Monthly Archives: December 2009

We are occasionally offered black powder replicas in pawn. My first instinct is that they are the old late 70′s CVA / Jukar kits or their equivalent and have no great value. As a general rule I’m right, but sometimes … Continue reading →

Looking at Google Analytics I see that Pioneerloan.com, a site that serves primarily as our portal, got 1,336 hits from 1,228 unique visitors. Of those 1,186 came from the US, with 371 from Nevada. This tells me that people are … Continue reading →

A few months ago I bought a Dell Studio 17″ laptop for $750 at Best Buy. It came with an Intel T6400 2gig, core 2 duo cpu, 4gb memory, a 320gb hd and 64bit Windows Vista Home Premium. I bought … Continue reading →

We’ve had this pair of amber dice for a while, but they have been kept in the safe, and they haven’t even crossed my mind until I was running through photographs looking for something else. However, since nobody mentioned them … Continue reading →

As I repeatedly tell people; Pawnshops can’t tell you what they have taken in unless you are the one that pawned or sold it. But pawn shops must send a description of everything they take in to Metro’s Pawn Detail, … Continue reading →