5 Common Sleep Number Bed Problems and Complaints

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1. I bought my Sleep Number in 2008 and have had no problems with the bed as a whole. However, when it comes to their other items I’ve had a major problem. I bought the heated mattress pad around 2010. In 2017 I discovered the heating elements were over heating which was evident by the scorching on several cords. Sleep Number gladly replaced the pad with no problems. Well it’s happened again only the adapter started melting and there is other scorching evident on the cords. I have basically no sense of smell or I might have noticed this sooner. I contacted Sleep Number again but this time I didn’t get the same results. I was told that their warranty only allows for one replacement. I could see this if it were because of miss use or abuse, but I have no control over electrical issues and their quality control. Please be aware of this major safety issue before you consider buying their heated mattress pad!

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2. I bought a sleep number bed in 2011 after back surgery and love it. I bought a newer model in 2013 for my in laws. It recently broke. The frame that lowers and raises won’t work and bed just falls to floor. They told us when we bought it had a 20 year warranty. Well turns out that is just on mattress. The mattress is made on the frame except they won’t honor warranty. It can’t be fixed and they no longer carry this style and they won’t replace it. Customer Service is a joke.

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3. After having had great sleep number bed for 20 years we bought a split king adjustable. After 2 years the frame will not adjust and the Sleep Number people can’t help us. We have to work with the manufacturer of the frame and after 2 weeks we can’t get a call back from them. Needless to say if we purchase another bed it will not be a Sleep Number. Loved the bed but it’s of no value when it doesn’t work.

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4. The value in this product is in it’s use (not in the item itself). If it works for you then it’s a great deal, if it doesn’t then you will feel ripped off. It is indeed very expensive for what it is, but how much are the (positive) results worth? Their bedding (covers / sheets so on) are very, very expensive, but it’s also a very good quality (in our experience). I almost have to ignore how much everything costs, because it works well for us (but it’s still hard to ignore how massively overpriced everything is).

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5. Yes I researched this bed an so many others. An there are good and bad reviews on all of them. We received our King i8 3 weeks ago. We did not get the adjustable base and our bed is solid not split. I have Multiple Sclerosis, 5 discs in my upper back/neck and 6 in my lower that are compressed/ herniated/bone on bone and a long list of other help issues. Over the past 12 years we have tried multiple beds, couches and recliners even our camper. That was until we got our sleep number. For the first time in over 12 years I have been able to get comfortable fast, stay that’s way and wake up not feeling like I want to die do to the pain. No it doesn’t magically take all my pain away. But I don’t toss an turn an up an down all night fighting to be comfortable, I feel rested, and not stiff an in more pain than I went to bed with. Yes I do have to adjust my number some nights depending on how I’m feeling. So I don’t have a set number an I’m fine with that. So it fits what my needs are for that day/night. So it’s like a different bed everytime I need it to be. So far so good we haven’t had any problems. We both love how the air adjusts when we move so we stay supposed with no pressure points or none support with gaps btw us and the mattress. It’s zero gravity for your body. Yes it’s a bit pricey but you can’t put a $$$ on reduced pain an better more restful sleep. I haven’t had to deal with customer service yet. An hopefully I don’t have to for a long while. But I did get the extra warranty if something does happen. I know this bed isn’t for everyone. I also recommend going to as many mattress store as you can and lay, flip an flop on every mattress you find an narrow them down. Then go and lay on them again an again until you find your perfect bed.

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6. avoid these products. worst i have felt after one night. tried 2 more nights, same as before. return policy as presented in store is deceptive. charged me again to pickup mattress. they will not take back adjustable frame. after return, net out of pocket, is $3k.

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7. Don’t waste your money on these beds. They are junk. The pumps fail, the durability of the mattress is sub-par at best, customer service is extremely poor. Warranty is absolute garbage. Trust me on this.

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8. We blew $ 9100 on this set up that has been a health hazard nightmare! I have heart electrical issues, and found that sleeping on this bed has nearly killed me for the past month. I’m now sleeping on our 8 year old Beauty Rest again. Not many folks have mentioned this problem, but This bed has horrendous EMF’s. I purchased a meter and discovered the EMF’s are off the chart! Especially over the magnets and the motor that all lie just under your body’s trunk. Yes, that’s right…all night long your organs are being bombarded by dangerous EMF’s. My entire body started to vibrate and felt like it was on fire after two nights of sleeping in it. I went back to the store where we purchased it and asked the sales person why he didn’t mention that people with heart issues shouldn’t sleep in these beds. He said that he heard rumors to that effect, but since the company has since come out to say this “rumor” wasn’t true, that he doesn’t tell his customers about it. Double the trouble, this bed is horribly uncomfortable. What a horrible SCAM!

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9. Don’t buy a Sleep Number! We have had too many issues and the most recent is mold spores growing in the tubes that connect from the pump into the mattress. When I called customer service they told me that it was probably sediment in the tube and there was nothing they would do about it. It’s disgusting! I will never own another product from this company.

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10. Wow, I had no idea how bad Sleep Number is until I got to this website today. I was supposed to have the King IL8 delivered January 12th, but I cancelled the order on Jan 3rd. I just couldn’t get over the fact that I was going to blow $5,700 on an air mattress with a fancy wrapper. I read every review on here, and good GOD I’m relieved I dodged that bullet!!! F**K Sleep Number.

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    • Good choice!! I have the same bed and I feel that I am sleeping in a regular or camping mattress. All my back and neck hurts every day. This mattress is good gor people that suffer back problems.

11. A year ago I spent over 6k on a sleep number bed for my father and within months the mattress was ruined. After many calls to customer service they advised that they would go check it. That was months ago and nothing. Don’t waste your time and money on sleep number. They are horrible!!!

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12. I have had a sleep number for almost 20 years. Fortunately, I guess I purchased it when they cared about quality, because it is only recently that I am now experiencing issues. My brother purchased at Sleep Number a few years ago, and he told me to keep my bed, as I got a good one. But he returned his and cited many of the issues stated here. So, on one hand, I want to defend Sleep Number, but I won’t be purchasing a new bed from them this time around. I guess it gets back to the question of quality, and not getting greedy or cutting corners.

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13. I have tried to cancel the Select Comfort bed and have received nothing but problems. The 100% customer service is a joke. I would not recommend Select Comfort. You better read all the fine print because if you are not happy they charge you 25% to ship back a crappy product even after you tell them it is junk. They also charge you for shipping back to them . They only want you to sign or say yes and once they get your credit a Approved you are screw they promis you the world and you can only send back the mattress they are not a good company junk product and fast talkers . They do thing not legal in many states but push the limit and get away with it. Crappy company we lost our job do to COVID and they would not let us return a product we have not received for full refund which is illegal in most states. They know what they are doing and sell junk do not buy select comfort .

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14. My husband and I bought a sleep number bed about 20 years. We purchased a split king because back then I don’t think they made a bed without the split where both sides adjusted individually. I need to be able to raise the head due to reflux problems. My husband never liked the bed, I did until now. Don’t know if it’s because I’m 20 years older with back problems or if the bed is leaking air, but I can’t get comfortable. The topper on my side has shredded and there is a trench. They told me I could replace the whole top, the zipped top material and all the inside workings for $582.00. I’ve been switching over to my husband’s bed, (he sleeps in different room at times due to snoring), it’s somewhat better, not great. Not sure what to do. His bed was less slept in then mine.

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15. Don’t buy it, it is poor quality and everything work for a month or two after that they just keep ask you pay money even you want return in 100 days. Overall their service sucks and always asking for at least 200 bucks for service even though you have warranty. This company just want money.

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16. What a complete waste of money. My back has hurt every single morning after waking up sleeping on their top of the line i10 bed. I called to tell them I’d like to return it and they told me “we can send you out a 2″ foam topper that tends to help with this issue.” I gave them a week to get it to me and have used the topper for the past 2 nights. Now, the bed gets warm because of the topper, and my wife doesn’t like that the foot warmer is covered so that feature doesn’t work when you use the foam topper. We were so excited to get this bed and can’t believe how poor customer service and the bed actually are. I will tell everyone I meet to not waste their money on a Sleep Number bed – what a sham.

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17. A bait and switch! The bed itself is akin to something my husband could have thrown together in the garage with a few camping mattresses, a couple of 2×4 and a inflatable bed hose. For a bed that costs the price of a small vehicle, it’s shockingly makeshift under the surface.

    As someone who has travelled extensively and slept on everything from the floor, to sand, a hammock, a dog bed and 5 Star Hotel beds, I’ve never in my life experienced a worst night of sleep. In fact, I woke up in pain every night I slept on the sleep number bed. This has never happened to me in my life.

    Not only that, Sleep Number as a company expects you to continue to sleep on the bed for a full 30 days before they charge you, yes THEY CHARGE YOU to come and collect it. This is apparently because, even if you want it out of your house in the first 2 days, you’ll be paying for the privilege of hanging on to it for 100….

    My recommendation is that unless you fancy a bed that has the construction of something McGuiver threw together in 45 mins, steer clear of Sleep Number and don’t buy into the hype. The technology is a sweet looking app that is currently mistaking my 250lb, 6’4″ husband for my 7lb cat resulting in a sleep session of 22hr….he’s not even in it (yes we’ve restarted the app..) that app is going to tell you you got a great nights sleep (see image) even if you know you were in agony for most of it and eventually got up feeling like you dislocated a hip in the wee hours.

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    • I have been wondering if the sleep iq would take a reading from the cat if no one was in bed. Does it happen often? Thankyou for posting.

    • I agree with the sleep score issue… I had an extremely restless night, hardly slept at all, woke up extremely tired and with excruciating back pain and the Sleep Number app told me I had one of my best sleep nights with a score of 93! I personally am disappointed with everything about this bed and will never purchase another one (and counting the days until we can get rid of this one which unfortunately will be quite awhile since we just bought it less than a year ago.)

18. If there ever was a scam company Sleep Number would define it. My wife and regrettably fell for the sales pitch and bought an i8 with adjustable frame for about $4500. It was the worst bed imaginable (we have finally returned it). Whoever compared it it to a glorified air mattress is right…and if you think about it the whole concept is a scam. Once you get below a certain number (lets say 75) your body weight just pushes down to the same firmness/support (like a cheap air mattress) regardless of the number and all you do is sink deeper into their cheap foam layer. In other words there is basically no support…thus the sore backs people complain about.

    The scam part comes in considering they charge $200 to deliver, $200 to return (just the bed…you are stuck with the squeaky adj base), and the stores will not help you with any concerns forcing you to call their number which always advertises an hour wait (though I would recommend just waiting because the waits for me ended up around 15 minutes…and the people were actually quite nice). That said DO NOT finance from them because they are slow to credit your return or price adjustments (the bed was cheaper the week after we bought it) and you have no recourse unlike you would maybe have had you used a credit card (which might offer you some extra protection). The $400 bucks they get for delivery and return probably covers the cost of the bed anyway. They must sell a lot of these beds to kids because I have not met one adult that bought one that didn’t get rid of it within a year.

    In the end we ended up going with a memory foam bed (came down to Tempurpedic vs Nectar) and ended up going with the $700 Nectar which is a gazillion times better than the overpriced Sleep Number. An expensive life lesson to be sure….live and learn I guess.

    If you are considering one of these…just don’t be pressured into their sales (they are on sale all of the time). Leave and come back after trying something else. Casper, Nectar, Avocado are all worth a try and offer free returns….also don’t be too quick to go Tempurpedic (Nectar is basically the same) because they operate like Sleep Number (scam return policies) and are EXPENSIVE!

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19. We have had our sleep number system for a little over 2 months and the base has malfunctioned twice already. The company has not been any help. They passed the buck onto the base manufacturer. My problem with this is, I purchased this system from sleep number, not the manufacturer of the base. I would not recommend purchasing this sleep system to anyone. Considering hiring a lawyer to get my money back. Very disappointed.

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20. Sleep Number and BEDBUGS!!!!!!!
    How about this. We ended up getting bedbugs from the Sleep Number IQ 360 Bed we purchased. How you might say? Cross contamination. I saw our new bed in the delivery truck laying against the old beds that had been picked up. We got the bed installed and 6 weeks later my wife was itching up a storm. After several doctors and thinking it was everything from spiders to fleas to the softener we find out we have bed bugs. I found them in the foam mattress. We tell Sleep Number and they try to blame us for the bed bugs. They say we brought them in. We have not been on a trip for years. We moved into our house over 2 years ago. Never had an issue with bed bugs. Their CAMS unit have Orkin and Terminex on speed dial and their rolodex. After we had our house fumigated the bed still had bed bugs in it so we took the loss and bought a new Mathews Mattress. Great bed and Sleep Number’s bed has terrible side support. I hurt every night I slept on it. Their company is full of rats. They blame everyone but them selves. I wanted to burn the bed in front of the store we bought it from but my wife wouldn’t let me. They don’t care about the customer. All they care is about their profits. They are a company to stay away from.

