15% off all chest of drawers. MALM, Hemnes, Brimnes etc. Valid until 20 January.
IKEA 15% off Chest of Drawers
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Buy another two and return under the old receipt
Im seriously thinking about it. Its a difference of $108
returns is quite easy at ikea, just do as above
@impoze: +1. If you're ikea family they allow returns upto 12 months. I've even returned fully assembled stuff for full price back. Love ikea.
@starbearer: Then me as the "As Is" scrounger picks stuff up cheaper some point down the track. Win-Win :D
(Actually I've found the best deals for me in there have been "Discontinued" lines)
I'm in the same boat. Will probably just try contacting their customer service. Their whole approach seems to be pretty generous especially with the recycling of furniture and paying you something for your old IKEA stuff
Let me know how you go. Im in the same boat like you.
Called up. Only option is to return and repurchase.
Can't be bothered. Was hoping they'd just offer a gift card instead
Guess they need to recover some losses.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/flatpack-giant-t…Shame idiocy wins cases in the US.
Or at least to the extent the whole idea to sue for millions over anything is just a common joke now.IKEA were grossly irresponsible. How is it idiocy to seek justice for the murder of your child?
Founder was also a Nazi supporter…
I bought two Malm 3 drawer units and wall mounted them with the supplied kit. They have also modified the original design to be safer. That being said, still would need to wall mount for better safety but still not fool proof safety.
But as the documentary explains, society are our own cause for this to happen. We continue to demand cheaper and cheaper products so costs need to be cut somewhere. Fast fashion, fast food now fast furniture. To IKEA's defence, I think they've included wall mount kits and warnings for a long time and definitely prior to the deaths mentioned in the documentary.
To IKEA's defence, I think they've included wall mount kits and warnings for a long time and definitely prior to the deaths mentioned in the documentary.
No that is the problem. They initially did nothing. They new and did nothing.
Then they included just a small warning in their instruction/warranty paperwork stating that you had to find, purchase and install your own wall mounting kit in order to make their product safe.
So they NEW it wasn't safe and sold it anyway.Then after several children had died they REFUSED to recall, and instead offered mounting kits to people who requested them - but how were they supposed to know to do so?
Then after MORE children died, they started to include the mounting kits in new sales, AND FINALLY recalled and started offering a refund, pickup or installation of the mounting kit for you, and a heavy advertising campaign to inform people. Which is great. BUT WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE MANY DEAD CHILDREN AGO.
And the problem is not everyone is being reached. They have not kept any kind of registration of purchases, and not everyone goes on facebook or watches television.
@bargain huntress: Pretty sure my Ikea furniture from 2010 and some older Ikea furniture I was give had wall mount kits included in the box. Almost certain that the deaths in the documentary happened after 2010. I also do remember reading multiple warnings in the assembly instructions about making sure you wall mount.
But back to the other point about the demand for cheaper furniture. Society keeps pushing for cheaper furniture. We don't want to pay for quality (or cant afford to pay for it) so we buy the cheap flatpack stuff. The Ikea stuff is actually the highest quality flatpack furniture I've encountered. I bought the Malm drawers to replace even more shoddy and dangerous drawers I bought from Aldi only about 2yrs ago. The Aldi drawers probably only ever got opened and closed less than 100 times and yet they were already starting to break. I remember assembling it and the whole unit falling over when it was empty and the drawers were out. So who else is keeping these other cheap Chinese furniture manufacturers in check?
Don't get me wrong, when I watched the documentary I nearly cried when I watched all the parents and heard the stories. But my only point is that I don't think it's entirely fair to place blame entirely on the company. We as parents and as society also need to be responsible. Ikea could produce even higher quality and safer furtniture but only if they felt it was financially viable. E.g. if they produce a new range of child-safe/friendly furniture that had exceeded all safety standards and had been thoroughly tested, I would buy it even if it cost double the price. But society keep putting the pressure on price. Not once do you see a price increase on an Ikea product line due to extra quality/safety being added. No, its always along the lines of $1- cheaper than last year, all new low price. A race to the bottom in price, quality and safety unfortunately.
