Pawn Shop business is booming If your wallet is looking empty these days and it crosses your mind to visit a pawn shop, you're not alone. California pawn shops say business is booming. If your wallet is looking empty these days and it crosses your mind to visit a pawn shop, you're not alone. G pawn shops say business is booming. When times are good, people buy items from the pawn shop and when times are down, they sell those items back for cash to pay their bills. "This is typical of what's happening. People have expensive things. She would never have sold this if it weren't for the fact that she needed more money, Pricey tools, diamonds, gold coins and cars are all luxury items finding their way to the pawn shop. "We're running across more unusual items or items that have not been pawned before," new faces are coming into the shop and they're selling possessions near and dear to their hearts. We had an unusual item come in the other day, where we had two bayonets come from the civil war, Pawn shops have become a place that offer some a way to get by in tough times. "This is about the best place in town. If they can help you, they will," says Ramona Phillis, a frequent visitor to the pawn shop. Phillis is a regular customer of the pawn shop. Wednesday she was paying interest on some rings and a knife collection she pawned. "The economy being so low, you have to do what you have to do," she says. Phillis just became a great-grandmother and the pawn shop helps her pay the bills. "You know, extra Christmas, extra birthday, extra, extra, extra," she says. And another family-run pawn shop is slammed with customers. "It seems like it was really busy when the oil field was really going good and now it's busy because it's not going good. So you now have the opposite. People needing money and people spending money, At A Pawn Shop,jewelry are their most popular items to pawn, but so are cars. It has brought people into California pawn shops. This economy can be a double-edge sword. While he can pawn or buy things cheaply, "The problem that we have is in selling them. We also have a market that doesn't have enough money to buy them, copywrite @2011 san diego county PAWNBROKERS association (SDPBA) |
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