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IKEA has developed affordable home furnishings and accessories since 1943. Offering flat-pack furniture, the company supplies a broad range of products, including sofas, beds, kitchen cabinets and home décor.
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Reviewed Dec. 13, 2019
For the first time I am going to write such awful experience. Well, I ordered MORGEDAL Foam mattress and tried to use IKEA coupon code online and it dint work and order was placed without coupon. I called IKEA customer support to ask for suggestion as to how I can use the coupon and he/she suggested me to cancel the order as it was not shipped or processed and requested to place a new order, for that; i made sure that I wont be losing any money. Then I canceled the order and placed a new order; however coupon works only on in store purchase. I was told to wait for a week for full refund.
Now when I checked my credit card, I was charged $49 for nothing. I asked the customer rep again and she told me that it was already processed. This is weird that customer reps dont have knowledge about policies and their lack of knowledge made me lose $49. Now customer rep is giving me $49 coupon though we dont have IKEA stores in Iowa. I requested a lot to refund but not ready to accept their fault. This is pathetic. I used to use a lot of IKEA stuff in Europe for more than 4 years but here, they are not up to the mark and may damage the reputation of IKEA brand and service.
Reviewed Dec. 12, 2019
I ordered a 6 pax wardrobes online, two turned up damaged. By the time I realised I needed the wardrobes installed so couldn't wait to get new ones sent out. Ikea only offered me £13 discount on wardrobes worth around £500 pounds. (the 6 totalled about £1400) And they kept me on hold for 25 mins after saying the queue was 5 mins long when I rung up to complain.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2019
Tried to get a small damaged part for 1 of the 2 chest drawers I bought. 2 hours over the phone, transferred to 3 different departments and finally learnt that I have to travel to the store to get the part. 2 hours away. No one seemed to be helpful.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2019
It has something for everyone. I have high end items for my home and less expensive items for my rental. Happy with them all. And I am getting better at putting them together.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2019
IKEA claims to make purchasing a kitchen simple. They have a lovely kitchen design tool that took me 3 days to figure out how to work. They offer customer service with their "kitchen expert" that did not return my call for 7 days. I had to figure it out myself. Finally I get to the stage of ordering my kitchen cabinets. I spoke with a kitchen expert for over an hour to have them remove cabinet lighting that was not part of my order that added over $600.00 in extras. Each of these blasted lights had to be removed separately. Even after all of the lights were removed there was still one lighting fixture showing up on the order. The kitchen expert had to go into the file and remove it himself. Adjustments were made and the kitchen plan was saved. I went to place my order by calling IKEA. The gal on the phone said my kitchen plan was approved and the order can be made. She placed the order and billed my credit card.
A kitchen expert phoned me a few days later and said the order was incorrect and that the first gal was not a kitchen expert and should not have placed the order. As a result, a second order was placed to correct the items from the first order. As a result, the kitchen items were sent on 2 separate shipments. The delivery guy that came to the house failed to contact my contractor for delivery and called from the house as he arrived. Since he arrived so late in the day, no one was at the house to receive the delivery. He then contacted my contractor who said it would take 20 minutes to drive down to the house but the delivery guy said he would not wait and would delay the shipment until the next day. The next day the delivery guy came and was rude to my contractor.
After putting all of the pieces together, it became clear that some of the cupboards sent are incorrect and there are at least 2 cupboards missing from the order. I placed a call to IKEA and was told that it was clear that the order that was placed by the IKEA kitchen expert did not match what was on the kitchen planner software showing the kitchen design. He put me on hold to speak with someone that would arrange for a swapping of the correct cupboards. I was left on hold for 2 hours! This kitchen mess-up has cost me several hundred dollars already in my wasted time, my contractors wasted time and now is delaying the sale of this house! After 2 hours of being on hold, IKEA ended the call and no one called me back.
I phoned in to IKEA again and this time spoke with a woman that spent her time explaining to me how IKEA is just so busy and now they have shut off the queue and are not receiving any more calls. I tried to explain to her my frustration (after another 25 minutes on hold) and she said sorry and proceeded to tell me that I would have to phone IKEA back sometime tomorrow. At this point, I would have gladly paid a local kitchen cabinet maker more money to do the job properly and on time. I will never recommend to anyone at anytime to contemplate dealing with IKEA kitchen/home planner.
Reviewed Dec. 4, 2019
IKEA is fun to shop at, but there is no real customer service help. You have to haul the furniture yourself and assemble it yourself. That does usually make the furniture prices less expensive, though.
Reviewed Dec. 3, 2019
I ordered a table and 2 trestles. They delivered the wrong items, tried to call them to get my order right and waited for 1 hour before I could speak with someone, no call back service, I gave up in the end. I am not using them again.
Reviewed Dec. 2, 2019
I live in a condo apartment and I purchased the entire kitchen system from IKEA Canada in November. When I placed an order, I've mentioned that I have a strict condo board, and I need to have them delivered in a specific time period. They sounded like they can put an instruction note for a delivery guy, so I decided to use this service.
Nov 23rd from 7PM - 10PM was scheduled for delivery, and I paid $150 to my condo board for booking an elevator. They called me on the same day and said, not all of the items are in stock, and they have to split my delivery into two. Instead of getting splitting my order, I've decided to get all of them together on Nov 26th, and I had to pay another $150 for the elevator booking.
On 26th, they called me again and said, they have 2 items still missing still so that they have to split my order again. I asked them how big are those two pieces to see if I have to book an elevator again. One of them was 96" long cabinet back panel, so I ended up wasting another $150. However, this time IKEA paid me $150 for my elevator booking. That is why I'm giving them one star.
On 30th, the delivery guy called me and he cannot deliver those two pieces in the time period that I booked an elevator for. I was pretty upset with this and called customer support. His name was Ali and he kept blaming me and my condo board about the whole situation and ask me to keep paying more for the elevator if the delivery guy fails to deliver the items in a specific time period. And this Ali guy refused to give me a refund because he knows that I will not book an elevator for them to pick up the items.
I ended up renting the U-Haul and picked those remaining two pieces up by myself to not waste more money/time on this poor delivery service. I wasted a total of $700 for booking 4 elevator sessions and renting a u-haul, about 10 hours talking to them on the phone, and they were blaming me and my condo for all these. Even though if they have delivered all the items by November 23rd on time as promised, none of these would happen. Don't use this service unless you have a flexible time when getting the delivery service. You will end up spending so much money if they delay their delivery, and they will blame you for this. Thank you.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2019
I placed an order online for pickup in the store. After ordering the piece of furniture, I found that it was going to be too large to fit where it needed to go. When I went to my local IKEA to pick up my piece of furniture, I explained to the customer service representative what had happened. The customer service representative told me that it would not be a problem for me to return the item and then pick out something else. Luckily, I had printed a page from the website showing the item I needed to fit properly. The customer service representative cheerfully took care of all of my needs, and they even brought my purchase out to my vehicle and loaded it for me.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2019
I purchased my furniture online and needed a redelivery. Took me 5 calls to reach IKEA's general customer service number (888-888-4532). The first two times they were cut off before I was able to speak to anyone. The 3rd time was a transfer and then cut off again. The 4th time someone picked up, but no one was talking and eventually got cut off as well. Finally, I was able to get some assistance, but the lady put me on hold for so long to look up a new delivery date.
This is my first and last time that I'll be shopping at IKEA online. This type of garbage service for a long standing company is absolutely ridiculous and disappointing. If you have to shop at IKEA, I advise you all to just go to store directly and pick up your furniture. The hassle for their cheap furniture is not worth the time. I'm giving 2 stars because my issue was at least resolved. But seriously IKEA, get your management/customer service department in order unless you want to lose more loyal customers. Now excuse me as I look through #Amazon website for my next furniture.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2019
Ikea is my first choice when furniture shopping because there are so many choices and because the prices are modest. While I realize many people do not want to purchase furniture that they have to assemble themselves, I do not mind doing that if the price is right. I also like the way that Ikea has all of their products displayed in a way that you can see how the finished product will look when assembled. Some of the items are very good quality, while others are not. I have never tried to return anything to the store so I cannot speak to the return policy.
One complaint that I have is that there are often not enough store employees on the floor to assist with questions. Also, due to the fact that there are so many products available, often times, the employees cannot answer questions about the products. This is why I do a lot of research online before going to the store. I also appreciate that when you go to Ikea to shop for furniture, there are also options to shop for home goods such as dishware and decorative items. And they serve food!
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2019
IKEA continues to offer good basic quality put-it-together-yourself furniture. I bought a Kivik sofa with a chaise. It was delivered quickly and despite what people say, the instructions were spot on. (IF you FOLLOW them!) My only problem with the sofa is that it sits a little "hard" but I think that's because the cover is a very thick, strong material which I hope will soften over time. I'd buy it again, and plan to!
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2019
I notice that IKEA's website offers no place for general customer comments. I'm not surprised after my recent experience at one of your stores which was undeniably the worst in store retail experience I've ever had. Ever. I have been an IKEA shopper since I was a student in Germany in the early 1980s. The entire IKEA retail experience has been one of best over the course of the years. Lately, however something has gone wrong. First, it was the Dale City, VA store, now in Charlotte. Starting with the restaurant food. It was horrible. The warm food was cold, and what used to be generous portions were now laughable. The coffee, which used to be so memorable and worth a visit just for a cup, was more like brown water.
My first experience with reduced and bitter staff was several months ago in Virginia. I assumed it was an anomaly. Now, I've never been overly impressed by the staff at IKEA. IKEA is self-serve, I get it. But these last two trips....wow. Rude, unresponsive, unknowledgeable, disinterested, unfriendly...have I missed anything? And, guidance?
Trying to buy an under counter lighting system takes a PhD. There is no information and staff doesn't know how it works. A single, simple, under counter light would cost me over $50. For one light. Ever heard of Amazon? Walmart? Lowe's? Home Depot? Shelving units are mislabeled. For instance, your tags says this shelving unit is $24. But read carefully and buyer beware. That price includes just one bracket, which of course is how 90% of shelving units are installed, with one bracket... The real cost is higher, but unless the buyer is very careful, an $8 surprise awaits them at checkout.
In the product pick-up area, their 5 staff members clustered around a computer screen are too busy to pay attention or even acknowledge a customer needing help. Oh, I have go to my own computer stand, locate and order my furniture there, email myself a bill, pay for it, stand around waiting for one of the five unresponsive and bitter employees to fill my order for furniture I used be able to get myself. Having already spent 2.5 hours in the store, I ordered my furniture this way and proceeded to checkout to pay for it and the rest of stuff in my cart. The lines ahead were long, the space was dark, the faces on the cashiers were lifeless and beaten. I felt like I was in Prague in 1977. Come to think of it, just like every other IKEA staff person I had encountered over the last 2.5 hours in your store. I couldn't deal with it anymore.
Maybe it was the idea of having just wasted a day driving to your store, shopping in your store and then having to drive back 2 hours but I couldn't go through with it. I had over $3000 worth of furniture and stuff but just left it. I realized, why would I spend any money in a poorly run store, with staff so bitter, with a company that presumes that 2.5 million customers 2 hours away would drive and have to spend a day getting to one of their stores. No thanks.
Thanks to your corporate cost cutting measures, you've chosen not to open a store in the Raleigh-Durham CMSA which puts the closest stores 2 or more hours away, 4 hours roundtrip. Your staff know that people are driving hours to your stores. They couldn't care less. News flash, IKEA, keep up your attitude and you will lose more than just this once loyal 40 year customer. It's not worth the drive to be treated so badly.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2019
IKEA has a wide range of furniture and home essentials. They have a wide variety at an affordable price. Sometimes the material isn't as long lasting but on a lower budget you can definitely get nice furniture and your wallet won't be drained.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2019
I have spent $10K on Ikea cabinets for a Kitchen. My review; Do NOT expect any help from Ikea, all they know is the design program and the theory. They know how to sell it to you. Expect to hire a cabinet professional to make the kitchen look finished. There is little trim available from Ikea, it has to be made. The savings look good from the onset but my experience, THE SAVINGS IS NOT WORTH IT & they deplete considerably as the project progresses.
I have another kitchen to build in another house I am moving to. It will NOT be ikea. The up side, the kitchens are incredibly intuitive & well thought out. They go together easily if you can follow the complicated plans. The finished product looks good. Not great, just good. The down side, the material is awful. Any modifications are very difficult because of the materials it is made of. Much of it is actually compressed paper. The communications with Ikea is awful. As advice for your project they send you to third party you-tube videos. The support is dismal, the store personnel are rude & un-knowledgeable & the store management is poor & unavailable. The frustration was NOT worth the savings. I am a retired construction veteran. I know construction. I will not work with Ikea again, ever.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2019
To begin, I would like to say that it is not the product where Ikea fails, it's their customer service. We are renovating the kitchen and their customer service staff is unfriendly. They make you feel inferior and stupid, constantly saying "let me explain"... Now had you listened and ask me for further details you wouldn't sell me what I do not want, instead offering and saying they think it looks better. IT'S NOT YOUR KITCHEN TO DECIDE. Every time you deal with customer service in store, Tampa, Florida, its poor and other local suppliers are friendlier for slightly more price. My advice, leave Ikea for knick-knacks or just leave them in general.
Reviewed Nov. 12, 2019
Horrible online service! Not only they forgot to cancel my order in time, even though I called and told them to, they shipped my package and now telling me that shipping fees are nonrefundable! This wouldn't have happened in the first place if they actually cancelled my order when I made the phone call to. Not only that, in order to get this unsatisfied result, I had to make 6 phone calls, only 3 connected, other 2 were transferred and just cut out for some reason! They really need to fix their online store and customer service quality.
Reviewed Nov. 12, 2019
Could not help us in assembling furniture even though kitchen furniture was getting installed. They want us to install furniture through their third party vendor UrbanClap. Already their other vendor had taken wrong measurements due to which kitchen assembly is challenge. All money wastage. Never go by their word. Now they are not ready to help saying 90 days period over.
Reviewed Nov. 9, 2019
Hello, We ordered kitchen base cabinets that were due to be delivered today. I just spent my morning trying to get a window for a delivery window. After 3 calls totaling just over 2 hours I was told that the delivery is delayed. Customer support staff were pleasant enough but needed to continually transfer me to other departments where I had to wait on hold for 20 - 30 minutes. Please save yourself the aggravation and purchase your kitchen cabinets from an established kitchen cabinet provider.
Reviewed Nov. 7, 2019
Idea is a very pleasant visual product but what you have to take into account is that if it is not done with precise construction then you will see imperfections in your final design. Unfortunately you can't really repair the mishaps as the wood is very soft. Even with a professional installation there is almost no room for error when building.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2019
IKEA has easy-to-assemble furniture, their showroom is really fun to walk around, and I love the meals in their cafeteria! As someone from Swedish ancestry, I appreciate having dishes and ingredients that remind me of what my grandparents used to make.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2019
Ikea is a great experience and I really do like that they switch out their products every so often, though there are times when something is discontinued that I would have liked some notice before it went away. However the customer service is a different matter and it has made me reconsider buying from ikea on numerous occasions. The system used to track what is in stock and the store is unreliable and in NYC where it is like planning warfare to plan the logistics of a large pickup from ikea it is disheartening and infuriating. Delivery is another thing. XPO logistics is garbage.
I had the worst experience with ikea delivery in which the delivery company baldly stated that "YOUR truck does not have a driver" when I called them to check on the status of a delivery that was suppose to come that morning. The hemming and hawing and COMPLETE lack of accountability from XPO logistics was a huge turnoff. Ultimately it make me think for the most part ikea may be a fun place to browse and the designs are sometimes great but larger furniture purchases are best left for other retailers that can deliver.
Reviewed Nov. 3, 2019
I like IKEA a lot, but sometimes the instructions are too hard to follow. Also, when shopping in store it’s nearly impossible to find an employee for help. Last time I shopped the Burbank store, I tried to shop in the food store after checking out. Not a single employee was available to ring up my frozen items. They told me I’d have to wait in the other line again, which was a 20 minute wait the first time. So I left.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2019
We recently moved into a new home and I purchased several items online with IKEA to be picked up in store. We rented a U-HAUL truck and everything. Mind you my order was around 2500. When we got there to pick it up the Customer service rep explained to me that one of the items I ordered was unavailable so my entire ordered was cancelled per their policy and I would get a refund in about 3-7 business days. They stated I can rebuy the items that were available costing me another 2500 today. You shouldn’t be able to order and item not in stock online and why would you cancel all the other items I purchased cause 1 item wasn’t available. Not everyone has an extra 2500 sitting available to repurchase the items. Something should have been done for our inconvenience. I highly don’t recommend making a large purchase online.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2019
On my first visit to IKEA, I felt it was an adult "Disney Land". I was there so long, I stayed for lunch! Now, that is what I plan on doing every time I shop there. Lots of neat, useful household items and great prices. You have to be a bit handy to put together some furniture but for the price and quality, it is well worth it.
Reviewed Nov. 1, 2019
NEVER ORDER FROM IKEA ONLINE. I ordered a sofa, a desk and a kitchen island from IKEA online. The top to the kitchen island was missing. I called customer service and let them know that I built the island and the top was missing. After being transferred many times and being put on hold I was told they couldn’t send me the top and I would have to wait three weeks for another island. I got a call from the delivery service that the delivery was scheduled so I took off work and waited. They showed up to pick up the island but had nothing to deliver.
After another hour with customer service they said they arranged pick up before the delivery by mistake. The new island is scheduled in two more days. I took off work and wondered why I didn’t get a delivery window call from the delivery company. I called and they said there is nothing to deliver. When I spent two more hours on the phone with ikea they told me sorry it’s out of stock now and would have to wait another 3 weeks to get a new island. They could offer me a refund which will show up in a couple weeks and I can drive to ikea and buy a new island and just use the top. They offered nothing for all my inconvenience except for $29 refund in shipping (still haven’t seen that refund) and could care less about all the time and aggravation I went through. Horrible experience!
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2019
Ordered a Kitchen. Two drawer fronts were backordered. No one told us. We thought they were paid for. Then said they were not. Getting through to anyone-nightmare. On hold sooo long only to be disconnected many times. Recording says they are too busy to take the call -call back later. 15+ times so far.. Their solution to us was to drive 1.5 hours to the store. Maybe they will have them. Maybe they won't.
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2019
While I overall like the products that IKEA sells I feel like they could make the instructions easier to follow. Some of the smaller parts used during assembly are hard to tell apart, and if you end up using the wrong part in the wrong step it may be difficult to fix the mistake.
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2019
IKEA is a huge store with a large variety of home goods but I don't shop there often because I feel the quality of their merchandise isn't that great for the price! I went looking for bedroom night stands and they were pretty expensive and all were veneers. I found the sofas to be quite expensive also and not good quality. I did find basic kitchen tools at a reasonable price. It's ok for apartment shopping but I really believe if you take your time and shop around that you can find better quality furniture and home goods at better prices. You can get some inspiration for designing if you don't know where to start...just shop around first!
Reviewed Oct. 29, 2019
I like Ikea because they are very thoughtful to their customers in my experience. If they miss a delivery date they do not charge you. I love their products and the food court. In California the employees are very helpful. For the most part the products I bought from ikea last a long time. They have a great return policy. The children love to shop at IKEA and we have a great time. You can never leave the store without buying something!
Reviewed Oct. 28, 2019
The various IKEA stores I have shopped at in different cities (and even in different countries) are all characterized by some common features: nice exhibits, plenty of product choices in every department, abundant inventory stock, very competitive pricing. However, the stores also come with very sparse sales/store attendant presence.
