Comments on: Crap or Not #3 – Tempur-Pedic Mattresses

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:52:26 +0000

I have worked in the mattress industry and Tempur-Pedic hands down are the best mattresses in the world. There is nothing else that will perfectly align your spine and allow you to sleep longer and deeper. There are many knock offs out there and trust me they are not the same. Tempur-Pedic has never patened their design so they are not required to disclose the way the material is created. The molecular structure in the visco is completely different than “Memory Foam”, and if you want to talk about price their are plenty of mattress out there that are far more expensive than Tempur-Pedic and dont offer nearly as much health benefits.

By: jello

jello — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:42:45 +0000

I have one, its just another mattress to me. Firm but comfy.

it is good for relations though :)

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:06:55 +0000

We spent hundreds on a pillowtop mattress. I found the mattress topper on sale and bought it. It was great. On day we took the pad off the bed and the bed felt like sleeping on wood. The topper is great

By: grendelkhan

grendelkhan — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:06:27 +0000

They have queen-sized ones for $250? Damn, I got ripped off. I’m trying to remember if mine was $300 or $500 (it was almost two years ago), but I fear it’s the latter. It was the same thing–queen-size memory-foam mattress. Also, it was remaindered or overstocked or returned or whatever it was to be in the back room, not the showroom, of the furniture store.

My bed, which I’d had since I live in my parents’ house, had broken a few support beams (I did a flying double-twist dive onto it when I first got it). When I moved out, I went to the Home Depot and sprung for some replacement 2x2s, this time made of nigh-indestructible red oak rather than cheap-ass pine. (I could have gotten poplar for much less, but the total cost was under twenty bucks, and I liked the way it looked.) My father had a countersink bit for his drill, so we made them look pretty much exactly like the ones that were replaced.

Err, in summary, generic mattresses are good, and a little bit of construction work can save a lot of money.

By: ftlink

ftlink — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:42:53 +0000

where do you people live that these mattresses cost a few thousand. i have seen them in the low 2000′s

By: Dave Craige

Dave Craige — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:05:06 +0000

I slept on a tempurpedic mattress for 6months. But i give it a thumbs down.

However…i have been sleeping on a tempurpedic pillow for almost two years. I won’t go a night without it. (I have the small travel pillow size)

i recommend anybody to check out their pillows.

Dave
http://www.honestforum.com

By: Dave McClure

Dave McClure — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:29:09 +0000

agreed. the generic brand stuff isn’t crap, and it’s just as good as Tempurpedic.

in short, don’t buy the name brand and you’ll save yourself 50-70%.

my wife & i have been sleeping on a generic memory foam mattress for 3 years (bought on eBay), and it’s great :)

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:30:35 +0000

I have one of those over stock memo foam beds. Beend sleeping on it a little over a year, best purchase I made this decade easily.

Useful and comfy.

One huge downside is traveling, once you get used to the memo foam bed, just about every other bed will leave you sore as hell in the morning. From motels to 5 star resorts, I wake up in the morning like the mafia beat me with ball bats in the night.

This is the reason why my parent’s declined my offer to get them a set, they do quite a bit of traveling.

By: triple-e

triple-e — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:55:23 +0000

My wife and I tried the foam matress. If you like your house warm all year, it might be soft enough. I like a nice, cool sleeping environment, and the Tempur in Tempur-Pedic is for temperature. The bed was too firm and we returned it after 3 weeks (the shortest amount of time they would allow at the store that we purchased it from, giving it a full trial). We have since gone to the air-bed. My side is set at one level, my wife changes her side almost daily. Love the air bed. Tried all of the rest first. We were ready to give up.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:59:22 +0000

First I just can’t stand when someone ‘votes’ and has no knowledge or experience, just free time to vote, as in “Crap. I would never buy a foam mattress”. Right. thanks for your input. These types of posts (and possibly mine) are why the internet is crap.

