Costco.com e-commerce confusion/bait and switch

[wolf]

1. The couches are always more uncomfortable than they look (and they look really damn uncomfortable).

2. "Easy Assembly Required" is a lie. Someone mistranslated the Swedish for "There are parts for four different pieces of furniture in here. None are compatible."

3. Don't get too excited over the free hex wrench. It's metric. It doesn't fit anything else in your house. You can pound it into the drywall for use as a hook for a set of keys.

4. Never buy bedding or sheets at Ikea. Like everything else. They are metric. They do not fit your English measurement bed. If you buy an Ikea bed you will forever be buying your sheets from them, unless you like buying flat sheets only and making hospital corners. Despite working in a hospital, I am not capable of making hospital corners. Many of my patients aren't allowed sheets anyway.

5. I have many accessory items from Ikea. I love my 50 cent garlic press and my $1 antifreeze in the handle ice cream scoop (the identical item is sold by Pampered Chef at those stupid parties for $15. I regularly piss off Pampered Chef "Hostesses" by announcing this loudly when the item is displayed.)

6. They used to have great ads "Mom, can I have a cookie?" They seem to have fired this ad agency. Too bad.