11039 IKEA Sale - Ancona

Hi Ian The one in the UK starts on the 18th December. I think Italy tends to be later. You could always ring/e-mail them. A suggestion that it's worth joining IKEA Family if you are spending a lot of money. They have special offers. Free delivery a couple of years ago.

Hi Ian and Sandra, don't know about Ikea but someone in san ginesio is selling the whole contents of their house. May be worth taking a look just in case. PM me and will give you contact details if you are interested.

Pam

Hi and thanks for that - you would not believe how difficult it is to contact the store - have tried this already - they do not accept e-mails and there is only one number for all stores in Italy which does not work from the UK!
If anyone would be kind enough to phone them and find out the sale dates we'd be really grateful - the number is 119 11 46 46

Bad news about the e-mail. However you could ring Customer Services UK and they might be able to help ie give you the number of Head Office Italia or actually know the answer. They did for me. Worth a try.

Hi Sally, thanks for your reply - have contacted Italian customer services who could not give me the info - will try again but hoping someone in Italy will be kind enough to give them a call

I cannot profess to being an IKEA expert, but I go there sometimes, and I've never seen an Italian branch having a 'sale' in the sense that you mean.

If you consult the 2008/9 catalog, it will tell you (somewhere near the back), that between certain dates you can have certain special offers. I have never seen kitchens on 'cheap'.

I could be completely wrong, and in today's retail climate they are probably flying by the seat of their pants, so maybe it'll be different! You could always check out [url=http://www.ikea.it]IKEA | arredamento, arredamenti, arredo, mobili, cucina, cucine, divano, divani, letto, letti, librerie[/url] (usually a pretty useless and misinformative site).

Good luck!

Hi,

I don't know if this helps but we had to get in touch with IKEA at Ancona and after trying to phone the central number and getting totally lost with the maze of menu's after the 10th time we gave up and called the business number. This is 0714607419 (which someone very kindly suggested elsewhere on the forum).

We tried many times and it was an answer machine but first thing yesterday morning we managed to get through and the lady who answered was very very helpful and even spoke a little English. She asked IKEA Ancona to phone us back and even though we were very doubtful, to our amazement they called back within 10 minutes.

Hope this helps and good luck - you will need it!!!!!

Thank you - will certainly give it a go and let you know - we've also looked at kitchen showrooms in Pesaro and Fano previously - do outlets other than Ikea have january sales?

Have you tried Mondo Convenienza? Here is a list of their different locations:

[url=http://www.mondoconv.it/punti-vendita.aspx]Mondo Convenienza | Arredamento e Mobili per la tua casa[/url]

I cannot recommend them, because our kitchen had to be custom made by a cabinet maker because of difficulties in the layout and uneven walls, but I have visited their store near Florence and they look very nice and well priced. As it is the case with IKEA, I do not think that they have sales as such but special offers from time to time. That may also be the case with other kitchen shops, they are not items which are frequently on discount. Best luck!

I don't know where in the Marche you are but we recently did our kitchen using a local firm (Marni) in Servigliano. The quality was very good and they did a great job of fitting. We think that it probably worked out not that different from Ikea and we have something which we think looks more distinctive. I would recommend you look around at local firms as they may be able to do something on price when you come to buy.

Chris

Emmezeta, practically next door to the IKEA Ancona always seem to have reasonably priced kitchens on display and often have some on offer - no idea re quality but they looked ok.

As has been said before I don't recall IKEA having a sale as such, they do reduce end of season items but nothing you could really call a sale. However, they do have weeks where they offer incentives to buy, ie I remember a bedroom furniture one where if you spent € X you got vouchers for € y and a similar one for kitchens, so keep checking the website, not sure how much notice they give though. Often these offers only apply Mon to Fri.

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I've just had an e-mail today about the Ikea UK sale - starts 18th December - not sure if it's the same in Italy but worth checking on-line- I get the e-mails as part of Ikea Family discount scheme. Nothing yet on the UK site.

Chris

Yes I too have just received that UK IKEA Family e-mail announcing the sale here. I do remember that their Italian sale starts after ours.

Ah I have had a thought, yes join IKEA Family Italy but do so online. Maybe you too will benefit from the IKEA freebie meal that has been thrown in as an incentive to brave the cold and to actually shop!!!

The link - [url]https://secure.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CreateProfile?layout=myProfile&returnUrl=DisplayPage%3Flayout%3DdisplayHome&storeId=10&langId=-4&catalogId=11001&localStore=10136[/url]