Pawn Shop

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The **Pawn Shop** is a Location where players can pawn their Durables, redeem them, and buy other players' pawned items that have been put up for sale.

Pawning an item gives the player a small amount of money - around 40% of the item's original purchase price.

For the next few Weeks, the player who pawned the item may Redeem it for 1/2 of its original purchase price.

If the item is left at the Pawn Shop for more than a few Weeks, it goes up for sale and can now be bought by any player for 1/2 of its original price.

## Opening Hours

The **Pawn Shop** is open every Week. You may pawn, redeem, and purchase items even if the turn has ended while you're in the store.

## Pawning

"Pawning" is the act of putting an item up as collateral in exchange for a small loan. If the loan is not paid back in time, the Pawn Broker becomes the permanent owner of the item. This is a way to exchange Durables for some emergency money, and gives the player the opportunity to get their item back if they can return the money quickly enough.

When selecting the "Pawn" option at the **Pawn Shop**, the game displays a list of each Durable in the player's inventory. Select a Durable from this list to offer it to the Pawn Shop.

After selecting the item, the game displays the size of the loan that would be received in exchange for it. At this point the player can still refuse the offer, keeping their item.

The base payment for any item is equal to **40% of its original purchase price**, adjusted for the current Economy.

If the player agrees to the offer, they receive the stated amount of money in Cash. The item is removed from their inventory and passed to the Pawn Shop as collateral.

Each time a player pawns an item, they receive **-1 Happiness**.

### Item Limits

If any player has pawned an item, the Pawn Shop will refuse to accept any additional items of the same type. Even other players may not pawn the same type of item again. This persists until the item is Redeemed or sold.

For example, if a player pawns a Microwave, no player may pawn another Microwave until that first Microwave is Redeemed or sold.

Furthermore, the **Pawn Shop** can only hold 6 different items at a time, no matter who they belong to. Any attempt to pawn another item will be rejected. Pawning can only resume once at least one item has been Redeemed or sold.

## Redeeming

"Redeeming" is the act of returning the money accepted for a pawned item -- with interest -- in exchange for the pawned item.

The Pawn Shop holds a pawned item in reserve for 3 Weeks, *including* the week on which it was pawned. Only the player who pawned the item may Redeem it during those three weeks.

The cost to redeem an item is equal to **1/2 its original Purchase Price**, ***not** adjusted* by the Economy. This can occasionally be *less* than the money received for the item, if the Economy was worse when the item was purchased than when it was Pawned.

At the end of the player's Turn on the third Week after Pawning an item, the item becomes the property of the Pawn Shop. It is put up for sale, and can now be purchased by any player.

## Buying

Once an item has become property of the Pawn Shop (see above), the shop immediately puts it up for sale. Any player may now purchase the item for **1/2 of its original purchase price**. This is typically a real bargain, easily rivaling prices for similar items at the Z-Mart.

Buying items from the Pawn Shop does not give the player any Happiness points.

Buying an Appliance from the Pawn Shop flags it as a "second hand Appliance", giving it a 1/36 chance to break down each turn - the same as Appliances purchased from Z-Mart. The item is flagged even if it was pawned just a few weeks earlier right after being purchased from Socket City.

## Visuals

Like most other portraits, the Pawn Broker's face is slightly different in the CD-ROM version of the game.

Pawn Broker, CD-ROM version
## Quotes

### Greetings

* *Welcome to the Pawn Shop. Nothing is too hot for us to handle.*
* *Welcome to the Pawn Shop. Down on your luck? Save the story for someone who hasn't heard it.*
* *Welcome to the Pawn Shop. I may look mean on the outside, but I've got a heart of stone.*
* *Welcome to the Pawn Shop. Why crawl to anybody else?*
* *Welcome to the Pawn Shop, where we pardon your beg!*
* *Welcome to the Pawn Shop. Your first stop on the way down the corporate ladder!*
* *Welcome to the Pawn Shop. Where 'pawn' is just another word for nothing left to lose!*
* *Welcome to the Pawn Shop. Please don't beg, it scuffs the carpet.*