A & P Pawn

I’ve been doing business with this place for 5 years. The inventory is priced high, but it’s not junk. Go to ANY pawn shop in the Houston area and they all want the same thing: a few bucks below retail. A&P might make you a fair deal, but don’t lowball them. If you offer an unfair price, they won’t play fair either. It’s a business, they have overhead and costs, and they don’t like their time being wasted. That said, they have always treated me fairly. I’ve always received a fair loan and fair purchase. Could they be better? Yeah, sure. Everyone could. A lot of people are put off by the «old man» and I don’t know why. They’re not your friend. They don’t care to chit-​chat about anything and everything and make small talk. They’re there to make money. They’re not going to give you what you want but they are FAIR. Which is a LOT more than I can say for any other pawn shop I have been to. This is my go-​to place, and it should be yours as well.

In my opinion, pawn shops are for two things: loans and bargain buying. While I’ve never needed to pawn anything, I definitely thought this place had some cool merchandise. They have a ton of recording studio and music equipment that’s not your run of the mill stuff. It’s high quality preamps, converters, and microphones. They also have a huge selection of HiFi stereo equipment. However, their pricing is not at all modest. Most of the equipment doesn’t even have price tags, which in my experience is never a good sign. It’s very expensive, and there’s almost not incentive to buy from them. I can find much better prices online or would probably prefer to buy used.

Very rude owner. Was trying to play basic mind games to negotiate a lower price on an item I was trying to sell. As in taking a very long time when there was no one there. And not speaking to me or taking a long time to reply to everything. Ended up going to another pawn shop and got $ 100 more than the price he said «could not be beaten.» Yeah right.

Friendly, knowledgable, with real quality gear and a healthy flexibility to negotiate. recommended for musicians!

Oooh, their prices are high! They’ve some good stuff though, but at close to new prices for quite used merchandise I think I’ll pass.