Beacons Closet

07/07/09

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE!!

by ktnbrklyn at Citysearch

you consider Kenneth Cole vinatage. Like someone said in another review, the clothes are cheap and are all trying way too hard to be true vinatge but they were probably made in a factory in China last week. And its disorganized and a headache to sort through. The accessories, belts and bags are a very small, limited selection ( terrible selection, really!) Same thing with the shoes. I'm an 8 1/2 and there was only one pair of 81/2 shoes in the store.And the jewlery they sell..I really cannt remember when was tje ;ast time I saw such cheap looking, ugly fashion jewlery. It was a little shocking.

And the staff at this place is truly unforgettable. From the moment I walked in a little flustered from the 5 huge gargage bags that I had just dragged in, I was greeted by a lovely little thing that within 5 secons of speaking to me reminded me of the "4 bag Rule". And then after my explaining that I simply didnt know about the rule and telling her the 5th bag had tons of great bags in it, she let me go with 5 bags. Uh..yeah, she REALLY needs to go back to Texas ASAP.

Then AGAIN, when it was my turn to hand over the bags, i got an even snottier little thing lecturing me about the 4 bag rule. Then the Golden Moment came:

Ms. Snotty asked me if I could take the clothes back that they didnt want bc they really didnt want to deal with all of them....uh, yeah. Like many people who go there, half of the appeal is that the clothes are donated to charity and really, that seems to be a big show people. Little Ms. Snotty didnt seem to care one iota about giving clothes to charity.

These people are gross. Rude as can be and apparantly thieves also. And just like the clothes they sell, totally cheesy too. Designer vintage in their dreams...

• Pros: That I'm never going back..
• Cons: For starters, this is not a real vintage store unless..

03/29/08

One of my favorite stores

by yeastypie101 at Citysearch

Just to add a positive review in a sea of negatives I thought I'd give my two cents. Beacon's closet is one of my favorite stores in New York and I wish I could go more often. The clothes they have are some of the most unique I''ve seen and I feel that if I buy something there I won't see every other person wearing the same thing. Their clothes are organized by color and then by size, which I think makes things a bit easier depending on what you're looking for. You're pretty much guaranteed to find something awesome for a very reasonable price. But it's also true that they have expensive things as well. I've never really been treated badly by the employees. In fact a few have even been nice to me. However, most of them seem indifferent and aren't either really rude or friendly.

If you're planning on shopping and not on selling then I recommend this store to you.

• Pros: Awesome clothes
• Cons: A bit cramped

02/03/08

Beacon's Closet - Maybe you can't shine sh@#t, but you sure can sell it overpriced!

by lindsa at Citysearch

The Beacon's Closet experience is a lot like entering one of those Jersey Shore traveling fairs. When you first show up all the lights and colors and music can be distracting and a little exciting. But about a half hour into your visit, you've spent all your money on cr@p, you feel a little sick and any remaining joy is destroyed by the faint smell of B.O. permeating the armpits of surrounding garments. My advice - you can find the same caliber of clothing on the sale r@ck at Forever 21 - only it's new - and costs about a tenth the price of it's doppelganger jammed onto an overcrowded r@ck at Beacon's Closet. Besides the fact that the service is lame, the clothing barely rivals the selection at your neighborhood Salvation Army (which happens to be my preferred venue) - Beacon's Closet also manages in its spare time to function as a microcosm of all that is wrong with Williamsburg. Scamming people for their old clothes then marking them up to sell to trust fund babies who are trying to pass is the antithesis of a "Thrift" store. Let's just call a spade a spade folks: If you want to visit a thrift store, look up the Salvation Army, if you want to simultaneously bl0w your trust fund while fooling all your friends that you're slummin - then go buy my target sweater from 2003 currently hanging on the red r@ck, with the tags ripped off, and pay twice as much for it as I did.