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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.
histrionic generalized bond elastic band
  04/17/26
"hehe!"
Tripping wonderful office travel guidebook
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They should be put in charge of all proles. Imagine how capa...
up-to-no-good hairraiser kitty
  04/17/26
these people are the easiest to rip off, which is indeed cou...
Tripping wonderful office travel guidebook
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Glittery geriatric selfie
  04/17/26
Yeah, how can any business make money making loans at 200 pe...
yapping university
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passionate scarlet pisswyrm
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Excitant Slimy Institution Police Squad
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Bronze hissy fit
  04/22/26
any small business will run circles around wagecucks once yo...
contagious alcoholic therapy
  04/17/26
It’s almost entirely predicated on lending to poor tra...
balding spectacular hell fortuitous meteor
  04/17/26
i wonder how much of their business is fencing stolen shit.
Tripping wonderful office travel guidebook
  04/17/26
I think it's a very small portion. For criminals trying to m...
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  04/17/26
When I did criminal law, the local cops had inventory system...
lake hateful plaza goal in life
  04/17/26
is that gasoline i smell?
Big nubile patrolman
  04/17/26
buy high sell low
Trip rusted nowag
  04/17/26
lol i RAN here to make this exact post word for word
Excitant Slimy Institution Police Squad
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Trip rusted nowag
  04/22/26
if they advance ranks six times they turn into Queen Shops w...
gaped center weed whacker
  04/17/26
Underrated
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gaped center weed whacker
  04/22/26
i wonder if their business has been hurt by facebook marketp...
Excitant Slimy Institution Police Squad
  04/17/26
hurt by availability of more non-traditional financing, help...
passionate scarlet pisswyrm
  04/22/26
agreed. what a scourge. i didn't see it coming like this, ...
Excitant Slimy Institution Police Squad
  04/22/26
It’s like asking how Junkyards make money lol
Smoky Stag Film
  04/22/26


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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:39 AM
Author: histrionic generalized bond elastic band

Dealing with the worst in society.

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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:40 AM
Author: Tripping wonderful office travel guidebook

"hehe!"

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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:56 AM
Author: up-to-no-good hairraiser kitty

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: Tripping wonderful office travel guidebook

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: Glittery geriatric selfie



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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:57 AM
Author: yapping university

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: passionate scarlet pisswyrm



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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: Tripping wonderful office travel guidebook



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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:57 PM
Author: Excitant Slimy Institution Police Squad



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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:57 AM
Author: Bronze hissy fit



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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: contagious alcoholic therapy

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: balding spectacular hell fortuitous meteor

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: Tripping wonderful office travel guidebook

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

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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:14 PM
Author: arousing onyx liquid oxygen location

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: lake hateful plaza goal in life

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857806&forum_id=2/en-en/#49823792)



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Date: April 17th, 2026 2:28 PM
Author: Big nubile patrolman

is that gasoline i smell?

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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:08 PM
Author: Trip rusted nowag

buy high sell low

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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: Excitant Slimy Institution Police Squad

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

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:44 AM
Author: Trip rusted nowag



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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:19 PM
Author: gaped center weed whacker

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: frozen mind-boggling house hairy legs

Underrated

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:46 AM
Author: gaped center weed whacker



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Date: April 17th, 2026 5:04 PM
Author: Excitant Slimy Institution Police Squad

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857806&forum_id=2/en-en/#49823811)



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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:50 AM
Author: passionate scarlet pisswyrm

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: Excitant Slimy Institution Police Squad

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857806&forum_id=2/en-en/#49834085)



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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:46 AM
Author: Smoky Stag Film

It’s like asking how Junkyards make money lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857806&forum_id=2/en-en/#49834059)