maui silver

More oil for your gold

We are Kamaaina Loan and Cash For GOLD, so we are always fascinated by what gold does. Not that we…

10 years ago

Why we love pawnbrokers

From the news: In Chula Vista, California, thieves tried twice to sell a stolen flute at The Pawnshop Inc. Both…

10 years ago

Pawnshops in the service of literature

So far as we know, no desperately poor but brilliant novelists are customers at our Maui pawn shop. But you…

10 years ago

Country music goes to the ‘Pawn Shop’

We can hardly wait to hear the lyrics of "Pawn Shop," a new song by the moderately well-known duo Brothers…

10 years ago

Backing off the pawn reporting law

This is something we haven't noticed before. Across the country, there has been a wave of local ordinances requiring collection…

10 years ago

Catching up with Rick Harrison

America's most famous pawnbroker now has a bartender's card, to go along with his saloon and other businesses opening in…

10 years ago

Java jive

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

10 years ago

Gold — and not only gold — takes a powder

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

10 years ago

What’s a GG? Why should you care?

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

11 years ago

A pawnbroker with a heart of platinum

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

11 years ago