Cash America Pawn

Wow what a great experience at a Pawn for a change. Very knowledgeable on their merchandise. I found a super bad&ss laptop very well priced! Then I found a killer jewel that was 50 percent off. That have some dealz!
Walter was a great help and an excellent Assistant Manager. The other employee was fast and good at what she does.
Shop around here and look for the red tags with the discounts. I’m glad I checked it out more. Why go buy a really expensive electronic if you can pay 20 percent used?

Great place to go for deals on electronics and jewelry! Really changed my idea about what a pawn shop is. I mean, whenever someone would say ‘pawnshop’ I would imagine some dusty, smelly place with a lot of shady people milling about. Well, that is not the case here. Very clean store with stellar customer service.
They have a TON of movies and games for sale. and they’re all really cheap (like, seriously…$ 1.99 for a DVD ain’t bad IMO). I also like going to see all the jewelery… tons of that too. And I’m surprised@how cheap (price-​wise) a lot of the stuff in there is… those guys aren’t afraid to haggle prices w/you;I recently bought a flat screen from this place and I couldn’t be happier. It also came w/​a 30 day warranty, which I really wasn’t expecting from a pawn shop.
I just wish the parking lot was a little bigger. Plus the traffic on Burnet Rd can get a little icky depending on the time of day that you are going. Other than that I’m a total fan of this place. Plus they buy gold and, from what I hear, they offer the most for it.
This place will totally change your perception of what a pawnshop is.

Unfortunately, I’ve been a long time customer of this particular Cash America Pawn. It used to be a Doc Holidays, but Cash America bought it out.
I hope it is ok to repost my experience with this pawn shop from a post I made on another site before I knew about Unilocal.Real quick I’ll just say no one with a brain should ever use a pawn shop to actually pawn anything. But on the retail side this place often does have good deals on guns and camera equipment. Always haggle!
Here was my experience June 1, 2007. —- Lulu = my wife.
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Anyone who knows me and Lulu, knows we’ve had a rough go of as late. We made it though because of friends, family and well her patience. Plus liberal applications of Lone Star. Well new job now, and things are starting to even out. So long story short, I was at the pawn shop today, getting out everything I ever put in there.
One of the things in there, was My grandfathers gun, My Papo’s Model 1894 Winchester ³⁰⁄₃₀ saddle gun.

Mine was manufactured in 1907.
I put it in there several years ago, and have been faithfully paying the interest off on it ever since. But I just never seemed to have enough to get it out completely. Pawn shops are stupid by the way, only a moron would ever use one, but like Forrest Gump says, «I’m not a smart man.»
So, since I go in to the pawn shop every month, I’ve made some friends there. There is one lady, named «L», who seems to help me most of the time. She had her son with her today, who must be about 3 years old, so I’ve been going in there awhile, since I remember when she was pregnant with him.
Anyways, the guy brings my Papo’s gun out and hands it to me. Then my whole body starts shaking and I just freakin lose it right there at the counter. I mean not just crying, I’m weeping. It was a completely uncontrolled, involuntary response. Through the tears I tell“L”, «I’m sorry, this was my grandpa’s saddle gun, he gave it to me when I turned 16, and he’s died since it has been in here.» So then she starts crying, and comes around the counter and gives me a hug. Her son sees her crying and starts crying, so she has to run back around the counter, to give him a hug. «L» tells the other lady at the counter about it, in spanish and she starts crying. It was like the beginning of a bad joke, «So I am standing at the pawn shop counter crying with two mexican women and three year old…»
Seriously, was the strangest thing that has ever happened to me. Well… maybe not the strangest, but it was pretty freakin strange. Sometimes I forget that even though I look like my dad, and have his name, I still have half my Mom in me. She will cry at a Coke commercial. Seriously, remember the one with Mean Joe Green? She bawled like a baby at that one.
Well it took me like 5 minutes to get back under control, I had to walk around the jewelry counter for a bit. Never thought I’d be that attached to a «thing.» But of course I was that attached to my Papo. God love em.
I hope I never go in a pawn shop again, but I’ll always remember this one.