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2019
First time ever visiting the store and we were very disappointed. We found a chair we liked and tried to find the cushion. After 10 minutes of trying to get help from a customer service attendant we were told the cushion wouldn't be in stock till that next Thursday. After driving an hour home we found it is not available online. I don't understand why we could not buy this online and now have to drive two hours round trip to pick up a cushion. I will not be shopping here again.
Reviewed Oct. 23, 2019
Ordered furniture online cancelled in the 24 hours, recieved funds back minus service fee of 69 euros. When I complained I received a no reply email stating they would not refund this back to me. Terrible customer service.
Reviewed Oct. 23, 2019
I placed an order online (IKEA USA, Burbank, CA) on 10/19/2019 and it was supposed to be delivered by 10/22/2019. Not only it was not delivered but also the status of the order never changed from Processing. After being IKEA's customer for several years and making orders online, this is the first time such a thing has happened to me. I tried to reach the customer service and find out what has happened with my order, after 2 hours of talking to multiple representatives all of them kept connecting me to each other and nobody could tell what has happened to my order. Finally, one of them said, it is in the warehouse and FEDEX hasn't picked it up yet. He didn't give me any reason why this has happened and didn't give me any estimate of when I should be expecting the products to be delivered and didn't allow me cancel the order and get a refund. When did IKEA become like this?! This is ridiculous!
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2019
Oct 5th I placed an order and the estimated delivery date was Oct 15th. I received an email on October 14th to rate their service. I can’t rate them if I don’t have the product. I called Oct 15th twice. Once in the morning and once late in the day. Discovered my order left their Mississauga warehouse on October 11th. A third party delivery company is used for where I live and I am still waiting to hear from them to schedule a delivery time. Today is October 16th. I cleared my days to accommodate this delivery and I can’t track it and as of yesterday it was still in Toronto. I have spoken to 4 customer service representatives and 3 of the 4 were rude. They did offer me a $20 gift card for my troubles!!! Never again will I order from Ikea. Amazon or Wayfair all the way next time. The apologies are empty and $20 hardly compensates us for our time. My expectations were not well managed.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2019
We bought a brand new kitchen, everything was fine and good for delivery. They asked us when we wanted it delivered so we asked for the afternoon since we all work and could only be there at 1pm. They arrived at 11h am even though we asked for later and told us they would still come this early because they were around. This for me isn't acceptable. We ask for a time there is a reason. They just got lucky I managed to come early. They also never put the delivery where I showed them where to put it after they ask me but proceeded to put it everywhere around. A real mess.
Reviewed Oct. 15, 2019
An online purchase was made 7-OCT-2019, and with USD 79.99 (plus tax) the delivery was scheduled for 11-OCT-2019. On 10-OCT-2019, an e-mail was received stating delivery will be made on 11-OCT between 3 and 7 PM, via XPO Logistics. Throughout 11-OCT, we had at least 1 adult staying home to receive the shipment. Yet, no one show up on 11-OCT, neither anyone ringing us up until 6:31 PM. At that point, IKEA called us indicating delivery failed because the route is being blocked by police. IKEA person also indicated the driver been trying to contact us *multiple* times but no one picks up. We further received e-mail stating delivery attempt failed.
Here is the truth: 1) no driver contacted us throughout 11-OCT but only the call made by IKEA person at 6:31 PM, 2) no route within 5 miles was closed by police which was verified by Town Police plus my husband was driving home at about 6 PM not noticing any closure of route within home proximity, 3) I was home throughout the day and there was NO delivery attempt made which IKEA's e-mail sounds misleading.
We called IKEA at 6:48 PM same day, wanting to follow-up on the non-existence of road closure as well as e-mailed received. However, After-Sale service of IKEA is NON-existence. We hit the recording message stating they experiencing high call volume and instruct customer to use online portal. We got hung up by IKEA after that; no option for another extension, no voice message could be left. Even with reaching to Sale Inquiry Customer Service (ones who support to place order), we got transferred to same recording 4 times. In frustration, one girl from Sale Inquiry team finally tried to get hold of their After-Sale person first before transferring us. Yet, the After-Sale customer service person was not offering any help but told us the truck was gone and it is our fault not picking up the Delivery guy's call (which again, there was no truck ever here and we did not receive any call from them).
In anger, I cancelled the order but was told Delivery Fee of US 79.99 plus tax cannot be refunded since it is our fault. After another half hours negotiation, IKEA finally agrees to also refund the Delivery Fee. BUT!, we were told there be no e-mail confirmation but just recording on their end. It is 15-OCT-2019 today, we have not receive any credit back towards our credit card, neither any note on our IKEA Online Account stating the order been cancelled. We tried calling IKEA service line again, we reached same recording that the line is experiencing high call volume. And yes, we got hung up by the IKEA service line again.
On 11-OCT-2019, upon the call with IKEA we also e-mailed them to follow-up. Per their website, inquiries will be replied within 48 hours. It has been 84 hours since our e-mail, and nothing came back from IKEA still. Overall, the IKEA delivery and customer service experiences are HORRIBLE. We will NOT consider to use their delivery service in the future. We also DO NOT RECOMMEND using IKEA delivery service. We later made a purchase in-store that weekend on 12-OCT, and hired a small van for delivery instead.
Reviewed Oct. 15, 2019
I bought 500 USD worth of furniture in Japan. Eight months later, I had to return to the US and sent back all furniture new, unused, with the packaging not even opened. IKEA Japan has a 365-day return policy and I have several emails acknowledging I was owed a full refund. And then, because of an error on their end, they could not process a refund to my American credit card! I didn't understand - it was a MasterCard that can be used internationally. It was the same MasterCard they had no trouble charging 500 USD in the first place. For four months I've been arguing back and forth with IKEA. They will only mail a check to a Japanese address; I asked them multiple times to contact IKEA US for me, so that my American CC could be refunded. They refused. I reached out to IKEA US for help - they also refused. This is a total scam.
Reviewed Oct. 10, 2019
I purchased two IKEA twin mattresses for my set of IKEA pull out beds on September 7, 2017 when we arrived in California. One was about 4" high and the other about 5" high designed specifically to go on those pull-out twin beds; they have compressed in the center by two inches each making them virtually unusable after only two years.
Has anyone else had this experience with their mattresses? They are foam with dimples covered in a stiff zip on polyester cover. I use them 95% of the time one on top of the other and only occasionally separate them onto the pull-out and main bed when my grandchildren are sleeping over. I remember paying about $325 or so for them, but have put away the purchase documents in my garage file and haven't pulled it out so don't remember the details.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2019
This is the most horrible and frustrating experience I have ever had with any customer service I have had with any retailer! I order the Havsta shelving unit on Sep. 9th and granted I was very busy that weekend so I scheduled the delivery for the 21st. The 21st comes along and there is an error in my order so I get an email that says so and that they are going to reschedule. I call them and when they went to transfer me to the right department instead of putting me on a queue or to offer to call me back the telephone just ends the call. So I was left to wait for an email from them.
I then get an email saying my package has been shipped. I tracked it and it said that it was in Perryville, MD, I live in Baltimore, MD so it's not too far away. So they said my package was supposed to arrive today, Oct. 4th, and yet again I get an email saying there is an error in my order. I also get a phone call from the warehouse saying it has not even arrived in Perryville, I call and the call again gets cut. I am NEVER going to shop online with IKEA ever again. This is horrendous customer service, no help, I am very close to just asking for a refund but again I don't want to further complicate with their ** customer service.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2019
Very disappointed with this facility! Although they are a Pick-up and Order facility, they do have items for sale and cabinets, etc. showcased. As such, I arranged for a consultant to come to my home to assist with a kitchen renovation I was planning. This was at my cost of $224.87 with taxes included! They did not show up as arranged appointment, resulting in a loss of both time and income for me!!! I called the locally listed store and was put on hold off-and-on for over an hour!!! I then discovered that the call was routed to the 'BURLINGTON' store and never went to Windsor at all!
After any 10 to 15 second attempted conversation I was put on hold for another 10 to 15 minutes without them answering any of my questions. They pointed the finger on Traemand (?) who they said was the company they subcontracted appointments to. I was able to determine that this company operated out of "MONTREAL" and while I was still on hold with IKEA had my wife call them directly. Traemand was more helpful in answering questions and said that IKEA never sent them the referral. Frustrated.... my wife and I decided to hang up on Burlington and drove from our home in Amherstburg to Windsor despite a 40+ km drive, it would be quicker than waiting for them to take me off hold.
Once there, again we were not given an explanation and simply told "sorry it wasn't our fault" and given our requested reimbursement. We cancelled any plans we had of buying cabinets from them as it was clear that they would not be available to address any potential concerns or problems we might have with the cabinets should it be required. IKEA's telephone procedures demonstrate a total lack of concern or respect for their customers. DON'T DEAL WITH THIS STORE!
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2019
I like Ikea products but their delivery is awful. Like nightmare bad. They charge $100 for delivery! They will give you a 12-hour window for delivery during a workday and make a call right when the driver gets to your place and if they miss you, they will charge another $50 for redelivery. The customer service is rude and ineffectual. I had to make three separate calls to get the delivery rescheduled. And that was not because they were busy. That's their system! Reminded me of government offices back home in India! If you have Ikea within driving distance go for it. But if you opt for delivery be ready to pay a lot of money for terrible service.
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2019
I bought a unit online and due the complete lack of customer service I will never buy anything here. It had to be returned to a store cause the phone support is unbelievably bad. The fact that you your company says you are unable to answer calls because you’re too busy, is absurd. When we returned to Portland store, we only got the price of the unit in the gift card. So I guess we're out the sales tax, and the shipping. Plus I’ll never buy anything there again. So the gift card is pointless. Then it took 10 days for them to answer my email. That’s not quite between 48 and 72 hours. We had already took it to the store. Too busy to answer phone call!!!! Unbelievable! But I will be sure to let everybody know about my 1st and only.
Reviewed Sept. 30, 2019
It is near impossible to get someone to answer the phone. No one has responded to any of my emails. I will never attempt to buy from IKEA again. I was told to purchase my order online, then call customer service and they would assist me with my total. After about the 75th time trying to get through, I finally got someone to answer. She them told me I needed to email another department to get my needs met. So I did. I have emailed them several times now and nothing. In my email, I said DO NOT SHIP until my total is correct. Still, no answer. I got an email today that my order has shipped. I emailed that department as well as the department I had been emailing before. So, I have cancelled my order (well emailed bc no one will answer the phone) and I will REFUSE the delivery. Communication is the worst I have EVER seen with ANY company. Never again!
Reviewed Sept. 25, 2019
DON'T order anything online. Never received my order. I call and the call always gets dropped when they transfer me to "someone" who can help with a refund. I've called in the morning right when the phones open, afternoon and night. Customer service is not only terrible but it's non existent. Just go to the store if you absolutely have to buy one of their products because if you need a refund you'll never get it. Horrible. Never had this much trouble or my money stolen by a company before. I've had bad experiences but in the end they get resolved. This wasn't the case.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2019
I bought a mattress online based on the guarantee that I can return it if I don't like it. To return an online order I need to call them so I can schedule pick up. I've been calling them for the past 4 days, multiple times a day and the automated message always says that they are experiencing higher than normal call volume and then it hangs up. If it's higher than normal volume, then why can't they place me on hold or collect my number and call me back when they can? Or why they don't increase the number of telephone reps? Otherwise their return policy is a scam. As you can buy something based on the promise that you can return it but when you try to return it you cannot get hold of them. TOTAL SCAM!
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2019
We went shopping in the Hicksville store and purchased two Gronlid armchairs in a light green fabric cover. Merchandise arrived missing the covers for both chairs. Continual attempts to reach the company proving useless. Automated voice switches caller to a variety of choices ("damaged goods, press... missing parts, press...") and then after asking about taking a survey after your call, it's announced that caller volume is too high to address your issue and disconnects. Filling out the online form also proves useless as after inputting all data it won't budge/send.
Problems with fields ("case number") since one can't contact anyone to GET a case number. I even tried selecting an extension for new purchases during the attempted phone call, and it went nowhere (deadline) after online music for a few minutes. I have two brand new chairs with exposed cotton batting and no upholstery. It was pointed out to the delivery people and they confirmed boxes were missing. How can anyone get a hold of this company? It lists the same number for all contact.
Reviewed Sept. 21, 2019
I order same product from mart89.com, the quality is not very good. But I order Ikea products is really good finish and deliver to me on time. I suggest many other my friends a relative to order Ikea same entertainment unit. All those peoples are also satisfy.
Reviewed Sept. 21, 2019
Pray to Odin that you never need customer service, because they don't have any. I have been trying for three weeks to get a refund for an order I had previously cancelled, pretty sure it's a lost cause at this point.
Reviewed Sept. 19, 2019
Understand you are taking a huge risk ordering from IKEA. The delivery service is awful and has zero flexibility. I changed a delivery date due to work conflicts, and the delivery service agreed to change the day to a Friday. I took off work, losing an entire days pay only to have them confirm delivery on a different day the following week. When I contacted IKEA they refused to try and resolve the matter leaving me no choice but to cancel the order. I then had to make 4 phone calls (being cut off multiple times) trying to get my refund processed. 35 days later they claimed my refund was issued within 10 business days. Someone flunked math. I will never do business with them again. Unless you’re persistent and determined you will not receive your refund and you’ll never get any customer service at all.
Reviewed Sept. 16, 2019
I placed an order on 8/30/2019 and they said it would be delivered 9/13/2019. I found this alone to be ridiculous - why 2 weeks to deliver 2 dressers? The 13th rolls around, I still haven't gotten a call to schedule the delivery. I call IKEA, they tell me that it's still supposed to be delivered that date and they give me the phone number for STI, their freight company. I call them, and they tell me that IKEA does not have any say in when they deliver something and they haven't even received the shipment from the distributor yet. It's now the 16th and I still haven't gotten a call. Meanwhile, my clothes are all sitting on my floor. Never ordering from IKEA again.
Reviewed Sept. 12, 2019
If you are reading reviews to find out if buying at IKEA is good, then I strongly recommend you to consider buy your furniture somewhere else. Run away. You are just about to lose your time and your money. And get a hard time for sure. I bought a chair online. It was an office chair with arms for 300 dollars. And I only received the armchairs in a box. I’ve been trying to contact customer service dept more than 40 times, and there is always a recording machine saying that they are too busy to take my call, that use the form that I can find in their webpage. I did it. And I’m still here waiting for a reply. No solution at all. This is scamming. They steal your money and give you a hard time and waste your time. Unbelievably worst customer service, worst delivery of products and they steal your money. My advice: find other place to buy your furniture. IKEA is a nightmare.
Reviewed Sept. 11, 2019
If I could give a zero star rating I would. I went to the Ikea Store in Red Hook, NY and decided to buy the matching Kullaberg desk and chair. They were out of stock of the desk so they suggested I get the chair there and get the desk delivered, and that's what I did. The delivery arrived 4 days later. I received 2 boxes, one with the table top, and one with the metal frame and screws, etc. When I received them both of the boxes had holes in them. The one with the metal frame and screws, etc. was wide open at the top. The plastic bag inside with all the screws also had a hole in it and about half of them were scattered around the box. Luckily none of the parts I received were damaged, but I am missing 2 small parts: one of the 102696 pieces, and one of the flat 141257 pieces. They must have fallen out through the wide open top of the box.
I emailed them right away asking them to send the missing parts, but it's been 4 days and I have yet to hear from them. I also took their survey and explained the situation, but they haven't reached out to me. I couldn't reach anyone on the phone because it would automatically cut off after saying "We are experiencing higher than usual call volume, goodbye." I called 5 times today and after I experienced that^^^ a couple times and being hung up on by a human voice a couple times, I finally talked to a customer service representative, who in the end could not serve his customer (me) because he didn't have access to anything.
They have one of the very worst customer services I have ever experienced and I can only assume they have given up because they are are going out of business. In the end, I have gained junk (pieces to a desk that I will never be able to use, and a chair that I will never take out of the box because I only got it to match the desk) and lost about $300 and a ton of unpaid hours dealing with this extreme inconvenience. Never shop with IKEA delivery because you will be shopping for nothing, in fact you will be working for free. I want IKEA to give me my money back now.
Reviewed Sept. 11, 2019
Worst Customer Service and Home Delivery - at the same time. I ordered some furniture on August 14, and due to the issues with the delivery department, I still have not received them (it's is Sept 11 today). I tried to call the Customer Service. First, they forwarded my call to another department, where I got the message "Sorry, we are receiving high call volume now" and the line got disconnected. After that, I tried to call them again, and could not even get to a person. I have been waiting for my delivery for almost a month. I feel like IKEA stole my money, as they took the money right away, and did not give anything in return - I consider this stealing. If you are thinking about getting something delivered from IKEA, do yourself a favor and just don't. If you can go there and pick it up by yourself, do that, otherwise look elsewhere for your furniture.
Reviewed Sept. 9, 2019
Although IKEA may provide home furnishings that are within budget, if anything goes wrong with the order, good luck getting in touch with them. Wait times are over 60 minutes on the phone, but don't worry about waiting, the telephone message system will just tell you they are too busy to take your call and hang up on you. Trying to email? Unless your issue fits on one of their "form emails," you will be unsuccessful at getting service. I am shocked by people saying they had to call upwards of 10 and 15 times to get service, then still giving IKEA 4 stars. No! I am trying to return to them something I did NOT order, and there does not appear to be any possibility of that happening. I have called (and been hung up on 2X), I have emailed 2X. No resolution yet.
Reviewed Sept. 9, 2019
Tried to make an online IKEA order during one of their sales. I kept getting a generic data transfer error. I sent an email and gave up figuring I would figure it out the next day either by a response to the email or by calling them. So far I have not gotten an email response, so I tried calling. Most of the calls don't go through and it says that there is a larger than normal volume of calls so good luck try again later. When I finally got through to someone we went back and forth for awhile. She gave her thought on what these general errors MIGHT have been. She finally said she would forward me to another department that might be able to help. Then when I was forwarded I again got the recording that there are too many calls and to try some other time. So their website throws errors, and it's just about impossible to get ahold of anyone to even figure out what can be done.
Reviewed Sept. 8, 2019
IKEA does not have enough personnel to help costumers. Waiting periods are extremely long to get help in every department. There are always long lines to pay because they are short of staff. The return department is the worse I ever seen. I waited close to two hours just to speak to an associate and when I finally got to the counter, the associate showed an attitude and made me wait another 10 minutes while she writes on the computer.
I felt worse than when I go to an emergency room at the hospitals. The furniture materials on wardrobes and closets are not worth the price they ask for. Delivery is very expensive and the service they provide for assembling is way too expensive. Assembling can go from $200 dollars and up for one to two pieces. I will definitely will not recommend IKEA for any furniture or equipment, unless is something small you can carry in your hands straight home. I had a very bad experience buying things in there for my son to go back to school. He was very disappointed as well. IKEA can do better for all customers.
Reviewed Sept. 7, 2019
Ordered 10 items (desks, chairs, mattress cover, storage case & some accessories such as scissors); took us almost two weeks and there're still items missing.
=> Delivery process:
- 1st time: delivery guy called us but never showed up (we kept calling him, but he just texted us saying he couldn't talk & finally told us our delivery is cancelled when the delivery time slot is over).- 2nd time: they could not schedule the delivery within the time slot, and the delivery is in the afternoon, so they just cancelled it without notice.
