IKEA Is Doubling Refunds on the Brand’s Returned and Unwanted Furniture for Black Friday – Concrete Playground

With plenty of IKEA furniture ending up deep in the Gumtree ‘For Sale’ ads or left on the side of the road, the Swedish retailer came up with a pretty clever plan to give those unwanted flat-pack ensembles a second lease on life: a buy-back service. In good news for those moving house or faced with an accumulative collection of Malm blond wood pieces, the chain allows Australians to return their retired IKEA pieces to their nearest store, ready to be sold on to a new home — and score a voucher for their efforts.

For ten days between Tuesday, November 24–Thursday, December 3, IKEA is going a step further — because Black Friday falls within that period, and because it’s keen to make the annual buying frenzy…