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Rise in luxury goods ending up at pawnbrokers - BBC News


BBC News

Rise in luxury goods ending up at pawnbrokers
BBC News
If you want evidence of how the recession is hitting people's pockets, take a look in a pawnbroker's window. Londoners are pawning more and more expensive jewellery, fine art and even cars as those with luxury assets decide to turn them quickly into ...

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Michigan pawnbroker: Woman offered sex to pay debt - USA TODAY


Michigan pawnbroker: Woman offered sex to pay debt
USA TODAY
By Matt Helms, Detroit Free Press SOUTHGATE, Mich. – A mother offered up herself and her daughter this week for sex to pay off a debt at a Southgate pawnshop, the owner of the shop said Wednesday. Al Hassan, a co-owner of DaSilva's Pawn and Exchange on ...

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Pawnbroker to open 12 sites in Scotland - Scotsman


Pawnbroker to open 12 sites in Scotland
Scotsman
Neil Surgenor, the firm's head of pawnbroking, said customers increasingly see using pawnbrokers as “borrowing from themselves” with over 80 per cent coming back for their pawned possessions. Across the UK, the firm is planning to open 50 outlets in ...


Even Though We're Fascinated By Pawn Shops, They Should Still Be Your Last Resort - Business Insider


Business Insider

Even Though We're Fascinated By Pawn Shops, They Should Still Be Your Last Resort
Business Insider
Here's part of a press release from the National Association of Pawnbrokers called, incredibly, “Pawn Shops Save the Day.” …the beauty of the business is not in the “stuff” being pawned at all. The beauty of the business is in the concept that people ...

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Croydon's secret £4m gold hoard buried in London riots - Financial Times


Financial Times

Croydon's secret £4m gold hoard buried in London riots
Financial Times
By Claer Barrett, Retail Correspondent Gold jewellery worth £4m has been recovered from the remains of a Croydon pawnbroker's shop destroyed in the London riots, following an elaborate salvage operation involving armed police and a team of ...
Hoard of gold jewellery recovered from rubble of riots after five month operationTelegraph.co.uk

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Pawnbrokers seek great reputations in face of Dickensian notions - Recruiter


Pawnbrokers seek great reputations in face of Dickensian notions
Recruiter
Challenging preconceptions of their industry is a key test for pawnbrokers, but also a very much surmountable one. Having announced the firm plans to create 300 new jobs this year, pawnbroker Albemarle Bond's commercial director Alaric Churchill tells ...


Pawnbroker tells remarkable stories - Daily O'Collegian


Pawnbroker tells remarkable stories
Daily O'Collegian
Eddie Whitehead is the proud owner of a local pawn shop with a true love for restoring cars. The phone rings, and Eddie Whitehead, owner of Whitehead Trading Co. And Ed's mufflers, fields questions from a potential customer about his shop.


ACC Finlay 'chased' armed robbers - U.TV


ACC Finlay 'chased' armed robbers
U.TV
A prosecution lawyer said that ACC Alistair Finlay was in the Ardoyne area with other senior PSNI officers in an unmarked car receiving a briefing about policing issues in North Belfast when they spotted the trio running from a pawnbroker's shop.

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Pawnbrokers Shrug Off 'Dickensian' Image As Consumers Lose Faith In Banks - Huffington Post UK


Pawnbrokers Shrug Off 'Dickensian' Image As Consumers Lose Faith In Banks
Huffington Post UK
In the Victoria branch of TM Sutton pawnbrokers, between the glass cabinets of designer watches and jewelry, is a life-sized bronze statue of Elvis Presley. Its one-time owner, Sid Shaw, made headlines in the late 1990s with a landmark ruling that ...


Pawnbroker business law passed - The Freeport News


Pawnbroker business law passed
The Freeport News
By Yasmin Popescu Much to the delight of a local businessman, the Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Bill, 2011 has been passed. Tony Johns, of GB Trading Post, in an interview recently said he is was looking forward to the legislation that was passed on ...



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