IKEA
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Rant time :) Thursday night is late night shopping here with most shops open till about 9 or 10 pm. Last night I was dragged, kicking and screaming, to IKEA by my girlfriend. $650 later and we have a living room full of boxes that I had to drag up 4 flights of stairs. Guess what my weekend is now going to entail? I tried to convince her that as we both make a good living and were not strugling students anymore that we can actually afford to buy real furniture. You know, the kind that gets delivered in one piece. The worst thing about IKEA is not the people who bring 5 screaming, hungry kids, the rock bottom quality, the assembly nightmare, the endless repetative 'beech effect' furniture, the fact that once your in the shop you cant get out without seeing the entire place, the lack of toilets, the inability to have a ciggy half way through, its finally getting to the end, finding the correct isle to get the box you want and seeing that lovely sign that says "Out of stock". What are you supposed to do? go back to the start to find another TV stand you like and then go see if its in stock? come back another day, go throught the whole experiance again and hope they have it? Or just take your money elseware? How hard is it to put an out of stock sign on the item in the actual show room? I got $50 bucks that says next thursday Im going to hear the words "Sweetie, did you want to go back to IKEA tonight and see if they have the stuff we wanted?, we could have the meat balls for dinner"
Yeah, but the meatballs taste goooood... Jon
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Josh Gray wrote:
You serious?
Yup.
Josh Gray wrote:
It really is an experiance like nothing else.
I can't wait. :~ It seems there are none where I live (in Louisiana). I just never heard of it before.
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I've never been in IKEA. As a dyed-in-the-wool coder, i feel it's appropriate to make furniture as it's needed. Out of whatever wood is cheap. Without measuring properly. And using all the wrong tools. Thus, i can be confident that the desk my computer sits on is as sturdy and reliable as the code running above it... ;)
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Shog9 wrote:
i feel it's appropriate to make furniture as it's needed
Ditto, I have a book shelves made up from some left over 2x4's. It works and will hold a few hundred pounds worth of books.
Shog9 wrote:
Out of whatever wood is cheap. Without measuring properly. And using all the wrong tools.
Get a little help from here The New Yankee Workshop [^]
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Rant time :) Thursday night is late night shopping here with most shops open till about 9 or 10 pm. Last night I was dragged, kicking and screaming, to IKEA by my girlfriend. $650 later and we have a living room full of boxes that I had to drag up 4 flights of stairs. Guess what my weekend is now going to entail? I tried to convince her that as we both make a good living and were not strugling students anymore that we can actually afford to buy real furniture. You know, the kind that gets delivered in one piece. The worst thing about IKEA is not the people who bring 5 screaming, hungry kids, the rock bottom quality, the assembly nightmare, the endless repetative 'beech effect' furniture, the fact that once your in the shop you cant get out without seeing the entire place, the lack of toilets, the inability to have a ciggy half way through, its finally getting to the end, finding the correct isle to get the box you want and seeing that lovely sign that says "Out of stock". What are you supposed to do? go back to the start to find another TV stand you like and then go see if its in stock? come back another day, go throught the whole experiance again and hope they have it? Or just take your money elseware? How hard is it to put an out of stock sign on the item in the actual show room? I got $50 bucks that says next thursday Im going to hear the words "Sweetie, did you want to go back to IKEA tonight and see if they have the stuff we wanted?, we could have the meat balls for dinner"
I guess 90% of our home is made in IKEA-land. We bought most of our kitchen cabinets there, even. Whether IKEA-design is nice or not is of course a matter of taste and nothing else. And as we say in Sweden: "Taste is like your buttocks - split down the middle". I find the value for money ratio at IKEA extremely high, but the quality is varying. Some of the stuff is top-notch, some of it is rock-bottom. Perhaps the reason is that the stuff isn't manufactured in one place. One factory's got good quality, but the next one doesn't give a hoot in hell about quality. Or so it seems. Food is OK (and cheap) and they've got kindergarten that the kids really like. No, the only thing that really really REALLY pisses me off about IKEA is the "Out of stock" thing you mention. Let me tell you a story: A month ago I went to IKEA to get a few things, one of them was a roller blind. The one I wanted was out of stock. That was really OK with me, I didn't get upset at all - one of the reasons that the stuff is so cheap is that they don't keep much of it in stock - keeping stuff in stock costs money. (Keeping stuff assembled in stock costs even more money. Another reason why it's so cheap.) OK, so I asked a guy there when new roller blinds would show up. "In two weeks" he said. OK, no problem. So two weeks later I go to their website and check that particular roller blind - is it in stock? "Yes", says their website - it's in stock. Great! So I go there to buy it. Is it in stock? F***ING HELL IT IS!!!! That is not OK. So I go see some other guy (or girl) to see what they have to say: - Oh no it's been out of stock for over a month now. - But your web page says it's in stock. [Restrained anger] - Ok let's check the stock .... yeah you're right it says that we've still got two items in stock, but that's not correct. [ Angry staring moment ] - And when will they show up? [Less restrained anger] - In two weeks. - But that's what you said two weeks ago!!!! [Unrestrained anger] :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: How hard can it be to improve that web page they've got so that it doesn't just say Yes and No but gives you a number of items left? Or even better - an estimate 0 - 100% of how likely it is that there really is one item left when you get there? My estimate is that it would take one guy one week, at the most. COME ON!!!! /Simon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I haven't a clue what IKEA is
You serious? Its the world largest furniture chain. Started in Swedon I think. At one point the owner was the worlds richest person. Everything comes flat packed in boxes and you have to get it home and assemble it yourself. It really is an experiance like nothing else. www.ikea.com.au[^]
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:laugh: I like my furniture the way i like my women - on the floor, not moving. Er, wait... :doh:
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You went unsavaged for that? Trollslayer must be on holiday.... Iain.
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Nish, You could try The Brick(canadian) or La-z-boy(American), or if you lived in Vancouver try United Boulevard in Coquitlam, The whole area is swarmed with different furniture stores. - Rob
Robert Buldoc wrote:
The Brick(canadian)
Ah, I didn't know they deliver pre-assembled furniture. Thanks Robert.
Regards, Nish
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It's about the same stuff (maybe slightly better) that you can get at Walmart.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
Ouch. :laugh:
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Josh Gray wrote:
You serious?
Yup.
Josh Gray wrote:
It really is an experiance like nothing else.
I can't wait. :~ It seems there are none where I live (in Louisiana). I just never heard of it before.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
It seems there are none where I live (in Louisiana). I just never heard of it before.
YOU LUCKY, LUCKY MAN! You cannot even imagine how much I do envy you... Here in Italy an actor became very populer with his slogan "Nooo, not at the Ikea again!!!" Looks like Mr. Ikea has signed a contract with the devil, since Ikea is VERY popular among women, and unpopular among men
Marco Turrini
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
It seems there are none where I live (in Louisiana). I just never heard of it before.
YOU LUCKY, LUCKY MAN! You cannot even imagine how much I do envy you... Here in Italy an actor became very populer with his slogan "Nooo, not at the Ikea again!!!" Looks like Mr. Ikea has signed a contract with the devil, since Ikea is VERY popular among women, and unpopular among men
Marco Turrini
MarcoTurrini wrote:
You cannot even imagine how much I do envy you...
:laugh: Oh, I've dealt with my fair shar of Walmart furniture though, so I can at least somewhat feel your pain.
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