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21. I’m so surprised by the bad reviews. I’ve had my King for 12 years and still love it! No trenching and customer service has been excellent. I needed to purchase legs once. They were missing 2 screws. I called to complain and got a full refund. I called one other time to see how to purchase a headboard because my pillows keep falling in the space between my bed and the headboard and they told me how to fix my problem

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22. Please do not purchase a sleep number bed. We purchased the top of the line sleep number bed and have not been satisfied. The bed gets hot and the support is not comfortable. The investment was not worth it. Only after 2 years we are getting rid of the bed.

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23. I fell for the SN scam believing I would sleep better. How can I salvage my purchase? I’m unable to stand another night on this thing. Can I just buy another mattress and throw on top of deflated sacks?

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    • I bought a regular mattress and put it on the frame I hated my sleep # mattress

24. I really wish I had seen this web-site before purchasing a sleep number bed. I’ve had my bed for some years now and can confirm THE TRENCH EFFECT IS REAL. At first I thought it was just me, and we kept deflating and inflating but the issue seemed to always return.

    Due to the amount of money we invested in this bed, we’ve kept it. In order to try to see if it would work for us, we’ve ordered replacement parts thinking that maybe the uncomfortableness that we’ve encountered has been due to part degradation.

    Customer service is not the best. Parts are expensive and they do not allow returns of their expensive parts even when the issue it fault on their part. Case in point, I contacted the company to order a replacement foam topper. When I received it I noticed that it was not the same as my previous foam purchase. There was a 1/2 to 1 inch difference in thickness and the quality was subpar. Called the company and was told that indeed, I had received a thicker, different item the previous time but that when they put in the SKU number for the one I previously ordered this one came up and shipped. When I told them this is not what I wanted, I was told that I could order a thicker one but it would cost me more money because I could not return the one I received. I am out 190+ dollars because THEY changed the SKU associated with an item number. I will be filing a complaint with my credit card company and the BBB.
    BEWARE WHEN RE-ORDERING PARTS. Or better yet, go with another company with better customer service.

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25. Juat had my first night sleep on an I8 and I am definitely not impressed. I’ll give it a week or two but I’m in pain and slept horribly. It woke me up twice when it filled, and there is a hump on each side that angles you towards the middle or rolls you of the side. The pressure it put on my hips was unbearable. I almost got up and slept on the floor.

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    • If you can return it you should. Things are not going to get better and customer service for this company is sub-par and I am being generous with that description.

26. My back hurts everytime I sleep on one. Can never get the right number. I am going back to temperpedic foam mattress which is the best one for me. My sleep number is up for grabs any offers?

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    • What size ?

27. With SLEEP ZONE Premium Mattress Pad Cover, you can now experience a cooling and deep sleep. This cooling mattress pad has a varying design with waves at head and footrests and quilting in the middle to prevent sagging. This sleep-friendly design entails both comfort and support

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28. With SLEEP ZONE Premium Mattress Pad Cover, you can now experience cooling and deep sleep. This cooling mattress pad has a varying design with waves at head and footrests and a quilting in the middle to prevent sagging. This sleep friendly design entails both comfort and support

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29. I inherited a sleep number bed that was purchased in 2003. I love it, but need to attach a headboard. The kits that are sold are for newer mattresses. Any ideas? Can I drill holes in the hard plastic base? I do not want to replace the bed, but need a headboard. My understanding is that I must use the included platform rather than a different one. Thanks!

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    • i drilled holes in my sleep number frame. it works fine

    • We love our sleep number beds. We have two. The older bed is on our 4 poster bed and we laid down ply-wood over the slats. It’s very hard to change the sheets because of the wood side boards but it’s our guest bed so I don’t change the sheets that often. You could also attach a head board to the wall and pull the bed frame up to the wall.
      Our newer dual beds and the sleep number dual frame sits down in a wood frame.

30. This is an informative review.
    The comments and experiences of different customers are really enlightening. Now I know a few things to be on the lookout for when trying out Sleep Number products.
    Thank you for the read.

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31. I got my bed few weeks ago….not life changing. They don’t have the return policy on the base, only the mattress. Company is big in promises but not in follow up or customer service. Very dissapointed

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    • Their return policy is awful. Costing me $249 for someone to pick it up. When you consider $99 to deliver that’s $350 wasted! Trenching effect was never noted to me as an issue. Overall very bad customer service. Quick to sell you something with a smile but don’t tell you the cons! Never again and will certainly not recommend them

32. Don’t buy a select number mattress.
    We have owned 3 SELECT COMFORT (previous name for this company) mattresses, one full size, one single, and one California King. We had the Select Comfort for 23 years with few problems after I re-installed it to keep the hoses from crimping.

    The 2017 eplacement SLEEP NUMBER California king was and is a nightmare.
    1. Wasn’t installed when promised after being assigned a delivery date several times.
    2. The installers at first refused to install the new mattress after they had torn out the old Select Comfort. The reason was that it was in a waterbed frame. We ordered a water bed “kit” to convert it to a Select Comfort when purchasing the original mattress. After an ugly encounter with the installers, I convinced them to proceed with the install, because the bedroom at this point was littered with mattress components all over the floor.
    3. The installers reluctantly removed the old mattress as was promised, but dumped it on the side of the road about 600 feet from our house. After many phone calls, the installers were forced to return and retrieve the mattress. It was ugly.
    4. Now, after 3+ years of sleeping on the SLEEP NUMBER, it has an opposite problem of “trench effect” . There is a hump in the middle of the bed that basically forces the two occupants to sleep close to the sides of the bed. It would be better to have two single beds and jam them together.
    5. My wife had an extended chat with customer service. We had already checked the possible reasons for the problem, and got no useful help from the chat. At the 4 year mark, our warranty is prorated at 68% of list. A new top foam pad is $170 at this discounted rate, and a new mattress cover is $1200.
    6. Last….The chat person hung up before we were finished chatting. No warning, just hung up. The chat was polite on both ends, but ended without warning. Maybe a technical problem on their end, but we had exhausted the possible reasons for the problem at this juncture, so we didn’t attempt to try again.

    We will never buy another SLEEP NUMBER mattress or anything else they sell.

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33. We have owned our Sleep Number bed for over 20 years. We love it! I would not buy another mattress. While we had one mattress leak, it was replaced immediately for$100 after 15 years. We had one foam area that did develop mold after more than 10 years, and it was replaced immediately without cost.

    The one complaint we have is the trenching effect. We have a full size mattress (which is not big enough for us) and wanted to increase to queen, but the queen chambers are not any wider (only longer- having more foam pieces in the middle. I do not want the trenching effect any longer. We are probably moving to the king split mattresses, but with an adjustable base from another company due to cost (way too much from SN) and inability to return.

    Customer service has been more than kind and responsive to us. No complaints!

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    • I have the King 2 twin–constantly find my self in the “trench” and nothing I have done to stuff the middle has helped–after 1.5 years—poor help from technicans, I belive that I have model E which was discontinued–why??

    • Hey Barb, what other base companies would you recommend? I like the idea of the split king with a non-SN base. Thanks!

34. SN #7000, 15 years old. Losing air. Told I had to purchase a new pump as the hose connector ring was cracked and bed was losing air. SN does NOT sell replacement connectors. Saw that the connector was made by Cold Products out of Minn. When i googled Cold Products, on the right side of the screen showed a picture of my connector. The connector is distributed by Grainger. Called Grainger, ordered the part for $3.00. Had Grainger ship to my local Grainger warehouse and avoided the $10 shipping fee. Connector fit PERFECTLY. Saved $300 +

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    • Any chance that you can give me a part number for that valve? My bed has developed the same problem.

35. I have a sleep number I8. If I could post pictures, I would. This is the absolute worst mattress ever. My biggest complaint is the customer service. I was instructed to email customer service and put the ladies name that I talked to in the subject line, i sent 3 emails with the problem pictures. I never got a response. I called back and another rep said he would send an email, Still no response. The problem, the foam padding, the way it was factory cut, on one side, it is missing elevation, so when it is installed and you put the bedspread on, it appears the top of the mattress has shifted 4 inches to one side. It isn’t only the appearance, it is a fact. I tried to lodge a complaint and no one would acknowledge me. Worst customer service ever. And, yes, I have had to replace the pump already at $300. Plus, my back hurts. Will have to suffer until get a job to save up for a new mattress. I am sleeping in the spare bedroom away from my husband because of the pain this mattress causes my back.

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    • So do you mean that your mattress is not flat and that it is higher on one side? My side of our split King seems to be higher at the split (inner side) than on the outer edge.

36. you need a degree to assemble the twin bed and i got NO help from customer service in chat. so i got help from task rabbit and they would NOT cover the cost. i could NOT get them to disassemble the mattress to return it for a refund. i thought the bed was ok once assembled, but NOT worth the money and the trouble!

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37. We bought a King 9000 in 2007 for about $3200. I t has the power frames and does not split in the middle. We have mostly loved the bed. Because Im good at maintenance moving the bed is little easier for me. However, the pillow top went flat eventually after about 5 years maybe 4. Sleep number wanted at the time $1200 which was flipping rediculous! I unzipped and removed the pillow top and we again enjoyed the bed with a Walmart mattres pad for a $100 which works great. We have had to replace the pump because of deflating twice. This is the third time I need a new pump and they want $350 for new 4 valve because my pump has 4 air lines. Sleep number needs to sell replacement parts for the internal pump parts. I had to move the bed and it started leaking. This time I took apart the pump and sprayed the airlines with soapy water to discover it was a loose hose clamp. While trying to get the air line off the plastic part broke off. They only sell the entire pump sadly. They are a pain in the caboose if you need to move the bed. For the money the pump should be of higher quality. We do love the bed and I would own another one. Wish they would wake up to the parts issues.

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38. Best beds out there, just don’t get the cheapest one. If you do, you will need several layers of padding or it will feel like you are sleeping on plastic. We had our first one for 12 years. No spring mattress can last that long and still feel like it did on day 1. We wanted a new pillow top and the smart adjusting feature so we bought an i8 when they had a major sale. Love the bed. Never slept better. I can make my side super firm. I’m 350+ back sleeper. My wife can have her side less firm. Just great product. Don’t let someone tell you it is a an expensive camping mattress. If you get the barebone cheap one, then maybe. Get something in the middle and watch for a holiday sale.

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    • I wish I could agree about “the best bed ever.” We felt we needed a new bed and gave our old mattress to mother in law. When we go visit her we sit on her bed and revel in the extreme immediate comfort. That mattress has lasted 10 years and counting. I would never reccomend Sleepnumber to anyone. It’s a glorified air mattress. The trench affect has really impacted my sleep pattern and health.

    • We paid over $10k for our bed and have had nothing but issues. My husband went to the ER with back and chest pains. They deduced that it’s because of the bed. The bed keeps deflating completely every 2-hours. I contacted customer support and they wanted US to troubleshoot the issue – to lift the mattress and check the hoses. I said my husband has back and chest pains AND $10k is a LOT to pay for a product that expects YOU to figure out the problems. I said we need a technician to come out and fix it and they said I have to pay $100 just for the pleasure of having a tech sent out. It’s ridiculous. And it has nothing to do with the price.

39. I bought my P6 king in 2016. I was a little embarrassed when I opened up the boxes and saw what I paid $3500 for. It worked well for about 3 1/2 years. Then I noticed that the foam had broken down and had some rips. And the side that I slept on it started to leak. After checking hoses, I did the online chat to inquire about a replacement part. I only needed the right side. At first she quoted me $200. But then at the end of the conversation said I had to buy both sides for $430-even though I only needed one. She said the price would go down if I went through the troubleshooting. Which involved several nights more of basically having my bed deflate under me every couple of hours. But she couldn’t tell me how much I would save by doing this troubleshooting and making my life miserable for another week. Honestly, it is just a glorified air mattress. Cost way too much money. Customer service sucked. Even the replacement parts are outrageous. Not a good investment!

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    • Hi. Do you know of a place where we can start a complaint in attempt to get our money back for the base that we were not told about the exchange. We bought sheets and pillows and that was the only thing we were told was non exchanged. These people should not be able to lie and get away with it.

40. Lots of poor and bad reviews here. I honestly have nothing bad to say about my bed and or service experience. In fact I love it and my husband loves it. We purchased it in 2011 with a pro-rated warranty. I just recently replaced the pump/hoses (almost 10 yrs and 3 moves later) and my pro-rated warranty covered about half the cost of the new part. Nothing lasts forever and all mechanical and plastics eventually wear out and/or need updating. Customer service was prompt and excellent on the phone. I would buy this product again in the future.

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41. I’ve had my SN King for approx 5 years. Never had any trouble until it had to be moved. (House flooded so it had to be taken apart to put new flooring in). Since we’ve put it back together, there is a huge hump right down the middle. I’ve tried and tried to fix it. Cant figure it out.

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42. my 2016 sleep number bed stopped vibrating..it still moves up and down but no vibrating..any ideas?

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43. I would never buy one of these again. It’s an air mattress with cheap foam. It’s very difficult to make. The base is so heavy it’s difficult to move. The mattress slides. If anything goes wrong it’s difficult to fix. You can’t use another mattress with the base. Sorry we bought it.

