Pawn shop flogging used £435 coffin after cost of living crisis trade in
A used coffin has turned up at a pawnbroker in the US.
The large, grey casket with gold trim has turned up at Pasternack’s Pawn Shop in Aurora, Colorado, and is on sale for $499 (£435).
According to KDVR-TV, the bizarre item was exchanged for a cash loan earlier this year.
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One of the shop’s team, Scott Pasternack, said that the coffin was just many of the things customers had been looking to pawn recently as the cost of living crisis in the country tightens its grip.
He told the TV station: “Our loans have gone through the roof with the economy being much lower and people needing more money”.
An anonymous customer also explained how they were being forced to pawn their stuff more frequently than normal.
They said: “As times have gotten tougher, inflation rates have caused me to come in once a month now selling things”.
As with all crises though, someone tends to benefit, with customers snapping up bargains from the store’s increased selection of goods.
Roxi Kessler said to the station: “You can’t afford anything ’cause gas prices are so damn high it raises the prices of everything. Food, insurance, everything.
“The price is just skyrocketing. You can’t afford to buy anything new."
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In the UK, the Guardian reported that British pawn shops had been enjoying a return to easy times after struggling during the pandemic.
People who weren’t spending money during the pandemic had less of a need to pawn – but in August anecdotal reports showed that brokers’ business was bouncing back.
Nathan Finch, the managing director of Pickwick in Ashford, Kent, told the paper: “I have not really seen this pace of growth before. I think we are in new territory.
“I think people are arming up in respect of their finances. Pawnbroking customers are particularly savvy and are often smoothing their cashflow and making sure they have [what they need for] a bill coming up.”
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