The King's Pawn — Local services in Escondido

UPDATE ...Feb 2020 . Just wanted to acknowledge Kings Commitment to trying keeping it simple for their customers . Last year at the end of either pawning or renewing my loans they folded and placed my slips in a plastic bag with there logo on it . That one little idea has helped me from misplacing my slips which I did quite a bit . Bottom line that idea has saved me at least 150 this year !!! I get tired of people talking about pawn shops just trying to take advantage of people . Well if you really feel like that I encourage you to give KINGS a try.. I’ve been a customer of there’s 20 years. In the last 5 they have gone way out of there way to help with money and keeping my stuff . this shop a try cause I have never felt that way With Hedi and her staff.. I LOVE the bag for slips !! BTW Whose Russell , my name Dirk ?!?

I Just noticed my middle name is listed first ... have been a customer & friend to Hedi and her staff for 20 years . While my role has changed from needing a loan to buying merchandise and back to needing a loan . They have always remained honest fair and consistent . I’ve been involved with pawn shops since i was 18. I worked at one and I love shopping at them. I can say in my expierance Kings Pawn has gone above and beyond the service both inbuying and selling . I travel from south OC these days because a lot of shops don’t seem to have many of items especially tools due to the changing economy. Lol .... I would recommend Kings Pawn to anyone and every one . Especially if you have never used a Pawn Broker before . There’s one other shop in OC that I use and I like them for the same reasons they are the fairest and patient people I ve run across . They have always been there when I needed help and they never made me feel like they were there to take advantage . I can’t thank them enough for saving my behind...

I should have known better.... All pawn shops are the same, especially if your selling something. If you plan to sell just be ready to be low balled to the fullest extent. I'm talking less than 25% of whatever the neighboring retail stores are selling the same identical item for. Even if your item is still fully sealed & brand new they will tell you it's a "used" item as soon as it leaves whatever store you purchased it from even if you never even opened it. It's super disrespectful & straight up predatory how they treat people who are obviously not in the best of situations financially for whatever reason. Ripping people off who clearly are hurting for some money is a super messed up business. So 25 years of this place purposely paying a fraction of any given items worth only to turn around and sell it for double or even triple of what they paid. I do understand that often times any item will sit on the shelves for any period of time so that should be accounted for whenever buying something from someone but not to the extreme extent that this pawn shop does every single time. For gods sake is it that hard to be somewhat fair....my word. Quit being so greedy and preying on the people who don't have many other options and maybe try to be reasonable. You would probably be surprised at how many people would bring you their business if they felt they were...

This place is smaller than it looks and less well stocked than you might imagine if you're just looking at the outside. There are, however, a lot of parking spots behind and next to the building.

Inside it's the all too typical low ceiling, bad lighting and inartfully stuff piled all over that most pawn shops are. Add to that, if you're selling something, pretty much the same fumbling with and mumbling about whatever it is isn't what it seems to be nor worth what you thought. This is a tired game and it's on TV and on display at King Pawn in a big way. The guise is, careful purchasing but one look around the shop and through the display cases and you'll see that's not the case. It's just part of the game to get you to take whatever terrible offer they make.

Also, enjoy the damage they will do, and they will, to whatever it is you bring while they "evaluate" it. They won't ask. They'll just do it and shrug. Well, you weren't taking that thing to another store now, were you?

In other words, they claim to be friendly and they are, but they're also not that good at what they do and they'll lowball you all day long. Sure, you think you're smarter but you came to King Pawn so how smart are you? Smart enough to walk out before buying or selling anything?

For your sake, I hope so. The best way to beat this pawn shop is not to...