Bring us your gold

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We will buy it for top price.

Don’t have any gold? This is the time of year when Maui produces its own gold.

Maui’s gold

 

Secrets of reality TV

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Secrets of reality TV

 

Most reality TV shows are staged. You knew that, right? I mean, all those coincidences in “The Amazing Race” didn’t just happen.

 

There’s an exception, though, and it’s right here. Only we need you to make it happen, fo’ real.

 

On Thursday and Friday (and maybe Saturday, too), Pawn Stories will be filming at Kamaaina Loan. No script, no fakery.

 

What we are trying to do, however, is to compress the interesting things that really do happen in the pawnshop over a month, or six months into two days – in the interest of efficiency with the production crews.

 

Thus, we want you to bring your most curious item in and let us give you a reading. Did tutu tell you the diamond in her wedding ring was “perfect”? You always wondered if it really was. Find out.

 

In reality, Kamaaina Loan does get a lot of curious stuff. Not every day. Jimi likes to talk about atmospheric clocks, “the closest thing to perpetual energy.”

 

We really do get atmospheric clocks in. We have one on pawn right now, and we purchased another about three years ago.

 

They’re real but rare.

 

So what we’d like you to do for us is help us concentrate all that reality into two days. Should be fun.

 

We’re open 9 a.m.-6 p.m., and the early bird will get the worms.

 

Call 242-5555 if you have questions.

 

And, yes, if you have regular business and don’t want to be filmed, we’re setting up a no-camera area.

First Portugal, now Gold selling sweeps Italy

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Gold Selling in ItalyA few days ago, we linked to a report that in Portugal, out-of-work citizens have sold almost all their gold. Now, another report says that in Italy, the people also are liquidating their gold jewelry because of hard times.

Reuters: “Times are now so tough that Valerio Novelli, a ticket inspector on Rome’s buses, is planning to sell his old gold teeth.

” ‘I can’t get to the end of the month without running up debts,’ said Novelli, 56, who has to support an ex-wife and daughter. ‘I know I won’t get much, but I need the money .’ “

The story goes on to detail warnings that you have read about on this blog already: That the rise in the price of gold has brought in untrustworthy new gold buyers (in Italy, allegedly connected with the Mafia).

Italians are traditionally collectors of gold: christening, birthday and other gifts are often gold jewelry.

When times get hard, the gold gets sold. It’s hard, but when people get to that point, just think how much assistance they’d get from a bank.