Salvaged PGH — Local services in Mars

I’ve never been treated so horrible by a small, local business owner before. I grew up in two family businesses, my husband owns a successful business, I’m currently running my 2nd successful direct sales business & my background is business. My family & I strive very hard to “always” support small, local businesses. We operate with customer service being #1 & customers are always right. You do your best to accommodate & be kind. I guess that’s an old fashion notion. I parked in the alley, along Salvaged. I first patronize another store & then planned on shopping at Salvaged next. The owner called the police to have me towed. I honesty & innocently didn’t notice small signs that said customer parking only. He said his cameras saw me go to the other store. Ok, great then why not just come over & NICELY ask me to move, or ask if I’ll be very long, or ask if I’ll be shopping in his store or explain the sign I obviously didn’t see. I would of moved apologetically. He had so many options to be business like & kind. Oh... maybe the signs should be bigger & not a similar color as the building, especially if you want people to see the signs, just an obvious suggestion. After all, SIGNS are made to get ones attention & relay a message. Salvaged located in Mars, PA with a borough population of approximately 1,400. Again, I honestly didn’t realize the alley parking was for their customers only. And for Pete sakes, I was supporting another small, local business. Just be kind!!! When I returned to patronize Salvaged, he was waiting for me & the way I was spoken to was unreal. It was a scene you’d expect to see or witness in a major city. The poor police in that town are quite tired of his rants & calling them to get tow trucks from violators. I guess his business is doing just fine & warrants the inexplicable behavior to an innocent violator. I’ll take my money &...

Thoughtful and creative owners and staff. Great collection of salvaged lumber and so much more. Made this sofa table from a cedar board I found there. Updated with another project fueled by this super cool company. The Ash mantle was from a reclaimed barn floor board. Still had the hay in it. Jointer/planer to square it up and take out the major damage and it ended up a great looking board with just some satin poly added. Found the corbels here as well. Really spruced up...

Staff is awesome and great to deal with. Lots of cool stuff too go through with a great live edge wood area in the back. If you like to refinish wood pieces, this place is a definite...