Sodding IKEA and their sodding Expedit bookcase

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We ordered an Expedit bookcase in the New Year to deal with all the sitting room detritus.

The delivery was yesterday and all the doors, drawers turned up but no bookcase.

Just rang, apparently it has been discontinued and they are all out of stock.

But would we like to keep the drawers?

I hate IKEA and always vow that I will never shop there, and then they tempt me in with their cheap storage solutions and perky catalogue.

GRrrrrrrrrrr

Now what am I going to do with all the crap now!

Anyone have an alternative?

Oh no - bad news that Expedit has been discontinued - v surprising given how popular it's been over the years.

Try looking on ebay for a 2nd hand one you can use the doors and drawers with?

That's a bit of a pisstake isnt it!

Are you getting a refund on the drawers and doors even though you are keeping them?

I have, but we wanted the white one and the nearest one is 100 miles away.

They will come and collect the drawers next week and give us a refund but I'm just so bloody annoyed.

I know they're cheap but their service doesn't have to be SO bad. I checked online to see if there were any in my local store. It says they have 12. However, the assistant on the phone said that the online stock isn't correct and there are none left in any store or from the manufacturer.

They are still selling it online though

before you send back the drawers etc, do a check on ebay. someone local to you might be selling one.

They've discontinued the Expedit? That's crap, we have two of the big ones and always meant to get a third.

Hell to put together though... we were up until 1.30am assembling our first one and FINALLY had it lying there, all put together.

As we raised it, the slats slowly started dropping out until we were left with an empty frame & a pile on the floor.

It wasn't pretty.

Never fear - we still have the joy of constructing the Besta TV bench to look forward to!

I'm really that expedit has been discontinued... are they sure?
(I only say this because they swore blind that they were discontinuing Trofast last year, and that's still going strong)

I have written a stern email. The girl didn't sound on top of her game to be honest.

You could always try talking to the online helper person and see if you can get any sense out of them?

13:04 Hi there
13:04 is expedit being discontinued
13:06 The ash colour has been but I have no details of any others being discontinued.

You ordered ash ?

I think it's just one specific Expedit that's being discontinued rather than the whole range (in fact I'm positive it's not the whole range) Same happened with the Trofast last year (as Jareth said) Bits were discontinued to make way for new parts of the range, but Trofast itself still exists. I'm at home rather than at work so can't look it up and confirm I'm afraid.

It's true about the online stock check. It sucks. I get verbally abused over it on a fairly regular basis, and I can tell you most people instore wish it was dead and buried. I'm sorry you've had a crappy experience though

All sizes and colours are available to buy online still.

Ooh, I'm going to try them now!

I bought one a week ago and it arrived this morning.
Sorry you have had a shit experience, We have the expedit in both the boys rooms, seems a bit more grown up than the trofast.

right. it looks like they have discontinued the big one (5x5) but not the smaller one (4x4).

Now why couldn't someone tell me that instead of telling me that the entire line had been discontinued!

The woman i just "talked" to said it wasn't the range, just some items within it. I got fed up of waiting so clicked off after she said that

Well done Mumsnet - have dispatched DH to go and pick one up rather than faffing about with delivery.