I Tried Eight Sleep For A Month! (Unsponsored Review)
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2024
- I tried the Eight Sleep Pod Cover for a month and these are my honest thoughts. I couldn't find many reviews that weren't sponsored, so I wanted to try it out for myself.
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I nearly clicked on pay now on their site and said, "let me go to RUclips and look for an honest unsponsored review. I happened to find you and I'm glad I did. I have the same issue just like you and can't afford to spend all these money and then some as a retiree. Thank you very much
Thanks, was about to buy until I saw this. Other reviewers had even more to say about noise levels, especially on hotter days. You saved me 3000 bucks + a subscription 🙏
Good idea trying it in August when you need the cooling the most! I like the idea behind the product but hate the idea of paying a subscription for a mattress topper...
It was a hot… hot… hot summer
A subscription for sleep is insane lol😂😂😂
It's "compulsory for the first twelve months" and then you can cancel after, apparently. It still sux
Have you never heard of SAAS Sleep As A Service?
Excellent clearly honest review
Phenomenal UNPAID UNSPONSORED REVIEW. THANK YOU 💞😊
Thanks for your honest thoughts! It's hard to sift through all the information and figure out if a product lives up to it's promises, so it's super helpful to have have your unbiased opinion as someone who tried it to help us out. Great video!
I bought this super expensive mattress and it's been just over one year and the hub stopped working. I've contacted support but it's very very very frustrating so far because they have been zero help. I wouldn't recommend this mattress to anyone.
It's not a mattress, though. It's a mattress *topper* . If it were a mattress, you could put it on your bed frame by itself, and I dread to think how uncomfortable that would be!
That said, thank you for posting that Comment. The reviewer was also not happy with the customer service, so it's clearly not just your experience that they suck at helping customers :-( That's a major no-no for me. *Especially* at that price point; blimey!
Eine so große Unverschämtheit bei diesem Preis
@@IllisiaAdamswhy do you waste people's time spewing stupid comments like this.? Get a life and go away
@@IllisiaAdamsI think they sell an actual mattress too?
The warranty period is what??
Thank you for the honest unbiased review. Please keep the value/ content coming about products you have tested. 🙏🔥💯👍
Great review and very helpful with my decision to purchase.
Thank you! This review was super helpful
Thank you for an honest review. This saved me lot of money.
So glad I watched your review!! I've been wanting to make an investment to sleep cooler at night but had a feeling what you describe would happen to me. Thanks again!
Great review. Bed firmness is my # 1 concern on all beds. This honest YT review got me to search a bit more on 8Sleep and there are a few dozen reviews talking about how the top coils with water flowing through make the bed too firm for some people (some people being anyone who likes a soft mattress). So that just saved me $ 4000 and the issues of installation just to find out I would not need to throw it away. But for those peeps who do not mind a firm bed the 8Sleep sounds like an awesome idea = my wife wants it warmer in the room so I could have cranked up the cooling in this bed on my side.
I wonder how much of your comfort issue is related to having a memory foam topper. Memory foam works via body heat softening the foam which is what allows for that slow melting conformance to your body. That might explain why you felt more comfortable with the temperature setting set to warm the bed. I'm tempted to give it a try, but it would be a deal breaker if it changed the pressure relieving qualities of my bed.
I kept thinking similarly: why not put one of the mattress toppers over the sleep 8. You can still feel comfortable, and the sleep 8 will remove excess body heat.
Thank you!! Everyone is saying how great the product is and no one refers to the comfort aspect like you did! I also like soft mattresses and if it’s firm is a big no no for me. Thanks again ❤
Thanks for honest review.
The ability to control the Dock Pro manually is why we went with that product instead of 8 Sleep. Dock Pro is definitely not a perfect product either, though. But I’m liking it.
Thanks for this review, hard to find unsponsored ones.
Your experience mirrors mine, also tried the Pod3.
The idea is great and i wish it would've workesmd for me, but i feel like the product just isn't mature enough yet
Nice review!
Very helpful! Not alot of unsponsored reviews out there.
Thank you for the detailed review.
Do you think a softer mattress can counter the firmness of this product? Or we just have to wait for a newer product with softer feeling?
If you had a very soft mattress it could counter it, but it will change the feel a lot.
@@DylanHongTech thank you for explaining, I don't think it is worth the investment (soft mattress and device) for a 50/50 attempt.
