East Lexington Peddlers Mall — Attraction in Lexington

I do not usually do this, unless it is a positive experience. However, I have to say that I had a very, very bad experience with trying to buy a Christmas gift from Booth #20 from the Peddler’s Mall in Lexington. Now, this is in no way a review of the lady who actually did make this right. So, I went there to purchase a vanity for my daughter. When I got to Booth #20, I saw a really nice, very pretty, vanity. It was black and white with a black and white mirror. The price posted on this vanity with the attached mirror was $65. I went up to the front to buy this vanity and paid the $65 posted on it. I was given a receipt that had the item purchased, which was a black and white vanity, for the price of $65. My son took the receipt and placed it on the vanity. In the meantime, I told them that I was in my car and that I had to go get a truck to come back to pick up the vanity. They said that was ok. We left the mall and I got a phone call from the front desk, which was where I had purchased the vanity, because the people who rent the booths are not there in person and you have to pay for everything up front at this desk. The person proceeded to tell me that there had been a mistake and that I had purchased only a mirror and that the vanity was not for sale. I tried talking to them and telling them that I had purchased the vanity it was on the receipt. However, they said that it was not what I had purchased. They insisted I only bought a mirror. So, I’m quite frustrated and I called back and asked to speak to the manager. I explained the situation and she said she’d call me back. She called back and said that they explained what had happened and that there was nothing that she could do. I decided to get out and look at the receipt that my son had put on the vanity after I paid for it. It was printed out that I purchased a black and white vanity for $65. Also, on the back of the mirror was a price tag for $24 for a mirror. So, I called that lady back and told her about the receipt. She once again told me that she’d call me back. She called back and said that the owner said I could pick the vanity up so I agree to come the next day. Owner called me the next morning apologizing about what had happened and agreed it looked as though the vanity and mirror were included. but she told me to come get the refund and gift card and to return the mirror and that the vanity was of sentimental value and that the owner of the vanity had taken the vanity out of the building. I go back to the mall . I go to the front desk and told the lady that I was the one returning the mirror. She knew of the situation, but proceeded to ask me what I had been told was going to happen. I told her that I was told I was going to get a refund of $65 and a gift card. She had a weird look on her face and told me that the owner of the vanity had decided that I could actually get the vanity if I still wanted it. I had my mother with me and asked the lady if I could show it to her first. She said I could. We go to see the vanity and the vanity was not a vanity at all, but a gray and white stand like a hallway table. I was very surprised, because that stand was not the vanity I had purchased. It was gray and white and was totally different than the vanity. I go tell her that the stand I just saw was not the same thing as what I saw and purchased the day before. She told me it was. I asked her if she saw the vanity that I had purchased. She said yes and that she had helped the owner carry the vanity out of the building the night before. So, I said, so you know what it looked like, if you helped carry it out and you’re going to tell me that the stand over there is the vanity I purchased yesterday. She had such a look on her face like oh crap. So, I was pretty insulted at that point. I felt like they were trying to call me a liar and that they thought I was stupid. Anyways, she proceeded to give me a refund and the gift card to be continued on another review as it’s to long to finish. I have placed pictures of it as you can see it’s...

So, my daughter posted a review about a booth (#20) issue we recently had and was almost instantly contacted by the owner. Then, she commented on that review and again lied about the vanity being refused. We DID NOT refuse the vanity, we refused to take a gray and white hall table looking stand, which they tried to pass off as the black and white vanity that she had actually purchased the day before. What was very upsetting and disappointing to us was that we were buying that vanity as a Christmas gift for my granddaughter and we fell in love with that one, but then they tried to pass off that stand as the vanity. I will post the messages that she texted to my daughter’s phone. I was with her during this experience and I am very upset about this situation. I just wanted to clear things up. We do not lie or try to take advantage of anyone. We did not ask for anything more than the refund or the actual vanity we had purchased. The gift card was offered by her and honestly , we feel it was deserved after what all we had been thru. Then , when she told my daughter that if she didn’t take down the review that she would expire the gift card and would give it back once the review was taken down, I got pretty upset. What we got upset most about was the fact that they assumed we were dumb enough to not know the difference between a black and white vanity and a gray and white stand that was like a hall table stand. We just simply wanted her to know how the person selling their stuff at booth 20 was treating her customers. Evidently she didn’t want to know. We did not say anything bad about the mall and even stated that it wasn’t against them and that we appreciated the refund and gift card. So, when she texted my daughter what she did, I was extremely upset. Yes, I agree that negative reviews hurt a business and that is not what we done. It’s also people like her that hurt a business, because of how she treated a customer who was just trying to let her know how she was treated by booth 20 and then threatened her to take her review down with the gift card. We asked for the name of the person who rents booth 20 and they refused to give us the name. So, we had to do the review without that particular person’s name. Anyways, our reason for the review was, because we want other customers to be aware of this issue and to please make sure they take what they purchase from that booth as soon as they pay for it and not leave it there for any reason. Oh, and also, we were wanting to go on, while we were there, and use the refund and gift card to find my grandkids other Christmas gifts, because we live almost an hour away. The lady who was at the front desk , the one who gave us the refund and gift card, approached us and told us that corporate had called and told her to come ask us to leave the building right then. We did leave, but I think that was very unprofessional and plain ridiculous, because we had not done anything wrong to be...

The huge size of the Lexington Peddlers' Mall and the immense variety of the items in it astounded me. It seems about the size of a shopping mall and contains hundreds of booths.

I visited on July 10, 2018. The building is organized into booths. Numerous different persons and organizations apparently rent booths that they stock. Workers at the checkout registers collect the money, and I guess disburse it to the appropriate booth renters.

Among the massive variety of items I saw were: lots of books, comic books, furniture, household appliances, toys, clothing, tools, automobile tires, food items, records, DVDs, VHS tapes, office equipment, and a huge selection of various trinkets.

You might find this to be the place to go to get a special gift for that person who is hard to shop for. Or, like me, you might find a huge selection of stuff you don't need at prices you can't afford.

Most of the items are used, and some are broken. Also, I saw a tube of toothpaste that was three years past its sell-by date. If buying items, do seek to check their condition carefully and the expiration/best buy date on perishable food, toothpaste, etc.

Prices seemed to be high. Prices seemed to be more like retail prices than flea market prices. And while some items may be antiques, most are not. A person working at a checkout counter said the individual booth renters set their own prices.

I urge persons in the Lexington area to seek to stop by here at least once to browse around. The building is air conditioned and includes restrooms and water fountains. Except for the checkout counters. the shopping experience is basically self-service. Almost all of the booths were unoccupied.

Shoppers can get a shopping cart and select items from the various booths (items typically have both the price and the booth # on them). Then pay at a checkout counter. I saw two checkout counters in different parts of the huge mall near the two main entrances.

Personally, I walked quickly through the two-story building, browsing at various booths. But a person who sought to look at each booth carefully could literally devote hours...