Great antique store and auction house that just opened up in Via Port Rotterdam (old Rotterdam…read moremall) across from food court. Attended one of their auctions on Saturday that they have every two weeks. Prices at this auction were on the lower end and the quality of the items was great as well. The front of the store was a regular antique store with items for purchase ( mostly furniture and clothes). Prices for these items seemed to be reasonable as well. Auctions have a 10% buyers premium with 2% added if you are using a credit card. Their business hours are Wednesdays thru Saturday 11am-7pm. Sundays 11am-5pm. Auctions are every other Saturday starting at 1pm. I will definitely be back as their auctions are so fun.

I wish I could give this place a negative rating. It's not a professionally run company, it's just…read moreone man who likes to tell you how great he is rather than actually doing anything. In my case, I am the executor of an estate which had items to sell directly or through an auction. A friend found out about this place, spoke to the owner, and passed the information to me. I contacted him directly to get information on my options, and he said he would come to the property to look at the items. However, when I called to set up a date and time, he never called back. Subsequently the friend spoke to him again, and he made arrangements with the friend to come out (without contacting me). On the day that he visited he grossly misrepresented the value of items, gave a speech about his company (the third time I heard it, talked about auctioning the items, then made an offer to purchase everything as long as I didn't need a receipt. However, when I called him to accept, he refused to call me back and called my friend instead. As I am the only one who can sell the items, my friend called him back in my presence, and so got to hear how he didn't like the way I spoke to him and asked all my questions, like 'what is your commission structure for auctions" and "how long would it take until they were in an auction", which seemed reasonable business questions to me. He also backed out of the purchase for reasons that made no business sense. Do not trust anything he says. This is not a company, it's a way for this person to stroke his ego.

The owner is very nice and helpful. He explains everything in great detail but in a way that is…read morevery easy to understand and always goes out of his way to help his customers out.

The gentleman Joe the owner and employee are excellent workers. On time punctual beyond reasonable…read morewith prices. Definitely the kind of service you would want. They delivered quickly same day and set up All For FREE im so pleased you have to come by the store. THANKS AGAIN

I had a wonderful interaction with a gentleman named Paul from the Glenville Store. he may have…read morebeen but he sounded more like a He fixed an invoice that had been incorrect and would've cost me a couple hundred dollars he graciously helped me every step of the way it was seamless. I could not be more delivery is coming in a few days thank you Paul for your excellent customer service your and going above and beyond the call of duty. I appreciate it.

Donald was so patient while helping us pick the perfect mattress. He also was able to help multiple…read morecustomers at once, without making anyone feel neglected. We are very happy with our purchase.

I always go by here when I'm in Albany for work and loved it. Bought a bunch of stuff. But the…read moreowner's Facebook post...um..no.

Disappointing... mostly the owner. I have check it out and asked the owner for a specific item that…read moreI noticed he does have for sale but wanted to know if he got more of them, he said "Yeah we got some more" Great!...so I had a plan, so I need leave but will come back later to test/check out the items as I told him. I came back two days later, saw the items... and then he said "oh no... I don't sell them".. I was confused, he seem like he didn't want to talk with me, the another employee seem wasn't sure to answer me but kept saying we don't sell them. I'm not up for this and his attitude if he keeps changing his mind either to sell or not to sell, I don't have time for people like him who keep changing their mind and etc if you get to know him more... but people, don't waste your time going there, its his storage room... not an business. Good luck!

When I wanted to donate a sofa and matching loveseat that were in very good condition, I contacted…read moreHabitat and left an email message. I received an email back in a reasonable amount of time considering how busy they must be. The person in charge of donations asked me to send a photo (which is totally understandable) before pick up was approved. Shortly after, an appointment time was set for pick up. I had the furniture placed in the garage as requested. The truck came within the designated time, and furniture was taken to the truck efficiently. I would say it was "professional operation." When it was picked up, one of the two men said, "This furniture is in great condition. Thank you for your kind donation and for thinking of us." I was happy to donate to a good cause and will continue to do so. Three years ago we donated oak kitchen cabinets when our kitchen was remodeled. I saw that they were sold for $550. I was pleased to help an organization with such an outstanding mission.

