&gt; I wasn&#x27;t aware consumer protection was quite that bad in the USA<p>You&#x27;re of course blaming the wrong culprit. That&#x27;s on IKEA for not offering a warranty.<p>Companies should not be forced to offer warranties on products. Instead companies should <i>mostly</i> be left to compete on their offerings. A minimum warranty time won&#x27;t make sense from one product to another. Six months for this, seven years for that, 90 days for this. Inserting bureaucrats into the process of setting warranties on products is just another small but wonderful way to add to the endless parade of regulation that has seen most of Western Europe&#x27;s growth plummet to almost nothing for a decade.