Flamin' leading Swedish flatpack furniture supplier

[Targarama]

I'll keep it short. Walk 50 miles around their friggin' store, buy stuff, even eat meatballs for lunch. Get home, assemble products and find a piece is missing. Great. Now I have to waste 2 gallons of petrol exchanging this item for another.

Annoyed.

[Altrezia]

I have never ever had anything missing from anything from there.

Must have bought tonnes of stuff, for the house, for the office, etc.

Bad luck imho.

[Famous Graham]

You don't need to exchange it - they'll give you the missing part. By post too if you prefer, I believe.

[Nolar Dog]

st happens. Deal with it.

[B17NNS]

Targarama said:

meatballs

nom nom nom

[Targarama]

Nolar Dog said:

st happens. Deal with it.

Yeah, I know. Just annoyed with myself for not triple checking the contents. It has happened before. Must be pixies nicking bits from the Brent Cross warehouse.

[ArtVandelay]

Should have bought a hot dog meal and ice cream as you left, would have made it all better IMO

[Targarama]

ArtVandelay said:

Should have bought a hot dog meal and ice cream as you left, would have made it all better IMO

Maybe we'll buy some when we re-visit them in the week.

[Urban Sports]

I used to work there as a student, we would nick bits from the stuff for a laugh.

What's missing I'll have a look in my garage for you.

[sneijder]

I'll not have a bad word said against them.

If you can't finish what you're making, you'll just have to turn it into something else :

http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/

[baptistsan]

Been there, done that. Ask nicely and they will give you £5 to cover your petrol costs.

[Nolar Dog]

sneijder said:

Ikea hacker

I follow blog. Things of awesomeness aplenty.

[OllieWinchester]

I was missing one small, none crucial (I hope, it hasn't fallen down yet!) part with the last thing I bought from there.

Also, it is cheaper to have 2x small meatballs than 1x large, and yes it does make you look like a bloater walking to your table with two plates for yourself.

[grumbledoak]

Not had that one yet; they've been good.

But I have had the wonderfully wasteful delivery scenario- pick online an item that cannot possibly fit in my car, only to be told I must go to i.e. drive to their shop to buy it. 40 miles round trip, in the toy, to come back with nothing at all. Madness.

Edited by grumbledoak on Saturday 15th May 23:46

[13th]

I love the story about the chap that invented this store and designed a lot of his own furniture. He was a total alcoholic and totally pissed by lunch.

I read that he works on his designs in the morning and then after a liquid lunch writes the assembly instructions

[Vixpy1]

I once tried to get to the Croydon branch one sat, got stuck in traffic and by the time i got near the store i could not be bothered so came home.

Thats as close as i got

[Big_Dog]

Careful with the mail order service. I bought a bedside cabinet for a rented flat as the tenant had lunched the drawer front. It turned up 70% battered so I called them to be told, bring it back to the store. Not really the point of mail order I explained. So I took loads of pictures and mailed them to them. They very kindly gave me £6.20 refund on a £45 cabinet.
The stuff fine if you collect it but they give it to the carriers in the same packing as you bring it home from the store in.
Lucky for me one of the drawer fronts was salvageable.

[Penny-lope]

Altrezia said:

I have never ever had anything missing from anything from there.

Must have bought tonnes of stuff, for the house, for the office, etc.

Bad luck imho.

Same here....I have however had extra screws, plugs, etc

[Dave Angel]

13th said:

I love the story about the chap that invented this store and designed a lot of his own furniture. He was a total alcoholic and totally pissed by lunch.

I read that he works on his designs in the morning and then after a liquid lunch writes the assembly instructions

Excellent!