The Austin Antique Mall

Great selection of vendors showcasing a nice selection of various "antique" items.

I’ve been to many antique stores over the years…this one has to be the most overpriced one I’ve ever seen!

There is a great selection and variety here in general, but don't expect to get any good deals here. This pair of boots was a particularly egregious example I found. Buying from a local non-profit that is meant to help feed and clothe struggling families and marking up over 400% is not a practice I would imagine many antiquers would support. This was found in vendor #916, and I'm sure they will remove the tag if/when they see this (although they were too lazy to remove the sticker the first time around so who knows). There is a good selection here, but I would proceed with caution when thinking about the kind of vendors you are supporting when shopping here.

Lots of stuff to walk around and look at, plenty of variety, however the building was a little Warm inside

Wow! Everything you could possibly imagine from vintage clothes to tea sets to boy band stickers and even a vintage gynecological exam table! The place is a great way to spend a few hours browsing through history and nostalgia. Anticipate about 2 hours for a visit and bring a fan. The AC is fan only so pretty warm and in tight spaces.

Me and my sibling (both teenagers) came here today to look around and buy some trinkets or posters. We walked around for about an hour and a half and sat down at a couch for about 10-15 minutes to catch our breath. One of the workers (curly ginger/brown hair I believe) walked past us while we were sitting and gave us a weird look. She had been looking at us weird since we walked in. We decided to get up and walk around a little more and as we passed by the front she very rudely said "are you guys waiting for someone or looking for something? What are you doing? " I replied that we were just looking and she gave us another weird look, we decided then we should just leave as we obviously weren't welcomed. It's a bad business practice to treat customers like criminals. I understand the fear of theft but we weren't messing around or being loud, neither of us had bags we could steal with, we just dress in black clothes and honestly I think that's what her problem was. I do not plan on returning, we're driving to a new antique store as I type this. Sucks because I'm in the area a lot and Ilove their trinkets, I would've made a purchase has she not been so rude.

This place is huge! There's always something new and it's just packed full of everything you could think of.
It's one of the places I like to go when it's too hot to be outside.
Highly recommend having a big chunk of time free when you go because you'll be in there longer than you think looking at everything!

Everything is soooo overpriced in here by about $200. Skip this location if you are looking to get vintage or antique items, they are NOT worth the price. I mean we are talking $350 for a pair of small candlesticks.

Rows and rows of unique antiques. Fun and interesting way to spend a few hours but bring your rent money if you want to pop some tags.

Expensive old stuff here. Some really nice antiques and Americana, and lots of useless junk. Fun place to look around.

I little disappointed.
I called the day before I went to see if they would be interested in purchasing a few items, which they said sure and to bring down the following day. I walked in the rain to get there and literally all of the buyers were not interested at all in the type of items I had. It just seemed unprofessional that I would receive false information from one of them over the phone that lead to the 15 minute walk each way to get there in the rain.
The only male buyer had given me a pamphlet of other shops in Austin and some advice on bringing my items to a buyer that does clothes and accessories and I would have better luck. The only pleasant part was that bit of information, but that could have been shared over the phone with me the previous day and save me from wasting my time. I don't know why the woman who I spoke to the day prior would pretty much lie.

I’ve been coming here for years and have spent a lot of money here but this has been the worst visit yet. I took my parents here, as they were in town visiting, and I found something really rare. It was a vintage wood cheese box from Pennsylvania, but what made it rare is it featured a hand-painted Dutch Hex symbol. The box itself was a little wobbly, but the hand painted hex symbol as in perfect condition so I decided to take it. My father grabbed an old metal beer sign he wanted. Both of these were taken up to the counter to be held until it was time for us to go. The lady making the announcements made it very clear that the time to leave was in 15 minutes, as the store was closing, so we made our way back to the front counter. When we were checking out, the same lady making the announcements was checking us out, but stopped in the middle of the transaction and handed it over to another lady to check us out. Not sure why, didn’t make any sense at the time. She had already handed my dad his metal sign which they had not wrapped up in paper, something very out of character for this place. Expensive or no, an antique is an antique and it should be treated as such. The new lady checking us out takes the sign back from my dad to ring it up then rings up the cheese box. She then handed the cheese box over to my dad and slid the medal sign on top of the box. My dad, now with his arms full couldn’t continue the transaction, so I decided to help him. I carefully take the sigh of the top of my beautiful hand painted box (which I couldn’t believe they had done considering it’s hand painted on top) and it is scratched! Not only is it scratched, she scratched the exact area that was hand painted. These hand painted hex signs are so rare, I couldn’t believe they mishandled this! When I confronted the lady who scratched it she pointed us to the original lady who was checking us out and said “well you are going to have to talk to her” so I guess she’s the owner. She overhead the entire conversation and said “well did you give them the 10% discount? ” To which the lady said she had not. So the owner says “well you should have given them 10%”. The lady realizes her mistake, hands us a couple of dollars and says “sorry about that”. So not only did she NOT wrap our items, or give us the original discount, but she used that 10% we were already due as an excuse for her negligence. I was so irate I hade to leave. I am a shop owner myself and I would NEVER treat a customer this way. I literally bought a $700 Dutch chest from this same vendor I found the cheese box from and I can’t imagine how they would feel knowing this place mishandles their beautiful antiques. I will NEVER come here again!

I have been before and liked walking around even if I didn’t end up finding anything. But during my last visit the ladies in the front were very rude. Their selection was not worth being mocked and mumbled about to our faces. Very weird and unpleasant experience.

This Place Is Great me and the wife come to this location all the time. We usually lose track of time because of all the amazing things that they have to look at. So many trinkets and cool stuff that you can buy. All of it is for great price and the staff is very nice and friendly. They keep very good care of the store and they also are very nice to anybody who comes through the doors. Definitely will recommend this as a little date idea or if you just want some cool little trinkets to put around the room or the house this is definitely the place.

If you are someone who is interested in antiques this place is for you. Can't even begin to describe the amount and variety of items on display.