About BedBoy
BedBoy compares the mattresses, beds and sleep products you can buy from British retailers. We don’t sell any of them. There are three of us, and we read the specifications, the retailer’s small print and the customer reviews so you don’t have to, score everything against the same published rubric, and put a name on every page. That’s the whole operation.
Who runs BedBoy
Giselle Green founded BedBoy in 2020, after years of buying mattresses, returning them and buying again because the beds never matched what the marketing promised. She’d had enough. It started as a private record of what worked and what the spec sheets left out, mostly so she’d stop making the same mistake twice.
There are three of us running it now. Giselle is Editor in Chief and covers price, furniture and the family end of the catalogue. Gary Ferguson writes construction and materials, so springs, foams, frames and what a slat gap does to a warranty. Monika Sharma is Senior Editor and takes the body side: sleep position, pillows, duvets, and the categories where the marketing outruns the evidence.
Every product page carries one of those three names and the date it was last checked. Nobody here writes anonymously.
How we score
Categories are matched to the product type, so a mattress gets marked on ten and a headboard on six. It wouldn’t make much sense any other way. A mattress covers comfort, pressure relief, edge support, motion isolation, heat retention, durability, off-gassing and value, plus the retailer’s guarantee and what owners rated it. The BedBoy Score is the plain average of whichever apply, with nothing weighted above anything else.
Treat it as a sorting tool rather than a verdict. It’s useful for putting two mattresses next to each other, and it won’t pick one for you. Once you know which single category your back and your shoulders care about, go and read that instead. How We Score carries the definitions, the sources and the refresh cadence.
What we don’t do
We don’t sleep on mattresses for a fortnight and then write it up, and there’s no test lab behind any of this. Scores come from manufacturer specifications and pooled customer reviews, and where a sample is too thin to score a category honestly, it’s left blank rather than guessed.
Brands can’t pay to move a score, to appear, or to be removed. Sponsored placements carry a label at the top and the bottom of the page and sit outside the scored programme entirely. We’ve had the conversation and it doesn’t go anywhere.
How BedBoy makes money
The money comes from affiliate commission: click an outbound link, buy something, and the retailer pays us a percentage of the sale. You pay what you’d have paid going direct, so it costs you nothing to use us.
That income covers editorial time and hosting. It buys no score and no placement, and the affiliate disclaimer sets out which retailers pay us and on what terms.
When we get it wrong
We fix it and we show what changed. Corrections sit at the top of the page with the date on them, and there’s a running list on Corrections.
Every active product gets re-checked at least once a year, and a page comes down when the product is discontinued or changed. If you land on one for something that no longer exists, tell us and it’ll go. If something looks wrong and we can’t settle it between us, the ICO handles data and privacy complaints and the ASA handles advertising.
Contact
Spotted an error, an out-of-date price or a broken link? Email the editorial team at [email protected].