About Our Building
What to expect inside
Dress in layers. Our building runs warm or cool with the season and the crowd, and everyone feels it differently. There are 25 a/c units in this space, they are old, and not all of them run at full capacity — we keep investing in them and keep them going as best we can.
Keeping the doors open all day during a sale is hard on the a/c units too — picture leaving your own front door wide open on a hot day and asking your home system to keep up.
We have added industrial fans throughout the space. Fans are not air conditioning, but they move a lot of air.
Shoppers: make it a great day
Plan like you’re going to Disney, dress and prepare like you’ll be running a marathon. You’ll get your steps in!
- Bring your own water bottles
- Dress in layers. Our building runs warm or cool with the season and the crowd, and everyone feels it differently
- Tend to run hot? A neck fan, a cooling towel, or a cool cloth on ice in a baggie helps on warm days
- Bring snacks! Make it the most fun shopping day you can
- Run out of water? Ask us up front.
How you can help
We buy cases of water for you and keep replenishing them. With thousands of shoppers it is never enough, and on warm days the hard part is keeping that much of it cold. That is where you can help!
- Bring a few extra waters and add them to our coolers
- Bring a ziploc bag of ice to top off the coolers. Our freezer space is very limited and we can’t keep up
- Freeze a few water bottles the night before. They stay cold for hours and help chill the coolers too
- Working Crew two days in a row? Take a case of our water home, chill it overnight and bring it back cold
- See a cooler running low? Help us restock it
- See a cooler full of melted ice? Help us dump out the water
Do you know anyone with a crane?
We want to try to replace units, and the hold-up is lift — they sit on the roof and cannot be replaced without a crane. A commercial crane day costs more than a sale like ours can spend, so we are asking the long way round.
If you or someone you know owns a crane and would be willing to donate or heavily discount a lift for us, please tell us through Contact Us. A name and a number is all we need.
And there is something in it for whoever does the lift: marathon status to the sale of your choice. That means 100% commission on your sales, and you shop very first.
About the building’s future
This building is scheduled to be torn down, so we are always looking for our next space. There is not a comparable building that we know of, but we are looking.
Help us find the next one
We would love your help. Here is what a space has to have:
- 80,000+ square feet
- 500+ parking spaces
- Zoned retail
If you know of a building that might fit, send it to us through Contact Us. Anything you can find out helps: the address, who to talk to, leasing information. If you are able to call the location yourself and ask whether it meets the three requirements above, that is even more helpful.
And there is something big in it for you. If you call a location, send us all of the information, and that location works out, we will give you marathon status to the sale of your choice. That means 100% commission on your sales, and you shop very first.
The best way to reach us
When something is not right, we want to hear about it, and we want to hear it from you. Please message Gail directly through Contact Us with your question and, if you have one, an idea to fix it. Kind, clear messages help us fix things fastest.
She does not watch the Facebook groups, including ours, so a post there can sit for days before anyone tells her. We do have a moderator who works hard to keep up with the group, and when something is raised we try to follow it up individually by direct message if we think that is warranted. During a sale our small team is juggling what feels like 10,000 requests a day, from open to close, and we would so much rather fix a problem today than find out about it later.
Thank you!
Our consignors bring great items at great prices, we advertise everywhere, and our shoppers come and buy — fast.
Whether you consign, shop, or work on our Crew, this sale is what it is because of you.