Make Me An Offer

I went to an estate sale and Amanda and her husband promised me an item I wanted, actually a few. I talked to the husband and told him I wanted a patio set and a few fake plants. We talked about prices which he knocked off $ 25. I told them I had to run and pick up my kids and that I would be back in the morning to pay and pick up items. They assured me It was fine. He took the for sale sign/​price tag off the items. I even texted Amanda later that afternoon to remind her that I would still be coming in the morning. Me and my family get there and she tells me she sold my plants and patio set. I went in the house and the man said that someone bought full price. Okay if your going run a business you need to have principles and be people of your word. Needless to say I was very upset and will not be referring anyone to this company. Please don’t do this to anyone else. I wish you all would have just told me it was being sold or you couldn’t hold items

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I’m a local artist here in my community and two months ago I was contacted by the woman that works at Make Me An Offer a second hand store of random goods. She found me through facebook, she claimed to really liked my work and asked if I would bring in some of my artwork to the store so she could display it for me. I met with her and agreed. This was about two months ago. Recently at the end of August I stopped by to let her know I was going to be coming by to take my artwork she had on display, she wanted me to leave it, so at the time I did. On September 4^th I called and left her a polite message letting her know I was going to come pick up my paintings and to let me know what day worked best for her. She never called me back. Giving her sufficient time I went to the store today September the 11^th at 10:30am. She greeted me and we small talked and I noticed my paintings where still up on the wall. I mentioned that I was here to take them with me, she mentioned how many people liked my paintings and how they displayed so on that wall. I had a feeling she didn’t want to give them back to me. Well as we were discussing my artwork, another employee, male, walked into the store. He marched to the back of the store and within 20 seconds came back out to the floor and asked me to leave my paintings there until another day. I politely said, «No thank you that I had spoken to the woman there, over the phone days ago about picking up my work, today is my day off and so here I am. I can do it myself if you don’t mind.» To that the man insisted that I leave my work. I said «No thank you I would like to take it home today.» A third time he insisted and I replied with the same thing. To that he said «FINE!» marched over to the wall with my artwork and took a poker that was laying somewhere and proceeded to poke my artwork off the wall. Letting them fall to the ground. As he poked my work he poked through one of my art pieces, straight through the canvas and tore a hole. He used one of my paintings to get a fourth one off the wall. I mentioned to him that I didn’t appreciate the way he was treating my work and that it was very unethical. And he proceeded to slam my work on a table nearby. I told him I would discuss his behavior with the owner of the store and he said «oh yeah, let me call him for you right now» and left one of my paintings on the wall, that I couldn’t reach. I was in shock and couldn’t believe the overreaction and behavior of this person. I asked the woman, who had been the one to invite my artwork to this store to please get me a ladder, that I would get my own painting. She ignored me altogether. And then the rude employee came back and said «YOU WANT IT!» And went over poked it off the wall and confiscated my work by taking it to the back of the store telling me I couldn’t have it and get out of the store because they were allowed to refuse me service. I told him that that was my artwork and he had no right to confiscate it and that I was going to call the police. He said «Call whoever you want, you’re not getting it» and he again proceeded to go to the back. At that point I turned to the woman and asked her to please get my work and she said «Yeah let’s wait till the owner of the store comes in.» «See, she’s backing me up!» the rude employee yelled at me. I didn’t know what else to do, it was all very shocking! At that point some customers walked in and she got distracted with them and I stood there for a moment then went to the back of the store, saw my painting lying there and picked it up and proceeded to walk out of the store with my five pieces of artwork. As I was leaving he yelled something at me, despite the customers there and I didn’t look back. I was so shaken by the experience, this man is vile, loud and seems to think he has some kind of authority over everything whether it belongs to him or not. I filed a police report right then and the police officer went to talk to them and the owner of the store. The officer was very nice to me over the phone and he agreed that the employee that I encountered was a very vile individual. There wasn’t much the police officer could do in this case other then give me his personal opinion that I should file in small claims court and not let this person get away with their behavior. Apparently based on what the officer told me the owner is aware of the very rude people he’s employed and their unscrupulous practices. As it turns out I’m not the only one who’s had their property damaged by them, yet the owner of this place continues to keep these employees around, despite the other complaints and damages to other people’s property. My artwork is ruined, he poked a hole in one of a series of four paintings, that had to be sold together for it to make sense! As an artist, it’s devastating, as each painting is my livelihood. Now I can’t display or sell this set because of the damage. No Business Should Be Run Like This. This has got to Stop!