Flashbacks Recycled Fashion

Sadly, I agree with some of the reviews of the employees being rude at this location. Firstly, I am a today fashionista, and secondly, I appreciate nice and friendly staff… How much fun is it to shop in a store where the staff are actually COOL and make you feel comfortable shopping there? I do! I’ve been shopping here for over two years now, and the same girl has been working there and by now, we should be exchanging more than a hello. I hate to go into detail about people, but this gal has a very rude, snarky disposition to her. She has long dark hair and pale skin. Enough said. I have some really nice pieces of clothing that I wanted to sell here and they treat you as if their stuff is made of gold, chill girl, this is a second hand clothing store, it’s not Tory burch or LV. Don’t act snotty about excepting clothes. It’s not cool. The clothes or OK but the attitudes of the workers need to improve. I’m not happy

I love Flashbacks in Encinitas and Downtown but this particular one is very disappointing.
First of all the clothing there isn’t anything special, you can find most of these items in your local Goodwill or Forever21. Most importantly the employees are very rude. Every time I walk into this location it’s dead and all of the employees are goofing off in the back yet as soon as I walk in I’m not greeted but they proceed to pretend to work by tiding up the racks right next to me. The last time I visited this location I felt very discriminated against and I got the sense the manager suspected I was stealing when I wasn’t even browsing their horrible selection of clothing. I was patiently waiting for my mother to come back from the changing room and I wish I had told her not to purchase that cheap ass top she bought from them. I will not return to this location.

I felt very judged by the employee that was going through my 3 bags of clothes. Out of 3 huge bags she didn’t accept anything. While perusing the rack I found clothing I couldn’t believe HAD been accepted, yet nothing from my selection. I felt like I wasn’t «hipster» or cool enough for the employee I was dealing with. I won’t be back. Who wants to feel judged when they are just trying to shop?! Get over yourselves!

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD do not go here if you are in any sort of time constraint. Moving back to New York, so I came in to sell clothing. Waited (not exaggerating) 3 hours for several people to look through 2 boxes of clothes.
As I waited I looked through the racks and saw pilled up throw-​away mall clothes and 90’s rhinestone jeans. Bizarre experience.

Good place to sell if you have items that are in PERFECT condition.
Works like any other place, 30% cash or 50% in store credit.
I sold 5 or 6 things for about $ 30. Decent money. The girls working are OK. No emotion, loud music, great location.

I bought $ 70.00 boots for my costume, and knew that I would only wear them once. I asked if I would be able to return them. They said they did not do returns but that they would buy them back from me. I went in today to have them buy the boots back and I was told that they would not buy them back from me. I would have never bought the boots if they didn’t tell me I would be able to have them bought back. Very upsetting.

Pretty disappointed with manager. She was rude and told me she couldn’t help me since the store closed 15 minutes ago. All lights — all doors were open and others were shopping in the store. She then proceeded to say they don’t really follow the store hours that they stay open if customers are still coming in. Huh — what am I???
Oh and by the way, Halloween which I would think is a huge draw to this store is only 2 days away. You’d think the store would be open a bit later for last minute shoppers. I will not support this store due to the manager’s attitude. Additionally, I will tell my friends to shop somewhere else.

Ok atmosphere that needed some focus on customer service! Prices were overpriced by 20%. I get overhead, but nothing special that allows that much mark up on used item. Did not walk away with a great first impressionl. This will not be a recommendation or go to spot for me.

I went with my daughter to take a trunk full of clothing. This store is well lit, clean, organize and great selection of clothing. They are very specific on what they buy and shows in the clothing you can get.
What I was most happy was the service. Places with your teens can be stressful.
This girl, I did not get her name (beautiful long dark hair, very thin) was welcoming, and engaging. She truly seem to love what she does n what clients had to say… even if not talking about clothing.

I came back to this store with my mom after the girl working here told me that you have to be 18+ to sell your clothes, and out of the three bags of good-​quality items, she didn’t accept any of them, saying that the their racks were too full so they had to be very selective. The girl was nice enough (it was a different girl than the one who originally refused my clothes).
While we were waiting for her to go through all of the clothes, I looked through what they had for sale, and honestly, even after going through a ton of racks for 20 minutes, I didn’t find anything worthwhile. Everything in that store is very tacky and ugly, so I’m not quite sure how they deem things fit to sell.
Unless you’re looking for a costume or something else, I don’t think that this place has very great things to offer.

I give this place 2 stars based on the selection. 0 for customer service. I purchased a pair of sunglasses and a choker. Will be back in there because they do have a lot of things in there that interest me although I didn’t look through them, I felt sorta uncomfortable. I asked if they were hiring and the girl gave me an attitude and responded as if I wasn’t good enough to work there. If you don’t like your job take an acting class and pretend because their are so many people (like myself) who would be willing to help people and make them feel welcomed.

