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Hawaii Hiker

(3,166 posts) Mon Jan 13, 2014, 12:08 PM Jan 2014

High End Pawn shops

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/your-money/need-cash-own-a-bentley-take-a-pawn-ticket.html?hp&_r=0

Interesting read

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High End Pawn shops (Original Post) Hawaii Hiker Jan 2014 OP

Your screen name PasadenaTrudy Jan 2014 #1

I was in Kauai for Xmas! Hawaii Hiker Jan 2014 #2

I was there in Sept. PasadenaTrudy Jan 2014 #3

I can't go into pawn shops, high end or not...... a kennedy Jan 2014 #4

Perhaps in most. But at the world- COLGATE4 Jan 2014 #5

PasadenaTrudy

(3,998 posts)

1. Your screen name

Reply to Hawaii Hiker (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 12:10 PM

Jan 2014

is making me yearn for the north shore of Kauai!

Hawaii Hiker

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2. I was in Kauai for Xmas!

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 12:12 PM

Jan 2014

but i didn't spend much time on Princeville or North Shore side....Mostly was in Wailua, Poipu, and Lihue areas...

PasadenaTrudy

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3. I was there in Sept.

Reply to Hawaii Hiker (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 12:40 PM

Jan 2014

I love it!

a kennedy

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4. I can't go into pawn shops, high end or not......

Reply to Hawaii Hiker (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 12:49 PM

Jan 2014

I feel terribly uncomfortable at what's happened to the people that have brought stuff in to pawn. JMO

COLGATE4

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5. Perhaps in most. But at the world-

Reply to a kennedy (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 04:55 PM

Jan 2014

famous Casino in Monaco (home of some of the highest rollers in the world) the top of the line jewelry makers have shops in the ground floor. These are not only to allow the very well to do an opportunity to splurge on some little few-thousand dollar bauble but, more importantly they also function as pawnbrokers to the hoi polloi who have had a bad night at the roulette wheel. Drop your Cartier necklace or Rolex watch off and receive some badly needed cash. Fascinating.

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