March 16, 2012 Subscribe I need a new mattress. I'm looking at memory foam and would like to keep the costs down to $500-600. What is the winner? 1,415 posts, read 3,846,916 times 27,101 posts, read 40,546,328 times I don't own this type of mattress, but you can read other people opinions here: Simmons Beautyrest Mattress Reviews. Simmons Beautyrest Nxg Review - See 3000+ Mattress Ratings Simmons BeautyRest NxG Series - Mattress Reviews - Best Bed Guide /simmons-beautyrest-nxg-400-plush-pillowtop-black-josephine-reviews.html - broken link) NxG BeautyRest: arm went numb on side; badfor stomach sleeper - Simmons Beautyrest Next Generation 100 Firm Mattress - Viewpoints Sleep to live bed A good place to buy mattress is Costco: not only they have pretty good quality mattresses, but any exchange/refund is a breeze 1,917 posts, read 5,747,292 times 839 posts, read 935,964 times 35,801 posts, read 36,289,658 times 1,901 posts, read 4,131,185 times
Originally Posted by elnina Last year I got that Sealy Barryton they have in the coupon book on a fairly regular basis. It was pretty cheap, but it's not that great. 29,988 posts, read 30,918,220 times 4,724 posts, read 10,636,686 times 2,278 posts, read 1,777,249 times Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned. The hottest deals voted on by our community. Selected and verified by our team of deal editors.It may sound odd for a consumer advocate to ask a company to provide more fine print, but that is exactly what MrConsumer had hoped Costco would do. Costco has had Tempur-pedic memory foam mattresses on sale for the past several weeks, and seemingly only making them available on its website. It is hard enough making the right decision about a mattress when you can actually try out several in the store.
Imagine trying to buy one online almost blindly. That’s why having detailed specifications can help the prospective buyer make a more informed decision. On Costco’s website, there are four different models of Tempur-pedic mattresses ranging in price from $1399 to $1899. MrConsumer wondered what the difference was between them. So might any purchaser, right? So he clicked the “compare” button on each to create a handy chart to find out. That was helpful, wasn’t it? Every column has the identical description. The product page for each does have more information, but is mostly marketing mumbo jumbo like “TEMPUR® support layer: A thick TEMPUR® support layer provides body aligning support,” and “millions of individually adjusting TEMPUR® cells that adapt and conform to your unique shape and body weight.” And descriptions similar if not identical to this appear for all the mattresses. Memory foam mattress shoppers should be given easy access to details like the firmness, overall thickness, composition of each layer, and how thick and dense each one is.
A memory foam mattress is not all memory foam. The bottom six or seven inches is often a high density foam that does not have the conforming qualities of memory foam. It is simply a base. That’s why knowing how thick the actual memory foam layers are is so important. Costco has buried some of this information or just not provided it. And wouldn’t it be nice if the product names could be referenced at the manufacturer’s website and at competitors’ stores. Incidentally, if you think that clicking the specifications tab will reveal everything you need to know, think again. All four beds just say this: So, Costco, if you are actually interested in selling mattresses, give us some real data to work with and not useless comparison charts.I was in the need for a new bed and I decided to splurge a little and get a memory foam mattress. I have been researching foam mattress online for quite a while and have heard mostly good things about visco-elastic memory foam mattresses.
All was good with these except for the price. Lucky for me my new job gave us Costco memberships…so I checked out there site and saw that they had Novaform Memory Foam mattresses in their online catalog. With a little bit more research I decided to purchase one. I would have gotten it right from the costco store, but they only had queen size beds, and I wanted to stick with a full/double size since all of my bedding was already that size. I waiting until the conversion rate between the US and Canada favored the US dollar and ordered the Novaform mattress online at costco. The price was 669.99 plus taxes Canadian, and it included shipping. Include PST and GST and the price was up around $100 more…still a bargain for a memory foam mattress regardless of brand or store! Costco had good email communication and shipped the mattress the next day. 2 days later it was scheduled for delivery and I was ready to get the mattress. My excitement quickly turned into rage once I found out the douchebag driver at UPS decided not to drop it off that Friday night when it was scheduled.
Of course here in Canada they do not do fuck all on the weekend, so I had to wait until Monday to sleep in this new memory foam bed. Well Monday I go to work and the Novaform was delivered. It comes in a giant box, it was like 3.5 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet and weighed around 80 lbs. If you purchase the queen sized bed at a costco store the price is a bit cheaper (no shipping) and it comes in a sweet box with a metal frame on the bottom with casters so you can roll it around. Well I lug this bitch into my bedroom, open the box…Inside there is this giant mylar/tinfoil looking bag that is vacuum sealed around the foam mattress. I read the instruction and carefully cut this open. Inside is another bag containing the mattress and is also vacuum sealed. Well the second you cut this bag open it whistles as air is sucked in and the mattress starts to grow. I open it the rest of the way and the stick of toxic fumes hits my sinuses… I read reviews that the smell was intense for a few days and reminded people of gasoline…it smells more like paint thinner…and it is pretty strong.
Well I unfold the bed and wait 24-36 hrs for it to completely grow. The smell goes away after a few days and the bed grows to its full 12″ thick size. For those of you that do not know the mattress is 12″ thick, 9″ of regular foam, and 3″ of high density heat sensitive memory foam. It is then covered in a removable cover. Now for the best part…the sleep. The bed is amazing, better than any bed I have ever slept on, it is firm yet soft and gives just enough support but had enough give in it to not make your neck or back hurt when you wake up. I also bought a Novaform memory foam pillow for 22 Canadian and the thing is equally brilliant. If you cannot buy the bed, do yourself a favor and go to costco and buy the pillows…they are great. Overall the Novaform bed gets a solid 9 rating and probably a 10 for value, at least compared to other memory foam mattresses. I would be careful of the stink of the mattress and would not recommend getting it in the winter…wait until you can air the room out for a few days…the smell was STRONG, but it goes away and the sleep that you get is more than enough to make up for the smell.