I wonder if ikea furniture also has value for parts. Often times a single piece of the furniture will break, but if the item or color is discontinued you can’t replace it.

My local IKEA will take used IKEA furniture back for second hand resale.

https://www.ikea.com/es/en/customer-service/services/buy-bac...

Ikea furniture is very easy to repair with little more than wood glue. Ikea is also very gracious with giving you replacement or spare hardware for cheap or free.

A friend and I recently broke an IKEA bed. The beam that supports the slats is made of multiple pieces of wood joined with zigzag finger joints, and that beam is attached to the frame with some thin staples. When the staple slip, the beam just bends apart at these joints. It seems like many people's Ikea beds fail this same way. It would be great if IKEA sold repair kits to patch up their design flaws. As it stands, in this country, hardly anyone wants to use fix anything themselves, or used second hand things. The whole frame just becomes rubbish. With humanity in the situation it is in, needing to reduce the impacts of activities on the world, as a matter of survival, it's crazy to me that our economic processes and social norms are unwaveringly directing so much of our material goods, and energy use into landfills.

If you want people to repair things more often (as opposed to throwing them away), then you need to figure out a way to make those things more expensive. That's the (IMO) biggest reason why people used to repair things more often.

I just paid $250 on Craigslist for an item that I purchased new at IKEA for $149 ten years ago. I wanted a matching one and IKEA had since discontinued the color.

I did something similar with the discontinued duck mug that Pier 1 used to sell. $30 for a $15 mug but ya know, sometimes you just need the thing.

With IKEA items, you have the added factor of many people having it and wanting a replacement/additional item for a discontinued one.