CollectM Antiques now open in Malta

According to Forbes' Top 10 Consumer Complaints, retail is listed at number four for "False advertising and other deceptive practices, defective merchandise, problems with rebates, coupons, gift cards and gift certificates, failure to deliver."

One of the main things is defective merchandise. More often than not, these items are not assembled here, but in countries abroad. Which is probably why antiquing has hit America by storm.

"I try to keep things out of the dumps because this stuff has a lot of quality to it," Mary Shores told the PCN. "Now the stuff that is made in Japan just falls a...