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Wash that smartphone!

All good things come to an end, and when that happens to your smartphone, you should wash it. And, no,…

9 years ago

And now, a good word for fakes

But not from us. We hate fakes. No, it's Jack Ma, head of notorious fraud site Alibaba (the Amazon of…

10 years ago

Reality spreading

Heck, no, we don't mean the US political campaign is beginning to be full of truth and good nature. But…

10 years ago

Semi-good advice about pawning

For such a simple idea that people have been using for thousands of years, pawning seems baffling to many people.…

10 years ago

The war on pawn (and used cars)

OK, we get it. Pawnshops are not among the best-loved of businesses -- except by our customers, who value us.…

10 years ago

We are on the fringe and proud of it

Pawnbrokers are sometimes called "fringe bankers." Well, we are called worse things. The people who call us "fringe" bankers are…

10 years ago

Better endowed

Two women came into a Jacksonville, Florida, pawn shop. One was well-endowed when she came in, but she was even…

10 years ago

Another thing to worry about

From Florida comes a report of another way for pawnbrokers to lose money. In this case, $30,000 to a crooked…

10 years ago

Pawning for a revolution

From Russia Today, a somewhat hard to follow but very detailed look back a hundred years to the days when…

10 years ago

Purveying art

Besides the tools, surfboards, guitars and fishing poles that we usually comment on, Kamaaina Loan is -- quietly -- the…

10 years ago