Five Ways Pawnbrokers Do Themselves a Disservice

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I was asked for a blog this week to cover 5 things that we, as brokers, do that hurt our business, or at the very least, don’t help.

It seemed pretty straight forward at first, but then I really started to think about it. I used my own experiences and came up with what I thought some of my biggest mistakes were (I made way more than just 5, so it was a challenge to narrow it down!).

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Customer Service, Playing the Long Game

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I owned a shop during one of the many “gun scares” and I had a rather large inventory at the time, mainly AR-15’s.

I had a choice. I could raise the prices of my firearms and get all that I could, or I could do what I felt was the “right thing” and sell them at the regular price.

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Technology to the Rescue

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I have been involved in technology most of my life.  I don’t mean binge watching Netflix or playing Call of Duty (although I do both), but actually making a career out of it. 

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