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IKEA Recalls 29 Million Dressers

17,017 9,137 June 28, 2016 at 10:56 PM in Chat (2)
IKEA is going to stop selling dressers that have been linked to the deaths of 6 children

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/201...er-recall/
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06-30-2016 at 01:16 PM.
06-30-2016 at 01:16 PM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
That is pretty negligent if you ask me.

You could have scalded the horse Smack
Damn laugh out loud
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Zoe Moon
06-30-2016 at 01:49 PM.
06-30-2016 at 01:49 PM.
Quote from CheapestGamer :
But they DID sell aftermarket holders that you could put on the floor. At least then the only thing that would've potentially been burned was the upholstery.
How soon we forget, there used to be humps in the middle of most cars so floor cup holders were not common and the actual cup holder was designed for taller soda cups, no way to put a coffee cup in there and get it back out again without a two handed struggle. Some people (including me) had cup holders that you could wedge into the window channel on the door but again they were designed to hold soda cups and usually too big to hold a McDonalds coffee cup securely and almost impossible to get the shorter coffee cup out again.
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06-30-2016 at 02:06 PM.
06-30-2016 at 02:06 PM.
Quote from Zoe Moon :
How soon we forget, there used to be humps in the middle of most cars so floor cup holders were not common and the actual cup holder was designed for taller soda cups, no way to put a coffee cup in there and get it back out again without a two handed struggle. Some people (including me) had cup holders that you could wedge into the window channel on the door but again they were designed to hold soda cups and usually too big to hold a McDonalds coffee cup securely and almost impossible to get the shorter coffee cup out again.
However I have not forgotten as my first two cars(a 1986 Monte Carlo and a 1988 Monte Carlo) both had those humps in them. Yet I found a curved floor cup holder that worked fine in both and even allowed for coffee cups of all sizes without a lot of struggle. Wink
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06-30-2016 at 09:17 PM.
06-30-2016 at 09:17 PM.
Quote from CheapestGamer :
While yes, the coffee should not have been THAT hot, the lady was also more than 20% to blame for the burns since she held it in her lap to try putting cream and sugar into it.

Plus that page you linked is more like a blog and as reliable imo as Wikipedia, which I linked.
And that 20% came out of her award.
Read up on it, it's not a frivolous suit and is only a great example of people who think the country is going downhill but fail to read facts.
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06-30-2016 at 10:09 PM.
06-30-2016 at 10:09 PM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
That is pretty negligent if you ask me.

You could have scalded the horse Smack
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06-30-2016 at 10:16 PM.
06-30-2016 at 10:16 PM.
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Quote from Zoe Moon :
The link in the OP didn't give all of the details. Ikea sold the dressers with a wall anchor included (or offered at customer service) and the instructions said it needed to be anchored to the wall to prevent tipping but a lot of people didn't do that step.
second paragraph of the link - "Theodore McGhee died after an IKEA dresser tipped over and fell on him. Last year, IKEA put out a video to warn customers that these items could fall and also gave out 300,000 anchoring kits to help secure the dressers to a wall."
The very last sentance of the article gave a link to here - http://www.ikea.com/us/en/about_ikea/newsitem/062816-recall-chest-and-dressers
You didn't read my post correctly. I'm not talking about the steps Ikea took last year to make people more aware of the danger. I'm talking about when they originally started selling this style of dresser. We looked at this style when it came out several years ago and saw the notice on the instructions that you needed to use an anchor bolt so we bought a different style that didn't need that.
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06-30-2016 at 11:02 PM.
06-30-2016 at 11:02 PM.
Quote from Zoe Moon :
You didn't read my post correctly. I'm not talking about the steps Ikea took last year to make people more aware of the danger. I'm talking about when they originally started selling this style of dresser. We looked at this style when it came out several years ago and saw the notice on the instructions that you needed to use an anchor bolt so we bought a different style that didn't need that.
ok - now I do understand - so the said all along they needed to be bolted down.
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07-01-2016 at 09:33 AM.
07-01-2016 at 09:33 AM.
Just about every dresser or piece of furniture over 2 ft or so comes with a wall securing nowadays, just take a look next time you're in any furniture store.

Let's be honest, a lot of parents never bother to read the child safety seat instructions, much less to read the last page of the furniture instructions

Quote from FHRITP :
IKEA furniture is junk. When did we become a throw away society? Just buy cheap crappy products, use them for a couple years and toss them in the trash. Nasty species we are...said yoda.
Take care of it and they last for decades. But a lot of people can destroy solid oak furniture and its somehow still the furniture's fault for being "crappy".
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07-01-2016 at 09:59 AM.
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Quote from FHRITP :
IKEA furniture is junk. When did we become a throw away society? Just buy cheap crappy products, use them for a couple years and toss them in the trash. Nasty species we are...said yoda.
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Just about every dresser or piece of furniture over 2 ft or so comes with a wall securing nowadays, just take a look next time you're in any furniture store.

Let's be honest, a lot of parents never bother to read the child safety seat instructions, much less to read the last page of the furniture instructions



Take care of it and they last for decades. But a lot of people can destroy solid oak furniture and its somehow still the furniture's fault for being "crappy".
What a lot of people in this country don't realize is Ikea sells two types of furniture. The cheap stuff is designed for students and first time budget buyers. Then there's the more expensive solid wood furniture which is designed to last for years.

We have some of their solid wood pieces in our house, the best of the bunch is the office unit, which you can mix and match (file drawer, smaller drawers, cabinets, glass or wooden doors, etc.) depending on your needs. It wasn't cheap but it will outlast DH and I, and it looks great, yet was still cheaper than what you could buy at an office furniture store.
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07-01-2016 at 10:42 AM.
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07-01-2016 at 12:05 PM.
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Quote from The Llama :
laugh out loud

You can pay Ikea to have it assembled in your home. I think if we ever needed to add another office storage piece, we would pay the price. Lets just say, there was quite a bit of language when DH had to assemble the one we have, probably because the tolerances on it were so exact. I stayed well out of his way. Hide
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07-01-2016 at 12:20 PM.
07-01-2016 at 12:20 PM.
The funny part for me is that I actually enjoy putting that kind of stuff together. I've never found it challenging so I had no idea this was even a thing for people for a long time.
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07-01-2016 at 12:43 PM.
07-01-2016 at 12:43 PM.
I'm in between, I don't enjoy it, but I find it more tedious than challenging.
I've never assembled any Ikea stuff, I don't expect it would be any more difficult than Sauder or what have you?
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07-01-2016 at 01:59 PM.
07-01-2016 at 01:59 PM.
The Ikea stuff is much more involved in putting it together than the Sauder stuff is. Keep in mind they designed it so you can stack the different unit sections in any order you want them to be, so the specs have to be really spot on for that to work well.

Ours consists of a medium size drawer, then a large pull out file drawer, then two smaller drawers of differing heights, then a large three shelf cabinet (in the same wood) with metal and glass double doors. You have to assemble each of those separately, then stack and connect the units together. So they put locking screws in (not sure what they are called) which have to be locked correctly before you can stack the units. So it forces you to have everything square before you can stack them.
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07-01-2016 at 07:59 PM.
07-01-2016 at 07:59 PM.
Quote from xxxHolic :
Nobody is going to sue IKEA? deaths of 6 children.
Shouldn't the parents be sued for bad parenting?
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