Antiques & Things — Local services in Saint Augustine

Oh, boy. Where do I begin? I don't recommend this shop to buyers or vendors. I took my friend from PA to this area, as I've always enjoyed the shop next door. Just to preface, we spent the day in Jacksonville shopping 2 days earlier and New Smyrna Beach the day before the different antique shops and most just took a shot of my sales tax cert on their phones. The last vendor in Jacksonville took my cert and make a photo copy and failed to return my original. The other shops had no problem taking a picture of the cert. I have on my phone. I had all kinds of i.d. on me to verify I was the same person on the certificate. Not only did she flat out refuse to work, but she was rude about it, walked away from me and complained loudly to the other lady behind the counter, who was actually welcoming to us. I let her know she just lost a great sale for her vendor, and just continued browsing with my friend. Finished up, and told my friend I was going to the shop next door. The door hadn't even closed behind me and I could hear her start up again, but just ignored it and decided I would scratch this place off my list of places to shop. Several minutes later my friend follows me into the second shop and told me the shop keeper went into an absolute meltdown! What is with people? These group shops are floundering everywhere. You would think the owners would be a little more accommodating to folks and do whatever they could to help their vendors make a sale. This was a $150 item, something I'm sure the vendor would have loved to see sold! Word of mouth is a powerful tool when you have a business. I had my own group shop years ago, and always did my best to sell for my vendors. Also, this particular shop has gone down in quality and cleanliness. Merch is old and stale. Sad to have to even post this review, but I don't think she gets it...

Love this shop! My daughter and I were in St. Augustine for the day checking out the museums and such. We stopped in to see what kind of treasures there were and man was I pleasantly surprised! There are so many wonderful things for sale in this little store that we couldn't see them all! I am in love with tea pots and this store has such a lovely collection of antique and unique tea pots! I know what I will be getting for my birthday! They also have quite a few things from my childhood era that it was neat to be able to show my 14 year old daughter some of the kinds of things that I grew up with. I was able to show her depression era green glass like my great aunt had when I was a child . Far too many things to see in just one trip! I think it will require many trips back to see it all! Also, the ladies in the front were so lovely to chat with about the items. It was nice taking a trip down memory lane with them as we browsed the items in the front...

Strolled into this shop looking a a record store that we thought was nearby, they said "they were not sure of what we were referring to". However a vendor within this shop approached and said that he has a lot of vinyl, and that he has all 45's priced 10 for $10. So we spend and hour going through all the 45's, choosing 45-50 of them to purchase. I also upon first walking into the store picked up a large starfish. Checking out I explained that I no longer desired to purchase the starfish. The owner got very snippy and said "OMG , now I will have to rewrite the whole ticket"! When in all actuality the starfish was on a separate receipt from the vinyl. I said "well we don't have to purchase anything, land she said " that will be fine too."". The only person who got hurt was the vendor who relays in the income from the sale of his vinyl in his booth. Poor Sevice from...