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What is the reason for the variation in experience of commenters here?

Several are saying that they've successfully disassembled and reassembled all sorts of IKEA furniture, while others insist that isn't possible.

I've had IKEA furniture for 10+ years, and it's survived several house moves and reassembly cycles.

That includes some of the cheaper products like LACK, KALLAX, and LINNMON.

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Skill issue imo. The lower quality means that you need to be careful assembling and disassembly. Brute forcing easily destroys the furniture, often near joint areas.

Location would be my bet. Not sure if IKEA has the same source for their products (might have change sources because of taxes, logistic costs, local incentives etc...); and as a commenter specified in this thread, different regions have different conditions (climate, cleaning culture, etc) that might also impact the durability of the products.

Is there a way to know what "quality tier" each product falls in?

The price, if your table cost less than crossing europe by place it usually isn't a good sign. More seriously, look at the composition of the parts, avoid the cardboard honeycomb stuff ("Honeycomb structure paper filling"), &c.

The best is to go in a store and check by yourself, if you can do a bicep curl with your coffee table chances are it's not very sturdy

Outside of expectation and care which differ per person; maybe humiditity ?

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