My experience while visiting this place bothered me so much omg…read more
I was in here with my fiancee and we were looking around for a while. They are a small gallery that carries work by several different artists from the area, which is really cool. My fiancee and I were in Ventura for a long weekend and we found this place while walking around the harbor village.
While we were browsing, we overheard one of the employees/artists speaking insanely rudely to another customer.
This place is super small so it was really easy to hear the entire conversation (and it was also so uncomfortable, because this was all you could hear, they don't play any music or anything so it was really quiet inside).
This other customer had approached an employee/artist who was talking to another employee who was re-stocking shelves. She asked about a few specific pieces she was interested in, so the artist came over to look at those pieces.
The customer asked if they ever do bundled pricing for patrons who wanted to purchase more than 2 items from the same artist.
The artist/employee/person answering her questions got SO offended and started talking down to her immediately, saying that this is not that type of place and that "they've been here for 30 years and they've NEVER needed to do any sort of price reductions," blah blah blah.
She literally yelled at this poor lady for like, 10 minutes lol
Like throwing a hissy-fit... over nothing. That's such a normal, non-offensive question to ask lol
Galleries and studios in LA do specials all the time; there's nothing weird or offensive about that question.
After all that, the woman politely was like, "oh okay, that's totally fine, i was just wondering, thank you." lmao literally she was way too nice; i would not have been that nice to her lol
ALSO-- after yelling at her, we realized that SHE was the artist of the pieces that that woman had wanted to purchase! (Said her name was Ellen, btw)
So like, not only was this employee super rude for no reason, but that was how she spoke to someone who happened to be interested in her work. So pretentious, so pompous, istg.
After that poor woman who got yelled at left the shop, my fiancee and i were about to leave when we hear the two employees bad-mouthing her right in front of us-- you know, two people who were still in the store, who might have purchased something.
Such insanely bad etiquette.
These two employees/ artists were like, in their 60s, too-- you'd think they would have grown out of acting like catty middle schoolers a long time ago.
Sadly, this place has idiots like this running it, otherwise it would be such a great spot. I would never go in again.