Ikea is testing a secondhand marketplace, but only in two countries

Ikea is present investigating an online level successful Madrid and Oslo wherever radical tin merchantability their utilized Ikea furnishings to others. The platform, Ikea Preowned, lets users database their furnishings with photos and a price, and the existent listings (like this example) look a batch similar what you mightiness spot connected Ikea’s main website. However, buyers and sellers person to hold connected a spot and clip to conscionable to manus implicit the furniture.

Right now, sellers person the enactment to get paid via a slope transportation with nary added fees oregon by receiving an IKEA acquisition paper with an other 15 percent added to the furniture’s acquisition price, per the Ikea Preowned website. You can’t instrumentality items that are damaged oregon aren’t successful the information you mightiness person expected, though you tin petition a refund, Ikea says.

Making a listing is free, but down the line, determination could beryllium “a symbolic fee, a humble fee,” Jesper Brodin, CEO of Ingka Group (which operates the immense bulk of IKEA retail stores), said to the Financial Times. Brodin besides told the FT that the tests successful Madrid and Oslo volition past done the extremity of this twelvemonth and that the institution plans to grow the level globally.

Ingka Group didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.