Search for Serta retailers nearby Serta is the number one mattress manufacturer in the United States, and we are proud to offer a wide variety of innovative mattresses designed to help you get a more comfortable night’s sleep. Helps solve 5 common sleep problems. Quality at Exceptional Values Find your perfect Serta mattress Take our Mattress Selector quiz now Meet the Counting Sheep Experience the comfort, quality and value that has made Serta the #1 mattress manufacturer in America.Take Consumer Reports' mattress Ratings along while you're shopping and a sales clerk may tell you that the mattress you’re looking for isn’t available anymore. But, wait, you’re in luck! The store stocks its “replacement,” which the clerk insists is the exact same mattress under a different name. We put that claim to the test with the $1,300 Serta iSeries Vantage, which the manufacturer says is the successor to our top-rated Serta Perfect Day iSeries Applause, $1,075.
And if you're considering that newer Serta, you're in luck—just not in the way you think. We’ve just updated our mattress Ratings with 19 new innerspring and foam models, and the top-ranked innerspring, the Serta Perfect Day iSeries Applause, is already becoming hard to find. So when we learned that the Serta iSeries Vantage would replace the champ, we hurried to test it. As you might expect, we thought it would, at the very least, offer similar back and side support. The results are in, however, and while the new “identical” Serta iSeries Vantage scored similarly in most other ways, it delivered only marginally good back and side support in our tests. Not only did the older model score a notch higher in both tests, it’s also more than $200 cheaper. Watch for sales and you could pay far less. Buying a mattress has always been a tricky endeavor. In the hypothetical scenario above, for example, the last thing a sales clerk wants to tell you is, “We don’t carry that model.”
Then, of course, you’d say thanks and leave. So that's when the hard sell begins. You might be told that nobody carries that mattress, that it’s no longer being made but that there are many other fine choices in the store. We recommend that you try out a mattress before buying it; even 10 to 15 minutes of sampling it in various sleep positions can give you an idea of how comfortable you find it, which is an individual and subjective judgment. And armed with the results of our mattress tests, you'll also learn how well the bed will support your back and side, how durable it will be over time, and other criteria such as how much it transmits vibration across the bed. All this information is the enemy of misinformation, the mattress seller’s stock in trade. One more piece of advice: Mattress makers discontinue some models even after only a year or two, though that very model may be reintroduced under a completely different name. So check our mattress Ratings each time you shop.
They now include almost 40 models, along with survey-based Ratings of the mattress stores and brands preferred by our readers. Be sure to see our mattress buying guide before visiting the store. —Ed Perratore (@EdPerratore on Twitter) Interested in the benefits of gel memory foam but looking for the support of a traditional innerspring? Serta’s new iSeries technology combines our revolutionary Cool Action™ gel memory foam with our Duet™ Coil Individually Wrapped Coil-in-Coil support system. This exclusive combination results in cooling, pressure-relieving comfort plus exceptional individualized support for each sleeper -- a true breakthrough in innerspring mattress technology.Find the Serta® iSeries™ Mattress Made for YouWhether you prefer a very firm or luxuriously plush mattress, there is an iSeries mattress model built to meet your comfort needs. Visit your local Serta iSeries retailer today to find the one that’s just right for you. Plus, every Serta iSeries mattress is compatible with our Motion Perfect® Adjustable Foundation, for a totally customizable sleep experience.
Serta’s new iSeries technology is now available in Trump Home™ and Perfect Day® by Serta mattresses. Availability varies by retailer, so check with your local Serta retailer for details Bottom Line What's this brand like? Made with natural materials and/or minimal chemicals. Not worth the money. Select your preferred sleeping position: Made for these conditions: Mattress Thickness: 11.80" to 17.30" Box Top, Euro Top, Pillow Top, Tight Top, Unquilted Very Firm, Firm, Medium, Medium-Soft, Soft, Very Soft Note: The product line specifications above were derived from the active Serta iSeries models listed on GoodBed. As a result, these details may not be comprehensive and may not apply to all Serta iSeries models. If you are seeking specifications for a particular Serta iSeries mattress, please search for that mattress by name on GoodBed, or check with your local Serta iSeries dealer. About this Line Serta iSeries Web: Serta iSeries website
Additional Information Serta iSeries The iSeries product line is a collection of mattresses released in 2012 that is manufactured by Serta. Have an update or correction to our information about Serta iSeries? The last time I bought a mattress for myself was about 11 years ago. I bought a fairly new full-sized one off a coworker. Four moves and a decade later, we’ve decided it’s time to replace it with an adult (and sometimes an extra toddler)-sized bed. When we started looking, I was shocked at the prices. $3000 for a mattress? What the heck are these things made of? Knowing very little, we went shopping for a mattress and other things on a Saturday morning. The first place, we stopped, Sleepy’s, seemed nice enough. We laid on a few and honed in on the one that we both felt most comfortable in. Meanwhile, Audrey discovered the fun of letting herself fall backwards onto mattresses and did it all over the store. She was giggling and the whole store couldn’t help but look and smile at her.
