Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake

abrake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• asqapro@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Derek from NapLab is also a great source. I did my own research before finding his website, but his recommendations matched what I had chosen. It also makes me chuckle to tell friends that a man named Derek will personally email you to tell you what mattress to buy.

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maximum Derek!

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  • ridethisbike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not only will he personally email you, but he will keep engaging to help you out. He recommended a mattress that fit the budget but didn’t ship to Alaska. After I told him that, he went out of his way to help me find another company that did. Ended up emailing back and forth with him a few times before landing on one of his recommendations.

    I found him via and old AskReddit thread he started and kept going.

    A+ effort from him.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The website looks interesting, but mattresses are a regional deal. Yaay!

    Meaning people from North America will find the website very helpful I’m sure. But I go there and I see a bunch of mattresses I literally can’t buy.

    I think the only mattresses available on both sides of the Atlantic that I can look up reviews on are the IKEA ones. Which don’t get glowing reviews.

    I wonder if anyone can point me to a similar site for mattresses available in Europe. I currently have a Sleepwell Red Orthopedic which I’m pretty happy with, but it’s damaged (not warrantyable either - damaged during moving) and I’m wondering if there’s something even better for me out there.

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    • kora@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You may want to check bett1 out. If I remember correctly, the founder created the company after being frustrated with the industry marketing tactics. Their product range is small, no marketing fluff, but they are quite popular in Germany.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hmm, I like how easy it is to select sizes and things on their website. I dislike one bit so far:

        BODYGUARD® Box Spring Mattress

        Boxspring Feeling without metal springs made of 100 % solid foam. One side medium, the other firmer

        Feels a bit misleading even if they do clarify it.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Lol!
        Anti-cartel matress :D

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• kora@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Slightly off-topic: Is there a similar website for sofas?

  When I moved out, I was in a hurry and bought one after testing it for comfort for about thirty seconds. Turns out, it is, and most their products are drop-shipped, low quality garbage.

  It started falling apart after a month. Been postponing the purchase for about two years because I am not able to find reliable sources of information.

  Great sources for a mattress though. Guess I will cop one soon, as I bought it from Wayfair, same shit. Good riddance!

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  • asqapro@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is a list of notes I put together when shopping for couches. Some of it requires getting hands-on with the couch so it won’t work well for online purchases, but you should be at least sitting on a couch before buying it. My notes were cobbled together from information I found online, so big grain of salt.

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    Old couches are almost always going to be better than new ones because so many companies have dropped in quality over the years.

    Take a black light to look for pee spots or stains. Look for bugs (fleas, bedbugs).

    Things to look for:

    • Touch back of sofa & area under arm rest and see if it’s just fabric. Something solid usually means attention to detail / quality
    • Seat cushions that are solid foam wrapped in breathable layer (cotton, down, etc) are the worst quality cushions (degrade quickly over time)
    • Seat cushions that have layered foam or glued foam is a good sign and may mean springs in the foam (springs are generally a good thing)
    • Take off the seat cushions and see how far apart the springs underneath the cushions are / how many there are. More & tighter packed the better
    • Take off seat cushions and look for horizontal connection wires. There should be 2 minimum. Should be able to feel and see through fabric
    • Lift up the sofa. If it’s light weight, that’s bad. If it flexes, that’s bad. Good sofas are heavy and don’t flex when lifted
    • Don’t buy leather, buy polyester. This is personal preference, but leather is a lot more work to take care of & keep it looking nice
    • “Eight way hand tied” isn’t necessarily a sign of quality, but it’s better than s-springs. There can be fake “eight way hand tied”, which is why it isn’t always better

    Good brands:

    • Room & Board
    • What A Room
    • Arhaus
    • Maiden Home
    • Stickley 
    • Thos. Moser 
    • Ethan Allen
    • Stuart David (Amish)
    • Hancock and Moore
    • Bradington and Young
    • Classic Leather
    • American Leather

    Ok brands:

    • Bernhardt
    • Palliser
    • Lovesac 
    • La-Z-Boy
    • Flexsteel

    Bad brands:

    • Crate & Barrel
    • Ashley
    • Article & Joybird
    • Wayfair
    • Natuzzi 
    • Restoration Hardware

    When I bought my couches a few years ago, I got them used off Facebook Marketplace. It took a couple weeks for some decent Ethan Allen couches to pop up, but I got them for ~$400 each.