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44. We have had our P6 Sleep Number King for like 5 years or more. We both wake up with lower back pain all the time now. Our numbers are about 35 most of the time, which is the closest we can get to comfort. It took me 3 years to pay off this bed. I hate it now. We have to refill the air bags every couple days, as they seem to sag. Albeit, maybe 5 years later the valves are getting leaky, fair enough. But even with the fresh setting for a day or two, still wake up with pain. Your heaviest portion is always sinking the bag, whereas a spring would have even support in all places. I am mostly a side sleeper, and i have to change sides every 2-3 hours all night long usually. Beds are an impossible thing to get right.. You never know what you are gonna get.. sort of like Forest Gump and his Box of Chocolates. and SLeep Number controls the entire search with $$$. Good luck finding bad reviews on Google. It took me a while to even find this page.. F Sleep Number. Ripped me off bad.

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    • We are struggling with back pain too. My husband, who is a much larger person than me has been uncomfortable since about two months after we bought it. I thought it was him, but I don’t sleep much, now that I am not working 18 hours a day, the bed is hurting me all the time. When you call them about it they just say change your sleep number. we have done that multiple times. It is terrible and now we are getting the sagging in the middle. Bed is only three years old and obviously $$$, but we need a new mattress!

    • I’m a side sleeper and have not loved my SN. Bought high end adjustable (like that part), but the mattress has almost no padding. Crazy that I found this site before I went searching for a topper. Stayed at a friends on a modified memory foam and had a good night’s sleep. Thought I would never go there.

    • Hello my name is Eddy, I can’t help you with the Air losing pressure but I can tell you the reason your back hurts you got to lower pressure and low pressure sleeping on your side is going to make your back hurt trust me I found out the hard way try increasing the pressure even though it might not be comfortable but I bet you’re back will get better just trying to help. I started out low pressure hour or so years and work my way up to full pressure even though mine won’t do that but my back problems got better.

45. I bought a sleep number king with all the bells and whistles for about 10k. The bed is causing me extreme back pain, I hate it. I hate sleep number. I’m going to give this horrible bed away and buy a high quality new mattress.

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46. We purchased a sleep number after Christmas 2019’ and I have slept WORSE than I have in years! It is a high quality air mattress! I have tried EVERY Number and I can’t get comfortable! I loved my mattress before but my husband’s side had a dip. He prefers a firmer bed but I do not! I am so disappointed in it and it was sooo expensive!! Husband agrees it’s the
    WORST INVESTMENT EVER!!!

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    • I bought a sleep number bed in 2001 and it was pretty awesome but pricey. I moved in 2003 and decided to place that queen in the spare room and buy a king sleep number. Still pricey but loved it. A few years passed and I decided to take the king to our 5th wheel and needed new sleep number for the master; however, I wanted adjustable and with Reverie………really pricey. I started researching and found personal comfort makes the beds relatively the same and use Reverie and half the price. Went with personal comfort and super happy. Found out from personal comfort they get their stuff mostly from the same place as sleep number and found out from sleep number the reason for the high prices are storefronts. Ok. I get that. It is now 2020, and after yet another move, my Reverie was ruined. The bedding only not the base mechanicals. The personal comfort bedding great. Reverie said only can buy a brand new entire base. No separate sales. $2200 plus shipping. No, no, and no. Rebuilt the base myself. Bought 5 inch foam topper from walmart that has zipper case. Bought 4 x 8 plywood. Have split topper king. Rebuilt the base and used old machanics and BTW found the entire contraption is made in China. Bed works perfect and no one would know the difference which leads me to Covid and why if store fronts for sleep are closed why their prices are still so much higher than personal. Also, needed new pillowtop for queen and they wanted 900 plus shipping. Cat peed before I got the protector on by dreamfit. Not paying that. Thought, hum, maybe personal will fit. Told them the issue and they said we cannot guarantee our pillowtop will fit perfectly but you can certainly try it. You will need the zipper bottom piece too. 300 bucks free shipping and it is aloe one side and bamboo other. Fits perfect. I think for quality and ultimate air bed sleeping personal comfort has the best quality at affordable pricing. Sleep number really should not bother with reopening store fronts, go online only and get pricing down to closely match personal and Reverie needs to sell base only because I would have paid up to 700 to not have to spend 2 days tearing down and taking the mechanicals off, etc, etc. Some businesses just have bad business models and laser focus on one thing only and in this day and age you need to think outside of that little 4″ x 4″ box.

47. I was so excited to get my sleep number bed but after the first few weeks the bed began squeaking. I had a technician come in and a few days later the bed started squeaking again. Now it has become so unbearable that I’m really considering counting my losses and throwing the bed out. As for the mattress I’m also highly dissapointed.
    It does feel like an over hyped airbed. If someone sits next to you while laying down it becomes extremely uncomfortable.

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    • Have you been able to fix this? I have tighten the nuts but I believe it is the plastic making the noise.

48. Just to let you know we took our X12 Flex King to the dump because:

    Relatively new product when we bought in 2015 and when the technician delivered and set up they basically said a new product and didn’t have basic training so any questions call customer service. Worked okay for awile but had some issues with it, called customer service to see if they could come to our house and replied we would be charged $120 which we refused and after over the phone advice they finally admitted it was set up wrong and tech would be out in a few days free of charge to fix the problem. After correct installation he informed us that sleep number was selling x12 mattress for less than 2000 (we paid 12000) due to slow selling and too many complaints . In 2019 the bed collapsed called customer service and was quoted $700 for new motor and that’s when we decided to get rid of it! Also it was a nightmare to make when changing the sheets and did not like spending over 300 for set of sheets and 300 for mattress pad and sheets were not the best quality-so to end this investment nightmare but you really need to know it was a SLEEP NUMBER DISASTER.

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49. I’ve had a sleep number bed for 2 years. I bought in Ca Stoneridge mall Pleasanton from a nice salesperson Sharon. I’ve had no problems with my bed. Many of the comments I read seem to be that of persons working for competitors in attempt to paint a negative picture of these beds. Believe me. A review platform is used a lot by competitors to smear the competition. I own a restaurant and this happens to us all the time on that review platform that starts with a Y and ends in a p. This is a great bed and my wife and I have never slept better! No other mattress we have had can we change softness and firmness when we need to. Those that said too firm purchased that base model. We tried the base model and was too firm. Talk to that nice sales lady Sharon in Pleasanton ca Stoneridge. She is professional and honest. No regrets here!

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    • Thanks for the input, Sharon.

50. the issues that have been described by people does have a fix. I repair most makes and models of beds for home use. I found that the sagging in the middle can be caused by numerous things such as, the air sacks can be installed incorrectly, and by the fact that they are not zipped up together. Sometimes it can be the air sacks could have small holes causing them to leak air causing the pump to overwork it self and to wear out prematurely. When installing the air sacks the hook up for the air hose connection must be facing down towards the base of the bed. Also you can get a 4 inch foam replacement and put it in the top cover and that seems to make the bed feel more comfortable. As far as the remote you could download a sleep number app depending of what model the bed is and operate it by using your smart phone.

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    • Jim, how would you install it correctly? I had it installed by Sleep Number personnel. And are the air sacks supposed to be zipped up together? I find your answer very confusing. What is the solution to sag that you are suggesting here?

    • Jim,
      I have had my Sleep Number for almost 2 years and my sleep has been terrible. I have tried a range of numbers. Typically, I like a some what firm bed. I wake up often and might get 4 hours of straight sleep on a good night.
      Recently had technicians come to make sure the bed was assembled correctly. One of the hoses was loose and they ordered a new pump. My upper body is sore and I have taken to sleeping in the guest room on a Sealy Posturpedic. I find my arms are not as sore.

      My question to you is can I return the bed. I miss my sleep.

51. After a month of tossing and turning all night and not being able to get the setting right. No matter what setting it was not comfortable. It messed up my hips and shoulders. I wish I had not given my memory mattress away. I had to go to the chiropractor a number of times just to correct. We returned it

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52. Had a Select Comfort (the original name of the company) Queen setup for 25 years. Had the pump replaced once at the 10 year mark. Finally, the rubber mattress on one side ended up having a separation in one of the chambers. Time for a replacement.
    Went for a Sleep Number Queen mattress. Very comfortable. Even though we both sleep with different settings (my wife likes it very soft) there’s no “trench” effect. Of course her side is slightly lower and you notice the change if you roll from one side to the other. But that’s perfectly proper and the setup is even more stable than the previous setup.
    I’m not sold on the idea that the pump needs to be so “smart”, and am not a fan of all the data being sent back to the mothership (if you forget to turn on privacy mode). But the bed is definitely much better than any “standard” mattress (and we’ve tried them all) and is a good deal especially if I get as much (or even half) the life of the previous one.

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53. I have been a sleep number customer for many years and I loved their beds. I recently moved and wanted to get their latest technology. What a mistake, I wake up in pain every day. I even had to change the mattress for a firmer one but it is not helping. It doesn’t matter what setting a use I can’t get comfortable. I will be returning this bed and Sleep Number just lost a very good customer.

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    • I agree my p5 is still going strong no problems,I really hope sleepnumber needs to stand by their product and

54. I too fell for this great marketing ploy. So incredibly uncomfortable. VERY firm mattress. If that’s what you like, then maybe it will work for you, but both my wife(who sleeps like a rock, normally 9 hours a night) and I have had to get up after 3 to 4 hours at most due to being in such pain from the hardness of the bed. Even at low sleep numbers, its terribly uncomfortable.

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55. We purchased a P6 split king 2 years ago and I have spent so many hours of my time fighting with customer service to get the bed repaired. The slip and slide and there is a canyon that’s opened up between the beds because They have a known defect in the base I gave been told by the sales people that they have replaced the bolts because they won’t hold with high power magnets but despite repeated calls all they do is offer to send more bolts. I hate this bed!

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    • I agree my p5 is still going strong no problems,I really hope sleepnumber needs to stand by their product . Improve the defects put wider inner tube no sinking between the chamber

56. We have owned a SN bed for 3 years. For the first 2 it seemed to work great. For several months, I have noticed back and hip soreness when I get up in the morning. I have inflated the bed, thinking it is losing air. Didn’t fix the issue. Two weeks ago, our contractor started our master bath remodel. We moved downstairs, sleeping in our guest bed, in a Serra mattress. Imagine my surprise when I slept soundly all night and woke up with no back nor hip soreness. Two weeks in our guest bed and I’m considering dumping the SN mattress. Worst of all, we spent $2,000 for our King SN bed and $700 for the Serra.

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57. We Ordered our bed and a headboard back on December 8, 2019 and asked for them to be shipped separately because the headboard would take 6 to 8 weeks for delivery. However our salesman messed things up and ordered both to be delivered at the same time.
    We were supposed to see both items on February 20, so I called and asked where the delivery is and was informed that they do not have me scheduled for a delivery. This is totally unacceptable and very displeased with the whole thing and told them I probably will cancel on this bed and headboard.
    Now I have received an email stating the delivery will be March 27.
    Seriously ???!!!
    Four months to get my bed and headboard absolutely ridiculous

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58. I guess I’m the strange one reading these reviews. I have had my SN bed since 2014 and love it. I would purchase another one in a minute. One suggestion I would make for those who are experiencing upper body soreness with an adjustable base bed is to think where to place your rear end. You have to think of it like a hospital bed. Your rear end has to nestle in the bend of the bed otherwise you end up to close to the headboard which can cause upper body soreness.

    My only complaint is when trying to leave a negative review about sheets that they use to offer that were supposed to be adjustable to the temperature. SN does censor their reviews. I hated those sheets, and they blocked my reviews. They went to GoodWill. The new ones are wonderful.

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59. I purchased my bed in 2012 and 3 days ago found mold growing between the air chamber and top foam. I had been experiencing severe allergy type symptoms and dizziness…all the symptoms of mold exposure but could not figure out where it was coming from until I decided to check my bed. Disgusting and of course they want to replace the parts.. I threw that thing right in the garbage. I do not want it replaced either as I would not trust another one of those beds. I also agree with other comments of rolling into a dip in the middle and it just being a glorified air mattress. Would never recommend these beds ever.

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60. This is the absolute worst bed I have ever slept in!!!I toss and turn all night. I’ve had it for just over a year now and I’ve gotten to the point where I only get 3-4hrs of sleep a night due to the uncomfortableness of it. AND I’m a 35yo female and I only weigh between 110-115lbs!!! If I can’t get comfortable on it then no one can!!!
    Complete waste of $4000!!!

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61. I bought the C2 mattress and within a year it was so uncomfortable! The mattress dips, sags, and deflates. I’m looking for another mattress that can give me relief from the constant neck and back pain I feel. I also tried buying pillows fro them and they’re expensive with no support. I’m sad to say that I hate this bed. The customer service is worse! DO NOT BUY!!

