"People who wouldn't ordinarily go to a pawnshop are considering services like this, " says Marketdata research director John LaRosa.
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The manager of Dongkai Pawnshop says his business has benefited from the crisis.
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One cut player was found at a pawnshop attempting to purchase a gun.
It'll never force me to subscribe to a channel with a show about pawnshop owners making customized bikes for ghost-hunting housewives.
He bought his first camera in a pawnshop in 1937, and that would set him on the road to becoming a world-renowned photographer.
But these days, the wealthy are increasingly likely to be wooed by lenders from a place outside the traditional financial realm the local pawnshop.
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Gamestop has recently suggested that it might start selling more refurbished hardware as well, making the transition from a software retailer to a high-tech pawnshop.
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In a survey of pawnshop customers, Elaine Kempson, from Bristol University's Personal Finance Research Centre, found that over half had pawned possessions to buy daily necessities, including food.
If, for instance, a Catholic sees a relic in a pawnshop, he or she is obliged to buy it, so that it won't be used for blasphemous purposes by a nonbeliever.
But pawnshop owners say more upscale clientele are responding to a different kind of economic pressure: With credit tight, even the rich can't always get a traditional loan on short notice.
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About 10 percent said they purchased their gun from a retail shop or pawnshop, 37 percent obtained it from family or friends, and another 40 percent obtained it from an illegal source.
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Beautiful and brown, the tiny creature lands next in a sleazy pawnshop, then in the cramped Prague apartment of a childless couple, dreamy Mila (Natasa Burger), who has wanted a baby desperately, and her rent-a-cop mate, Franta (Jiri Machacek), who can't adopt because of his criminal past as a soccer hooligan.
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