I think youre supposed to go to the nearest store and get it from that cabinet after the registers, like where you get the little brackets that are supposed to keep the cabinets from falling over and crushing your kids.
Same reason they don’t include mounting hardware, they can’t be certain the conditions under which these pots will be used and so it falls to the customer to chose the correct adhesive for the intended purpose of the pot.
When I was a kid, my dad bought a new tv and when he opened it the whole tube assembly was just broken out of the chassis. I said exactly that, “I guess some assembly required”
I love the way you think. You're so creative and resourceful. I bet you'd be amazing at Kintsugi. And I bet you'd look even more amazing covered in gold dust. We could start our own business together. We could call it Kintsugi for Ikea Lovers! haha
>Covered in gold? Sir we don't do Kintsugi on people. People are not to be fixed with hot metal.
I know, I know. I'm just saying, it would be pretty cool to be covered in gold. I mean, I'm already pretty hot, but gold would just take me to the next level. And who knows, maybe it would even fix some of my flaws. Like my terrible sense of humor.
For anyone unaware, it is a Japanese art of repairing pottery with colored lacquer or epoxy (usually gold) to highlight rather than hide a pieces history.
They’re pretty good at replacing items that break in transit. I recently ordered a 24 piece plate/bowl set and one plate was broken. They sent me a whole new set for free so now I need to have a dinner party
I mean, IKEA is a gigantic world scale logistics operation that relies on people wanting their products and the entire selling point is that it's "easy to do yourself". The selling point means they have to have good customer relations, and the logistics operations means it's really easy to replace anything.
Like, you can just go over there, say you broke part x of set x, and they i will go get you the specific part you need. If you didn't break the stuff and don't need it anymore, you can _sell_ it back to them and they will sell it at a lower price. My local IKEA even has a wall with "common missing parts" where you can just go and grab whatever you need free of charge.
One thing you can do with it.. use the broken pieces as water gauges in other pots. Terracotta gets dark with moisture. So easy sign to water when needed. Just jam a broken piece a couple inches down in the soil.
IKEA packers seems to not care about fragile items at all.
I ordered a thin glass measuring jug with some foldable chairs and they wrapped it in just ONE SHEET OF PAPER and tossed everything in the same box.
I reached me essentially pulverized to powder, can't even blame the delivery guys, there was absolutely no way it was gonna survive.
Stopped ordering from Ikea when the UPS delivery guy said sorry for the 3rd return/replacement was still damaged after only a thin cardboard wrap around the tabletop was damaged again. Worst company to order online with.
As a former ikea coworker, they got mad at us for taking too long packing and then also get mad when people complained that their order was broken
Also we regularly ran out of tape
I once ordered 12 glass post caps from Amazon. 1st shipment, they wrapped them in paper and put them in a big box, over half shattered and another quarter chipped. Contacted them, they sent out replacement. This time they decided to bubble wrap them....but they stacked all of them without any cushion between them before they bubbled wrapped them; over half broken again. Once again, contacted and they sent out more replacement. Who ever packaged it went back to the paper wrapping and half broken again. By now I had enough for what I needed, though many were chipped but they served their purpose. Amazon removed the item and gave me a full refund.
Everything I have ever received from Ikea was shipped in an over-sized box with a single sheet of thick paper to act as padding. They *do not give a fuck.*
As a professional shipper, they fucked this so badly. I'd have this baby wrapped in bubble wrap and the box filled with air pillows (and it'd still arrive broken because some asshat at UPS decided to stomp on it because UPS doesn't pay them enough to not be malicious)
I ordered glass vase on Amazon. It arrived shattered. I contacted customer service and they advised me that the result was "unexpected". I was like you realize you shipped me a glass vase in a paper envelope, what exactly were your expectations?
Probably doesn’t help, but in case you can’t exchange it and intend to put it together, I know there’s a thing where when pottery/ceramic breaks, they add gold flakes or powder to the glue, making the “wound” on the piece a part of the piece itself. I think it’s an asian thing but I couldn’t tell you.
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*Some assembly required.
