King Koil King Mattress - Effectively $1300

chillybags on 04/02/2019 - 11:20

Hi All,

Was just hoping to get some opinions on a new mattress we are looking at. Looking to upgrade from a 10+ year old king koil queen (which has been great) to a king sized bed. There is nothing wrong with current mattress but would like to go the size up to king.

Harvey Norman quoted me $1999 (RRP $3500 which is BS) for a king koil chiro superb firm. I have $2250 of gift cards from the domayne Amex offer. (Willing to consider it as 20% off) which brings it down to $1600. We also require a mattress for our spare room which I would estimate at $300 to buy an ebay mattress in a box (if we got the new king our old bed would become spare). That brings it down to $1300 effectively. It seems like a good price for a proper name brand mattress considering a koala king is around $1100 anyways and they’re supposed to be “cheap” for a mattress. It also assumes no haggling on the offered price from HN.

I’m also considering saving the HN gift cards for later and just getting a cheap zzz Altier in a king. Only problem is I like firmer mattress and sidewalk support is important. I previously had a Gisselle mattress in a box from eBay and although great value for money it was too soft and collapsed on the sides whenever you put any weight on it.

Any thoughts/opinions would be helpful as obviously th mattress industry is very hard to compare give all their BS sale tactics.

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  • nfr on 04/02/2019 - 11:40
    +1

    My 14 year old kingkoil started sagging a bit so i bought two kingcoil super firm mattresses at domayne. 1300 sounds reasonable for a king. Tbh good beds that are expected to last 10+ years are cheap compared to phones or herman miller chairs. If you have a healthy lifestyle you spend more time on a bed than a chair. I would buy zzz atelier for guest but not for myself because im used to really firm beds.

  • djkelly69 on 04/02/2019 - 12:01
    +3

    That is 'effectively' $1600, because you can use the old queen in the spare room no matter what bed you get.

    • chillybags on 04/02/2019 - 12:35

      I don’t think so? Wouldn’t it essentially be $300 off whichever bed we get either King Koil or ZZZ altier? Because otherwise we would need to spend $300 on a spare bed. So for only $1300 more we get the king size King Koil. Same concept for the ZZZ.

      • djkelly69 on 04/02/2019 - 12:49

        It doesn't matter which new bed you get, the old queen can be used as the mattress in the spare room. This means you can ignore the money it is going to save you in the cost calculation, because you will save that money regardless of the bed you choose.

        So just compare the actual price (after discount/giftcards/whatever) of each bed you are interested in, so you are comparing apples with apples (well as close as you can with beds).

        • Kangal on 04/02/2019 - 14:11

          Besides, everyone knows Godzilla is the King of Beds not King Kong.

      • bobbified on 04/02/2019 - 16:22

        I'm actually laughing at this because sometimes I twist and turn these kinds of ideas in my head to try and justify the "need" to buy something. I know that the logic is completely flawed, but whatever - just told myself that's how it works and bought whatever it was I wanted! haha ^_^

  • OldBugger on 04/02/2019 - 22:49

    mattress industry is very hard to compare give all their BS sale tactics.

    Heh, too right. I hate to think how much time I wasted searching and comparing mattresses last year. I'm not sure if it even helped.

    Not certain exactly what advice you are after, but I finally purchased a queen Chiro Superb medium from Harvey Norman for $1200.

    However, just last week my Zzz Atlier arrived. I find the zzz much firmer and very much on par with the chiro superb. Side support is the same except on the four corners of the bed where the CS excels as it has more padding in this area.

    I find the CS forms body impressions after lying on it for a while. Probably normal due to memory foam in it's top layers and also due to it being a medium possibly. But I don't find it comfortable when turning over to get a new position and feeling the old impression. I don't believe I feel this in the zzz.

    The zzz was for the guest room but without further testing on it I can't say that I won't swap it for the CS.

    I probably would recommend getting the zzz and trying it out. For the cost it is outstanding. But then again, $1300 is a great price for a known brand coming out of HN.

    Good luck… and don't spend too much time on it 😉

    • chillybags on 05/02/2019 - 10:13

      Thanks! Good to get a comparison of the two I’m considering! If I was after two beds I would without any hesitation get a ZZZ to test it and see how it goes. I think I will pull the trigger on the King Koil. The $1200 for the quee sounds like a good price! Which HN did you get it from? I’m in the process of calling around different HNs to get pricing and so far Moore Park is the cheapest by far.

      • OldBugger on 05/02/2019 - 10:19

        I'm in WA, but yes I did ring around and was surprised at the differences in price between the HN stores. I ended up getting it from a 'VIP' night at one HN store. But it wasn't much cheaper than the best priced HN store.

  • chillybags on 07/02/2019 - 07:28

    Hi all,

    Thanks for the feedback. Called around a few stores and managed to find one store offering for $1600 in Sydney (I’m in rural nsw) and my local store eventually caved and matched it for $1697 to include the freight out here. After the Amex offer domayne gift cards Works out at $1357 which is pretty good considering I walked in there and she said $2k!

  • Starlight8 on 07/02/2019 - 13:18

    I bought a Sealy posturepedic for around $5k from Domayne… best $5k spent :)

    I would advise against going for a cheaper mattress as you spend half your time in bed.

  • onlinepred on 11/03/2019 - 14:57

    " It seems like a good price for a proper name brand mattress considering a koala king is around $1100 anyways and they’re supposed to be “cheap” for a mattress"

    Just FYI, Choice compared these mattresses to the much more expensive ones, and they came out on top. So really these are well priced, and the mattresses you are looking at are overpriced. Even Tempur got rated lower than most beds in a box and they cost upwards of $3k

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