Buzzards Bay Antiques — Local services in Bourne

I wrote the following review in August of '24 when I visited this store but never posted it. It gets one star because you can't leave a zero-star rating.

Most antique stores are a bit disorganized, but this is a whole other level. Most of the items are in very poor condition, and many are broken and/or incomplete. Most of the items in the store are not priced, and the items with prices are priced way too high. I went to the electronics room where I saw many old stereo components just thrown around and tons of vinyl LPs in unplayable condition at collectable prices. A total rip-off!

I did find some old Life magazines in decent condition in a box clearly marked $2.00 each. I chose five magazines and brought them to the counter. I told the man behind the counter, presumably the owner, that I have five Life magazines. He said “That will be $25.” I said that the tag on the box said that they cost $2.00 each. He said no and when I insisted, he challenged me to show him.

We walked to where the magazines were located, and I showed him the box with the paper taped to it which reads “$2.00 each.” He said “That doesn’t apply to me, that was already on the box when I took them in.” I said “thanks anyway” and started to walk to the front to leave the store. I was not about to pay more than the marked price!

As I was leaving, I told a couple of customers to be careful because he will try to charge more than the marked price for anything they might want to buy. As I walked out the owner told me to keep my comments to myself. I said that I will talk to anyone I want to talk to, at which time he threatened me with physical violence. Really??!! I guess scammers don’t like to be called out. And based on the other reviews here, I'm not the only one who has had this experience...

This place was terrible. We went in as the door was open and the the lights were on. There was one employee who totally ignored us as we admired some of there window items on display. We had full intentions of buying some of those window displays until we were approached by what appeared to be the owner who let us know very rudely that they were closed. I asked why was the door open and the lights were on and there were two apparent employees in the facility. At which point he stated he didn't need to answer them and proceeded to ask me "why are you asking these questions are you writing a book". I simply said no but I can write a review. He said he didn't care. It was apparent he didn't care about much. I suggested as we were leaving that he should put a sign out or lock the door if they are not open or are closed for business. He rebuttaled "no I don't have to do that" . This experience was very memorable. Enough to leave us with the feeling that we no longer wanted to return to that store to purchase anything from them, which is disappointing as we had full intentions on spending some money that day. We are local clients and would likely have frequented the store often. They lost us as customer's that day. I would strongly suggest for future window shoppers to avoid this...

Very limited good stuff amongst the mice terd-infested, disor-ganized piles and broken or missing pieces of antiques. The owner was so unbelievably sour, unpleasant and horrid, we wanted to leave this establishment immediately. He barely conceded to uttering basic pleasantries like "hello" before demonstrating how unwilling he was to being open to bargaining, any talking about history or to discuss prices. This tiny-minded man was so greedy, instead of adding price tags for clarity, on the spot he would eyeball each thing, then us, and somehow quoted prices 5x what anyone expected to pay. In a nasty pirate tone like "aaaargh" he said "take it or leave it" and squinted, "how much are ya willing to pay? That's what I want to know. Only that. There is no negotiating for your 'lowest price'. I want your money. So how much ya want to give me?" So awful. We just hated it. Bought old Vhs tapes and wooden baskets simply because they were unique. Otherwise we'd have escaped without buying anything. Never going back, which is too bad since so many other antique places we go to every year and buy from them...