Ferdinand Antique & Emporium Vendor Mall — Local services in Ferdinand

It's unfortunate that I have to give a bad review, as we generally have enjoyed going to the Antique Emporium and have made several purchases there over the years. And, full disclosure, reader: OUR MISTAKE. We should have researched the item better before purchasing it instead of trusting that our neighboring small-town shop would not be the type of people to misrepresent their products, or at least would do good on any mistakes they might have made regarding how their goods are represented. It was an expensive lesson for us when we discovered that the telescope we bought in a "US Navy...1943" box, with a tag that read "US Navy 1943 telescope," and a receipt that reads "1943 Navy Telescope," is not a 1943 US Navy Telescope. It is, in fact, a different telescope in the US Navy Telescope box.

Items are sold As Is with No Guarantee. No returns. No exchanges. This policy is not misrepresented at the shop. We contacted the store and the vendor's response as relayed to us by the Emporium was that s/he never claimed it to be a WWII telescope. (Not our argument, btw.) The end.

Shame on us for being trusting. The internet is for researching these things first; this is 2020. Small-town neighbors will burn you the same as anyone else. Life lesson learned. Thanks for...

I had started to come here on Saturday's about a month or so ago and thought I’d really found a heck of a honey hole. Well jokes on me today. I’m making my way thru the store (maybe in there 10 minutes) at some point I pick up one small item and carry on. I do go out on Saturdays with a friend but we split up when we enter the store here due to different interests. So I already kinda knew the layout of some things I wanted to grab for a friend of mine. I pick up 3 very small things and decide those are the 3 I do actually want and put them inside the one small item I had picked up first because they do not have carts here. As I turn to go catch up with the friend I came with the lady that was working was literally standing right there and says “You ready to check out” and grabs the stuff from my hands saying “I’ll just hold it for you up here no rush” and as she’s walking away I can hear her rustling thru the 3 .75€ magnets I had dropped into the $1.50 green M&M Easter basket. I had never in my entire life been so mortified to be treated like I was a thief. Sadly I wish I’d have received that treatment before my friends and I spent our hard earned money in that place for over a month. I’ll never return and that woman should seriously be...

Be prepared to spend some time here! This place is much larger than it looks from the outside! We like primitives and tools and there are several quality dealers offering these items! Plenty of other antique styles as well as glass and period clothes. We found prices to be very reasonable as we had just visited 2 other antique stores/malls that had significantly higher prices for nearly identical items. Lots of deals and mark downs! Definitely a place we will visit...