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Draft Orders - Hindsight is 20/20

By maconiteasy
Published by Susan
Jan 5th, 07

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Draft Orders - Hindsight is 20/20

Draft orders. Hind sight is 20/20, but I sure wish I'd seen one of these before ordering. I "proofed" my order at the store not really realizing what I was looking at or what I should have been looking for. Ignorance is not bliss.

For example, as it turned out there was no drawer front spec'd for the shallow drawer at the bottom of my oven cabinet. I was just happy to see "HDO3088". Made a big checkmark on the spread sheet I'd taken with me. What my spreadsheet should have shown was a listing of all eight part numbers that make up an HDO3088 so I could check off each part if I really wanted to be sure all was right with the world.
My spreadsheet that showed 31 cabinets to be ordered morphed into a parts list of more than 300 items. I assumed, wrongly, that the various parts breakdowns for each cabinet were generated by Ikea's computer system. Not so. There's room for error there.

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Sample Draft Orders Stat White / White Cabinet Draft Order - Page 1 Stat White / White Cabinet Draft Order - Page 2 Stat White / White Cabinet Draft Order - Page 3 Adel Medium Brown / Birch Cabinet Draft Order - Page 1 Adel Medium Brown / Birch Cabinet Draft Order - Page 2 Adel Medium Brown / Birch Cabinet Draft Order - Page 3 Adel Medium Brown / Birch Cabinet Draft Order - Page 4

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By woodswell on Mar 7th, 07, 1:28 pm

In the article the author says, "I sure wish I'd seen one of these before ordering". Is there any possibility that a sample draft order could be put into the library?

OK, in the links to the old pages I found the original of this article. On that old page there are links to three pages of a draft order in JPG format. Those links need to be transfered/added to this page. I actually found those draft order pages in the gallery before I found the old article!

Last edited by woodswell; Mar 26th, 07 at 12:26 am. Reason: Asking additional questions

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By Susan on Apr 5th, 07, 8:52 pm

You're absolutely right. I believe I went to upload the images to the galleries and failed to make it back here to add the links! My apologies. There are now sample draft orders above which show one each of a white cabinet order and a birch cabinet order. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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By woodswell on Apr 5th, 07, 9:12 pm

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Originally Posted by Susan

This update is just in time! I am finalizing my order this weekend.

Thank you, Susan!

Anne

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