Trichromatic Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 How do you compare both scenarios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) We have easy cheap labor . We can get away with not doing diy. My husband is brilliant. Plumbing, electrical work, carpentary, vehicle repairs... So is my mom . She watches the plumber repair once and next time she does it herself. My father in law is jugaadu....he has a substitute for everything missing and makes things work...at least for some time. I can help husband with carpentary work as long as it doesn't involve powertools. I can do diys involving painting . Edited August 14, 2018 by beetle velu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 (edited) I can see many people getting disappointed by ikea. " paise bhi do aur phir khud jodo " Ikea will have to get a huge workforce of guys to go home and assemble the furniture . I can also see jugado people screwing up the assembly " arey do screws kafi hai bhai....baki ke sambhaal kar raho. Kahin aur kaam aayenge " " yeah screw to kamjor lagta hai. Let me put a stronger bigger one ". Edited August 14, 2018 by beetle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechEng Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 DIY culture will always be an alien concept to collectivistic societies. Not just India, there's no DIY in the Far East and Middle East too, except probably for highly indvidualistic societies like Singapore or Hong Kong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 19 minutes ago, MechEng said: DIY culture will always be an alien concept to collectivistic societies. Not just India, there's no DIY in the Far East and Middle East too, except probably for highly indvidualistic societies like Singapore or Hong Kong. It is more about the availibility of cheap labor . When we start having trouble getting cheap and fast labor, we will also choose to diy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trichromatic Posted August 14, 2018 Author Share Posted August 14, 2018 4 minutes ago, beetle said: It is more about the availibility of cheap labor . When we start having trouble getting cheap and fast labor, we will also choose to diy. But there might be lot of things which we do it on our own and people in other countries don't? beetle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 2 hours ago, Trichromatic said: But there might be lot of things which we do it on our own and people in other countries don't? Like making our own masalas... Cooking from scratch is also diy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Is diy as a culture good for a country like ours when so many people are dependent of jobs that come under diy options? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velu Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 5 hours ago, beetle said: I can see many people getting disappointed by ikea. " paise bhi do aur phir khud jodo " Ikea will have to get a huge workforce of guys to go home and assemble the furniture . most of the shops send installation people and they set it up and give demo these days .. i bought a microwave long back , one guy came , installed and gave me a 10min demo about how to use chewy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velu Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 3 hours ago, Trichromatic said: But there might be lot of things which we do it on our own and people in other countries don't? yep .. like parents becoming match makers Trichromatic and beetle 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 15 minutes ago, velu said: most of the shops send installation people and they set it up and give demo these days .. i bought a microwave long back , one guy came , installed and gave me a 10min demo about how to use But ikea's selling point is " assemble yourself". velu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velu Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 5 minutes ago, beetle said: But ikea's selling point is " assemble yourself". soon they will recruit assemblers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beetle Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 2 minutes ago, velu said: soon they will recruit assemblers We have enough people . Ikea will change for India like Mc Donald changed and started serve veg burgers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 India way behind diy, same like velu bought Fridge, got delivered, then another guy came to demonstrate how to operate a fridge and flatpacks they send people to assemble a “diy” coffee table velu and nikred 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velu Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 5 minutes ago, chewy said: bought Fridge, got delivered, then another guy came to demonstrate how to operate a fridge did you buy godrej fridge online ? i bought it long back .. installation people came and installed it first then they told that other guy will come and give demo about how to operate the fridge .. after they left i switched on and did set the freezer and refrigerator settings .. then called them and told that i dont need any demo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikred Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 soon they will recruit assemblers I read somewhere that they already have a colab with Urbanclap for assembling diy stuff. Sent from my Redmi Note 4 using Tapatalk beetle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikred Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 did you buy godrej fridge online ? i bought it long back .. installation people came and installed it first then they told that other guy will come and give demo about how to operate the fridge .. after they left i switched on and did set the freezer and refrigerator settings .. then called them and told that i dont need any demo Why do they insist so much on those demos? If only people were as enthusiastic in every other walk of life as these demo guys, India would do wonders. They are literally pestering you to give those demos. Sent from my Redmi Note 4 using Tapatalk beetle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 maids, cooks, drivers, milk vendors, gardeners, will be out of work if everybody does DIY. velu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 4 hours ago, velu said: did you buy godrej fridge online ? i bought it long back .. installation people came and installed it first then they told that other guy will come and give demo about how to operate the fridge .. after they left i switched on and did set the freezer and refrigerator settings .. then called them and told that i dont need any demo Samsung, online too, Vijay sales, but they got some guy from local Samsung dealer to come in do the demo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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