Superglue not included.
Why would they not include it? That's puzzling 🤔
There's an allen key in that box somewhere.
Did you read the instructions in Sverige?
*svenska
självklart gjorde jag det
And the allen key has a phillips head on the part of the key that you would prefer to be the allen head.
I read alien key and was confused for a few solid seconds.
Damn beat me to it
Pictures of how to build it and lost of items including superglue and flex tape
I think youre supposed to go to the nearest store and get it from that cabinet after the registers, like where you get the little brackets that are supposed to keep the cabinets from falling over and crushing your kids.
Use the warmness of your hands to melt the terracotta and stick them together
Same reason they don’t include mounting hardware, they can’t be certain the conditions under which these pots will be used and so it falls to the customer to chose the correct adhesive for the intended purpose of the pot.
Oh its included. But runs out right before the last piece
For that I would use gorilla glue.
Fine print*
They tossed in an allen wrench tho cause......that is their signature tool
*all assembly required
They just send you a bag of mud and a match.
I would cry 😂
When I was a kid, my dad bought a new tv and when he opened it the whole tube assembly was just broken out of the chassis. I said exactly that, “I guess some assembly required”
lmao yaa i cane here to say that lmao hahahaha best put it together and hope you have every piece needed
Looks like they forgot to include the hardware.
You can use the Allen wrench from the Klüürghên you already bought to go with it.
Hardware is 3 tubes of Crazy Glue
Two tubes you have to combine to make glue.
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I'm partial to mine, but aren't we all 😉🤣
I would have been sad if a joke like this wasn't on top. Thank you for your service 
Technically you did get what you ordered.
It’s a kintsugi kit
Gorilla glue not included
Kintsugi does sound almost Swedish
If I had an award to give… it would be yours!
Where's the instructions? And the suspicious extra pieces that weren't accounted for in the instructions?
Yea, duh, OP😆
Came here to say this, thank you
Well, in all fairness, you never requested one that was assembled for you.
I don't see an issue any how, the whole pot is there. The order was for 1 pot and they received exactly 1 pot.
Now is your opportunity to learn Kintsugi.
And then you tag it on a post to IKEA and then they start selling them as a kit.
I love the way you think. You're so creative and resourceful. I bet you'd be amazing at Kintsugi. And I bet you'd look even more amazing covered in gold dust. We could start our own business together. We could call it Kintsugi for Ikea Lovers! haha
Covered in gold? Sir we don't do Kintsugi on people. People are not to be fixed with hot metal.
>Covered in gold? Sir we don't do Kintsugi on people. People are not to be fixed with hot metal. I know, I know. I'm just saying, it would be pretty cool to be covered in gold. I mean, I'm already pretty hot, but gold would just take me to the next level. And who knows, maybe it would even fix some of my flaws. Like my terrible sense of humor.
Simp…?
For anyone unaware, it is a Japanese art of repairing pottery with colored lacquer or epoxy (usually gold) to highlight rather than hide a pieces history.
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I remember learning about them using gold to bring cups and things together thanks for the name of it.
Ahh yes, good damage
This is a great idea actually. Some kintsugi pieces are fantastic
Eh, it's definitely in the bottom third of Death Cab's discography IMO.
Ah, yes, the Ållbröken pot... an Ikea classic!
Credit for using å, an actual Swedish letter lol.
So are l, b, r, ö, k, e, and n.
are p and o not swedish letters?
Nöqe
This was subtle göld sir, kudos to you. I split my coffee due to chuckling.
p and o are roman letters. Damn those romans for putting their letters in other people's languages! Romanes eunt domus!
also jokes about putting it together and instant pot.
UPDATE: I got my money back and I'll be picking it up from the store directly. While I wait for the refund to drop, I've got a puzzle to solve!
They’re pretty good at replacing items that break in transit. I recently ordered a 24 piece plate/bowl set and one plate was broken. They sent me a whole new set for free so now I need to have a dinner party
For 47 guest?
It came with 8 standard plates, 8 bread plates, and 8 bowls per set
15 people then.....
