Jilted Customers Still Awaiting Answers from Shuttered Consignment Shop

| 22 Oct 2014 | 10:47

    In February, we published a story “What Happened to Full House Antiques?” about a consignment shop on 3rd Avenue that closed with no notice. We received the following letter from a former Upper East Side resident.
    “I am one of the unfortunate individuals who had consigned some antiques to Full House when he absconded. (The owner) had sold some of our stuff (and paid for it by depositing the money in my account at Chase, just a few steps away).
    Nevertheless, he still had several of our items on consignment when I moved overseas in December 2012. He signed an agreement to purchase those objects for a discounted price. He promised and promised, but never came through.
    I practised law for 40 years, four of which were spent at an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. I met plenty of crooks in my time, but none were as brazen and duplicitous.
    Even though I live 6,000 miles away from NYC, I’m damned if I want to see him get away scot-free with my goods.
    Do any of your readers have any information on what happened after he absconded one night in 2014? Does anyone have an address in Riverdale for the guy?
    Any information that any of your readers can supply will be most gratefully received.”
    Win Robins