Ikea Sale

Smoggy

Now im not sure if I should post this, but to me ikea is a cheap / reasonable quality furniture company. So thier sale can only be a good thing :

http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/store/dublin/sale

Sale starts 27th Dec for 6 days.

twenty8

Thinking of going today. Anyone been there yet today or yesterday?? Was wondering if sale is any good or if there are big crowds.

quilmore

we were there yesterday
crowd not bigger than average
offers almost non existing
very few items were discounted by a small margin, usually slow sellers, all big guns weren't discounted

zing

Was there yesterday too and pretty much as quilmore said. Was very disappointed by the range of items included in the sale.

confuzed

Never liked Ikea anyway.
Really cheap stuff, cheap in price and cheap in quality too.

monkeyfudge

Yep. Nothing really discounted.

Some of the daily specials aren't bad. I got the €47 coffee table on Sunday and it's very good.

Smoggy

I went yesterday as well and im ashamed I posted this

sorry for wasting anyones time - worst sale ever

The only thing that is worth a mention again is the dailys :

http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/store/dublin/sale

FakePlasticMan

Is it just me or are ALL the sales this year pretty dismal.

Even online stores like Play and Sendit are pretty crap.

Or maybe it's just post Christmas blues on my part ;-)

T-Square

confuzed wrote: »

Never liked Ikea anyway.
Really cheap stuff, cheap in price and cheap in quality too.

Don't agree

quilmore

T-Square wrote: »

Don't agree

same here
all I have is well made, machined to perfection and solid
I'm talking about 4 large pieces of furniture plus several small ones

you end up spending more than you think you'll spend when you add on the bits that go inside the big wardrobes/cabinets, but quality wise they're superb

Smoggy

Ikea gets knocked for quality and unfairly in my opinion. Most items like the sofas have a 10 year guarentee and the kitchens have a 25 year guarentee. They must be confident of the quality to offer these guarentees.

Morgans

Yep. They know what they do and they do it well. Would have saved myself lots of money over the years had I checked to see if what I needed was stocked in IKEA before purchasing. Im always suspicious of people knocking its quality, as I have never had any problem in that front.

monkeyfudge

Very pleased with the quality too.

It's only crap if you don't build it correctly.

Love the chocolate bars too.

P. Breathnach

monkeyfudge wrote: »

It's only crap if you don't build it correctly.

Love the chocolate bars too.

Are the chocolate bars difficult to build correctly?

T-Square

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Very pleased with the quality too.

It's only crap if you don't build it correctly.

Love the chocolate bars too.

+1

The roast onion + hot dogs + buns
are very good too

@Bretnack, the hot dogs are hard to assemble if you are simple

cotoole

... cheap and all that, though their Liatorp table (219e) disintegrated on us. Little cracks would get in the surface, and then the material underneath would bloom up like fungus. The table is less than a year old, but is a disaster.

yoshytoshy

I had something from ikea fall apart on me aswell. It was a budget piece of furniture though ,lillberg two seater or something.

Basically one of the important parts of wood ,was actually two pieces glued together, it broke.

Just be weary that you get what you pay for.

T-Square

Would you be able to bring them back under guarantee?

cotoole

Old problem, can't find the receipt (though no-one esle supplies this table), so they don't know how old it is. Anyway, I bought in Belfast, and am not driving up there and run the risk of being told that I have no recourse. It's a sizable table, and a lot of effort.

Which I suppose is the part that annoys me. This isn't an old ikea complaint from someone who can't put stuff together. The part that is destroyed is two large pieces with no 'working parts', that was destroyed because the paint protection they used in construction was inadequate.

Anyway, be warned, don't buy a Liatorp pedestal table.....