On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 at 13:02:00, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at
12:37:36 on Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Annabel Smyth
mon.co.uk remarked:
So if you'd rather not wait in for the whatever, assuming (big
assumption) that they have one in stock other than the display model,
which they probably won't have, but *if* they do, what's wrong with
hiring a van for the afternoon?

Because the van hire company is the other side of town, and they might
not have a suitable vehicle at short notice. And you have the problem of
storing the items at the shop while you go and fetch the van. And then
taking the van back. All extremely tedious.

Isn't it Ikea which hires out its own fleet of vans?
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