Thanks for the review! Have you asked 8 sleep whether you can put a topper over the cover? I know this sounds weird but wondering if cooling would still work, maybe with a latex topper which is generally cooler than foam
Yeah I did try this for a bit, but it negated the cooling effect but was still less comfortable
I appreciate your honesty. Too many sponsored people on RUclips talking about this bed.
To be fair, most people I’ve seen have disclosed that they are sponsored or were sent the cover by eight sleep
@@DylanHongTech That's fair. Hidden was not the right word to use. I deleted it. Thanks again
what about putting the foam topper ontop of the cooling - it wont work as well obviously - but it might have given you the softness you need with some of the cooling too?
I did give that a try for a night, it pretty much totally got rid of the cooling effect and still was pretty firm underneath
Thanks for this honest review. haha wow, its completely useless without wifi/the app. Is it just me or is the monthly subscription ridiculous? They're not really providing anything special, and without it you can't even use basic functions like scheduling the temperatures.
I’ve always been waiting for the waterbed to come back now is here. Yay. I feel like I’m in the 80s.
I wonder if a latex topper might help instead of a memory foam topper.
Great video.
this is super helpful but i really don't understand why you increase the temperature to 100 degrees during the daytime? that would use alot of electricity!
Thank you for a great review. The return process seems very wasteful given that you have throw out the mattress cover.
I'll also be returning mine. I really wanted to like it too but didn't like it for the same reasons in this video. I found my sleep was good the first week of using it but the next week I noticed that it was getting worse than before I started using the product. I realized it was because I had stopped exercising. I would recommend that anyone interested in this product try excercising daily, it really makes a bigger difference to sleep quality than any other sleep solution I have found!
Was the 8sleep able to keep a stable temperature all night? The old sleep me product I have isn’t powerful enough to hold the temperature I set it at. I can set it at 54 but after about an hour it goes to 72 and won’t go any lower.
Yes it was quite powerful
thank you
Love your video. Is there a good alternative?
Not that I have tested
@dylan how do you like the kirkland costco bed? thinking about pourchasing it. Does it sleep well does it make you sleep hot? what are your thoughts?
It came super firm, but after a few weeks we loved it. A 1.5 inch topper on it made it super comfortable. After about a year, it started sinking and developed craters on the two sides that made it uncomfortable for me to sleep on my back, so we unfortunately returned it. If it hadn’t dipped, I would have loved it
I bought the eight sleep on it's first generation of a cooling pad, when they shipped it with a mattress. The mattress it came with was insanely soft, but the combination of the topper with the very soft mattress worked out to be a great firmness. Without that very soft mattress I think it would be far too firm. Unfortunatenly without the eight sleep cover the original mattress is almost impossible to use. It's so incredibly soft it's uncomfortable, and holds an insane amount of heat... which leads me into the next problem.
Having used the generation 1, we experienced nothing but problems with a comically short warranty for such an expensive mattress. Our first leak happened within 6 months, and then the second leak happened 10 days after the warranty ended. The worst part about the leaks.. once you take the cover off the mattress it's useless. You're stuck without any bed to sleep on, so instead you have to drain the entire mattress topper to even sleep on your bed without being wet. 10 days after the end of the warranty they told us they don't even manufacture the same topper anymore, so even if they wanted to replace it they couldn't. Thankfully after a few complaining calls they sent us the second generation topper, which lasted for about a year.. and then leaked. We were able to somehow get another replacement, but after 2 years the entire eight sleep pod started to fail. The pump for one side no longer primed or moved water.. possibly from running with a leak multiple times? It's hard to say. Unfortunately support was not there. It's kind of upsetting to spend 3000 dollars for a setup that lasted 2 years before needing to be completely replaced with a new mattress.
so if you could pick up a doc second hand your good to go? if you keep the sheet?
I disposed of the sheet. But you’d also need a subscription and I’m not sure if eight sleep monitors for things like that
"I feel like I'm going a bit far with trying to like the product" ... I've had mine a few weeks and feel exactly the same way. Have been impressed with the hardware itself, but disappointed by the overall experience. While I do find it physically comfortable, the lack of basic customization re: time and temp control is perplexing. And yes, nothing says I care about sleep than having to use your phone in the middle of the night!?! Very likely I'll return it and revisit a later, more fully realized iteration The cooling function is quite lovely!
