Thread: Pawn Shop finds!

I got my mom a ring at Christmas from the pawn shop. It looked brand new. I paid $89.00 for it. She took it to Kay's in the mall this past week to have it sized. They appraised it for over $900.00!

I bought a diamond tennis bracelet there and just recently paid it off. I paid less than $100.00 for it. I think I'm going to get it appraised now.

It's amazing what you can find at a Pawn shop.
This past year I've got a HD big screen tv. several gold rings with stones for less than $50 and they are all very pretty and new looking. A few I've only paid $15.00 for.
I talked my son and his g.f. into getting their wedding set there. They ended up paying less than $300.00 for all 3 rings. They appraised at $7,000.00. And they still looked pretty new.
Hubby has got,
2 really cool guns that all his friends are trying to buy from him.
bullets
Chain saw
Wireless keyboard and mouse.
Keyboard for my friend for Christmas. It turned out to still be selling for hundreds of dollars and I paid $35.00 for it.

Has anyone else been shopping in pawn shops lately?

We almost bought our wedding set at a pawn shop but I didn't want to buy a so called "jinked" one from a divorce. Just a quirk of mine.

Think I will start to check them out now if you can save that much. WOW.

Originally Posted by janelle

We almost bought our wedding set at a pawn shop but I didn't want to buy a so called "jinked" one from a divorce. Just a quirk of mine.

Think I will start to check them out now if you can save that much. WOW.

Being from the hills, there are allot of superstitious people around here. I try my best not to let myself fall into that. The way I see it, if there were such things as jinxed items, or say walking under a ladder, or breaking a mirror. It would be in the Bible. God would surely warn us of these things if they were so.

Allthough I do believe in Karma, but I think that is like when God says in the Bible "vengeance is mine". So maybe that's his will.

But I do have to remind myself of that often, because my mom is very superstitious.

And that thought about the wedding set being jinxed did cross my mind though. But I had to push that thought out of my head.

Originally Posted by Shann

sounds like a lot of good finds I just am not a pawn shop kind of girl, I really don't know where any are (although I'm sure if I paid attn I could find some) but most of them are in the bad part of town and have bars over the windows so I stay far far away from them. Sounds like you have a good one near you

I did just get a brand new wireless keyboard at a garage sale today for $2!

This is the only pawn shop I go to. I know what you mean about most of them looking like a den of thieves & cut throats. But this one is fairly new and so far it's clean and has normal looking people in there.

That was a great yard sale find Shan

I used top go to one near where we lived at the beach. I would go there and buy video games and cds and movies for the kids years ago. I think it is time for me to start checking it out again.

All of our pawn shops are creepy.....congrats on your finds.

I loved going to the pawn shop when I lived in TN, we got a tv from there, and a stereo, was much cheaper then going to walmart or somewhere. I miss those places, but I haven't run acrossed one around where I live now.

wow those are great finds, I visited one of ours a few months ago looking at tools an nothing was that reasonable, I think our pawn shops are little ripoff shops