I did a lot of research on the Purple mattress. I read tons of positive and negative reviews and watched some Youtube videos to find out what real people thought. I've suffered with back pain, sciatica and plantar fasciitis for quite some time. I decided to order the Purple Mattress and platform base in October. We've been sleeping on it for about 6 weeks now. Is it firm? Not exactly. Is it soft? Not exactly. Is it for everyone? Apparently not as there are negative reviews. However, it's just right for both of us. Our expensive Sealy Posture King pillow top mattress was about 8 years old and had big indentations. I'd roll towards my husband at night in 'the hole' and wake up stiff and sore with headaches all the time. For the past 2 years, when I get out of bed, I sort of limp/hobble to the bathroom with painful stiff feet. After the 1st night of sleeping on the Purple mattress I realized that I got out of bed and walked normally. That doesn't happen every morning. It doesn't grant miracles, but it now happens more than not and that's a huge win. It's not totally motionless. If I'm awake and my husband is tossing and turning I'll feel something, but if I go to sleep before he does, I never have any idea when he went to bed. It doesn't disturb my sleep at all. With out pillow top, when he'd get in bed, I'd just about bounce out. We bought a queen with the platform base. I didn't buy the power base because I was worried we wouldn't like it and then be stuck with it, but if we ever buy another, it'll be a split king and definitely with the power base. I'd love to be able to raise my husband at night when he snores! The platform base really is as sturdy as they say it is. I know it doesn't look like much but it's engineered well and fast to setup. My kids enjoyed being able to jump on it! I also bought the mattress protector and sheets. Both were well worth the investment. The protector is high quality and stretchy. You don't notice it's on the bed. The sheets are the most awesomely stretchy softest sheets ever. I bought them before buying the mattress. They're so stretchy that they fit on my giant pillow top mattress sideways (because I managed to put the fitted sheet on wrong). Even sideways they stayed on. Normally my husband would somehow pull the fitted sheet off his side during the night. These sheets don't budge! I watched a youtube video on unpacking the mattress. A lot of people unrolled it upside down causing some extra work. It was really simple to unpack. The cutting tool had slipped down so we ended up dumping the mattress out of the sleeve instead of cutting it but that worked out just fine. We unrolled it right side up and sliced the vacuum wrap off the mattress and it pulled out easily from under it. Less than 10 minutes and it was all done. Thinking about buying? Try it! With 100 day guarantee, what do you have to lose? Peaceful sleep is waiting!