Front Range Mercantile Indoor Flea Market and Antique Mall — Attraction in Longmont

We drive 30 min today specifically to visit this store. We love going to antiques stores and browse unique things. Cute store. My husband picked out wine glasses, my daughter picked out old maps, and I picked out these metal tin jars. I was gonna get all 38 of the jars. Total would have been $100. When I was checking out, found out that if you pay by cash, you save about 3%. So I asked the young man at the counter to go ahead to help the customers behind me first so I can call my husband who had the cash. When I turned around, I saw him flip his eyes and smirk at those customers about me. This is the same young man that when he made a call for me asking the seller about a discount (since I was purchasing all the tin cans), I heard the same eye flipping tone in his voice, and who was kind of bothered by any question I was asking. When he finished checking out those customers behind me, he thanked them and said “yes, sir” in response to something. So clearly, he is capable of treating customers with respect and kindness. I walked out purchasing nothing and will not be going back. Life is too short to be treated this way by any person...

This, like most Antique STORES, is exactly that. A STORE! And a Retail Store to be precise. A store is a shop owned by a single person or company. A MALL or Flea Market, is made up of multiple owners. In a MALL you can find the same vendor at the same location and have regular business hours. Whereas at a Flea Market, the vendors hop around "like Fleas" from Booth to Booth or space to space usually being available only on a monthly or sometimes weekly, though usually on a weekEND, basis and may not even BE there, the next month.

I think the Antique shops were simply lower on fakes and so one is the bigger ones decided to lie about their shop and call it a Flea Market in hopes of attracting more traffic into their stores. When it seemed to work, then other Antique shops followed so that now ACTUAL Flea Markets will have to be renamed for distinction, and Antique shop owners will once again be left with the need to learn basic marketing techniques.

Antiques are great, but please do the public a favor and learn basic marketing and call the store like it is: an...

Great place to wander and find things that you did not know you wanted or needed. It is an eclectic place, where you can find antique tools, period pieces of furniture or (in my humble, partial opinion) horrendous porcelain knick knacks. Since it is a consignment place, prices vary from vendor to vendor, sometimes dramatically. But you can find unbelievable bargains. Last year I bought a solid oak antique teacher's / office desk for 25 dollars. It needed heavy restoration, but one that you could do with minimal woodworking skills. Now it is a highlight in my library room. For 25 dollars, I cannot buy new two of the eight oak legs it has at Home Depot, not to mention the solid, one-piece oak desktop. In sum: highly...