Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am incredibly dissatisfied with this purchase for two reasons: 1) I placed too much emphasis on the overall customer RATINGS and boy can I just tell you that AMAZON customers are truly all over the map on the subjective "softness" "luxuriousness" and just the general level of comfort supposedly offered by this poorly designed & even more poorly constructed bath pillow... PLEASE TAKE RAVE REVIEWS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. Literally 1 tiny grain. Then toss it over your shoulder and look at OTHER OPTIONS. (Seriously) 2) The name GORILLA might seem to some as befitting of a heavy duty, high quality and exceedingly durable product. Well, this GORILLA GRIP Original Spa Bath Pillow is only befitting of the GORILLA GRIP name in that it feels like it was made FOR AN ACTUAL GORILLA to recline upon....not a human with tender skin, in need of some PADDING between the nape of the neck and the enameled cast iron bathtub, nor just the very most basic pillowy-ness that this awful product promises to provide. Specifically....this dumb thing is made in China and it is truly the lowest quality materials one would NEVER hope to find upon opening the crummy outter plastic wrapper. It is QUITE LITERALLY just two thin layers of CHEAP WHITE VINYL PLASTIC that are HEAT WELDED & cut together (fused under pressure & die cut in one stamping) with a single 1" layer of low density polyurethane foam sandwiched in between. The back of this multi-segmented "pillow" is enhanced with additional rings of the same crappy vinyl that are melted and pressed into the pillow to create each of the suction cup "holders," which are just stiff plastic dimples roughly 3/8" deep and 1/2" around (you can insert the tip of your index finger) and lemme tell ya...... They SUCK AT GRIPPING! Period. They don't grip the suction cups firmly enough to PREVENT the suction cups from pulling right off the back of the pillow....but sadly half the time the suction cups DO STAY ATTACHED to the pillow, they just WON'T STAY ADHERED TO THE DAMN TUB. The remaining half of the time, they pull out of the pillow and STAY FIRMLY ATTACHED TO THE TUB. So....gorilla grip is truly a misnomer and ends up being more maddening than anything else. But WAIT! There's more... You get not only a crappy vinyl plastic slightly puffy bathmat for a "pillow" but you ALSO GET THE MOST OFFENSIVE CHEMICAL / PLASTIC / RUBBERY COMBINATION SMELL that will most assuredly NOT go away! It hasn't gone away in nearly 4 months.....and the smell is so bad that even when stored INSIDE THE CABINET UNDERNEATH THE BATHROOM SINK, I can STILL smell the totally unmistakable odor of extremely cheap summertime flotation devices (or an air mattress) that you'd find poolside! (You know how well those pieces of junk hold up...so imagine this *upgraded* with 4 pieces of the most meager foam padding. Yeah. It sucks and stinks....but it will also scratch the hell outta your delicate bits if the damn pillow shifts abruptly and the sharp edges of the cut vinyl happen to find your skin instead of the bathtub or tile. And yes.....it is WATERPROOF. ISH. At least at first. So.....let's really be super sensible here for one FINAL and HOPEFULLY CONVINCING POINT: Have you ever tried dunking a basketball or other completely SEALED but INFLATED object and holding it under water? Ever tried FORCING IT TO STAY UNDER THE SURFACE OF THE WATER?? How well does THAT work out before you give up the INSANE and UNTENABLE attempt at sinking the unsinkable?? Well, after you draw a nice warm bath and the level of the water is high enough that it FIGHTS WITH THE AIR THAT IS TRAPPED INSIDE THE FOAM PADDING WITHIN EACH OF THE 4 SECTIONS OF THIS DAMN PILLOW......I'll give you one guess as to WHICH wins! The pillow or the water. My bet is ON THE WATER. Every stinking, aggravating, frustrating, God forsaken time.....the GORILLA GRIP crap pillow POPS RIGHT UP OUTTA THE WATER and EVEN UPON LEANING INTO IT WITH EVERY LAST POUND ON MY BONES, the stupid piece of junk just slips, slides, twists and otherwise REFUSES TO COOPERATE in any way shape or form! Useless. Even the cat and all 3 dogs will have NOTHING to do with it. It literally stinks and it is not the least bit PILLOW-LIKE. I'll add photos later. Not that they'll do anything to improve this review. They will however prove that this thing does not HOLD UP under even rare usage by only one person in the household. Thanks for reading and I honestly hope like hell that my thoroughly UNABASHED and EXTREMELY CANDID review provides you with the knowledge and courage to LEAVE THIS DAMN GORILLA GRIP P.O.S. TO THE ACTUAL GORILLAS. (Sorry, gorIllas....nothing personal. Honest)