You know what, I don't want to leave a review but I'm so annoyed about the situation that happened to me today. My wife and I went in for the first time in maybe 2 years. We always enjoyed walking through this eclectic little antique store when we'd visit Pitman. Come to our surprise to find out it's just like every other co-op down the shore nowadays. No more charm, no more quirk, just laminate floors with AI-generated signs for sale. As we're walking along, the older woman working the front says "the antique store closed about a year ago" and I remark "aww it's so sad!" To which she responds: "no it's not, because then my business wouldn't be able to be here -- but you knew I was gonna say that!" Um...what? Lady, maybe you should get a grip because I actually have no clue who you are! I hope your business thrives and you get a better attitude. read more

'Oasis' is by far the biggest lie of the century. You'd be hard pressed to find even a sliver of happiness shopping in a place like this. I was looking forward to getting an old magazine, but was abruptly kicked out (including my friends) without explanation. It made more sense seeing other reviews here, considering we were also asked if we were 18. We are all over 18. Friendly reminder, the store does NOT have any sign or age restriction posted on the entrance door. So if you are going to be discriminatory, at least make it well known before I waste my time suffering in that place. I swear, a million angels up in Heaven must have gotten their wings the second this store was announced to be permanently closing. For good reason, I imagine. The other one star reviews don't lie. There is nothing to be said about Artisan's Oasis that hasn't already been said about a steaming pile of trash. Worth mentioning my friends are not white, but I am. Keep this in mind reading forward. She followed us around- trying her best to imitate something resembling stealth, I guess- pretending to sort things while we browsed together or on our own. I'm guessing she was expecting us to shoplift? I don't know what the final straw for her was though anyway. We weren't loud or rude, we respected her rule of "18+" just fine but I guess she didn't believe us. Surprised she didn't ask for our IDs like she did to other victims- I mean, customers. But good thing I'm no customer of hers. Happy to say I didn't pay for that magazine after all. Because why would anyone want to give money and support this god awful lady. In fact, I noticed she hesitated when I (a white woman) asked if I really couldn't buy that magazine. She said no (maybe she realized she'd be revealing her discrimination rather broadly if she said I solely could purchase something) and we left. Funny I had no problem a year ago with my sister, who is also an adult and white. Pitman is supposed to be welcoming. Not a bigoted, trashy town. Completely turned me off from the whole town honestly. Next time I'll think twice before entering that goblin's territory. read more

So this is my FIRST ever review for a store, that's you know how BAD our experience was. Three of my friends and I went into the store and were casually looking around the store. The lady at the front desk came up to us and asked if we were 18, which we were happy to show our ID's but she didn't ask to look at our ID's. A few minutes go by of (again) CASUALLY looking around, the lady comes back telling my friends and I to leave the store WITHOUT an explanation. Whether it was not believing we were 18 or a CERTAIN bias. Place was not welcoming whatsoever, we were there for 10 minutes maximum. read more

My daughter and her two friends--who are like family to us--walked into this establishment to check whether the Gibson guitar was still available. We stayed outside because we had the dog. As soon as they entered, a woman working there abruptly stopped them and asked, "Are you 18?" They replied that they were--because they are. She then demanded, in a rude and dismissive tone, "Show me your ID." Since we were the ones driving, the kids didn't have their IDs on them. Without offering any explanation, she pointed to the door, signaling them to leave. She was even recording them on her phone. Still hoping to purchase the guitar, my husband walked back with one of the kids--just one, to avoid provoking her again. As they approached, the woman said to another employee, "That's him." My husband asked who she was referring to, and she replied that she had already told him to leave. That's why he had returned with a guardian. Needless to say, we will be looking for the guitar elsewhere. I fully understand a policy of no minors without an adult, but they *were* 18. They weren't trying to buy alcohol, cigarettes, or anything questionable. They simply wanted to purchase a guitar--his dream guitar, in fact. What should have been a perfectly wholesome night in Pitman was ruined by someone who judged our kids at a glance and dismissed them with a wave of her hand. Ma'am, I truly hope no one ever treats you the way you treated our kids. read more