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62. I agree with every post I’ve read on this site. My husband and I purchased a sleep number p6 split. I am 125lbs and when I attempt to even touch my husband in the middle of the night I fall into the canyon that is the middle of our bed. The mattresses slide off and you can basically roll off the bed in the morning without much effort. My husband is 6’4. The king wasn’t big enough for him. When I tried to return the mattress. They would not accept the bases in return. How am I supposed to get a California King mattress with king adjustable bases? That would be a catastrophe. Do yourself a favor and go temperpedic.

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63. My fiancé was determined to get the sleep number bed so I gave in. Can I just say it’s been a total waste of money and extremely uncomfortable. Since purchasing this bed I have back and hip pains. No setting is comfortable enough. I’ve attempted the settings from 35-100 and it just doesn’t feel right. Like others have said, this is an overpriced air mattress and I would not recommend to anyone. We have the king split and it feels like I’m sleeping on bubble wrap.

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64. My husband and I bought the P5 sleep number bed, and we feel like we were conned into buying this air matress in a box. What a waste of money. The good reviews have got to be paid for because these few weeks have been our worst night sleep in a long time. No matter what you do the bed inflates and deflates on its own, even after you set a specific number the next day it changes forcing you to try to magically guess which number it is actually on because it malfunctions and never shows you the true number. My husband set it to 35, it deflated completely, concaved, and then rose to a stiff bubble saying it reached 35. It was actually on 75. This happened the second day we had it! Furthermore, the bed will periodically inflate and deflate waking us up from sleep, making the matress as firm as a rock. We tried the bed in store, and ours feels nothing like it. What a marketing scheme. Save yourself the thousands of dollars paid on this fancy wrapped air mattress, and purchase fabric covered plywood. It is comparable in quality, and would probably give you a better nights sleep than a sleep number bed promises to. We are returning ours as soon as we can.

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    • I have A p5 gotten years old no problems, I am kinda nervous now ,hopefully they will improve the defects, and honor their product! As they have in their past. They needed to change to box and hoses and larger wider chamber how sad they did not use good business manners! Wake up sleep number,

65. I waited for a long time to get this bed. I too believed the hype but sad to admit, I did not do my due diligence. After horrible customer service problems, the bed arrived. I have severe spinal stenosis and I thought it would help my back. I set my number from 80 up to 100. I made it to 5 nights and the pain in my back and hip upon waking in the morning is unbearable. I’m waiting for my extra firm $200+ mattress topper to arrive to see if I can get some relief. If not, it’s the couch for me. If some lawyer starts a class action lawsuit count me in. This company is a sham . I live in chronic pain 24 hours a day and when I would go to bed, it felt so good. Now I get up in the morning with more pain than ever. I fear I will have to eat $4000 to get rid of this farce. I’ll never be able to understand how a CEO of a company can read all of these reviews and not care. I’m sure she gets to see them.

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66. Sleep number bed the worst bed I have ever slept on I have the C-2 bed. Sucks. The bed feels like a rock

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67. I feel we were deceived when buying this bed. We were told it had a 20 year warranty. We we never told all the things that could go wrong, all the parts you may have to replace. I was told it would be 99$ just to have someone come out & tell us what the problem was. Then we have to order the part, & another 99$ service call to fix it. I can’t believe the better business bureau has not received a million complaints. I will be contacting them about this bed. What a huge waste of money. Buy a regular bed, this is like a car that wears out part by part. Terrible customer service

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68. We have the opposite problem. We have a split king and both my husband and I feel like we are rolling off the bed . It is on an angle. My husband actually has fallen out a couple of times that I am considering just getting a new bed after spending all this money. Hate this bed but haven’t gotten rid of it because feel guilty spending so much on a bed!

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69. I bought this bed 3yrs ago. It breaks down a lot!! I have had other brands of adjustable beds & this bed is the worst bed I have paid for!! We are moving into our new house In 2 weeks !!’ This bed will not be going with us !! Will take it the landfill. Most nights I sleep in a recliner as this bed IS not comfortable at all. Don’t really under stand the sleep number as 50 vs 100 does not feel any different!! I’m so sorry I was so naive with the commercials!! The price of this bed I could have paid for a car. Lesson learned!! Buyer beware!!

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70. I bought the ILE mattress over the Labor Day sale. This mattress is absolute garbage! I tried sleep number settings from 35 to 70 and could NOT find anything comfortable where I could sleep on my side. This is nothing but an overpriced air mattress. BEWARE…they will charge you $200 to return a mattress after their “free” in-home trial period! This is on top of a $200 delivery fee! Absolute garbage customer service! And read the fine print about their “25 year” warranty, too. It’s a 2 year warranty that’s then prorated after that. NO ONE said a WORD about that until the mattress was delivered. NO ONE said anything about a $200 return fee either. I will be leaving 1-star reviews on EVERY website I can find to let people know NOT to buy their products. And ANYONE who asks how my experience with sleep number was will be getting a stern warning before purchasing! STEER CLEAR!

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71. I too hate it and over paid for the worse bed I have ever had! Do NOT BUY ONE!!!!!!
    I agree will a lawsuit over their lies about this sleep # bed. Both my husband and I backs hurt more now then with our old bed. 7k wasted and will have to go shopping for a new bed. Wish I had read this before buying it!

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    • We purchased our first Select Comfort bed some 20-25 years ago, as when working I would have lower back problems that would put me on my back for a week or better, I was was worried about the cost, then was a 60 day trial I believe. First 3 weeks I didn’t think it was going to help, but I also did not have an idea if hard was good or soft, once I found my “number” it was life changing, my wife would say I could be the poster child for Select Comfort, we are on our 3rd bed, not because their was a problem, our kids wanted one, so they got the old ones, one is still in use, the other was sold because my son moved to the UK, 2 are still in use, and have been moved 3 + times, they are not hard to put together, actually quite simple, (with that being said, I am sure my wife would never figured it out) So my number is 35, same as my wife, but if I have any back pain, I turn it up to 45-50, seems to put me back into alignment I guess, and I can honestly say I have not had back pain that kept me down, my dad had back pain his whole life, until I told him to get a select comfort, it as well helped him.
      Any product has it’s issues, period, I guess we have been lucky, one problem we had early on was taken care of immediately.
      Now maybe since they have changed names, upgrades were a bad thing or this is just the complaint department website I don’t know.
      Now there is a butt for every seat, so for some maybe their butt just doesn’t fit?

72. Wow. I’ve been searching hip problems and the Sleep number bed and found this. I just had to have this bed. I thought it would be so comfortable. I have never been able to find the right setting and starting having more and more back and hip problems. I’m only 42 and I feel like I’m falling apart. I truly believe it’s because of this bed. I’m going to see if I can find a topper to help with all this pain. If someone could recommend a topper that would be great!!

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    • I have not one, not two, but THREE mattress toppers on my 19-year-old sleep number bed. It makes the bed tolerable, but I like the idea of buying a foam topper to slip just above the bladder. I’ve never used the egg crate foam above the bladder. I chose 100% cotton mattress toppers for comfort. Good luck.

    • Try physical therapy. Bursitis in my hip used to wake me up all night long. After about 3 months of PT I can now sleep on the floor!

73. I would NOT recommend the Sleep Number bed to anyone. $7,000 wasted. I can only return the mattresses. That was not explained to me in the store. However, it is on their fine print. I usually read everything. I do not recall anything about this particular bed not being returnable. However, I do see it on their website. So I was only aware AFTER the I had purchased and it delivered. I do not have a copy of a contract where I initialed stating I knew the bed was not returnable.

    The bed feels no different than the one that I already have.

    Please be aware before purchasing.

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74. Well, we bought the i10 for $10k, 7 years ago and the only thing it’s good for is sitting up in bed watching tv. My back and hips are killing me. We have a split king and my side sags in the middle while my husband’s sides aren’t holding up. He doesn’t care ’cause he goes into a coma as soon as he hits the sheets. It’s been so uncomfortable for me that I’ve been sleeping in my daughter’s bed while she’s away at university. She’s got a cheap Walmart mattress with a $100 mattress topper and it’s amazing. I’ll now have to dismantle the number bed and see what the heck I can do to remedy this situation. Probably just filling it up with a bunch of foam. What a waste of money.

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75. Sleep Number was the WORST purchase we have made ever! They have the worst customer care policies I have ever heard of. The air chamber goes flat several times a night. Called for assistance and I was told they would ship me a new air chamber…in 3-5 days. If I want a technician to replace the air chamber for me, I have to wait 10 days.
    TERRIBLE!

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76. We purchased a flex top king I series bed two years ago this coming February. I really had to sell my husband on it because he did not understand spending $7.5K on a bed. I wish he had held his ground. A month ago, we started having problems with the pump. I called customer support and after an hour of troubleshooting, I was told they could send a tech out for a cost to us of $199.99. The warranty on the bed states that it is 100% covered repairs and parts in the first two years. I was told that doesn’t cover labor, but I didn’t find that in the warranty. I called last night, and after an hour was told there has to be a kink in the hose, even though we had already gone over that. I clarified again that there isn’t, but he said there must be and he’d send a tech out for a cost to us of $199.99. I called again today because I’m not paying $200 for labor to be told that the pump is defective. This time she had me unzip both sides of the bed. She wanted to see if the foam on my side had deteriorated. It hadn’t, so she said that since I’ve never had a tech out since the bed had been installed, that I get one complimentary call. While she was setting up the appointment, I deflated both sides down to a sleep number of 60, my air mattress felt half full, whereas my husband’s felt full of air. She didn’t want to talk about it since she had resolved the problem with an appointment. Another thing I’d like to say about customer support is I believe they are all told to do whatever it takes so that no money comes out of Sleep Number’s pocket, and if that doesn’t seem to be working, try to make the customer feel stupid without ever actually insulting them. In all three conversations with customer support, from the beginning, I was made to feel that I was acting irrational and had no clue as to what I was talking about. I can’t really recommend a bed, but I can tell you which one not to buy.

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    • Agreed. I am so angry at myself. If I can warn as many people as possible I will. $7,000 wasted.

    • We bought a bed in November 2019 it is now January 2020 and we’ve had three beds in our home!! We’ve slept in the bed 4 times , The first bed was totally put together WRONG ! My husband

77. Owned bed for 2 1/2 years (only used for 2) as the first year we decided to renovate the house and did not set up bed right away. The pump quit working, but since it was past the 2 year warranty, customer service said I would have to purchase a replacement for $300 but since it was “so soon” it would only cost $103.00. Sounds like cheap products and a money making scheme at work! Will never buy again and have pushed several people to not purchase. Buy a standard mattress!

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78. I’ve had the ILE 360 smart bed for a month. It was an investment but the labor day 50% off sale was the only reason I could afford it. I’ve never slept better. I have lots of neck/shoulder issues and a traditional mattress was impossible for me to sleep. Due to the adjustable firmess both me and hubby can sleep together again. I originally got the half split bed. That was too hard for me to change the sheets. I used the 1 time exchange and got the full King split. It’s perfect. This particular one has a very cushiony mattress topper. Love it. I tried a few others in the store and hated them. I say read all the fine print so you make a very informed decision. I did that and I’m very pleased.

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    • Donna,

      Are you still liking the full King Split? We are trying to decide between the half split and full split. I’m thinking the full split will potentially prevent the “sagging” issues some people describe on the half split because it has 2 air bladders. If we get the full split I’m thinking that wouldn’t happen.

79. Sleep Number should change their name to Junk Number. After only owning the bed for one year, we had to have the foam replaced. They sent the foam out with no problem, surprisingly. The new foam mattress didn’t match what we previously had on our bed. We took a trip to the store to ask them to open their i8 on the floor so we could see what foam they have and the salesman refused. What you lay on in the store is 1000% NOT what is delivered to your home. As soon as you sit on the bed you can feel the air mattress under the foam. It is extremely hot when sleeping on it. My husband and I never sweat while we are sleeping however we have been miserable every night since owning this bed. Do yourself a favor and find a spring mattress with a REPUTABLE warranty. We are in the process of selling this bed and finding a new one ourselves.

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80. Omg can we please sue them? I’ve never been so disappointed in my life. Money down the drain!

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    • I unzipped the mattress cover after 8 years of being uncomfortable and took out the cheap foam. I replaced it with a quality foam for under $100 and it is like a new bed. No more hard edges or sinking in the center where my husband always rolled. Good luck & hope this helps.

81. We have owned a sleep number bed for about 13 or 14 years. I have to say that for overall sleep quality we love it. We had a problem with the air pump after owning it a few years. When we contacted the company they immediately sent a replacement at no cost. Then we noticed that the zipper on the mattress cover ( which holds it all together) would not hold together. No matter how many times we would rezip the cover it would not hold together. We contacted the company again and they sent a replacement at no cost. Within a few months the new cover did the same thing. The zipper will not hold the cover closed. This allows the foam side pieces to sag away from the mattress. It is really uncomfortable around the sides. I have to make sure I am positioned perfectly in the center of my side for a level surface. As far as other complaints on the site about the mattress topper not being sufficient, just for myself I bout a down mattress topper. So I don’t have that problem. It looks like I am going to have to sew heavy duty hooks and eyes around the cover to hold it together. This is a major design flaw. But I cannot even find an email address to tell them about this needing correction. The worst thing is I convinced a couple of my friends to buy their beds. I hope they don’t experience the same problem.

