The HORRORS of IKEA.........

by **tomahawks** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:13 am

oriel wrote:haha...all made in china and still cost a bomb!

What?

by **RussianBear** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:20 am

Yes, IKEA items costly, sometime local stories may offer same product with better price. Same about wood beds - in IKEA up 1700 rmb and same quality in local storie 1100 RMB.

But IKEA win because of own European design.

by **tomahawks** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:30 am

That is not "costing a bomb" though.

by **RussianBear** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:40 am

My favorit - Frederic Computer Desk - 900 RMB

http://www.ikea.com/cn/en/catalog/products/10161733

by **johnqh** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:42 pm

oriel wrote:welcome to china, people! If you have a choice and needed to go, try week day/nites...lesser crowd! I had to go to get home supplies when I first arrived but I stopped going altogether now...too far, too much hassle and just disgusted by the unruly crowd...

Actually, do not go shopping on weekends, whether it is IKEA or other store. This is good advice to both expats and locals.

by **Rumpelstiltskin** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:43 pm

I have from Ikea and am verry happy with it:

Sofa expandable to half-sleep:

Bookshelves:

Extension to my bed which makes it 250cm wide bed:

Very comfy "SULTAN ENGENES" mattresses:

by **kumlong** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:29 pm

ikea was having a 50% sale last weekend.

by **ClarenceBodicker** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:34 pm

Klick wrote:See now, I have been twice since we moved here, and it's not been anything like that. But I went in May/early June, midweek, midday. I think though that going this time of year is probably a problem. The kids are out of school and it's hot. So think about it, if you live someplace that is hot and the kids are overexcited with nothing to do, why wouldn't you head to the great big giant store full of comfy sofas and loads of things for the kids to play with? Makes perfect sense to me. So I'll wait to go again until September, and go on a Wednesday morning.

im installing sofas, when do your kids arrive?

by **RussianBear** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:59 pm

That is our loved sofa ! VeRy SoFt !

by **RussianBear** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:02 pm

And chairs

by **RussianBear** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:05 pm

And 2 footstools..

by **RussianBear** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:10 pm

All just for 5k rmb.

by **Cambronne** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:18 pm

We call it Shanghai zoo.

by **sienna** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:21 pm

i went there today, jesus christ there were so many people!!!!!!

anyway,

is someone interested?? i want to sell Flärken computer table, and BESTÅ kombination (for tv and books and stuff)

computer table 60 rmb
BESTÅ 2600 rmb (original price 5500 rmb) slightly smaller than the picture.
GRÖNÖ table lamp of glass (totally new, i bought it today, i want the bigger one, didnt know i got one smaller for free, haha) 35 rmb

im also open to change...i need some other ikea furnitures.

PM ME!!!!!!!!!

by **monica1229** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:23 pm

I also went to IKEA in XuJiaHui,that is true I saw it myself too,that's why normal Shanghai won't go there a lot, it's always noisy,crowded,and easliy lost to me.
I preffer the traditional store for furniture and market.

by **Cambronne** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:29 pm

The only way IKEA could police these people is by having webcams everywhere and posting those offenders' faces on very popular forums.

by **huangheilong** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:40 pm

sienna wrote:..im also open to change...

me too, i'm also open to change.
(but not on the obama way)

by **blondesands** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:41 pm

Chrisse wrote:
monalisalee wrote:Agree the meatballs and mash are yum and cheap, but is that Ikea?
Probably not.
If you like those poor excuses for meatballs than you should try some real Swedish ones. The ones they have in Ikea here are "Made in China".

Something like this? Still don't know what all the fuss is about the food - worst meatballs I've ever tasted.

by **RussianBear** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:07 pm

by **prego2000** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:21 pm

Yeah but those are just silly infantile Chinese girls who think, like the rest of them apparently, that a trip to IKEA is some kind of exciting day trip to be memorialized in their Hello Kitty scrap books which are already full of mobile phone self portraits. We want real dirt! Shirtless migrants sleeping on display sofas! Girls groping each other on the bouncy beds! Kids pissing on the floor! Wiping nasal slime all over the merchandise! Something this lousy granny on the bus would do. "I love IKEA! There's so much stuff to wipe my boogers on!"

by **oriel** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:32 pm

Cambronne wrote:The only way IKEA could police these people is by having webcams everywhere and posting those offenders' faces on very popular forums.

are u sure that will make a difference! they'll probably be more than happy to pose for the webcam! :lol:

by **Cambronne** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:36 pm

You dont seem to know Chinese culture. A few years back a jaywaker who got fined then shouted at a policeman got her video posted on the internet. For a whole three days, all Shanghainese actually followed the rule - crossing only at marked pedestrian crossings, waiting for the little guy to turn green etc. During this unreal period, I even had several locals explaining me the while green guy / red guy trick!

by **Rowdy_Rose** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:51 pm

My friends saw a poo on a bed at the House & Garden next to ikea
A big human poo. and an old lady sitting next to it not bothered at all.
ahhh china.

by **Klick** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:09 pm

ClarenceBodicker wrote:
im installing sofas, when do your kids arrive?

wtf are you on about?

by **tomahawks** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:12 pm

ClarenceBodicker wrote:
Klick wrote:See now, I have been twice since we moved here, and it's not been anything like that. But I went in May/early June, midweek, midday. I think though that going this time of year is probably a problem. The kids are out of school and it's hot. So think about it, if you live someplace that is hot and the kids are overexcited with nothing to do, why wouldn't you head to the great big giant store full of comfy sofas and loads of things for the kids to play with? Makes perfect sense to me. So I'll wait to go again until September, and go on a Wednesday morning.

im installing sofas, when do your kids arrive?

by **Klick** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:17 pm

tomahawks wrote:
ClarenceBodicker wrote:
Klick wrote:See now, I have been twice since we moved here, and it's not been anything like that. But I went in May/early June, midweek, midday. I think though that going this time of year is probably a problem. The kids are out of school and it's hot. So think about it, if you live someplace that is hot and the kids are overexcited with nothing to do, why wouldn't you head to the great big giant store full of comfy sofas and loads of things for the kids to play with? Makes perfect sense to me. So I'll wait to go again until September, and go on a Wednesday morning.

im installing sofas, when do your kids arrive?

Can you please explain to me why it's funny, as I have been walking around in the sun all day and so clearly my brain has boiled to the point where I must be missing something.

by **victorinchina** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:30 pm

Cambronne wrote:You dont seem to know Chinese culture. A few years back a jaywaker who got fined then shouted at a policeman got her video posted on the internet. For a whole three days, all Shanghainese actually followed the rule - crossing only at marked pedestrian crossings, waiting for the little guy to turn green etc. During this unreal period, I even had several locals explaining me the while green guy / red guy trick!