Save me from Ikea cr*p

A squirt of 'No Nails' and some gaffer tape?

As a friend of mine likes to say, the best thing about Ikea is the Swedish delicatessen at the entrance.

Curried herring highly recommended :-)

Like many stores they tend to stock items made by others, and if the quality drops often they never notice till enough tell them. They are not alone in this Ring garden lights got taken over and every since their lights are absolute crap. Brian

Show us a pic, it might be sortable. Otherwise it's refund time.

NT

But not the cutlery! One Ikea - London one I think, but not Croydon, had the most dreadful cutlery - filthy, sitting in wet trays. I complained about that and made them bring me a freshly washed set.

Is that the same Ring as automotive accessories? Those seem to get poor press on Amazon.

No, I mean the delicatessen ('Swedish shop'), not the cafe.

Ikea are definitely poor for plastic. Two desk lamps failed one; due to a plastic pivot which supported the arm breaking, (which should never have been plastic in the first place) ;another due to an adapter falling to bits (possibly owing to heat maybe a safety issue which should have been reported), plus a stainless steel kettle rendered useless due to a plastic handle breaking in half.

Their all stainless steel, all chipboard, and textile items seem o.k; or at least not conspicuously worse than anyone else's. Certainly not at that price.

michael adams

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I fitted a bunch of Ring lights once. Won't buy those again.

NT

Oh no, not unsafe things! End of the world! What are you a 6 year old girl?

I vaguely remember a household electrical device (I think a light) made by Ring.

But most electrical equipment is made in China, is it not? My new mobile is made in China. I expect if I bought an iPhone it would be made in China too. Much as I would like to support UK manufacturing, I think the days of saying goods made in China are of poor quality are long gone.

Try buying the cheap Chinese stuff on Ebay. I've got rechargeable batteries here which have 20% of their rated capacity. The chargers work though.

Par for the course for Ikea. If it was me I would chuck the whole thing in the bin. You will only get grief if you have to repair it in years to come.

Apart from Billy bookshelves, I would never willingly buy anything from Ikea. Product quality is indifferent and customer experience in the store is awful.

I'm not saying there is no tat made in China; I'm saying not all that is made in China is tat.

Every single Chinese Li-Ion battery is tat. Even Samsung are only 80% of rated capacity. Only Panasonic don't LIE about what's inside them.

Not the ones that Apple uses.

Aren't the good ones made in Japan?

And have you tested the actual capacity of an Apple battery? As below, I've found only Panasonic to tell the truth. Everyone else is a scam artist.