Artisan's Oasis Too! - Home Decor Near Me - Pitman, New Jersey

Update: the owners don't take criticism well and tried to contact my business and what was said was enough to get the authorities involved. I come to Jersey once or twice a year to visit family and like to buy CDs. Well, they moved where the CDs were and when I asked where they were at I got told in the most rude tone "we're not an antique store any more" to which I was confused since that has nothing to do with CDs. I asked again "yes, but there were CDs over here in this corner that we're being sold by someone here or consigned, I'm not sure but could you tell me where those are?" This woman turns around to point to the sign and practically yells at me "this isn't a consignment store it's a coop!" So I reset the conversation and simply asked "could you tell me where the CDs that were for sale are" to which we went through yet another rude and condescending circle. I got my CDs but I will make sure not to come here any more and I will be cross posting this everywhere. read more

Whoever is a vendor at this store should reconsider being apart of it. The owners are ignorant and very rude , I went in there with my family and my 2 week old grand daughter and got kicked out because the lady at the front desk was cocky with my wife while she was trying to purchase multiple items. Then we went next door and the husband of the lady at the front desk kicked us out. We were willing to spend a good amount of money here unfortunately we were unable to with the service. Again if you are a vendor in this store I would highly recommend leaving this store. read more

Such a refreshing change - it's a wonderful place with wonderful owners - great selection of artisan crafts/gifts plus some vintage. I loved it. read more

All those jerseys and hats are fake don't waste your money, the quality is so bad I could tell before I picked it up. I'd leave a google review if I could. The old lady in there is weird as hell lol, there was no one in the store but as soon as we walked in she felt the need to start walking around like we needed to be watched, especially odd because she made a point to make sure we were all 18 (we're all in our 20s) we almost felt unwelcome for being young (she must be jealous) . The items in there are over priced, they had off brand legos sets which I am interested in except that they were priced damn near the same as the actual lego brand . This was my first time in there since uptown left and it's sad to see a staple in the community get replaced by something like this. Also those yard flags they had next door were all AI designs, probably more AI garbage in there but that's all I noticed. read more

I made a yelp account to simply make this review and because the store turned off their google reviews. Artisans oasis replaced uptown antiques recently and my sister, my gf, and I decided to stop in to see how different it now is. Immediately, we walked in and the older lady at the register rudely asked if we were all 18. We all were confused and my sister answered yes, the lady cut her off to then say "all of you?" all still confused said yes. We are all over 21 and clearly older than 18 and were confused that we had to be 18 to be in the store. Right after that, I was turned off by the energy and knew this was going to be a place that was hostile. We walked towards the back to check out the whole store and the lady got up and walked towards us with a hostile energy as if we were stealing or up to no good. We then followed my sister to the record and sports part of the store. The sports hats and jerseys were all fake and priced unreasonably. My sister ended up finding some records to buy, she found a record with no tag on it. We asked a worker how much and he brought us to get a price. We started walking to the cashier (the older lady who was rude) now to ask for a price on the record she immediately and rudely asked my sister "do you have it with you?" My sister obviously had it with her and said yes and she had an attitude with my sister as if she took the tag off. The guy who prices the records told the older lady he forgot to price it and all of a sudden she became nice knowing that my sister wasn't what she assumed. The price was too high for the quality of the record and my sister only bought a cheaper record and we headed out. I will never come back here and I know many people can agree, so hostile and rude. read more

So I went in to buy a 1 dollar sticker from this store. I went to the register and the register worker named Dee already had a disgusted rude look on her face. I then gave her the dollar for the dollar sticker. She then says theres gonna be tax on that. I said oh really i didnt know its just a 1 dollar sticker. Then she goes on rambling and talking down on us about how theres tax on everything besides food. She talked down to us because they think were stupid because were a young couple I assume. They were talking down on a fellow business owner in the town that has been there for over 5 years now. Also telling customers not to go there. I strongly recommend never shopping here if you want your day ruined with snobby people. read more

Basement store. Bunch of tacky stuff with bugs everywhere, basement crickets and large centipedes. Wouldn't hurt if you vacuumed once in a while. read more