- 3rd time: they messed up the street number with the unit number (although it is initially correct in our order and we confirmed it many times over the phone when rescheduling deliveries); great that the delivery driver figured it out and arrived, but 2 items are missing (a desk and a storage case).
- 4th delivery: item out of stock so it's not delivered; no notice is given.
- We finally agreed to refund the missing items. They said it would take 3-7 business days. Waited for more than one week & still didn't get our money back.
=> Caveats:
-No notice would be given if any accident happened to the delivery. The delivery window is 4-hour long & you have to be at home the entire time.-To reschedule deliveries, it takes around 30-40 minutes to reach the after-sales department over the phone & sometimes they simply drop our call (nobody picked up & call hanged up) and we have to wait again, all the way from beginning.
-Don't schedule deliveries in afternoons if you can: they could be cut off & cancelled if there are too many items.
Good luck for anyone who chooses IKEA home delivery. Be prepared to waste your time.
Reviewed Sept. 6, 2019
Had to visit the store just because they didn't have time slot available but then delivery not made on time. Had to ask supper to take delivery. Missing item. Dirty products. They disconnected the call the first time.. Since then have had to call 4 times. Each time the wait time is more than 2 hours to get in touch with after sales team. Had specifically mentioned to keep the delivery time 9am to 12 noon. Received an email saying delivery time 9 am to 3pm. Feels as if I paid more than a thousand dollars to get a headache.
Reviewed Sept. 6, 2019
Ordered a wardrobe, took off from work, hired someone to build, problem - Ikea only sent two out of 3 boxes, could not build. They gave me a redelivery date, took off from work again, they didn't deliver, they then said there was a computer glitch. They offered to e-mail a $50 gift certificate via e-mail and refund the entire delivery fee, neither one was received. Don't know if they ever plan to deliver the third box, will complain to BBB. Ikea managers straight out don't tell the truth and say anything to get you off the line. After spending hours and entire days trying to get through on the phone, with all this aggravation, they should give me the wardrobe for free. Do not buy online or could end up with a similar nightmare. If you need Ikea stuff go to the store.
Reviewed Sept. 5, 2019
We had a choice when we bought an IKEA kitchen. We could have gone with Home Depot or custom. We tried to save money and went with IKEA. This is a big mistake unless you hire them to do it all for you. They have a great sales and design process and are willing to help you plan your kitchen. I wish I had know what a monumental pain it is to assemble and install one of these kitchens. Our contractor led us to believe that it would be no problem. Obviously, he thinks he can do anything, but when it came installing this kitchen it might as well have been the space shuttle he was building. IKEA's instructions are like reading hieroglyphics.
Everything we have is off square, doesn't fit right and looks terrible. I doubt it will last out the warranty and, I fear that because they didn't install it the warranty will be voided anyway. Good luck getting through to customer service too. They just told me they were busy and go to the website. My advice to IKEA; WARN YOUR UNSUSPECTING CUSTOMERS THAT YOUR KITCHENS SHOULD BE INSTALLED BY YOU AND NOT HOUSEWIVES, AND husbands that do not know what they are getting into. UGH!
Reviewed Sept. 5, 2019
I ordered the Songesand dresser as well as several other items from IKEA on 8/20/19. They were scheduled to be delivered on 8/31/19, which they were, almost. One of the packages for the Songesand dresser was not delivered, which the delivery person noted on his paperwork. He stated I would have to call IKEA to report the problem. It is now 5 days later, and I have not been able to successfully contact IKEA about this issue. I have called well over a dozen times so far. I have been put on hold for a total of probably over 2 hours. Usually, the line will eventually disconnect (this is not a problem from my end, it must be IKEA's phone system) or when a "customer support" person attempts to transfer me, the transfer never happens. Instead, I get the message, "I'm sorry, we're experiencing a higher than normal call volume... goodbye." There is no option to wait on hold or to leave a message when this happens.
Eventually yesterday the customer support person told me (after I had already been on the phone for an hour) that he could not get a hold of anyone in their sales department, and that I would have to call back later. Today, I have not been able to speak to any human so far. I am done calling them and will now be putting a stop payment on my credit card for the order. I will not pay for items that I did not receive and since their customer service is virtually nonexistent I guess they cannot resolve this issue. Do not order anything from IKEA online. The headache and wasted time is not worth it. Get your furniture literally anywhere else.
Reviewed Sept. 4, 2019
We went to return one item. Waited 1 hour and 20 min. Our number still did not come up (we were only 5 numbers off) so my husband asked one of the return reps what happened with our number. He said “Come back tomorrow if you want." We got there at 7:15 pm, it was 8:40 pm now. I asked to speak to a manager. He explained they were short handed and it is what it is but at least he stayed until that same rep pulled up our number. He pulled up the item on the screen with a price of $39.99 but said he couldn’t process it.
I told him to ask someone else for help. He again said to come back “tomorrow.” I told him it was ridiculous for us to wait over 1.5 hrs to return one item and now he wasn’t able to because of a glitch in the computer even though I was staring at it on his screen. He started yelling and I asked him to lower his voice. It was 9 pm and we came back home with the item. Only to go back and deal with this again. Horrible experience and complete lack of service. Employee claimed he hated his job and working there.
Reviewed Sept. 3, 2019
Very bad experience with IKEA delivery. I just bought a house in the new development area and they fail to deliver the package to my address. I have waited for them in my house for the package. They could not find my address and someone from their delivery team call me and I tested the instruction to them. After I tested them about the instruction and I keep waiting my package. Later on they call me and email me said they miss me when they attempted to make delivery. And ask for $39 re-delivery fee. Unbelievable. I have same day delivery from FedEx and Costco. They all do not have any problems. I end up cancel my whole order and they still charge me the original $39 for shipping. I end up waste $39 and my time. Stay away from Ikea shipping.
Reviewed Aug. 31, 2019
I ordered a couch pictured on their website. Got the couch, unboxed it and there were no armrests. We called IKEA. They said they would deliver that part the following Saturday, sometime between 9 am and 9 pm. We waited all day. No delivery. Come to find out the part was backordered. So, after waiting an additional two week, we got the delivery. (After waiting around for another 12 hour delivery window.) They sent the wrong part! We called them. Now they say we need to buy the armrests separately, for another $150.00! Who knew??? Like going to a restaurant and having a separate charge for knife and fork! We returned the couch and will never order from them again! Natalie **.
Reviewed Aug. 31, 2019
It is IMPOSSIBLE to e-mail IKEA or talk to anyone on the phone. Unless you are prepared to drive to a location and wait forever to get someone's attention you will never get an answer. They will sale you the appliances, then you are on your own. They use an arcane, idiotic article system to identify their appliances. They do NOT make their own appliances, they just stick their name on someone else's.
Reviewed Aug. 31, 2019
On July 27,2019 my daughter purchased a nightstand and floor lamp in the IKEA store in Bloomington MN. When she opened up both boxes she noticed items/parts were missing. She and I have tried to reach IKEA through email and phone with no luck. On 08/30/2019 I finally got through to them after 2 1/2 hours. Told the man in customer service the problem that for her nightstand she was missing 2 sideboards for one of the nightstand drawers, his response “this is a manufacturers defect and that the items would need to be returned back to the store.
My daughter is now attending college in Iowa. This would be a 4 hour trip one way for her, this is unacceptable. Then she did not receive a LED light bulb with the floor lamp she bought. The gentleman then started to question me on if the light she bought was the one that should come with the light bulb. After being on the phone for 2 1/2 hours the customer service rep told me to call back in an hour. How can this company be in business with this kind of service.
Reviewed Aug. 24, 2019
Placed an online order from Ikea. My credit was billed immediately. The order number doesn’t exist. The shipping address is incorrect and I’ve been calling their customer service department literally every three hrs since nothing has been done and I feel like I’ve been scammed and I need the furniture to be delivered on Tuesday in Ottawa - no ifs or buts about it. I feel that they are pulling a scam on the consumers.
Reviewed Aug. 23, 2019
I place an order online at the very beginning of August (backyard lanterns and lights) and the expected delivery date was 8/6. I received an email confirming my order and the money was taken from my account. 8/6 came and passed and I never received anything, so I emailed them (starting to get concerned because my order number when looking online appeared as non existent). They replied that "due to high volume of orders they couldn't send things on time, neither could they communicate the status of the order". It's almost the end of the month and no one replies to my messages. I have not received either an order cancellation or a reimbursement to my account! :(

Reviewed Aug. 22, 2019
I have been on the phone 3x with incompetents that "can't do anything" and put me on hold for 20 minutes and I have canceled my order via their website. I have been sent "do not reply" emails. NO ONE knows what they are doing. Ikea went ahead and charged my credit card for an order I clearly did not want. The order does not exist on their website but within 24 hours it was posted (not pending) to my card. THIS IS THE WORST ONLINE SHOPPING SITE. It's illegal to steal money from me for something I did not purchase!
Reviewed Aug. 21, 2019
I ordered goods which are "buyable online" on IKEA.com. IKEA cancelled two of my items with reason out of stock. First of all, why would out of stock item be sellable on their website. Also, they cancelled the items without my agreement and I think an online order confirmation means we have a trade agreement. Then comes more frustration with customer service. I tried all four ways to reach their customer representative.
1. I call the number from order cancellation email. Could not reach and could not even joint a waitlist on phone. Call was simply hangup by IKEA with the reason "high volume call" early in the morning.
2. I sent an email to "uscustomercare259@ikea.c…", also a contact info from the order cancellation email. Cannot receive a response.
3. Then I messaged them on twitter and facebook. After one day 24+ hours, they are able to tell me they could do nothing but only cancel my order. And if I make a new order, I am not guaranteed all items in new order are available again.
Not mentioning the time I waited for the delivery service as well. A verbal apology is nothing compared to the time and frustration shopping on IKEA. IKEA should have fixed their website as well as customer service issue. No other online shopping websites work like this.
Reviewed Aug. 20, 2019
I ordered a chair and a table online. The surface of the table was completely damaged at 2 locations. No one answered the phone call and email. I would never recommend anyone to order IKEA product online.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2019
I ordered a bed and other stuff for my room. I was nervous about the delivery since read a lot of bad reviews and everything with my delivery was in time and perfect. They told me it would be on August 17 and two days before a received the mail confirmation and then they called me the day before to tell me they would come between 1 and 5pm. I was impressed of the punctuality of the delivery since I received the 30 min call at 12:30pm and they arrived at 1pm. Everything I ordered was in good conditions and there were no missing parts.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2019
I bought a full set of bedroom, dining room... in 2017. Spent $5000 almost. Scheduled a delivery. They came 3 weeks after that with missing pieces. Took me 3 months to get my full order delivered and assembly. When called them they just laugh! 2 months ago I order again from IKEA as they told me at the store to do not worry IKEA has change their delivery company and they are more organized now. I ordered a bed. They did delivery it on time with broken pieces this time. Call them. Spent 3 hours on the phone to get an exchange, they rescheduled a delivery date to pick up the broken bed and delivery a new one, I took day off. Sitting from 1-9pm.
They never show up. Call them again. They rescheduled another date again. Took day off. They came with all the paperwork with no goods on their truck! Call them to cancel and get a refund. They said it should be credited within 5 business days! It has been already 10 days now. No refund has been made and I am still waiting to get my money back in order to buy somewhere else... This is pure SCAM. They are abusing people and making money! Please DO NOT BUY IKEA! Pass the message.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2019
Ordered 3 items from IKEA and after 2 weeks of waiting for delivery, they delivered on Saturday, but the couch was missing. I am unable to get in contact with them - the online form does not work (it won't send), the phone line does not work (just get an automated message saying we are experiencing high call volumes and cannot take your call and it hangs up), so now I have no couch, and IKEA have charged me over 1,000$ for it. This has been causing me so much stress the last 3 days. They may be cheap, but now I'm over 1,000$ out of pocket and can't contact them, so it's not worth shopping with them.
Reviewed Aug. 19, 2019
Never buy anything online from this place. I order a few things for my daughter bedroom and the wardrobe was missing a piece. I did call and after 2 days of trying I was able to talk to someone. They never send the piece so now I want to returned. For 3 days I was on the phone for hours without any luck. Finally I was able to talk to someone. She gave me a case # to call to another department and pay the fee for pickup $40 plus tax. Now I have to wait for 2 or 3 days that pick up company call me to get the thing. Hopefully before the end of this month. I'm exhausted just telling the story. Awful service. No consideration for customers. Thank God for Amazon!!!
Reviewed Aug. 17, 2019
I have never ordered anything online to be delivered from Ikea, we had always shopped in the store. My house is full of Ikea from dishes to my kids furniture, since we don’t have an Ikea in our current area. I will say this was the first and the last time I will order online for delivery. We had ordered an Alex drawer unit for my daughter to go with her desk. We had previously purchased at IKEA (in store). But when the drawer unit arrived via FEDEX, I couldn’t believe the driver even left it on my porch. I kind of wished I didn’t wait until he drove off to retrieve it.
First of all it wasn’t even in an Ikea Box or an ikea box inside another box...It didn’t even look box shaped. Since the package was so badly damaged with tears I can see inside where it was opened from being crushed and tape was separated. I looked in and saw the drawer unit pieces just thrown without padding or anything to keep it secure like when you purchase the item in store. It literally looked like that the unit was taken out of the original packaging and thrown in every which way in the makeshift box thing. So shocked that it was like that and since I can see in I can see it was damaged, I didn’t even need to fully open the thing.
I immediately took pictures and called customer service and received the “high volume of calls cant take you call”. Something along those lines. Finally reached someone and she was very kind and said she couldn’t believe that this has happened. I asked her is it the procedure to take it out of the original Ikea Box and she said it was not. I sent her pictures so she can attach it to my order. I just hoped it will help it not happen to other customers. She also said she will ship a new one and she said it will be a wk 1/2. I wasn’t angry at all, I was thankful we will receive a new one.
But then it came to the delivery date for the replacement and nothing was delivered. Gave it a couple more days and then looked up the delivery history on the FedEx and showed it was out for delivery the estimated delivery date but then never left the truck because in the notes it showed it was too damaged to deliver. It also said it was shipped back to shipper. I wasn’t aware of any of this because on the Ikea customer against it showed delivered. But it was somewhere in California and I’m in Idaho. I had her look it up and she saw the history but had to send me to a different department then. Got the "high volume of calls" thing again and "can’t take your call". So now I’m angry and frustrated. I have tried for the past 3 hrs to get through.
Reviewed Aug. 16, 2019
Will not order online from IKEA again. I ordered a sofa online along with the cover for it. The cover was not delivered with the sofa. So, I went to the customer service website and found the number to call. I have been trying for a week and have called at least 10 times to try and get someone but every time I get that "they are expecting a higher than normal volume of calls and cannot take your call right now." I have also tried to fill out the email form that is the alternative option and it has not worked. So, a week later and I need this sofa cover and the problem still has not been fixed. Beyond ridiculous.
Reviewed Aug. 14, 2019
I have had a cart full of items from their Palo Alto California store waiting for them to get back to me because my order would not go through online. The message I received is "We are very sorry, due to unforeseen high demand today we are not able to process your online order today. Please come and visit us in your favorite store or come back online tomorrow." I have gotten this every time no matter what time. I tried today at 6:20 am and I still couldn't place the order. I have emailed customer service, no response, and I called them. They can only ship or you have to come in. This furniture was going to be for my son in college at an apartment so I can't wait around. What a joke! Rude people. DO NOT GO TO IKEA.
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2019
On 8/5/19, while shopping at the Houston IKEA, our wheel suddenly flew off our shopping cart as the cart fell to the ground. Our 2 year old daughter was inside and, as expected, she was inconsolable. My husband was also injured as he attempted to catch the falling cart with his leg. We filled out a “Statement Sheet” and spoke to an IKEA representative who offered first aid. The representative wrote his number on a torn piece of paper and assured us, more than once, IKEA would pay for any medical expenses. We thought my husband and daughter suffered a few bruises and would be fine.
Due to the adrenaline and concern for our daughter, my husband didn’t realize the extent of his own injury. We took him to the E.R. that evening. He required crutches and has difficulty walking now. He has a leg sprain, bone contusion, and we will find out more after an MRI next week. We contacted IKEA and expected a response, as promised. They have not responded. We called, used social media, store email, and review sites. Nothing. After reading reviews online, this appears to be the standard trajectory of these IKEA incidents. Luckily, we had the presence of mind to record everything after the fall. Otherwise, their unscrupulous tactic seems to be silencing the customers who they unknowingly sacrifice. Not surprising after they delayed the safety recalls last year.
We’ve also reached out to other IKEA Houston customers who have had the exact same malfunctions with their shopping cart! One woman complained the same wheel fell off while using her IKEA shopping cart. I can’t help but wonder if that woman’s cart was haphazardly ‘repaired’ and we became the next victim. We’re hiring legal representation, which we should have done from the start.
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2019
I have been a customer for over 20 years and I loved the IKEA store, their furniture and other products. Last night I left the store in tears, humiliated in front of 10-20 people that were in line to check out and brought to tears in front of my family. The cashier that was checking me out was yelling and arguing with me just because I asked her a simple question. I just wanted to know the price of one item and instead of giving me the answer she started yelling at me and trying to engage into an argument with me. I could not believe what was happening.
I am still in disbelief that IKEA would tolerate employees behavior like that. I brought it to the attention of the manager but I am not certain that any action will be taken which is very sad. The incident happened at the Schaumburg IKEA store and the name of the cashier is ANDREA. I wanted to also call the customer service to speak with someone about the incident but the 1888.... number says that no-one is able to answer my call so I cannot even reach anyone and I do not know who to write to about this incident.
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2019
Summary: 38 days since placed online order, 30 days with a broken piece of furniture, 8 attempts to contact IKEA customer service, 6 times hung up on by phone but because call volume was too high. Purchased a couch a month ago. One of the pieces was broken, so I tried to exchange it for a fixed one. Contacted Ikea the night it was delivered via email, received confirmation 5 days later the piece would be replaced and the old one taken away. Was not told when, and just waited. 10 days later I try calling customer service for an update and heard "We are experiencing higher than normal wait times," and the machine hung up.
Called the next day, and the exact same thing happened. Called a 3rd time, and spoke to a rep in a different department. She informed me that my delivery and pickup would be 6 days later. Sure enough, it happened, but the broken piece was not taken. In the initial email, I was told that if my delivery and pick up were happening on different days, I would be notified, and that never happened. Tried calling customer service, heard "We are experiencing higher than normal wait times", and was hung up on. That happened 3 more times. 1 week later I get a call saying my delivery is scheduled for the next day. Call immediately to make sure the broken piece is being taken away, and am hung up on again by the department handling returns. Every individual I have spoken with has been very kind and patient, but the automated system is broken and the delivery management is horribly inefficient.
Reviewed Aug. 9, 2019
I had never ordered from IKEA online. I've always gone to pick up the items. But these were large enough that we needed them delivered. I placed my online order and the date was scheduled for a week later on Friday. I needed the items so I decided to take the day off since they give you a 9:00-21:00 delivery time window first. I got an email and it said that the items had been received at the facility. And then that is it. I never heard anything again until the day of. The only reason I heard something it's because I took it upon myself to investigate as to why I never got a call. So apparently the items arrived damaged so they rescheduled to a week later without even calling or reaching out. I used a personal day at work and these idiots just go about their business as if nothing happened. I ended up calling CS and it was so useless. I ended up canceling the order. Want IKEA furniture? Go get it. DELIVERY SUCKS!