Unfortunately, we soon stopped smiling. When we found something we liked, the seemingly helpful salesman started to get more aggressive. He asked how much we were looking at paying and I made up a number on the spot, something way below the listed price on the bed. The said he would “talk with his manager” and see if he could get us that price. Then he started asking us if we could commit and have it delivered tomorrow. Anne had walked outside to give Audrey a break by that point, so I said I had to go out and talk with her about it. We talked about it for a bit, then decided we didn’t like the high-pressure sales pitch, so we got ready to leave. I had the car started up when the salesman came out and approached the car window. He then said that he had “talked to his manager” and he could give us the price we wanted AND a free “platinum package”. I said we would talk about it and let him know. We again decided this was sketchy, but to make good on my promise, I went in and gave him my phone number and left.
Later that day we went to Jordan’s Furniture, generally known to be a reputable place with reasonable places. The salespeople there were nice and NOT high-pressure. Prices were generally lower, but strangely, we couldn’t find the mattress we found at Sleepy’s. They had Sertas, but not the one we liked. Being indecisive, we left with a couple new names of ones we liked. Later, we went to Mattress Discounters. The woman there was not pushy and told us about the BBB complaints that Sleepy’s (a 700-store chain) had gotten. We decided to think some more and head home. At home, I did some research online and I found something strange – I couldn’t find much of anything on the mattresses we saw that we liked. I found some mattresses, many of the same brand, but not the same models. I later came to find out that this was completely intentional. The mattress industry is one big scam. There is no way to make an objective decision on a mattress using actual facts. Here’s a few things that the mattress industry does to get you:
1. They mark up their prices 100% to 200%!! No wonder the first guy was able to get his “manager” to give me such a steep discount. They were probably still going to make hundreds of dollars of profits on it. 2. They give the same mattresses different names in different stores or they set up exclusivity agreements by mattress line in certain stores. This makes it impossible to comparison shop because… 3. They make it really had to get actual facts about the mattresses. Stuff like coil counts, materials, overall construction are shrouded in secrecy. But that doesn’t really matter because… 4. There’s no objective measure of mattress quality. Consumer Reports won’t rate them because they can’t get the data and there’s no testing that actually says higher coil counts are better or the number of wires in the coils makes a difference in any way. You’re left to deciding how much you believe the marketing. Is a pillow top made of alpaca hair any better than one made of cotton?
Your guess is as good as mine. 5. There’s very little online reviews of mattresses, probably because the model names are so fractured. The ones I did find looked more like content-free sites designed to attract referral credits. With some more research, I found out that it was somewhat possible to compare mattresses models from different places. It turns out that they really only make one hardness variation in each line. So you can assume that a Plush Firm mattress in the “Classic” line, is the same as another Plush Firm in the Classic line, even if they have different names. was very helpful in figuring this out. We were able to understand which mattresses we saw and how they related to each other. For example, the mattress we liked at Jordan’s was a product line better than the one we saw at Mattress Discounters, even though they came out to the same price! Clearly Jordan’s had the better deal, but US-Mattress had an even better deal. So I did something I never thought I could do, buy a mattress over the internet.
I’m pretty sure it’s the same one we saw in the store and the free delivery and frame were a good deal. I’m sure that even if I’m getting it at half the price I saw it listed at elsewhere, they’re still making a decent profit on it. Anne and I agree that buying a mattress is worse than buying a car. While both have sketchy salespeople, when you buy a car, you can compare them on MPG, size, features, etc. Multiple dealers have the same models so you can compare prices and make an informed decision based on their invoice prices. There’s none of that when buying a mattress. Our mattress should arrive in a few weeks. Hopefully we’ll just find it comfortable enough to have to avoid going through buying a mattress again for at least another 11 years. UPDATE: The mattress arrived quickly and in good condition. We’ve been sleeping on it for several nights and while it feels comfy, I’ve had some upper back soreness which seems to be related to the new mattress. Hopefully it will go away.