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82. Taking this piece of crap out the City Dump and burning it on top of the worst pile of garage I can find. I have invited all our friends and City employees we know to show theme how to burn up $10,000 dollars of their hard erned money for a so called bed. This is the worst bunch of garaged I have ever laid my eyes on. This company need to be sued for false advertising and an inferior product that is taking money out of peoples budget for nothing.

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    • I bleed with this review. It is the worst mattress I have ever owned.

83. It is 4am and I have been up, again, for 3 hours as I cannot sleep. Our super expensive split king is so uncomfortable. I have had 2 back surgeries and was looking for a option for a good nights sleep. Earlier this week we traveled and stayed in a Marriott.
    I had the best sleep I have had by taking a foam pad with me and inserting it under the mattress cover. I was not aware of the non-returnable base, great! Total waste of money. And I agree with so many of the comments here, We have had ours about 2 1/2 weeks and I cannot wait to get rid of it.

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    • We have had our sleep number bed for over 8 years and finally happy with it after dismantling it and replacing the cheap foam pad on top with a good quality foam pad.
      Before this change, it was high and hard on the edges and sunk in the center, so my husband always rolled to the middle of the bed. He had constant morning back pain for 8 years, and I had hip pain for about 2 years until we made this change. It’s absolutely true that none of us should have to discover the quality issues in this way, but at least there is an inexpensive way that may change your experience from discomfort to comfort with the purchase of a good foam product to zip into the mattress cover for under $100 instead of making this major purchase a total loss.

84. Thank you, thank you for all your posts! Just saved us $8K. We visited a store today and I knew something was not quite right when every technical or warranty question asked was referred to the website. It is an airbed with foam on top, that’s it. Can’t tell how much I appreciate your comments.

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85. Wish I had found this site before we spent 3k on our sleep number. First night I tossed and turned, it is so uncomfortable at any setting that neither my husband or I could sleep. I finally took 2 tylenol pm and slept about 4 hours. We have friends that love theirs…we decided to give it 30 days to be fair. The trough effect in the middle is beyond annoying, even with separate mattresses one side does affect the other. It doesn’t even look like a bed! I have slept better on an 80 dollar air mattress from WalMart! Definitely going back to a soft side waterbed. Sleep number is overpriced JUNK!

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86. I’m so sorry that I purchased this damn bed. My bed lost connectivity to the router one month after I purchased it. We’ve replaced the pump twice, changed router three times and still can’t connect. Sleep number techs are saying that it’s Cox cable router issues…..I’m so done with all this bullshit from sleep number.

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87. Thank you for letting me leave a comment. We purchased a Sleep bed awhile back. They told us, we have a 20 years warranty on the entire bed. We call yesterday to inform the company that the bed is having a problem stay flated. The right side deflate in the middle of the night. The rep told us, to switch the holes around and call them back, if it doesn’t work. Well, it didn’t work. We asked, what it cost to fix the problem. They gave us a price of $500. We ask, why these part of problem is not covered under the warranty? She said, your 20 year warranty only over 2 years of coverage. My lady, is totally confused. And as the years pass the warranty cost more. I asked, why is your Sleep Number company placing a 20 year warranty on a bed, but only cover 2 years after purchase? She told me, “you should have read the contract. ” Consumers, I purchased a very expensive mattress, and my warranty is for life. The company told me, if any thing, “I mean anything go wrong with your mattress, call us, we will examine, and if we can’t fix it, we will replace the entire mattress. We said, okay to that Sleep Rep. Believe, we will not purchased another Sleep Number bed with a 20 year warranty and the warranty only cover 2 years, if something goes wrong with it. Sleep Number, you need to back your product 100% and re-write your warranty coverage to cover everything and anything that goes wrong with your bed.

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88. Well, a different perspective. Fortunately, I found this review site before I spent the $10,000 the rep quoted me for the i10 (and $8000 for the i8). Hey, they’ve got a great sales pitch. And the in store experience is great. Who doesn’t like laying on a comfy bed in the store for 15 minutes? I was seriously considering purchasing until I found this site. So, thank you, all, for posting your experiences. Saved me some misery and a ton of cash.

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89. As others have said, it’s a overpriced air mattress. We have had ours about 5 years, and paid $5k for it (on ‘sale’) and I’ve never liked it. I have back problems, and every night in it is really bad. I end up sleeping in guest room most nights now. Every day it loses air, and you have to lower, then reset your sleep number for it to go back to normal. The sides are cheap foam and the whole thing is enclosed in a sheer sheet like cover (with holes that were manually punched in it for attachment to base) so it slides all over the place and spills over the side of the base. Definitely got duped on this one. Likely going to buy one of the MIaB’s and cut my losses.

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90. I think we all should get together and sue the company. I had the bed for less than 30 days and am not happy with it. same thing happened to me as to being told that I could return the” bed” lf less than 100 days. No one in the store told me that the frame is mine forever once I receive the bed. my mom who is a professor understood the same thing when we were questioning if we will be able to return the “bed” they said yes you just have to pay $200 for the bed to get picked up.

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    • I just bought the 360 smarter Total ripoff,.They sent people with criminal records to my home.The bed is terrible the responsive air doesn’t work.3 times they’ve come out and it still Doesn’t work!.Do yourself a favor and don’t get burnt. THE BASE IS NOT RETURNABLE! Totally Deceptive Sales tactics!.I’m calling the Better Business Bureau, State Attorney General, and so on..HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Horrible!.

91. I wish I would have read the reviews for this bed before I purchased it. Normally I review everything. This bed is NO GOOD. My husband can’t even sleep in the bed because his back hurts so bad. It hurts my back as well but we spent close to $5,000 for this bed so I keep sleeping in it. Probably not the greatest idea. Chamber did not work so of course we had to exchange it. So like many of you have said its just an expensive air mattress. Its so sad that SN won’t improve the quality. I hate absolutely everything about this sleep number bed except that I spent a lot of time lifting the bed so I could nurse my daughter. Thats the only thing I like about this bed.

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92. I hate my sleep number bed- not enough cushioning and I am so uncomfortable. I’ve been sleeping on top of pillows. Has anyone tried the sleep number varicose mattress topper? I hate to spend another $300-400 for it when they don’t allow you to return it if it doesn’t work. Their policy is they will let you exchange for something else, but there is nothing else. Bad policy. I’ve bought less expensive foam pads but they don’t last.

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    • I bought a $400 mattress topper from BBB. It has lasted several years already.

    • Foam will always degrade over time, regardless of branding.

93. I ordered a set of optional legs for the bed frame. I received them on the 10th of June, 2019, and they don’t fit with this frame setup. With shipping and Tax, they were $140.00, yikes! On June 14, 2019, I called to obtain a return authorization, GUESS WHAT, nope, you can’t return these that DON’T Fit! What a Company! We paid $2000 for our expensive air mattress and thought these would help strengthen the frame, since the bed Sags so badly in the middle! Nope, these would not fit, so now we are stuck with them, They along with this bed are headed for the trash heap! $2,000 for 7+ years for a miserable night’s sleep! Buyer Beware!

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94. Things I discovered about the Sleep Number store in Downtown Summerlin Las Vegas.
    1. You should be aware that if you try one of their beds and decide to return it during the in-home trial period, you will be responsible for $199 delivery, and another $199 pick-up, for a total of $398. NO MATTER WHAT THE SALES PERSON SAYS. The reason this needs to be clarified now is that the salespeople have been trained to use confusing language to make you feel like it will only be $199 total. The sentence they have been trained to say is “We will remove $199 from the purchase price and refund you the difference.” Well, the majority of us think the purchase price is the grand total you pay when you walk out of the store (which is Price for the bed plus the $199 delivery fee.) But they are referring to the purchase price of the bed, not including the delivery fee of $199. Not only do they refund the difference, but then an additional $199 is added for the pick up of the bed you are returning.
    2. We asked our sales person several times to tell us the costs involved in trying the bed, and I would have been fine with $398, but this information was withheld, masked behind confusing conversation. I believe they intentionally mislead customers on this issue. Our sales person has been with the company for 6 years.
    3. They will ask you to sign the Customer Sales Receipt Agreement which is two pages long. This agreement explains that “you are responsible for return shipping/delivery fees for products returned or exchanged.” Nowhere on the agreement is there any quotation of those fees, therefore you are signing to be responsible for whatever fees they feel like charging. They will give you a copy of the agreement, but not the one you actually signed.
    4. The return is not handled by the store. You have to call Sleep Number Customer Service. If you have a discrepancy between what the sales person said and what Customer Service says, you are on your own as the sales team at the store will not talk to Customer Service on your behalf. No wonder they can say whatever they want when they are selling, there is no accountability. Also, my experience with the Customer Service team is they are quick to become defensive and curt, which makes me believe they deal with these issues a lot. After speaking to two separate supervisors, I was able to get them to take $100 off the return begrudgingly. So the total I ultimately paid was $300 to try the bed.
    5. I purchased the i10, which is the bed with the most padding in the store. The bed is cheaply made and I couldn’t justify keeping it. It really is an air mattress with foam on top. It weighed a total of 70lbs. You know there is a problem when the delivery person can carry your whole bed on one shoulder. They can make all the fancy remotes, apps and variable inflation programs they want, but in the end, this is just an air mattress. If you have to keep it at a setting of 40 or lower, it will look like a saggy 50 year-old mattress when you get out of it, requiring you to inflate it every day so it looks acceptable. If you have an adjustable base and you have the head elevated, your butt will bottom out and hit the hard layer below the mattress. And finally, the edge of the bed is flimsy because its just foam which makes it difficult to sit on to put on your shoes.
    6. My advice is its not even worth going into the store. Look around at other locations. We found a bed at Macys and have been happy so far with their policies. Always be aware when you have to sign a long sales agreement with generalities and no distinct quotation about costs.

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95. I’m so totally disgusted by the lack of quality in this bed!!! In 2012, I paid over $7OOO.00 dollars for a king size sleep number bed with all the bells and whistles. AND THAT WAS ON SALE!!!
    My issues with this bed would fill a library so I will just stick to my major problems:
    COST as its relationship to the
    “LACK OF QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT”.
    I have many of the same problems with the bed as have listed above:
    Mattresses shifting off base.
    The mattress is attached to the base
    by being screwed through a very thin
    piece of fabric formerly known as Brushed Tricot. This fabric was used
    In the production of light weight sleepwear for women and children!!
    Also, this fabric is a very stretchy knit that tears very easily under the stress of being used for attaching a mattress to a base!!
    Try using a pair of your tricot panties
    to attach your SN mattress on something that needs to be strong enough to hold any mattress in place on any base.
    Calling “custom service ” (“OXIE MARRONE ” if there ever was one!!!)
    I got the same “pay $600. 00 +”
    to fix it!!
    Other irritants include:
    The canyon in the center of my bed.
    The one side will not inflate.
    I have only used the vibration features a couple of times. They no longer work either.
    As I said I could go on and on and on but I think you get the drift.
    This is a company without a shread of integrity in backing their hoax of a product.
    It’s amazing to me how this company is staying in business.
    Usually, scammers and thieves
    of this magnitude are caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
    STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM THE JOKE OF A SN BED AS POSSIBLE.

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    • You are so right about customer service. OMG. I had already followed their trouble shooting videos and their answer was to do those things first. When I told them I had first done that before calling they then tried to sell me a replacement of the air mattress part. When I tried to explain that isn’t leaking – I had already told them the holds air test worked – so why do I need a mattress they then said I needed a pump. The price was outrageous. I told them I had already seen a generic replacement pump online (airbedrepair.com) for less than $300. They said if I used that it would void my entire so called warranty (not much warranty I can see after 2 years).

      So then they said it must be the seals leaking. They sent me some (free amazingly). Those are too small to fit over the end of where they are supposed to go. I called back. They said they are one size fits all; they could send out someone (at their outrageous price) to replace it for me. Really?

      I actually finally found the size I needed at the hardware store after hauling the pump and tubing in with me. Leaking is solved. Clearly customer service doesn’t want to try the cheaper options first. And I dealt with two very, very rude people. I would imagine eventually I will need to take apart the pump to replace the seals at that end since rubber degrades over time.

      Oh yeah. I asked them why they can’t just fix the pump if it was broken. She said they didn’t do that; they replaced the entire thing; if I took it apart to try to see what was wrong it would void my warranty. I asked what if I brought the pump to the store to be looked at. She said I can’t do that as they have no repair department however they could send someone to look at it for, I think it was, $199. I said they could take apart the pump and fix it? She said no if it was the pump they’d just replace it; they don’t fix parts they just replace the entire thing. Well at least she was honest about that.

      I then told her it was then a waste of money to have a “repair” person come out. She said it wasn’t a waste for people who weren’t capable of following the online videos to figure out what was was wrong or able to swap out the air mattress (she called it something else) or the pump. So there you have it. The repair people do, for $199 what you can do yourself.