Reviewed Aug. 7, 2019
I purchased furniture 7/20/19. Delivery date was 7/29/19. On 7/28/19 I received confirmation my furniture would be delivered. On 7/29, no furniture. I called multiple times but customer service was unavailable. Finally I reached someone who contacted the warehouse and my delivery was rescheduled for 8/5. For my inconvenience, they asked if I preferred morning or afternoon. Morning was my response. On 8/4 I received confirmation of my delivery 8/5, between 1pm-5pm. I called the delivery company the morning of 8/5 regarding this. I was told my furniture was already out for delivery, they could not change the time. My furniture was never delivered! I missed 2 days of work. The delivery company told me on 8/6 that the truck broke down on 7/29 and my furniture was towed in the truck.
They were not able to tell me when they could deliver my purchase, but once my furniture was recovered, they do only deliver to my area on Mondays. I spoke to IKEA who apologized but had no resolution. Even when I spoke to a resolution manager Derek, and expressed that I've lost 2 days of work and paid for product that isn't being delivered, he snickered. IKEA reps repeated said they were sorry and it was unacceptable... My son can put his clothes away in an apology. After hours on the phone, IKEA was unable to fulfill my purchase and I had to cancel the order. I am so disappointed in this company and will never buy from IKEA again.
Reviewed Aug. 6, 2019
I had enlisted the help of IKEA to deliver some much needed furniture to my new apartment, as I have recently moved alone to a new continent to start a new job. I should have thought better of it. I was told that my delivery would happen on the 9th of August, and now I am being told that it will happen on the 22nd! This is a disaster for me, as this was such a big and necessary order. I am told that this is because IKEA does not effectively communicate with the delivery companies it works with, and gives them demands that they cannot meet without informing the customer of any of this. I was only told in response that the terms and conditions states this is a possibility, but I do not find this good enough as this would be easily solved by assuring that they can meet the delivery date before confirming it. Take it from me - do not trust IKEA home delivery if you can help it!
Reviewed Aug. 4, 2019
I bought several furniture at online IKEA and got the confirmation email after ordering. I waited for coming the product a week and there was any contact or email so I checked the order status from webpage and it said the order is on process. And on the date of delivery, I called them and found that my order was canceled because the card payment did not go through. There was no reason for that and I used my card after it without any problem.
Their worst customer service was after it to handle this issue. I called them and complained why did not send any email or notice that the order was canceled and made us waited a week. And I asked for ordering again with expedite way and they refused it as there was no expedite. So I told them to repeat what I ordered and we will wait two weeks more until it come and then from their bill, I realized that the price was changed. The price of one of furniture I ordered was increased. I asked for its original price, they said it was not possible. Usually Amazon or many US online companies try to customers to be nice but this IKEA handles client badly and there is no email or online complaint section at all, just need to wait until phone connected and they are not kind or authorize to make customer happy. Really bad service and bad mind. Be careful.
Reviewed Aug. 3, 2019
I ordered a large purchase before looking at the reviews online. I accidentally put in the wrong address number and read that I would need to have the order cancelled. I tried for three days to get in contact with IKEA online customer support and never could get any help. I waited on the phone for at least 45 minutes and called 13 times. I could never get ahold of anybody until the following Monday when I called as soon as they opened. I talked to the customer service agent who let me know that she could change the address number once the items left the warehouse. I was not able to cancel a few of the items that I did not want anymore. I had also request to cancel the order through email twice and 3 days later both emails had a response from the company saying that I could not cancel because the items had been pulled for delivery. All I could do was hope that my order showed up when it was supposed to, to the correct address... and it did!
I received an email saying that my order would be delivered on the 20th and it was. I was also told that it would come between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., which is an inconvenient window, but I received an automated phone call n the 19th from the delivery company saying that they would be there between 10 and 2. I received another call from the driving 15 minutes prior to delivery letting me know they were on their way. They were at my house at 10:15. You need to be aware that the delivery company is not the same company as IKEA. However, everything was ordered in one go and all parts were there.
Even though I had an unpleasant customer service experience, the order and delivery were exactly as promised. Over 67 boxes showed up on time and undamaged. While I would give five stars for the delivery and delivery company, I can only give 4 because of my attempts at calling and lack of cohesiveness between the customer support team and the delivery company. Just make sure everything is absolutely correct before you order as it is fairly difficult to change once it's been placed.
Reviewed July 31, 2019
They screwed up my order and only sent me half of what I paid for. I can't get hold of their customer service in any way, shape, or form. I'm willing to wait on hold, but that's not an option. Their phone system just says they're too busy and hangs up. Emails aren't returns. Social media posts are ignored. Had to dispute the credit card charge since I can't even contact them.
Reviewed July 30, 2019
I use to work for IKEA when Ingvar was still in power. Now the company has become very Americanized and so has the customer service. I am a very busy person so I try to find value in all I do. I went there knowing what I needed and I checked stock prior to making the hour drive. I got there and went directly to the area where the items can be found because I had load the doors on the cart, pay, and take them to delivery desk. When I got to the location, the items were out of stock so I regrouped and tried to pick another door according to price point. I could not. I proceeded to the showroom. I looked at doors in the compact and on display. I discussed what I was looking for with a showroom coworker. She told me the only ones on sale were sliding doors. I called a friend so we could discuss what I would do since all of the selections I liked were around $100 per door.
Finally I decided on a door and asked someone to look up to see if it is in stock. Not only was it in stock but on sale for $9.99. None of the 3 places I saw it reflected that price. Fast fo delivery. I went to the counter and scheduled delivery. No problem. I scheduled delivery and assembly. I was told they would call the day prior to give me a time frame but delivery time was 9am-6pm. Long story short, I never got a timeframe or a call. I called ikea the day prior and 3 times on day of delivery. The driver finally called at 5:48pm to say they were in downtown DC- 2 hours from my house. He tried to reschedule it but I was sitting, waiting since 9 am. No way. He tried to lie and say he would come first thing in morning as if I didn’t have a job. However, I know they only deliver in my area Tues, Thurs, and Saturday. Another lie. When they showed up at 7:23 pm, he proceeded to tell me he could not assemble because he could not attach to the wall.
I was flabbergasted. In all my 4 phone calls, in the store, in the show I did anyone mention that? I was too tired to fight. I told him, “Okay just leave the doors, I will do it.” After sitting there for a minute and cooling off I found metal l- brackets in my tool kit (just as I learned working at the store). I attached them to the walls. Then I proceeded to attach the hinges. Once I called ikea (5th call) I was told my assembly or delivery fee could not be refunded. Did anyone tell me that???? The entire situation was ridiculous and after 20 years of shopping at IKEA I’m done. Do yourself a favor and avoid this!!!!
Reviewed July 29, 2019
We bought a sofa bed, a bed and 2 bed side tables around $3,000 purchase and then when delivered the track was higher than 3 m so it didn't fit the door to go to the visitor parking. They could not leave the goods and we have to pay again for the delivery. I consider their mistake that they didn't warn us about that and in the terms and conditions is specified that we should have sufficient space and access. As the goods that we bought fit in a van how the hell we are gonna guess that they will delivery it in a truck. This is the first and last time buying in IKEA. I talked to the delivery team and manager and to my surprised they said they will return the money of the goods and I will lose the money from the delivery. This is so silly. How come they prefer to lose a sell of $3.000 just because they didn't want to pay $69. I wonder if their executives know this. They should warn customers about this and modify their terms and conditions as is unfair with all the customers.
Reviewed July 28, 2019
I ordered the above item and paid extra ($40) to have it shipped to my home since I don't live near IKEA. The delivery (by an independent contractor) was great. The quality of the boards and the craftsmanship with which holes were drilled and other such things look great. However, they did not send me any assembly instructions. Additionally several hardware items are missing out of the packages.
I emailed customer service the day I received the shipment and as of yet still have not heard back (3 days). I tried calling, but only got a message saying they couldn't take calls. I called their sales department and got through right away, however. They couldn't help. I found an old assembly sheet online that isn't exactly the same, but I think I can figure it out. I will also go to the hardware store and buy the missing hardware myself since it's under $10. However, I shouldn't have to do that since I paid to have this delivered and to have a complete set.
I guess I'm lucky because I know other people fared worse in that some didn't receive boards or they cracked while assembling. It's more expensive to replace a cracked or missing piece. All I can say is if you order from these people online, what you get in the delivery is what you get unless you drive to an IKEA store to return or exchange it. Don't expect any help or for them to send you anything if you order online.
Reviewed July 28, 2019
My order total was 1,200. Including a bed frame with storage, mattress, night stand, cabinet, etc. After 10 days they delivered everything but the bed. Never notified me by any means that there was a delay or something. Tried to call. The system won’t even put you on hold. It will tell you that they are too busy, and that’s it. They left me no choice but to start a dispute on the charges, something I hate doing.
Reviewed July 24, 2019
It would be great if someone at IKEA tested the goods before selling them. Quality standards are really low, much lower than respective pricing! This review is for a sofa bought recently at IKEA store: https://www.ikea.gr/proioda/kanapedes-kai-poluthrones/kanapedes-krevatia/kanapedes-krevatia/hammarn-kanapes-krebati/90354327.
Reviewed July 23, 2019
On July 1 of this year I made a large purchase at the IKEA Sunrise (207) store in Florida for items I need to furnish a house overseas, which included 14 Bernhard chairs (504.048.38). At the time the chairs were confirmed to all be in stock and the delivery date was set for Friday July 5th. The following day, on July 2, I received an email stating that 4 of the 14 chairs were out of stock and that IKEA would mail to me a return card with a refund covering the cost of the 4 chairs. My first complaint is the following: Why did IKEA, who have my phone number and email address, not offer the following options;
2. Allow me to cancel the order for the chairs in its entirety?
3. Offer to refund the money to my debit card from where the charge was made.
Personally, I would have gone for the first option. My second complaint is; As a result of the unilateral decision of IKEA to return the funds related to part of my order I will now have to pay a second set of delivery fees for no fault of my own and something that, with a tiny bit of planning, could have been avoided by IKEA. It is now over three weeks since the order was changed unilaterally by IKEA and I was notified of this, and there is still no sign of the “Return Card”.
My third complaint is; The atrocious customer service of IKEA. When I call the customer service line, I get led through a menu of options only to be told that there are a lot of callers and then IKEA simply hangs up the phone. This, frankly, is rude, uneducated and uncultured. Many companies offer the option to stay on the line or have a call back. Why is IKEA not able to meet this minimum level of civility? Last week I managed to get through after about 10 calls and was told that the return card is on its way. A week later, still no card and I have not been able to get through to customer services. When trying to use the email service it is too rigid. There is no category for failed refund, partial order fulfillment or customer service complaint.
After more than 15 years buying from IKEA all around the world, I must now think very carefully about buying from IKEA in the future if I am unable to take it from the store at the time of purchase. I like the products, but the service is abominable. It is a warehouse mentality that simply does not care about its customers.
Reviewed July 22, 2019
I am happy with my IKEA products, but I am sorry to say that the delivery service from Select Express in Indianapolis was a complete and utter fiasco. Everything about it was wrong. 7/11/19, Day 1: I received an automated call in the early afternoon saying that the truck was 5–30 minutes away. I was not at home, so I called in and was told that had to have been a mistake, since I was scheduled for the evening, 5:00–9:00. Then a little bit later, I got the same automated call again. Then the driver called--around 2:30 (2.5 hours early). He had NOT called me to ask if early delivery would be OK. He just said he was at my place. I said I would rush home, and he said he would be there unloading.
By the time I got there (15 minutes later), he was gone and had left a huge pile of huge boxes OUTSIDE my apartment. I spent the rest of the day waiting for someone to come back and get them inside. I ended up wrangling 9 of 12 boxes myself before the manager himself came around 8:30 and got the last three in. Upon unpacking, I discovered that I had received a sofa instead of the loveseat I asked for.
7/12/19, Day 2: I talked to customer service in person, at the Fishers store. They refunded my delivery fee and arranged the exchange delivery for the following day between 5:00 and 9:00 PM. 7/13/19, Day 3: Driver called in the afternoon and asked if he could come early; I said no, because I was not at home and had set aside 5:00 to 9:00. The driver said OK, but then never showed up in the evening, and no one called me ever. 7/14/19, Day 4: I talked to customer service and again, and they said they would arrange a new delivery. I asked for someone please to call me and let me know what was happening. No one called me ever.
7/15/19, Day 5: I got an automated call saying my delivery would be the following day between 12:00 and 4:00. I called in again, explained the entire story again, and said the 12–4 would not work, as I would not be home then. Then the agent told me the manager himself would do the delivery the following day between 5:00 and 9:00. 7/16/19, Day 6: For the THIRD time, a driver (not the manager!) called in the afternoon and wanted to do the delivery early. I said no, because I was not at home! I did get home around 4:00 and I got an automated call saying that the truck was 5–30 minutes away. The truck did in fact arrive right around 4:30--EARLY!--and again, without checking first. Fortunately, I was home, and this time, I got the correct merchandise.
ALL in all, I called (855) 707-4599 at least 6 times, going through all the tedious menus and then waiting a long time on hold. I called the IKEA store directly 4 times. I spent many HOURS waiting at home during my scheduled delivery windows. I spent many DAYS waiting for anyone to call me. I received 11 automated calls, several of which were in error, and many of which were repeated messages, after I had already "pressed 1" to confirm receipt of the message.
The people in the customer service department at the store were all very nice and seemed to be saying and doing the right things, but still, only ONE time did someone call me back when she said she would. I cannot say where the weak links were, but I do know that both of the rescheduled deliveries were not right--one didn't happen at all and the other one came early. In the end, I have to say that I have zero confidence in the delivery service, and thus would not purchase any large items from IKEA again.
Reviewed July 18, 2019
IKEA's website is not working properly because I've tried multiple credit cards and none are being accepted. I called customer service and they say it's closed. I've tried different browsers. It's quite frustrating.
Reviewed July 17, 2019
I purchased cabinets and doors from Ikea for a home project. The cabinets were easy to pick up in the store. Most of the doors had to be ordered though. I ordered 9 and had them shipped to my office. Each was shipped in its original flimsy packaging with no additional packing. 5 of 9 arrived damaged. Unfortunately, 2 got through my original examination so I returned 3 to the store and asked to be able to pick the replacements up at the store. No can do. I was told I would need to check inventory every day in the hope of catching some being in the store, or I could have them shipped for an additional shipping charge.
See where this is going? I went with shipping and called customer service (had to keep calling, no voicemail) and asked for them to be packaged to avoid damage. I was told they would ship however they ship them. A week later the 3 doors arrive, all damaged. In the meantime, I had received an email from customer service asking how they could help. I outlined my experience in a reply to customer service. No response. Second email, no response. Crazy bad service. Nice cabinets, absolutely terrible service.
Reviewed July 17, 2019
I was on the Ikea website on 07/15/19 and saw a promotion that if I signed up to be a Ikea Family Member I would receive $25 off coupon. I signed up for this offer. I did not receive any emails from Ikea until the morning of 07/16/19 at 9am with my Ikea Family Card. I waited for the $25 coupon email and never received it. Around 2pm I went to the Ikea store and approached customer service desk to ask if they could assist me with not receiving my $25 coupon. The associate advised me not to worry and that it would be on my card at time of check-out.
I went to pick up 3 mattresses and other bathroom essentials and came to check-out. I informed the associate at the check-out desk that I should have $25 coupon on my card as advised by the customer service desk. She stated nothing is coming up. I asked her if she could contact customer service and she did. I was then informed that there was nothing that could be done and that I needed to contact corporate with the number on the receipt or go speak with customer service. The check out clerk was very rude and unhelpful. Not sure if it was because of my Indian decent but it sure felt like it. I only purchased one mattress and the bathroom essentials. I did not wish to speak with customer service as there was a long line.
When I got home later on in the evening I did not feel like contacting the corporate office as it was too late. I contacted the corporate office on the morning of 07/17/19. I explained the situation and it was yet not resolved as the agent on the phone was very polite trying to assist but the manager did not wish to speak with me. My issue is yet to be resolved and I am not going to waste time calling every department to have this issue resolved. I have left my name and phone number for a corporate team member or the Charlotte store manager to reach out and have this issue resolved. Awaiting a reply.
Reviewed July 15, 2019
My experience with IKEA post-purchase was bad. I purchased a Holmsund Sleeper Sofa online. The sofa was delivered well-packed. The enclosed parts list listed only the hardware. The 3 problems encountered were: (1) missing baseboard in storage compartment (2) one side arm fit poorly - had to be forced down and now can't be removed to adjust cover, (3) IKEA-USA apparently does not stock mattress cover and sheets in European sizes to fit this sofa bed. I tried phoning IKEA at 888-888-4532 multiple times to report the missing part. Every time the recorded message said the phone lines were busy and hung up.
I then submitted the "Missing/Damaged Merchandise" form online, reporting the missing part. Instead, I was informed that a replacement for the entire sleeper sofa would be shipped and that I would have to disassemble the first sleeper sofa for return to IKEA. I refused the second shipment and replaced the missing part at my local lumber company at my expense. An attempt to write a review on the IKEA site failed because the review button was inoperative. This was my first purchase from IKEA and will be the last.
Reviewed July 14, 2019
I have a product shipped damaged and I am trying to have it replaced. Called several times to report the damage. The automated phone line simply states that they have too many callers to accept the call and then line disconnects. Filled out and submitted online damage report. No acknowledgment of the report and no reply after 3 days. AM I stuck with the damaged unit?
Reviewed July 10, 2019
My love affair with Ikea is over. I started buying their furniture as a college student. That quality was fine, but the service was excellent! Now, they've worked on their products but allowed their service to plummet. They take no responsibility, don't allow you to speak directly with people who are empowered to resolve problems and hire a delivery company with an F Better Business Bureau rating. When things go south, they say they "understand" your frustration but do nothing to make things better. Zero accountability means my love affair is over.
Reviewed July 9, 2019
I have never known an international company to be as slack and unprofessional as IKEA Alexandra in Singapore. The worst delivery service I have ever used. I waited the entire day and the delivery didn’t turn up for my corner sofa bed. I had to chase twice only to have the call center tell me that the driver alleges to have come to deliver but couldn’t get hold of me! Highly unlikely given that I haven’t moved from apartment the entire day. Super frustrating as I am in a new place with no furniture and was looking forward to my couch. Extremely disappointing!
Reviewed July 7, 2019
I've been twice at the kitchen department trying to buy new cabinets and do an upgrade to my kitchen. So far, no luck at all. They told me I had to sit in front of their computer and do the blueprints myself, so I asked my son to do it for me at home. He did them, so I went the second time with the blueprints on my phone because my son couldn't save them on Ikea's page. After waiting one hour, they told me they couldn't help me even with the blueprints on my phone, that I had to do it on their page. They didn't bother to see what I had. Treat me like I was asking to have free cabinets. I told them I was ready to buy and they didn't care.
The woman that I spoke to: Lourdes, was very rude. I left and came back five minutes later to try again and see if I could have the cabinets and if one of the employees they have there to take care of the customers could help me do the blueprints and Lourdes told me I had to wait one and half hour again after all I waited before. I look for customer service to file a complaint but they don't have customer service. Horrible place!!
Reviewed July 4, 2019
When my partner and I found out we were going to be moving to a new city and would need to purchase furniture for the first time, we turned to Ikea. I'd always heard that Ikea had very affordable furniture that was at least decent quality. We planned on ordering everything online so that it could be delivered to our new place at about the same time we would have been moving in. Prior to ordering anything, we went to our local Ikea (Houston) to check out the items we planned on ordering - and everything looked fine.
