So let my first start off by saying that I have written a total of 2 reviews on Yelp, as the previous two deserved to be reviewed, but obviously only posting 2 in a 3 year span means I'm not one to post & review a company & my experience.
However, after my experience today at Plato's Closest, I needed to post my opinions to get the disgust out of my mouth.
I am 25, have a Full-time job and well in no ways am I rich, I have enough money to support myself. This needs to be said because one of the first comments out of the sales manager's mouth when I came into the store was that, "I'm looking to make some extra cash", and that's why i was there. While obviously the point of bringing your clothes to Platio's closest is to make a few bucks back, I recently purged my closest and dresser of several (30+) dress shirts, tees, polos. a suit, and 2 pairs of shoes to remove the clutter and unused dress attire that was taking up more space than actually being worn. I didn't want to just toss it away, and Goodwill is for profit so I wanted to give Platio's closest a shot before I donated the rest of the stuff to the Salvation Army.
I brought my clothes in neatly folded in a wash basket, and the sales manager after labeling me as simply as another typical money motivated teen just trying to make a buck, took down my phone number and scanned my ID, and told me they were on an hour 1/2 wait. Disregarding there was legit more sales reps then customers in the store I didn't mind the wait, even though my last experience with Platio's, they did it then and there. I explained I'd have to stop by the following day as I had a wedding to attend a few hours following my stop at Platio's. The manager told me they would text me and let me know when it was ready and while I could of misunderstood, I left believing that I was going to be notified when it was ready and how much I would be receiving.
So I received my text, however it just said it was ready, didn't tell me how much all my item tallied up. I gave them a call and the first sales rep I spoke with was hesitant providing this info on how much $ for my clothes as it was confidential (again, this is my items, i paid for them originally, they are Platio's possession who is trying to make an offer, yet cannot provide me this info over the phone. After a few back and fourths, she brought her manager in to get involved who I originally spoke with.
The manager told me they could not provide this info to me over the phone because "just anyone could come pick your payout for it". But what she neglected to acknowledge was that the took down my phone number to reach out to me, the same name I was calling her on. She says it has to be in person, that's why they collect my ID info when I first came to the store. I told the manager that i could tell her my drivers license ID and she refused and said it would have to be in person because she can't verify who I am, even though she was the one who I spoke with when I first came to the store, and if i was some random person, i could come in when she wasn't working and lie who i was to collect.
This is legit for like $40 max people, I'm not coming in and getting thousands of dollars. It's a very low amount of money and the way they're treating this is like I'm about to rob millions from a bank.
This is bad business, and i told the manager that and she just deflected to saying it was policy. I told her that forget the money, I'll be in tomorrow, regardless if they say my clothes are worth $5000, I refuse to do business with such a poorly ran business and policy.
Take my word of advice and go somewhere better like Buffalo Exchange, or do what I now plan on doing and simply donating it to the Salvation Army to hep others in need. read more