      If this was a car it would be like as if we told them the timing belt needed replaced (after figuring out ourselves this is the problem) and they then told us to buy a new engine as they don’t sell or fix timing belts. Sheesh.

96. We bought this SN in hopes of helping my wife’s lower back pain. I have tried settings anywhere from 35-100 and can’t seem to find a comfortable setting. Most of all it seems like I’m sleeping at an angle, higher in the middle. I don’t lay level. If I had it to do all over again I would just buy a good quality pillow top mattress. I advise to stay away from sleep number. Just an overpriced air mattress.

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97. The single biggest waste of money I ever committed to. Not only the “trench effect,” but the ridiculous time and money required to get the moving team to come help you. A 2 year old 7K bed……..and I’m going to end up throwing the bloody thing away and get a “real” bed. A joke………..

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98. Another problem with the Sleep Number bed is that when you buy a new mattress from another company, they don’t want to deal with removing the SN bed. They refused, so we had the mattress company give us a refund. So now we’re stuck with the sorry SN bed still. I hate this bed. Ours is about four years old and was much more expensive than any other mattress we ever purchased. It’s also the sorriest mattress we ever purchased. No support even at the highest number and just overall very uncomfortable.

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99. I have had my sleep number bed for almost ten years. I bought it for my back issues and hoped it would help. It
    Has made things so much worse. I can only stay in the bed for a few hours at a time then get up for relief. I was watching movies in my sons room and he has a standard mattress. I fell asleep in there and had the best nights sleep I’ve gotten in sometime. We have the old adjustable king which means it has a crack between two mattresses which runs the entire length of the bed. This crack
    Makes it almost
    Impossible to snuggle with
    Your spouse throughout
    The night. Not sure I can live with the increasing pain of my back and the isolation of virtually sleeping alone another day. Possibly the worst purchase I ever made.

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100. I got this POS as a gift. So i have to use it. I was paralyzed for 3.5 yrs from a car accident. I can’t take anymore I haven’t slept in months. I can barely walk I can’t sit down at all with out being in terrible pain, I get up every 45-60 min. Before this I could do 8-9 hrs at work, and ride my motorcycle 50-150 miles no problem. Now I can’t even throw my leg over the bike. Never had this problem with my Serta mattress. Please if you have any back problems don’t even think about buying one of them.

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101. We spent almost 6,000 dollars on a sleep number bed. We were not informed until time of payment that a remote is not included in the price of the bed. The company wants an extra 40 dollars for a remote.

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102. I have had my sleep number since 2011. Some of the time it was ok, but for over a year it has hurt my back. My initial setting was 35 so I can’t go down like they recommend. When my cat lays on it, it sinks! I had most of the problems listed. Sinking in the middle (rolling in) (trenching) and one side higher looks so stupid!!! The edges break down, the foam insert is destroyed at the edges. The foundation was a joke, I threw it away. Luckily I have not had trouble with the motor or remote.

     Regarding my back…I set it to 40. Not good. I called the company. Clueless. The rep said, maybe sleep number is not the right bed for you. Thanks, after I spent a small fortune. I set it to 50. I can sleep tossing and turning for 4 hours, then in TORTURE for the rest of the night. I get out of the bed and my back is fine. I don’t have back trouble. I paid about $2,200 in 2011. Bad investment. I am ready to ditch it and get a better bed!!! Sleep is important! I would not recommend it to anyone. Sadly, going to bed is a scary and sad event… until I can get rid of this piece of crap.

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103. I hate this giant waste of money. My husband bought it hoping it would help his back. My hips hurt every morning. My neck is killing me. No matter the number I adjust to, this thing hurts me. It’s not snuggly so we spent another $125 for a mattress topper from a different company. Still feels like a camping air bed. Pressure points everywhere. I truly hate this bed with a passion and I’m stuck with it for decades to come.

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     • I had the problem my hips hurting when I lay on my side as well (the neck issue I solved with a different pillow). I needed the number for firmness (I use 80-85) for other problems (eg my back). In my case my hips stopped hurting at a lower pressure, but then my back hurt. What I found that solved the problem for my hip pain is buy two cheap waffle foam pads at Walmart and add them to the top of the bed. Hip pain went away when I had the mattress as firm as I needed it to my back. Your mileage may vary but at least you can return Walmart products if it doesn’t work.

104. Disappointed is an understatement! Horrible customer service. I’m supposed to pay about $750 to repair my bed after 5 years of minimal usage since I sleep at my girlfriends often. We both have the trench effect not only in the middle but, on the sides as well. You can clearly see the difference and feel it when you lay your head where our feet usually go. I thought a simple rotation would help. Within 24hrs the bed is back to the sunken effect. We don’t sit and watch tv on it and I weigh about 140lbs my girl a lot less. She also only sleeps over a few nights a week so shouldn’t have these issues. The other problem that is ridiculously annoying is how the bed slides of the frame! I had to purchase a product from gorilla glue to help it from moving off the frame every single day. It has helped but, it still moves daily. I’m just going to buy a $600-$700 mattress during Memorial Day weekend to stop this glorified air mattress! Sadly the customer service was even worse than expected, I’ve only had the bed 5 yrs which is incredible ive lasted this long with my back and neck injuries, Which I bought the mattress specifically for. I think sleep number should reimburse use for something, I bought the bed for the 25yr useless warranty as well which doesn’t even cover you 100% if at all. Think at minimum they can pay for replacement parts or carry them locally, hypothetically I’m just going to take a chainsaw to the sleep number as a review for new customers and post it on YouTube. I think that review will be go viral! Wish I could say their products worked I’ve spent hundreds on stupid accessories like the pillows, reading pillows and don’t forget those really inexpensive mattress covers!! Also they want me to replace the coverlet for the base for another $70 to help stop the sliding. Had no idea this company was so horrible! I wish I could go back a few years. I think the first night on it was my only good night of sleep and that was only because I just got back from a 5 day stay at the hospital!
     -save your $ and go buy a $500-$600 mattress and buy a new one every 5 years if you want a sleep number!! Same thing except I’m sure the other mattress will last longer.

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105. Have had the Limited Edition Innovation Series for 3 years . Tonight it went flat. The remote state it is maximum inflated. I reset the pump. All to no avail. I called customer service, they were closed. Then I went to the website. As I was describing the problem I was hung up on 5 separate times. This company charges exorbitant prices and provides poor tech support. Obviously, they do not value their customers.

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106. Got our twin xl sleep number beds in April 2019. I wish I had seen these comments because I’d have never bought this “bed”. My shoulders hurt A LOT and my lower back. This bed is awful!!!! I have called twice for them to come get this bed and they just don’t want to do it. First they send out a thicker mattress pad, then I’m told I need a lower number because of the thicker pad. I’m so sick of this!!! Calling tomorrow but judging on all these reviews, I will bet I’m stuck with this crap. My son ever moves out and this junk is going in our guest room, bet guests won’t stay long after being on this “bed”. Lol. Good luck if you read this and buy one of these Sleep Number beds anyway.

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107. This bed has ruined my sex life. I have two kids and the bed is so freakin loud! I hate it🤬

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108. I bought my sleep number over a month ago. I wish I had seen these reviews first. I tried to return bed after two weeks was told I had to wait 30 days. On day 31 I called to have bed picked up and was told they would send me free padding to try for the mattress. I declined and was issued a return number but it is going to cost me $411 because they will not refund $199 delivery and are charging me an additional $212 to have bed picked up. Lesson learned.

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109. I am so horrified that I spent over $3000 on this bed and the trench effect set in after only a year. By the way, it’s just me in the bed and I weigh 120 pounds. I’ve had the mattress about 2.5 years now and I’m in so much pain. I sleep fine in my guest bed with a $350 Costco mattress. I don’t even want to deal with customer service. I think I’ll just have it hauled off.

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110. Has anyone tried to get legal help and file a mass suit against sleep number to get refunded? I have increasing pain in my back and knees. Have owned the split king for about three years and had to get it repaired once. The service for this company is horrid. We paid $8000 for this bed, and it has aggravated my post-polio condition. How do I know its the foundation? Because when I sleep in a nonsleep number bed, I don’t have as much pain and after a few days less pain. This is why I decided to google ”back and knee pain from a sleep number bed” and got this site. Sleep number usually blocks all complains about them, so I am surprised they havent blocked this one. We need to file a group claim against sleep number and get our money refunded!

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     • Wow! My back is far worse since ditching my tempur-pedic bed and buying a sleep number, we also paid $8000 for a California king split mattress. I am so disgusted. I am at the point I just want to get rid of it.

     • Are all the complaints for all Sleep number beds?

     • I agree we need a massive law suit against them

     • Wish I would have seen this prior to spending 10k on our new SN I10 and base. I loved my old top of the line SN bed which we slept on for nearly 12 years and figured it was time for an upgrade. The I10 seemed really comfortable in the store. It was quite and the base moved smoothly up and down quickly as well. The salesman explained how they would remove our old bed frame (simple water bed frame with the SN bed inside) and mattress and then they would setup and show us how to use the new bed. When the installation guys showed up, they refused to touch the existing bed frame , dropped off the new mattress and left to go do another installation while I was left to break down the bed after spending 10 grand. They then returned, did a less than impressive job and got out without fully explaining much of anything. Once gone we immediately began to notice the issues with the bed and the software application. The pump is so noisy that it will wake you from a sound sleep. When moving the head or feet up and down, you often get errors and it is not smooth and it is noisy. To make matters worse my back and hips have began to hurt after only 2 nights of sleep in this bed. So if there is a law suit, I want in.

     • Sorry to hear about your post polio syndrome. My dad had that. He used a car camping air mattress that had an attached pump. It was dark green and about 6-8″ when blown up. Sorry I don’t know the brand. He found that helped. It would also get pinhole leaks because it wasn’t in a cover of any kind so needed replaced every few years. Sometimes we could find the leap by putting sections of it underwater (you need to be careful because of the pump) and see air bubbles and just fix it with a patch, other times that didn’t work so well). The side benefit of doing that is if it doesn’t work back it goes to the store for a full refund.

     • Count us in! We have had ours for only 1 month and it’s been a nightmare!

111. Have had a Sleep Number Queen bed for sixteen years. I will replace it this year for a slight Trench Effect. Best bed I ever owned will be replaced with another Sleep Number bed.

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112. Wow, I’m glad I got online and looked, there’s a bunch of these things used for dirt cheap, now I know why. I bought an older King mattress and base that was in storage, the bladders were pretty full to the touch they felt firm, I tried each sides remote and both are pumping air, I got the 2 bases which are in perfect condition, however left the frame he was selling because I have one already.
     The pillow top has a couple stains which I plan to clean, also going to see how much a replacement is.
     After looking at the prices I told my wife there’s no way I’m spending that kind of money without trying one out, glad I didn’t try the 100 day thing, good grief!!!
     I’ll report back on the results of my trial of the user one later.

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113. Great. I just purchased a very expensive bed. Now I see all these comments. 😑 I’m considered canceling my order.

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     • Hi Tracey,

       We are glad we could provide you with another side of things.

114. Horrible 2.5 years split king I12 gap or should I say canyon in middle of bed and gaping over the sides.. company will not help at all! We bought best thing they had at the time. You think that you pay for what you get ,with this company it’s not true. They’ve been our 2/3 times to “fix problem” only to do it again! I’ll never own sleep number again .. I hate I’ve referred so many plp to this company!

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115. This company is a nightmare the bed is a disaster and a complete waste of money. Lies from the sales people at the store. Their tactic is to say you have nothing to lose completely refundable Up to 100 nights. Their bed is a disaster and a complete overpriced waste of money. Upon calling the store and customer service their misrepresentation of the bed now say you only can return the mattress and you’re stuck with the over $4000 base. It doesn’t matter the setting I wake up every morning in horrific pain…Neck pain back pain that I didn’t have before purchasing the mattress I find myself sleeping in a recliner while a $9000 bed complete utter waste of money. How is it possible for such a terrible company to get away with all of this when there are obvious so many customers that experienced the same problem?Stay away from these people they are scammers!!!!!!!

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     • We had the same problem….Peter slept in his recliner for the last 5 years and thought the sleep number bed was the solution. His Sleep Number bed wasn’t comfortable. Ice and I hurt where our bodies touched the mattress and he couldn’t sleep on it . It didn’t work from day one and had to contact the company 9 or more times for this and that… The remotes didn’t work. . They sent a new system. It didn’t work. They sent 1 extra foam pad not 2 like you would think for a split California King, it wasnt comfortable. Then it wasn’t reseting…found out it was the pump that need replacing .
       .We finally said enough .. Took the loss. they picked the mattress up but we now have a base and don’t know what to do next. After spending $9000. on this bed we are perplexed as to what to do next. had to keep the base, they won’t credit us for it and it’s $4,000.00.
       What is a good mattress? Peter either sleeps in his grandmothers Temperpedic Mattress or in his recliner and goes back and forth.
       There should be a class action suit against this company and we would be happy to join in one.

