kimbee
05-12-2004, 06:23 PM
I shopped at Posie Patch in Castleton, and my mother and I were not pleased with our experience there. For starters, I called the store a week before I went in to see if they carried a dress I wanted to try on (Diamond Bride 409). The person I spoke with said they did not carry it in their stock. (It turned out that they did have it in the store--I will comment more on this in a moment.)
The lady who was assigned to help us was very pushy. I am the kind of shopper who likes to look at everything before taking my time to undress and try-on. I don't like having to re-dress and then undress repeatedly in the same store. Well, after I had chosen only two dresses, the sales associate started to push me to try them on. It was very annoying, and by the time I had selected two more dresses, she was starting to act mad. Then I asked her about the the Diamond Bride dress I was looking for--they had it in their stick!!!!! I had already told her upon our arrival that I was looking for a dress with 3/4 length illusion sleeves (there aren't too many of those out there). However, the sales lady never mentioned this dress. When I told her that was the dress I REALLY wanted to try on, she just looked at my mother and me and told us that the dress was priced at over $2,000 because it was a "designer" dress. The way she said it was definitely implying that she felt we could not afford a dress like that. My mother was so upset that she was ready to walk out of the store at that very moment! I ended up trying on five dresses--I couldn't try on any more than that at once because "the dressing rooms were too small", even though I was the only person there trying on and there were plenty of other rooms in which extra dresses could have been hung. My mother wasn't allowed to take pictures of me in the dresses because "the were copyrighted by the designers", even though I had tried on the exact same Diamond Bride dress at another retailer and was able to take as many pictures as I wanted. Overall, it was a generally negative experience. I would not recommend shopping there.
The lady who was assigned to help us was very pushy. I am the kind of shopper who likes to look at everything before taking my time to undress and try-on. I don't like having to re-dress and then undress repeatedly in the same store. Well, after I had chosen only two dresses, the sales associate started to push me to try them on. It was very annoying, and by the time I had selected two more dresses, she was starting to act mad. Then I asked her about the the Diamond Bride dress I was looking for--they had it in their stick!!!!! I had already told her upon our arrival that I was looking for a dress with 3/4 length illusion sleeves (there aren't too many of those out there). However, the sales lady never mentioned this dress. When I told her that was the dress I REALLY wanted to try on, she just looked at my mother and me and told us that the dress was priced at over $2,000 because it was a "designer" dress. The way she said it was definitely implying that she felt we could not afford a dress like that. My mother was so upset that she was ready to walk out of the store at that very moment! I ended up trying on five dresses--I couldn't try on any more than that at once because "the dressing rooms were too small", even though I was the only person there trying on and there were plenty of other rooms in which extra dresses could have been hung. My mother wasn't allowed to take pictures of me in the dresses because "the were copyrighted by the designers", even though I had tried on the exact same Diamond Bride dress at another retailer and was able to take as many pictures as I wanted. Overall, it was a generally negative experience. I would not recommend shopping there.