I love what this product offers but I'm just not paying a subscription for my bed.
If you are sleeping hot do not use memory foam. Natural fibres like a wool mattres and mattress topper are much better for temperature regulation. Synthetic fibres are petroleum based and are a poor substitute.
Hi! Thanks for the honest review. I just got mine today and im getting ready to test it. I actually like a firm mattress and a soft one kills me, so im gonna see how it works.
In the setup stage i head that we needed distilled water and hydrogen peroxide so i bought it, but it never asked me for the hydrogen peroxide! Plus i was shocked to see the app wanted just tap water too.
Will this be okay ?
How did the 8 sleep work for you? Is it helping with sleep?
@@thewhitewolffl yeah aboslutely!! it took a bit to find the right settings and i'm still playing and tracking them. the bed is definitely conducive to more deep sleep, but at the same time i'm working on other stuff to improve it as well (sleep hygiene, reducing my snoring /sleep apnea with excercises). so i'm definitely improving my score, but it's not just because of the bed!
@@AdanP try red tinted True Dark glasses before bed, also put them on if you need to look at phone in middle of night, those glasses help me go to sleep almost instantly, along with teaspoon raw honey, and some valerian
Really like your headboard. Can you please share where it’s from?
Here's an affiliate link to it on Amazon: amzn.to/44VdH9x
Also nobody mentions that part of the reason for the hydrogen peroxide to evaporate the water is to cut down on the mold that builds up in the chambers 🤢🤢🤢
not joking around, Amazon sells mattress cooling systems for £150 only without an app, and then you can buy Amazon 4 year insurance for like £30
If you don’t have to adjust the settings on your phone they couldn’t charge you a subscription “service” fee.
Not being able to cool it if there’s no wifi is crazy
Yeah, feels quite anti-consumer
That's a bit weird argument. How frequently have you not had WiFi?
I can't really remember a single instance in my past 6 years where I had such issues with the Internet.
And let's say for whatever reason there's a night without WiFi. One night without temperature regulation is not the end of the World.
You can still sleep.
I'm just saying here that a lot of arguments seem a bit weird since these things likely won't matter significantly at all.
I also don't care about the subscription fee. To me if anything this incentives the company to keep developing the software. You just add it to your estimated cost and then determine what kind of value it would bring to you. This is just math.
My main question is. Is it going to increase quality of your sleep and what kind of effects having this increased quality bring to your life? Then calculate if the expense is worth the value it brings. This is the only thing that matters. In your calculations you can just calculate the value add per 5 years and then 5 x 12 x sub fee + initial cost for simplified calc.
@@someverycool4552 My ISP goes down frequently (multiple times per week) between 1-3AM for 30min+. Spectrum, of course. Normally I'm not up during that time, so I don't care, but I'd likely notice if it took down my mattress cooling. Also, I have no control over my ISP, Spectrum is all that's available where I live. I agree with the rest of your argument, but just because it's not an issue for you, doesn't mean it can't be for someone else.
Sucks you didn't like it, I've used one for several months now and it's helped me quite a bit and I've never felt the tubes on the Pod 3, idk if you got an earlier version that was less comfortable. Definitely the worst part about it is the subscription and constant need to be connected to the internet. I think these guys force that because they are selling off all your data to milk their customers as much as they can.
This is Pod 3? Ive heard they made Pod 4 softer
it's also double the price
Bro you should have just bought a quality cool gel topper. With the fan sheets. Though when it GETS cold the topper gets hard. But it's still as comfortable once u get into your spot. And wicks the heat away from ya. And for 4k this thing is more trouble than it's damn worth. You're supposed to buy a quality bed for quality sleep no matter what that is for the individual because we all know the reason behind that not to mention sleeping a third of our life. This would be absolutely disastrous for anybody with back problems or any type of difficulty or handicaps. Even select number now makes a heater and a cooler in one of their top models now that's a whole unit for 4 grand 20 years warranty bed and all. Also now they also make adjustables like the old craftmatics. And if u do a king you can have a split mattress one side down one side could be reclining as if ur reading or watching TV or even icing the old back injury. Way better smart technology imo. And the firm and softness options are separate to for both people. One can have it soft while the other is harder. 8 sleep is not worth it at all with all the options on the market now. God bless
Really liked this video. I sleep hot too but this sounds like an awful solution.
