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    Does anyone have the phone # to this store? The craigslist posting has expired and the notice said it will be removed from the list. I was interested in their display cases, and want to talk to them before they shut down the phones. Thanks!!!

    #762235
    Melissa
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      PM’d you, drgnlvr. 🙂

      #762236

      Well, I drove down to the store last Saturday and I got very excited!! The proprietors were really nice and they are retiring so they can travel after 30 years in the store and just sell online from now on. The store was amazing! Very high quality pieces, and I bought a young unicorn for $24! They had only one Windstone left, a blue small wizard. They had Hummels, Swarovski crystal pieces, even Lalique! There was a Coke cabinet, too and other well-known name brands I don’t remember. There are about 20 or more display cabinets for 1/2 off and they are Beautiful!!! They all have lights, locks, heavy glass shelves, each one has 4-5 shelves, they have the right sizes, even miniature ones. They have one cabinet with a lot of dogs, cats, owls, etc. There was one with a lifesized tortoise with a hare sleeping next to him! The dogs were modeled after the “best of show” dogs, they were so lifelike! I bought a black lab for a friend who has a live one, and an owl for me that looks like he is going to fly off his perch! There were 2 dobermans, one with his ears up and one with the ears down. Bulldogs, poodles, golden retrievers, and more, all kinds of cats. I also got a Swarkovski crystal globe in blue crystal with the continents on it in clear crystal. It was a year 2000 commemorative, so pretty I couldn’t leave it there, no matter how much I tried to talk myself out of it!! AND!!! TADAH!!! I got 3 new display cabinets!!! One is a slightly smaller one, with lights along the sides as well as the top, with the thick shelves, lock, lights, glass door and sides. The second one is bigger, needs another shelf because they had a big doll in it, and the third one is just beautiful! It has a beveled glass door, glass sides, heavy shelves, lights, lock, and a frame of some dark wood, like mahogany maybe and a carved top. She had 4 of them (!) and 2 more that were similiar with a slightly different design. If I could have afforded it, and I had room, I would have bought them all in a heartbeat!!! All the cabinets are in excellent shape and excellent quality and 1/2 off and she is willing to bargain at this late date, because the shop is closing around the 25th or so. Other stuff was generally 1/2 off but there were some pieces that were 70% off too. Oh, every cabinet also has wheels. (Am I excited? You think? XD 😀 :lol:) Luckily my granddaughter just bought a Silverado truck, so she, two friends, and I are going down again (It’s a four hour drive one way from here for me) on the 13th to get them. I feel like I hit the lottery!

      So if anyone is in the area of San Jose/Milpitas/MountainView California, this is the time to get some really good strong display cabinets of excellent quality and good prices, and good quality collectibles. I think the problem before is that the proprietors are Asian and he particularly doesn’t speak very good English, but she does, so she is the one to talk to. She also makes the deals and “consults” with him, but he goes along with it. If they get a big order, like the emperor, they will ship “if you talk nicely to them” and offer to pay the shipping “and a little bit extra for the trouble”. I talked to her this morning and she said they were very busy, so I don’t know what will be left.
      Anyway, the number is 1-800-710-5578 and her name is Helen.
      So thank you eversomuch, maplecarver, that was worth it! 😀 😀

      #762237

      Also thank you so much BDW, for the posting!! I didn’t mean to leave you out of the thanks!!! I had a great time just poking around in the store and talking to the proprietors (for about 2 1/2 hours!) and finding new things to look at! On one hand, I wish they were closer, on the other hand, for the sake of my poor purse, I’m glad they aren’t! 😀 )!!

      #762238
      LadyFirebird
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        Talk about stores closing in the San Jose area–there is a store that sells Windsones that had 2 stores, in 2 separate shopping malls. Well, the one mall got to be expensive so that now their lease is up, they are closing this store and moving inventory to the remaining one. I went in there today because they had 50% off on Windstones and the person there said she wasn’t sure what management has planned. They were thinking of another location but haven’t heard anything yet. I was told to call back towards the end of the month and they would know more then.

        I told another forum member of this sale and she bought things via phone and put them on her card. I went in to pick them up for her since she lives across the country. She asked the store manager about would they be carrying more Windstones and he made the comment that they were hard to come by. She then told him that Windstone had just moved from California to Oregon and are starting production again in which he answered that was good to know! So who knows–we may still have a Windstone distributor in our area because it appears they didn’t know about Windstones’ move. I hope I got all this right!

        I’ll keep everyone posted when I make that call. I hope they’ll still be around because there are some really nice people there to do business with!

        #762239

        Congrats to everyone who was able to profit from the sale. Still, like others said, it’s sad to see so many many small businesses closing.

        #762240
        Melissa
        Participant

          Yup, I pounced on that sale today.

          But it is a crying shame. A few years back, there was a lovely little store just 25 minutes from me in a nice location, with an excellent selection and friendly competent people working there. They didn’t close-close, but they closed their physical location to sell online. Darn I miss ’em. 🙁

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