I placed the order online, which totaled about $4,000 (we bought enough to furnish our entire apartment). I never got a confirmation email, which seemed strange, but I did get an order confirmation number immediately after the payment was processed. When I went to their website to use the order tracking feature, I typed in my order number and the site indicated that the order was being processed. The Ikea FAQ page indicated that processing could take up to 5 days. My card hadn't been charged yet, but I figured they would charge it after the order was processed/shipped. The estimated delivery date was June 26 - the day after we planned on moving in.
Come June 24, I still hadn't heard anything about the order. When I used the track feature, it indicated the order was still being processed. Worried, I called up customer service to try to get a better idea of what was going on. The customer service agent informed me that my order had never gone through on their end. He didn't have a good answer as to why I received a confirmation number. Although he offered to help me re-place the order, he said the delivery time would be pushed out another week. Given that their system was at fault, I would have hoped they would rush the order to us. Frustrated, we decided to take our business elsewhere and spent our $4,000 with another online furniture provider.
Reviewed July 2, 2019
I placed an order and it was scheduled to get delivered yesterday before 9pm. It is not yet delivered. I had to cancel my plan which I made for yesterday of inviting friends overnight. I called the customer care twice today. First time she said that, "I don't know where is your order. Let me check and figure out," she put me on hold and I waited 43 minutes for her to answer and eventually I had to cut the call. I called again second time, she said that, "I am not able to reach the other department which has more info so can not help you now, you have to call us back again tomorrow morning."
First time I ordered from Ikea and paid $59 for delivery. I should have bought it from Mancini's or there was another store, they were delivering it for free. The reason I ordered from IKEA was that they were delivering the next day and others were delivering it in 4-8 business days. Frustrating experience for me to order from IKEA. Have to call customer care again tomorrow to get my order for which I paid a total of $600+ including delivery.
Reviewed July 1, 2019
Purchased a $ 600 king hybrid mattress in March 2019 and by June 2019 it is already sagging in the middle. Mattress had and has all the necessary bottom support (boxes etc) and only one person 5 ft 9 in and 160 lb slept on it - just sleeping. No jumping etc. Ikea sells poor quality products at high prices, over the phone customer services is non existent and one has to drive miles to a store in order to solve an issue like mine which is TBD at this moment. Someone should investigate IKEA practices a little more closer.
Reviewed June 29, 2019
Don’t trust IKEA, they are the most unprofessional and incompetent. I paid for 4 wardrobes and booked delivery for June 9, 2019. We had to deliver all these items again to other location that’s an hours drive via U-Haul truck with other items to assemble and install them at our new Furnished rental on long weekend of June 29-July 01, 2019. We planned this three months ahead to make use of three holidays. On June 09 the IKEA delivered damaged items that was returned. Then they informed the item is out of stock. After 2 weeks the item was available and I again booked the delivery for June 27, 2019. The item was never delivered on June 27th, despite my repeated follow up they were not able to do anything.
IKEA is unapproachable as there was no manager, no customer care available to help. This Swedish company is making a FOOL of Canadians as they have no empathy and no capability to resolve any issues. So all my 3 month advance planning was useless and I had to cancel the U-Haul truck booking, wasted three full days of long weekend, missed on our rental commitment to furnish the rentals. All they offered for their severe failure was an $80/- refund on delivery charges!! What a joke! I asked them. They’ve wasted our precious time and they should now get the items assembled to save us time and be able to be on our commitment to rent furnished on time. They refused it!!
Is there a government department who would make such unscrupulous companies accountable for their wrong doings!! We in Canada seriously need a check in such companies who take no responsibility for their mistakes and irresponsible behaviour and create extreme stress for us Canadian consumers for no fault in our part. IKEA IS SIMPLY UNAPPROACHABLE, INCOMPETENT & UNPROFESSIONAL AS A COMPANY!!
Reviewed June 29, 2019
Bought a couch Dec 31, 2018. Couch starts peeling in 3 weeks... Managed it for about a month, peeling got worse so I decided to send it back. Unable to reach IKEA by phone and told needed to go back to store to schedule return. Finally scheduled it end of Feb and had to reschedule for personal reasons and that took ages to get a new schedule...
Fast forward to June 7 couch finally gets picked up after over 5 hours of phone headache and weeks. XPO Logistics (Ikea’s Delivery company) picked up the couch but won’t send it to IKEA. IKEA in turn won’t give me my refund till XPO (their own delivery company) sends back couch. Now i’m Caught in the middle of a fight between XPO and IKEA. Save yourself the headache and shop elsewhere, the product quality is hit and miss and really not worth the eventual headache.
Reviewed June 22, 2019
Ordered some furniture in store to be delivered 6/22 between 9-1. Received an automated call 10 AM that the delivery will be here in 5-30 mins. Waited outside. Nothing till 10:55 AM and called customer service. Customer service rep talked to transport team saying they attempted to deliver 10:50 AM (sailed by our address according to the transport team). I was outside the whole time and didn't see anybody. Was talking with customer service for 30 mins trying to attempt for them to come back. Talked to a manager but nothing was solved but to be redeliver again 6/24 with no time frame given. They said they will give it a day before. Never again going to use IKEA delivery with its bad service. $59 with no attempt of delivery. Canceled scheduled things to do to receive delivery.
Reviewed June 21, 2019
The company needs to update its dinosaur-like e-commerce & billing systems! With less than 5 pieces of an article in inventory, the Click & Collect function will not allow it to be purchased. After spending 25 minutes on hold, customer service finally told me that the 5-piece limit is to avoid liability when a store's inventory system is faulty (WHAT?!). Even when I called the store and determined that the store did indeed have the article in stock, customer service said that Ikea never ever accepts phone payments. So, I can't buy it online, and I can't buy it over the phone. So I have to DRIVE 20 miles to pay for it?!? Wake up people! Customers like me rapidly ABANDON and BOYCOTT online and brick and mortar retailers like you who cannot provide immediate sale of products that are in stock.
Reviewed June 19, 2019
Yes, IKEA has nice looking furniture and whatnot. I wanted this sofa so bad so I asked my sister to take me to get it as she has a big truck. Picked it up no problem. Got it home and opened the box and the frame was damaged all over, not just one board, but it seems that every side had damage to it! I tried to contact somebody that night and literally was on hold for 3 hours, still no resolve. It took 3 days and $108 more out of me to get another one and for them to come get this piece of junk! Will never, ever buy from IKEA again!! Lousy service, and lousy product!!! Decided to cancel the replacement... I know I can find something nicer elsewhere. And I will never give them my business and I will discourage others to buy from them as well. As it turns out before I bought it people were already telling me not to buy from them!
Reviewed June 14, 2019
Worst online service ever since the inception of online buying. We were quite shocked that IKEA would treat customers this way since they do have good products. We ordered a child's' kitchen with sink and stove, a table and chairs set with three chairs, child utensils, and pots and pans. How excited we were when the box was delivered anticipating the joy of our two year old, that excitement was short lived when much to our dismay only the table with one chair along with the pots and pans arrived.
We called and were cut off during the process many times, when we finally got through we reordered the kitchen, and the other chairs but when the order arrived two chairs arrived minus the kitchen. Now we are into wasted time going on two weeks and approximately four hours of waiting on hold to talk to a live person. We reordered the kitchen, maybe third time is a charm. This will be the last interaction we will ever have with IKEA, too bad.
Reviewed June 13, 2019
I have been waiting 12 days for a product that I have paid for. Your call centre staff have repeatedly informed me that I am unable to get this product because they are having difficulty verifying that I haven’t received it and cannot contact the store in Halifax to get my order delivered in a timely fashion. I am VERY upset!! Yesterday I received a product via FedEx to replace a damaged piece of a product already received. It was the wrong piece!! If you can send me the wrong piece that quickly, you can send me the right piece that quickly!!
Reviewed June 12, 2019
My family and I are long-time patrons of IKEA, usually buying products in-store. We recently moved and there is not an IKEA nearby, and for the first time, ordered the Kallax 4x4 online to be shipped to our home. I took off work to be home for the delivery, and only 1/2 boxes was delivered. After over an hour on the phone with Customer Service, the call being "transferred" and dropped several times, I was able to speak to a manager, who only repeated what was already said, and informed me it would take another 2 weeks to deliver the second box. When you pay $30+ for delivery from a corporation as large as IKEA, you expect them to DELIVER. I will not be ordering online again, and since there is no IKEA nearby, will likely no longer patronize this store.
Reviewed June 12, 2019
We bought our sofa for over a month ago and still haven’t received it because we had to reschedule it so many times. They wanted us to be at home waiting for them from 9 am to 9 pm on a Wednesday. So is it reasonable to make someone who work to wait for a sofa on a week day for almost a whole day? Who can be available for a time frame like that? We thought it would be convenient to get a delivery service but it’s bothering us more than anything. I had to remove so many of more important appointments just to wait for a sofa. This makes me lose my interest in your products already and I got pissed off so much that I forgot how much I wanted or liked the sofa.
Reviewed June 11, 2019
My husband and I ordered some furniture online with Ikea. Shipment was not received the day it was scheduled to be delivered. Contact customer service and the experience was not good. They were not helpful, said we were not home to received which was not true. Refused to get the delivery rescheduled for that day and refused to refund the very pricey delivery fee we paid to have it delivered. Will never do business with Ikea online again and would highly suggest ordering from a different company.
Reviewed June 7, 2019
I purchased a study desk already built and delivery refuse to deliver unless legs were removed. I could not remove them and they could not help remove them. They offered me tools instead. I still could not remove the legs. They said we we can deliver but then decided they can't and blamed me for purchasing the table.
Reviewed June 6, 2019
We ordered a crib from IKEA online and had it delivered, also purchasing an assembly service from IKEA's 3rd party, Task Rabbit. On the day of delivery, the driver said that one of the parts was missing, but that it was not big deal, that the Task Rabbit person who was coming to assemble it could stop by IKEA to pick up the missing part. My husband was reluctant to accept the delivery based on the missing part. The driver insisted that it was okay to accept and wrote a note on the delivery receipt (that my husband did not get to keep) that the order was accepted with the missing part. I come to find out that the person from Task Rabbit only does the assembly and that it was not their job to pick up missing parts that IKEA failed to deliver. I suspected this was the case, but I was not at the house to turn the delivery down. My husband was lied to by the delivery person who probably did not want to take the extra trip to return the item to the store.
In the end, my husband spend an hour and a half of his work day dealing with IKEA customer support who told him that he would have to pay for the pick of the items he was about to cancel. WHAT? Your mistake and we have pay you to get it picked up on top of the delivery charges you already charged us?? This was unacceptable. He kept asking for a higher supervisor who finally said they would ship out the missing part at no cost to us. The point is, none of this needed to happen if the delivery person was honest and did his job. He mislead us by saying the Task Rabbit service person would be able to pick up the missing part. Between the two of us, it cost us almost 3 hours of our work day to deal with this problem the delivery person created. Lesson here: DO NOT ACCEPT ANY DELIVERIES FROM IKEA THAT HAVE MISSING PARTS. So frustrating.
Reviewed June 4, 2019
I recently made an order that includes a bed, table set and sofa. I cannot reach IKEA's phone line to make a simple change to my order's delivery date. The line is always busy and the email contact is a joke. I am not even reviewing their product, but with such a terrible customer service experience I can't recommend you purchase here.
Reviewed June 3, 2019
We ordered two matching Strandmon chairs to be delivered. They emailed us the day before, called us the morning of, and delivered in the four hour window they said they would. They carried the two giant boxes into the house. We gave them a $12 tip. We put them together and everything was there and in good condition.
Reviewed May 27, 2019
My husband and myself purchase a bookshelf and happen not to fit in our car after we bought the product. So we decided to ask to deliver to our home at North York. They charge $89 dollars plus HST. The delivery time is between 5-9 pm today Monday, 27th of May year 2019. We asked the worker if they can deliver after 5:30 as we are working until 5:30. My husband receive a phone call around quarter to 4 pm that they will be @ our place in about half an hour. He asked and said that we actually requested and agreed by the Ikea representative that they will be delivering after 5:30. My husband forced to leave wok early as the delivery guy is not cooperative about the time we requested originally. What an inconvenient for us.
Now it’s about 5:32 pm to be exact and the person never showed up and called yet after all this effort and inconvenience. What an awful and disgusting customer this is. We pay 100% of our money for delivery. By the way the store is the IKEA located @ Vaughan. Please if this happen to you don’t be afraid to voice out your opinion. It will help other people to make a right choice and decision who they will be trust. Thank you and have a great day all.
Reviewed May 27, 2019
On Saturday night We ordered from IKEA online 3 large pieces of patio furniture. The order was paid and we were instructed to pick them up in the college park store the next day. Early on Sunday I rented a U-Haul truck to donate the damaged IKEA patio table I had, and to pick up the new furniture from IKEA, at arrival to Ikea College park. I was told that my order had been cancelled by Ikea because they oversold items and they were out of stock for some of them!! I complained and showed them the U-Haul truck I had rented, and the price I paid, they didn’t care.
In fact they cancelled the order on Sunday at noon by email (which I don’t open on Sundays), did not call at all to inform me, and the only missing piece was a plastic Tostero storage bag, not any of the heavy furniture. I left my complaint in writing on Sunday May 26, they never cared, apologized or compensated me. I believe IKEA knows they have almost a monopoly, and, now that they cornered the market, they no longer care about you. It can only get worst from now on, worst service, and, slowly, worst products. Beware. Hector.
Reviewed May 25, 2019
I have purchase similar painting lamps, in the larger size from Ikea. Installed previously similar but in the larger size into the wall. They illuminate a painting beautifully so, I thought that the smaller version, the MAGLEHULT would be the same. Took TWO hours to put it together and install it using power tools. After installation I was ready to turn it on when I then realized that the product does not come with a plug of any kind.
Worthless piece of garbage that I wasted 2 hours of my life putting together and now I have to use my next day off, I only get 1 day off a week, to drive 45 minutes back to Ikea to return the piece of crap. Tried to e-mail my disappointing purchase to someone in charge from their website but their website does not have a complaint department or e-mail listing so I am sharing this with you.
Reviewed May 24, 2019
The absolute worst customer service I have ever experienced. Bought a day bed that I was told a queen bed would fit- verified at store with department manager and also was assured a queen bed would fit when pulled out. Even questioned because to twins are the size of double, but was assured again that a queen would fit. Spent over 10 hours to put the bed together with my husband - directions were awful. Once completed at midnight, tried to put the queen bed in and of course it was too big. This was suppose to be a surprise gift for my 16 year old daughter. Spent hours on the phone with customer service.
Finally was told to break down the bed and bring it back in, that the conversation would be noted, and we would get a store credit. Brought the bed back in Pieces (all parts including the hardware screws, nails etc) and was told that we would not get a credit- there were no notes on the numerous conversions we had with customer service. We were asked to see a manager. She was rude and had security ask us to leave. We were treated like criminals and were told we were lying. We called customer service and they said it would be look into it and their investigation stated the bed was not returned or left. I am sure there are cameras within IKEA to show the bed was left, but they would not supply them. Our family lost over $300.
We live in Tampa and this purchase was the first time to visit IKEA and we spent over $800. We will never shop there store again, we tell everyone we know what happened to us, and are very vocal to any conversation we have with people friends and/or strangers of our experience. What is truly sad is the behavior of the managers. It might be an ok place to buy plates, or small items, but be very wary of buying furniture or kitchens- especially at the Tampa location.
Reviewed May 24, 2019
I purchased a kallax unit from Ikea selecting 5/24 delivery because I am home early on Fridays. Received a call at work saying that delivery was attempted. Called Ikea and was told that delivery was scheduled for 5/23. They could reschedule but it wouldn't happen next day and that I would have to pay for another deliver. That would me that delivery would cost me more than the item. I cancelled order but when I checked my email I had confirmation that delivery was made. I called and was transferred to a department that answered with a recorded message telling "all customer service representatives were busy and told to call back later". I will never purchase another thing from this store.
Reviewed May 19, 2019
Incompetent!!!! Impossible to place an online order (tried several browsers). Experience trying to place an order by phone was UNPLEASANT at best. The rep sent me an email with order number to make payment by credit card. The order number did not work. Tried again. Got hung up on twice. Finally got an order number that worked. The whole thing took over an hour. The incompetence is astounding given this is a giant worldwide company. Get a grip. If the order does not arrive by the delivery date I was given the item will go right back, unopened.
Reviewed May 18, 2019
I urge everybody that want to buy an item from IKEA. I am an Ikea customer for the last 10 years. I have purchased a sofa that costed over 1000 euro. 3 months later the sofa started to peel and the color went off it slowly slowly. I have contacted them to check it out. I finally managed after chasing to get an inspector to come and approve the poor manufacture defect (the picture attached shows the poor quality of product). When they managed to send 3th party company the guys took 20 sec to make report about the sofa and left. I was promised that they will get back to me in a week time which didn’t happen.
Again I had to chase them and call the customer service advisor who mentioned that the report says it was not a quality or manufacture defect however it was our fault sitting on it and use it on daily basis as it suppose to be. I have ordered a 10000 euro kitchen which am going to cancel cause I don't trust your 25 years warranty. I am going to do my best, let everybody know about the poor after service and product quality. I am waiting for Ikea to send me the report so that I would add more details into this.
Reviewed May 14, 2019
A long story I’m afraid with 4 attempts of delivery, including 1 successful delivery and a collection which wasn’t arranged. Over 4 calls made to customer service to correct the problem for a purchase made 2 weeks before now and I still haven’t had everything delivered nor delivery expenses refunded. Apparently I’ll be getting my last piece in 2 days which will have made it 14 days from the date of purchase and a uncertain dialogue with Ikea's customer service via telephone number. Ok we bought over £1000 of furniture from IKEA recently, including sofa which I consider a lot of money to spend. On top of that I had to pay £39 for a delivery charge because the items would be too big to fit in the car.
IKEA then arranged a delivery for and confirmed a date I would be available. I think it was a 5 day wait after the purchase and then I'd be getting the furniture delivered on a weekday. Everything was set up and when the day came for the furniture to be delivered, I didn’t hear a knock at my flat door and I didn’t get a text of confirmation because unfortunately the employee who had taken my order in the store on the day of purchase got one number wrong so the delivery driver could not then call to say they’d arrived and didn’t think to come into the building to knock on my door number. That was the first mistake which can be overlooked as an unfortunate mistake.
Delivery was rearranged and I gave my correct number to customer service. They did deliver the second time but one of the pieces for the sofa was damaged so the delivery drivers didn’t take it out of the van and told me they’d get a new piece sent out. Ok so that was bad news for me but I rang in to IKEA/contact which is their customer service to request a refund for my delivery money of £39. They told me they couldn’t but would be happy to offer a £10 voucher so I accepted, that’s fine. Now I’ve also confirmed with them a new delivery date for the damaged part which I had to work around to a day I wasn’t working, yesterday.
Yesterday came and I didn’t get a call again or a text to say that a delivery had arrived. I ring IKEA in the morning and after going back and forth again with the customer service who at this point it’s beginning to get hard not to question their methods. They tell me that the delivery driver had taken the wrong number again and so assumed nobody was home because they didn’t come into the building to knock on the flat door and as well couldn’t ring me. Ok now I’m spending half an hour talking to somebody new to get my number right and to call or text when delivery arrives and it’s rearranged for today for this broken piece that the sofa is missing, ok. I’ve asked for my money for delivery back again and they have insisted they can’t do anything until the damaged item is delivered for reasons I didn’t understand.
