Shops By The Lake — Local services in Painesville

Edit : Since you left your sarcastic reply. I am changing this from a 2 to 1 star. Here's the truth.. The owners treat their vendors like peasants especially Dennis and his wife. So I highly recommend not being a vendor. They charge vendors too much for rent, they take a large percentage of what you make on each item. They make you work 2, 8 hour shifts per month, otherwise you get a $75 fee each time you dont work. They also have a senior day on every Friday, and they take 10% off of everything, but guess what?? The VENDORS have to pay for that! It is deducted from their sales, not the owners. As a customer, it's a alright place to go and find random things. That's the ONLY reason I give you 2 stars (originally) . #1 because of the shopping experience. And #2 because Alex is the ONLY owner who treats people and vendors with respect. You all need to treat your vendors better period, and respond more professionally to bad reviews. Belittling people who are unhappy doesn't make you...

A lot of the stalls need to focus on making it so you can actually walk into them or not so cluttered you have to dig for anything. Half the stalls, we simply walked by since even though im a size medium/large, I didn't have a prayer of getting into them to look. Towards the end, I walked out and let my husband finish as twisting and digging I twisted my hip and ankle funny. But we always find something. We found these cast iron corn pans yesterday while digging. Needed a cleaning and seasoning, but were in good enough shape to make corn shaped cornbread last night. If you are super thin and don't mind twisting and digging through things, you'll find loads of things. Otherwise, about 1/3-1/2 of the stalls you can't get into depending on your size. Some prices are insane though, like a ripped and stained lace dress for $85 we laughed about, but our corn pans we marveled at our find. Will work great for Christmas cornbread for a crowd as there were three of them...

Extended Holiday hours would be nice. It's hard to look through some booths if it is busy. Some booths should have items pre-screened before allowing to sell/display as there were in one booth individually wrapped toilet paper rolls in stacks. Nice Jewelry pices on display locked understandably however not prixe tags displayed with items one doesn't want to bother someone for a key to see what prices are on so many items that were unmarked. Multiple displays were like this and I would have if there were a worker nearby by asked for assistance. It would be nice if folks were posted nearby with keys to the very many display cases. No doubt more sales would be made if they did. I would gladly up my rating if I saw these...