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I'll kick off.

two weekends ago we went to IKEA to buy a bed for The Boy, to replace the one that disintegrated when his girlfriend started staying over. We were informed that the bed was not held in-store but at a warehouse a few streets away. No problem. It was waiting for us when we arrived. One of the flat packs was too big to fit in the car in one piece but the bits would fit if we put them in singly. On unpacking we found one of the panels to be damaged. Everything was re-packed and taken back into the warehouse. The guy claimed that returns had to be done at the main store. He hadn't met Souvette before but he was a quick learner. The replacement turned out to have the same problem. The third attempt seemed OK. It was a doddle to put the bed together. Building the drawers was another matter. All the side panels were right-hand. Last Saturday we went back to IKEA with all the drawer bits. The nice guy at the returns desk told us to just give him three panels; he'd open up another pack and gave us the left-hand ones. Ah, out of stock. What about the opened ones at the warehouse? By now they have been trashed. However, a new delivery is expected this week and he'll open one up and have the bits sent to us by courier. Good customer service.

What gets me about this is that the store has enough bits to compile and re-pack probably two beds. Instead, it will trash three partial beds. IKEA's mark-up must be enormous if it can do that. No wonder Mr IKEA is one of the world's wealthiest people.

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A couple who were round our house the other day were leaving from us to go to Ikea.

She didn't seem to mind going.

He kept referring to it as the Satanic Furniture Store.

.....not a big fan then I gathered.

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I've just bought some house stuff at the one in MI. Apart from a few bog-standard bookcases we ordered online, this is the first time I've shopped there in about 7yrs.

I mainly bought stuff we already had - wanted another shoe rack to match an old one, more of those coathangers, etc. - and the quality drop over those 7yrs is amazing if you compare. They *look* the same, ish, but the current ones are just a bit sh*t. The coathanger wood is rough now, and no longer has cut-out notches for dress loops, the shoerack ends come in 2 bits instead of one, the cutouts are welded on squint so you can't get the rack straight no matter what, it's a slightly crapper paint job...

I've got a bench shoe rack thing to take back too, it had 2 left ends. Good job they give you 3mths to return goods, I can't face another trip anytime soon!

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You sound like a very modern father then??:p

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I once bought a chair at IKEA.

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I've had the pleasure of never being in any IKEA...thank goodness from these posts!:rofl:

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Nah.

They may be 18/17 but they're basically adults. She's a grade A student and off to Concordia, as well as being a ski instructor. He's spending the Summer as a lifeguard at a kids day camp. I think it fairly safe to say that they are responsible enough to be allowed to sleep together. They'll do the thing anyway. They may as well do it somewhere comfortable.

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Toally agree with you, they'll only find somewhere else to do it ;)
We have 4 teenagers :eek: but most of our friends think we are too laid back with them, seems to me they've forgot what its like to be young:)

Rosie

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we shop at Jysk, Ikealite.

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Teenagers believe that they were delivered by a stork. The possibility that parents might have, well, you know, is just, like, gross. If the teenagers knew what parents got up to, given the rare chance, they'd be in therapy.

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My teenage years are long behind me - even now the thought that my parents might have, well, you know, is just, like, gross.

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I'll buck the trend slightly.

We recently furnished the kids rooms - and bought them each a bed, chest of drawers, bedside cabinet and bookshelf thingy. All went together properly, they had the right number of sides, panels, screws and everything. Gobsmacked !

I won't go anytime soon, in case of breaking this weird run of good fortune ! :p

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:rofl::rofl: We were camping a few of years ago 1 of ours asked why is the tent shaking:ohmy:, the next time we went camping the kids had their own tents we had ours:thumbsup: :rofl:

Rosie

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If only Jysk existed in UK. Found loads of bargains at Jysk, especially for the horse, back in Sweden.

I love IKEA stuff. I get confused going to IKEA here in UK as everything is in Swedish and so am I. I keep trying to talk swedish with the staff. The fodd shop guessed frst time that I'm swedish as I stocked up on all the stuff I miss from back home.

Ah! Having said that. I better get myself another Kalles Kaviar sandwich tonight.

:-)

Ps. AVoid IKEA, any IKEA, on a weekend unless you are a masochist.

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Three years back, we moved from a small flat into a nice big 3 bed house and had to buy all manner of things from cooker and fridge and washer and dryer and then all the furniture to fill the rooms - so the furniture all came from IKEA. I must say we found stuff we liked, and it wasn't too hard to put together, and is holding out quite well 3 years on (and we've moved again). Have been back a few times for a few other little things and I am quite happy with IKEA.
The Wembley Store in North London is huge and always so busy which I hate, but I keep breathing and eventually get home in one piece.

