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Tip or not / IKEA delivery ?

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  • #32
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I paid 20 euro to Powercity to bring a TV 4km to me

    75 euro sounds like robbery


  • #33
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    hfallada wrote: »
    I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the delivery man is probably getting paid **** all. If your local pizza place charges a €3 delivery charge. Do you honestly think the driver is getting that €3? They are probably on €8,65 an hour and never see a cent of the delivery charge.

    Like wise the ikea delivery guy isn't getting a cut of the delivery charge and ikea is probably a middle man for the delivery service ( I imagine its outsourced like UPCs maintainance is outsourced)

    What he's getting paid, or whether he gets any of the delivery charge, is irrelevant to me. If I tipped him, why not tip cashiers, or even Gardai walking down the street?


  • #34
    Mrs W
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭Mrs W


    €75 is extortionate! Most of the furniture companies use external delivery services and that's the price they charge so I definitely wouldn't be tipping.

    A friend of mine bought a bed in Harvey Norman and they were looking €50 to deliver it, they lived about 500m from the store and had just paid 1300 for a bed....


  • #35
    Limecube
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭Limecube


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Just out of curiosity, what kind of phone have you got OP?

    Your digging at me, cause i typed "iPhone"? I'm a full time iOS developer; swimming in the ****ing things. For me iphone == mobile phone == deployment platform for code I write at work. So what?


  • #36
    Limecube
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭Limecube


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    Is it flat pack? Call a large taxi 10-15 squid.

    WHY didn't I think of that? That would have worked. The boxes were pretty big, but a "wheelchair taxi" would have taken them. Doh!


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  • #37
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Tip em to bring it upstairs and take the boxes away.

    Otherwise save your money.

    "Thanks lads, any chance that you could bring that up, there's a decent drink in it for ya"


  • #38
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Hire a van and spend the better part of your day and your friends day for the guts of what? €20?

    You don't put much value on your free time do you?

    To go through all that hassle for such a small saving is ridiculous.

    I wouldn't hire a van myself as I have access to a van ;)


  • #39
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Limecube wrote: »
    Your digging at me, cause i typed "iPhone"? I'm a full time iOS developer; swimming in the ****ing things. For me iphone == mobile phone == deployment platform for code I write at work. So what?

    Here's one, how can you tell if someone on an internet forum is a developer....they'll tell you :P


  • #40
    onemanandhisvan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭onemanandhisvan


    Limecube wrote: »
    Also, breaking news: IKEA really isn't that cheap. And its a pain in the ass to buy large item like this from. Had to carry couch myself off of the shelves. Asked for assistance but told that its not given for this item. Item weights 118kg. Felt heavy enough to me anyways!. Dragged it through self-checkout. Then down to delivery desk. Waiting around for 20 mins for someone to show up. Paid €75. Normal furniture shop from now on, I think.

    I agree that €75 is a bit much for such a short delivery considering you had to do all the shopping yourself. I've been operating a shopping and delivery service in the west of Ireland for 6 years now and would charge around the same for a sofa, only I do the shopping for the customer also, meaning they don't even have to travel to the store.
    If I had the in-house delivery service in Ikea I would make some major changes to their pricing in favour of the customer. My minimum delivery charge is only €25 to the west and that's for shopping as well! Ikea's is €120 to the west regardless of order size... Reform is definitely required.


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