With all the complaints I hear from people who have purchased a memory foam mattress, I often wonder how long it will take before the entire concept of buying a memory foam mattress is completely rejected by the American public. Recently, I heard from a young man who asked the right questions...triggering this response from me....important enough to post here...as it applies to each and everyone of you.
Hi Pete,
I am seriously considering buying a Simmons nxg 600. I tested it out in a store and it is very comfortable. I like the memory foam aspect of it because it helps my back. I was really hoping to get your thoughts on this mattress. There seemed to be little information or reviews online and I am trying to get an idea of a fair pricing point. I am especially looking for a mattress that will last me a long time in the future. Also do you think it would be more cost effective to buy a spring bed and place a memory foam topper on it? Thanks so much!
Hi Ryan,
I don't know where you got all these crazy ideas that memory foam was good for your back, or that it would last a long time...nothing could be further from the truth.
The NxG line is out...either totally discontinued or just about to be.
The 600 is a top line model. Top line models, across the board, are among the shortest lived products in the mattress world...way past the point of diminishing return and a complete waste of money.
In short, you are totally misinformed.
While the NxG memory foam is far better than any other type of memory foam...much less temperature sensitive with a much quicker response time, it is still not the answer to any sort of back problem. A firm innerspring mattress is.
And, if you are going to soften the surface of a firm mattress, you certainly wouldn't use memory foam. There are no NxG memory foam toppers, just regular memory foam, which sinks through like it wasn't even there and sleeps hot...totally worthless for that job. The only thing that works, long term, is latex.
You are now well informed.
If you would like a recommendation, give me some information about you...height, weight, age, nature for your condition...and I'll be happy to direct you to something suitable for your needs.
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Hi Pete,Thank you for the info! I am looking for a queen size and I am 5'10" and 185 pounds. I really really like the feel and the comfort of the nxg. I certainly don't want to buy it if longevity is an issue though. What would you suggest. I don't really have a back problem, I just feel sore sometimes when I wake up in my lower back. I have looked on sleeplikethedead.com and it says that memory foam beds have the highest owner satisfaction. Firm innersprings have the lowest it seems. What do you think is the reason for this? What do you look for when buying an. Innerspring? Coil count, gauge size, individual pockets? Thanks in advance for the help! Ryan
The information on that site, lacks the detail of time, specific models and popular trends.
Memory foam rates very high with new owners, for comfort. Those same owners tend to sing a completely different tune a year or two later. Memory foam also receives lots of immediate complaints about the smell. It off-gasses toxic fumes that result in a myriad of physical problems, mostly respiratory in nature...bleeding sinuses, being the worst that I've heard....headaches being the most common. And, who knows what the long term implications are?!
Latex, on the other hand, is an all natural product that has been the best you can buy since the 1920s...comfortable, durable and non-toxic. You don't hear latex advertised. It's expensive to make and costs about the same as most memory foam products. Memory foam is cheap to make and what you're paying for is the advertising.
The trend, today, is comfort...selling comfort and luxury. The mattress industry started that. The sales floors are a sea of pillowtops. It wasn't hard to switch the focus away from support and a healthful night's sleep, to having you indulging your sense of luxury. After all, we are Americans...a decadent society that loves to be told what we want to hear, and loves to emmerce ourselves in the finer things of life. A soft mattress?...It's an easy sell.
Going down that path is ok if you can afford that boat or that Mercedes....ok to throw your money away on frivolous products that you never use. What's not ok, is to subject yourself, your skeletal and muscular systems to inadequate support for eight hours a day, resulting in permanent damage that you will fully regret later and for the rest of your life.
There is now no regulations protecting you from what is clearly criminal neglect on the part of the mattress industry, including many of these review sites which rely on paid ads from the very people responsible for all of this.
10 years, or so ago, mattresses went from being two sided to being one sided. The marketing went something like this, "Yay! You don't have to flip your mattress anymore!".
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Hi Pete,
I am seriously considering buying a Simmons nxg 600. I tested it out in a store and it is very comfortable. I like the memory foam aspect of it because it helps my back. I was really hoping to get your thoughts on this mattress. There seemed to be little information or reviews online and I am trying to get an idea of a fair pricing point. I am especially looking for a mattress that will last me a long time in the future. Also do you think it would be more cost effective to buy a spring bed and place a memory foam topper on it? Thanks so much!
Hi Ryan,
I don't know where you got all these crazy ideas that memory foam was good for your back, or that it would last a long time...nothing could be further from the truth.
The NxG line is out...either totally discontinued or just about to be.
The 600 is a top line model. Top line models, across the board, are among the shortest lived products in the mattress world...way past the point of diminishing return and a complete waste of money.
In short, you are totally misinformed.
While the NxG memory foam is far better than any other type of memory foam...much less temperature sensitive with a much quicker response time, it is still not the answer to any sort of back problem. A firm innerspring mattress is.
And, if you are going to soften the surface of a firm mattress, you certainly wouldn't use memory foam. There are no NxG memory foam toppers, just regular memory foam, which sinks through like it wasn't even there and sleeps hot...totally worthless for that job. The only thing that works, long term, is latex.
You are now well informed.