This review is for ReStore, the store front for used furniture and recycled fixtures and appliances…read morethat Habitat for Humanity runs in downtown Schenectady. Habitat itself is an outstanding organization and does great work. The H for H offices are located on Pearl, so this should be recategorized in Yelp as Home Furnishings / Retail Furniture, not Contractor Services. First off, hours: Thursday 10-6, Friday and Saturday 10-3. Tip: if you come early on Thursday, you'll have your best chance of getting pick of the new stock for the week, since they're closed the other days but continue to collect donations. So this is basically a thrift store specializing in furniture. It's everything you'd expect from a place that runs on donations. The stock is not by any means new or in style, but they do a good job in filtering out items so you don't have any dirty or unusually smelly items. Some of the items I looked at were broken or had significant flaws, but they for the most part seem to have filtered out truly unusable stuff. They do have a little bit of everything, and the repurposed fixtures (including doors and windows) are probably the cheapest you'll find anywhere. I had a little difficulty at first getting appropriate help - there were many volunteers but they had to find the chief guy in charge to do pricing for me, and they kept asking me the same questions about the items I picked out (as to whether they belonged in a set or not, like that matters for very used furniture) - but it's hard to quibble with volunteers on the basis of the service. They tried, even if they weren't as organized about things as they could be. Be patient with this sort of thing if you go in. If Design on a Dime ever does a Schenectady show, they'll love it here. I have a lot of fun speculating about previous owners of many of these items. (I really got a hoot about the five-piece living room set I saw on my most recent visit, where there was a built-in Stereophonic Console in the corner table unit. 1966, here we come!!) I also urge you if you do go, round up on your purchases and throw the extra money into the donation kitty. This group builds houses for people, and does it in a way that brings the people who will live in the house and own it into the building process. It may be unfortunate that this is needed, but it is, and doing a little shopping here can help this effort while helping yourself. One caveat: from the blank expressions I got when I asked if they check for bed bugs on the furniture upholstery, I'm going to guess that they do not do their own screening here. So given the reality of bed bugs and older pieces of furniture, I urge you to check for yourself. This is true for any used furniture these days. Update: adding a fourth star after multiple visits - the stock really does zing in and out (well, some of it) and Thursday mornings are definitely your best bet. The second floor, which I neglected earlier, has miscellaneous small fixtures, lamps, plumbing stuff, and so forth.

Love it here!! I've come here for so long and I always find cutsey things. Staff is awesome! they…read morealways laugh at my jokes!

I realize it's a Salvation Army, it is what it is and I'll keep coming back to various locations…read morelooking for the odd bargain, but this store really begs the question that defines "dingy": how hard can it be to just wash your glass doors or front windows? Or give the floor a swab from time to time? Because that would really perk things up quite a bit. The location has the usual color-organized clothes, and is mostly dominated by clothing; there's an odd furniture assortment on one side, two rows of very unininspiring housewares (the store on Troy-Schenectady road is far superior in this department) and a corner of extremely miscellaneous toys and books. Well below average for anything with a plug on it. We'll keep it in our thriftiquing rotation but this is not a drop-your-socks destination location in the genre. Yo, SA, invest in some Windex.

He came over to access my house for an estate sale and told me I didn't have enough things of value…read morefor it to be worth it, that I should just hold a garage sale with my friends. Then proceeded to tell me "but there are some things I would buy". He basically just shopped my house and told me everything was worthless, except of course the things he wanted to buy for himself.

We recently hired Mark to run an estate sale at my sister's apartment. He appeared to be helpful…read moreand accommodating when we met him and told us in 30 years, he only had 1 client who ended up paying him money after the sale was over. We also showed him a storage room at a separate location full of antiques, golf clubs, a guitar and numerous other items. He offered us $400 for everything. We thought that was quite low,but needed to move things quickly. He said he'd probably lose money because our things weren't really worth anything. We know that wasn't true. Mark also quoted us $750/day for clean out of the apartment after the sale. That is what we put in the contract he sent us. When the sale was over, he said the clean out fee was $1500/day. That is double what he quoted us. In addition, he paid us nothing for the storage unit. . He said that was part of the fees we owed him! He also wanted an additional almost $200 for his expenses! He later took off the additional amount, but still refused to pay us for the storage unit. Find a responsible and honest estate salesperson when you need one. We were in a hurry and didn't check around enough. It was a big mistake! Mark took advantage of our inexperience and need to clean out the apartment quickly. In addition, we found he was selling items from the apartment sale in his upcoming estate sales. He had said everything would be donated. When we mentioned that to him, he said he had to at least make some money from our sale since he didn't net enough. In the end, we were out the $400 for the storage unit and we made no money on the sale. The only positive was that the apartment was cleaned out and we didn't have to pay rent for another month.