Farmer tries to pawn livestock
Online pawnbroker is meeting people trying to pawn the strangest things for quick cash.
Emma Pankhurst of Borro, the UK’s leading online pawnbroker, says a farmer recently tried to pawn his entire livestock in exchange for a quick cash loan.
Borro had to turn down the offer since it isn’t really cost effective to store live sheep and cows in their storage facilities, despite the relative luxury of those vaults.
Bizarre items people have successfully pawned include a set of gold teeth, a platinum belly piercing bar, and a rowing singlet worn by Olympic athletes.
The most commonly pawned items are Rolex and Breitling watches, perhaps because of the downturn in the City.
One such item was pawned by a premiership footballer in order to fund a wild night out.
One lady pawned her jewellery to buy herself a plane ticket to meet her father for the first time in 40 years.
Pankhurst says many customers use pawn loans to pay for plastic surgery, lawyers, or medical bills. Their services have come in especially handy amidst the economic downturn, which obviously gets dealt with in different ways.
