Secondhand shops

[White Line Fever]

Sorry to be the glass half empty A Mum but what if she needed a drug fix and was desperate.

It takes two to tango and everyone in life starts bidding low.

But if your going to 500 - 60 is pretty low start...

Yes - good point - but still sad either way.

Yep agree.
Only thing cashies is good for is old stuff like old games etc.
These days better off buying new

[wristwatcher]

That is indeed the dance of the Cash Converter employee. I only lasted 3 and a half months. They say you become desensitised to the job but i did feel sorry for people but yes not everyone that sells to CC is a good person and many an employee copped a bollocking for buying faulty goods or paying to much on items to regular customers. I hated the job and didnt like working with people who at times took pride in other peoples misfortune. But again...No one makes you go there, it is your choice whether you use them or not and how your transactions play out. To say they prey upon the gullable,stupid and socially inept would be a cronic understatemnet.

[HH3]

There were times where i disagreed with what we paid for some things...but people shouldnt sell to cashies if they want more. The buys and loans staff make an offer...but you dont have to sell it to them. Its your choice if you want to hand over your stuff cheaply..

Also, most of the customers were great, and if i needed to kill some time id wander over to an older person and theyd usually chat my ear off for an hour...but then there was "the others"...

I was only there for 6 months, and i got threatened and told i was gonna get killed on my way home, etc...

i didnt mind the job, and i learnt a lot about a lot of things i had no idea about when i started...there were a lot of regulars. A guy we called dollar man would come in every day and just buy things for a dollar...which sometimes were a good mobile phone that didnt have a battery...or an analogue tv we were trying to get rid of because we had too many...

If you go to Cashies in the lead up tp christmas you can get packages. Last year we had Wii and Xbox 360 packages that came with the console and an analogue tv for around $200...

When they get a lot of the same items, they discount like a mother effer just to get rid of it....so keep going back...

[Magpiespower]

Mate worked at Cashies Salisbury and Gawler.

Once a month the boys in blue would pop in with a list of names to check if they'd hocked anything recently.

Every month my mate would look at the list, shake his head and apologize for not recognizing any names.

Conveniently ignoring the names of our less law-abiding mates...

[Psyber]

Some cops I've met always referred to the company as "Crime Converters".

[fisho mcspaz]

I flogged off my wedding and engagement rings to Cashies for twice as much as what Adelaide Exchange Jewellers offered me, and about four times as much as what a pawnbroker would give me. And I picked up Final Fantasy VII for $15, which is quite remarkable considering it goes for about $70 at Gametraders. I'm pretty happy with them.

[wristwatcher]

I flogged off my wedding and engagement rings to Cashies for twice as much as what Adelaide Exchange Jewellers offered me, and about four times as much as what a pawnbroker would give me. And I picked up Final Fantasy VII for $15, which is quite remarkable considering it goes for about $70 at Gametraders. I'm pretty happy with them.

No offence but if you sold your Wedding and Engagement rings to buy Final Fantasy..........Actually ill let that one go through to the keeper

[Strawb]

I flogged off my wedding and engagement rings to Cashies for twice as much as what Adelaide Exchange Jewellers offered me, and about four times as much as what a pawnbroker would give me. And I picked up Final Fantasy VII for $15, which is quite remarkable considering it goes for about $70 at Gametraders. I'm pretty happy with them.

Are a rip off shop around I only use them IF I need a hard to find item. Best example was I traded in 2 old master system 2 that were on their last legs. They didn't test them and offered me 35 dollars each. I traded them for a Master System one which works fine.

[dedja]

Some cops I've met always referred to the company as "Crime Converters".

That's what one of my cop mates calls them ...

[fish]

Some cops I've met always referred to the company as "Crime Converters".

That's what one of my cop mates calls them ...

My brother spotted his stolen bicycle in the Port Adelaide Cashies a few years back!

Got it back off them no problems - he just had to lodge a stolen-bicycle report with the police before Cash Converters released it. Not sure if they chased up the person who sold the bike to them.