Sarasota Trading Co

5 star review

All good

Fabulous to deal with... Highly recommend

I want to tell you about the auction I attended at Sarasota Trading this morning and afternoon. Beautiful Glass, china, paintings, and most of all wonderful presentation. Thanks Andrew Ford for the classy auctioneer skills. I also have dealt with Sarasota Trading in selling my mom's custom and costume jewelry and pieces of art I inherited but were not going to fit into a baby boomer's life. Mine. We have been friends for 14 years. He is a valuable, trustworthy resource as is his wife Lathrop and their helpful staff.

Tried to visit this place during my vacation to Sarasota. The hours stated they would open at 3 pm Friday, which seemed odd to me, so I called and the person stated they usually open by appointment, but he could meet me there. However, when I said I’d be there in 15 minutes, he stated that is before 3 pm, so I ended the call. Here’s an idea, change your hours on google, so as not to waste people’s time.

How can you stay in business. My wife and I were never acknowledged, said hi to or bye to. My wife and I were looking for some accent pieces for around the house. Found this gorgeous Asian sitting chair for $1600, but instead, the two at the store chose to talk about a $295,000 house that needed an inspection and school leaving at 4pm to be there by 5. I could hear your conversation well, but you decided to completely ignore your potential customer while eating lunch, making eye contact with my wife, but never had the dignaty to acknowledge us. Bad for business and bad for Sarasota. I'd love to give you no stars, but then this wouldn't be posted. We won't be back, hope others take our advice and shop elsewhere, there are plenty other places like yours to shop!

I visited originally years ago and then recently I was able to visit again. Originally, it was more of an antique shop vibe, but this time recently it seems like it was more like a high-value antique auction shop. They did have very beautiful pieces and there was a lot of interesting things to look at. I’m definitely glad the shop is still around and I got to visit again.