This place is AMAZING. Forget Hobby Lobby and Micheals. This is your one stop shop for all your…read morecraft needs. The prices are truly great and the owners are always so kind to me. I highly HIGHLY recommend this store. Also, I know there's a lot of miniature enthusiasts out there, they've got what we need. I will NEVER step foot in a hobby lobby again. I can't express enough how truly wonderful this store is.

I spend far too much money on craft supplies. And there are so many crafts I pick up, buy supplies,…read morethen abandon. So I thought this would be a good place to purchase some supplies. It's a little out of the way, and it's a bit of a jumble. Most of these supplies look as though they sat in a warehouse for a long time. You have to be willing to look and search. I'm pretty craft-compulsive, and I bought nothing. Nothing. There were some (longtime?) customers in the store so they must know what they want. I was able to go down aisles, wander down corridors freely and no one bothered me. I suppose if I asked for help I would have gotten it. Sorry but this was not my vibe.

Amazing amount of Pokemon product you can't find elsewhere not to mention the price! It will always…read morebe my go to for Pokemon

This is a nice little store in downtown Skokie. Prices are fair and employees have always been…read morefriendly and you can tell they really enjoy the hobby. I've been going here for the past year and have mostly had good experiences. The reason for three stars is because the one time I tried to sell my old binder of Pokemon cards (which admittedly I did not know a lot about) it seemed like they tried to take advantage of the fact that I wasn't knowledgeable. I say that because they offered me $100 for the whole binder - which had a base set holo Charizard and a lot of other base set cards. I ended up selling just that Charizard for $300 on eBay, and a handful of the other ones for $40-60 as well. The $100 offer was quite insulting, and after doing more research it really felt like they were trying to take me for a ride. I know card shops have to make money but to offer $100 for the whole binder when I sold one card for triple that amount is pretty insane. When I asked the employee how he got to that value he just said "a lot of these cards aren't in good condition", and didn't really elaborate after that. Will definitely still be a customer but will most likely not try and sell anything here as that experience left a bad impression on me.

Great professional service. (Note: This is NOT your reality TV's pawn shop.) Archie's has been in…read morethe neighborhood forever and their business longevity speaks for itself. I've been a coin collector for decades and I trust Archie's to give me the straight. (Yes, they will test all metal for you upon request--I also double check content with home tests. YCNBTC) Although the wonderful (and often opinionated) Art, and (equally opinionated) Carl, have both left this mortal coil, the tradition continues. Honest and knowledgable. Good pricing. Trustworthy. Recently, Joel helped me with a purchase and he was great!

Very rude tall guy with glasses tried to have my silver appraised told me that he didn't have to…read morelook at it and was very rude about it wouldn't recommend this place at all

Maximum Distractions truly houses maximum distractions--so much so that I spent at least an hour…read moredigging through boxes to see what I could unearth. There were a good amount of back issues I was interested in, but so many weren't bagged and boarded and were definitely beginning to show some shelf wear. The bigger issues, though, is that nothing is clearly organized by series--or even publisher. There had clearly been some attempts to sort things out, but without any major success. It was frustrating to say the least. The owner was nice and happy to talk to you, and his interactions with other customers of varying sorts were very friendly as well. Sadly, there was a very offering radio station playing the whole time I was there detailing 9/11 conspiracies and whether or not Hunter Biden should be in jail. The owner said it was really just 'background noise,' but it sort of started to weird me out a bit. Regardless, i found a few books I wanted and decided to head out. At checkout, I paid with cash and wasn't charged any additional sales tax--which I always appreciate.

Pretty loaded with back issues. Cool place though somewhat disorganized. The owner definitely will…read morehelp you find something. I asked for prison related comics and he had a few recs like some Amazing Spiderman issues and some comic called The Prisoner.

During covid era I got into crocheting again from since childhood. I would get my stash of yarn…read morehere and there is often a sale bin.

Did not have the item for which I was looking. I am a wood carver and wanted to carve a wood plaque…read moreto be used as an award.

Fair & friendly service. I unloaded some old silver plated mismatched silverware. On Thanksgiving I…read morerealized I didn't have enough knives. They graciously returned to me the 4 knives I accidentally put in the "sell" pile, before they got melted down. My grandmother was watching from above! On another occasion, I brought in blackened sterling silver heirlooms, that I wanted to keep. They sent it out to be polished with their weekly order & it came back pristine! Thanks guys!

Great and honest service. Very knowledgeable and thoughtful answers to any question and concerns.read more