Compare IKEA prices abroad

Dear Ikea friends,

I already posted this as a reply in another thread, but I think it is interesting for everyone:

We also discovered while planning the furnishing for our new house that IKEA prices vary extremely in neighboring countries. Since there was no convenient way to compare these prices so far (without having to visit each country’s website individually), we created one:

At koettbilligar you can very easily find the best price in Europe by entering your article number.

At the moment not all items are available yet, which is because the site has only been running for three days, and there are actually items that have different article numbers in different countries. Also, not every IKEA product is available in every country.

Soon we will also publish very insightful Top 100 lists for the products with the greatest saving potential.

Our conclusion: A trip to the Czech Republic or Poland is definitely worth it. An interesting side note: beer glasses are 85% cheaper in Great Britain than in Germany.

Many greetings,
Alex

P.S. to the admin: I hope this is not misunderstood as unwanted advertising. Our intention is to allow customers to benefit from the globalization strategy of large corporations – and our website is meant to help all IKEA fans with that.

Cool!!!
What I can contribute:
I have found out that you can quite easily assign the article list of the IKEA online kitchen planner a different "country code," then you get shown what the kitchen costs in another country.
Procedure:
1.) Plan the kitchen in the kitchen planner and save it online.
2.) Go to "File" > "E-mail..." and send the plan to your own email address.
3.) In the received email, there is a link that looks e.g. like this:
[code:1nxq5gid]http://kitchenplanner.ikea.com/AT/UI/Pages/VPUI.htm?LoadDesign=39cb8ad300364fd6938d643bea63cd3f&UIContext=Kitchen&IsSharedDesign=1[/code:1nxq5gid]
Since I am from Austria, the link has AT. Now change the link so that instead of AT (or DE for Germany) it has the country code of the desired country. In my case, I changed AT to SK for Slovakia, so e.g.:
[code:1nxq5gid]http://kitchenplanner.ikea.com/SK/UI/Pages/VPUI.htm?LoadDesign=39cb8ad300364fd6938d643bea63cd3f&UIContext=Kitchen&IsSharedDesign=1[/code:1nxq5gid]
Warning: This link no longer works.

4.) Enter the new link in the browser, and the kitchen planner of the other country appears with the planned kitchen. When you then look at the article list, you see the kitchen prices of the other country. In my case, the same kitchen is more than 1000 Euros cheaper in Slovakia.

Best regards
Section Head

Great idea, good implementation - thank you very much!

Hi,

interesting thing for customers who live near the border.

I am just wondering if this is legal? Isn't it the case that you need permissions for comparisons that only involve one company because you are then "working" under their name? :confused:

Best regards

Nayla

I see no problems there, as we only analyze publicly accessible data (just like Google does) and point out that we have no connection whatsoever to IKEA. And when choosing the domain, we deliberately refrained from using the brand name to make it clear from the outset that this is an independent project.

I also think we are not harming IKEA with this site – on the contrary. Even if people then perhaps leave a little less money at IKEA, they still buy from the same corporation. And let’s be honest: when you are at IKEA in Poland, you might also take a bit more than planned – given the low prices.

Best regards,
Alex

Not long ago, there was a comparison site (ikea.mocsi.eu), but it was basically the Ikea site with prices from different countries displayed. Did Ikea intervene? Or did changes on Ikea's website make a revision necessary? Anyway, I hope you have no problems.