Java jive

10 years ago

Well, excuuuse us, but $3 cups of coffee do not indicate gentrification. A strange little story in the L.A. Eastsider…

Image v. reality

10 years ago

Almost since the Kamaaina Loan blog began, we have been writing about how “Pawn Stars” and other reality programs have…

Gold — and not only gold — takes a powder

10 years ago

At the start of this year, the mavens at Goldman Sachs -- who had called the price movement of gold…

Is pawn lending fringe or mainstream?

11 years ago

For years, students of pawn lending have described it as an alternative to regular banking or -- in the words…

Gun shy

11 years ago

This is just too silly not to pass on. In Florida, a man tried to shoplift a firearm from a…

We get calls

11 years ago

But the callers don't always appreciate an honest answer. Caller to Kamaaina Loan pawnshop: Do you buy jewelry if it…

What’s a GG? Why should you care?

11 years ago

Last week, a young man came into Kamaaina Loan with a "diamond" in his hand, and another one in his…

A pawnbroker with a heart of platinum

11 years ago

Most of our customers don't have even one gold album, let alone 5 platinum ones, so this incident from the…

Pretty packaging

11 years ago

Some people will go to quite a bit of trouble to steal a measly $7,446. Like the guy who made…

Trouble for diamonds

11 years ago

The following post should concern you even if you are not a diamond miner, which we assume most of our…