116. OMG he can’t even help how bad this bed truly is not only a glorified air mattress but a poor nightly sleep day in and night out, you hate that it’s yours! and you actually have to sleep in it because it’s all you have because it was so much money. I don’t know
     what to do it hurts so much to sleep in, I truly believe that my hip trouble is from the air mattress and now my husband has had to have four five and six fused in his back because of severe pain something we had nothing of three years before buying this bed we’re healthy, energetic, and exercise and we walk daily. We believe this is the source of our pain if we can get a lawyer we would to help fight all the concerns we have and others if anyone does please inform us we would love to be a part of a joint class-action lawsuit. It’s no fun when you really want to cry when it’s time to go to sleep because you know the pain you’re going to be in when you wake up in the morning this has severely damaged People’s Health in ways you cannot come back from surgery sometimes is the only option but then you have to come home and sleep in the same bed. What lies you’re told what deceit not right something should be done to this company. People should not have to suffer their lives like this. There should be something we can do if we all been together I would would you.

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117. We bought a sleep number queen bed because both of us were waking up with hip and back pain with our old mattress. After a few months the right side (my side) started losing air. We called customer service and plugged off the mattress to see if it was the air bag or the pump. We discovered it was the pump and were told, since it was under warranty, that they would ship us a new pump. I couldn’t believe that they didn’t carry replacements at our local store. So we had to unhook the pump and quickly put in the plugs so we could try to sleep on it. Now the second pump not only at time loses air but gains air when the left side is blown up. Guess I will have to call customer service and go through the entire set up again. I wish I would have bought another mattress. Buyer beware!!

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118. Yes couldn’t agree more had mine for less than a year total junk I could sleep better on a pool float that’s about what it is in the store they have so many layers on the bed when you try it then you get it and you have a 1200 dollars box of crap now I have pain in my back, knee and more I’ve wasted money on things but this is the worst all the mattresses I looked and time I spent what a joke if I could go back and do it again I would’ve never went in the store

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119. Tim Brown left message about the call with customer service disconnected and not getting a call back. Sorry you have to understand these are incoming call centers and within 1.5 seconds of a call ending the next call comes in.

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120. I am in agreement with the complaints listed here. We have had an issue with the one side leaking rather badly. They have been out 4 times each time on the same issue and each time I have had to argue and get transferred to a case worker to wave the $199 charge to fix the issue they have been unable to fix. So when they tell you that the service charge cannot be waved ask to speak to their supervisor keep doing that until you reach someone who will wave the charge. The now have replaced the pump but the problem persists. This time they said I have to talk to the frame manufacturer Leggett and Platt. As the hose goes through the frame and is covered by them. When I spoke with Leggett and Platt, they advised they do not cover that and back to Sleep Number again. Now they are shipping me hoses and will have the techs come out again. Oh and they emphasize for the last time for free even if it is to correct the same issue….
     And yes the 100 day is bogus, covers just the mattress. You are stuck with the frame which being a split frame can’t be used on a traditional mattress. As far as comfort, I really miss my old bed..

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     • How did you get techs to come out? They just sent me parts and told me to do it myself, which is not easy. I live in a really large city so it can’t be because of no techs in my area. I HATE this bed

121. I’m doing restoration work on an old house and visit it for a couple of months at a time. I didn’t want to buy a permanent mattress yet, so I bought an air mattress with the built-in electric pump for $40 (air mattresses that are filled with a vacuum cleaner are even cheaper). I cover it with plush padding before putting on the sheets and blankets. It has served me well for two years now. I leave it plugged in so if, in the middle of the night, the mattress seems a little soft, I can just hit the button and inflate it a little more.

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122. I have owned my sleep number for 10.5 years. It’s the original with “wired” remotes that simply go up and down. No fancy technology to show numbers or anything.
     This is my magic bed. I struggle to sleep in hotels or on other mattresses. I have not had any issues at all with this bed! It’s the best way to sleep.
     I came looking for the estimated life of a bed and found all these people and complaints and was shocked.
     Maybe the moral is don’t go fancy. I bought it from a man who couldn’t return it because of the mattress/frame issues but had decided he wanted something else for his guest room, basically a brand new bed – for a steal. Best bed ever!
     Maybe I just need to buy a new mattress cover and keep this baby. ❤️ I don’t notice big air leaks or any of the other complaints. I will say there is a little space in the center of our two sides are unequal, but who doesn’t like to sleep close to their husband?
     Thanks for the reviews. I love my bed and will keep it.

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     • I’m with you Felicia. We’ve had ours for 10+ years as well and have had no issues until now. Even that is understandable because of the length of time we’ve had it. I came across this article while looking into the seam coming undone in one spot. I’m just starting to look for our options to fix this problem. We really like our sleep number and would buy again in the future.

123. The commercials for the bed were great for promoting what appeared to be a quality product, as well as an answer to not having a hospital bed for my husband who is a cancer patient with severe bone pain especially in his back. However, I must agree with the other consumers regarding the poor performance of the bed. I’ We decided to return the bed for the following reasons: the massage feature didn’t massage. Instead, it only vibrates and it’s loud for others in the house. Next, the mattress didn’t maintain the selected level for comfort, so my husband usually sleeps in a reclining chair which he finds more comfortable than a $ 7,000.00 bed!
     After contacting the company, I was told the adjustable base cannot be returned, but we can work with you to get the right mattress and/or setting. Needless to say, that didn’t happen and we are unable to return the bed. Since that time, the remote has stopped working, the mattress won’t adjust settings at all, the pump needs to be replaced, and the massage feature won’t turn off which means I must disconnect the bed. Finally, for a technician the fee is $ 199.00 and subject to an additional cost depending on the problem. Regarding customer service with the Sleep Number representatives, all have been nice but didn’t deliver on the product. The warranty is totally misleading. Of course, the representatives advise the problem is with your base which is not a our product! WHAT!!! Therefore, you must work with representatives at Legette and Platt who provide the base to resolve the issues. Needless to say, this hasn’t happened. We have only had the bed a year! This is one of the worst purchases I have ever made. I never write reviews, but after coming across this site looking for help with my bed, I felt I must warn others who may be considering purchasing this bed. In fact, I had two friends interested in buying the bed and advised against it. YES, I AM AN UNHAPPY CONSUMER! If a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT becomes available, please contact me. Dimethia Hasan

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124. I purchased this bed Jan 2019. Today is end Jan 2019. I’ve been able to sleep on it the first 3-4 days then the air would not hold in the left side. I’ve made multiple chats and hours on the phone only to learn that my area ” is not in their supported locations.” I wasn’t told this when it was delivered. Imagine that? Also, after reading other comments I seem that I may be stuck with a $400 return fee as well as the frame. As I’ve not even been able to use the bed I’m wondering if anyone has had experience with a Small Claims suit for the entire amount of the purchase? If anyone has would you please respond?

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125. I have a sleep number King size full split bed with dual temp, This is my second Sleep Number bed and I have recommended 3 other people and they all bought a Sleep Number Bed. We buy all our sheets, mattress protection, and several sets of pillows from Sleep Number which is very high in price. We do not have problems with the comfort of the bed and sleep very well on our bed. The main reason we decided to get the full split bed was for the adjustment (watch tv). The problems I keep having is the remotes loose connection with the pump. Call customer service and wait on hold for ever and if you get cut off they will not call you back even though the have your file up with all your contact info, you have to call back in and wait and wait and wait for a different support staff to answer and you have to start all over with issues, etc. The last 2 months I have had to call in 4-6 times with this issue, first time they said they need to send me two separate remote for the dual temp and remove the dual temp setting off the original wireless remotes that came with the bed due to new company policy. Now we have 4 remotes for the bed which is crazy when the original remotes use to work perfect with the bed and dual temp. So now we have 4 remotes on the nightstands to work the bed :(. The 2nd – 6th time I have called in to support all they want to do is reset the remotes which does work for about 1-1.5 weeks before the same issue happens they loose connection. The support staff is unfriendly and act like they really do not care if you get the bed working. I had to order a new pump tonight to see if my pump is the issue rather than the remotes, was surprised that a 3 year old 12k bed did not have a better warranty. I had to pay for the new pump (was pro rated they said) and now have to wait 5-6 days for it to come in so I can get my bed to function again. I wish I could recommend Sleep Number and give a good review but our bed has become a burden and too much time involved with support trying to get the bed working properly. I am sorry but it is time to start looking for a new bed.

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126. I agree with all the complaints I wake up every morning in pain and living on a fixed income I just have to live with what I so foolishly bought. At my age I should have known better I’m over 80.

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127. Worst purchase ever made in our lives! Spent over thousands trying to make this work/comfortable. Initial purchase of over 6,000.00 then thousands more for a bed frame and additional padding and toppers through the years. At the time of purchase we were in the middle of home construction, they held the bed for us for short period of time so we had to have it delivered without carpet down.. The day they brought it out we slept on it that night and my husband who is healthy and never complains awoke with bad back pain. It took me a little less than a week to realize how bad it hurt my back. Customer service was a nightmare, return was out because we were several days over return date and they refused the adjustable section. Fast forward several months extreme trenching, sagging, adjustability on husbands side worked for short period of time but then went out, air leaks, etc. After some time we knew we had to live with our costly mistake and called customer service to get another pad, again nightmare with customer service each and every time we attempted to get this to be somewhat comfortable. They were outwardly hostile that we dared to complain that we needed to replace the sagging topper section. Fast forward over 12 years we have spent thousands on high end toppers, padding of latex, padding of gel, etc. pillows for neck pain. We now both suffer severe sciatica, along with back, neck and hip pain. I only found this site as I was looking to find some way to cover the ugly bottom mattress that shows, you cannot make this bed look nice. They did not have anything in the store at the time we purchased this bed to cover up and make it look right. Thought we just got a bad one. After just reading this and other sites with customers saying that they also have mold problems, thinking it would be best to just throw it out. It’s been nothing but a body torture chamber for me and my husband. Tired of throwing money into it only to still be in pain.

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     • I to have a sleep number very unhappy, weve had it going on 5 years – weve gone through 5 msttress csnnot find a comfortable one – may i ask what bed is better.

128. I just got off the 1 of 4 phone calls with customer service tonight to try to work out the prearranged “deal” I had with them. I was only going to owe the return pick up fee of reduced $100.00. I now owe sleep number $319 dollars. I am extremely upset. I was misled. I financed their home delivery fee and was never told if and when I would want to return my bed I would need to pay that $199 along with the return delivery fee. The bed is a joke it didn’t last 2 weeks in our house. (King, i8) the delivery men told my husband that it was not worth it. When they came and picked it back up they laughed and said “I told you so” as they threw it in the back of the truck. Also, they had 3 other pickups that day! My back was so sore most of the time I would wake up crying. I am not amused by this company, their over priced air mattresses, and deceptive customer service tactics.

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     • Hello:
       We are in the same boat. We received the bed about Dec 30, we have actually slept in it 5 nights. We’ve been trying to get a technician here because the right side will not old air. Here it is end Jan. still no bed to sleep on. After hours to chats and phone calls we have been told that we will have to pay a shipping fee to return the worthless thing. Also, stuck with the frame. Could you share your attorney’s suggestion? I’ looking into Better Business Bureau (locally and small claims.)

129. We bought the I8 California king with the Flexfit 2 base and split top back in December for $9,000 including two sets of sheets, two pillows and mattress pad and hated it. The split took up too much room and we rolled into the middle. It was a glorified hospital bed. We exchanged it for the regular king I7 and got a refund of $110. We still hate it and both my husband and I have aches and pains we never had before. It we had been told the truth about the 100 day trial, we would never have bought it. We can’t get over how cheaply it is made. We have an appt with our lawyer next week to discuss our options.

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130. We’ve had our mattress for about 3 years. Have to replace air every night about 6-7 times when I’m awakened by deflated mattress. Over priced glorified air mattress. Will not purchase again.

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131. I agree with ALL the complaints. I also agree that a class action lawsuit is needed! Shameful scammers!!!

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132. I too, have had all the listed problems. I wake in severe pain! Then I have to try to crawl over the wooden waterbed frame after sinking well below the top of the 2×8 waterbed frame. ‘‘This is all due to cheap materials and a total lack of quality concerns. Consider yourselves warned.

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133. A Minnesota Company with Zero Ethics.

     We bought a Sleep Number bed and paid thousands of dollars for it. In addition, we bought an upgrade to have the Dual temp($1,500). Along with this we paid a few more hundred dollars to have the universal remote so we would not have multiple remotes at the bed side.

     This universal remote worked great for 4 plus years until recently when the CEO (Shelly Ibach) decided to make a technology change with no regard to how it impacted your existing customer base and the amount of money they spent to have that feature. Essentially they deployed new technology knowing it would make all the universal remotes in the market place not function.

     There solution is not to return the hundreds of dollars one spent on the universal remote or even replace it with a new universal remote but rather give you a second remote. The old universal remote will control the sleep number and the 2nd remote controls the Dual Temp. Well this defeats the purpose of having a universal remote (one remote) plus what about all the cash I paid for the product that Ms. Ibach decided to disable?

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134. Trenching? Yup
     Glorified Air Mattress? Yup
     Breakdown or Malfunction? Not to this point
     Customer Service? Have not needed
     Price? Ouch

     Overall…meh!

