bed in a box
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I have a coworker of mine that bought a mattress from here and has been happy so far with it. Has anyone else had any experience with them? There prices are much less than memoryfoam.com. Any feedback is appreciated Thanks |
Re: bed in a box
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I reported the below on may 25th: Had my pac down queen size bedinabox since march 25th. I have slept on it regularly till now and you can skip all hype on their website about the new foam from BASF called Pluracel Vx, manufactured by North Carolina Foam Industries. It is all bunk. The topper broke down in about forty days of regular use. The first week was great. The foam was definitely softer than the tempurpedic I had slept on at a holiday inn for research purposes. But it was quite supportive and I found sleeping on my back to be restful for the first time. However, by the fourth week I had noticed that the foam topper around the area where my torso lay became almost half as resistiveas areas of the bed that got less use like the middle of the mattress and the foot of the mattress. I had high hopes for this mattress since their line of BS that you read about on their site about the pluracell foam being less susceptible to ILD breakdown and having the benefit of rapid response to rolling over in the middle of the night etc from a 3 pound memory foam. Don't believe it. They use this 3 pound foam for a reason. It is probably unbelievably cheap to manufacture and then they try to put their hogwash promotional spin on it by touting the benefits of it over 5.5 pound memory foam with claims that foam density has very little to do with performance and durability and in fact that 3 pound foam done right is much superior for the reasons described on the website. What can I tell you. Being the logical person that I am this crap actually seemed to make sense. In practice I think I just got fleeced. How in god's earth does a superior memory foam lose half its ILD resistive power in just under two months. granted there is no indentation in the bed where the topper has lost its support but just using my fingers and pressing into the mattress in different placesit is very obvious where the mattress is supportive and where its not. So I called them a couple of days ago and got a call back from Matt at bedinabox today and he left a message so I called back and left him a message. We'll see how this all plays out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's now June 27th and I haven't heard back from them. I believe their 3 pound topper foam is inferior and would not buy it again. The option I have is whether to donate it it now to the salvation army and get my money back less $200 as per the return policy since shipping would cost at least $150 plus the headache of packaging. Or, I think I might just replace the foam topper since the firmer foundational foam seems more rigid and is not the real problem. the problem is definitely the foam topperso I'm thinking I might tear it off and put a 2 inch talalay latex topper. I regret taking the plunge into foam and getting seduced by the good advertising copy on their site. My feeling is that "any" foam topperis going to break down at some point "within the first year definitely" whether its bedinaboxor tempurpedic, or bobopedic. I think any petroleum based foam will break down to a level where it will definitely feel very different from what it started out at. I'm favoring regular well made spring beds right now because for whatever their drawbacks they still provide three years of decent support before breaking down in the 4th or 5th year. This message was modified Jun 27, 2009 by dupatta
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