Decades - Los Angeles, California

Luna Izpisua Rodriguez

I bought a pair of shoes online. When they arrived, the gems had fallen off on both shoes, the glue on the shoes was completely rotten and brown, and they were unwearable. The straps did not even hold together to secure my feet.

I had to email back and forth with the store manager Ryan, who eventually accused me of wearing the shoes and damaging them on my own. They did not give me a refund. They offered a store credit with an expiration of 6 months.

I was so sad to be treated this way, because I love supporting small vintage shops, and had always loved the clothes Decades sell. The whole experience was such a waste of time and money.

X X.

Don’t consign with them unless you want to be lied to, disrespected for no reason, shorted on payouts, and not paid.

Before moving from LA I brought some eBay listings to Decades to have less to move, including rare designer and Chanel jewelry – 59 items they priced at $58,250. Their contract has a 90-day deadline, and to get paid you have to pick up checks at the store; so I asked about both before signing. Jarred and Patrick told me they would keep everything indefinitely (past 90 days) and they have a few out-of-state consignors they mail checks to so not to worry. Both told me the prices they set would also be indefinite (otherwise I wouldn’t have consigned most of it).

Six weeks later two things had sold (two out of 59, not great) including a Gaultier tattoo top after 35 days priced at $1,600 (that they were going to pass on until I explained its value). My 50% was $800, but they said it was only $725. I sent screenshots showing $1,600 and how it was on their site at $1,795 (+$195). They said it was discounted 10% after 45 days (but it was only 35), and they charge fees – not in the contract – for “photographing, pricing, ticketing, and research” that they don’t share with the consignor that are “standard in consignment”. Any competent manager knows you factor these into the prices, not charge extra ($200 for putting a price tag on something…) Designer resale shops in NYC confirmed these fees are not standard. Their research consisted of copying my eBay listings, and I gave them the season/year for everything. Ryan, the manager, said that Patrick and Jarred aren’t authorized to tell consignors anything they told me (too late...) and they would send my items back because there are no exceptions. After Ryan said it was discounted 10% he then said he purposefully shorted me because it was on 1stdibs for $1,695 (?). I sent a screenshot it was on 1stdibs for $1,995 so what he said wasn't true. He replied with a rant how they got $1,450 from the sale (not my fault). When I didn’t respond to his rant Ryan said he “loved how my gotcha moment was a complete fail.” (?)

Ryan then said not everything would be discounted, so I asked for a list which I never got. I did get an email from Patrick to call him, and when I called he took the phone in back, said he was “so embarrassed”, apologized for Ryan’s emails, and hoped I didn’t think he and Jarred were lying to me because Ryan imposed the markdown schedules weeks AFTER I brought my pieces in.

Ryan said on 9/2 that checks would be “mailed out the following week”. I never received it. Weeks later Ryan gave me new excuses, and then weeks later he said he was on vacation most of September so my check was never even mailed.

Ryan said they “process 1,000’s of garments and payouts a month.” NYC confirmed that can’t be true (“they’re not TheRealReal”). They’d have to sell 40 pieces a day; they have an average of two sales per month on 1stdibs and they’re not selling 40 pieces per day at the store. If they sold even a few hundred items the store would be empty. [UPDATE: Their month-to-month check sequence is about 70]

For asking about my check and a discount list Ryan told me I was being “hostile” and “insulting his integrity”, and “complaining” for asking for my full payout. He also thought it was ok to short my payout and not pay me because “I wasn’t concerned about pricing and I was simply trying to get rid of all my stuff” (neither of which was true – like I was dumping $58K in items at Goodwill or something). He then said they were “done with me” and “I don’t work for you” (but they’re dependent on consignors for revenues). Then like a passive-aggressive teenager he said he would no longer communicate with me – while they have $56K of my items – and “it’s been a displeasure”.

If this is the way they treated me for $58K, good luck if you’re thinking of bringing them a couple items. It’s been three weeks and they refuse to return my items and pay me, and turns out there were two other items that sold they purposefully didn't tell me about or pay me for.

Mr Spellman

Been smoking full flavor Decades in the box for years. Ya'know when you're smoking a cigarette and it has a hole in it somewhere..or maybe the filter is defective...? Well, after two cartons back and being a pack a day smoker...I contacted the company by phone and informed them that nearly one out of every three to four cigarettes smokes like it has a hole in it somewhere but there is no visible hole or no seams appear to be damaged...then it comes to me..I'v been smoking 45 years I know the difference between a light and a full flavor cigarette. Maybe, the Decade Light Flavor cigarettes are finding there way into the what is supposed to be and what I am paying for Full Flavor boxes ? I will wait for the company's response after they sent me a postage paid UPS return box and I placed at least 20 defective or misplaced cigarettes inside along with the label off a carton and a pack full of defective Full Flavor Decades in a box.

Liz B

Stay clear of this place! The staff is extremely unprofessional, rude to customers.
They offer to consign your items. Good luck getting them back and getting paid! They treat you like you are beneath them they are horrible.
Really Not sure how they have stayed in business this long I will stick to fashionphille in Beverly Hills

Charlotte Knight

Always a great welcome, this time from Brooke, fabulous range and reasonably priced vintage designer wear. A must visit when in LA.

Rachel Hartstein

What an overpriced joke! GO TO NYC cheaper and easy better new and deadweight vintage from Europe and Japan Designers, stores like Tokio7, Pilgrim New York, James Veloria, NY vintage, the owner Cameron is so nasty and according to Christos his ex business partner, A TOTAL CROOK! He looks so sleazy and pretentious. Gross. Old gowns!!! Not even relevant. It's so ridiculous. The Attitude here!!! Please Grandma from Beverly Hills old clothes that have no relevance. LABELS. WHO CARES? EVEN CHANEL SOMETIMES MAKES BAD CLOTHES. NEED SOME? JUST LOOK HERE, 5,000 FOR AN UNBEARABLE OLD CHANNEL JACKET. CROOKS. NO THANKS. DUSTY OLD CLOTHES. SO SLIMEY

Tom Phisher

You can find amazing stuff over there ... like really unique amazing stuff

Allyson Taylor

Not the selection they used to have..but it could just be hit or miss