If you would like a recommendation, give me some information about you...height, weight, age, nature for your condition...and I'll be happy to direct you to something suitable for your needs.
*****************************************************************
Hi Pete,Thank you for the info! I am looking for a queen size and I am 5'10" and 185 pounds. I really really like the feel and the comfort of the nxg. I certainly don't want to buy it if longevity is an issue though. What would you suggest. I don't really have a back problem, I just feel sore sometimes when I wake up in my lower back. I have looked on sleeplikethedead.com and it says that memory foam beds have the highest owner satisfaction. Firm innersprings have the lowest it seems. What do you think is the reason for this? What do you look for when buying an. Innerspring? Coil count, gauge size, individual pockets? Thanks in advance for the help! Ryan
Hi Ryan,
You have asked one of the most important general questions I've read in a while. It cuts right to the heart of why so many buying mistakes are made...over and over again. And, I can now see where you got all your mis-information
The information on that site, lacks the detail of time, specific models and popular trends.
A mattress is not a piece of furniture that works until it breaks or lasts until it becomes a valuable antique.
A mattress has a life...how it feels on a showroom floor after it has been broken in by countless consumers plopping on it...how it feels new, when you first get it...how it feels a month later, after it settles into your body shape...how it feels a year later, and so on.
Wear patterns develop based on a person's size, shape, weight, and the way the mattress is used or abused.
And, like you and I, they are all different. Each brand has several lines. Each line has several models. Each model has several choices of comfort.
To say that one brand rates higher than another, or that foam mattresses rate higher than innersprings, is much too general a statement...especially when there is no reference to the time line of the review. Was the review given just after receiving it? If so, that review is worthless.
Let me know what you think a year or two later, then you have a review to which you can assign some weight.
As a retailer, I can tell you that you rarely hear from people who are happy with their purchase.
For the most part, those reviews are solicited....and soon after delivery.
Those with complaints don't need to be solicited. An unhappy customer will let you know about it all on their own...and just as soon as they become uncomfortable or feel pain...and at anytime during the course of the life of the mattress.
Memory foam rates very high with new owners, for comfort. Those same owners tend to sing a completely different tune a year or two later. Memory foam also receives lots of immediate complaints about the smell. It off-gasses toxic fumes that result in a myriad of physical problems, mostly respiratory in nature...bleeding sinuses, being the worst that I've heard....headaches being the most common. And, who knows what the long term implications are?!
Other common complaints are that it sleeps hot and that it's so difficult to change position, you actually have to awaken to do so.
When you look at memory foam in its entirety, one can only conclude that it's the worst material ever invented for use in or as a mattress.
Latex, on the other hand, is an all natural product that has been the best you can buy since the 1920s...comfortable, durable and non-toxic. You don't hear latex advertised. It's expensive to make and costs about the same as most memory foam products. Memory foam is cheap to make and what you're paying for is the advertising.
The trend, today, is comfort...selling comfort and luxury. The mattress industry started that. The sales floors are a sea of pillowtops. It wasn't hard to switch the focus away from support and a healthful night's sleep, to having you indulging your sense of luxury. After all, we are Americans...a decadent society that loves to be told what we want to hear, and loves to emmerce ourselves in the finer things of life. A soft mattress?...It's an easy sell.
Going down that path is ok if you can afford that boat or that Mercedes....ok to throw your money away on frivolous products that you never use. What's not ok, is to subject yourself, your skeletal and muscular systems to inadequate support for eight hours a day, resulting in permanent damage that you will fully regret later and for the rest of your life.
There is now no regulations protecting you from what is clearly criminal neglect on the part of the mattress industry, including many of these review sites which rely on paid ads from the very people responsible for all of this.
I am not a believer in big government, but do expect my government to protect me against profiteers who rely on damaging the lives of the population to make their profits.
Kinda like Monsanto poisoning our food supply for the past half century.
I hope it doesn't take that long for all of you to catch on to what the mattress industry is up to.
If you're young, what you're experiencing is all you know.
It was about 10 years ago, or so, when this industry turned to the dark side, so to speak.
Prior to that, quality was the focus. However, Tempurpedic, with their mass media marketing, was swallowing up an ever increasingly large portion of mattress market share. It was that company who told you that memory foam was the best thing since sliced bread. They told you in unbelievable frequently...over and over on TV and radio, day in and day out, year in and year out...until finally, the lie became the accepted truth.
In order to retain their market share, everyone got in on the act. "Umbriago!" (Jimmy Durante)
10 years, or so ago, mattresses went from being two sided to being one sided. The marketing went something like this, "Yay! You don't have to flip your mattress anymore!".
They omitted the part about now having half a mattress that will last you half as long.
The best way around this, if you're looking for value, something that will hold up for any length of time and still be comortable AND supportive, is to get firm basic innerspring mattress and add a latex topper to it. Which mattress and which topper, varies with the needs of the individual.
In your case, the tried and true, good old stand by is all you need...as you have no weight issue or chronic back problem. Here are links to items, when used together, provide long lasting positive results. The topper to use with this mattress, for you, would be the soft one.
You can spend more and you can spend less, but THIS, is your best buy.
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Thanks, Pete
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