Corporate Claims: Putting IKEA 5-minute Assembly to the Test

[tomm2thumbs]

https://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/ikea-regissor-new-furniture-assembly-5-minutes-test-180654418.html

Thought this was interesting. Wonder if there will be a lawsuit for false advertising. <g>

[HereSince1628]

1. But isn't that's based on the ability of socialist Scandinavians?

That Americans can't perform to European standards isn't the fault of the manufacturer

[sendero]

2. I had to assemble...

.... a complete Ikea kitchen, a pantry, 7 base cabinets some with drawers, 8 overhead cabinets.

Fortunately some of them were duplicates of each other. Once you have assembled a particular cabinet, the second and third are easy.

But it took about 30-40 minutes to do the typical first one. The instructions, having no text, are pretty obtuse. And I am a very handy sort of guy, I wonder how someone who isn't would ever get this stuff assembled.

All that said, we like our Ikea kitchen.

[jberryhill]

3. .

[Blue_Tires]

4. noooooooooooooooooo

well, I'm good with my hands, so if those parts really existed I could probably get you at least something out of it...

[krispos42]

8. That's brilliant!!

[Orrex]

5. IKEA is very nearly as awful as Walmart

A thoroughly dreadful, exploitive corporation.

[JEFF9K]

6. My only experience with IKEA furniture was ...

when the upstairs neighbor's bookcase collapsed and nearly crashed through the ceiling.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. omg !!

Sounds like a scene from 'The Money Pit'