The Chinese govt/manufacturers conspiring is also just a result of them playing to our wants. We want it cheaper, they give it cheaper. They can only afford to do so by eliminating all competition so they can achieve economies of scale.
@10101010101: some good points.
speculating that perhaps our australian safety standards forced them to do the right thing and include the mounts in the first place here.
but i dont know because this article mentions having to request them here too, but that could be extras https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/ikea-malm-c…i could have misunderstood but i thought the doc definitly said that wall mounts were not initially included. the excuse being they didn't know what kind of wall you had. here is many people commenting on it apparently in 2016
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/when-did-ikea-start-cheaping-…the doco shocked me with how useless the US equivalent legislation and agencies are. i thought the ACCC was a toothless tiger - it looks rabid by comparison to theirs. but then again they haven't been recalled here.
@bargain huntress: https://www.mamamia.com.au/ikea-malm-unit-recall/
from the comments
I thought the reason they were recalled in the US was because the safety anchors were NOT included in the US product, only included in just the Aus product - hence why they may be recalling in US, but not here.
@10101010101: also this was interesting https://www.fastcompany.com/3061599/dressers-dont-need-to-be…
@bargain huntress: Sorry but that is completely untrue, they have always included the mounting kits, people just didn't use them, every single death was caused by them not using the supplied wall mounts. The kits they said people could come collect were the same ones they were already given in the first place and probably threw out. The only thing that wasn't supplied in the past was the wall screws but people would still use ones that were not sufficient so they provided them too.
@Elision: not according to this discussion,
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/when-did-ikea-start-cheaping-…or the documentary on netflix
also what if you are renting? or purchase the furniture used?
@bargain huntress: They have always included wall brackets, as well as the screws to attach the bracket to the product, with a warning saying they must secure to the wall and that they are to provide their own wall screws as there is not really a one size fits all screw. Within the last year or so (since they've made changes to the design/more incidents have happened) they have -also- provided wall screws and plugs that are the appropriate length. That forum post is from 2016. The wall brackets/warning is -not- a new thing, just the addition of the added screws.
But as the documentary explains, society are our own cause for this to happen. We continue to demand cheaper and cheaper products so costs need to be cut somewhere. Fast fashion, fast food now fast furniture.
I agree, but it's not just our fault.
They part about the chinese goverment conspiring to destroy the furniture industries in the US (and here and everywhere) was fascinating and terrifying.
How much of it is our fault, when there is so little choice now?
Murder!
Really?
@jackspratt: if you know a product you sell kills people, and you keep selling it anyway, yes that is murder.
if i gave you a sandwich with poison in it, and included a small piece of paper that said that you should go to a hardware store and purchase a pair of tongs to remove the poison to prevent it from killing your child, and you didn't notice or were unable to and just fed them the sandwich - i would go to jail.
if a giant corporation sells you a dresser and includes a small piece of paper that says you have to go to a hardware store to buy a wall mount and install it yourself to prevent that dresser from killing your child - they get away with it.
@bargain huntress: Except imagine it was a sandwich kit that you had to put together, in order to know how to assemble the sandwich in the first place, you HAD to read the "piece of paper" and on that piece of paper it said "IF YOU EAT THIS SANDWICH YOU WILL DIE", and "here is an antidote that will remove the poison from the sandwich… that WE ARE PROVIDING YOU (because the brackets were always provided but not the screws) but it's just missing the last ingredient, which -if you buy- will make the sandwich edible" and you ate it anyway… whose fault is that?
That was pretty dumb analogy tbh. You're acting like it's sole purpose is to trick people into buying them so they can indirectly kill children lol.
I literally just bought 2x $350 units from Ikea last week…
Anyone know if they have a price guarantee?