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135. This is the WORST mattress I have ever used. The trench is AWFUL and it is equal to the “so called” Customer Service. These people need to have a “Class Action” lawsuit against them based on all of the complaints! And they still sell them without any reservation! Shameful!

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136. We have our Sleep Number bed for 8 years and have a 20 year warranty, the air compressor went out my side, we went to our local store they gave us the headquarters number. We call them prorated our price and end up buying the compressor at a really cheap price. We love our bed!!! The Customer service is great! This bed is the best investment we ever made.

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137. So disappointed in this purchase. Apparently, we did not know what to expect with this mattress and have made the worst purchase in our 48 year marriage. After trying to get used to the mattress we experienced no adjustment in nightly sleep as we tossed and turned. The nightlight worked intermittently, and the biggest surprise is that the base is not returnable! We slept on the mattress for less than a month, were traveling away from home for a month, and decided we were no better off than a traditional mattress when we returned. We were surprised to learn that the heavy, bulky frame was ours to keep. We are moving and can’t afford to move it across the country so will have to pay to have it removed. We feel totally violated.

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138. Slow leaks in both chambers after 9 years. By phone customer service said would send info to get replacement partially covered by warranty. Info never came. Found leaks myself by inserting colored cosmetic powder at air intake. Will be fixing leaks with gorilla glue/patches.

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139. I bought sleep number for my wife who has health issues. It’s been nightmare. Every day she cries of pain sleeping on the mattress. I too noticed I’ve been getting back pains. After spending over $6000 one would think the bed would be the best in the market getting the best night sleep. I made a big $6000+ mistake. The hype outweigh the reality of the quality of sleep. Live and learn

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140. Sleep Number bed is a big rip-off. A total waste of money. I have to sleep on the sofa because I can not stand the “trench effect” of rolling to the middle of the bed. Now the stupid thing deflates so my wife is forced to sleep on a mattress that feels like sinking into a pile of leaves. Do not buy this mattress.

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141. Another very disappointed customer. The bed is very uncomfortable. I wake up with back and hip pain. It does not matter how often I try to adjust it the sag in the middle does not go away.

     Do not make the same mistake I did and take your business to another place.

     Virginia

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142. what a shame! I dreamed of having this bed for years Is terrible! I have experienced all of the above.complaints.

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143. My biggest complaint (after the trenching and waking up barely able to get out of bed), is the ridiculous cost of sheets!!!!! $200 for a set of King sheets? We also have to replace our mattress cover – another $234? What a ripoff. I tell everyone who asks – don’t waste your money.

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144. I’m so disgusted with my E8($7,000 plus) nightmare. Worst investment ever. My loss and my fault. I should have read the reviews. I find myself sleeping on the sofa or in a recliner because I can hardly move in the morning after sleeping in the bed. This bed does not feel like the bed that I tested in the store. I have my side set on 100. My number in the store was around 40. Even on 100, the bed is not firm at all. I could have just set as match and burned my money. What a waste. Sleep number beds are a rip off. I can’t believe people can sell these beds or work for this company with integrity.

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145. I have been contacting Customer Service for over three years. Can no longer sleep in bed because the right side of bed sinks and you feel like you are rolling down a hill. When I wake up my back and neck hurts so bad. Has been the worst bed I have ever slept in. Don’t understand when I call about bed they are of no help to get it fixed. Don’t ever buy a Sleep Number bed they and Customer Service are really bad.

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146. I have had 2 sleep number beds I had the first one 20 years replaced the foam ,pump and controls now my Granddaughter is using it and it still does not sag in the middle We now have an I-10 half split King and love it. My husband is heavy and have no sagging. We highly recommend sleep number.

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147. I wish I had found this before I purchased! The pump broke on day 2 and customer service is horrendous! Took week to get to us because they forgot to push “submit”

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148. Good to know that I’m not the only one experiencing the “trench effect” we’ve had the bed for a few years and I’m hating it so much now. Can’t get comfortable on any setting. Every time my husband gets out of bed I have to set both sides to different numbers because I roll into the trench that feels like I’m sleeping on a plank of wood. Like others said, it’s just an overpriced air mattress.

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149. I wish I would have found this site sooner. Another dissatisfied customer of the sleep number bed! Very poor customer service. We have a ” squeaky” bed, very annoying.

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150. “Free” 100 day trial period excludes $199 delivery and $199 return fee, so if you decide to return your mattress you’re going to lose $400 plus tax.

     I discovered this after having this bed recommended to me by several people, but for me it induced lower back pain, regardless of the setting I used. On scheduling for return customer service kindly lets you know that you’re going to receive a refund minus $400. Oh, and you can’t choose to pickup or return the mattress on your own. Their stores do not have warehouses, so you have to pay the delivery and return fee. Insult to literal injury. If you do decide to try this mattress make sure you’re fairly certain or willing to pay $400+ to try.

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151. In my opinion this product is over priced for the materials that are used to manufacture this bed.I have experienced mattress issues from get-go.c/s always sends me parts with no hassle,but I feel as though this is the R&D location. Satisfaction depends on this fix, purchase another? DEPENDS

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152. Worst investment of my life, super disappointed. Both my husband and can barely sleep on the thing and wake up not feeling rested and having back and neck pain. Do not make the mistake we did, don’t buy this glorified air mattress.

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153. I have had nothing but problems with SleepNumber bed. My husband I bought the California King and so have 2 basically twin beds pushed together, which cost over $5000.00. My side has not worked from the start and like the reviews state above I sleep in a trench nightly because the air in the “Air Mattress” does not stay. I have to adjust the air to the bed nightly and after 1 hour it is completely trenched again with the sleep number down to 00.
     We called customer support, but was told that it was going to cost $199.00 just to come out and take a look at the problem – and that is before fixing anything. Additionally, the bed is under warranty, but apparently that is not covered. I am about to buy just a plain twin bed and take the AIR MATTRESS off the frame – since the Frame is not guaranteed by Sleep Number.
     DO NOT BUY THIS AIR MATTRESS – that is exactly what it is. You are buying an OVER PRICE Air Mattress and will NOT get any customer support without paying for it.
     I am really disappointed in this product. Too bad I didn’t read the reviews prior to spending a all that money – I should have gone to Jerome’s; at least they stand behind their product 100%.

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154. This $3800.00 + mattress is a joke because it is JUNK!!! The bs in their commercials should be considered a CRIMINAL OFFENSE. Lies and an inferior mattress. Wish I had never heard of Sleep Number and that I could take this excuse for a mattress and “put it where the sun doesn’t shine (like a sleep number executive’s ass)!!!!
     Gayle Mann

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155. I have no problem falling asleep (very quickly) when I lay down, and I typically sleep deeply. However, when I wake I feel like I’ve been beaten during the night. I’ve tried a wide range of firmness options, but that doesn’t seem to affect discomfort I awake with.

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156. I so wish I had read these reviews before spending $6000 on a queen Sleep Number bed. So disappointed! I kept saying “It feels like an air mattress.” They kept saying “Find your number.” I’ve had the bed two weeks and feel as though I’ve been had! I bought it because a friend loves hers. I so wanted to like it. But I am waking up in the morning with back and hip pain. Don’t make my mistake!

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     • I know exactly what you’re saying. Spent 5700.00 on my bed only one week ago and haven’t had a good night sleep yet. I’ve tried all the different settings. I was under the understanding that I could try the bed out for a hundred days and if I wasn’t satisfied with it I could return it. Now I find out that I can only return the bed not the frame. No I have a 3000 dollar frame and mattress saver and no bed .please read everything they have you sign because you can’t trust a word that they tell you. It’s very sad that a company would have a sales staff that would intentionally mislead their customers like that . All I can say is buyer beware.

157. Had a disgusting experience with the customer service reps at SleepNumber. After 2 years, the bed became nonfunctional due to a hole that developed around the air chamber which would make the bed deflate within 2 hours. The customer service reps said it would cost $400 to ship a new air chamber for a bed that they acknowledged was defective. I took the $400 and bought a new mattress.

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158. I purchased a Sleep Number Bed in 2017 and what drove me to it was all the rave reviews. Well I’m sorry I did that. What a piece of junk. As many of you say, it’s just an air mattress and like many of you I’m falling into the middle of the bed. Unable to get comfortable, stomach, back or side sleeping. The worst part is my back in the morning when I wake up, it’s killing me and I’ll be replacing it shortly. Sleep Number’s website has to be controlling who says what on their site and if so, there should be something done about it

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159. Bought my bed in February 2018 and am already experiencing the “trenching” effect. (I did not know there was even a name for it) After being on the phone with customer service, and playing “bed Tech” at the same time, they are begrudgingly sending out a service guy . Initially, they were going to charge me $99 to send someone out.
     The warranty is, shall we say, not anywhere near as good as the guy in the store said it would be.
     As of the last month, my wife sleeps on the couch and I sleep in a chair

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160. People will need to understand that these are air mattresses.. They’re limited in that aspect of design.. I’ve taken the bed apart piece by piece to see how well it’s been constructed, from pumps, hoses, mattress material, etc.. And I can definitely tell you, it’s cheaply made.. No doubt in my mind quality of the construction created many arising and current issues.. I couldn’t imagine how they’re R&D even came up with a warranty.. But guess what? It’s a LIMITED WARRANTY that leaves the burden on the consumer.. Smart for the company & it’s investors but horrible for its unknowing consumers.
     I could easily build a better bed by switching out a few major components that are reliable & of much lower costs than warranty repairs. And for the price points, I’ll stick to well-made conventional beds with added components.
     Some will enjoy it but with costs & others will hate it along with the same costs.
     Hope this helps someone.

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161. Look under the bed you are buying for the plastic snap together plastic base this is very cheep molded plastic and the top mattress slides around on the plastic plus the amount of foam sucks, then the sagging on each side, for the price is very pour in me view. I did not like it at all

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162. I HAVE A PUT TOGETHER AIR BED,,,I CAN BE DRAGGING A55 at night,,,,,,,but by morning i;m ready to go,,,again,,,,LOVE MY BED,,,,BUT WISH IT WOULD KEEP A 50 EVERY DAY,,,,,,WITH OUT ME PUMPING IT UP,,,

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163. Wow! I too bought a junk bed. Mine is in the baffling. They say that they can’t bend but I’m here to tell you they can. I’ve had it happen twice but Sleep Number has finally stood and replaced them twice even though they clearly didn’t want to they did. Thank you Sleep Number.

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164. After year 2, the bed deflates after about 2-3 hours. So…. I call for service because we have a warranty until, wait for it… 2040. Ha! It seems the extended warranty is useless, as you have to pay $199, upfront for the tech to come, with NO parts, then $199 to come back and fix it. When we purchased the bed/warranty, we were told that we were totally covered. Silly me, as this was our 2nd Sleep number bed, as we were also told that all the previous problems we were having, including warranty coverage, were fixed with the new C2 model. I’m a senior citizen, with severe back problems who can’t afford to piss away $3000 every other year. NRVER been more disappointed with any product in my life!!!

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165. Warranty isn’t what they say it is. When you have problems it isn’t 100% covered. I was told after only 4 years I needed a new pillow top and they pro-rated the cost for the years I had the bed and said it would be over $200! That did not make me happy when I spent a lot of money on this bed and had over 5 people I know buy from them.
     Terrible customer service.
     In addition I bought another bed from them around the same time. It was a queen and the bed sags in the middle between the chambers. Seriously? They wouldn’t fix this either, surprise, surprise. Never recommending this bed to anyone again.

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166. We were told there was a 25 year warranty on the bed. When we tried to use the warranty to replace the pump we were told that it was not part of the warranty. We didn’t get much assistance or empathy from the customer service either. We feel we were lied to at the time of the sale. I will never buy another item from Sleep Number and I will tell all my friends to not purchase a bed from that company.

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167. Warning !!! The Adjustable Base Can’t Be Reurned. it costs $3,100. Don’t Trust Them.

     When I bought the BED I was told I can sleep on the BED for 100 days and if I don’t like the BED I can return the BED. When I filled out the form I was told sign here and initial here here and here. I was told this was the paperwork for the loan. So after about a month of miserable sleep I tried to return the BED but was to,d the BASE isn’t returnable. Yes, I signed the paperwork so I’m out $3,100 plus tax. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
     I feel like i was lied to and am so angry. Trust me, I’m not the only person who feels that way. Don’t trust the people at the store. They will lie to get a sale. I got the split King mattress and asked about the gap and the lady looked me right in the eye and told me that when the mattress is flat I won’t even notice the split. Now that’s an out and out lie. So I returned the mattress and bought a great mattress from 𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙘𝙤, (by the way, 𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙘𝙤 doesn’t lie and you can return a mattress with ease).

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168. very poor representation of product.did not get what I was led to understand I would get.
     attempt to have bed removed and returned met with resistance at all tries. stuck sleeping in a chair for a week a more because of refusal to pick up and return product. attempt made to up price and still wait longer for what I understood I would be getting and did not.
     stay away from this company. extremely poor service !!!!!!

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