New Uses General Store

This used to be a great store to buy and sell from. They are terrible. Items for sale are WAY overpriced and they give you nothing for the items you sell. I hope they go out of business. Rip off all the way around. Never again.

As soon as I opened the door, I was hit in the face with the smell of cat urine. Intense cat urine. Two employees were on us before I could even adjust my breathing to take in the smell. Apparently they like to shop with you, because no matter where I turned, there was an employee standing there asking if I needed help or commenting on what I was looking at. Everything was insanely overpriced! Items are priced higher than retail stores. I’m truly boggled at how they stay in business. I don’t know anyone that’d want to overpay for a beat-​up old chair that reeks of cat pee. Avoid like the plague.

Don’t go here under any circumstances. They are in businesses to rip people off. We came in here with Longaberger that we were looking to get $ 25 /​basket from. We sold others for that much at a garage sale but we realized we’d get a little bit less here.
The owner was not there when we stopped by so an employee gave us the option of either dropping them off, waiting, or coming back later. He informed us she would be back in 10 minutes. We decided to wait for about 30 – 40 minutes and then decided to leave and have the owner call us later. She called and offered us $ 5 for each basket. We weren’t interested in it, but we didn’t care. It’s her business and she has to make a profit but we thought that was too low and wanted to take them elsewhere.
We arrived at the store a few hours later to pick up our 3 baskets, and only 2 were there. The guy remembered us and said that we dropped off 3 so they spent some time «looking» for the 3^rd basket. They informed us that the basket was missing and that it was most likely stolen. They offered us $ 5 in cash or $ 10 in store credit for the basket and we flipped out because the basket is worth a lot more and they said that’s all they would do. I find it hard to believe that someone could just walk out of a store without any employee noticing, and I also doubt that anyone would steal the basket because they had lots of other stuff in there that was owned by the store and didn’t get stolen. I think an employee or even the owner took the basket with the intention on keeping it or reselling it a month later.
We eventually sold the other two baskets for $ 20 each so by going here we lost out on $ 15 due to a thief who is most likely an employee here. We tried going going to the BBB about this but they did nothing.

New Uses should be called impulse emporium, as you can find some real gems for a great price when you are not really searching for it. It is not a place to go if you have an idea of what retro style furniture, or wall junk art, or old fashion appliance, ect you want, unless you feel Lady Luck smiling down on you with that sarcastic grin she often has.
I have a nice mosaic plant stand I bought here for $ 8 a few years back. And some nice metal wall crap too. So I can attest to the money spending mojo that fills the place.
The inventory of unwanted hand-​me down change constantly, so they are a great place to stop by if you are near Hard Road and have time to spare and money to waste. They usually deal in decent stuff, still in shape, and not to used. At one time they had electronics and it was the place to go for a garage boombox, a travel alarm clock, a extra VHS player, but they have bifurcated that to their electronics second hand shop down the plaza. Still, they are an interesting walk through – lots of stuff jammed in the small showroom – Sanford and Son’s style.
They also have assorted housewares and other things too. The staff is small but friendly. Not sure what prices they’ll offer your unwanted hand-​me-​downs, but extrapolating from their typical retail, it is not much. I know they won’t take old TVs not adapted to digital – cause I tried one time; wouldn’t even take it for free. But other than that reasonable denial, I have no complaints.

This place is hit or miss but I love the idea of it. I think this location layout is better than the one in Hilliard. They have some nice furniture and some decent options. I would rather go to garage sales to find my second hand stuff as I think they are cheaper. This place works well in the colder months and non garage sale times. This plaza holds a plethora of second hand places so this is a nice place to walk around and visit the different options.

This store is a mini gold mine. I’m a regular and the store changes daily which keeps it interesting!
The service is ‘usually’ efficient and friendly.

New Uses is one of those places where you either hit or miss. Since we live down the road from the store, it’s easy for me to stop by once and awhile and see what they have. It’s second-​hand shop that specializes in things for your home (plates, glasses, speakers, frames, furniture, small appliances, luggage). It’s not a HUGE store but they pack it in.
It’s basically like a treasure hunt and if you can find what you’re looking for– it’ll probably be cheap. The two times we’ve made big purchases there, we saw it and immediately claimed in.
We scored a BEAUTIFUL vintage table (retro, Mad Men vibe) for $ 25!!! I asked a few people after we bought it home and they said they could have sold it for $ 125 – 300. Any store that gives me THOSE kinds of deals deserves 4 stars.