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27th June 2012

What mattress on very low budget?

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A customer asked

Hi guys. I have to congratulate you on the wealth of information you provide on your website.... I think it's brilliant!

OK.... that was the praise... now the request for some help and information.... I wholly appreciate your comments and suggestions on 'budget' type mattresses and will readily admit to having been bitten (or rather my wife was because she paid) I can't stand the uncomfortable evenings any longer but equally cannot afford to splash the cash on the luxury mattress my heart and back desires. Soooooooo...... I have looked, as we all try to do, at maybe getting something half decent at a discounted price. Yeah, yeah I hear you all say.... been there, tried that and ended up with something the dog curls up on!

How does ex-showroom or exhibition models sound?

I've managed to find a company that supplies such items and am considering buying from them. The model I'm looking at are both Hypnos kingsize mattresses. One is the ID3 double sided and the other is an Evesham. With prices ranging around £220 to £240 including delivery for something described as 'slightly marked' do you think this deal could be bettered?

Both my wife and I are around the 13 stone region. Your help would be much appreciated as I'm desperate for a good nights kip!

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admin Answered 6 months ago

Hi John.

 

Thank you for your enquiry on our website.  We have no qualms at all with ex-showroom models / damaged through delivery/shop soiled etc.  However, the models you mention are still budget mattresses.  The Evesham, for example, has a regular retail price of around £350 (Kingsize). To put this into perspective our lowest priced mattresses is The Origins Comfort 1000 which retails at £525 for a Kingsize model (Aug 2018). As much as we try, we have not found any mattress below this standard / Price that we would be prepared to put our name to.  This is despite there being literally hundreds of mattresses 'out there' that can be retailed at between £200 - £400, and as you can now vouch, once the initial pleasure of handing over not too much money has been erased from your memory, the long term issue of comfort is now forefront of your mind.

 

Origins Comfort 1000 luxury mattress

 

However, there are solutions to all of this.  Let's say your budget for a kingsize mattress is in the £300 ball park.  Realistically, this is not much at all and even the 'Bag of Springs' simile is far too generous to use.  What you can do for your £300 is to cobble together your own mattress.  Understand that for this budget there will be absolutely nothing that you can buy that will suit your needs and comfort together, so buying the ex-display model at £220 (try to hunt out a 1000 springs/">pocket spring unit at the very least and at your body weights you would benefit from a medium spring tension, this would give you both the correct level of support) and topping it off with a very good mattress topper £100 - £140 to use as the primary layer of comfort is probably a far better use of your money than spending the lot on a mattress that costs around £320.

 

I hope this was helpful and if you would like any further information please do not hesitate to contact the office on 0161 437 4419.  Our office hours are 8 am – 8 pm Monday to Friday and 10 am – 4 pm Saturday and Sunday.

Kind Regards
Michaela

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