I'm a fan of consignment shopping and have purchased a fair number of pieces over the years at consignment shops. I wanted to like the Pink Poodle. But I've never had a good experience there in the half-dozen times I've been in, the items I've purchased (a pair of shoes, a suit, and a piece of jewelry) weren't great enough pieces / great enough deals to compensate for the BS that is the Pink Poodle. I won't be back.
Prices are unreasonable ($10 for a t-shirt with a Target store brand that might have cost $12 new, $25 for a pair of "clearance" consignment shoes that probably cost $60 new at Macy's, and $120 for a pair of designer jeans that likely cost $150+ new but showed signs of wear and were at least several seasons old).
Staff is disinterested, rude, judgmental and entirely on their own time-table (example: I waited in line for 10 minutes *after* the customer ahead of me finished their purchase and the clerk was just MIA. I looked at my phone to pass the time. When the clerk came back she said something along the lines of "When you're willing to put down your phone, let me know.").
And while I've never been subject to the "no gum rule" another reviewer mentioned, I've been subject to numerous other "rules" that are both arbitrary and unreasonable (no phone in checkout line for example).