Kalispell Antiques Market — Attraction in Kalispell

This was one of the coolest antique stores I have ever been in and I wish I could give a 5 star review. However, I left feeling extremely frustrated with how I was treated and how dishonest one of the vendors was. I went to the shop for the first time on a Wednesday, and had a plastic bag with me from a thrift store I was in just before going to the antiques market. The bag had a sweater in it with a bright, very memorable, pattern, as well as a receipt for that thrift store. On Friday I realized that I’d left the bag with the sweater inside it at Kalispell Antiques Market, since I went straight to my car after leaving the store and didn’t have to with me then. I called Friday morning about it and the lady I talked to said she would look around and give me a call back. After not hearing from the shop for over an hour, I called again. A different lady answered, said the first lady hadn’t gotten a chance to look for my bag yet, and that they’d give me a call after they looked. I got a call less than 5 minutes later that they had looked and my bag was not in the store. I felt a little suspicious that they had actually looked around, since the market is quite big and it would take more than 5 minutes to look for a lost item. I decided to drive to the store then, partly because I didn’t have enough time to look at everything the first time, and party because I had a feeling my sweater was there. After walking around and finding a few items I wanted to buy, I found my sweater on a shelf. It was folded and priced with a vendors tag in it. I took this up to the desk and explained that i was the one who had called twice that day about my lost sweater, and that i had just found it on a shelf with a new price tag on it. The two ladies at the desk, one of whom was the lady who called me back after spending less than 5 minutes looking for the bag, didn’t seem to fully believe me. They asked me if i had a receipt (which I explained to them, was in the bag) and then called the vendor who had priced it. She had them ask me when he thrift store I got it from, which made me think that the vendor found the receipt in the bag and new very well where I’d bought it from. The vendor on the phone told them that she’d found it in a plastic bag and had thought it was hers, even though the sweater is very memorable that unless she was going senile there’s no way she actually thought it was hers. Overall, left the store feeling incredibly frustrated with that vendor, but also with the two women at the desk who should’ve at least apologized for what happened and not acted so skeptical, especially of someone who spent around $200 between my two days shopping there.

TLDR: great inventory,...

First, I know nothing absolutely nothing about Montana politics, we were just passing thru. I shopped the store for a couple hours. Found a nice treasure, but when I went to check out an older woman and man were loudly and nastily discussing politics.

I said, we aren’t talking politics in front of customers are we? The woman apologized, so I thanked her, and said I normally leave when this happens. The man said - well let me know before I wrap this up. I said fine and started to walk away. The woman apologized again, the man was yelling as I walked up the stairs - I am proud to be repulican, first amendment rights… You must be a democrat!

My point here is regardless of your political beliefs, a business should not be having loud opinions in front of customers.

I left without a purchase, and want the venders to know customers are being...

Cool stuff, terrible customer service. My family and I are from out of town and went there twice in one week, and both times we felt very unwelcome. The employees were incredibly rude as soon as it got near closing time - going as far as to turn the music off 25 minutes before the store closed, as well as continually asking if we were ready to check out, even pointedly glancing at the clock (although both times we were out at least 5 - 10 minutes before closing). I understand wanting shoppers out before close, but as we were paying customers who hadn't treated the employees badly whatsoever, we felt this treatment was very uncalled for. This would be a really great shop if it weren't for...