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When I was a teenager I figured out that cash converters gave you a flat rate of $5 for any PlayStation or Xbox game unless it was a new AAA title. I used to go to EB Games and buy all of their $2 games on clearance without their original case (I bought so many copies of sonic tennis) and sell them to cash converters. As there were multiple cash converters and multiple EB Games in my area I'd spend the day hitting up each EB and buying every single game that was sub $5 and selling them to the multiple cash converters, I made about $300 in a month doing this. It's because of me that cash converters has a rule of not buying any game without it's original case.
I had a similar situation. 7-11 had this promotion where if you signed up for their 7Rewards, they’d give you a ton of points, but they wouldn’t verify the emails were even real. You could type literal gibberish and they’d give you the points. I got a bag of chips and a brownie or soda every single day before school for a time period so long I can’t remember, it became routine until I graduated. On top of that, you could refer a friend for points. I had a main account that I would use the “new” accounts to refer to, and just had it stack points. It had somewhere in the mid hundred thousand points before it got reset and suspended. They’ve since added a non-voip phone number requirement, removed the refer program, and points now expire extremely fast so you can’t passively hoard even if you could. I’d like to imagine I single handedly made them change, but I’m sure other people were doing it too. I know damn well I abused it enough to cost them thousands.
I worked at Cashies 15 years ago. Once had a dude ask how much we would give him for his Bic lighter. Also had a dude selling a car stereo, mid way through me testing it the cops walked in and I have never seen anyone run so damn fast. Fun times.
@@wittoist There was a 2 meter wide shelf full of things we had to put aside for police to check out at any one time. There was a fair amount of stolen stuff but also a fair amount of knock offs like fake Gibson guitars.
Worst Fish & Chip shops in Australia. The biggest roll of the dice was based on if they had one of those coin lolly dispensers that had four sections that were either empty, filled with only the crap stuff, or were older than country.
There was a fish and chip shop in a coastal town where i lived, this was in like 2012. They had those toy coin machine things but, it was pokemon. I emptied the machine (there was like 4 left) and it was all 2nd gen pokemon and the sign on the machine was so sunbleached it was barely readable. Food was good, shut down now tho
That's easy, look for fish and chips stores that were run by aussies or greeks and now are ran by chinese immigrants who barely speak English, you'll be able to find dozens of the country's worst shops :)
Can confirm, I even have a few mates who have had engraved watches, anniversary jewellery, and stolen bikes show up in their local cashies on MULTIPLE occasions. Best part, the staff let one - who found his stolen goods - take their watch back because they recited the engraving on it from their deceased father. Yes, occasionally the stories end well.
glad you found an actual reasonable and compassionate person. CC stories don't end well very often. And in my experience their staff have no qualms in profiting off what they basically KNOW is theft. And have no qualms in backing that business model up with illegal force and operations. If their customers were RICH... ASIC would have outlawed them decades ago.
@@eternity8811 do laws like these not exist or are just ignored over there? NC General Statutes - Chapter 66 Article 45 1 Article 45. Pawnbrokers, Metal Dealers, and Scrap Dealers. Part 1. Pawnbrokers and Cash Converters. § 66-385. Short title. This Part shall be known and may be cited as the Pawnbrokers and Cash Converters Modernization Act. (1989, c. 638, s. 2; 2011-325, s. 2; 2012-46, ss. 2, 4.) § 66-386. Purpose. The making of pawn loans and the acquisition and disposition of tangible personal property by and through pawnshops and cash converters vitally affects the general economy of this State and the public interest and welfare of its citizens. In recognition of these facts, it is the policy of this State and the purpose of the Pawnbrokers and Cash Converters Modernization Act to do all of the following: (1) Ensure a sound system of making loans and acquiring and disposing of tangible personal property by and through pawnshops, and to prevent unlawful property transactions, particularly in stolen property, through licensing and regulating pawnbrokers. (2) Ensure a sound system of acquiring and disposing of tangible personal property by and through cash converters and to prevent unlawful property transactions, particularly in stolen property, by requiring record keeping by cash converters. (3) Provide for pawnbroker licensing fees and investigation fees of licensees. (4) Ensure financial responsibility to the State and the general public. (5) Ensure compliance with federal and State laws. (6) Assist local governments in the exercise of their police authority. (1989, c. 638, s. 2; 2011-325, s. 3; 2012-46, ss. 2, 5.) course not all pawnshops give enough of a shit to record all their transactions or big ticket items, even, but these comments sound like its the wild west out there lmao. If something of mine was stolen and ended up in a pawnshop, and it was provable, like having a custom engraving, there would be no asking to return it. It would be demanding my shit back from the store and they'd have to oblige.
