What are Select Comfort and the Sleep Number® Bed?
Select Comfort is a well-known, heavily advertised seller of airbeds. You’re probably familiar with them through their well-known television commercials and online or print media.
Select Comfort has branded the Sleep Number® Bed, the name for their airbed lineup. Select Comfort has done an excellent job bringing air-pressure relief to the forefront of American sleep products. However, due to their abundant yearly advertising costs, Select Comfort has been forced to overprice their Sleep Number® Beds.
How does SelectAir compare to Sleep Number®?
Many people ask us how a Select Air Bed compares to the Sleep Number® Bed by Select Comfort. In a nutshell, Select Air Beds feel the same as their Sleep Number counterparts, but are better constructed and are more affordably priced.
We’ve designed our lineup of Select Air Beds to feel similar to the various models of Sleep Number® Beds, because that is the bed most people are familiar with. There are two main differences between Select Air Beds and Sleep Number® Beds: [1] Our Air Beds are priced at about 40% less than the Sleep Number® Bed, and [2] we use heavier grade materials and more sophisticated construction methods to ensure long lasting comfort and durability.
How is the SelectAir Bed Better Constructed than the Sleep Number® Bed?
The Sleep Number® Bed is a good airbed, and through heavy advertising it is easily the most recognizable airbed in the mattress industry today. However, there are certain flaws with the Sleep Number® Bed. For example, Sleep Number® Beds are known to have mold grow inside the mattress, because there is no moisture barrier.
Select-Air Beds are mold-proof. Instead of having air chambers that sit right next to each other like the Select Air Beds do, Sleep Number® Beds have dual air chambers that are separated by a thick foam layer. This foam layer makes it uncomfortable to sit in the middle of the bed, and creates a “Dead zone” in the bed.
Sleep Number® Beds are also more prone to bowing out on the sides of the mattress, due to the lower density foam used in the rails; and because the mattress was not constructed with a Sling-Rail design. (A Sling-Rail design is one in which the rails are locked in through the full length and width of the bed, not just the corners). In addition, we use a higher-grade hose in our pump system, and it is easier to set our airbeds up.
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