[westie]

:P
We have both got jobs and are coming over on the 6th January. It looks as though the residency paper work will be ready in plenty of time. Yippee!

we have no valuable or sentimental items of furniture and have decided to sell the lot and buy new once over there. We have been given a few reasonable quotes for taking our personal stuff. We like Ikea and Habitat stuff is there anything like that in north island?

[veronica]

NO. but if you decide to buy new before you leave be careful cos if the customs see it you will be up for duty.

[Danpoll]

Your nearest Ikea is Melbourne, Brisbane and I think theres 1 in Sydney.

I would imagine there would be import duty if you bought and shipped it in from oz.

we were going to shift all our furniture before we left but it seems to be cheaper to throw evreything you have in a container.

Dan

[xanctus]

oh yeah...I can't believe there is no IKEA over NZ hahahahaha
is there any store that close enough to IKEA (in terms of design/style and price)?

[westie]

Xanctus
I am with you, why is there nothing like Ikea in NZ our friends in Auckland say you pay top dollar for swedish type furniture. If anyone knows different please let me know. I bought some really cool storage for my 11 year old son but it only cost £135 and I just cant justify how much it will cost to have it shipped over.

Vernonica thanks for the warning I did consider buying more furniture at one time and filling a container to make it worth our while to take a house full, but someone else gave me similar advise and we decided against it. Cheers Dan, does anyone one know how much it would cost to buy stuff from Oz? I am thinking it cant cost as much as bringing it over from the UK.

[veronica]

if you use your sons storage as packing so its full then that should justify the cost of taking it, thats if it won't breakdown and flatpack. and there is nothing like Ikea that we have seen here. I will try to find out if the import duty from Aus is high or if there is some sort of trade agreement on stuff like that.

[leslie]

i have made trans-con moves 4 times. if you do it by sealed, pack-own container it is vastly cheaper and easier than trying to do it at destination. i also find there is something depressing about living surrounded by entirely new stuff - espec if you cannot afford preferred from day 1.

when my gran/ grandpa moved my father to toronto they didn't take anything - sold all their lovely, irreplaceable stuff. wouldn't even let father take his beloved bed quilt - dont think he ever got over it. i think its easier to adjust with familiar things around you - chucking it all in seems fun at the time though!

[veronica]

Leslie I totally agree with your views on both packing and familiarity.

[Diny]

We thught about selling all our stuff over here and just taking a few personal items and then buy replacement furniture over there.

We have some nice pieces of furniture - some antiques we bought years ago and some that have been left to us by elderly relatives etc. Also got some new pieces (Ikea, Habitat etc) - we like a mix of ancient and modern !!

We then had a re-think. If we sold our newer furniture we'd get nowhere near market value for it. If we sold the antiques we'd miss them (they were also bought as investments).

The container is costing us 3050.00 for the full service, door to door delivery - pack & unpack.

There's NO WAY we would replace the furniture in one room for 3050 - never mind the entire house.

Ikea & Habitat don't exist is NZ, anything similar has a big price tag. And with all the respect in the world - what NZ consider to be antique is just really old furniture.

I totally agree that having your favourite arm chair to sit in and your familiar bed to sleep in must be a huge emotional comfort in the early days.

Whether new furniture is taken to NZ from Ikea UK or Ikea Oz - I'm pretty sure that you'd be wolloped with duty.

Diny

[shagen]

We are planning on bringing our existing furnitures from here to NZ when we move. Purely becasue of exchange rate, whatever we buy there will be more expensive than the cost of shipping it to NZ.

What puzzles me is how do you figure out if the furniture you bring is too big or too small for the place you will eventually settled into? If you already know where you are going to stay, that is fine. But for most folks like us who will be hunting for a place to stay only when we reach NZ, hwo is it going to be?

Has anyone had thoughts about this?

Cheers,

[Carol]

Easy.
If it's too big when you get here- sell it.
You'll make a fortune!


I'm still using my grandmother's bedroom furniture.....cant bring myself to sell it at all. :no

[Junnifer USA]

Carol,
What are the used furniture rates like? Is buying used that expensive in NZ? How do most people go about selling -- placing an ad...? And, have you bought used...what kind of prices have you paid...if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks,
Jennifer

[neilw71]

Guys,

This was mentioned sometime ago on one of the forums somewhere :P

http://www.simplydesign.co.nz/index.htm

Looks like you can order on-line from the Ikea in Aus and they will do all the importing and deliver to NZ - not checked out the relative pricing, but for all of you Ikea fans.....it is an option!

[Carol]

Carol,
What are the used furniture rates like? Is buying used that expensive in NZ? How do most people go about selling -- placing an ad...? And, have you bought used...what kind of prices have you paid...if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks,
Jennifer
We've bought quite a lot second hand here.......to be honest it's not brilliant but the prices are silly - cheap cheap cheap.
We bought a whole lounge suite for $300 which covered us for the first 4 years we were here.
Then I'd had enough and bought a leather one!
:nice1

[Danpoll]

I must apoligise there are 5 stores in oz

Melbourne has 2
Syndney has 2
Brisbane has 1

I have emailed ikea to enquire if they are planning to come to NZ,

ikea.com

Dan

[shagen]

Carol,

Sorry for my asking but if used furnitures are cheap to buy, how can you make a fortune selling them? :eek

How would you go about buying and selling them in NZ? Are there dealers taking in used stuff and selling them after refurbishing them?

[Carol]

I meant if you are importing good quality stuff - preferably Ikea style - people will snap it up and you should make quite a bit on it.....sorry - I didnt really make myself clear.
Going to have a look at that IKEA link right now!!!!
;)

[shagen]

Ok. Now that makes sense! :nice1

[ruthyroo]

Agree with all the above - replacing a houseful of furniture is an expensive proposition in NZ if you want the Ikea / Habitat look...check out www.freedomfurniture.co.nz - prices are pretty high if you are earning NZ$$.
Cheap and nasty Waraewharae (warehouse) stuff generally falls apart in a couple of months but it's not bad for electronics.

Of course if you are fans of the 70's brown nylon and chintzy sofas you'll be right... .

[Dave & Sandra]

If you want to check out second hand prices have a look at this web site - it's like e-bay

www.trademe.co.nz

Boy are there some awful three piece suites in NZ :roll: