Bless the pawn shops

The bargain hunters very own version of heaven. "at least that's always been my experience :P ". pawn shops do have their pros and cons, as any games you may find will usually be budget titles and used as well, But that's not even the worst part. Most pawn shops have absolutely no return policy at all. But the pros tend to outweigh the cons by far.
If you somehow manage to get burned you haven't really lost anything, So if that copy of quake 4 has problems you may as well kiss your twelve dollars goodbye. Damned right. I said twelve dollars. I don't know what other pawn shops are charging for used 360 games, But my local PS only charges twelve dollars. *nods, In fact. Today I made a stop at my local pawn shop and found blue dragon and eternal sonata for a whopping 24 bucks. Both seem to be in brand new condition to boot. On a less impressive note I picked up halo one and two for a ten spot. "yeah five bucks a pop" You gotta love a deal like that. Sometimes I wonder if the guy running the place even knows what the games he sells are worth. But seriously who looks a gift horse in the mouth? Not Sp that's who.:cool:

ive got a place by me that sells records for 1$.
but i just steal them lol

everywhere downtown has really cool stuff, i saw a microwave that was turned into a fishtank.

I have never been to a pawn shop before, i should check it out

I hit the pawn shops every now and again mainly guitars.

hmm.

interesting.

i should check some pawn shops out then.

see what they have.

In Western Australia, the vast majority of pawn shops are owned by one chain 'Cash Converters', it's really rare to find anything in there that isn't majority overpriced. :(

bah in canada we also have Cash Converters and i went in there once to get a cheap video camera and for one that didint work and would cost like 100 in repairs they wanted 125 bucks i was like ya **** his and left... some times u find some good stuff there tho...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Converters

I'll be dammed, a WA company that does something other than mining went international....

Pity its a company that specialises in paying people bugger all for their stuff then at least doubling the cost and re-selling it. :)

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Originally Posted by bah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Converters

I'll be dammed, a WA company that does something other than mining went international....

Pity its a company that specialises in paying people bugger all for their stuff then at least doubling the cost and re-selling it. :)

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Surprised? That's the resale business. Look at used car lots, some of the markups on trade-ins are 100-120% of the value of what was given for it, which in many ways is a lot worse.

Surprised some little Perth company is internationally successful doing it rather than a big american chain taking over local ones as is the norm here.

Not surprised that the business revolves around underpaying for goods and then overcharging for them, that's what its all about.

Seems shadow is lucky to have found one that obviously underpays for games but also charges a good price on resale. :)