to buy a mattress without testing it first

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from John Lewis?

The mattress shops round here are rubbish. (Still sore about the last one I got talked into buying. Felt great in the shop, 2 years later it's lumpy, you can feel the springs, it's awful, but no money to replace it just now :( )

DS has just got a bunk bed so needs a second mattress. It'll be only used occasionally for now (by visiting DCs and grown ups, e.g. MIL, who's in her 70s) and then will probably be DD's when she gets big enough for a bed.

WIBU to just order one off John Lewis? The nicest mattress I've ever had came from John Lewis, it was amazing :) Gutted I've not still got it. But, even so I chose it after lots of trying out different mattresses in JL beds department. It seems a bit wrong to buy one without trying it, what do you reckon oh wise mumsnet people?

I bought the really cheap ones, think they were £65 at the time, for my dds. I don't think it had that occasional use disclaimer at the time. But the reviews were positive on the whole, so I went ahead. One is a year old now, and the other 1.5 years and they seem to be as good as ever. The children find them comfortable and haven't complained at all anyway!

Wiggly - that's the one! Think it's more comfortable than the one on our bed!