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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SYNCHRONCITY, post: 1988999, member: 6283&quot;]Yup me too. I had a few booths at a multi-dealer antique mall on Long Island for two years. I am so sorry I even got myself tangled up in that. Nobody seems to be buying antiques anymore. I talked to the person running the place and told her we will be shutting down all of our booths except for one. My husband was able to get her to unlock the doors and let him take 75% of our antiques and display cabinets home.</p><p><br /></p><p>My dining room is no longer a dining room. It has now turned into an antique store, lol. I think I am going to talk to my husband about just shutting down our last booth and bring everything home. What scares me is my items are locked up inside of there and after we took most of out things home, the lady running the place and the landlord has not answered anymore phone calls. I&#039;ve had a few inquiries on Etsy about the items that are locked up in the shop. If any of my items do sell that are still in the shop, how will I get them to ship them out to my online customers?</p><p><br /></p><p>The antique mall still knows how to charge full rent even though the store has been shut down since March due to Covid19 though <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie78" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. They didn&#039;t even offer any of us dealers a break on the rent. They don&#039;t even know when they will be reopening. At this point they may not open back up for at least a month or two. I feel bad for the other dealers. Most are elderly people on social security and fixed incomes. How will they survive? The antique mall owners could possibly confiscate their inventory to pay for back rent owed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, even before Covid19, nobody was buying antiques. Everyone seems to be only interested in smalls or cheap trinkets. The only people coming in to the store were looking for thrift store prices and anything above $5 or $10 was not selling. All the dealers and I would constantly find ourselves flabbergasted at how argumentative people were about prices. If I had a nickel for everybody that said &quot;well I saw this on ebay for half the price&quot; I would be rich. The funny part is our prices were pretty fair.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an experiment I added a bunch of cheap crystals and minerals to my store for $5-$10 to get something to sell. Guess what?! Those were the only things that I did sell, lol.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also sell on Etsy, so I am going to have to focus all of my energies there now. Sales are few and far in between on Etsy too. I used to sell on Ebay, but I don&#039;t like all the non-seller friendly policies there so I quit that venue. I have only sold 4 things since March and now all of my online sales are at a standstill.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did have one lady buy something and have me mail it to her sister for her birthday because she couldn&#039;t see her sister due to the lock down. Maybe that will be my only saving grace as people buy antiques online now since they are bored being cooped up in their houses or need gifts for friends and family members. Having a lot of people out of work with no income is not promising for anyone in the antiques field. I wish you all luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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