History
Mt Vernon, Illinois' Best Pawn Shop Our Company was started in 2003 with an idea that there was a better way to serve the Community and take care of customers. We started with 600 sq ft and within 18 months had expanded to 2400 sq ft. Today we occupy 10,000 sq ft. Our walk in store now services customers in over eight counties and we have shipped packages to every continent in the world. Our jewelry department has expanded at such a rate that we now employee the ONLY two bench jewelers in a 30 mile radius and have the only state of the art jewelry laser in the area. Our jewelry staff are GIA trained and we do in house appraisals. We are the ONLY music store in the area. We supply music equipment for all the area school band programs. We stock over 125 guitars. We have over 6000 movie titles. All our DVD's, Playstation, Xbox, Wii, and BluRays are all resurfaced to like new condition with state of the art professional equipment. Our stores success is directly tied to our reputati
Specialties
How does a pawnshop work ? The public brings gold, diamonds, jewelry, electronics, cameras, tools, or some other item of value into a pawnbroker. When the amount of the loan has been agreed upon, a contract or pawn ticket is printed with a full description of the merchandise used for collateral on the loan. All customers provide collateral, eliminating the need to distinguish high risk from low risk borrowers. Typically, loans are small, averaging between $70 and $100, although they can be as small as $5 or as high as several thousand dollars depending on the value of the collateral. In Illinois, each contract is good for 30 days.