Delivery van turns up this morning, good, I get a call to say, "We are outside," ok I let the guy know I’ll come out now. Get downstairs and the delivery man tells me he’s here to collect a damaged item. I hope made it clear here but I wanted the damaged item delivered because I never got it in the first place. I was just told it was damaged so they’d send a new one out. Delivery man apologises for the confusion and says he’ll ring IKEA to let them know. I tell him I’ll ring in as well.
Anyway ring customer service again this morning, explain what happened. The operator on the other end says he doesn’t know about any delivery today and tells me it was meant to be delivered yesterday. It goes back and forth like this for about half an hour again between me asking for my delivery money back and rearranging the delivery for the damaged item to come in another 2 days.
By this time it would have been 14 days from the date of purchase if the part does come in 2 days as I’m told it will. Customer service also advised that they won’t be able to refund delivery money until it’s delivered but I’m welcome to call back at 10am when the store is open to ask again. About 10 minutes later IKEA ring me from the same number and different operator who tells me he’s spoke to the delivery driver. I don’t get an apology from him but he just confirmed that I’d already spoke to somebody in a tired manner and that I’d sorted it out, conversation ended.
Anyway I feel like it’s just been very bad customer service for the money I’ve spent and I’ve had way better customer service from smaller companies who I’ve spent a huge amount less in and have had refunds over confusions or mistakes made. This incident has made it hard to trust the service IKEA offer and I don’t think I will be going back to shop there. If I do I’ll probably try and avoid staff interaction at all costs until the inevitable cashier but I can’t see myself in there for anything now really. I’m undecided if that’s a shame however I do feel bad complaining.
Reviewed May 12, 2019
We drove 128 miles to the IKEA Conshohocken store and we purchased 3 sofas and other items total over 2500 dollars and the store informed us they can deliver 2 sofas but they don't have the third one in their warehouse so they basically told us we either have to take it today with us they can't deliver it which wasn't right since we paid for the flat rate delivery anyway and they didn't make any exception or compensation even though this wasn't our fault.
We wanted everything delivered. We agreed to take one sofa home and they said they will help us with the order. They gave us the sofa and the sofa cover and we paid for everything and drove back home. We got home and put the sofa together only to find that they gave us a cover for a chair, not a sofa. I contacted the customer service and spoke to Tiffany who was very rude and unprofessional. She informed me I have to drive back to the store to return that one and get the right one and that is the only option. I explained that this wasn't our fault, they did us wrong from the beginning and she didn't care. I was on hold for 55 minutes then she told me there is nothing they can do I asked to speak to a supervisor, she put me on hold for another 15 minutes then she told me there is no supervisor available and I requested a call back and documenting this incident then she said there is a supervisor available now.
She asked me to hold and I did for another 10 minutes then they hanged up. I am ready to give birth in 10 days and I explained to her this is a 50 dollar problem and we paid 2500 they should be able to deliver the correct item for us as a courtesy. I was treated badly and felt like crab. This is not customer service and the store, the customer service and their supervisor should be held liable for their unprofessional action. This is my first time buying from Ikea and will be my last.
Reviewed May 7, 2019
I bought a TV stand from IKEA Las Vegas, NV. I brought it home and realized the holes didn't align due to manufacturing defect. I took it back to the store, which is 30 mins from my home one way, and got another piece. The second piece I got was damaged and the corner was chipped off. I don't own a vehicle and I have spent more than the TV stand itself in traveling back and forth from IKEA. And IKEA doesn't want to pick it up from my house to ease my problem. After all of this, IKEA doesn't have a problem in claiming they are all for consumer satisfaction. All of this is over the period of 10 days. I wasted a lot of time and money for a mere TV stand. This was my first and last experience with IKEA because I don't mind paying a bit more to save myself from all this hassle in the future.
Reviewed May 2, 2019
I paid almost $5000 for a new kitchen on 3/25. It was supposed to be delivered by 4/22. Today it is 5/2 and I don't have it nor will they return my calls nor emails. I can't move in now. Tyeesha ** is a liar and her boss Mike ** do not care about customers. These managers have not gotten back to me in over a week, after claiming to be with me all the way to delivery. If anything goes wrong with IKEA products or delivery, you will be screwed.
Reviewed May 1, 2019
Buyer beware. IKEA's furniture assembly services offered by TaskRabbit are fraudulent. We purchased an IKEA daybed in March 2019 in New York and signed up for TaskRabbit assembly, via the IKEA website. The quoted price for the assembly was $85.50. When the assembly was completed, TaskRabbit charged us $479.69! TaskRabbit and IKEA should be ashamed of the fraudulent assembly services they offer.
Reviewed April 30, 2019
2) Delivery guys promised they would handle the situation and replace these (they DID NOT), basically lied so we would give them better service reviews.
3) We eventually called IKEA ourselves to figure out that they did not help us replace the items, so we filed for exchange... which they said will arrive 1-5pm on the 21st (Sunday), which DID NOT happen.
4) Rep said it will be postponed until the 23rd (Tuesday), but being as skeptical as we were, we drove back to IKEA personally, only to find out that they actually NEVER successfully input the 23rd date delivery.5) Needed 3 separate sales rep to help us replace the exchange order. Again. SUMMARY: If your car can fit the IKEA furniture pieces and you are able to carry them on your own... definitely pick them up yourselves. Also check for damaged items and exchange them right on the spot, otherwise you'll have days of your time wasted.
Reviewed April 30, 2019
The printed instructions for assembling the chest of drawers were so incredibly inadequate, it was shocking and the diagrams were pathetic. The entire thing was a nightmare. Believe me a jackass with inked hoofs walking on a piece of paper would have done as well. It is astounding that IKEA provides such garbage to its unsuspecting customers. It is also unimaginable that the corporate leaders at the company would allow such inadequate material to be used and become a comment on the corporation. NEVER AGAIN WILL I SET FOOT IN AN IKEA STORE.
Reviewed April 29, 2019
Buyer Beware! I purchased over $30,000 worth of products while constructing my home. Panels popping off and warped within the first 2 years. I put in a case for replacement panels. No response. I went back to the store a few weeks later when I found the time to kill hours, and they said the case was closed. I asked for at least replacement panels, as I know how a kitchen that's falling apart, and they DISCONTINUED the product. I asked for something else that would suffice, but the NEW PANELS are totally different sizes and you "can not cut the wood". A 25 limited warranty on Kitchen sounds good... UNTIL this explodes. I am stuck with a half ** kitchen, and nothing they can do about it. The BOTTOM LINE - they discontinue products, so you are left with no solution. Warranty means nothing. Oh, my Oven (made by Whirlpool) from Ikea blew, and no one has the part. No Oven. Panels are discontinued, and warp easily.
Reviewed April 28, 2019
You're invested significant amounts of furnishing. Never been able to get anybody online to provide a list cost. Replace betting is so bad would broke within weeks. Only never been able to get anyone give us a part number you will. We have attempted the store and they said those parts design cysts and more. Do not shop at this corrupted gigantic her rent. This cheap facility it's a big mistake. Garbage exactly IT. I should pronounce Garden center. Don't. Worst thing for the environment.
Reviewed April 27, 2019
Ikea has a good selection at good prices. You may not be getting top quality but that's why it's cheaper. Another cost cut on their part is lack of staff and service, it is all self serve. You can order online but I like to see and feel 1st the choices first. You can pay for delivery and I think you can pay for assembly?
Reviewed April 27, 2019
At least 20 emails and 10 phone calls but couldn’t resolve the issue. For calls, message just played in loop, “High call volume. Call back later.” They kept sending me auto message. When they lost track of my attempts, they asked me to submit a new case. Billy arrived damaged and the issue isn’t resolved. Never going back to this company for poor junk of wood!
Reviewed April 26, 2019
I ordered 2 comforters online to be delivered to our house. When the order finally arrived it contained only 1 comforter. After trying to get through to their customer service for 5 days (getting up at 6:00 am to get through) the customer service rep said he would look into ordering us another one then hung up on me. This happened 3 times! After finally getting through I was told I would get a refund, which wasn't followed up with and I still have not received, no email, phone call, nothing. I will never order online from Ikea again. The previous comment is correct in thinking that they employ one customer service rep for the company. Unreal in this day and age.
Reviewed April 26, 2019
Ordered several pieces of furniture for delivery. Delivery process was a clown show nightmare. Once you go through hassle of ironing out the delivery date and timeframe window online, you are also, apparently, expected to be on standby, waiting by the phone, for a verification phone call. If you do not answer the automated phone call from a non descriptive number, they will not make the delivery. They will not leave a message. You are expected to be at their beck and call.
They do not understand that people are working, balancing other priorities. Attempts to call back the outsourced delivery service IKEA uses was fruitless. Sat on hold for an hour before I finally gave up. Calls to the IKEA customer service line were answered but unhelpful. The customer service reps that answered sounded equally frustrated, and beat down, like they had heard a similar story from countless other customers. I highly recommend IKEA ditches the disaster delivery service they utilize and get a real one. I would have been better off strapping the furniture to the roof of my mini van and getting it home myself.
Reviewed April 25, 2019
IKEA is the best place to get things if you like putting it together yourself the fact that they have had reviews of "Falling over dressers" well my opinion is you should of used the strap that comes with it to secure it to the WALL... I have a bedroom set for about 16 yrs and NOT once have I had ANY problems with it tipping over. Of course I also don't have or didn't allow my kids to climb on furniture.
Reviewed April 24, 2019
I finally was able to buy a house after 40+ years. On a modest budget, I decided to go to IKEA for new furniture. I ordered cabinets and a countertop for a new custom kitchen island, and a sofa. I was able to get the island components delivered to my new house, but not the sofa. Instead, I had to have the sofa delivered to a different address, and then get a U-Haul to ship it to my house. All because the store told me I should have gone to a different store that would have actually taken me way longer to drive to.
The day before the sofa was to arrive, the 3rd party shipping company, Select Express, called me to confirm. I told them my conundrum. They looked up my address and said it would not be a problem or any additional charge to get the sofa to my house - they need needed an email from IKEA stating the change. I called IKEA customer service multiple times (after the call was disconnected twice) - by the 3rd time, someone told me it shouldn't be a problem either. But after being put on hold for over 10 min, she finally came back on and said a manager would not approve it, because once again, I "should have gone to another store."
Reviewed April 22, 2019
I am an Ikea family member and also have an Ikea credit card. I always enjoy shopping at Ikea. I have several pieces of furniture from the store. When I moved here I bought chest of drawers, beds, bookcases, cupboards, table, chairs, etc. The bed was damaged during shipment but they quickly replaced it and even reimbursed me for the shipping which was great. I love eating breakfast there and then shopping. Sometimes I even stay for their Swedish meatballs lunches.
Reviewed April 20, 2019
I had purchased a kitchen cabinet and cancelled the order before delivery. I was told I’d receive a refund of $560 as soon as their delivery truck returned it to their distribution center. That was over a week ago. Since then, I’ve tried multiple times (at least 4 times a day) to contact customer service. I’m beginning to think IKEA's customer service consists of one person who works between the hours of 9:00am-9:01, 12:17pm-12:17:45pm. If you call IKEA’s customer service, plan on being on hold for hours (no joke) until you finally give up. I will never do shop at this store again due to their terrible customer service. You’ve been warned.
Reviewed April 17, 2019
The store is impressive and the layout of the store walks the consumer around all of what Ikea has to offer. Sales staff is helpful and gives the phrase "softsale" a whole new meaning. That said out of 5 items ordered 3 were damaged, 1 missing and 1 was acceptable. After paying to have the merchandise picked delivered and then assembled I had to get replacement parts. They arrived damaged. The one item missing they gave a partial credit! The item we kept for a 15% discount we never got the discount, overall a very bad showing for Ikea!!!
Reviewed April 15, 2019
We were hesitant to go with Ikea for our recent couch purchase but the price was much better than others and decided to go for it. At first we attempted to add our custom couch to our online cart but it did not work as some of the pieces were unavailable though it wouldn't tell you which ones which required us to go through every piece to figure it out. We saw many of the pieces allegedly available in our store and went back to try to get whatever pieces we could there and order the rest online. Those pieces were not in store but we were able to talk to a customer service rep who went through every piece and found many were changing product numbers and was able to piece the whole couch together with the old and new product numbers and schedule a delivery for us.
Delivery window assigned the day before for 10-2. We got a call around 12:15 saying the truck was between 5-30 min away, sure enough 10 min later they arrived. Unloaded everything, nothing missing, nothing damaged and they were quite quick with the many boxes. All and all after figuring out the ordering with a very helpful customer service rep, everything was very smooth from the in store order to delivery. Pleasantly surprised with our experience and would certainly recommend our local store/delivery.
Reviewed April 13, 2019
IKEA offers an amazing selection of contemporary Danish furniture at very affordable prices. It is a good place to explore the aisles and get inspiration on modern décor. Not only do they offer furniture, they have a great selection of accessories for the entire house, such as bedding, kitchen and bath supplies. I find the store to be very inspirational for a modern contemporary home.
Reviewed April 12, 2019
Ikea has ZERO concern for the customers! I paid for delivery and assembly and they damaged the wardrobe. When I got the replacement (after 3 appointment attempts they screwed up - aka I waited home for nothing.) They finally replaced the wardrobe but damaged one of the door-handles. Worst of all is that they left the HUGE DAMAGED wardrobe behind! In my tiny NYC apartment, in the middle of my hallway, leaving me 4 inches to pass. A liability and a fire hazard! Not to mention that they wouldn't move it so I had to! That is what I paid them for!! So I wouldn't have to strain my back.
After 7 additional attempts to have the damaged wardrobe removed, Ikea keeps screwing up the appointment, even giving me appointment times randomly that I never agreed to. I emailed their CEOs, overseas and US and they literally could care less. Now that I rescheduled my life 7 additional times to get this huge garbage removed from my apartment, they are telling me I have to wait (9-6) yet again and that is my only option! Ikea clearly hates their customers or they would take ownership and get this done without making me take yet more time off from work and wait around for nothing. I have zero confidence this next scheduled pickup will actually happen. WORST CUSTOMER (NON) SERVICE I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED IN MY LIFE. ABSOLUTE WORST!!!
Reviewed April 12, 2019
The worst customer service I've experienced in my life has been with Ikea several times over the last few weeks. Advertised discounts not honored, items out of stock that are listed online as in stock at my local store, defective parts that they've asked me to bend over backwards to replace. So many problems, so many items out of stock but not listed as so, so many wasted trips to the local store (2.5 hours round trip from my house each time).
When I go to buy online instead of driving to the store again, they refuse to waive the $100 shipping fee. Yet they won't let me purchase my entire order at once and arrange for pick up at one time either. I've spent a significant amount of money at this store over the past several weeks, but whenever I contact them with an issue they say "sorry for the inconvenience, let us know if we can help with anything else". What is going on? A global company that cannot find a solution for a customer who is buying a whole new kitchen and bedroom storage setup. I would recommend avoiding IKEA if you can.
Reviewed April 12, 2019
I received a voicemail today at 11:54 stating the delivery truck was outside my home. They would wait 15 minutes and if I didn’t ‘arrive’ they would leave and reschedule. At 11:56 I received a call stating my delivery would arrive between 10 am-2 pm today (note it was already 11:56). I pressed yes to confirm delivery but also waited and spoke with a customer representative. Very long story short, they said the delivery company attempted delivery but due to a road closure they couldn’t reach my neighborhood. I immediately jumped into my car and drove out of our neighborhood to the main road.
Imagine this, no construction anywhere, let alone a road closure. They gave me American Logistics (the delivery company they use) number to call. Another long story short, they refused to come back, still stating the road was closed, and since they only deliver on Fridays I would have to wait until next week. I do like IKEA's products, but will NEVER order on-line again. And not to mention, they charge $99 for the worst delivery service ever! Shame on IKEA for not monitoring their delivery department more closely.
Reviewed April 11, 2019
My handicapped full-time student daughter used her debit card to purchase a $500 sofa from the Brooklyn store location on 13th August 2018. To date (11th April 2019), she still has not received her sofa or a refund EIGHT MONTHS later. This is despite numerous attempts by her and now by me. I'm trying to 'fight her corner' from England with nothing from IKEA apart from CSC Afterlife, oops, I mean Aftersales, with 'apologies' but no explanation. I know these staff members are given a script to refer to, but their responses have been full of untruths and excrement. I will be contacting the Federal Trade Commission next. How many other people has IKEA ripped off? and I don't mean just the vulnerable customers. Shocking. Disgusting. Unacceptable. Illegal. IKEA doesn't even deserve 1 star but that's the only way I could proceed with this review.
Reviewed April 1, 2019
My order has still not been delivered properly. The original order date was March 15 to be sent to my parents' address because my dad is retired and would be there to sign. He was there to sign for the order on March 21, but the delivery driver dropped off someone else’s order and not mine. I contacted IKEA and the customer service rep told me they would have someone pick it up and drop off the right order. She asked if I wanted to change the address for delivery and I said yes, change it to my apartment. So I wait a few days and receive a call it’s going to be delivered March 25. Then on March 25, I get a text from the delivery driver with a picture of the furniture dropped off at the original address, not the one I had changed it to. I went over to my parents' address to pick it up, and only 3 of the 4 boxes were there.
When I spoke to the delivery driver, they said they were only given 3 boxes from Ikea in Round Rock. But clearly on each box it says 2 of 4, 3 of 4, and 4 of 4. I didn’t get box 1 of 4. The delivery driver said he would still come to my apartment to pick up the ORIGINAL wrong person's furniture from the very first drop off, which he did. I called IKEA to tell them I am missing box 1 of 4, plus explained all of the problems I have had with this delivery, and the lady said they would be shipping me an entirely new dresser with all 4 parts. I told her I only needed box 1 of 4 but she insisted they resend everything, and the delivery driver would pick up the other 3 boxes when they drop the 4 boxes off.
She gave me the delivery fee back, but when I asked for a manager or supervisor to explain this and get some sort of discount or anything really for all of the trouble, she said the manager would only give the delivery fee back. So I said okay and verified with her the dresser would be coming to my APARTMENT address. She said yes and they would call me when it’s being delivered.
Now it is April 1 and I am still waiting for the dresser and have not received one call saying it will be delivered soon. This has been such a terrible experience. I won’t be buying from IKEA again and highly recommend not using their delivery services simply based on my own experience. When I spoke to customer service the second time, the lady was nice but made it seem like errors are quite common. If I don’t get the dresser by this Friday I will be asking for a refund and will take it as a lesson to simply never order from there again. I understand mistakes happen, but this many in a row with no effort to expedite anything has caused quite the mess.
Reviewed April 1, 2019
Ordered no. ** Dubai. Delivery took place in sealed box. Several items from the order were missing and logged a complaint. The customer service treated us as if we missed the items. There was no apology nor intent to resolve the problem. I would henceforth hesitate to buy anything from IKEA.
Reviewed March 30, 2019
Ikea discontinued their Akurum Kitchen line in 2015. They did not stock any replacement products and can't honor their warranty!!! So if you have a defect in your kitchen cabinets they can't replace any parts for them under warranty. Leaving the customer with no recourse. The case can go to a Resolution Team that is hell bent NOT TO PAY YOU the fair amount that is supposed to be covered under warranty. The company knew this line had a lot of defects and discounted the cabinets and under false pretense and is not able to make replacement parts on the cabinets! If you do fight this Ikea has hired a 3rd party company to come to your home and evaluate the damage.
