On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:53:31 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm,
(Ken Muldrew) quickly quoth:

(J T) wrote:

Pawnshops buys ain't no bargains anymore.

As long as I can remember (long before ebay), pawnshops have always
outrageously overpriced their goods and refused to bargain. I could
never figure out their business plan. But now with ebay it's clear
that there really are that many suckers around to make selling crappy
stuff at ridiculous prices into a good living.

I think use the fewer sales of extremely overpriced items (to people
who don't know the value of things) to pay their overhead, relying
more on reselling the majority of items back to the original owners
for a nasty markup on their "loan".

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