Housing Works Thrift Shops

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• John McKinney

  Nov, 26 2018
  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
  Disappointing experience, particularly due to an employee named Christina and the older gentleman who seemed to be the manager of this Housing Works location.
  Over the weekend I found an item, a large item on the high end of pricing in the store, marked “auction,” and asked the very friendly weekend staff about the sale. I was kindly informed that the item (as well as the the item’s price) would be available Monday morning and that I should arrive early if I didn’t want to miss it. Well, my 14 year old niece was in town on Monday, so I brought her along with me. We arrived Monday morning 30 minutes before they opened. It was snowing pretty heavily. At 10 till, an older gentleman angrily pushed passed us and knocked on the glass door, and Christina came and opened it for him. “Hello,” I said very genuinely, “are you able to release pricing information?” Christina, flustered, harshly closed the door all but a crack and asked which item I was interested in. I told her and she responded with a scoff, “oh, that’s not even for sale.” She slammed the door, locked the locks and walked away before I could respond. We waited, and minutes later she returned to the double door entrance way, only to remain on the other side and shout a price. “What??” I responded. She simply shook her head while walking away. Finally 10:05 and they allow us in from the cold, only to be offered more scoffs, more rudeness, and avoided eye contact. Fortunately I was able to purchase the amazing item for an amazing price. Housing Works is a great company with a great cause and really fantastic finds. But this location clearly needs a new weekday opening staff.
• Stacey Gee

  Nov, 14 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
  I’m unimpressed by this location - the prices are much higher than a typical thrift store (even in nyc!) and are more in-line with an antique store. I’ve been in this store several times and have bought something once or twice, but overall I usually find everything to be more expensive than it is worth at a “thrift” store. Today I also found a small brass candle stick I wanted to buy, but because the price tag said $15 for a “pair” and they couldn’t find the other one, they refused to sell the single to me. They said “they may find the other one somewhere in a box” at some point. Unclear about the reasoning. I would say this is a pass.

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