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I would be interested to know how come only a couple of companies are selling 100% latex mattresses? If latex is so good, why is it not in retail stores showrooms just like tempurpedic mattresses? I MEAN MOST PEOPLE would hesitate to buy a costly product from internet when they have never even seen it/felt it/tested it. You can go to retail store and test the Tempurpedics. But for 100% latex there are no showrooms of these companies or if they are there they are only in1 location. Why?
Most people would think very hard to buy a 100% latex mattress without testing it in person beforehand. Now for flobeds , i asked my friend and showed him flobeds web site. And he began to cast doubts. His questions: 1. First he said. The web site looks crappy! 2. Do they have any showroom here in the city 3. Don't trust things if did not test it in showroom. Are these legitimate questions that any person would ask before buying a product?
Thanks. This message was modified Jun 16, 2010 by roy1
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In Colorado we have several Urban Mattress locations and they stock 3 Solid latex mattresses. One is like 6 inches of firm latex. The other is 6in firm latex and 2 in of med/soft. The last is basically another 2in of med/soft latex. They call them their urban organics line. Outside of them I agree there are very few options in most cities. This message was modified Jun 17, 2010 by Carachi
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All I would really say Roy....in response to your main question...which is, if these beds are so good why so little choices from the major market players..... The adverse is ....do you really believe the S brands make such a great product simply because all the major retailers build their business around selling their products? Tempur-Pedic is actually now the largest mattress brand in the world, they are the number one brand in the US and in Europe. They carry not only a good product, but they market extremely well. Latex mattresses have to my knowledge never been promoted in mass media the same way S brands or Tempur-Pedic ever have.....in fact Sleep Number and Ultramatic probably do a lot of business simply from big budget national advertising. Yet I would never sleep on an air mattress, and Ultramatics are the cheapest most basic adjustable beds available. |
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Those are legit questions your friend asks, Roy, although they don't make a lot of sense when you break them down logically based on knowlege of the subject matter. For some reason it seems that the North American public puts up with getting scammed by crappy PU foam mattress that breakdown and sag after a short while. I do not understand why latex is not popular. By the same token, I also do not understand why despite hundreds/thousands of consumer complaints posted online about TempurPedic & S brand mattresses etc., they continue to have (from what I can tell with my lay viewpoint) almost all of the market share. Both of these questions are equally boggling to my mind. As for your friend saying the FloBeds website looks crappy: I can see his point. FloBeds' site is informative and gets across the points it is trying to make, but it is not designed to give visual pleasure to the website viewer like an S brand website probably would be. However, I'd ask your friend what he would rather have: a great-looking site for a piece of crap product that will fall apart in six months, or a mediocre-looking site for a great product that will last for many, many years. I don't see people complaining about FloBeds' mattresses sagging; but I can't say the same about any mattress brand I know of with a good-looking website. I'd also point out to your friend that 'testing' in a showroom is useless since if it feels great in the showroom or not means nothing: it can still break down in 6 months and feel horrible despite having felt great in the showroom. Having said that, it probably would be in FloBeds' best interest to gloss up their site just for the sake of tapping into the mindset of mainstream consumers who make erroneous judgements based on such things. Likewise, it would be in the best interest of all latex mattress makers to have showrooms just for the sake of tapping into the mindset of mainstream consumers who make erroneous judgements based on such things. Indeed, latex mattresses probably will remain obscure until the latex companies start doing these things, even though they don't make logical sense for someone who has knowledge of the subject matter. Sales are usually made based on emotion, not logic. Plus, most consumers probably aren't going to encounter the knowledge they need to be informed about this subject (until after they get stuck with a sagging mattress, that is). Actually, now that I think about it that might explain part of the reason for the enigmas discussed above. This message was modified Jul 6, 2010 by confusedbedbuyer
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| I think the point is that the commercial brands want you to buy a new mattress every 2 or 3 years. not every 30 years. which is the lifespan of latex. natural latex that is. so when serta goes to make a latex mattress, they use lab made US latex, which is not natural and has a high failure rate. why? so that you have to replace it in 3 years. same mindset as GM. and why they went bankrupt. simmons went belly-up as well in case you did not know that. got bought out for the name. the answer to your question is that the big names will not make it because it is so good. ah, america |
| Serta does not make any 100% natural latex mattresses. I slept on these at retail stores and I sank to the bottom on all of them. They had no support. They felt really cheap. Thanks. |
| exactly. and they fail. which is exactly what serta wants to happen. get it? |