Ikea Xmas Tree's only €25 (Get €20 voucher)

ChickenBalls

While we were all distracted with Black Friday IKEA sneaked in the usual Xmas Tree deal except this year you get better value - it was €30 previously now only €25 plus the €20 voucher - link below

http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/ikea/christmas-trees/

muckety

Did anyone get this tree before, are they nice? Size?

jonny_b

Saw them yesterday. They looked the part. I was raging I had no space in the car to carry it. For the price and the voucher that's an amazing bargain

Slutmonkey57b

The ones I saw were awful. Small, and essentially bare from half way up. You'd be better off letting a large nettle grow in your garden all year.

pjproby

Bought them for the last two years, they are small and well formed. in my experience its hard to pick a bad one.

eimsRV

pjproby wrote: »

Bought them for the last two years, they are small and well formed. in my experience its hard to pick a bad one.

I've had the same experience the last two years, will be getting mine there this year again hopefully

Kevin!

Slutmonkey57b wrote: »

The ones I saw were awful. Small, and essentially bare from half way up. You'd be better off letting a large nettle grow in your garden all year.

It depends on your luck of catching them when the orders have just been delivered

oppenheimer1

muckety wrote: »

Did anyone get this tree before, are they nice? Size?

They are imported trees, so they've been cut a while. No smell off them and it will be as dry and brown as kindling come Christmas day - if it even gets that far. I threw mine out the week before Christmas last year. And I did water it before anyone asks.

Not worth the €25 imo.

xpletiv

Completely disagree with oppenheimer... ive had these last 2 years, and last year from 30th November. Didnt dry up or go bad before Xmas day (in fact was only a bit crispy come Jan 6th...) and well, well, well worth the 25 euro.

Note with Ikea trees youre going to get them about 5-6 feet tall at most and they may need a bit of a trim to get shape, but definitely worth the money.

simonw

We got one the weekend, they seem a little smaller than last year, I'd say 5.5ft, which is probably why the price dropped, but we got a nice shaped one, and there's a lovely smell of pine off it. I'd buy it again even without the voucher tbh - bargain

cruhoortwunk

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

They are imported trees, so they've been cut a while. No smell off them and it will be as dry and brown as kindling come Christmas day - if it even gets that far. I threw mine out the week before Christmas last year. And I did water it before anyone asks.

Not worth the €25 imo.

Completely disagree. Got one of thiers the last few years and they were fine and healthy well after christmas day.

delahuntv

For me, I much prefer to buy a tree off a local grower or one of the guys selling at carparks - it just a nice way of contributing directly to someone else's Christmas.

Ikea make enough profit (and fair play to them and I love their store), but sometimes its so much better to support local.

hatchman

delahuntv wrote:

For me, I much prefer to buy a tree off a local grower or one of the guys selling at carparks - it just a nice way of contributing directly to someone else's Christmas.

At least IKEA are tax compliant

groom

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

They are imported trees, so they've been cut a while. No smell off them and it will be as dry and brown as kindling come Christmas day - if it even gets that far. I threw mine out the week before Christmas last year. And I did water it before anyone asks.

Not worth the €25 imo.

I would feel the complete opposite of this. Have gotten them the last 2 years and they are perfect the whole time up to when I chuck it out cos it's not Xmas anymore - 27th

And the net cost is €5 after using the voucher, not €25

groom

delahuntv wrote: »

For me, I much prefer to buy a tree off a local grower or one of the guys selling at carparks - it just a nice way of contributing directly to someone else's Christmas.

Ikea make enough profit (and fair play to them and I love their store), but sometimes its so much better to support local.

This is the Bargain Alerts forum

quilmore

delahuntv wrote: »

Ikea make enough profit

€25 at selling point plus a €20 for you on store credit leaves Ikea to have to profit from €5 euro, I don't think there is much to profit from that and probably they'll lose money on the trees (trying to lure you to spend on what you didn't want to buy, but that's a story for another day)

trees were fine for the last 2 years, I'm getting one from them this year too

nthside_cycle

hatchman wrote: »

At least IKEA are tax compliant

Some interesting articles online about Ikea and tax so i have a read this one before commenting on a small trader of trees and his/her tax compliance.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/11/02/how-ikea-billionaire-legally-avoided-taxes-from-1973-until-2015/

Tazz T

nthside_cycle wrote: »

Some interesting articles online about Ikea and tax so i have a read this one before commenting on a small trader of trees and his/her tax compliance.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/11/02/how-ikea-billionaire-legally-avoided-taxes-from-1973-until-2015/

True and a good point. But, more relevantly, they are one of the few companies that pay the 'living wage' instead of 'minimum wage' which will make a big difference to the families of people who work there over Xmas.

Kathy22

We have gotten these for the past 2 years and they have been a nice shape and size. You do need to get there early in the day to get a good one. Ours lasted fine until after Christmas. Planning on heading up this weekend to have a look. We moved to our new house this year so hoping they are big enough, the last 2 years we were in an apartment and they were the perfect size.

JustAThought

Great news - i bought one with the deal 2 years back - I have very high (13ft) cealings so you notice when you have a smaller tree but at that price I'm quite happy to get an orangecrate from Lidl/aldi & cover it in Christmas paper & stand the stand in that to make it up to 8 ft - I love this deal - e25 for the tree - cheapest I'vefound so far us e50 & the majority are 60/70/80/90 - which is ok if you're not watching costs.

I used the voucher to buy Orchids as presents for my post Christmas relations visits - they do beautiful ones there so I saved on my shopping list too. V happy!

I wonder do they accept the voucher for the hotdogs!! ?

unkel

Saw the trees last week and all the ones I could see were nice, good shape, full trees. Very small though, most were 1.5 - 2m high. We prefer a 3m high tree

Still a great deal if a small tree will do you...

positron

I was at IKEA earlier this morning (for Santa), and there was a sign at the entrance saying Christmas trees are SOLD OUT.

Just in case if anyone is considering going up there..!

StaticNoise

1000 trees due in tomorrow morning. It might be the last batch for the year as the weather is affecting shipments.

FobleAsNuck

can you spend the voucher straight away or is it valid at certain days?

RobertFoster

FobleAsNuck wrote: »

can you spend the voucher straight away or is it valid at certain days?

It's only valid be between 18/01/2016 and 07/02/2016.

JustAThought

I was also up there waiting for the 10am opening and yes - the weather was affecting the trees - they said they couldn't get the shioment delivered from the docks because of the storm - but they said that they were expecting to have new sets of treea delivered every day so don't panic!

deiseindublin

Loads there this afternoon but they looked a bit short to me!

Judford Swanks

Was up in IKEA this morning and they are completely sold out, and they won't be getting any more christmas trees in.

RobertFoster

RobertFoster wrote: »

It's only valid be between 18/01/2016 and 07/02/2016.

Just a reminder that the vouchers can be used now.