Smells like Goodwill in there, and most of the clothing looks hot off their shelves. The help was awful. They winced when I asked about a specific type of headband and led me over to a display on the wall. «This all we got,» the lady moaned.
I won’t be back anytime soon.

I’ve been to resell shops all over the country and this is a very middle-​of-​the-​road option. Decent selection and close to my home, pricing –slightly– more than I would mark on some items, but then surprisingly cheaper on others. It’s very hit-​or-​miss. A LOT of bold options, which I dig. I didn’t get bored flipping through the racks. For that alone, I would mark it a 4-​star experience.
One staff member was amazing — she has glasses and chin-​length blond hair, if I remember correctly. She was super nice and crazy helpful.
The other staff member working, however, needs to re-​evaluate her job if it makes her SO unhappy. Curt, rude, short, eye-rolling…not helpful at all. I felt her looking me up and down and judging me from the moment she let me into the dressing rooms. During checkout, my card was giving her some swiping issues, which does happen from time to time. I explained such and OH MY GOSH THE INCONVENIENCE… I digress. I was looking through the «Wish List» book while she was completing my purchase, as I have a bit of a clothes addiction and I noticed I had a few of the items in the book back home that I would happily bring in to sell. I was just about to turn the page when she snapped the book shut and slammed my receipt down on top for me to sign — I kid you not, no exaggeration. I –almost– said screw this and cancelled my purchase at that point, but I didn’t want to feel uncomfortable anymore and just wanted to get out of there.
It’s amazing how I will now just avoid an entire store that I would probably frequent on a near-​weekly basis, simply because of one problem employee. But, then, I read reviews and it seems to be the norm with most staff.
Shame.

This happens to be my first Unilocal review and I’m so sad it isn’t a positive one. This may be the best Flashback location clothing-​wise, nice variety of costume and retro clothing. Unfortunately we had a very unpleasant customer experience here. After being treated in an extremely disrespectful manner, I had to return to Flashback to get a security tag removed. Since our first time in we felt as if we were being treated as if we had intent to steal; naturally I called beforehand to make sure we wouldn’t encounter any issues removing the tag from the purchased item. I spoke with Kate on the phone, unfortunately, walking into the store we realized Kate was in fact the individual whom we had had the bad experience with in the first place.
I’ve worked in retail most of my life. I understand the pains and inconveniences. It is really hard to keep track of items and people– and to know which of those people are trying to rip you off, is even harder. But to have to walk back into a store a second time, and then to have to defend your feelings to a store manager who treated you questionably in the first place, pretty much sealed that box shut.

Super helpful and friendly staff. They helped me search through the racks of clothes to find what I needed. They’ve got a wide variety of clothes from different times 20s– 80s. Fun place to just window shop also ;)

So, I totally get that they are trying to have a unique retro /​one of a kind type store, but some items are way over priced. Also, there’s only 1 person who works at this location (she wears glasses) who is nice and makes me feel welcome. The other gals are snooty, and don’t even greet me when I come in. Needless to say, I don’t buy anything when the nice gal isn’t there.

Pretty cool place, to start off let’s say their ambiance totally encompasses the name. From the music and décor to legit, their clothing for some reason it all seems to be some flashback to a time period not at all in the 2010’s. But that doesn’t mean at all that you can’t find current stuff, some just hidden gems stuffed between the vintage looking top and the actually vintage.
I ended up bringing in a few things and trading in a few things for a top. I only wish they took more because I wanted soooo much more. Their selection of sunglasses is pretty dope, as well as jewelry. Their designer rack is kind of slim but they do have a rack of bridge/​better designer labels that is plush and fun to shop through.
Overall the place was cool and I totally see myself coming back for more.

SUPER cute thrift store. Found a few good items here. Prices on 80’s dresses were a bit ridiculous but I was able to negotiate one to a lower price based on minor damage found.
Will definitely go back here!

I really love this pace: it was clean and had a great selection. Courtney was so nice in assisting me; I told her what event I was shopping for and she helped my dig for some clothes and set out a bunch of accessories while I was in the fitting room. I think this place is great if you are looking for a certain era of clothing (everything from 20’s on it seems like) but it is also great for unique pieces that you can wear every day.

No less than 5 stars!
LOVE the staff, the clothes are UNREAL!!!
I have walked out with Chanel, Gucci, Prada, DVF, D&G, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Gaultier and never paid more than $ 65 for one item!!!
Most dresses are $ 36, for silk… authentic, often with tags on!
NO reason to pay retail, best store EVER!!!