January 18, 2024 at 8:40 am

Customer Calls Out IKEA For Selling $1,599 Couch… When It Was $799 Four Years Ago

by Chris Allen

Source: TikTok/@jilian.dee

IKEA has always been a frugal way of furnishing your home in a stylish, sleek and simple manner. The Swedish company has prided itself on offering these build-yourself furniture pieces at a discount.

But like literally everything recently, the prices seem to be a bit out of control, and a woman on TikTok named Jilian was here to confirm it.

The stitched video starts with a perplexed man asking about a couch’s price, which is now $1,599.

Shocked that it costs so much, saying “Are you serious??”

Source: TikTok/@jilian.dee

Jilian kept every single IKEA catalog from 2014-2021, and as she says:

“I know for a fact it’s gonna be in one of these.”

We see her flipping through them until she lands on it: $799

Source: TikTok/@jilian.dee

“That was the price in 2019”, she explains.

A 100% increase in under 4 years!? How is that even remotely possible?

Has IKEA forgotten that it’s not actually Jonathan Adler?

Source: TikTok/@jilian.dee

What’s that? Oh you don’t have to assemble Adler furniture by yourself?

Check out the full video here:

@jilian.dee

#stitch with @loljustmark should i do more? 😂

♬ original sound – jilian dee

The story actually really continues in the trusty ol’ comments section.

One former IKEA employee even chimed in.

The increase in price wasn’t actually over a 4-year period. It was much faster than that.

Source: TikTok/@jilian.dee

We all feel it. Inflation’s grubby mitts all over our digital wallets.

A great conversation about it was sparked up by a few TikTok users.

Source: TikTok/@jilian.dee

While one person got OP Jilian herself in on the mix to confirm the veracity.

Source: TikTok/@jilian.dee

No couch no problem.

I think I’ll sit on the floor for a while.