Mattress Base

I’ve been through 2 aerobeds now, and am on my third. The first one I had was meant to be a spare bed but I found it more comfortable than my regular mattress and it soon replaced it entirely. I have never slept on anything more comfortable. Had a good, high end mattress, used to wake up in middle of the night because of pain though, in hips and back. Never with aero bed; there are no pressure points. Something is not quite right in the manufacturing though. Without fail, each has developed a number of leaks, which I’ve patched and patched and patched until there was at least one patch on every square weld. No, I’m not jumping on it or sleeping in my clothes and no, I’m not doing the wild thing on it either. (None of your business where On this 3rd one, I’ve got 19 patches on the square welds and one on the edge weld (which was very hard to fix.) Its not supposed to be able to overinflate but they each, eventually, blew a chamber too, leaving a lump (fortunately its only filled with air) amoung all the regular squares. Leaks are hard to find, too. Tiny pin holes will cause the mattress to deflate overnight. The “sinking”, as I’ve come to think of it, can wake you up itself. I really wish they could fix this because I won’t sleep on anything else now. They’ve got a terrific product if they can just reinforce those welds. Each one has lasted me about a year before I saw a sale and put it out of its misery.

Let me save you a lot of time. Do not buy this bed. It is wrought with numerous problems and will be a real hassle to send back. I wish I had never gone to the Select Comfort Store. They told us this bed was suppose to last 30 years, but would you want it to? That is the real question. It sucks with a capital S. I should have listened to others reports on here. Yes some may like it, they apparently don’t know what comfort is, because this isn’t it. Let me tell you if you like bumping into your partner because it throws you towards the middle of the bed then buy this bed. If you like backaches, neckaches, and shoulder pain then buy this bed. If you like not being able to return this bed to the store and having to pay a lot of money then buy this bed. Save yourself the trouble go buy a crappy blow up air mattress from Wal-mart and sleep on that. These people are really cashing in, especially when you want to return the bed. The thing is truly a air mattress like you would take camping. I hate this bed, please save yourself the time and at least the boxes. Since I don’t have the boxes, I will have to pay for home pick up $199.00 cha ching. This company found suckers in us don’t be next.

We had a Beautyrest for the last 10 years and recently bought the Worldclass with latex pillow top ($2500). It was comfortable the first few nights, then felt like I was sinking. And the pillow top adds a few degrees of temperature to your body (not good if you live in Florida!). I had it for only a month and I can see indentations on the pillow top. Worst nightmare is that I was not able to find sheets big enough for this bed. I found some Wamsutta and Ralph Lauren that fitted, but shrunk after the first wash (yes, even in cold water they shrunk). This bed it’s like having a Hummer with tires from a Mini Cooper!!

I bought the bed at Macy’s and I am returning the bed because it is too big and there are no sheets on the market. Now they tell me that because it is my ‘preference’ to return it, I have to pay 10% stock fee plus delivery charge. I explained that since there are no sheets big enough for the bed I have no option and therefore no ‘preference’ but they just regurgitate what they teach in in mattress school.

I’m switching to a Simmons without pillow top. Hope it’s better!

Be aware of the size of any bed you buy!

Purchased my system after much research of other air systems and top of line conventional mattress/box springs.

Everything they advertise it to be. Their 800 help line is totally great (I needed it many times during assembly). Assembly is easy, but I am a challenged older (some say aged!!!) female that spent more time figuring out a phillips screwdriver then putting system together. Since base is very heavy I assembled on my bedframe, that way I could “handle” it.

It took me a couple weeks to adjust mattress to my liking - I realllly didn’t like it at first. But since they had a 90 day full money back guarantee - knew I had nothing to lose.

Would definitely do again. Be sure and negotiate for free shipping. They will give it to you.

The search for a bed after my last purchase a few years ago has been ongoing. My Spouse and I went searching in December to find a new one. I certainly didn’t want another Serta but of course that is what my husband chose. We looked and lay on many different brands of mattresses with and without the pillow top. Different blends of materials that were on the mattresses and then went home and researched some more on the one that my husband wanted.

I am new to this site so when we purchased our mattress about 4 years ago I sure wish I knew about a place like this to check out what others had to say about the mattress.

We paid one heck of a price for it, around 1500. We were assured that this was a high end mattress and spent the extra money. At first it felt like a dream come true, very comfortable.

Then it happened. Sometime later it began sagging despite the fact that we flipped the mattress like we were supposed to on a regular basis. After about 4 years now there are two very deep pockets in the bed. This started after the first year. It is not the most comfortable to sleep in at all anymore. There is no firmness whatsoever. My hubby weighs in around 250 and I at 110 and it doesn’t seem to matter…we are both making indents in the bed. Also, whenever either of us moves the other feels it and is disturbed.

I want others to know about this before purchasing….PLEASE DON’T BUY!

We wish we had purchased another Simmons Beauty Rest independant coil like we had before. Seemed to last a good number of years before it needed replacing and did not get those sag spots in the bed. Also with the independant coil that it offered we could turn over and not disturb the other person.

REVISED! (FULL STORY) Please take the time to read this, as you’re making a big investment in something you’ll be spending a lot of time & money on.

So we go to check out various mattresses, and we come upon the Select Comfort store. Having seen the commercials, and having been refered by a person I work with, my fiance and I decided to try them out. So we tried the bed, and it was pretty comfortable (then again, most beds feel that way when you’re not able to truly lie on them for a longer period). So we were sold on the fact that I could make it as firm or as soft as needed. From there, we were told we’d be contacted within a few days to schedule a delivery date, and we’d have the bed within two weeks.

Mattress comfort is very subjective and very personal, what one person loves another will hate. I have had this bed for 15 months and I love it. I almost didn’t buy it because of the bad reviews on Epinions, but every time I tried mattresses in various stores, this one felt the best to me. So I threw caution to the wind and got it. I figured if I didn’t like it, and ran into warranty problems I would move it to the guest bedroom (which also needs a new mattress) and buy something else later.

Several years ago, we came to the conclusion that it was time to part with our old mattress and box springs. Gee, at that point we had only had it 30 years. No wonder we were getting a rotten nights sleep! However, we decided that since we were going to move, we would WAIT until the house sold…..you know, kind of a celebration. That was a very long two years!

We received our bed very fast. The set up took me a long time, mostly the foundation and legs. I was excited to sleep on it. I think I was expecting too much. I didn’t sleep well on it at all. I changed the numbers every other night, between 40 and 25. I was also still able to feel my husband tossing and turning, as well as getting out of bed. I was constantly waking up in the middle of the night and had a hard time falling back asleep, and I love my sleep. So after only a couple of weeks, I decided it was time to send it back. I can’t afford not to have a good nights sleep and I don’t think it should take 30 nights to get use to it. After all, if I slept on the couch for 30 nights, sure I would get use to it. So I was told it would cost $80 to send it back by the salesperson, well turns out it is more like $150! Luckily, I did keep all of the boxes. The customer service was fine, so far, but she really wanted me to keep it for the 30 nights, no thanks. If it takes me that long to adjust to it forget it, especially for a bed that costs over $2000. For that much I would expect a bed that when I get into it I feel comfortable right away, not after a month. We brought this bed to replace an older Serta, but we are moving it back into our room and adding a foam topper and a fluffy mattress pad and will continue to look around for something better.