Woman Start Selling Her Own Stuff From A Departmental Store To Their Customers

Back when there was no Etsy or similar platform for artists to sell their products independently, the narrator worked in the back office of a large department store. One day, they encountered a customer trying to purchase an item with a handmade price tag and realized it didn’t belong to the store. More people started coming in with similar items altered with rhinestones, sequins, and beads. It turned out that a middle-aged woman had been bedazzling department store products and leaving them on the shelves, expecting to split the profit with the store.

She claimed her designs were sold in big department stores, causing a confrontation with the manager. The woman demanded the altered items back or compensation, leading to an argument and her eventual removal from the store. She persistently tried to return and cause trouble but was eventually blacklisted by all the stores in town. Her actions caused unnecessary work and confusion for the department store. Scroll down to read the full story.

OP worked in a departmental store before etsy stores were common. One day an employee complained that a lady’s items had no bar codes.

OP could not find the code on the item.

OP did not recognize the costume jewelry and thought they had a new supplier.

OP thought someone would have bought it from another shop and dropped it here.

OP returned the piece to customer service and close for the day.

OP observed that many customers appeared with similar random articles.

All the articles were garnished with rhinestones and beads that they did not sell although the articles were theirs.

OP and others could not gather how such articles were scattered all throughout the store.

The store workers were unable to comprehend how the items could be placed there.

Even the lost and found basket went full of articles.

A woman covered in rhinestones came asking for the person in charge. OP knew they are going to get answers.

OP was excited to know the reasons.

It became clear that she placed the things at the store by either bedazzling them or purchasing them.

She wanted to collect the check for the things at an upsell price.

She had done the same thing with other stores too.

The manager told her this was not a consignment store where she can do this business.

She was of the view that she made the items more valuable by putting rhinestones on them.

She threatened the store that she would break off the partnership.

The senior manager strictly told her that she cannot locate personal goods in the store as if it were a pawn shop.

She wanted a refund for the items or to salvage the items.

The manager got worried about the thrown-away items and the lady started screaming.

The manager strictly ask her to leave as they could not take more of her drama.

The partnership that was in the lady’s head was non-existent in the store.

The store directed the guard to not let her enter every time she came the next week. She eventually stopped coming.

The lady kept doing this to other stores too.

This is how the story ended.

It’s difficult to understand why would she do this.

The lady considered the store as a pop-up shop.

Such people are a source of entertainment, I agree with that too.

What an offer!

They could have been more strict with the woman.

We have got a Redditor who faced that lady back in the day.

What do you think?

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