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuN73uwKwek

jawns 9y ago

We bought a Nolah mattress a few weeks ago, partly because one of its selling points is that it's "made without the heat-trapping viscoelastic chemicals used in memory foam." I'm still not entirely sure what differentiates its material -- which it calls Air Foam -- from memory foam, because it feels very similar to other memory-foam mattresses. And the website doesn't do a very good job of explaining precisely how the materials differ. It hasn't seemed any warmer than our old spring mattress, though, so I guess its "100% temperature neutral" claim holds up. But as OP's post points out, the mattress review sites are very little help. It seems like they're all affiliate-link driven. I spent a good long while trying to find a review site that seemed trustworthy and that didn't make its money through referral links, and I finally gave up and decided I'd just have to try my best to evaluate each company's claims on my own. Speaking of referral codes, it seems as if for Nolah, there's an almost constant $100 off code that is advertised on the site itself. Nolah also runs a customer referral program, where if you use my referral code, you get $75 off and I get $100 for the referral. Which is crazy. Why would you ever choose the $75 discount instead of the $100 discount? It's almost like you have to be willing to screw your friends over to participate. That said, if anybody wants to PM me and obtain my $75 referral code, I will be donating any proceeds to the Trappist Caskets Child Fund, which provides caskets free of charge to families who have to bury a child: https://trappistcaskets.com/child-fund/ https://trappistcaskets.com/child-fund/

TheGorramBatman 9y ago

I'm in the market for a new mattress, and Purple has great advertising. But as far as I've seen in reviews, it hasn't lived up to the hype. That being said... https://www.reddit.com/r/Mattress/comments/69yukn/purple_mattress_suing_reviewer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Mattress/comments/69yukn/purple_mat...

kemiller 9y ago
I have one and love it, fwiw.
- yroc92 9y ago
  My wife and I also love our king sized purple.
mkhpalm 9y ago
The past few years I've just been buying T&N mattresses. Simplified my life since they are cheaper and, to be honest, I've never actually noticed anything I would consider better.
function_seven 9y ago
Here's an update of sorts to that. The Court has decided quite heavily in Purple's favor: https://33ao321eg6ir3l6jee4fcxzi-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-09-22_preliminary_injunction_order___dckt_191_0_.pdf https://33ao321eg6ir3l6jee4fcxzi-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago

My boss has a Purple and loves it. I just bought a mattress and had considered getting one. I shopped quite a bit before I made my decision, but after doing hours of research I’m of the opinion that mattresses in general are overpriced and pretty easily fall victim to marketing hype. I looked at Casper, Tuft & Needle, Purple, and several others and finally decided on a $350 CoolGel king from WalMart. Works perfectly. I’d bought a Contura queen, also from WalMart for $275 6 years ago and it’s sitting in our guest room right now working gloriously and we always get compliments on how comfortable it is. We went with the CoolGel because the Contura sleeps a little bit hot and we live in a warm climate. The Contura is fantastic in the winter, but we really only get about two months of winter here. Bottom line takeaway, and many might disagree, you can get a perfectly sleepable great mattress for less than $500 and anything more than that is straight up marketing cost or at the very least severe diminishing returns on your value.

skookum 9y ago

We bought a Purple and gave up on it after three nights. The foam portion of the mattress compresses a lot and the purple grid on top has this weird property where it holds weight up to a point and then collapses completely after that point - there's no progressive compression property in that grid. Those two aspects of the foam + grid amplify one another to result in something that has deep valleys where you have your most weighted points of contact (for example hips and shoulders for a side sleeper) and peaks where you don't. For me this meant that my legs would be coming at an uncomfortable angle out of the hip valley placing weird stress on my knees and my core/torso would similarly be forced into a weird curve over the peak between hips and shoulders. I woke up every day feeling like I'd been mildly beaten up and my wife compared it to a torture device - she has never experienced back or neck pain in her whole life but three nights on the Purple were close to debilitating for her. The telling aspect of their marketing/FAQ is they actually tell you to expect this: they claim that years of sleeping on poor mattresses has conditioned your body to the wrong position and so it will be painful for 1-2 weeks while it corrects to their one true mattress. This seems like a load of bs. I've slept on hundreds of mattresses across the spectrum, from quarter inch closed-cell foam pads on top of rocks/roots to various hotel luxury mattresses and everything in between - and never experienced this level of painful need to "get used to a good mattress".