Of course the party will try and dispute your claim for some bogus reason and then Ikea will try and pay you far less for the defective item. I did not go through this process because they try and stretch the time you wait forever. When I tried to pursue my claim further they wanted me to sign a document that I would have to relinquish my Lifetime Limited Kitchen Warranty and they would pay more.
Unfortunately the cabinets cannot be replaced by a 3rd party because they can't be exactly duplicated to match the finish that is unique to Ikea cabinets only! I recently checked and have seen thousands of complaints from dissatisfied customers from the national Better Business Bureau. Ikea has a better reputation in Europe than it has in the United States. I see from the reviews that customers are discussing a Class Action Lawsuit!
Reviewed March 28, 2019
We went to Ikea because we have a small kitchen and wanted to utilize the space the best we could which is what Ikea is known for. 1) They measured the kitchen wrong, 2) They sold us wrong pieces, 3) We had to waste a ton of cabinet space because they measured wrong, 3) They installed the wrong pieces, 4) they put cabinet hardware over the tape on the cabinets used to protect them during shipping (none of the tape was removed prior to installation and now most of it can't be without taking everything apart), we had to take several trips to the store (which is 35 miles away) to return and exchange pieces.
I couldn't watch the installers every second so it was too late to go back and take out the wrong pieces (and remove the tape) without taking the entire kitchen apart. We lost so much space it's unbelievable. The guy who came out to measure didn't have a clue. The person at the store ordered LOTS of wrong parts. HORRID, HORRID, HORRID.
Reviewed March 26, 2019
Ikea has many good things going for it. I like their products and their prices but if you should require customer service or help from their IT department you may be in for trouble. I spent several hours in the store selecting the goods to furnish a 2 bedroom apartment that had tenants moving in in 6 days. The people at the store told me that I should place the order online and I would get delivery much faster. Stupidly, I accepted their advice. After spending about two hours entering the purchase info in I was informed that I must log in to go further. After attempting to log in numerous times without success, I called customer service. Not only did I have to re-enter all the info, the system would not allow me to fill out the required forms to make the purchase. I called customer service again and THIS is where my nightmare began.
It took several hours to resolve that problem but I was finally able to log in and proceed with my purchase. BUT NOOOOO!! Without going into all the detail I will just say that I spent over 7 HOURS on the phone attempting to resolve the matter. This ended with me finally talking to a supervisor who listened to me and promised someone from the IT dept. would call me the next day. You guessed it. No call, no e-mail, no nothing. I called customer service again and again and again, by now I have already spoken to half of India, and after spending another 1.5 hours on the phone was told that if I wanted the merchandise I would need to go to the store (about a six hour drive for me) and order it there because I could not speak to IT and they could not help me.
This has been a nightmare of the first proportions and if I weren't in such a critical situation, I would NEVER to go an Ikea store again. Oh yeah, I had a very similar experience a year and a half ago with them and got the same empty apologies and excuses. I find whole experience remarkable for a multi-billion dollar company to have such a poorly designed website and poorly organized customer service department. I doubt this review will have much impact on one of the most popular retailers in the world but I can only tell my story and let you decide if this is a legitimate complaint or hot air. BUYER BEWARE!
Reviewed March 26, 2019
They will close your credit card without any reasons! I have credit score 800+ and they have closed my IKEA® Visa® credit card. Right after 2 weeks I've opened it with excuses of 'excessive inquiries'! That is non-sense! Comenity Bank is the worse business I've ever dealed in US. Don't even think about getting CC from this bank.
Reviewed March 24, 2019
IKEA has nice products, not always at good price not to say sometimes expensive for the quality BUT the worse part is their after sale service policy which is not admissible. They just care to sell the products & do not care about the after sale service. I wonder how many more years this company can survive without proper customer services. Of course they have a "Contact us" "mail us" options but no one will never reply to you. For example, 2-3 weeks back, I wrote them complaining about the repair of my reclining chair. Till today no one to reply to my mail. Even if you put a comment in their "comment box" no one will have the amiability to answer you back. Arpy ** from Dubai
Reviewed March 23, 2019
I was moving and bought 3 as is sofas for an incredible price! I asked IKEA to store them for me until I moved. I paid for storage and delivery. But IKEA did not deliver the items and now they have lost them. I have had to phone three times to discover this. I am so disappointed. Clearly the sofas exist somewhere but IKEA can't be bothered to locate them. They say they will refund me the money. But I want the sofas that I paid for because they represented a far higher value.
Reviewed March 15, 2019
I purchased a mattress from IKEA three weeks ago, in part because they have a 365 day return policy. I decided to return the mattress but require IKEA to pick it up, which is a service they offer. I have called/emailed to get a hold of a human being so I can return the mattress no fewer than 30 times and have yet to be connected to someone who can assist.
Upon calling, I am normally disconnected before I can speak to any person due to "higher than normal call volumes." Note, IKEA does not have a system to put callers on hold or schedule a call back. If there isn't someone available to speak to you at the EXACT moment you call, you are immediately disconnected. On the three occasions I have been able to get through to an actual human being, I have been told I need to be transferred to another department. Each time I was transferred, I was again immediately disconnected due to "higher than normal call volumes." (Note to IKEA: if you never have enough people available to take calls, then it's not "higher than normal." It's just normal.)
Finally, I sent an email to IKEA where I clearly explained that I have been unable to reach someone to schedule my return. Two days later, I received the below email. They did not respond to my follow up email where I explained I understand their return policy, and just need someone to pick up the mattress. So back to calling the broken line! I like their products but will never shop here again for any large purchase for as long as live.
"Thank you for reaching out to IKEA. We are sorry to hear that you have been experiencing a difficult time contacting us by phone. We are sorry to hear that you are not happy with your mattress. IKEA mattresses offer the "Love It or Exchange It" Return Policy: You may exchange your mattress once within 365 days if you don't love it. Return your mattress with your receipt or a copy of your order information to the store and select your new mattress. We are unable to exchange your mattress if your merchandise is found to be dirty, stained, damaged or abused. This cannot be handled remotely. We hope this information has been helpful. Thanks for choosing IKEA. If you experience any further issues or have any additional questions, please contact us again through the contact form located on our website, https://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/contact-us/or contact us at 1-888-888-4532."
Reviewed March 8, 2019
I wrote a lengthy letter to the GM of the South Philadelphia IKEA branch. To this day nearly a year later, I’ve not heard from him nor anyone else at IKEA regarding my unsatisfactory shopping experience. I’ve reached out repeatedly to him, resending my letter, calling customer service, etc etc. DO NOT BUY from IKEA. If anything goes wrong in any capacity with something purchased, good luck. They are a complete joke with any type of responsiveness.
Reviewed March 6, 2019
I could not find anyone to put my furniture purchase in my car. They did offer to help ME put it in my car....an 80 lb box. I am a female senior citizen, and I said no way is that possible. I finally got someone to do it. So much for "available carryout to your car when parked in pickup location". I then received a $20 off coupon on the same day. IKEA would not honor it because the purchase was already done. They said they had no way to honor a coupon after a purchase... I would have to bring this box back and return it. (Ever hear about a credit?). It's not as though I will spend another $150 or more in the next few days, so what good is the coupon? Not a very accommodating store. They lost a customer over $20. Brilliant!
Reviewed Feb. 28, 2019
I ordered a bed online on the 21 Feb 2019 to be delivered on 28 Feb 2019, which all paperwork confirmed that it would be delivered on the 28th Feb 2019. On 28 Feb I received a Tracking code for a transport company Toll advising the delivery was due on the 4th March. When I rang Customer Service a very rude person named Tim told me that I was wrong and that I would not have any paperwork that said it would be delivered on the 28th Feb 2019 that all their paperwork said estimated delivery date. I had the paperwork printed and in my hand and it clearly said Delivery Date: 28 Feb 2019. When he continued to be rude, I asked to speak to his Supervisor he refused to transfer the call and told me I had no choice I had to wait.
When I called back to speak to another person in Customer Service I was told that they could not hand out the number of the Supervisor and they could not transfer me and they could not provide me with the number of the head office so I could appraise them of the poor service I was being dealt. I have been an Ikea customer for many years and have spent a lot of money with them. They have now lost my business entirely.
Reviewed Feb. 27, 2019
I ordered an ASKVOLL two-drawer chest on January 15. The receipt noted that the items would be received by January 21. Two weeks after the supposed delivery date, I called to follow up on the order as I had not received any follow-up communication from IKEA. I was passed from one person to another before they told me that it was a shipping glitch and I would receive the order soon. Two weeks later I had still not received the order and again, there was NO follow up communication, so I called again. Once again, I was passed from one person to another before they explained that the items were on back order and would be shipped as soon as they were back in the warehouse.
Today is February 27. Again, I have received my order and there has been no follow up communication. So, I called once again. I again was shuffled from one person to another before I was told that the items had been shipped on January 18 and FedEx had not followed through with delivery. The customer service/resolution department stated they would re-order the items and I would have them in 5 - 7 business days. I am confident this is not a FEDEX issue. I have never had a problem like this with any other company, nor with FEDEX. IKEA has a serious and significant customer service problem that needs to be addressed. If these items were not matching items, accompanying something we had already purchased, I would have canceled this order long ago. Needless to say, I will NEVER order from IKEA again.
Reviewed Feb. 25, 2019
Two separate orders in two days and each one has something missing from it, one being our baby crib. You then call IKEA & they state their call volume is high, then you're disconnected. You try to do an online complaint & they have all kinds of info you have to fill out with half of it not even being available on any type of paperwork you've received. I learned to press a different number than what you're wanting & you’ll finally get connected to someone who can help. Now I’m stuck waiting 7-14 business days hoping my crib will be delivered. I took a day off for this delivery losing money & they could care less... I’ll never buy anything from IKEA again...
Reviewed Feb. 24, 2019
A sales representative sold us the wrong bed base for our bed and now IKEA states we have to pay a return fee/pick up fee for them to collect the incorrect base and a delivery fee for the correct item to be delivered. I have to pay double for one of their mistakes!
Reviewed Feb. 22, 2019
I placed a $3K in-store (Pittsburgh, PA) order 2/7/19 and, because they were heavy items, requested delivery. I first explicitly asked the Ikea rep if the delivery service would deliver the items to the bedroom (2nd floor) where they would be assembled. She indicated that the delivery service would do so. The company called with a delivery window and again about 30 min. from my house - which was great - but the 2 men would not take the boxes to the bedroom. One of the men said "Lady, we ain't taking these up no steps. We're putting them in the first dry room nearest the door."
So, now I have to pay someone to carry the boxes upstairs so that they can be assembled, as they are too heavy for me to carry. My attempt to contact IKEA was unsuccessful - only got a message that there were too many customer service calls and to try again. I'm going to try to contact them later tonight to get return of some of delivery fee. Bottom line...if you don't have to use delivery service for IKEA... Don't!
Reviewed Feb. 18, 2019
I was given a gift card as a birthday present. I had just moved countries to Italy and the card was mislaid in the clearing up. IKEA very kindly replaced the card BUT after having to wait ONE YEAR to make sure nobody had used it (air enough). Milan IKEA legal department replaced this card towards the end of last year (2018) and I have been trying since then to activate the card. I am being sent from one email address to another, seven so far, even as far as the United States of America and NOBODY, BUT NOBODY is helping me. Does anybody have any suggestions. I want to purchase goods but not unless I can use this card.
Reviewed Feb. 17, 2019
Place an order in-store on February 14 and insisted it was for delivery and assembly. On February 16, 2 people show at the scheduled time and announce they will assemble only one of 6 pieces of furniture. They also stated they were not certified IKEA assemblers. I had to drive back to the store (Live Oak) because there was no answer on the phone number provided and there was a message to visit the website, then wait 48-72 hours for a reply.
In the store, 2 employees fix the order, charge a new amount for assembly because there was an error in how the employees on Feb 14 entered it. An assembly appointment was scheduled for today February 17 between 8 and 12. By 1 p.m. I made phone calls to North American Logistics (subcontracted by IKEA to deliver and assemble). A dispatcher stated she would call when she got a hold of the driver. Eventually I received a text message from one of the people who delivered boxes the day before, stating there were many problems with the trucks and it would be some three hours to arrive. It is 4:30 p.m. and still no one has shown up.
Reviewed Feb. 16, 2019
I have been trying to place an order for two days now and finally decided to call IKEA because I can’t complete the order online. My online problem is that once I complete the order and calculate the shipping I have the option to “begin checkout” which I do select. I then see the screen with my billing address and IKEA FAMILY card number and I do click the checkboxes to confirm the privacy policy and receiving emails. Then I click the “save and continue to delivery box” which takes me back to the previous screen without the shipping calculation and an error message that reads “an unknown error has occurred. Please try again later or contact customer service.” So after trying all day yesterday and again today I decided to call customer service; however, I get a message that says “due to high call volume they can’t take my call!”
How am I supposed to order anything if I can’t do it online and I can’t speak to a customer service representative? I can’t even leave a message that gets the order placed because they might respond to this email within 48-72 hours and the sale ends 2/18/2019. I might be able to complete the transaction if I opted to go to the closest location and pick the order up myself; however, that’s a 220-mile roundtrip taking a minimum of 4 hours and at least $18 worth of gas plus wear and tear on my vehicle. Sad that I can’t complete the order online AND get it delivered!! And I sent them two email messages because their system did not send me an acknowledgment of my first message and maybe it isn’t set up to do so. This is NOT customer service!!! This is a disservice to EVERYONE who would like to shop with IKEA but can't.
Reviewed Feb. 11, 2019
It has taken over a month, almost 2 hours in phone called, multiple deliveries, refusal to discount the product despite all the terrible inconvenience, changes of delivery dates, and I am still not sure if I have all the parts I ordered. Worst delivery experience I have ever had. If what you want is more expensive elsewhere, pay it. IKEA cheaper prices aren’t worth all the hassle of getting the product to you. Customer service is always friendly and they want to help but they weren’t able to get it fixed with the delivery company. The manager was the least helpful and refused to discount the product, stating “I can’t lower the price” even though it was full price (not on sale).
Reviewed Feb. 9, 2019
I purchased a couch at IKEA and it was never delivered. Both the IKEA company and its delivery partner denied having the item. They blamed each other for the problem. I will never purchase another IKEA product after waiting for delivery on 4 separate occasions and never receiving the couch. The delivery company didn’t even bother to call me to tell me that they wouldn’t be coming. It was a huge waste of time. IKEA says that they will give me a refund as soon as the delivery team returns the couch. The delivery company says that they don’t have the couch because when they went to pick it up, IKEA didn’t have it. Don’t waste your time!
Reviewed Feb. 9, 2019
I visited IKEA store in Festival City for the first time. May I highlight, the background I come from is that of a hotel/restaurant industry, BFH (Basic Food Hygiene) is a core. It was absolutely appalling to see how the food is adulterated and violated under the Dubai Municipality standards. I was planning on having the mixed vegetables and chips.
I saw one lady from the ** perhaps, taking on order for a lady ahead of me, who asked for veg balls and mix vegetables, the lady poured meat balls and vegetables. The customer then decided to change the order so, this chef who was serving puts the meat back in the sheffing dish and the vegetables that were touched by meat in the vegetable sheffing dish. It was a horrific experience.
I am a vegan, vegatarian by choice and allergic to dairy. I can't find the food that fits me I go with chips and I have no qualms about that. I had asked the Filipino lady chef for a plate of chips. She served chicken bits with chips on it. Then I corrected her saying just chips please, she only took off the chicken, I had to tell her how could you mix veg and non veg? She made a face and gave me just the chips in a new plate. I had my concerns with the food adulteration and had to give it away. My concern here is, how come such a big brand not have their staffs equipped with BFH, it is the foundation of running a food industry.
To address point 2: The people over the counter on the ground floor are rude too. They sound like tape-recorders or machines, have no sense of human touch whatsoever. Either they have no help and are working extra hours (unpaid), or dissatisfied with their employer. I don't suppose after this I will ever visit the counter/store ever again. IKEA may have good products and perhaps the business is doing well too, but if the people who represent them are not trained well or not happy it only speaks ill of IKEA as a firm. Thank you for reading.
Reviewed Feb. 5, 2019
You get a different answer as to why you don't have your items or where they are or when they might possibly get there every time you call. I had the order split into two, different case numbers assigned to different situations, disagreements over who had the item or what item was even ordered or which items had or hadn't been delivered. They don't seem to have access to an itemized receipt or itemized proof of delivery and the different departments don't coordinate with each other. They don't have their own shipping company so they hire it out to, it seems, whoever is cheapest. Those companies will say you get to pick a delivery window, then assign you a different window, then show up early, late or not at all. It truly is not worth your time or money to order from them. You will spend hours on the phone and the onus is entirely on you to figure out what the hell happened. Either pick it up in person or don't get it at all.
Reviewed Feb. 1, 2019
I'm always shocked at the terrible level of quality and durability of Ikea products. Every single one of their fabric products I've ever purchased, carpets, rugs, towels, sheets basically anything made of any synthetic material is chock-full of chemicals. I've spent thousands and thousands of dollars at Ikea, their return policy is horrendous. They seem almost intentionally drastically understaffed, there's always a huge wait, they even have a number system if that tells you anything about how long the wait is. I've only tried to return a single item in my entire consumer live at Ikea, a $299 carpet that had a tiny hardened spot probably one centimeter big that they claimed was a paint stain, the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, it was the exact same color as the carpet fabric was probably there from the time that I purchased it. They're like any other horrible big corporation that finds any excuse and take your money but not give it back.
Reviewed Jan. 31, 2019
I ordered few large rugs online and they came in a large plastic compartment. The driver came 4 hr earlier than time slot specified by them so they left the box at my house. The box says to contact IKEA for pick-up and so I did. The response came as below: "As it turns out, we would be unable to arrange for this package to be picked up. We would recommend searching your Yellow Pages for removal services. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you." Now, I'm left with unwanted 2x8 ft compartment sitting in my garage. They have primitive logistics and are surprisingly irresponsible.
Reviewed Jan. 29, 2019
I had ordered items from Ikea online and it's been 10 days my order got placed. It just take 1 and half hour drive to the store and I don't know why it is taking forever to deliver my order. They have charged 99$ for shipping and this is the service they are providing. I had contacted the Ikea support around 5 times and all they were saying was the shipment has left their distribution center. This is the answer that I had received for consecutive three days. I am not getting proper update on my shipment. This is not at all worthy, 99$ is not a small amount. I would have gone with Amazon which was my all time favorite. They promise to deliver items quickly with low charge. I am hating myself for choosing Ikea this time.
Reviewed Jan. 25, 2019
Purchased 4 chairs from IKEA online, that came to $205. They charged me 3 times from my account and ended up taking $615, which was all the money I had for two weeks. Mistakes happen I understand that. So I called IKEA and they said it will all be refunded into my account. $205 was returned to me and that was all. I’ve been calling up IKEA and they say “the rest will be in tomorrow or the next day”. So I waited and one week's past and still haven’t seen the money. Called them up again and they said “we don’t know when it will be back in your account” and “there’s not much I can do.” So now I’ve got no money in my account to pay for anything and unsure of when to expect anything in my account. Great work IKEA.
Reviewed Jan. 24, 2019
I love Ikea, but I have spent the last 4 weeks trying to receive a delivery. The number of ways they have screwed this up would be comical if it hadn't involved about 20 hrs of my time and literally dozens of phone calls. Short story is online order sat in purgatory, never placed. When I contact them to try to understand what was going on, they agreed nothing had happened with the order but that now it was too late to cancel the order (because I would just drive to the store and get what I wanted...) So I received confirmation of the delivery window and proceeded to wait at my home for a full 12 hours. No delivery. No Call. Spent 54 minutes on telephone hold without getting a human. The next day I called and the robot said my order had been canceled.
