Mother of Junk NY 11211

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Alex Lamb

I absolutely love this place and stop in weekly to see what’s new. Some absolutely thrilling finds. Every interaction I’ve had with the folks who work there has been wonderful. Tom is especially great and always plays killer music!

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Fred D.

This place has a lot interesting, old, unique, used items. But price is very high though. And workers there very rude, unbelievable low level of customer service.

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Alex Hedly

Would give -10 stars if I could. Mother of Junk is a plague on Williamsburg and Brooklyn as a whole. Went in there with my friend on a Sunday afternoon and while we are the kinds of people who speak loudly and laugh a lot, we were completely respectful the whole time. Making sure we didn't bump into anything, put everything back where we found it, genuinely found interest in the items we were looking at. We even made friends with a couple walking around and joked around with them as we bumped into each other throughout our visit. As we neared the front of the store and was about to check out, (items in hand!) the RUDEST, CRANKEST, clearly LONLIEST woman ever behind the counter told us we needed to be quiet as we were distrubing others. I turned around and apologized as I didn't even realize and I know I have a tendancy to let my volume rise. Before I could even fully turn back around, she told us we were still being too loud and had to leave. When my friend questioned it, she told us we "needed to come back when we were a bit more sober". I literally had work after this and had not had even a smidge of any sort of substance. She claimed we "reaked of alcohol" and she could smell it as soon as we walked in. When we tried to explain and told her it was rude to make these assumptions, she told us she had received multiple complaints from other customers and that we had to leave. Clearly this was a lie as not a single person had purchased anything since the prices are ridiculous and arbitrary and from these other reviews, she clearly doesn't treat other customers very nicely either. After a small back and forth due to confusion on our end, we decided to leave anyway, putting back anything we were ready to buy. And since we such "drunken degenerates" we also held the door open for a beautiful family walking in as we left. Safe to say I will not be coming back, sober or not.