This x1000. I've owned a lot of IKEA furniture and I think it's really durable. I have a bedroom set (Hemnes) that I've hauled around to six different places over the years and it still serving well in the guest room. I never bothered to even unload the dresser full of clothes, I just wrap it up in shipping plastic and haul it on a dolly.

However, even their crap can be really rugged. I have this $5 side table that I've been dragging around for a decade now that just won't die.

In my mind, out of every product, IKEA pricing will be e.g.

- the cheapest possible one at like $5 - a pretty OK one at $20 - some really fancy ones with brass handles or sth at $40 or $80

The $5 products I bought fell apart, but the $20 ones are still perfectly fine.

So I guess depending on what everyone refers to as "typical IKEA stuff", their mileage might vary by a looong shot.

Yes. Now if IKEA would stop selling the particleboard crap consumers won't have to be forced to make the right decision.

I don't know, is that a crazy, overly-activist idea?

I concur, when people refer to bad quality ikea furniture they invariably mean the particle board stuff. Anything made of solid wood or metal has held up well for me.