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How do pawn shops make money? It seems like a colossal pain in the ass

Dealing with the worst in society.
electric dull place of business site
  04/17/26
"hehe!"
Passionate range french chef
  04/17/26
They should be put in charge of all proles. Imagine how capa...
Sienna persian library
  04/17/26
these people are the easiest to rip off, which is indeed cou...
Passionate range french chef
  04/17/26
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Cream Vibrant Lodge Psychic
  04/17/26
Yeah, how can any business make money making loans at 200 pe...
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ivory kitchen yarmulke
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Passionate range french chef
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angry contagious step-uncle's house famous landscape painting
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pale crotch
  04/22/26
any small business will run circles around wagecucks once yo...
Wonderful soggy stage
  04/17/26
It’s almost entirely predicated on lending to poor tra...
titillating primrose philosopher-king address
  04/17/26
i wonder how much of their business is fencing stolen shit.
Passionate range french chef
  04/17/26
I think it's a very small portion. For criminals trying to m...
soul-stirring hall
  04/17/26
When I did criminal law, the local cops had inventory system...
Insanely creepy jew halford
  04/17/26
is that gasoline i smell?
frisky coldplay fan reading party
  04/17/26
buy high sell low
big unhinged dysfunction
  04/17/26
lol i RAN here to make this exact post word for word
angry contagious step-uncle's house famous landscape painting
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big unhinged dysfunction
  04/22/26
if they advance ranks six times they turn into Queen Shops w...
Floppy ape
  04/17/26
Underrated
Alcoholic fuchsia gaping locus
  04/21/26
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Floppy ape
  04/22/26
i wonder if their business has been hurt by facebook marketp...
angry contagious step-uncle's house famous landscape painting
  04/17/26
hurt by availability of more non-traditional financing, help...
ivory kitchen yarmulke
  04/22/26
agreed. what a scourge. i didn't see it coming like this, ...
angry contagious step-uncle's house famous landscape painting
  04/22/26
It’s like asking how Junkyards make money lol
Exhilarant quadroon queen of the night
  04/22/26


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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:39 AM
Author: electric dull place of business site

Dealing with the worst in society.

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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:40 AM
Author: Passionate range french chef

"hehe!"

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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:56 AM
Author: Sienna persian library

They should be put in charge of all proles. Imagine how capable you have to be to make $$$ from the absolute dregs of society who are trying their hardest to rip you off and scam you every minute of the day.

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Date: April 17th, 2026 11:12 AM
Author: Passionate range french chef

these people are the easiest to rip off, which is indeed counterintuitive since they also tend to be the biggest scammers. poor areas always have liquor stores selling overpriced pints and lottery ticket, payday loans, buy here pay here auto dealerships, furniture rental store, etc.

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Date: April 17th, 2026 11:15 AM
Author: Cream Vibrant Lodge Psychic



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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:57 AM
Author: charismatic juggernaut kitty cat

Yeah, how can any business make money making loans at 200 percent APR while being 150 percent secured?

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Date: April 17th, 2026 1:06 PM
Author: ivory kitchen yarmulke



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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: Passionate range french chef



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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:57 PM
Author: angry contagious step-uncle's house famous landscape painting



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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:57 AM
Author: pale crotch



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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: Wonderful soggy stage

any small business will run circles around wagecucks once you factor in all the tax scam bs

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Date: April 17th, 2026 1:04 PM
Author: titillating primrose philosopher-king address

It’s almost entirely predicated on lending to poor tradies who run into financial trouble and then reselling their hocked tools to other poor tradies at only about 10% less than the tools would cost new at Home Depot.

And I understand that a substantial angle on the whole thing is that they’re serving a financial intermediation purpose for illegal laborers who can’t easily tap other sources of credit.

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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:09 PM
Author: Passionate range french chef

i wonder how much of their business is fencing stolen shit.

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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:14 PM
Author: soul-stirring hall

I think it's a very small portion. For criminals trying to move stolen goods, it's probably easier, more lucrative, and less risky to do it on your own, without the middle man--selling on the street, at flea markets, Facebook marketplace, Craigslist, guys just walking around hocking it. More sophisticated organizations (i.e., organized crime) have their own distributors or storefronts/distributors and storefronts with whom they have an understanding and arrangement.

Police regularly roll through pawn shops. Back in the day, the police came through literally every day. You had to log with the cops in writing everything you bought and sold that day. Unless the pawn shop owner or the organization with which the pawn shop owner was working (see above re organized crime) had the cops in their pocket, it likely was not and is not worth it to deal in a significant portion of stolen goods.

To the extent there is or was stolen property coming through--beyond the ocassional item here and there that the pawn shop owner reasonably doesn't know is stolen--I suspect it's kept and sold off the books: e.g., I see you're looking at our diamond rings. My brother has a couple that aren't displayed out here. He can get you a great price if you want to take a look out back."

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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:25 PM
Author: Insanely creepy jew halford

When I did criminal law, the local cops had inventory systems with the pawn shops & metal scrap yards. It was the first place they always went whenever something was stolen.

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Date: April 17th, 2026 2:28 PM
Author: frisky coldplay fan reading party

is that gasoline i smell?

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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:08 PM
Author: big unhinged dysfunction

buy high sell low

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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: angry contagious step-uncle's house famous landscape painting

lol i RAN here to make this exact post word for word

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:44 AM
Author: big unhinged dysfunction



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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:19 PM
Author: Floppy ape

if they advance ranks six times they turn into Queen Shops which are much more lucrative

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Date: April 21st, 2026 11:36 PM
Author: Alcoholic fuchsia gaping locus

Underrated

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:46 AM
Author: Floppy ape



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Date: April 17th, 2026 5:04 PM
Author: angry contagious step-uncle's house famous landscape painting

i wonder if their business has been hurt by facebook marketplace, as well as more available consumer credit - it would sure seem like it.

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:50 AM
Author: ivory kitchen yarmulke

hurt by availability of more non-traditional financing, helped by emergence of easy-to-access legalized gambling.

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:54 AM
Author: angry contagious step-uncle's house famous landscape painting

agreed. what a scourge. i didn't see it coming like this, infused in everything

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:46 AM
Author: Exhilarant quadroon queen of the night

It’s like asking how Junkyards make money lol

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