that site (ikeafans) has created so many subforums, that your query from 48 hours ago has had 48 views (not all views by 48 different people) instead of thousands of views. That is one reason why you (and others) cannot find out about their appliances. I think in general ikeafans gets less returning eyeballs than this site: people might zoom in at ikeafans for a little while when they have a specific need but there is no reason to go surfing through 20 or 30 subforums for "pleasure" after their kitchen reno is over. In this GW site, people can derive pleasure by clicking on one or two forums; from an end user perspective it's a better form of feedback when you think about it cybernetically. Seeing all the threads about everything related to kitchens is better than being forced into choosing from a list of subforums. Then, when you DO get to your chosen subforum it's bit disappointing to see that there has been very little new input in recent days or weeks. so i wouldn't hold my breath waiting for ikeafans forum participants to help me on much, in terms of mass spectrum polling. Some of the oldtimers will be helpful. I can spot patterns like anyone else; I find it fishy when a request for testimonials about a specific manufacturer of vent hoods can get testimonials from participants who have only posted a few times before. Especially when nobody ever returns to comment about their ikea appliances. Usually people don't post to say their thingie works, so why should one specific vent hood manufacturer get praise several times in short order? The fact that induction is new for ikea means we might have heard from a few people saying hey wow golly gee lookee i got it and it's fantastic. But, not a peep. To me, this means that ikeafans really doesn't get much returning traffic. It confirms my thinking, but I don't have hard proof of it, so I could be wrong. At any rate, if the induction cooktop had any problems somebody would have complained about it. My prediction. The thread you linked to did not have any oldtimers writing anything at all. It had a few people who never posted anything else before or after, or not much. Not a lot of credibility there, one way or the other. If there really really were a problem, with one model of one appliance, we would have read about it fully and completely somewhere. If there were really a problem with a whole line of appliances, it would have become a running theme in a thousand threads. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inordinate . The time i spend here is far far less than the time i spend on other things. The sparse feedback seen in ikeafans is a symptom of their problem. The installer crowd posts a lot on that site. And a few others who are not installers but seem invested. But the first-time end user crowd doesn't return to that site to post PSA's, reports and real life experiences. (as near as i can make out). the threads I posted were intended to show that the bad news is sparse and not all that bad. Your ikeafans thread asked about three unrelated appliances. If it had thousands of eyeballs reading it, and if the readers were real life end users, you would have had an answer or two or three. Ikeafans is not going to provide that to you... or maybe it will, if you wait, if you are lucky, or if the oldtimers now decide they better go to bat for ikea appliances. Until now they have not posted on appliance related threads. (from what I've seen). The good news story to tell is that ikea does sell some of their appliances, (it's not just a front to sell trivets), and no great numbers are complaining in public.

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