Andy's Chee-Pees Inc

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Bryndalina

Joined 5 years ago

AVOID--Loony toons! Totally psychotic salesperson--BEWARE. I am a vintage buyer, and I had gone to the East Village with the express purpose of shopping the vintage stores. I had read several very negative reviews of Andy's Chee-Pees online that said that the sales people were insufferably rude, but we decided to check it out anyway. I wish we hadn't bothered!

My sister and I walked in and began perusing a row of dresses. I noticed that several of the dresses on the row, priced $45-$55, weren't vintage at all, just used clothing from the last decade or so. I remarked casually to my sister, "Half of these aren't even vintage," and the sales guy lurking behind me barked, "HALF? HALF?" I was taken totally aback at his aggressive tone of voice. I said, "Yes, the dresses I looked at aren't vintage." He demanded, "What do you think is vintage, 50's?" I said, "No, I'm looking for anything 80's and older." He demanded, "What's 80's?" and I said, "You don't have to debate me, I'm a vintage buyer." He said, "This isn't a debate, it;s conversation--welcome to New York," and I said, "The reviews online are right, the salespeople here ARE a**holes," at which point he started screaming at me to f**k off and get the f**k out of his shop, and how dare we, coming into NY from "Bumblef**k" and knowing nothing about vintage, and F** YOU and get out!, etc. We promptly walked out, and he started following us down the street and when my sister calmly told him, Leave us alone, go away, he yelled "F**K YOU," at flailed his hands at her, and yelled "Don't touch me!" He was like a completely crazy person.

As we walked down the street, he was suddenly right there in front of us, and he started berating us again about "ignorant people who come to NY and know nothing about vintage," blah blah crazy. I told him to take some Prozac and flipped him off.

I warn everyone, stay away! The negative reviews are utterly right. I buy vintage clothing all over, and I've never had anyone behave like such a loon. This guy seems dangerously unhinged.

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thishannah

Joined 5 years ago

Incredibly rude and insulting, overpriced. I was able to look over some of the merchandise just long enough to realize it was grossly overpriced before the man working there jumped down my throat. I went with a student I am tutoring in English, and when she laughed at a joke I made, he went into a lecture about how "maybe people would dress better if their friends didn't laugh at them for their fashion choices and how dare you laugh at that skirt, it is from the 1960's and could hold its own against anything Armani sells blah blah blah." When I asked him to please not yell at her, he became even more angry and said it was "obvious that I was not from New York and that he can always tell when people are not from New York" in the haughtiest tone of voice possible. When we began to leave, he told us that he thought that would be the best idea, and that I should not return until I had social skills higher than those of a five-year-old.

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poisonivy76

Joined 6 years ago

Rude staff, overpriced rubbish. Says it all really. Sure, they have tons of stock, but it's overpriced rubbish that I could find on ebay for less than half the price. $90 for a sequin dress with a broken zipper and unravelling sequins? $50 for a washed out t-shirt full of holes? Yep, Andy's sure got it.

They say the USA is known for its customer service, but they must have missed that memo at Andy's. The staff follow you around the store like you're a criminal, when they're not yelling at you, that is. I made the mistake of asking my boyfriend to help me with a stuck zipper when I was in the dressing room. One of the staff stood there and berated him for literally five minutes, and that was after we'd apologized and explained that he was only helping me, nothing untoward was going on. That's when Psycho Staff Member accused us of doing coke in the fitting room.

There are plenty of other, much better vintage shops in NYC, and without all the grief. Stay away.