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    • kora@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thank you!

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I might try to get a couch with my next paycheck. This is all really good to know. I’m saving your comment for reference when shopping.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I own a skoolie (a used school bus converted to a motorhome). I acquired two sections of one of those giant sectional sofas from a woman on Craigslist who was giving them away for free. She paid $4000 for the entire thing and when I deconstructed my sections to build them into the bus I was astonished at what incredibly poor quality the things were. The framing (such as it was) was unbelievably cheap wood that looked like it was cut by a beaver, and the ends were made from OSB scraps - not even cheap plywood. The backs underneath the cushions were entirely made from nylon lawn chair straps haphazardly stapled down.

    The cushions and fabric were decent enough, but the thought of paying $4000 for furniture that shitty underneath is pretty hard to imagine.

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    • kora@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That sounds awesome! I am curious about your journey of owning a skoolie. I sometimes daydream about building a similar motor home. Watched too many videos of Steve Wallis these days…

      Is it your main residence? If it is, what do you miss the most about owning a regular home? How long did it take you to adjust and finally feel home?

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The bus is not my main residence. I live in a place (Philly area) where residence in a motorhome is not really a legal option. I embarked on the skoolie journey without a realistic plan for actually living in it and so far it’s been nothing but a gigantic time and money sink. But it has been fun and I’ve developed a lot of skills (mainly metalworking like welding and riveting) that I didn’t have before. You may enjoy my build thread.

        I do hope to someday be able to live in it for a few years at least. We’ll see if that’s possible.

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  • DireTech@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Would love this for sofas. Last one I got was crap and I find myself regretting not continuing to fix up our old 80s era leather sofa. That thing was built to survive the Cold War.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can recommend a very good brand but you’ll hate me for it, it’s expensive as fuck and will last your lifetime (I have a 50 year old sofa that is still comfy as fuck, I just need to get it reupholstered because the fabric is wearing a titch after living through two families) but like, we’re cultists about our couches

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    • kora@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You forgot to mention the brand I think :^)

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        stickley

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• NotACentrifugalBird@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  www.sleeplikethedead.com is pretty good, too.

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  • gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wow, their website is really shitty on a phone, though (not sure about on a desktop). Half of all the pages are taken up with ads. Much too easy to hit one by mistake.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If only there was some sort of…blocker… of ads… on websites…

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      • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I feel like a lot of people don’t know you can use ublock origin on Firefox mobile but hopefully now they will :)

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    • NotACentrifugalBird@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sorry. Didn’t notice with pi-hole.

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• T3CHT@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thanks. Turns out I’m also mattress shopping! Appreciate the alternative option.

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  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Your post has reminded me of this video that calculates how many mattresses you might own if every time a mattress company tried to get you to buy mattress, you did.

    It goes rather off the rails once the problem of where to put them becomes a concern. It’s worth a good laugh.

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    • T3CHT@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is another really good reason to be upset with the 10 yr warranty. It implies a longevity well beyond what this product can do.

      And the waste. My god the waste. Piles upon piles of unrecyclable petroleum derived foam. Ok, in relative terms to our modern lifestyle it fits right in, but that’s not good.

      And if it lasts half as long as they say, and they won’t touch it at the end of its life, what does that say?!

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      • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ve done some time in waste handling, and about a decade ago I had the opportunity to work with a mattress recycling outfit. They had set up a disassembly line that would separate the various materials within a mattress, it was very interesting to see.

        My memory is failing me now, but they were sending about half the material to some other outfit that used in it production of some kind. So at least some recycling was happening through them.

        The mattress industry is wild even without managing the product’s end of life. So many of the same mattress get wrapped with slightly different fabric and stitch work and sold under a different name and whatnot. Personally when mine meets its end I’m going to try a tatami instead.

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