New IKEA Catalogue - How sad

RickF64


Joined: 07/01/2009
Posts: 173

Message Posted:
04/12/2009 18:07

Came home to find a new catalogue had been delivered all down the street. I even enjoyed 'reading' the catalogue for ideas. Sad but true.

Sad and a shame we are not officially 'allowed' to bring the stuff back over the border.

fishh


Joined: 17/04/2009
Posts: 147

Message Posted:
04/12/2009 18:18

was it english language or greek/euros

RickF64


Joined: 07/01/2009
Posts: 173

Message Posted:
04/12/2009 18:24

It's the English 2010 copy, with all prices in €'s. Map in the back directs you to the Strovolos store in the south.

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
04/12/2009 18:48

How strange for them to deliver catalogues there's always a first

Vidal


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 867

Message Posted:
04/12/2009 18:59

http://onlinecatalogue.ikea.com/2010/ikea_catalogue/CYA/



for anyone needing a fix!

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
04/12/2009 19:01

we go over and bring allsorts back, I love Ikea and the meatballs x

Goonerboy


Joined: 01/04/2009
Posts: 723

Message Posted:
04/12/2009 20:57

Found mine in the front garden too...wonder whose been delivering them?

westender


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 328

Message Posted:
04/12/2009 22:03

In the paper last week, the UK is falling out of love with IKEA!

Queen180


Joined: 13/04/2009
Posts: 399

Message Posted:
30/12/2009 20:53

Came home yesterday to find an Ikea catalogue pinned to my gate - the compaign continues....

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
30/12/2009 22:00

well done ikea even the crap quality from there is better and cheaper than the overpriced no guatantee shit u find here

cyprusishome


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 2381

Message Posted:
30/12/2009 22:11

Would not be seen dead in IKEA.



Load of overpriced tat from what I once saw there. Much prefer to buy here.

kelly25


Joined: 29/05/2008
Posts: 365

Message Posted:
30/12/2009 22:23

re msg 10, too right, i don't know anyone who can afford to shop in the furniture stores here on the wages we earn. There is a shop opposite where i work which are selling a bed for 2,500TL and i'm sure you can buy a very similar bed in IKEA for about €250. I certainly can't afford to shop in the North, even silly little things like stationary in IKEA are at least 50% cheaper than stationary shops here.



I wonder when they border police will see sense, why don't they just charge everyone 5% tax or something like that for bringing IKEA stuff over the border? They will make money for themselves and we will save money by being allowed to shop in the south. I'm all for shopping in the north but i just can't afford to, and i'm sure there are a lot of other people in the same situation

Agnes


Joined: 11/04/2009
Posts: 81

Message Posted:
30/12/2009 22:24

I must be a tat lover I enjoy shopping in Ikea both UK and Cyprus The prices being charged in the TRNC are more than I am prepared to pay.

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
30/12/2009 23:04

msg 10&12;



If it is that much better in the south,like you are saying.......????



WHY DONT YOU PACK YOUR BAGS AND BUGGER OFF TO WHERE YOU THINK ITS BETTER FOR YOU!!!



By the way,I too shop in ikea,as and when,but above all;



I am a proud Turkish Cypriot,but you...

Dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
30/12/2009 23:44

yorgozlu msg 14



Well said!!!

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
31/12/2009 07:09

Good morning Yorgozlu the Hippo bids you I see you are again on your mission of offering anybody who dares to criticise the TRNC the opportunity to go home (where ever that may be) this crops up in many of the threads.



I would like to remind you that if it wasn't for the expats its a donkey you would be riding not a Mercedes.



There is a lot wrong here but its the narrow minded blinkered people like you that accept it, it's only by highlighting the anomalies that some day they be corrected.



A wonderful place is the TRNC but Utopia it ain't. Not of course is Great Britain.

I wonder if you lived there for any length of time?

michelle3012


Joined: 07/11/2008
Posts: 578

Message Posted:
31/12/2009 07:14

Try the New INDEX store its more or less the same s Ike on a smaller scale, modern furniture in flat pack...really nice shop.

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
31/12/2009 11:11

mess 16 - A fair point, Hippo....

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
31/12/2009 14:19

msg 16,

Hippo;(or whatever your name might be/whatever youmay look like)



Critisizing and slugging off are two different things.Get your points at wright direction first of all.



I dont have a mercedes,unless you are willing to buy one for me.



One cant help but be narrow minded like you brits after living there for 23 years.



ALSO;



I'd remind you of an english saying;

IF YOU CANT TAKE IT, DONT GIVE IT.



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Izzet



Joined: 01/12/2006
Posts: 920

Message Posted:
31/12/2009 15:00

This thread is now closed.



Reason: Thread went off topic.





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yorgozlu and hippo - please respect each other.