Treasure Traders — Local services in O'Fallon

Disappointed. This is not your typical "liquidation" store. Do not believe the prices on the windows as 70% of the products are not priced as such. The products that are priced like the window says are in brown mainly unlabeled boxes.

This is not a "liquidation" store like you've seen on Tiktok and other social media platforms where if you arrive early you may find an iPad, Xbox, or some other actual treasure for $12. Not going to happen here. Everything has been cherry picked from the actual pallets that you purchase from liquidation services and if it has any sort of value has been individually priced at about 70% its retail value.

Many of the items that you can find individually priced and even stored in a "security case" are off brand, mass produced Chinese junk that you can easily find on sites like aliexpress and alibaba for a fraction of the cost.

Be warned that most of this stuff is junk and that's why it was returned and liquidated in the first place. You can see this all around the store with some items still having the original clearance tags on them from the original stores. (makeup with target clearance tags that say $3.60, yet this place is selling them for $3) this is greed since liquidation items like this are resold on pallets that equate to pennies on the dollar per item.

This is not a "liquidation" store where you run in and dig through large bins of stuff in hopes you find a high priced name brand Sony, Microsoft, or Apple product. These are returned, salvage, and loss prevention items. And I also believe lots of these items aren't liquidation at all when I walked in and see stacks of the same giant colorful Chinese made boomboxes that you can find at any gas station or vape store all...

Most of the 5 star reviews are fake. Store offers a free gift with purchase for 5 star reviews. You can find better deals shopping sales and clearance at the actual stores.

I came on $2 Thursday deal day hoping to find some cool stuff based on what I had seen about these types of stores on YouTube. It was mostly $5-$10 Amazon return items in the bins. In the bins, I saw a candle warmer, bike lock, throw pillow covers, sofa cover, baby toys, pet accessories.

The clothes are priced $7-$5 (if you buy 4 or more), so comparable to goodwill prices. Their makeup section was a mess, and they wanted $3 for makeup with clearance tags on it for $3.40, so only 10% off the last retail price...

On the sides of the store they have appliances, sheets, blankets, vacuums, etc. priced at about the same as it was sold in the store (using sales) or ~30% off. If you're not familiar with an item, Google it and find out its retail price, imo if you're not paying 50-80% off its retail price, you're not getting a good deal, when you factor in the stores run coupons and deals.

Overall, disappointing because they advertise 50-80% off retail, but a lot of these items were from Target, which are sold at 50-70% off in the store before being sent to liquidators like this, who then mark the prices back up to 30-50% off the original retail prices. I saw a tea kettle sold for $25, which originally retailed for $30 and I got on clearance at Target for $9. So do your homework on prices before buying.

FYI, the last 3 reviews from Epixgxmer, Mohib, and Noreen appear to be fake reviews using a chat gpt prompt. Noreen completely changed her review less than 24 hours after I posted, to something...

Do not waste your time!! I wish I looked up the reviews before coming here. If I could give this place a zero, I would. Purchased a fan that is missing parts and does not function properly. Unfortunately they have a big sign at the entrance that says ALL SALES FINAL, NO RETURNS, NO EXCHANGES. At first, it seemed like there was a lot to look through but their prices are outrageous on most items. Almost everything I looked at had been opened and taped back up so you would assume that they confirmed for themselves that the items they were selling were in acceptable condition. NOPE. On top of it, the place was not clean. They have a whole makeup section that is disgusting and would be better off just trashing it all. I should have followed my instincts but wanted to give this place the benefit of the doubt. I feel scammed and will not be going back.

Also, after reading other reviews, if they truly are using bots to leave positive reviews or paying for them, that itself is unacceptable and...