Montclair Antique Center

My friend and I walked in and out of this place. I was helping him look for furniture for his home office and we were greeted immediately with an incredibly arrogant attitude by the woman at the front desk. As soon as my friend had stated what he was looking for, she replied saying to have a look around and to let her know if we needed help with pricing. As soon as we turned the corner into another part of the store, we heard her say out loud to one of her coworkers, “do you wanna go follow them?” I turned around after hearing her and sure enough, we were being followed by one of the other workers. As soon as my friend looked at her, she quickly fixed her attention to a chandelier hanging above her head and began fiddling with it. My friend turned to me, stated that we should go, and so we made our way to the door. As soon as we expressed our thanks and said goodbye, the woman at the front desk was glaring at us exactly how she did upon our entry. We’ve never experienced such unpleasant customer service before, if you can even call it customer service at all. Maybe if her nose wasn’t so far up into the air she’d receive the proper blood circulation to her brain that would enable her to have some sort of decency for potentially valuable customers. This sort of behavior is unacceptable, especially for a woman who was at least thirty years our senior. Not only are we never coming back, but we will always let people know of how unpleasant our experience was here.
1 9 years ago (13-02-2018)

Upon entering this establishment, my friend and I were greeted with a scowl. I did not know 5 seconds was enough time to determine that someone walking into your shop was an objectively unsavory character. The only inference I can make is that this store is run directly by our reptile overlords, as their perception of personality is far beyond what could be expected of a human. As we all know, the reptilians have infiltrated every seat of government and likely rule at least 86% of this world’s nations. I was aware of their political ambitions but I was unaware that they were intent on controlling the private sector as well. They still have much to learn as overpriced antiques seems to be a poor market to gain a foothold in local business. Anyway, after the serpentine proprietor had regained her composure and remembered to stay in character, she interrogated us as to what our intentions were in their establishment. I can only assume that the store is a front to study general human behavior. I informed her that I was looking for furniture for a home library that my family was building, at which time she told us to go ahead and peruse her wares. Upon walking to the other side of the store and breaking her line of sight from the counter, I heard her tell her fellow lizard woman to follow us. At first I took offense to this as I had never been surveilled in a store before, but then it all made sense. It’s not that they distrust us; it’s that we’ve also broken our line of sight to the front windows and no one will be able to see them detain and probe us. I should have known from when she first stared us down. I thought I noticed her second pair of eyelids but I must have mistaken them for contact lenses. How naive of me to think that the overlords would not try to take over a town like Montclair. After all it’s the perfect balance between trendy and pretentious. After I had realized this, I had only seconds to act. I told my friend that we should leave and under the guise of not finding any of their awful selection interesting (not that we had to feign disinterest), I said that we should leave. We barely made it out alive. Although he has been acting slightly off since we left. I pray that they haven’t replaced him with his reptile doppelgänger while I had my back turned....oh god. Please...stay away from the middle aged lizard women. Stay away from this place. Save yourselves.
1 9 years ago (14-02-2018)

I didn't quite experience any rude comments the way everyone says here; however you definitely get a vibe of arrogance, or at least a kind of judgemental air sizing up whether you've come in to buy their 'exquisite' (read: over the top) junk or whether you're just another lower class scum dirtying their carpet. It's pretty disgusting that anyone would browse a place like this when there are homeless people right out the door that you ignore.
2 9 years ago (11-12-2017)

Nice selection. Generally reasonable prices.
4 9 years ago (19-02-2018)

Nice place to shop for antiques of any sort. Very large inventory. Very large place.
5 9 years ago (23-01-2018)