Talk:Pawnbroker/Archives/2012

Interest rates
Can someone check the chinese pawn rate please. The british rate was miles off so I fixed it and added a reference. ---*- u:Chazz/contact/t: 23:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Police Hold & Reporting
The time of a required "Hold" varies in the United States. 30 days is the norm, but it also can be higher or lower, depending on the jurisdiction and item sold/panwed. All states require a pawnbroker to report everything they take in, be it a buy or a loan. This is cross-referenced against theft reports.

Having worked in a pawn shop, it is very rare to find stolen items. Of those that were found at our shop, all but 2 were stollen by a friend or family member. These are the hardest to validate, because there are rarely police reports filed. In most instances, the thief tells the person where their things are, and police are not involved because of the desire to not prosecute the thief. Real criminals avoid pawn shops because legitimate owners report everything to the police. Less then 1% of pawn shops are "crooked". 75.120.79.138 15:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

it's me from kentucky again. at my shop in louisville, the rate for pawn loans was 20%. not that every area needs to have its respective rate listed, but since the discrepancy between the rates is significant, maybe it should be noted that the rates listed are possibly on the low side. i would go ahead and do this, but i am so uneducated about html that i am afraid to muck with the page itself. ~spooky —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.129.118.105 (talk) 02:10, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Pawn shops in Asia
The paragraph regarding pawning in India is horribly garbled. I'll do my best with some spelling/grammar fixes, but can anyone clear it up? Jedikaiti (talk) 15:58, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

canada
Some pawn shops in canada do deal in fire arms. however they are rare do to the areas/demographics the shops serve somebody should fix this in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krj373 (talk • contribs) 09:35, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Fencing
No mention of "fences"(pawnbrokers who knowingly take merchandise with no questions asked)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy5421 (talk • contribs) 10:08, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

The Business Model section
reads like it was written by a 16 year old for a high school English essay. This is especially true for the Inventory Management section, which could also be from a do-it yourself pamphlet on starting your own pawn shop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.220.124.224 (talk) 06:01, 2 July 2010 (UTC)