> A selection of 122 secondhand Ikea furnishings fetched a total of £32,000 at an auction in Stockholm on Monday night, as some of the cheap and cheerful flatpa

> A selection of 122 secondhand Ikea furnishings fetched a total of £32,000 at an auction in Stockholm on Monday night, as some of the cheap and cheerful flatpack retailer’s more unusual designs are coming to be recognised as collectors’ items. That's an average of £262 an item. What's the story here? That someone paid £1,700 for a used red impala sofa? It looks like only the sofa and the leather chairs sold for over £1,000. That's really not a lot for a piece of furniture, even used. I bet once you do the math on inflation and the strength of the pound 50 years ago, it'll come out a total wash - not worth the cost of storage. Most of these are not collector items: IKEA makes lots of stuff out of solid wood and metal that should resell for hundreds of pounds without any kind of collectible value. My local Consignment Classics has tons of old IKEA stuff, they just don't organize auction events, you have to come find them on the floor.