So I tried again. I placed the order on the phone and scheduled a delivery date 7 days later. I received several automated phone calls that didn't leave a message and recognized the number as the shipper. I called the shipper and they confirmed that they had me on the schedule for the proper day, but that they had not received the merchandise (this is the day before the confirmed delivery date) and so they didn't believe there would be a shipment. They recommended I contact Ikea. I did so and the Ikea rep said that the merch had not left Ikea warehouse and that once it did, it would be 24-72 hours before it would ship from the delivery service to me. She said there was no chance I would get it on the delivery day. Today is that day, I received and email at 6am saying that the items had shipped from Ikea and would be delivered today.
I called Ikea at 9am to ask whether I would receive the delivery today and they said, repeatedly, that there was zero chance it would be delivered today. Cut to later when I receive an automated phone call from the delivery service saying that they would be at my house in 5-30 minutes. I was 25 minutes from home so I raced to car and speed home with Ikea on the line. The Ikea person got in touch with the delivery service while I was on hold and confirmed that the truck was on its way to me. He would not get in touch with them to tell them that I was racing home. I got home and waited a bit, no truck, and am now 30 minutes into a call with Ikea.
In this call I have been told "for certain" two totally contradictory things (that the shipper has my merchandise, and that they do not) and accused of lying. She is now agreeing that part of what she told me is wrong, but is still not clear if my merchandise is on a truck to me or not. I honestly can't express my dissatisfaction enough about the last month of Ikea drama. This is not acceptable on any level and I feel so frustrated at the inability of any Ikea employee to take responsibility for and control of the situation to resolve it.
Reviewed Jan. 22, 2019
I got some of my pieces I bought delivered today. Two guys came for delivery. One box fell down the way they stacked up. One guy was only interested in getting an assembly business from me in spite of me telling him 5 times that I don't need anyone. He kept insisting how hard it is, how time taking it will be, how much patience I will need, yadda yadda.
Then I saw I ordered many things and box looked few. I told him I need to check what all are delivered as I was expecting all my purchase to be delivered. He got impatient. He said he does not have time to wait. I told I have to check label of what is delivered as the boxes look few compared to my purchase. He said he has no time for me to check and without even taking my delivery signature thrust another paper on my hand and to the delivery paper. After he left I saw that paper said that 2 items were not delivered as they were unavailable. I was not informed about this by company or delivery guys though it was clearly written in the paper the guy thrust in my hand before leaving.
Reviewed Jan. 20, 2019
The delivery company did not show up. Calling them on the phone led to long waits only to then receive a recording that they are "closed" and get disconnected. Called IKEA - they have a direct line to the delivery company but are unable to get a straight answer about where my order is. Instead IKEA keeps suggesting a "wait and see" approach. No regard for the value of their customers' time.
Reviewed Jan. 20, 2019
I'm an Ikea member and have recently bought a Ribba picture frame. The quality of the frame is very poor, comes with no mounting hardware and there's little to no surface area to effectively mount the frame safely. When trying to submit a review on Ikea's website, the review page intentionally fails login credentials. If I simply head to the main login I have no login issues. Ikea is intentionally stopping users from submitting a review. The review page also preferences 5 star ratings even when you select most recent and 1-2 star ratings. Very poor service Ikea!
Reviewed Jan. 19, 2019
It took me 4 days and 5 phone calls to effect my order online. Ikea staff also tried but couldn't get through the payment system. The goods were not delivered on the day I was told in 3 emails after I'd waited for 4 hours, and I received no phone call about non delivery. On arrival the sofa bed was damaged but the plastic and cardboard wrappings were intact so it's obviously a production fault. I took a photo and sent it immediately but after a noreply email acknowledging it, I got no response.
I got another mail saying they were looking into it, but no further contact. I contacted Customer service and after a long discussion with the technical department my wish for a replacement was denied on the grounds that it could have been me who inflicted the damage. This is totally preposterous as I only used scissors to cut the sellotape and then removed the wrappings. Putting the blame on me is a disgraceful and underhand way of getting out of replacing damaged goods. I have dealt with IKEA before but from a shop and in Denmark. 2 acquaintances here on Madeira have also had bad experiences with IKEA specifically with receiving damaged goods. I will certainly never deal with IKEA again, it has been a dreadful time all through the process.
Reviewed Jan. 18, 2019
Wow! What a scam. You buy a gift card for your daughter on your credit card that is never received. Then you try to cancel the gift card because it was not received and you are told that it may take 7-10 days to issue a credit. Then they "mistakenly" overlook issuing the credit, (really?) all the while never allowing you to get through on the phone lines. They never return your messages, ever. They intentionally block your access to any human contact. They send auto email messages to "some" of your emails and ignore your request for contact.
After a month and a half of pestering, calling, leaving messages and emailing, I am told the process has to start over and it may be 7-10 days to issue a credit. What a scam that is obviously set up to hold millions of dollars of other peoples money while they do what with it? Hmmm... Can you say SEC investigation? Never, ever again. IKEA, CARDSTAR or whoever set this scam up should go to jail. It appears that they must have had a great Christmas, my daughter certainly did not! We are both out of our money, still.
Reviewed Jan. 15, 2019
Recently I purchased a parasol from Ikea on the 11th of December 2018. My problem was that it did not appear to arrive at the pickup point at Toll Global Express Services in Bunbury, Western Australia. Ikea could not explain this and a very helpful staff member at Bunbury Toll found that it had been collected by another person of the same name as myself who has an Ikea account. Apparently Ikea gave his telephone number on the Consignment Note instead of mine. On ringing the other person it was found that he was overseas and wouldn't return until after the New Year.
After many complaints Ikea finally sent another parasol that Toll delivered to my door on the 8th January 2019 at their expense. To me this was done out of goodwill because they could see what trauma their actions had caused me. I am almost 80 years old and in very poor health and this simple mistake seriously affected my health. Finally, Ikea refunded the $20 service fee on the 12th January 2019 and apologized without offering more compensation. Interestingly the Adjustment Note for the $20 has my address as **. I wasn't aware that I had moved to Toll Global Express Services at that address.
Reviewed Jan. 15, 2019
We ordered $900 worth of shelving to be delivered. My husband took a day off for the delivery and 7 boxes were missing. He stayed home a second day for delivery and 1 box was still missing. After 2 hours on hold, the Ikea manager said he arranged for the last box to be delivered after 6 on a Monday because my husband refused to take a third day off work. On Monday the company called around 3 and said they were ready for drop off. When my husband explained that delivery was to take place after 6, the company said they had other deliveries and would talk to the supervisor. They never called back and never delivered. We still have not received our complete order 3 months later. When we call customer service we talk to the first person who transfers us to the "high call volume" message which hangs up.
Reviewed Jan. 10, 2019
I ordered 3 Kallax bookshelves from Ikea.com US. I've never ordered from them online and wanted to try it because I don't have a big enough truck to haul the boxes. I took a screenshot of my online order number in case the email confirmation got lost in my spam. Total shipping was $39. After my purchase I never received a confirmation email of my order. This worried me a bit. I checked back online in the customer service section and was able to look up by my order number in the tracking section. (Thank goodness I had the screenshot for my order number.) It was there which eased my worry a little bit. Still was unsure. Email did finally arrive in my inbox, but was only an notification that it has shipped. No layout of what I purchased, just that it has shipped.
Next day I received another email that it is ready to be delivered. From the asterisk in the email it said, "*12 hour time window: You will receive a phone call the day before the scheduled delivery date with a 4 hour time window." My time in the email was a 12 hour so I assumed I'd get a phone call the day before. That phone call never happened. The day of delivery, I took off work to make sure I was available for the 12 hours. When I looked online, their delivery policy seems very strict about having someone there to sign for the delivery. I didn't want to miss it.
Since I didn't get the phone call, I started looking at IKEA reviews. Oh man did I find so many bad ones. Now I'm getting paranoid about my shipment not arriving, or it comes damaged, or I have to call customer service and deal with that headache. My mind was racing. I thought about calling IKEA just in case to try and get the shipper's info to call them (IKEA uses a 3rd party shipping company) to get an estimate. Since from the email, I should have received a phone call with a 4 hour window the day before delivery. I waiting a couple hours, had lunch and then got a phone call. The driver was 15 mins away and letting me know. What a relief! I was so happy that there was some status to the delivery and I didn't want to be on the phone for hours with IKEA. Delivery arrived on time and nothing was damaged. Very fast and efficient. Signed the paperwork and everything was good. No missing items.
My overall experience using Ikea.com has been great. Was worried at first especially reading previous reviews. I do feel like IKEA should have been better with updates and the order confirmation. Makes it a little unnerving when I can't view my order when I log in and can only track it with the order number. Overall, I'm happy everything worked out in the end. I wanted to share my experience since most of the reviews are bad.
Reviewed Jan. 9, 2019
We were so excited to purchase our first Ikea items, but it quickly turned into a nightmare. We ordered a bed online, as well as a locker for our daughter. It was supposed to be delivered on Christmas Eve, but did not get delivered. I received an email stating our delivery date was pushed back because nobody was home for the delivery (we were there all day). It was then set to be delivered that Friday, but I again received an email saying the delivery was moved to the following week by our request (we never requested this).
I then called IKEA (almost impossible to get through their customer service line) and they stated they were not showing a request for a new delivery, that it must be the third party delivery company. We then contacted the delivery company and they said IKEA requested the new date. Nobody took responsibility. Overall, we ended up canceling the order because we were going to be out of town the following week on vacation and wouldn't be able to be home. The IKEA customer service rep did process our refund and informed me it takes about 14 business days to receive the refund, but we received it in just over a week.
Upon our return home, we decided to go online to see if our local store had these items in stock. The site said there were nine in stock of one item, and approx five in stock for the other. I did call to verify, in which we were told the same... They were in stock. We drove the hr to the store, only to find out that nothing is as actually in stock! We were then told to check online so we know it's in stock, and upon telling them we did that and called, we were offered no alternative and left empty handed with a waste of gas money to get there and back.
We decided to try once more and go online to order all items, plus some more. There is a second store a little over an hr from us that showed everything in stock, and again, we called to verify. Everything was in stock! Instead of driving there to pull it ourselves, we utilized the option to have them pull our items for us and we would go pick up at the customer service counter. We paid online with no issues and scheduled our pick up for later that day.
However... I received a call from that Ikea store to inform me that the items were not in stock (after we already paid for them) and that they would not be in stock for a couple of weeks. I asked if we would be notified by email so we can then come pick them up, and she said no because she had to issue a full refund since they were not in stock... To check back on the app to ensure they are in stock before we reorder (we did that this time around and it said they were!).
Now we have to wait more than a week to receive a refund. Jamie, the woman I spoke with, informed me she would be processing our refund yesterday, but as of today, we have not received an email showing it has been processed and we are unable to get through on the customer service line. This has been the absolute worst experience we have ever had while buying something. We will be buying furniture to furnish our home elsewhere, as it is pretty much impossible to buy from Ikea.
Reviewed Jan. 8, 2019
My $4,000 purchase has become the most frustrating experience. It is obvious that IKEA does not care about customer service. The desk I purchased arrived damaged. It happens, no worries, made arrangements for the exchange. Received delivery date, sat at home during the delivery time slot. No show, no call, no email, nothing. Called IKEA, sat on the phone for over an hour on hold and through two separate customer support people I was transferred to the resolution department.
When calling or transferred to the “resolution department” you receive a recorded message, that due to high call volume they cannot take your call and the line disconnects. I called the resolution department for two days then refused to be transferred again. On day two, after an hour and 18 minutes on the phone, I was able to find out that my exchange was placed on hold. I was told that the desktop was out of stock and they did not know when it would be back in stock and would be issuing me a credit after they pick up the damaged desktop. I asked to speak to a manager, as the desk “bottom” does me no good with a desk “top.” I was placed on hold to schedule a pick-up for the damaged desktop, but ended up in someone’s voicemail, where I did leave a message about my problem, but never received a callback.
At this point I turned the damaged top over and will use it for the time being. I don’t imagine that I will ever purchase anything from IKEA or recommend them to anyone. When the volume of complaints is so large that you can’t hold to speak to a resolutions agent, the product must be bad. Very dissatisfied. I placed my order on December 4th 2018, and it is January 8, 2019 and my problem still isn’t resolved.
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2019
I moved into a new house in 2015 and bought IKEA products for a Kitchen island and a walk-in bedroom closet. I have sixteen 36" drawers in the closet. One of the drawers failed in December 2018 and IKEA will not help because they changed the sizes of their wardrobe offerings and no longer make a 36" drawer. Basically they left me hanging in the wind recommending that I look online and maybe find someone who has an old product to sell. This is not good customer service and is certainly not customer "support". I have always been a champion for IKEA products but that has ended and they have lost this longtime customer. I want to make it clear that this complaint is not about a collapsed drawer front, that can happen, it is about IKEA's complete lack of concern and support for a previously faithful customer.
Reviewed Jan. 5, 2019
I ordered two mirrors. One came broken to pieces and the other was the wrong color. When I called to ask to return it I was put on hold so they could do paperwork for 45 minutes! They said I would get an email but I never did. I called back two other times and after hearing them say that the person before them did it wrong, I finally got an email that they were working on sending me a return label. I called a few times later and they kept saying it takes a week or more to get a returned label.
The next thing I knew I got an email the day before New Year's and said they would pick up the items on New Year’s Day. As most people are, I was out of town. They called on New Year’s Day and said they were on their way to my house to pick it up. Because I didn’t have enough time to take it out of the garage where it had been kept for TWO MONTHS, and I was out of town, I just told them to forget it and that I would never purchase another item from them and I would tell my friends my experience as well. Worst customer service ever. Still can’t believe one mirror was sent in a flimsy box and cane shattered to pieces.
Reviewed Jan. 3, 2019
We identified a chair and drawer unit on the display floor that we wanted to purchase. Neither item was available when we went to check out. An employee told us a sofa we wanted to purchase could be bought online and shipped to us (we live two hours away) for $40. When we checked online the shipping was $200. We did purchase a kitchen stand, which we really like, but overall the experience was very disappointing and felt like a waste of time. When I contacted customer service, I was simply informed that they do not remove items from the displays when they're out of stock. So be warned that you might find several items you want to purchase only to find out they're not actually available.
Reviewed Jan. 2, 2019
I purchase a big order (almost 2k of euros), I received a TV stand broken (a big hole in the middle of the table), I sent a screenshots with the evidence of a broken table. The only solution that they provided me was: "We could give you a 10% discount on damage!!" Normally when something is broken I should get a 100% refund. This is how IKEA respect customers even after having invested a big amount of money. That is a real shame, it will be the last time that I would order from them.
Reviewed Dec. 31, 2018
We live 3 hours from the store & got all the way home & unloaded our car only to find out that we were missing one of our purchases. The cashier never gave us a receipt when we checked out either. I called customer service and the only way we can get our purchase back is to physically go to the store. I asked if we can somehow show proof of purchase through our bank statement and they said no. This is very frustrating since 1 they didn't give us a receipt & 2 the cashier never tried to get the purchase to us while we were walking away. I am not super impressed with the Canton, MI store register #16 cashier that was working on 12/30/18.
Reviewed Dec. 30, 2018
Went in to buy a few things I couldn't find elsewhere. They showed in stock on the app while I was at home. Get to the store, they show in stock. Go to make the purchase and they are out of stock even though there's a whole pallet on the rack above where they were supposed to be. Asked for help from an associate and was brushed off like I didn't matter. Put the other stuff back and left. I will never go back.
Reviewed Dec. 28, 2018
I asked for IKEA credit card online. I was approved for several thousand dollars. The credit card was sent and activated by me. I went to the store, made the first purchase and the credit card appeared as declined. I called and I was thought that the company closed my account for some reason and no communication was received. Dont buy from IKEA. This is not the way to treat customers!!!
Reviewed Dec. 22, 2018
We ordered the Vallentuna sleeper sofa. Ikea mistakenly delivered us the non sleeper Vallentuna love seat, which we did not order nor did we know even existed. I discovered this when we opened the boxes. We called Ikea to ask them to come get it and refund us because we needed the correct item instead, and at first they wanted to charge us $39 for pickup, but after we proved that they sent the wrong item and they looked it up on their computer, they waived the pickup fee and told us someone would be there on a Wed to pick it up between 1-5. We waited the whole time and they never showed, finally called and the call just went to a voicemail that said “we are experiencing significant delays, please call back later.”
This went on for several hours and so finally the next morning we called and they said they could come pick it up that following Sat. Keep in mind each of these calls took a total of about an hour being transferred to several diff people. Finally the Sat came around, which is now, and it’s past 3 pm and they have not showed up. We have been on hold being transferred by them for about 45 min. If we call the delivery service directly it goes to a similar voicemail saying they’re delayed and overwhelmed. Basically we have no idea when they are going to come take this couch out of our place. It’s too large and heavy for us to return it in our sedan. I have never experienced such poor customer service in my life. I guess Ikea is cheap and you get what you pay for.
Reviewed Dec. 18, 2018
I bought a high chair and seat cover through IKEA for a baby shower. The seat cover delivered to my friend's address, but the chair itself did not. When I contacted them the first time, they said they would send another chair. A week later, still no chair - so I call and they tell me they have refunded me $14 out of the $44 it cost to have the order sent. The chair cost over $25! And we didn't even receive it! This is the worst company with poor quality products! So dissatisfied and angry!
Reviewed Dec. 16, 2018
My $1600 worth of closet organizers were scheduled for delivery Thursday evening and never showed. Calling customer service was not available at that late hour. Called Friday AM and 1hour and 55 minutes of back and forth and holds before I could get my delivery rescheduled. 2 gentlemen and what looked like a rental truck arrived Saturday AM only to say they could not deliver because they have too many orders piled in front of my order and they would be back in an hour or so.
4 hours later still no delivery and another 2 hours of holds on the phone trying to get service. Finally we were told the delivery would arrive by 8:30 PM. It never showed. 45 minutes of holds the next day and they are telling us it will be another 2 days for delivery. I’ve rescheduled my contractor twice already for the builds. I’ve now said, "Forget it. I want a refund and cancel my order." They can’t process the refund until the products are returned and these delivery guys that have the order seem to be in the wind. It is impossible to speak to a manager. This is the most frustrating purchase I’ve ever made. Beware - Ikea does not care about customer service or a manager would have called me by now making this right.
Reviewed Dec. 11, 2018
I went to an IKEA restaurant about 30 min before they closed. I asked for fries. I was told no. I complained to the cashier. She said she would tell her manager. Then she went to the person working in the back and made fun of me. I asked to see the manager and he really didn't care, but mentioned that the cashier manager was a different manager. I went through the store and saw the same cashier 3 more times. Then I ask the manager if she (the cashier) has already talked to her. She said no.
I describe my issue was not really about the fries but with the bad customer service. She listened to my complaint and said she was sorry. As soon as I walked away she ran over to the cashier and started nodding her head. She said, "Yep. She was complaining about you." Ok then if the managers are not going to do their job then I will call. I called the 800 number and filled out a complaint but said I wouldn't get a response since they were closed. Good to know if they are about to close. They don't really care what kind of treatment you get.
IKEA Company Information
- Company Name:
- IKEA
- Year Founded:
- 1951
- Country:
- Sweden
- Website:
- www.ikea.com

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