Originally Posted by
mranderson
We were discussing stereotypes in another thread. Well, you just mentioned another. The pawnshop/fencing operation. No. Most pawn shops are honest businesses that cater to the very quick (all be it very expensive) loan. You can find some very good buys if you look hard enough. Plus, the Oklahoma City police has a detail called the pawn shop detail. They do random checks as well as complaints. If you sell an item to a pawn shop, that item must be held for ten days while the serial number is investigated. Yes. There is the occasional shop that IS the stereotype, however, most are not.
BTW. How do I know? (I know, you will rake me on this, however, it is true) I use to work in the largest one ever built in Oklahoma City (Ace). Plus I have many items that came from pawn shops. One is my Gretch Nashville Guitar that my dad bought for $200.00. It is worth much more than that figure today.
I would not say Love's looks like a pawn shop. They look like every other major truck stop chain in the nation... In fact, cleaner than most.
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