The Resurrection of the pawn shop

[patricks148]

Growing up i don't ever remember seeing one though there were references on TV ETC.

8 years ago there were none in Inverness now we have 4.

watched a program the other night about a Glasgow shop and also notice theres also a program about shops in London.

What do you guys make of the this???

 

[patricks148]

Just noticed ive put this in the wrong section can it be moved to OOB

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

There are even TV series about pawn shops now!!

 

[john0]

I was interested in this thread then realised it was the wrong pawn

 

[Rooter]

I was interested in this thread then realised it was the wrong pawn

Chess man are ya?!

 

[Alex1975]

The TV stuff started from a show called Pawn Stars. Its about a family run business in Vagus and they show so really cool things that come in. Lots of historical stuff. Other shows have taken off as you point out.

TV shows aside pawn shops have a habit of being in place for people who are struggling to feed themselves or there habits. I would suggest that the increase you are seeing in them is a bad sign.

 

[Break90]

They've been around for years in the form of Cash Converters and the like.

Agree, they seem to proliferate where the local population are less than affluent

 

[john0]

Chess man are ya?!

I think so, I'll just go check mate

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Why would you need to use the services of a pawn shop? Ah - I know - when your benefits are withdrawn and you don't have a penny to your name. Handy things pawn shops - just as well they are thriving.

 

[pbrown7582]

Do they sell crab, cockles and whelks too?

 

[Imurg]

Do they sell crab, cockles and whelks too?

You Prawn....

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Why would you need to use the services of a pawn shop? Ah - I know - when your benefits are withdrawn and you don't have a penny to your name. Handy things pawn shops - just as well they are thriving.

But in this Dickensian world you inhabit what would these poor downtrodden souls have that they could pawn.

You have already indicated which way you intend to vote in the GE can you now spare us the Party Political Broadcasts.

 

[andycap]

they are getting popular now and it's not just the poorer people in society using them , i do some work for a sub contractor in the construction industry , main contractors can really screw subbies by not paying on time or in full , and cash flow is king . He has been known to pawn expensive items , jewellery , watches, etc . to keep solvent , always managed to get them back though,

 

[JohnnyDee]

Keeping the Dickensian motif going, the rise of these emporia is symptomatic of a nation today with many that have, but also very sadly (IMO) many others that have not. During the great depression of the 30s (that's the 1930s for you whippersnappers on here ) pawn shops were everywhere.

I am in my 50s so remember most of my adult life without them, or if not entirely without them, then they were little more than an arcane curiosity of a bygone age, with their quaint three-ball gubbinses hanging up outside.

The alarming increase in food banks would also seem to indicate there are a large number of very unfortunate people struggling to make ends meet out there.

The whole sorry picture is completed by what are euphemistically referred to as 'payday loan companies' that seem to me are little more than loan sharks preying off (in not in every but nevertheless in many cases) the chronically disadvantaged, offering short-term loans at eye watering interest rates.

It strikes me we are all quite fortunate that we can afford the relative 'luxury' of a game of golf, whilst many others cannot even afford a square meal.

 

[pbrown7582]

You Prawn....

 

[Doon frae Troon]

They go hand in hand with foodbanks, a re-invention of a Tory government.

I watched the Glasgow one.
Former nurse with not enough money to feed her kids.
Money for the car and fags for both her and her teenage daughter though.
Strange choices.

 

[SocketRocket]

Has there ever been a time in history when people would not take free food if it's offered? Some people may well go without money but why? Often it's due to them not bothering to attend interviews at the Job Centre or not making an effort to look for work. Before any bleeding heart suggests that the Tory's have reduced the unfortunate into starving they should open their eyes and see the mounting membership of the 'Grand and Nobrorious Order of the Work shy' and not brand all people on benefits as worthy causes. There are worthy causes and they are not thrown in the gutter! Look towards Greece if you want to see the results of welfare overspending.

Regarding Pawn shops, they have always been there.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Has there ever been a time in history when people would not take free food if it's offered? Some people may well go without money but why? Often it's due to them not bothering to attend interviews at the Job Centre or not making an effort to look for work. Before any bleeding heart suggests that the Tory's have reduced the unfortunate into starving they should open their eyes and see the mounting membership of the 'Grand and Nobrorious Order of the Work shy' and not brand all people on benefits as worthy causes. There are worthy causes and they are not thrown in the gutter! Look towards Greece if you want to see the results of welfare overspending.

Regarding Pawn shops, they have always been there.

Well I am 67 and never saw or heard of a food bank until about 4 years ago.
I remember seeing my first pawn brokers shop in Glasgow as a teenager and cannot recall seeing another until their re-invention about 5 years ago.

I must have led a very sheltered life.

 

[SocketRocket]

Well I am 67 and never saw or heard of a food bank until about 4 years ago.
I remember seeing my first pawn brokers shop in Glasgow as a teenager and cannot recall seeing another until their re-invention about 5 years ago.

I must have led a very sheltered life.

Probably have, it's a bit remote where you live.

Same age as me then and I have seen Pawnbrokers. As I said, if there were foodbanks around at any time in the last hundred years would people have used them?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We've always had them. There was several in Wimbledon I remember and always been one in Bracknell since I moved. I do think their popularity and increase in numbers shows a deeper issue.