 |
|
|
Wichita Pawn Shops Giving More Loans
Central Kansas pawn shops report giving out more short-term loans to cash-strapped customers willing to trade wedding rings and other luxury items.
Reporter: Associated PressEmail Address: news@kake.com |
|
 |
| National AP Video |
|
|
Twitter News Feed
| Offbeat News Headlines | |
Man Who Claimed Disability Spotted On TV Show
 0 Comments
California tax officials say an interior designer's false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show. (Full Story) |
|
|
Jury Sides With NYPD In Clown's Lawsuit
0 Comments
A federal jury has ruled that New York City police didn't use excessive force when they arrested a professional clown who left a suspicious device that turned out to be a balloon inflator inside a coffee shop. (Full Story) |
|
|
KC Bank Robber Who Left Wallet Behind Pleads Guilty
0 Comments
A Kansas City man who left his wallet on the counter of a bank he was robbing has pleaded guilty in federal court. (Full Story) |
|
Dictionaries Differ On Word Of The Year
0 Comments
It's no lie. Merriam-Webster has chosen "admonish" as its 2009 Word of the Year. (Full Story) |
|
|
Wild Turkey On NJ Turnpike Captured
0 Comments
A wild turkey that has been playing chicken along the New Jersey Turnpike won't have to dodge Thanksgiving traffic. (Full Story) |
|
|
Police: Teens Taped Themselves Stealing Presents
2 Comments
A suburban Philadelphia police chief says two teenagers are being held after officers arrested them and found video recordings they made of themselves burglarizing homes. (Full Story) |
|
| More Headlines | |
Extras
 |
Happy Thanksgiving! Your 2009 Thanksgiving Guide |
 |
H1N1 News Click here for the latest news regarding the H1N1 virus. |
 |
Upickem Pigskin Payoff Contest Click here to go to our pro football season contest! |
 |
First United Methodist Church of Wichita Click here to watch Sunday services live. |
Until you understand the workings & high expense/liability of operating a pawn shop, don't dis them for making a linving. It's tough work! Rates are regulated by government. Thank heavens the less fortunate have someplace to turn for money legally. In these times, it's tough to sell anything, so loan values on goods have been less than before. And, these people are running out of things to pawn!
When people are down on their luck, there is alway someone to take advantage of them.
Aah Obamanomics 101, rule number 1."I want something for nothing"! The owners of these business are what they are, if it were not for idiots who can not live within their means they deserve these usery rates. If you can not pay your bills with your current lifestile, you then need to downsize. Live in a low rent studio apartment, riding the bus, no cell phone, cable, internet, don't smoke or drink, don't eat out, get your clothes from Goodwill, & work three jobs a week. Like my kids you may not like this advise but I love everyone & wish them the best, take this advise & you will dig yourself out of the mess you are in & will come out a better person on the other side. However if you try the easy way (and their is none), getting a payday loan or worse yet getting on the government tit you become a slave.
I will never take any sort of payday loan out. I ended up taking one 2 years ago. A big one to pay the remainder of my rent. I than had a take out a smaller one to help me out with current bills because of the money it costs to take out the first one. Than i took out a 3rd because of the money i was losing from the first 2. I payed over 2,000 in INTEREST before i quit paying and they just went to collections. When my income tax came a year later, I payed off 2. The bigger 2. The smaller one i was making payments on and since i didnt have the ammount they wanted every 2 weeks, they just sent me to COLLECTIONS. I was mad because i was at least paying them @$$holes. So i stopped paying on that. I now have to go to court July 17th over the last one. STEALERS.. NEVER AGAIN WILL I EVER DO THAT. Its a process that you cant get out of. A girl i knew had 6 of them out, and every payday she spent her day running around just paying the loans, re-writing checks for them and still had no money.
120% APR is a loan shark in my book. Bruce Harris, owner of AOK pawn shop, sips fine wine, praying on the poor of Wichita. A good man?
CROOKS..............