Flatpack Purgatory
publication date: Feb 26, 2007
Hello
I have been to purgatory and it is located in the IKEA car park near Wembley, close to the infamous Hangar Lane gyratory in North London . . .
It is always a Bank Holiday Monday . . .
And the place is heaving . . .
Much as I admire IKEA and their sleek world- dominating Scandinavian design, I have long held a complete block on visiting their stores.
Let me explain.
Many years ago Heloise and I were living in a tiny flat high above the Marylebone Road. Like any couple with limited budgets and keen to feather their nest, we headed to IKEA . . .
Ok, so I should have seen the warning signs . . .
I hate crowds and as this was a bank holiday weekend the store was sure to be packed. When we eventually got to the car park, after what seemed like hours of queuing, I had what I can only describe as an existential crisis.
'Let's go home,' I said.
'But we've only just got here'
'I know, but I've seen enough . . .'
OK, it wasn't my most mature hour, but I simply couldn't face leaving the car and join the heaving masses to be ushered along like cattle though the cavernous store. I could not face the further queues in the warehouse where we would pick up the various flat packs and then take them to the checkout.
Worse still, we'd have to somehow fit these flat packs into Heloise's compact Renault 5, returning to our 6th floor flat, transporting the flatpacks up the stairs and then . . .
I would have to face the terror of assembling the wardrobe/ coffee table/bookcase . . . with nothing more than a Phillips screwdriver and a flimsy instruction sheet!
Big problem! I am not a natural DIYer. I don't have the patience or the application. I am sure I am not alone.
There must be thousands if not millions of others in the UK alone who would do almost anything to avoid the whole IKEA experience and just wave a magic wand and have the furniture appear in your home, fully assembled.
Well, finally some bright spark has come up with a solution to this problem and it's a very neat small business ideas the more entrepreneurially minded reader could try out for themselves!
Go check out the guys at:
These guys will actually take your order, go over to IKEA, pick it up and deliver it to your door. No circling the car park for a space or standing in queues for hours.
For an extra charge they will even assemble it for you!
How about that! OK, so it's going to cost you around £70 or more for a single item, but surely that's worth all the stress and wasted time!
Identify a problem and offer a solution! You can't get more basic or compelling business model than that.
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I could go on and on and on . . . but you get the gist!
Identify and clearly state the problem, then offer a solution!
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1. Ebay Trading Assistant (Problem: people are
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You do it for them and taker a cut of the
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5. Home Service Broking Agency (recommend the
best plumbers and other trades people in your area in return for a cut of work done)
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I've gone Beta test Crazy
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Hot on the heels of Foolproof forex, I'm testing something myself. Clive Keeling - the braniac editor of What Really WINS Money has been doing a covert test for his Lay Profit Alert Service. Using the betexhcanges (essentially a way for you to become a bookie online), Clive is making money by picking horses to lose!
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Just look at the results . . .
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That's you're lot for now . . .
Regards
Nick
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