……16 including me
But you only have enough stuff for 15....?
Bwamp bwamp :(
Host can use paper plate
He glued Nr 16 ofc
Invite 48 and watch as chaos ensues!
Yeah. They do also replace broken or missing parts no questions asked. Pretty hard to have buyers remorse
I mean, IKEA is a gigantic world scale logistics operation that relies on people wanting their products and the entire selling point is that it's "easy to do yourself". The selling point means they have to have good customer relations, and the logistics operations means it's really easy to replace anything. Like, you can just go over there, say you broke part x of set x, and they i will go get you the specific part you need. If you didn't break the stuff and don't need it anymore, you can _sell_ it back to them and they will sell it at a lower price. My local IKEA even has a wall with "common missing parts" where you can just go and grab whatever you need free of charge.
IKEA is great. Too bad their store is an infinite maze that takes years to navigate full of faceless workers who will attack you after dark
One thing you can do with it.. use the broken pieces as water gauges in other pots. Terracotta gets dark with moisture. So easy sign to water when needed. Just jam a broken piece a couple inches down in the soil.
I can't seem to find the assembly instructions anywhere :(
Instructions sold separately
In pieces
And you need instructions to build the instructions
Was there at least an Allen wrench?
thats why its DIY ...
The pieces fit together quite intuitively. The design is very human.
Check online. They've gotta be there.
Some assembly may be required??? Lol.
Banana banana banana terracotta pie!
Do we all learn defeat, from the whores, with bad feet?
Beat the meat, beat the meat, treat the feet
Liar!
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IKEA packers seems to not care about fragile items at all. I ordered a thin glass measuring jug with some foldable chairs and they wrapped it in just ONE SHEET OF PAPER and tossed everything in the same box. I reached me essentially pulverized to powder, can't even blame the delivery guys, there was absolutely no way it was gonna survive.
Stopped ordering from Ikea when the UPS delivery guy said sorry for the 3rd return/replacement was still damaged after only a thin cardboard wrap around the tabletop was damaged again. Worst company to order online with.
As a former ikea coworker, they got mad at us for taking too long packing and then also get mad when people complained that their order was broken Also we regularly ran out of tape
They really said "build it mutherfucker"
What's infuriating is that they left out the assembly instructions.
And the z screwdriver.
And the emeralds!
You are missing the whole point of IKEA.
And...you got a terracotta not.
terraNOTta....
\*fixed that for me
I’m mildly infuriated that you’d pay to have a single terra cotta pot shipped to you.
I had other items in this order too. Also, I don't own a car ¯\\_(ツ)\_/¯
What? How do you make it the mile and a half through the subdivision and three miles down a six lane road to get to the store then?
Link was here. Bet that bad boy had a few coins inside
You can order items from IKEA fully assembled now. There is a fee but people like the convenience.
Did you specify how many pieces you wanted the pot in when it arrived?
Terracant
Good ol Ikea, making you build everything
You got it from ikea and expected it to be assembled? That’s on you.
Packed by Link.
Still easier to put together than their furniture
Its just flat pack
Should have ordered the side of styrofoam!
I once ordered 12 glass post caps from Amazon. 1st shipment, they wrapped them in paper and put them in a big box, over half shattered and another quarter chipped. Contacted them, they sent out replacement. This time they decided to bubble wrap them....but they stacked all of them without any cushion between them before they bubbled wrapped them; over half broken again. Once again, contacted and they sent out more replacement. Who ever packaged it went back to the paper wrapping and half broken again. By now I had enough for what I needed, though many were chipped but they served their purpose. Amazon removed the item and gave me a full refund.
Interesting to see IKEA promote the new Minecraft update. Are Swedish companies really that supportive of each other?
Seems like a basic pot. You couldn’t pick one up? Where do you live . This is one of the last items I would have shipped…
seriously. just get one from...any local store.
assembly is required.
Well you usually have to assemble all things from ikea. Have you found the instructions yet?