Anyway, I have tried and did buy a foam mattress. Not the tempurpedic, but an angelbeds.com because I’m cheap.

I prefer it to any bed I sleep in and am always happy to return home to it.

My exprienced vote is “Not Crap”.

By: Porter

Porter — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:05:46 +0000

The wife and I bought our 10″ queen memory-foam mattress from Overstock.com at $600 shipped (June ’06). Tempur-pedic queen mattress lists at $1599. Later, we saw an 8″ queen memo-foam mattress for $250. So here’s my comparison:

For the price of 1 Tempur-pedic queen mattress, you could buy:
2.7 mattresses [Yes, almost 3!] (10″ Q, brand=?) from Overstock (if they had enough, or still have them)
or
6.4 mattresses [Yes, more than 6!] (8″ Q, Walmart brand?)

Tempur-pedic (according to my dad, an owner of a T-pedic king mattress) has a 20-year warranty. In 20 years (for $1600), you could buy 1 mattress every __:
7.4 years (if Overstock deal)
or
3.1 years (Walmart)

[All else held stable: price, availability, inflation]

By the way, the Overstock bed? Sleeps great! No more back pain!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:07:25 +0000

Noah said: “when you spend half your life sleeping it is worth it to have the best!”.

Who spends half their life sleeping. I’m lucky enough to spend 1/4 my life sleeping, since I get about 6 hours sleep at night on average. And no, I’m not an insomniac.

By: Ta

Ta — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:54:09 +0000

Memory foam from Wal-mart has its very similar quality at a reasonable price. I go for it and sleeping better.

By: King of Debt

King of Debt — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:26:53 +0000

Definitely crap, especially when you can get the Bob-O-Pedic for so much less. Personally, I would never buy a matress made of foam, no matter how special NASA says it is.

By: John

John — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:05:40 +0000

My wife gave me a tempur-pedic pillow for my birthday and I love it. She’s got one too and we take them with us when we travel. We also spent over 3 grand on our mattress set (Kingsdown, not Tempur-Pedic) and it is worth it. You probably won’t live any longer and may sleep well enough on any old bed but we’ve never regretted the investment. At 6-8 hours of sleep a night plus other activities it is virtually an essential luxury (an oxymoron, I know). It is our island paradise. Practically speaking, we sleep way better.

By: morgan

morgan — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:30:10 +0000

I bought a knockoff from ebay and love it for sleeping. For other things that happen on a bed, the motion deadening effect is significant…

By: Cap

Cap — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:02:41 +0000

hmmmmmm. you know my mom’s in a situation like Paco, got involved in a rear-end and till this day still have neck/shoulder pain. Not sure if she ever tried out any of those pillows, but I think I’ll ask.

GreenAeon does have a point on those pads too, they can extend the life of your current mattress as Lisa mentioned or improve them considerbly, so I guess that’s not so bad.

I still wouldn’t spend so much on an entire mattress, but like Noah said—half your life.

That’s a pretty good sales phrase :P

By: noah kagan

noah kagan — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:50:52 +0000

when you spend half your life sleeping it is worth it to have the best!

yes i worked in bed sheets and linens at macys for a summer:)

noah

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:56:26 +0000

And another vote for GreenAeon…our 12 year old bed was starting to feel its age. (I think the “pillowtop” must have deflated.) We went mattress shopping and were tempted by the Tempurpedic mattresses. We were a little concerned that the change from going from a traditional mattress to a Tempurpedic one would be too much of an adjustment resulting in some sleepless nights. Later that day, we happened to stop by a Wal-Mart where they had the el cheapo Tempurpedic knockoff pads. $99 for a queen size. We figured that we could try the pad and see if we liked it. Well, over a year later, we love our el cheapo pad and have no plans anytime soon to replace our mattress.

By: ~Dawn

~Dawn — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:09:47 +0000

I agree with GreenAeon, the two inchers are great!

As for the bed, the picture is very beautiful and marketable…. but I wouldn’t but it, there are better deals.