Barkin’ Basement

Regina Holcomb-Pirzadeh

2024-05

Friendly staff, clean store and amazing process, PLUS it supports rescue dogs!

Support VAWA

2023-05

Rude staff who cares more about animals than humans - the "volunteers" buy the good stuff at half price and resell online for personal profit. Animal shelters get state funding and millions of dollars every time millionaires (like Betty White) die. There are definitely better ways to go thrift shopping. If you want to donate to animals, drop some dog food off at the shelter. And if you want to score good things for low prices, keep walking. You never know what you might find right around the corner at one of the little privately owned junk shops.....

Amanda Boyce

2021-05

Stopped in with a thrift-happy teen. We ended up with a bag of clothes that they held overnight because their card reader wasn’t working and I had no cash. She found some great stuff! The staff member recommended the Queen City Flea Market, but the clothes here were much better! All proceeds go to a no-kill shelter. Great experience.

Jennifer Seybold

2021-05

A couple of weeks before Christmas, I collected a ton of great new and gently used toys, as well as housewares, and loaded my SUV to capacity. I called to ensure they were accepting donations, as it was a solid 2 hour drive from my home in DC. A gentleman answered the phone and explained that the weekend wasn’t good for him to accept donations, so I agreed to do the drive and donations the following weekend. Fast forward to the following weekend, and I was approximately 10 minutes away (after a 2 hour drive) at 3:45pm (realizing that they closed at 4 on Sundays rather than 5pm) and called ahead. The same gentleman chastised me and said he was closing up early as there hadn’t been a customer in an hour and a half. He was closing and wouldn’t be there in 10 minutes to accept my donations. He couldn’t have cared less about my drive, my donations, or frankly, the purpose of this shop (to support the animal welfare efforts of Allegany County). Words really can’t describe how disheartened I was that this rude man was representing any organization, let alone an animal welfare organization. I hope that a board member sees this review and reconsiders the staffing at this shop. If he was able to drive me away without donating, despite a 4-hour round trip drive, I wonder how many other donors he has driven away too?

Eric Todd

2024-02

I was browsing then asked a question... Incredibly intentionally rude response from the seemingly male that was working there.

Paul Laure

2020-05

This store has a wonderful mission of using proceeds to help animals! We were visiting Cumberland from Pittsburgh and stopped in today. I found a nice short-sleeve shirt for work. Only $1.50! I gave him $2 and told him to keep the change and then dropped a few more singles into a donation bin to further support their mission. My partner bought a nice pair of pants for work for $2.50. I had a nice brief conversation with the clerk (who I think was an unpaid volunteer, actually) and another customer when they found out we were from Pittsburgh about sports fanbases in the local areas. It’s a shame half of Downtown Cumberland is vacant, but stores like this are wonderful!

Ashleigh C

2023-05

Stopped in this store to get a Mountain Discoveries magazine and ended up buying a few CD's I was impressed by the price and the stuff they have in there. Small store, but a lot of neat stuff. It's a thrift store so everything is second hand.

Silas Houze

2023-05

I work with one pedal at a time movement we raised suicide awareness for veterans and ends up I call this man cuz one of our things is we travel broke every other year for all the homeless vets and I asked him kindly and explained what I was doing if I could get a hold of a rain jacket he gave me a lot of extra comments and decided to educate me about my life instead of helping in any sort of way do not give money to this place this man is greedy and rude

Elizabeth Demarque

2023-05

Great place! You never know what you are going to find! And the profits go to the animal shelter, it’s a win-win for everyone!!

Rob Vanderpool

2019-05

Lots of clothes and knickknacks. Nonprofit for animals. Great place.

russ wallizer

2021-05

Great little shop with lots of second hand items at great prices

misty ballou

2018-05

Lots to look at!! Spend some time and find a treasure.

Erin Ni

2021-05

Great place