Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This mattress ended up being a great purchase. I was nervous about buying something like this from Amazon, in case the wife and I were not happy. I will say that it would be possible to have shipped it back, but it would have sucked. Good thing I did not have to. I will address some of my major concerns from reviews below. 1 - Mattress would not expand properly - I opened this thing up around 7 PM in the living room, and was wondering what the heck I was doing buying a mattress from Amazon. It looked to be about 3 inches thick, and very chunky. I decided to make a drink and have some faith. 30 minutes in, looking much better. 1 hour in, looking good enough to briefly lay on, awesome. By the time my wife got home around 10 PM, it was perfect. We actually ended up sleeping on it in the living room that night! 2 - Mattress was too soft - Go lay down on the Tempurpedic at your local HH Gregg or other retailer. SAME EXACT THING. Softer than the spring mattress? Yes. Too soft and not supportive? No. This thing while being soft is way more supportive than anything else I have slept in ever. Amazing on my back, or my side. Does not matter. 3 - Too warm - The mattress is definitely a tad warmer than the spring mattress, but just enough to mention as a passing notice. I am a large man, and a warm man. I made the transition in a night easily. There are mattress covers to help this, but I won't be needing one. 4 -Smell - Yes, this is the only thing that I could even mention about this mattress. It does smell, and still smells a little a month later. The good news is that it is not a potent chemical smell, or anything offensive. Hard to describe really, but I know that it does not bother my wife or kids at all. No big deal for us really. I am sure that we could have let it sit in the living room for more than 12 hours too! If I could rate this mattress on 10 stars (think about that one Amazon!), I would have given it a 9 for sure. The smell being the only detractor at all. I have been telling everyone at the office about it, and some have come over to try it out! Hands down there is no better deal, and this mattress hangs with every other $3000 Cal King that we looked at. Side note for grown ups regarding "not sleeping". This was a concern with this type of mattress, and was a concern that we didn't want to dispel in a show room. You lose the bounce of the spring mattress for sure, but you now have "formed indentations" that facilitate better stability. All is still rockin on that front. I give this mattress a .2 nod on the 10 scale for this unsung category, bringing it up to a 9.2. Update: After 6 months of sleep, my spot has an indentation. We flipped it, and it is fine now, but I would have to say I am slightly disappointed that an indentation has formed at all. Not a big deal, because it looks like it is healing nicely since the flip.