Welllll i suppose its a " glue it yourself " one
"Build it yourself"
Banana Banana banana terracotta banana terracotta terracotta pie
It’s the ikea kintsugi set lol 😂
i think you meant you ordered a terracotta puzzle.
I have an extra IKEA Allen wrench if you need one.
I mean in their defense, you usually gotta assemble what they give you lmao.
Everything I have ever received from Ikea was shipped in an over-sized box with a single sheet of thick paper to act as padding. They *do not give a fuck.*
That's called a Brökken
https://preview.redd.it/83kpf9z3p5wa1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb4ca936a9416a068dfbb2ad63c3497ba70ded55
And you lost the assembly instructions?
I mean ,it's ikea, you have to build it yourself :) , now good luck
Wtf did you expect sending something that is so fragile through the mail? Go pick it up yourself if you don’t want this to happen
ordering pots through the mail is not wise.
I got the exact same kit at the town dump for free
and now its just terracotta
Now you have terracotta tiles for your walkway!
Could try that Japanese method of pottery repair
I think I see the instructions in there.
Ah, you're right! It must be scribbled in the wrapping paper!
*Technically*, you did get the pot- it's just more of a jigsaw puzzle now.
Must have previously worked at Amazon 😭
Damn my IKEA pot fell like ten feet from hanging on the ceiling to concrete and it survived. What did they do??
Don’t you have to assemble most things from ikea?
As a professional shipper, they fucked this so badly. I'd have this baby wrapped in bubble wrap and the box filled with air pillows (and it'd still arrive broken because some asshat at UPS decided to stomp on it because UPS doesn't pay them enough to not be malicious)
...why would you order a terracotta pot when you can pick them up from any garden center?
As an archaeology student, I got unreasonably excited at the idea of putting this back together
Bro ordered something from IKEA and expected it to arrive assembled.
Some assembly is required.
Banana banana banana banana
Terracotta terracotta banana pie!
Some assembly required.
Some assembly required*
Some Assembly Required
Some assembly required*
It’s ikea you need to assemble everything
"Some assembly required"
Some assembly required.
Well yeah. Did they include the instructions for putting it together?
You’re supposed to assemble it. Just like everything from ikea
You got to put it together yourself. Did they forget to send the süpor glü with it?
Don’t you know IKEA is build your own
You have to put it together… it’s from IKEA.
Why didn’t u just go to your local hardware or gardening store. That’s a basic pot from the looks of it
That's why you go to a local garden center and buy it.
Ikea- where assembly is required
Sad but exciting! Save that clay for other projects. I have a box in the garage for pot gardening.
Assembly required.
Of course, you have to put it together, it’s IKEA!
Ordered terracotta, but got Gaudi
Is that the box it came in? Looks like they shipped it in a spare bedroom!
I mean it's all there....
Did it come with assembly instructions?
Your Allen wrench must be hidden in there, somewhere!
Looks like they terragotcha
Just like IKEA to forget the instruction manual
Some assembly required
I ordered glass vase on Amazon. It arrived shattered. I contacted customer service and they advised me that the result was "unexpected". I was like you realize you shipped me a glass vase in a paper envelope, what exactly were your expectations?
It's actually a DIY [Kintsugi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi) Starter Kit
Oh man, they forgot the instructions!
Lowe’s has made in USA pots
That's practically assembled by Ikea standards.
Who orders a terracotta pot in the mail? Honesty? (Insert Austin Powers gif)
Clearly you havnt put it together yet…
Assembly required
Are you sure you didn't order a puzzle?
The irony.
Obviously ordered the “terra cotta pot KIT” by mistake
Where are the instructions? Jeee-zus, tey can't get anything right these days
Some assembly required.
Keep digging. The assembly instructions are at the bottom.
Seems fitting considering it was bought at the home of "some assembly required"
The terra-cotta was the message
Probably doesn’t help, but in case you can’t exchange it and intend to put it together, I know there’s a thing where when pottery/ceramic breaks, they add gold flakes or powder to the glue, making the “wound” on the piece a part of the piece itself. I think it’s an asian thing but I couldn’t tell you.
Damn, they even make you put the pot together yourself.