After reading through this forum, I decided to go with FoamByMail with price being the determining factor. Beanies and BillBs setup also helped convince since I'm also on a budget.

SleepEz looked like the least expensive site that I found via this forum with clean/new looking cores, but it's more that twice the price of FBM. $1800 vs $800. I know that if I had found a vendor to buy Latex International latex cores, I probably would have gone down that road.

I also tried out Ikea's Erjford - too firm. It felt like dunlop and what they used wasn't a soft core. I like the Engines better. It was listed as medium but I think 5" inches or so of latex felt like too little. It was bottoming out if I sat on it and I weigh 155lb.

It looks like Talalay is the way to go. For me, I think that in order to not "feel" the slats, about 7-8" core and 2" topper would be a minimum. Unfortunately for that much latex, I couldn't find anything less than sleepez's 10000.

Where can we find 3" Talalay latex blended cores for less than what SleepEZ offers? If someone finds out, please post here. I think 3" for under $400 would be an ideal internet buyer value/price comfort level.

3 cores that are 3" and a 1" or 2" 16 ILD super soft latex topper seems like the ideal configuration. That's my 2 cents on this.

Have you checked out foamorder.com? They have dunlop, natural talalay and blended talalay in different sizes and ILDs. They'll cut custom sizes and prices look pretty good. I'm not sure if they carry Latex Int'l.