Rob.

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Yeah I know, I saw their website!

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Okay, now I know your joking. My dad's vcr is still flashing 12:00

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:rofl::rofl:

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I *heart* IKEA.
They have good food and good service, and in my many years as an IKEA-shopper, I've never had any trouble putting anything together. I had a piece on my futon break (my own fault), and got it replaced, no questions asked.

YYZlover - I bought kanelgifflar there the other day - yummmmm. :D

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I have a bed and two units from Ikea.

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:rofl:. Thats naughty :p;)

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It was all done in THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE!

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Well, no wonder! He's probably too busy uploading erotic imagery!

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Well, I'm not sure how erotic it would be. It may do it for some I guess.

Don't send me the url.

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IKEA always reminds me of this:

Twenty or so years ago, my then boyfriend and I decided to buy a small dining table and some chairs from IKEA (there use to be an IKEA in Victoria by it closed up a long time ago). We walked there, found the table and chairs and got it all home by borrowing the big bike tricycle and trailer thingy they had for people who didn't have cars.

Got home, put it all together and over a nice meal we made (well BF made) , we talked about what we wanted to do that summer. We decided that we did not want to get domesticated and that instead, we wanted to hitch hike across Canada.

So next day, we took apart the table and chairs, repacked them, went borrowed the tricycle thing and took it all back to IKEA. With the refunded money we went and bought two huge backpacks. Then we both quit our jobs, put our belongings into storage and off we were thumbing on TCH 1 within a week. :thumbup: And had a top-notch summer!

Yeah, kinda sappy, but true.

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Hmmmm, they must have closed the IKEA in Victoria about 20 minutes before I moved there. Where was it?

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On the corner of Yates and Vancouver... kitty-corner from London Drugs. I think the building houses a Moxie's now. I'm trying to remember when they shut it... it must have been the early 90s. Not sure.

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HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I used to work in the factory that makes them. Loooooong time ago. Mainly I worked with "Skorpor" but every so often they'd send me over to "kanelgifflar" as well.

Hot out of the oven they rock big time.

Zap them for a coule of seconds in the nuke and you know what I'm on about.

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Wow! Did you get to eat as many as you wanted? And did you weigh 400 pounds? I know I would. ;)

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Well, the rule was that we were not to eat the merch - but we did.

Night shift was the best one. One line did the soft flat bread. Perfect pizza size. So one would bring cheese, another some ham, each basically brought some sort of topping.

Then half way down the oven (all bread go through ovens on conveyor belts) open hatch, pull out a half baked piece of flat bread, prep it with the topping. Move to the opening of the oven, put it back on the belt. Go down to the hatch, open every so often to not miss it and pull out perfecty baked pizza when it comes 'round. YUM!

I still love Skorpor.

Funny, I quite enjoyed the work. It was well payed, I normally got varied tasks as I was quite mcanically apt so always got placed at packing machines that were playing up as I could do most fixes without having to call the mechanic.

Aprt from when I got a finger stuck in a 2mm gap between two steel plates and they had to take the machine apart to get me unstuck, then drive me to A&E for x-rays. Only soft tissue damage, no cracks or fissure. Basically tore off most of the tendons and ligaments. I was back at work in a couple of days. Company nurse was livid and was going to send me home. I wasn't having any of that.

Pinky finger still doesn't function as it should. Doesn't help much that I also cut it wide open about ten years later when doing dishes by hand late one evening. Another trip to A&E and 4 stitches.

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That's terrible, how do you drink tea?:lol:

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Firmly curled up and tucked away so not to get stuck in anything. I learnt my lesson very quickly.

:)

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:rofl:

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If you have a few hours to kill, the best thing at Ikea is the free show.....

We often grab a hot dog and sit outside the store on the bench near the customer loading area and play "guess if it will fit in their car". Its absolutely hilarious watching some bloke trying to fit three flat pack wardrobes and a pot plant into his Audi TT!!!

(Oh yes, and we also had a bedside table that had two left hand sides and we had to queue at returns for an hour and a half, resulting in an Ikea amnesty for about three years)

Flossie

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When my oldest daughter was a baby, she puked every single time we went to IKEA.

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My husband still does this! :sneaky:

New Ikea catalogue out tomorrow folks :eek: