Loan Star Pawn - North Port — Local services in North Port

Very honest and professional people working here! I’m a young female and when dealing with items that I don’t know much about, I’m always a bit wary of getting “hoed” at pawn shops. This was the case yesterday when I went into Loan Star with a small amount of vintage gold jewelry. Before I even remembered to ask, the woman helping me (I wish I had asked her name, she was great) said she was going to test the stones on a couple of my items to see if they were real diamonds. It turns out they were! I probably wouldn’t have even known had she not offered to check, and she likely knew this but still checked anyways and it absolutely made my day. She even said that I could bring in some of the stuff I assumed to be costume just to check and make sure. Thank you Loan Star! I will...

Bad service, employees were not smart enough to work an air compressor. They say it’s the customer’s responsibility to test the equipment, but if that’s the case then why do they take the equipment and test it? Are you suggesting that whatever your tests are doing are invalid? And tests are only successful if a customer does them? This makes no sense as you’re the ones buying the equipment, it’s quite literally your job to test the equipment to make sure you can accept it for resale. at least know how to use tools and equipment before you test them. That would save a lot time and effort from the pawnshops end. I would never recommend this pawn shop to anyone with more than five active...

One of the better places to buy a gun. Florida is not a gun friendly place to buy guns. At least not in SWF. Prices are very high and selections are low compared to many parts of the country. Gun shows here are not a good place to find a deal, they are a place to buy when you have no other way to buy a gun. Paradise will do transfers for 20 bucks and that is a deal in Fla. You can get a gun from buds or one of the on line cheap places and then do the transfer at Paradise. I have found sometimes they are not too much more expensive then some guns on line. You...