Beyond unprofessional ownership. Shoppers be aware of the poor business practices you'd be supporting by shopping here, vendors beware. I recommend shopping and selling at any of the other local antique stores, not this one.
I had a booth here which I meticulously maintained. The owner's sister pretty much ran the place. When the owner fired her sister everything collapsed here. About half the time I would walk in no one was anywhere to be found, not at the front or anywhere. Unfortunately, this place already had an issue with theft and having no one at the front or making rounds just invites the theft ten fold. This complete lack of professional management has also leaked out in every direction. Many vendors including myself have moved to other locations due to these issues.
The owner does not care whatsoever about items being stolen from vendors and when asked about missing items she is dismissive and just stated the one word retort "stolen" to me over and over again without any care or concern over the issue. There is also no lost and found which leads me to wonder where items are going to when vendors are simply missing items that customers may have just misplaced elsewhere throughout the store (as we all know tags can fall off and items therefore really need a place to go where the vendor can reclaim).
I was unfortunately and unwillingly pulled into the owner's personal romantic life when her boyfriend (whom she had working there at her shop) reached out to me over social media. I politely declined his advances and from that point forth I was shunned by both of them. I reached out to the owner telling her that I had no interest in her man and that I didn't appreciate being pulled into her personal life and thereafter being treated with hostility by her because of her boyfriend's actions which were not my own. I let her know that due to her continued hostile actions (and my election to not have any interest in any sort of drama I was being pulled into) that I would be amicably relocating at the end of the month. I returned at the end of the month to find all of my inventory carelessly thrown into bags, boxes, and just thrown into piles. I have a lot of valuable ceramics and other delicate items that were spitefully thrown out of my booth and placed by the unlocked side door where anyone could just take everything. Several very valuable items were damaged. I had also paid for my space through the end of the month and the owner had clearly spitefully removed my inventory from my booth and thrown them carelessly by a side door before the month that I had paid for was complete.
Sellers beware, aside from the not so great business hours, the business practices and day to day operations here are completely unprofessional and shady to say the least. I highly recommend that you take your items elsewhere where the owner's and management don't treat their vendors like dispensable trash. In my case it seems simply out of jealousy and spite. However, many vendors have left here due to the poor business practices as related to the many other issues at play here (which inhad contemplated prior to all the drama i was unwillingly pulled into). read more
