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THE IKEA BIG MATCH BET - 1p chair or 1p meatballs (merged)

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  • biglugs
    biglugs Posts: 2,945 Forumite
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    Who cares about the chairs??? It's the meatballs I want to know about!! :D
    You don't get medals for sitting in the trenches.
  • samtman
    samtman Posts: 259 Forumite
    MSE_Andrea wrote:
    I feel a bit of a traitor pointing this out but someone told me this morning we've not beaten Sweden since 1966. No idea if it's true but if it is... yumm meatballs :D

    sorry to be pedantic but its 1968
  • pavlovs_dog
    pavlovs_dog Posts: 10,213 Forumite
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    so is it meatballs, chairs, or both? :confused:
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    Nid wy'n gofyn bywyd moethus...
  • Neither i'm afraid. I called up Croydon ikea at 9 this morning and thats what they told me- i'm utterly gutted. :confused:
  • This thread has been just like the football coverage on the TV: - pundits spouting speculative rubbish that is then shown as such by the result! I was watching the match actually hoping for a draw so that I could go to Ikea today and not be swamped by hoards of people in a 1p meatball frenzy. Or will there be disappointed Chairs fans milling around totally gutted? I'll let you know...
    Wins - 2004: Nothing, 2005: Zip, 2006: Nil, 2007: Zero, 2008: Naught, 2009: You get the picture
  • i personally think it a little irresponsible of the ikea bod who dreamed this one up - considering past troubles with crowds etc.. i asked my OH what the back up plan was for a draw and he said that there wasn't one - he wasn't looking forward to work today either way
    i'm living in a parallel universe
  • thomthom_3
    thomthom_3 Posts: 48 Forumite
    should b 2p for a chair...2p for a load of balls....
  • GOOD_BOY_3
    GOOD_BOY_3 Posts: 226 Forumite
    its a good publisity (dont know how to spell it!!) stunt any way got lodza people interested!!
    Thanks every1 for making this website what it is, its helped me alot in the past!
  • Just got back from IKEA - they had a sign on the chairs saying 'Sorry - the deal was for Win or Lose'. The chairs didn't look over priced at 1p. I was wondering though if you could have got 2 childrens portions of meatballs for half a penny each, but now we'll never know.
    Wins - 2004: Nothing, 2005: Zip, 2006: Nil, 2007: Zero, 2008: Naught, 2009: You get the picture
  • verybigfoot
    verybigfoot Posts: 22 Forumite
    Just got back from Ikea Croydon. They had about 10 pallets of the chairs, so it's a shame they weren't 1p each. They are selling them for £2.99 today only (how else are they going to shift them!!!)

    Still an ok buy, if you need them.....
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