TLDR; If you can't check out at IKEA because the website cannot confirm stock levels or estimate delivery time, just check out as a guest and/or use the Microsoft Edge browser.
Every time IKEA has a sale, I try to use their website naturally to score some good deals. But every time I do this, it never works. IKEA must have a fairly robust back-end given that they move billions of dollars of merchandise a year.
Once again, they are having their $19 flat shipping in Canada. Once again, checking out did not work. I got the dreaded "We are unable to confirm stock levels or estimate your delivery to complete your order at this time" error message. What is really bad about this is that the message just flashes temporarily in red, and seemingly disappears. Being a web developer, I know that likely that it is just some stylesheet that is making it hidden. So by looking at the HTML code, voila, the error message is still there.
However, this time, I refused to give up. I read on Facebook comments that you can try checking out as a Guest and use the Microsoft Edge browser. And surprisingly, it worked! It doesn't seem like I lost much since I created an account right after, and in the account section of IKEA, it doesn't look like it stores the history of previous orders.
Wow. IKEA's website seems like it was built from the 1990's. The url still has /webapp/ within it... so maybe some 1990's technology that uses WebSphere or one of the popular e-commerce servers from way back when.
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