Lido Consignment Gallery, Newport Beach CA

Please I beg you to read this review. The owners are thieves! I purchase several items from them that were very large and the amount I paid was $5000.00 cash! I told them to give me a few days to pick up my items because I needed to rent a uhaul truck. They said no problem that they would move the items to the front entry so it would be easier for me. I rented a uhaul with a lift and hand truck plus a friend and we arrived to do the pick up. Guess what.my furniture was gone! They said they thought I picked it up already, even though it was just a few days. I showed them the receipt and they said there was nothing they could do for me because the furniture was gone. I said that I wanted my money back and they just laughed! I was really upset and they told me to leave or they would call the police. Then they said for me to sue them.
Please don't go in that store they are all con artist. My attorney is working on this for me.thankfully!

CONSIGNORS BEWARE! One star is being generous.

Read the reviews if you're consigning there is NOT a positive review.

Brought in several pieces of VERY expensive commissioned art that Carrie "the owner" was all over. "It would be gone immediately its so amazing we never get this quality. " When you go back in to enquire about said art now she "has much better art and yours isn't selling because she "JUST" got pieces in that are selling"
We call in / email etc to ask where our check is. Dara blames Carrie and Carrie blames Dara and no one can "access the computer" right now.

The name of the game is BLAME. AT the end of the day it seems they are robbing Peter to pay Paul. They have beautiful pieces that sell, but the owners of those pieces DON'T seem to get paid according to the reviews. In our case (as some of our art is no longer in the store) and we haven't received payment that could be construed as theft and Carrie knows that otherwise she wouldn't be shooing you out of the store when you are inquiring about the status of your consigned pieces. Surprisingly Dara is on vacation ALOT and when you do get Dara she appears to be frustrated with the situation.

Otto is the greatest! I have MANY pieces from this wonderful store. I live in Florida now and miss this store!

DO NOT CONSIGN WITH THIS STORE! They will gladly take your items and then fall off the face of the earth. I gave this store THOUSANDS of dollars worth of brand new furniture and accessories. All inventoried and documented. After about 30 days, I started to inquire about the status of my consignment. No responses. I finally received 1 small check ($500) after another 45 days and then absolutely no responses to emails and phone calls. I finally went back down to the store to retrieve my goods only to find out that most had been sold with no accounting on their side. I pulled the last of my things and proceed to take them to Court. I won a judgement but now am having trouble collecting on this. In looking into the business it appears that they change names and contacts constantly in order to swindle people out of the items. Read ALL of the negative reviews, you will see it is the same SCAM over and over; Gladly take someones consignment, stop responding to inquiries so they can drag out the timeline and then say it's been 90 days and the goods have been 'donated' per their contract. They have even been sued by the State of California for non payment of sales tax. STAY AWAY!

The public should be aware that there are some apparent problems with their accounting. They lost several of the items that I placed with them and claim that they were 'probably' donated, though they could not be sure since they were unable to track either sale or donation. I kept accurate records for the items and frequented the store to monitor sale. It took several months and several phone calls to receive compensation of those items that I knew had sold, yet some are still missing. They offered me a very small store credit for the items and a donation receipt but no record or value for the donation. They have some fun items at good prices, but I won't consign here again.

We have been waiting our check several months and I called them millions times they don’t answer be careful about you money