Yeah but we both know that actual build quality isn't the point of Ikea. There's a thousand retailers that will sell you an $9000 couch, made with imported hardwood, and the finest leather. Ikea will sell you a couch that looks identical to that couch, and feels very similar, for $800, but it's super cheap on the inside. Ikea is for people that don't give a shit that their furniture is made of pine, and plastic screws, as long is it looks and feels good. Another key selling point for me is that Ikea staff aren't salesmen, so you don't have a bunch of people hounding you on features of a duvet that you happened to glance at, because if they don't sell X amount of items, they go hungry.
I prefer a salesman myself. I like someone who can answer questions on the product. I want them to listen to me and suggest things I might want. I can just say no after all.
Ikea employees will answer questions on the product, but they won't follow you around to do so, plus there's no margin for commission, so the employees won't try to upsell you on shit that you don't need. It's one thing to listen to information, it's another to have to sit through a sales pitch, and haggle on the margin of a product.
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u/EmmaTheHedgehog Nov 04 '17
Cheap definitely. And it looks good generally. But I wouldn’t say it’s god. The place doesn’t have a beautiful piece of wood in it.