IKEA, I saw, I cried
According to the World Economic Forum, IKEA will take back your old furniture, resell it and give you the money
, noting that there is nothing new about buying second-hand furniture - antique stores have done it for centuries
. The major difference being that antique furniture is built to last while IKEA furniture, quite frankly, isn't.
IKEA's customers can then drop off their used or broken IKEA furniture at the store, without even taking it apart
. Notwithstanding the fact that it's the flat-packing that allows most people to get the stuff home in the first place, self-build furniture is the curse of modern man—and woman—or at least those of us who have to put it together. Can you imagine the unbridled joy of dismantling it again just to get it in the car?
It's a laudable enough initiative, but the dump's closer, and they don't mind if I use a club hammer to take it apart.