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Robder

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Another boring Robder kitchen thread I'm afraid.

Spent the entire day (I kid you not) in the Edmonton Ikea on Sat planning my kitchen on their computers with NO help of any kind from the useless staff.

Still - I got there in the end and managed to get a quote out of them.

Ikea don't engage in price matching or bartering of any kind for their kitchens. I tried my hardest to play them off against MFI but they just weren't having it. :cry:

I guess it's because they know they're always going to come out cheapest. Grrr.

Am getting it installed by them as well and this appears to be a separate quote (and it will be a hefty one too)...anyone else been through this? What's the best way to play things with the installation guy? He knows he's got me over a barrell because I've paid £250 to Ikea for the consultation which is non refundable. Is there any movement here on price?

Have gone 2k over budget. :oops: :lol:
 
I was ready to kill people yesterday at Ikea (but that was due to location I think not the actual shop) :lol:
 
IKEA are notoriously rubbish at customer service. but they are pretty cheap(comparatively)

if it is any consolation, i just got a kitchen from MFI and they were rubbish too,.
 
Our local Ikea is open until 10pm most weekdays.

9pm shopping is the way to go.

In, out, no queues



Back to the original thread though. If ever there was somewhere to pay for quality it's kitchen fitters.

We went 'cheap' once and it was a living nightmare. Pay for the best standard of installation you can is my advice.
 
its totally shocking that in this day and age we have to pay the price quoted for services received.

start a petition, boycott SWEDEN
 
We bought a kitchen from IKEA, I've got to admit we didn't have a single issue with them what so ever admittadly so they're not great at the helping with the design :)idea: thats why they have this function on the website) but they don't need to be as you can print it all off and just give the people the sheet for what you need...!

As for installation we did it ourselves but rest assured that we got all our cupboards and appliances with nothing missing at all!
 
Deano1974 said:
:)idea: thats why they have this function on the website) but they don't need to be as you can print it all off and just give the people the sheet for what you need...!
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It's not Mac compatible...they think we're all Microsoft monkeys. :rolleyes:

Anyway - thanks all! I guess no one has received a discount from them before.
 
Robder said:
It's not Mac compatible...they think we're all Microsoft monkeys. :rolleyes:

Anyway - thanks all! I guess no one has received a discount from them before.
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ahh, didn't realise that.........now that is crap on their part.

And no, no discount rec'd here.
 
For Christsake don't even give MFI another thought...

No matter how good you believe the kitchen to be that you have just bought from there, as soon as you get it into your house it instantly transforms into a clapboard monstrosity that steadily collapses over a period of months once the warranty has expired.

Plus it'll be installed by sweating, fat-arsed cretin who will smash the front door off your house whilst teetering in with the flatpacks, emitting non-stop eyewateringly eggy-guffs as he goes and effictively making your home a biohazard zone.

You'll have the last laugh though when you unexpectedly come home for lunch and catch him furiously m*sturbating to a dog-eared copy of Mayfair in the garage.

Actually that in itself might be reason enough to plump for MFI depending on how much of a prolific YouTube contributor you are.

Maybe I just had a bad experience
 
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PepperHill said:
For Christsake don't even give MFI another thought...

No matter how good you believe the kitchen to be that you have just bought from there, as soon as you get it into your house it instantly transforms into a clapboard monstrosity that steadily collapses over a period of months once the warranty has expired.

Plus it'll be installed by sweating, fat-arsed cretin who will smash the front door off your house whilst teetering in with the flatpacks, emitting non-stop eyewateringly eggy-guffs as he goes and effictively making your home a biohazard zone.

You'll have the last laugh though when you unexpectedly come home for lunch and catch him furiously m*sturbating to a dog-eared copy of Mayfair in the garage.

Actually that in itself might be reason enough to plump for MFI depending on how much of a prolific YouTube contributor you are.

Maybe I just had a bad experience
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I'm aroused at the thought! :eek:

On the phone to MFI as we speak! :lol:

(I don't think)

Pls tell me the garage thing didn't happen. :eek:
 
I didn't catch him 'inflagrante', so-to-speak.

I walked into the garage to find him all red-faced and flustered, sitting on a chair visibly formulating an explaination as to why he was, to all intents and purposes, sat there peering at a dartboard with a copy of Mayfair on the floor next to him.

I think he heard me coming and hurriedly zipped himself up.

Mercifully before I saw him coming.
 
PepperHill said:
I didn't catch him 'inflagrante', so-to-speak.

I walked into the garage to find him all red-faced and flustered, sitting on a chair visibly formulating an explaination as to why he was, to all intents and purposes, sat there peering at a dartboard with a copy of Mayfair on the floor next to him.

I think he heard me coming and hurriedly zipped himself up.

Mercifully before I saw him coming.
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:eek::lol:
 
PepperHill said:
I didn't catch him 'inflagrante', so-to-speak.

I walked into the garage to find him all red-faced and flustered, sitting on a chair visibly formulating an explaination as to why he was, to all intents and purposes, sat there peering at a dartboard with a copy of Mayfair on the floor next to him.

I think he heard me coming and hurriedly zipped himself up.

Mercifully before I saw him coming.
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Har har...Excellently put. :lol: ;)
 
I don't usually go in for all these household type shops but having went into Ikea in Dubai i found it to be amazing, they have everything you need for your house/apartment and are relitavely cheap as well, i look forward to the new Ikea in Dublin which is supposedly going to be one of the biggest in Europe.
 
Opening in Ballymun isn't it?

Typical of what Ikea do, buy some cheap land in a historically poor area then develop it into a superstore.

Worked well in Bristol near me as loads of local people got jobs and another satellite retail park opened up about 18 Months later with even more regeneration in the pipeline.
 
Jam Man said:
Opening in Ballymun isn't it?

Typical of what Ikea do, buy some cheap land in a historically poor area then develop it into a superstore.

Worked well in Bristol near me as loads of local people got jobs and another satellite retail park opened up about 18 Months later with even more regeneration in the pipeline.
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Yeah near Ballymun as far as im aware.

How do you know Ballymun JM did you live there before or know someone who lived there?
 
Worked in Dublin for 18 Months until Feb of last year.

Lived off Baggot St and worked at the end of Grafton St......
 
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