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    #32
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,239 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Angie Rough Mercury wrote: »
    17 minutes! Pah!

    Go in the exit and through the tills the wrong way straight to the warehouse, knowing exactly where what you want is, and you can be in and out in less than half that time...

    I can’t do that. I usually go with the other half because I have to ‘lift stuff’. And no short cuts, because she has to ‘look at stuff’.

    I dream of the day I can go alone. Which I won’t. Because why would I if nobody was dragging me along...

    As ye were!


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    #33
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    My sister was returning some pieces she'd bought just before lockdown. Returns were able to jump the queue. She was thrilled. Not so much the ones who didn't realise she was allowed.
    The dirty looks said it all:)


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    #34
    gogo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    Word in the street (Facebook) is that most stuff is out of stock, despite showing as available online, the only thing worse than queuing for IKEA so to get there and find that they don’t have what your looking for ...


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    #35
    rob316
    Registered Users Posts: 17,982 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I don't know why anyone would shop there at all, never mind queuing to get into the place. Absolutely appalling quality furniture and homewares, and very much operating in the sphere of the false economy. It's cheap for a reason - it's crap.

    Its far from crap, its not solid timber but its built to last a more than reasonable amount of time. My house is full of the stuff and the only time I threw something out from wear was a chest of drawers that the new dog chewed the handles off.

    Its cheap because its mass produced, not because its of bad quality.


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    #36
    Muahahaha
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    Rubberchikken wrote: »
    My sister was returning some pieces she'd bought just before lockdown. Returns were able to jump the queue. She was thrilled. Not so much the ones who didn't realise she was allowed.
    The dirty looks said it all:)


    Thats interesting. I wonder could you *cough* have something for return and then go into the main store via the tills.



    Out of all the shops that are open Ikea seems to be the one that suffers massive queues day after day. From reports it seems to be anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour plus.


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    #37
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭tscul32


    Went last Thursday after reading about short queues the previous Thursday. Anyway, got there at 6.30 and there were maybe 50 is on a queue, but by the time we'd meandered to the end of it the queue started moving and we were the last to get in in that lot. So maybe 4 minutes standing still. And straight to a till when we were paying. Going again this evening around 6pm.


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    #38
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    tscul32 wrote: »
    Went last Thursday after reading about short queues the previous Thursday. Anyway, got there at 6.30 and there were maybe 50 is on a queue, but by the time we'd meandered to the end of it the queue started moving and we were the last to get in in that lot. So maybe 4 minutes standing still. And straight to a till when we were paying. Going again this evening around 6pm.

    :eek:

    Madman!

    :D


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    #39
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭tscul32


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    :eek:

    Madman!

    :D

    Was going back for something, but just got there 5 minutes ago and on the way home again - NOT a 5 minute queue! Will wait until Thursday again. Thankfully only live 10 minutes away.


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    #40
    Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Arrived here at 9.55. Just after leaving the place now. No queues at all and skipped the showroom bit


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    #41
    NeonCookies
    Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭NeonCookies


    Planning to go on Thursday - noticed on the Ikea website it says "Please be advised that the hour between 10:00 to 12:00 is designated as a priority to our elderly and vulnerable visitors."

    Does anyone know of this means only elderly and vulnerable can enter at this time? I'm going with my parents and while my dad is a pensioner and had heart surgery last year , my mum and I (obviously!) are not. We would prefer to go earlier to avoid queues but obviously no point if we can't all go in!!!


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    #42
    Dodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    NeonCookies wrote: »
    Planning to go on Thursday - noticed on the Ikea website it says "Please be advised that the hour between 10:00 to 12:00 is designated as a priority to our elderly and vulnerable visitors."

    Does anyone know of this means only elderly and vulnerable can enter at this time? I'm going with my parents and while my dad is a pensioner and had heart surgery last year , my mum and I (obviously!) are not. We would prefer to go earlier to avoid queues but obviously no point if we can't all go in!!!

    The whole party can go in. The main queue is to the left of the main door. The priority queue will be to the right. At 10am on Saturday there was no queue at all for the priority line


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    #43
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭horse7


    ANY UPDATE ON QUEING?


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    #44
    B.A._Baracus
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    horse7 wrote: »
    ANY UPDATE ON QUEING?

    HELLO SHOUTY MAN :pac:

    I was there last Friday at 7:30/8pm and no que..


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    #45
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭horse7


    Thanks, how about 11am ish?


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    #46
    hayoc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭hayoc


    gogo wrote: »
    Word in the street (Facebook) is that most stuff is out of stock, despite showing as available online, the only thing worse than queuing for IKEA so to get there and find that they don’t have what your looking for ...

    The official word (from an IKEA staff member) is that if you choose the online ordering option you are ordering from a warehouse in the UK. The UK warehouse that ships to Ireland (its in Leicester) was suffering the effects of lockdown so the online ordering was very hit and miss from March - I was told this about a month ago.

    What you see on the website in terms of "is in stock in Dublin" is up to date and the same info shows to the IKEA staff in Carrickmines - thats showing whats in Ballymun. So if you order at the counter in Carrickmines you are ordering from Dublin, if you order online you are ordering from the UK.

    Their whole supply chain was badly affected since March and they have had a run on certain items such as desks and chairs for work from home so they may well not be back up to date with supply at this stage yet.


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    #47
    B.A._Baracus
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    horse7 wrote: »
    Thanks, how about 11am ish?

    Honestly couldn't tell you. Never been at that time.


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    #48
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,939 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    horse7 wrote: »
    Thanks, how about 11am ish?

    Cool, that works for me. It's a date!


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    #49
    Tork
    Registered Users Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭Tork


    There's a thread about the queues in the Dublin city forum https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058097953 It doesn't seem to be so bad now.


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    #50
    majo
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭majo


    Anyone know what the queue is like at opening time in Ikea St Margaret’s Road these days?


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    #51
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    majo wrote: »
    Anyone know what the queue is like at opening time in Ikea St Margaret’s Road these days?

    Was there this morning around 11am, no queue... Walked straight in


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    #52
    majo
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭majo


    Thank you!


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    #53
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭horse7


    Been waiting over 3 months for item to come in, no email support ,no on line chat support,no phone support.



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    #54
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,615 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    have you paid for the item already or are just waiting for it to be back in stock? Ikea are kind of like Ryanair when it comes to customer support, it costs them money so they try to discourage it. If youre anywhere near their two branches in Dublin you'd be better off just going in and asking face to face



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    #55
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭horse7


    not available on line or in shop



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    #56
    horse7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭horse7


    Do you still have to book for the restaurant?



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