Antiques Center at the People's Store — Attraction in Lambertville

BUYERS BE AWARE!!! For Purchasing Antique Jewelry at People’s Store Lambertville New Jersey. You May Receive a Fake Piece at Authentic Price at Your Own Risk!

This is a store renting footage square space to each individual seller. According to the store, your purchasing result falls under each seller’s responsibility without getting the store involved. Just think about it is a flea market under a shared roof with a central register, that’s about it. What the seller marks on the price tag, whether it is an authentic or fake, it would be your own responsibility to identify.

I have purchased a vintage coral necklace marked on the price tag from People’s Store Lambertville at USD 300 a few years ago. Only after a few years (I have only worn it two times), and recently the outside paint had fallen off and revealed the inner plastic material. I went back to the store with original receipt for a reasonable refund, they said they are totally not responsible for 1) how do they know if this piece was purchased from their store, and argued that I should have taken a picture of the necklace and receipt together at time of purchase, 2) it has passed the returning period…. I do not find these arguments valid, because the store should have a record of what they have sold, and even if I have taken the picture, they can also easily say that the piece was not the original piece, so what is the point of taking a photo? Furthermore, the returning policy applies to real value product. By marking authentic description and authentic price on a fake jewelry violates buyer’s interest starting Day One. It does not change the fact that People’s Store is selling fake antiques.

It was very nice for the store manager, Evelyn Gordon to finally give me the individual seller’s contact information, and I have chased half of the money back, but still leaving the other half on my account for a punishment that I should not deserve to receive on this shopping experience. People’s Store did not participate to compensate a penny as they claim they are not responsible for the seller’s action even through the product is sold from their store.

A lesson learned! I will never shop at People’s...

With perhaps 50 different vendors, the People's is like many antique mall-type buildings in the area. The difference in Lambertville is the centrality of the store, near two wealthy counties in two states with huge antiquarian back stock. What this means for the shopper is remarkable choices over three floors.

Merchandise is not cheap; it seems fairly priced and is well sourced and documented. Paintings on sale generally have provenance information on tags. Residents of Bucks County (across the river) live in the center of the Pennsylvania Impressionism school of painting, and (minor) working artists seem represented. Their personal collections also seem to have found their way to the People's, with many 19th and 20th century oils. Find an ancestral portrait you like and take him or home!

The third floor has a remarkable collection if bedframes, mostly full-size. (Queen mattresses seem to be a later...

Nice stuff. Nice people. But not the most professional at the reception counter. Super long line waiting to check out with 3 staff members at the counter. One spent over 20 minutes handling a customer's purchase while casually chatting with her the entire time. In the meantime, another staff member were casually looking for a gift box the customer requested and then wrapped the item super carefully (great) throughout the 20 minutes. The line was getting longer during this time. The other staff member randomly started a chat with another customer in the middle of the line and decided to handle his checkout before everyone else in front of him. All of this happened on an extremely busy...