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snowshine

Joined 6 years ago

STAY AWAY!. Wow. This place is awful. We came to this store being very excited about it and were more than disappointed. $30 for a used t-shirt that you can find at Goodwill? That seems reasonable... Not to mention the manager there must be on crazy angry pills or something. He was yelling at all his employees and actually insulted us after we left the store because we didn't purchase anything. As we were carrying several Marc Jacobs and Dean & Deluca bags he said, "I don't even know why you bothered coming in anyway. What money do you have? You're wearing paper clothes!" What?! That doesn't even make sense, not to mention completely uncalled for. I'm pretty sure that's not the way you earn customers. The funny thing is that one of us was wearing a $200 jacket from that very store... interesting. I'm from out of town, but I have to believe there are much better vintage/consignment stores in the city. How this place is still in business is beyond me! The only bad experience I've ever had shopping in the whole city - and at the cheapest store!

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vajayjay

Joined 6 years ago

DO NOT WORK HERE. the family is awful- andy is degrading towards women and rumors and sh*t talk abound. alex, the manager, fancies himself a poet but is without a doubt the ugliest soul i have ever met, eager to jump down the throat of any english person who walks in. he doesn't discriminate, though, as to the girls he'll h*t on relentlessly and unsuccessfully, and scream at when they turn him down. the salespeople who DON'T quit a few hours into their first day will try and talk you into anything- whether it looks good or not, or even if it's falling apart and not in any way fixable. the product is cr*p! try looking up niknik shirts, pucci dresses or levi's big e jeans on ebay and see the outrageous price difference. during my time there, i saw quite a few pieces go out on the racks with at least $50 price tags that had come in with tags that read "thrift store: $3.95". the wire hangers and ridiculous crowding among items from 1997 do nothing to preserve their few NICE items. they are adamant as to not informing customers about other vintage shops around the area (hello, screaming mimi's is around the corner!), though they're well-aware that, for SOME reason, those places refer people to them. they do not accept any suggestion of change (because, clearly, business is exactly the same as it was 30 years ago!) or a question or argument when they tell you to do two contradicting things. if offered a job there, know this: the pay is sh*t (no overtime compensation), you will be working a minimum of 53 hours a week, and don't count on the heat to work in the winter, OR to get sent home or a sick day when you feel just about on the verge of death. they will harass you even on your one day off per week. and they just can't seem to understand why they can't hold onto any employees, or why they're getting eviction notices up the *ss. one last thing: whoever reads this and plans on taking a trip to that hellhole anyway, would you please inform alex givenchy is not pronounced "give-en-chee"?

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Contributor

Joined 10 years ago

Vintage clothing for hipsters, not bargain hunters.. In Short
The true draw of Andy's has nothing to do with price, and everything to do with the fact that you don't have to sift through piles of junk in order to find what you want. For those on the lookout for perfectly flared bell-bottom jeans or a well-used bomber jacket, this is the place. The store also stocks evening dresses and vintage couture pieces--but prepare to get out your Gold Card for those.

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halsty

Joined 9 years ago

Vintage it isn't!. The day of great vintage shopping are all gone, what we are left with are these "monster" like shops who want to pass-off t-shirts, bowling shirts, 70's lofers, and belt buckles as High fashion. Andy's Chee-Pees is the leader of this type of store. They have filled their stor to the max will decaing clothes and bad sales people.To make even worse Andy's would also tries to convince you that paying anywhere from 55$ for a T-shirt to $120 for a sweat stained white shirt is the cool thing to do in NY!

All and all, I think you should skip Andy'e so-called Chee-Pees and head to your local Dept. store!

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gagink

Joined 11 years ago

this place rocks. Andy's chee pees has the best seletion of vintage T-shirts. The last time I was in there andy himself was picking out tees for me. It was like he could read my mind. He's a really cool guy.

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arg258

Joined 11 years ago

Quantity, not quality. Hoping to find a nice little place with some inexpensive and unique vintage stuff, I was supremely disappointed here. Biggest shock/letdown: finding that staple of the trendy preteen's closet -- "Mudd" jeans, barely worn -- selling for thirty-something dollars. Come on! There were some eye-catching disco glam sequined tops, but sorting through the crap to get to the okay stuff was a task. If you want the same thing (i.e., minimal customer service, atmosphere that's lacking, lots of rack-searching) for a LOT cheaper, try Goodwill.