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>Now, at least were I live you can't have furniture delivered pre-built (unless you buy antiques) but you can hire a handyman to come build it for more than the

>Now, at least were I live you can't have furniture delivered pre-built (unless you buy antiques) but you can hire a handyman to come build it for more than the price difference was between unbuilt and built before IKEA came to dominate. That doesn't add up from where I'm sitting. Hiring someone on Airtasker to build your furniture is about the same price as getting a delivery driver to drop off a piece of furniture. If you're serious about saving money but struggle with DIY, just type your preferred IKEA product name into Facebook Marketplace. You can generally get them pre-assembled for about a third of the cost of new.

reaperducer 5y ago
That doesn't add up from where I'm sitting You missed the very beginning of his comment: "at least were I live" Where he lives is not where you live, or where I live. We all live different places with different levels of infrastructure and services available. Because things are different where you are does not negate his experience.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  Thanks, I was going to make the point but I figured from "where I'm sitting" might just be in reference to their experience, where I'm at is Denmark and things here tend to be expensive, here for example is Ikea's service page https://www.ikea.com/dk/da/customer-service/services/assembly/ https://www.ikea.com/dk/da/customer-service/services/assembl... So Pax - 2 frames, hinged doors and fittings comes out to about $200+ for building it, little bit under 50 dollars for any order, for 30 dollars they take about the packing etc. So obviously I end up building it myself in almost all cases, despite the fact that it takes me an hour more than it would everyone else because I always misbuild at least once and figure it out part of the way in, oh that had to be turned this way, I get it now! Could have saved me an hour with just writing "NOTE the small hole at the top edge of this picture, if you do not have that hole in the piece you are using you are using the wrong piece!" But Nope. Never gonna happen.
  - AussieWog93 5y ago
    >where I'm at is Denmark and things here tend to be expensive I'm in Australia, where the minimum wage is the highest in the world (Around US$20 for casual labour, even higher if you're covered by an industry award)! If you want to pay $200 for an hour's semi-skilled work + $30 to throw a box away, that's on you. Unless Denmark has some incredibly odd demographics, there should be an army of dads on Facebook offering a mobile assembly service for a quarter of that price.
yojo 5y ago
At the very least IKEA must have shrunk the market for fully assembled furniture, especially at the low end of the market. Any company that does want to play there is now doing it at substantially lower volume, negatively impacting unit economics. Where I live I can definitely still buy fully assembled luxury furniture. I’m hard pressed to think of anywhere that would sell you a new, assembled bookcase for under $500 though.

reaperducer 5y ago

That doesn't add up from where I'm sitting You missed the very beginning of his comment: "at least were I live" Where he lives is not where you live, or where I live. We all live different places with different levels of infrastructure and services available. Because things are different where you are does not negate his experience.

bryanrasmussen 5y ago
Thanks, I was going to make the point but I figured from "where I'm sitting" might just be in reference to their experience, where I'm at is Denmark and things here tend to be expensive, here for example is Ikea's service page https://www.ikea.com/dk/da/customer-service/services/assembly/ https://www.ikea.com/dk/da/customer-service/services/assembl... So Pax - 2 frames, hinged doors and fittings comes out to about $200+ for building it, little bit under 50 dollars for any order, for 30 dollars they take about the packing etc. So obviously I end up building it myself in almost all cases, despite the fact that it takes me an hour more than it would everyone else because I always misbuild at least once and figure it out part of the way in, oh that had to be turned this way, I get it now! Could have saved me an hour with just writing "NOTE the small hole at the top edge of this picture, if you do not have that hole in the piece you are using you are using the wrong piece!" But Nope. Never gonna happen.
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  >where I'm at is Denmark and things here tend to be expensive I'm in Australia, where the minimum wage is the highest in the world (Around US$20 for casual labour, even higher if you're covered by an industry award)! If you want to pay $200 for an hour's semi-skilled work + $30 to throw a box away, that's on you. Unless Denmark has some incredibly odd demographics, there should be an army of dads on Facebook offering a mobile assembly service for a quarter of that price.

yojo 5y ago

At the very least IKEA must have shrunk the market for fully assembled furniture, especially at the low end of the market. Any company that does want to play there is now doing it at substantially lower volume, negatively impacting unit economics. Where I live I can definitely still buy fully assembled luxury furniture. I’m hard pressed to think of anywhere that would sell you a new, assembled bookcase for under $500 though.