CAVEAT EMPTOR...BUYER BEWARE!!! I went to this shady, so-called faith-based store today (3/20/21), and was confronted with anything BUT Christ-like behavior! Now I was prompted to visit this place because I am an avid thrift store shopper, as well as an avid OfferUp shopper. Someone by the name of Jim is constantly posting items on OfferUp that appear very fairly priced at this very store. In fact, last evening he posted numerous items, including a set of white chairs that I was very interested in, for $29 each or best offer. I talked my cousin, who is also an avid thrift shopper, into joining me, and she had actually shopped at this store before. When we arrived, I saw another shopper there and we exchanged pleasantries, and then I went on a search for my chairs. I found the chairs, but they were marked $35.50 each, so I approached the counter and began to tell the woman behind the counter that I saw the chairs on OfferUp, to which she immediately exclaimed, "We are not on OfferUp!". I pulled up the OfferUp post, and said that Jim had posted these chairs on OfferUp, to which this same woman abruptly said, "Jim does not work here." Taken aback, I began to walk away when the other shopper I had spoken with earlier immediately came up to me and asked me what she said. When I told her what had been said, she told me that the woman had told her the very same thing, but that when she spoke to one of the guys from the back, he had actually told her that Jim owns the store. She had also come to the store because of some tables that Jim had posted on OfferUp as well, also cheaper than what was marked in the store. Now we both thought things were really starting to smell fishy at this point, so when we saw some other employees come from the back, we both addressed this issue with those employees. It turns out, most are volunteers and could not answer our questions, but they were going to go get an employee named Roger, as he had been there the longest. Roger was very nice, and so both myself, and the other shopper, told Roger that a guy name Jim was posting items on OfferUp at a lower price than what was in the store, and that the woman at the front counter said that Jim did not work here. Roger told both me and the other shopper that Jim was the owner, and that he would post these things without telling them. Ok...honest mistake, right? So Roger agreed to honor the price that Jim had posted on OfferUp, and said he would go tell the counter. Well, I thought this had cleared things up, and so I joined my cousin to shop for other things. But apparently the "shade" had not ended, as a VERY RUDE blonde woman walked by my cousin and me alongside Roger, said, "This is ridiculous!", and then eye-balled me. Just like Christ would, huh? Now, I am a very even-tempered individual, but I will not tolerate this kind of disrespect and belligerents, especially when one of the oldest employees in the store had just admitted that in fact Jim is not only associated with the store, but that he owned the establishment. So I once again addressed this new holier-than-thou employee, and told her that I was not there to be difficult, I was just asking that they honor a price that their owner himself posted as the asking price. Not done yet folks, cause she then proceeds to tell me that Jim is neither the owner, nor an employee. Y'all smell fish yet? Cause it gets better. I decided to message Jim on OfferUp, to explain to him what was happening at his store that very moment, and told him that because this woman was saying he was not associated with the store, I was going to report him to the OfferUp administrator. I immediately got a response from "Jim", but oddly enough, the woman behind the counter, had just finished typing something on her phone. I replied, and boom...she picked her phone back up. As her head was faced down looking at the phone, sure enough, she was on OfferUp, and she quickly put her phone down when she saw I was behind her. SCAM ALERT FOLKS! I have turned them into OfferUp, and I have also alerted the MO AG's office. read more
