They could likely have earned far more by pawning them in private to someone with shadier purposes.
According to CNN Money, U.S. News and a number of other sources, pawning is increasingly providing these businesses with another answer.
With lower rates than traditional pawn shops and convenient transactions, online pawning could be a smart move for a new or smaller company.
Pawning his wife's jewelry, he bought the Clarkes Hotel in Shimla in 1934 and four years later picked up the Calcutta Grand Hotel.
However, Mr Tapp says there is a danger if people find themselves pawning items on a regular basis, because it is still a high-cost way to get money.
It's not like he's pawning a baby at a store.
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Online pawnshops like UltraPawn, Pawngo, and IPawn are changing the pawn industry in more ways than one, making online pawning an attractive option for small businesses.
While online pawning continues to be a relatively new option for business customers, a growing number of small businesses are finding it to be a good way to finance their short-term financing needs.
Perhaps the poor economy continues to draw the idle and unemployed, with pawning and trash picking offering viewers a vicarious chance at quick cash, while armchair adventurers get their fix with programs devoted to monsters, aliens and conspiracies.
His family sometimes did not have enough to eat, but Goodyear soldiered on, turning the kitchen of wherever he was living into a laboratory, commandeering pots and pans, pawning the furniture when necessary to raise money to continue his experiments, borrowing from anyone foolish enough to lend to him.
Mr Mortimer nonetheless luxuriates in what he has: grants to chantries and hospitals, rewards for service, reports from ambassadors, requests for provisioning (all those thousands of longbows, arrows, barrels of beer, sides of beef) and the ceaseless pawning of a large part of Henry's treasure to pay for his whim of a war.
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