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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.
Light concupiscible antidepressant drug box office
  04/17/26
"hehe!"
smoky filthy idiot location
  04/17/26
They should be put in charge of all proles. Imagine how capa...
House-broken costumed field ratface
  04/17/26
these people are the easiest to rip off, which is indeed cou...
smoky filthy idiot location
  04/17/26
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Sooty heady private investor
  04/17/26
Yeah, how can any business make money making loans at 200 pe...
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smoky filthy idiot location
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Odious tattoo
  04/22/26
any small business will run circles around wagecucks once yo...
Angry fortuitous meteor bawdyhouse
  04/17/26
It’s almost entirely predicated on lending to poor tra...
effete iridescent reading party coldplay fan
  04/17/26
i wonder how much of their business is fencing stolen shit.
smoky filthy idiot location
  04/17/26
I think it's a very small portion. For criminals trying to m...
Magical sadistic rigor gaming laptop
  04/17/26
When I did criminal law, the local cops had inventory system...
Bat-shit-crazy cheese-eating home
  04/17/26
is that gasoline i smell?
fear-inspiring green center
  04/17/26
buy high sell low
Cerise vibrant cruise ship
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lol i RAN here to make this exact post word for word
exhilarant charcoal candlestick maker den
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Cerise vibrant cruise ship
  04/22/26
if they advance ranks six times they turn into Queen Shops w...
milky hell corn cake
  04/17/26
Underrated
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milky hell corn cake
  04/22/26
i wonder if their business has been hurt by facebook marketp...
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  04/17/26
hurt by availability of more non-traditional financing, help...
Orchid insane lay hairy legs
  04/22/26
agreed. what a scourge. i didn't see it coming like this, ...
exhilarant charcoal candlestick maker den
  04/22/26
It’s like asking how Junkyards make money lol
Deranged public bath
  04/22/26


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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:39 AM
Author: Light concupiscible antidepressant drug box office

Dealing with the worst in society.

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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:40 AM
Author: smoky filthy idiot location

"hehe!"

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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:56 AM
Author: House-broken costumed field ratface

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5857806&forum_id=2:#49823227)



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Date: April 17th, 2026 11:12 AM
Author: smoky filthy idiot location

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: Sooty heady private investor



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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:57 AM
Author: Multi-colored mad cow disease parlour

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: Orchid insane lay hairy legs



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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: smoky filthy idiot location



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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:57 PM
Author: exhilarant charcoal candlestick maker den



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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:57 AM
Author: Odious tattoo



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Date: April 17th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: Angry fortuitous meteor bawdyhouse

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: effete iridescent reading party coldplay fan

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: smoky filthy idiot location

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

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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:14 PM
Author: Magical sadistic rigor gaming laptop

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: Bat-shit-crazy cheese-eating home

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: fear-inspiring green center

is that gasoline i smell?

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Date: April 17th, 2026 3:08 PM
Author: Cerise vibrant cruise ship

buy high sell low

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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: exhilarant charcoal candlestick maker den

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

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:44 AM
Author: Cerise vibrant cruise ship



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Date: April 17th, 2026 4:19 PM
Author: milky hell corn cake

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: primrose university hissy fit

Underrated

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Date: April 22nd, 2026 1:46 AM
Author: milky hell corn cake



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Date: April 17th, 2026 5:04 PM
Author: exhilarant charcoal candlestick maker den

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:#49823811)



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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:50 AM
Author: Orchid insane lay hairy legs

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: exhilarant charcoal candlestick maker den

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:#49834085)



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Date: April 22nd, 2026 10:46 AM
Author: Deranged public bath

It’s like asking how Junkyards make money lol

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