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The last time I did something like that was back in the late 90s when I left a voicemail with my auto insurance company 
in which I told them I would come down there with an axe if they ever raised my rates again. They were not amused, and my coverage was dropped a couple months later. 
Wow! Funny stuff.Sam's sells our 10" Gel foam mattress and they aren't selling it at a loss. Costco sells our stuff both online and in the store. The cover on the Amazon mattress above is a 290gw fire resistant inherent material, not treated with chemicals. Feels like a diaper?'St. Louis Bob said:NOT an auto reply'St. Louis Bob said:'urbanhack said:Let's take it to Facebook!'St. Louis Bob said:On their website it said price to increase 20% after 4/30/11, which is the day I placed the order on. I checked back a couple of weeks later out of curiosity and it said some like "we're holding off on the 20% price increase until 5/7/11". ETA'DawgPoundNJ said:
NOW it is going to increase June 1.
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I apologize for any confusion. We have been raising our prices every month for over a year now, and will raise them again this coming month. We try to keep our prices as low as possible without cutting corners. Unfortunately, prices are constantly increasing from our suppliers and it makes it difficult to be competitive and gauge what our costs are going to be month to month. We actually lose money on some models at the moment. Our price increase notice is not intended to mislead anyone.As for the Sleep Innovations mattress, they also sell those at Sam's Club at a lower price than they do on Amazon, I believe. However, it is not the same quality as ours. We have one of them in our R&D room here and the comfort level of that mattress is nowhere close to ours. Also, the cover on that mattress sounds like a diaper when you press your hand into it, and it smelled terrible when it was opened. This is lackluster design.We have put a lot of research (which is expensive) into our product, including durability tests, pressure mapping (it did better than Tempur-Pedic), toxicity (our mattresses are certified non-toxic), and we also guarantee them because we feel it is the best mattress we can sell.On the foundation, memory foam mattresses need more support than spring mattresses. It is important to have them on a proper surface so they perform well. Not all box springs are adequate and will cause any foam mattress to not feel right. You can choose to return the foundation under our return policy if you feel your box springs are adequate (Not sagging, not springy, & does not have spaces wider than 5" on the surface.)If you have any questions, please let me know. We want to ensure everyone has a good experience and more importantly, gets a good night's rest.Rebuttal sent.
Costco and Sam's stand by their customers something fierce, so if we sold crap, we'd be out in a hurry. Our gel foam mattresses pressure map better than Tempur as well. As for the chemical odor, it's the norm for compressed memory foam mattresses for at least a day or two. It goes away in a hurry.
For Bed In a Box, they say 2 options depending on need of return. 1) they have someone come and get it, or 2) they tell you to donate it to a local charity, send them the donation receipt and they then refund the money.From research it looks like #2 is the most likely scenario....guess they feel the returns are so minimal that they can afford to take this chance/loss every now and again.
So any reason to get a BIB over this given the difference in cost?
update?
I took the two crappy BIAB earth pillows and put 80% of the stuffing from one and stuffed it in the other. Stapled the seaming shut and now have one solid pillow.
I think I might do that as well. I tried stacking the pillows and using them, and that was just as bad as one pillow at a time.
Are you still happy with your BIAB mattress? My wife and I shopped some yesterday and saw the Tempur-Pedic mattress on the store floor, so we tried it out. We both liked the feel and felt it support the lower back. Other firm mattresses we tried felt like there was an arch (or gap) in the lower back area, which didn't feel as supportive. But I don't want to shell out $3k for their memory foam mattress.
Yep, happy with the purchase. Don't waste your moneyon a Tempurpedic.Nice thing about BIAB is if you dont like it for some reason they have an easy return/refund policy.
Anyone have any recommendations for a good pillow? My neck has been killing me lately.
bump for this and any update from those who bought the Amazon mattress...
The cost of the king BIAB deal was around $1099. That included the foundation and mattress. The foundation is $385, the mattress is $714, as a part of this deal. The Amazon mattress is $564 but doesn't include the foundation. Not sure what the shipping is from Amazon (maybe free if a Prime member). The Amazon is a Sleep Innovation, 12 inch. BIAB is the 13 inch mattress. Not sure if there is a big difference there, but if BIAB has a fair return policy if not satisfied, and the other does not, it might even the price tags out some. So there is $150 difference in the price of those two mattresses. With the amazon deal, you'd have to also order a foundation for the mattress. Or I suppose your old box spring would work too. I looked at the Amazon deal, but read somewhere the BIAB mattresses had better reviews than the Sleep Innovation. But it boils down to personal preference/satisfaction.
I've been sleeping on this for about a week now, and I'm very happy with it. It's just what I was expecting. Mine doesn't seem to be sleeping hot, and what little chemical smell there might have been at first is long gone now. My wife and I are both sleeping wery well.
Exactly. This is why I import air into our house with a blend of Arctic and French Alps air. Sure it's $10K/mo for the service, but you spend 100% of your life breathing. Not the time to go cheap.'The Man With No Name said:
More than that if you're lucky.'The Man With No Name said:
That's the one I bought from Woot.com a few months ago. It never expanded correctly, leaving a big dent in the middle. I contacted woot, as did a lot of other people, and the Sarah Peyton rep got refunds to everyone who complained.Heck of a deal, and pretty comfortable all around the edges. Maybe I was just unlucky - my guess is that it sat around shrinkwrapped in a warehouse for too long.Still very happy with the one I ended up with.
Wife and I got this about a month ago.WELL WORTH THE CASH
The much cheaper one sold on Amazon or BIB?'Wrigley said:
Thanks, seems like there more negative rewiews for this one on Amazon than the sleep innovations one that's only a few bucks more.'Honus said:
I'm a buyer and production planner in the industry and the minute these are produced and compressed, they have a 3-6 month shelf life. As time goes on, the risk for non-recovery increases. So if the customer (Amazon, Woot, etc.) is carrying too much stock, they'll notice more and more returns and eventually start dumping these things off. Which is what definitely happened with Woot.I am in contact with Amazon's buyer and this isn't the case there (As for Overstock, they have vendor managed inventory so we control the stock so there isn't that problem). Amazon has a super aggressive price strategy as they are trying to build the category.'Honus said:
Amazon
What made you choose this one and what others were you comparing it to.
I was sleeping like crap after two weeks in my new bed-in-a-box and ready to send it back. Two weeks later I was sleeping through the night without moving an inch and waking up before my alarm went off feeling fantastic. I think there's a reason they don't let you return it before X number of days...it certainly took an adjustment period for me....hope it's the same for you.
Had this for a while now - and loving it. Had a really hot summer - slept very cool. $50 lower now too. #####in great mattress.http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?whse=BCCA&topnav=&prodid=10338917&ec=BCCA-EC780-CatHome&pos=13〈=en-CATks again Dawg
And I thought the "my college sports conference is better than yours" shtick was bad.
