Maui gold buyer

Anti-scam for Internet sales

Another insight from this year's National Pawnbrokers Association convention. This one came during the roundtable on Police Confiscations, but the…

11 years ago

Pawn your sneaks? Sure, why not?

You can do it in Harlem now. A 16-year-old kid with 200 pairs of sneakers had the idea. It works…

12 years ago

Ain’t nothin’ like the real thing

As Smokey Robinson so wisely taught us long ago. It appears that the magic of "Pawn Stars" is limited to…

12 years ago

Why they pawn — playing the long iron game

As we often say here at Kamaaina Loan blog, unlike at the bank, you don't have to tell us why…

12 years ago

Seedy maybe, but not dark

Reporters who show no interest in the millions of ordinary working people who patronize the nation's 13,000 pawnshops are endlessly…

12 years ago

Gold: S.O.S.

There's a reader forum at the Kitco.com website where followers can discuss Kamaaina Loan's second favorite subject, the price of…

12 years ago

Nyah, nyah, Vladimir Putin

We guess the world -- at least the part of it that buys gold -- is not afraid that Russia…

12 years ago

Like a deer in the headlights

Iraq has purchased 1.1 million -- yes, MILLION -- ounces of gold, according to Kitco. Analysts speculate that this quiet…

12 years ago

Pawn shops take over the Big Apple

According to an article in Crain's New York Business, there are now 493 pawnshops in New York, up by 50 percent (when you…

12 years ago

Yes, we are regulated, duh

It seems the Michigan State Police raided a "pawnshop,"  and now the "pawnshop's" "customers" are   wondering if they will…

12 years ago