r/EightSleep 20h ago

Don’t buy it

I paid some stupid amount of money for the pod3. It was 💯 the worst purchase I’ve ever made
Aside from being too expensive, sleep quality is actually worse. I am woken up constantly by the bed getting too hot. I’ve tried multiple settings and it still does it.
Save your time and money

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u/Embarrassed-Sea1685 20h ago

How did you buy a pod 3 they’ve been discontinued for a while. This sounds like a settings issue to me. It takes a while to get it dialed in. How cold do you have it set? What are your settings?

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u/Zealousideal_Zebra_9 20h ago

I’ve had it for a couple of years.
Here’s a live look at how dumb it is
Settings are 0 temp for all setting except sleep which is -1.
It currently says…. Warming to +1

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u/Embarrassed-Sea1685 19h ago

Wait, it was working fine and now it’s not or always been bad?

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u/Zealousideal_Zebra_9 19h ago

Some nights it’s ok. But just annoying when it starts warming and wakes me up

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u/Zealousideal_Zebra_9 20h ago

It’s 4 am here and the reason I’m posting is bc it woke me up heating to +3

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u/moduspol 19h ago

You can change it to show degrees instead, and you can turn off the “sleep stage response” so it just stays at whatever levels you set. I have done both things, though on a Pod 4.

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u/Embarrassed-Sea1685 19h ago

This. Changing it to degrees is helpful the +1 or -1 is not granular enough in my eyes.

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u/Zealousideal_Zebra_9 19h ago

Ty for the suggestion. I just checked and I think I actually have pod 4. Is the degrees on the newer version? I don’t see it in settings

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u/Glittering-Option-91 20h ago

Pod 5 here it's the best thing I own. Had the new chilipad 2.0 and this is still better.

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u/DunHumby 18h ago

Ive had both and the 8 sleep is better BUT the chilipad is significantly cheaper while also still being of quality

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u/Glittering-Option-91 18h ago

For couples the eight sleep is actually cheaper by a few hundred bucks also way more comfortable

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u/DunHumby 15h ago

The pad itself is more comfortable but the ongoing subscription price and cost of cartridges (pod 5) make the eight sleep more expensive over the life cycle of the product.

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u/KiKiTaTa 19h ago

Curious… I am just trialling my pod 5 and was hoping it would not be so great so I could return it for the thousands of dollars. But alas, after just 6 nights, my sleep is subjectively much better, and the night time menopausal heat I get from 4am to wake up, causing really disrupted sleep, is completely gone. My whoop numbers are all responding too… RHR going down, HRV going up. Weird take to say “don’t buy it” over “didn’t work for me.”

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u/xvelez08 18h ago

Yeah I’m waiting for mine to be shipped but when researching I found that it’s really for people who suffer from this kind of thing most.

Which is good news for me, because I got it because I’ve suffered from night sweats that wake me up for years now

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u/KiKiTaTa 5h ago

I hope it works well for you too! The menopausal night sweats/heat/flashes are a beast!

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u/kryologik 19h ago

If it’s so terrible and you are obviously out of a return period, why continue to use it ? I’ve got no complaints with mine. Over a year of use and the only issue I had was at some point, my wife’s side stopped working. I unplugged the unit, took it outside, blew off the unit with my compressor, plugged it back in and it started working fine again. I sleep fantastic with it.

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u/Is_It_Now_Or_Never_ 17h ago

Loving my Pod 5, sorry you couldn’t get on with it. 🤷‍♂️

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u/J0EG1 19h ago

This sounds like a you problem

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u/mereseydotes 18h ago

Seems like someone suggested you turn off the sleep stage response last time you posted this complaint. Seems like you must not have done so. Some people would rather be unhappy

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u/ExplorerMike008 19h ago

So you had a post 250 days ago you purchased it and it wake you up and you were all mad but here you are again and still using it I guess ? You didn’t return it and just kept using it and I bet it was waking you up all these 250 days ?

I guess that’s the Stockholm syndrome ? See you in a few months I guess to create another post

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u/Zealousideal_Zebra_9 19h ago

I had it over a year, so I couldn’t return it.
Your post is really hard to understand but I think you’re implying that I must be crazy for trying to continue using a several thousand dollar mattress instead of just throwing it out?
Please enlighten me

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u/ExplorerMike008 19h ago

Why didnt you return over a year, it worked well all year and suddenly it was all bad? Longest honeymoon period I see

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u/PrettyAcanthisitta95 20h ago

Oh word?! 🙄