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To pay £39 delivery charge..... from IKEA

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Mammanat222 · 04/01/2015 09:39

Need some bits from IKEA. A few chest of drawers (already have the same range and very happy with them) but we're not able to get to an IKEA in the foreseeable.

We don't have a car and although we could ask someone (my dad or bil) to take us - we'd offer to pay / at least give petrol money - then we'd need someone to have DS. So it starts verging on hassle territory.

I'm also 38w pregnant so need to get the stuff soon and need OH with me. He could go alone I guess but again its waiting for someone to be able to give him a lift etc

Taxi would be similar cost to delivery.

However I just feel so angry that that they charge that much for delivery. We're spending over £400?

Shall I just suck up the delivery charge?

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homealone42 · 04/01/2015 11:11

In your situation. When se go to Ikea it easily costs us that much with cost of fuel and all the extra little bits you end up buying.

LoveDexter · 04/01/2015 11:17

Perhaps see if any family or friends need anything too and share the delivery cost?

LidlMermaid · 04/01/2015 11:17

You can suck up the hassle of arranging to go and get it yourself or suck up the cost of delivery.

I've laid to have Ikea stuff delivered before and I live 3 miles from a store and have a car. The delivery charge was worth it as there were too many big items to fit in my car at once so I'd have had to make several trips and the delivery men unloaded it into the house for me.

Shakirasma · 04/01/2015 11:19

I used to be an administrator at a retail store which provided local delivery for £10 within 10 miles of the store, £20 within 20 miles and poa for further afield.
The customer used to moan like crazy but what they didn't know was our store had to pay the delivery company £27 for each 10 mile delivery and £50 for each 20 mile one.

Those are not unusual transport costs to a business delivering bulky items. Any business which provides free or cheap delivery of large items is most certainly whacking to cost onto the price of of goods to offset the cost, and the people who collect themselves are having to subsidise it.

WeAreEternal · 04/01/2015 11:19

I don't think £39 is at all unreasonable.

Trills · 04/01/2015 11:21

It seems expensive because other chains do similar things for much less.

But it's cheaper than going yourself

More convenient than going yourself

Cheaper than paying someone else to go for you

So why would it be unreasonable to pay?

HerrenaHarridan · 04/01/2015 11:22

Deparelki. This is a word i will be adopting.

heartisaspade · 04/01/2015 11:22

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Trills · 04/01/2015 11:23

I don't generally select furniture based on whose business model I prefer

I do.

Or it is at least a contributing factor.

For example I have often chosen one item over another based on the fact that I could get next-day delivery from Amazon for one, whereas the other would require going to an actual store.

OOAOML · 04/01/2015 11:24

We paid similar. Planned it so we got loads in one trip, arranged a delivery slot and they carried everything up to our flat. We had a small piece missing from one item and they drove back out with it. Well worth it for lack of hassle.

NotDavidTennant · 04/01/2015 11:41

Have you looked at the cost of delivery if you buy online?

Deliveries from our local store are fulfilled by a local delivery company, whereas online orders to our address are fulfilled by Parcelforce and so are priced differently (and can be cheaper if you're not ordering a lot).

Not sure if that is just for our Ikea (Cardiff) or is true for others as well.

KoalaDownUnder · 04/01/2015 12:09

I don't get it. Just send your husband with your dad or brother in their car. And you stay home with your DS.

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Fluffy40 · 04/01/2015 12:27

We always leave the kids at home as the back seats need to go down , the boxes are still large and heavy , kids are teens by the way, and they help unpack when we get back.

FunkyBoldRibena · 04/01/2015 12:32

I don't get it.

Me neither. Even if the OP went with family member surely they would help anyway.

Noodledoodledoo · 04/01/2015 12:49

£39 is worth every penny - just had an order delivered which would have fitted in the car but only one adult and would have needed 2 to load the stuff into the car. When there was a damaged item they came to collect and replace in one delivery with no extra costs. Compared to others (Victoria Plumb) who charge £50 per delivery, would not add further items to an order just placed so yes our mistake but came on the same lorry so unreasonable to charge twice, and then charged £50 to collect a damaged item and would not back down at all!

£39 is a bargain - only issue is getting through on the phone takes forever, but once you are through issues solved easily.

LadyintheRadiator · 04/01/2015 12:59

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PrettyLittleMitty · 04/01/2015 13:13

You stay home with ds and dp goes to Ikea with family member giving lift. Or just pay the delivery charg. Simple.

paulapantsdown · 04/01/2015 13:20

There are times in life, like when you are 38 weeks pregnant for instance, when you just need to throw money at a problem to make it go away. You have enough to be thinking about, this is a no brainer!

Make life easier for yourself and put your feet up.

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Mammanat222 · 04/01/2015 13:25

The £39 is if I buy online.

As I say I think it's a bit rude to ask for someone to take me and then ask then to help lug around heavy stuff (I certainly wouldn't expect that of my older Dad with a bad back)

Yep sending OH is an option, again though it's a case of waiting for it to be convenient for someone else to take him etc...

The delivery charge does seem excessive based on what I would be spending. I could completely understand it if I was buying a few small bits?

I didn't realise IKEA delivered based on distance? We bought a sofa from there and it was free delivery (sofa was £900 though so I guess that is what you have to spend to benefit from free delivery??)

Anyway just measuring up now and will order a bit later on today.

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LIZS · 04/01/2015 13:27

If you want those particular items it is worth paying the charge. For a number of things it really won't amount to much each. Sometimes life is simply too short to quibble.

Eastpoint · 04/01/2015 13:34

What about the fact you won't have to spend time going to IKEA? My time costs, what is your hourly rate, calculate how much time it would take to get there, allow an hour in the shop and then getting home. If your husband & brother go that's at least 4 hours of time, look at the bigger picture, do they make at least £10 per hour gross at work, if they do then you've saved money. This ignores the fact you don't have to pay petrol money or have any of the costs of running a vehicle such as depreciation.

Eastpoint · 04/01/2015 13:35

Sorry £10 per hour net, not gross

trappedinsuburbia · 04/01/2015 13:35

I had to pay it as well for a set of drawers and thought it was a bit steep, but it was well worth it in the end for the hassle it saved with getting babysitters, getting lost and trailing round looking for the actual thing!!

Original poster
Mammanat222 · 04/01/2015 13:39

I must be getting old as a few years ago I'd happily have paid £40 not to set foot in IKEA. Now I quite like to go and have a potter around.

My house is awash with candles from my various trips to IKEA so yep probably best I stay well away.

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Fluffyears · 04/01/2015 13:42

We paid it and the guys were great as I am on third floor and they came up all stairs with heavy daybed and wardrobe.