The Children’s Cottage Consignment Shoppe

I hate leaving negative reviews & I also like supporting local businesses. While I wouldn’t say this place is awful, I would have to say it is extremely over priced for a consignment store!
When I entered this place the other day with my wife & 3 year old son we thought we had found a deal. There was a playhouse (just a house with nothing but the doors that were removed) that looked relatively worn marked for $ 6. My son said he wanted it so we dragged it through all the clutter in the store to pay for it. Along the way he found some toy cars that were marked at prices that you’d expect to pay at Wal Mart for the items brand new.
When we got to the check out I couldn’t see the clerk cuz there’s just so much stuff in this place. When I passed her the ticket she realized the price was wrong: it was actually $ 100.
One Hundred Dollars??? Nothing in this store should be $ 100. For that price I could easily go to the Wise Owl & get a brand new Playmobil set with accessories. This house was a piece of crap that we wanted to leave in our backyard for my son to put his toy cars in.
While $ 20 was still high for the toy cars my son had picked out I still purchased them. I looked at some other items in the place but it’s so cluttered & most of the stuff looks like junk. Why pay almost full price for items that aren’t in great condition? I don’t get it.
Maybe I missed something. I know some stores run specials & have discount days or tags. I looked at the clothes but the stuff was Wal Mart (Target at best) but marked almost full price if not more.
I don’t understand how they stay in business. I wish I could leave some kind words but they escape me. I wouldn’t recommend anyone go out of their way to shop this place.

This place is awful, seriously. The worst part is I’m usually partial to consignment stores. I’ve been to this store about three times, one being the other day and the last time I go.
They are way over priced, and I mean really over priced for some used and abused stuff. I went asking about an umbrella stroller that was outside; we needed one in a serious pinch. There was no price on it so I had to inside and ask her to come out. Mind you this stroller was beyond well loved, it had small holes in the sling seat on the edges where the tube to the framing is and the tubes were poking through. I’m thinking like $ 5 or $ 6 bucks at the most, no, she wanted $ 12 dollars for it! I turned and walked away I went straight to walmart and bought a brand new one for $ 15. I mean you have got to be kidding me; $ 12 for a completely beat up, hole having, cheap umbrella stroller. When you can drive down the road and buy one brand new for $ 15? It’s really almost comical.
The place is always way too cluttered and you can barely walk though it, this is obviously due to the fact that everything is over priced and no one buys much. A beat up pair of kids pants with worn knees is $ 6-​$ 7. I would never pay that much for something with worn knees that are about to get holes in them. $ 2-​$ 3 would be much more appropriate. Shirts are the same, cheap walmart shirts are over priced, never mind the name brand stuff. I’m a bargain shopper and expect low prices on used stuff. There are piles and piles of clutter behind the counter. It’s a pigsty. She could probably keep the piles to a minimum if she lowered her prices a bit, people might actually buy the stuff.
I honestly am very surprised that this place is still in business, and won’t be surprised when it’s not. If I could give no stars I would.