This was such a great review. But there's another thing that wasn't touched on for Eight Sleep, a negative factor that once you know the truth, will keep you from buying one. EMF (electro magnetic frequency) in the form of bluetooth and/or WIFI is damaging to the human body...but never moreso than at night when you are sleeping. The body communicates through small electrical impulses and WIFI interrupts those impulses. You should never sleep with the phone next to your bed unless it's in airplane mode. And worse, you should never, ever charge the phone next to where you sleep. You'd be shocked how much dirty electricity comes off the charging cable which can be measured with a meter. So the fact the Eight Sleep requires WIFI/bluetooth runs counter to anything it happens to be doing for you. Your sleeping area in particular should be as EMF free as possible in order to secure a good night's deep sleep.
In addition, blue wavelength light (which is what comes off your phone) shuts off Melatonin production in the brain and cells! So the fact that Eight Sleep requires you to click your phone on in the middle of the night, AND even have it next to you for 'easy' access, shows me that they have no clue what they're doing when it comes to sleep. They F'd themselves in more ways than one for anyone who knows what's what. Sorry not sorry Eight Sleep.
wait you have to pay a daily subscription fee after you alreadyy bought it??? bruh
Monthly, but yes
For the first twelve months, yes. Monthly, or up-front paid in full.
@@IllisiaAdams ohhh that makes more sense i thought it was like constantly pay forever typa thing my faith is restored for the eight sleep
A lot of the functionality is behind a “pay forever” subscription. It’s just mandatory for the first year then optional after that
@@DylanHongTech i see thanks for informing me definitely getting an investment down to get an eight sleep in the near future
At around $2500 to start, AND subscription? The have lost ther mind.
They were bought by a money-grubbing hedge fund and that's why they're scamming us for a subscription. Has nothing to do with making a better product. Has all to do with the original owner selling out to a money grubbing corporation. Don't support this. There are other alternatives
Got ya covered sleep without a blanket on a normal mattress lol
Not buying after all. Thanks for honest review.
imagine paying over $3.5k for a bedsheet cover and have to pay another $40 per month just to use almost all of it's features XD just a pure joke
I think the main issue is the price. This is clearly and overpriced product.
That was my thought. My husband is a wounded warrior who has damage to the part of his brain that regulates temperature and I would LOVE this to help him, but it’s out of our financial reach. Hopefully it will maybe become more common and affordable in the future.
@@irishamericanpinupdoll I know for a fact it’s an overpriced product. I have my own private label products on Amazon and this product should not cost anywhere close to the price they are offering it for. It should be a crime to overcharge customers 5000%. Their blanket shouldn’t cost more than a few hundreds dollars. The device itself shouldn’t be more than $400.
Dude, chill! It is just a mattress. There are more important things in life to care about.
You know what that's really shity they should have refunded the cover price. You should sprayed it with water hydrogen peroxide and isopropyl alcohol and donated it to somebody
Monthly subscription? No thanks.
This looks like such a ridiculously over engineered product. So normal mattresses aren’t good anymore? Marketing exercise for money-grabbing gimmickry. 😅
Dude, what’s with the haircut? Barber died?
you complaint so much in this video and bring up issues that like obviously have to be addressed but are not issues...like adjusting the vibration setting. OBVIOUSLY. Like setting up your alarm volume.
Was thinking the same but then I thought, it's his issue and he wants to give his reasonings which you can't really argue about to be fair
Do you work for the company? Having to pay a subscription and not being able to adjust it if you leave the subscription? It's disgusting. Total rip-off. Apparently they were bought by a big hedge fund who is pushing for more and more money. Has nothing to do with developing the product. All too often reviewers just spew. Good stuff and don't tell you about the bad because they're getting the thing for free or whatever. It. I really would love one of these things but I am not getting wrapped up in a subscription. I'll buy an alternative
This is a review, he is pointing out all the issues not complaining. Super thorough review.
Please delete this review and redo it with the Pod 4. This review is totally out of date
No, I came here to look at the review for older model because I thought about buying a used one from someone else upgrading. Definitely glad this is up.
@@KyleBaker do it. Best purchase of my life
@@magnusred2945 yeah isnt Pod 4 a lot softer?
@@RAJohnson713 no idea, I have a Pod 2 and love it
Thanks for this video! 🩷