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I wish there was a good way to try mattresses properly before buying them. Not just lie down on it for a few minutes in a shop, but sleep the whole night on it.
by m-i-l 8y ago
I wish there was a good way to try mattresses properly before buying them. Not just lie down on it for a few minutes in a shop, but sleep the whole night on it. Like a bed shop teaming up with a hotel chain to let you choose which bed and/or mattress you want to try for a night. The ones in the article start at US$1995 - I wouldn't want to spend that much money on something so important without trying it, and would consider spending 5-10% of that to try it in a hotel room for a night. I know they say they'll have a "100-night guarantee with a full refund, as Casper does", but it is a huge hassle getting that sort of thing delivered and then returning it.
- tmoravec 8y agoHere in the Czech Republic, and I believe it's similar in most of Europe, several months of no-questions-asked guarantees for mattresses are very common. This is different from warranty (common to be 25 years).
- snazz 8y ago25 year warranties?! In the US, mattress companies run ad campaigns to convince people that mattresses are consumables that last eight to ten years. Funny how that works.
- agumonkey 8y agowhat price though ? here they say it's pricey because it's a 20 year investment.
- slv77 8y agoThe US consumers prefer spring mattress while European consumers prefer mattresses made from latex foam. Over time springs degrade faster than foam and so US mattresses have a shorter lifespan.
- SeanLuke 8y agoMy experience in Italy strongly suggests spring mattresses are the norm.
- atombender 8y agoDo you have data to support that assertion? As a European, I grew up with nothing but box-spring mattresses. IKEA has more box-spring products than foam ones.
- joncrocks 8y agoI think you might mean spring or pocket-spring. A box spring is something you put a mattress on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-spring
- atombender 8y agoOf course, oops -- pocket spring!
- com2kid 8y agoMy $2k latex matress has a giant sink hole in the middle of it. I'm non-too happy, and a bit disillusioned about the idea that latex matresses last longer.
- tomnipotent 8y agoYou can't return a mattress - instead, they're donated to Goodwill and other organizations, and Casper et. al will help arrange the pickup.
- atombender 8y agoAll the popular mattress sellers (including this new Afloat, apparently) have a very flexible refund policy. You don't need to lift a finger (except figuratively) to receive or return it.
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- asdf333 8y agounfortunately its hard to be like "ok i hate this mattress so much I will sleep on the floor until I find something I like better. take it back!"
- atombender 8y agoSimple: Keep your old mattress until you're sure that you want to keep your new one. Or, buy a new mattress before returning the one you didn't like. This way you only need to store a superfluous mattress for a short period of time. I feel like these are solveable problems.
- ianlevesque 8y agoI have a not-small apartment and there still isn’t room for an entire extra mattress.
- gibolt 8y agoKeep it under the new one
- EliRivers 8y agoI skate through on laziness. I offloaded my last mattress a couple of years ago, mostly intending to thence get a new one, but never quite got round to it. If we all just embrace our inner slackers, we can put an end to the problems of mattress disposal!
- witten 8y ago
- rahimnathwani 8y agoTinder could add mattress model and age as an optional field in user profiles.
- jjeaff 8y agoA lot of hotel chains actually do this. 4 seasons sells Simmons brand mattresses on their website. https://m.fourseasons.com/magazine/thrive/hotel-beds/ https://m.fourseasons.com/magazine/thrive/hotel-beds/ Ritz Carlton, Westin, and other Marriot properties do the same. I believe some are just bedding but several sell the mattresses.
- js2 8y agoYup, my wife and I sleep on a Westin Heavenly mattress. I'm sure I paid a premium for it, but we both were comfortable sleeping on it. Purchased in 2004 so probably due for replacement at this point.
- dawidw 8y agoTempur [1] gives 100 days to change your mind and get another mattress. You can do it one time though. [1] http://tempur.com http://tempur.com