Octavia Principe
Google
I am a DV victim and trying to pay bills/get gas/survive. I came here bc this place has good reviews and the guy on the phone sounded nice/safe. Instead when they saw the selection that I brought in, they started acting super strange & speaking in code when they both squeezed behind the counter. The larger gentleman tried to take my picture by pretending to scan the barcode on one of my record titles.
Basically I just became a victim of micro aggressions and or was prejudged that my records were stolen. I should have known when the larger gentleman pointed to his computer and kept trying to get his colleague to realize that he was profiling me.
They were drawing the conversation out by asking me why I wanted to sell my records, & what price I wanted instead of being straight forward about their own proposed pricing, then wrapping it in a fake plastic package as though it was out of concern for me…the customer. It got way worse once they actually realized that I knew what I was talking about. I got the, “ah so you’ve tried to sell records before, how do you know about pricing?” I got frustrated & mentioned that I was aware that he had “overhead” to make up for…but the larger gentleman kept mansplaining selling records to me.
All this after they kept shuffling my stack of records next to a back pack & a box they’d placed on the floor next to them before pricing them which made me nervous as though they were going to try to “misplace” some of them. They didn’t even notice that one of the titles was autographed they were trying so hard to take advantage of me. It automatically turned negative at that point as my frustration grew & I guess they just assumed the worst about me too because at that point I was completely frustrated by being given the runaround yet again at another record store that I was so hopeful about doing business with.
I’ve worked so hard for everything I own, so hard that I never really got the chance to sit down and listen to many of my records and most of them are actually still sealed. I’ve worked 2 jobs or more at the same time since I got a work permit when I was 15. Basically some exes and my deadbeat mother teamed up, assaulted me, ruined my support system, & violated my living spaces while I was in the hospital/recovering with amnesia. They’ve stolen so many valuables from me because I used to thrift a lot, collect memorabilia, craft, cosplay, & go to comic book stores.
I shouldn’t have to tell you my business like that to sell my own personally paid for property. They tried acting concerned once I told them my situation, but it was very disingenuous. Now I’m not sure if I’ll be able to sell my records locally if they falsely implied to the *record store network friends* that I’m not on the up & up. All I wanted to do was get some gas & cat food/litter & figure out how to pay the rest of my bills. Horrible experience.