Ye Old Goat — Local services in Appleton

Slightly unhappy with my visit when checking out. Jeffery didn't use much care when checking me out.

I purchased three wool mouse ornaments, spent $38 dollars I carried them through out the store each on a finger to keep them from getting damaged.

When I checked out, Jeffery cut off one of the strings to hang the ornaments and then was about to tape the string to the ornament before I stopped him.

Clearly, Jeffery has no real concept about wool ornaments as adhering the string with tape to the wool ornament will tear the wool when removing the tape.

Then Jeffery grabbed all the ornaments at once and put them in the bag instead of wrapping each ornament separately before placing the ornaments in the bag.

It wasn't until I took pictures for this review that I noticed that Jeffery also cut the string to yet another ornament but didn't say anything, now it makes sense why Jeffery grabbed the ornaments and quickly put them in a bag without wrapping each ornament separately. Truthfully, it's not the best customer service, to say the least.

I included photos....You can see the cake mouse ornament has no string to hang the ornament, then the string to cheese mouse ornament is also cut too.

Using care and being extra mindful is something to work on when...

really love this antique mall but two major issues:

1. there's a booth only selling brand-new items that had a large collection of "made in the UK cashmere scarves". I took a fiber sample home and it turned out to be acrylic. This is false advertising and the vendor seriously needs to question their quality control.
2. the prevalence of AI generated content around the store lowered my willingness to spend cash. Many booths had genuine antiques right next to AI generated content. This made me lose confidence in the authenticity of artworks and my willingness to spend money

response to the business owner: many of the framed pictures were AI generated, the image was generated via AI, then printed out and framed. Specific examples was a framed picture of Jesus where he had 3 arms, some Valentine's day themed mouse pictures where the mice were missing fingers, and a fox picture where upon closer inspection it was obvious that the machine made the fox + the grass morph into each other. Because multiple vendors had the same AI generated photos I'm assuming they may have bought them from the same...

This place is interesting to look around in, but it seems that instead of restored/repurposed antiques - or just antiques in general - the people using these booths are renting the space to run their own craft shops. There's one booth in particular that's selling 3D printed toys - they look cool, but how does that fit into the image the store wants to make for itself? I've also seen a booth where there was someone selling a picture book - likely self-published - along with horse plushies to go with it.

There are some antiques/vintage to look at that do fit the criteria, but I don't really have much to say about them. Just letting the public know that the store isn't completely...