I worked for cash converters in fortitude valley for about two years so so in my early 20s. A guy got stabbed out the front, someone took a shit on the sales floor, a woman fell asleep on one of the couches and did not wake up (not sure what happened to her in the end). All in all, great time, loved it.
Haha. I've sold one thing ever to Cash Converters and actually made a small profit. I was working at Harvey Norman, my store had a beer keg system at recommended retail price of $1299.00. After two years of trying to get rid of it, my boss sold it to me for $250 staff price. Took it to cashies and they gave me $315. Went in for a look for years later and it was still sitting there with its $650 price tag 🤣
As ya doing Cash Convertors, here's a funny story from here in the UK. About 15 or so years ago, was waiting for my mate opposite a Cashie's while he was in the corner store getting a drink, as I was rolling a cigarette I watched a drunk bloke walk down the road, stroll into the guitar store right next door to the Cashie's, grab a guitar then walk out of that shop and into the Cashie's to sell it before walking into the store my mate was walking out of to get some beers. All while the guitar staff just sat there looking confused and not knowing what was going on. 10/10 skill fo that drunk.
That is is just nasty. Why I will never buy from these hock stores. Does it ever occur to you there are victims who have small stores, work their are off and then get trashed by these people. You never pick on the rich you just hit the vulnerable. What a man!
I used to know some guys that would steal and sell to cashies. They sold the same exact wi-fi router that they had racked from JB Hi Fi to cashies 7 times before they caught on and banned them. Rotated to a different cashies in another neighbourhood, lasted 6 times there. Went back to the first one and got away with it a few more times because by then they had forgotten.
@@Brakiros dude it's a pawnshop. they KNOW the goods are stolen. but they still have to refuse business if it gets too obvious, like some random kid having access to a dozen brand new routers.
@@billynomates920 I was there I just didn't participate in the theft. Last I checked giving someone a lift to cashies to sell stolen shit is not a crime
Funny story I was told by a salesman in Collingwood (vic) cash converters some years ago. In the middle of the store they used to have some stairs going down to the buying area. He told me they purchased the same guitar 3 times from someone who would take it from the sales area and sell it to them downstairs lol. That downstairs area no longer exists.
Ahhh, hep c is a bloodborne virus. You can't contract it by handling anything other than a hep c infected blood filled syringe (& even then you'd need to prick yourself with it.
As a retail and lending assistant at a pawn brokers in Logan I can confirm that charger cables are the highest turnover by volume. It is also true that most lenders are in fact flexing what small power they have over the local crackhead population.
I've worked at multiple Cash Converters stores for a total of 8 years. There is always a middle aged Filipino lady who loans against thousands of dollars of jewellery to pay for medical bills or stuff for her family back home. EVERY store has one.
That chapel St hungry jacks in prahran was pretty bad . I worked there for a couple of years as a young fella. The tradition of dropping food on the floor and then serving it to customers was well established when I worked there and if you complained you can almost guarantee someone has spit in your burger.
I have work in hungry jacks for five years so here are some pros and cons Cons: - Broken widows (store and our cars) - cleaning sh*t - angriest indian boss on earth - extremely busy or dead quiet - didnt get to clean the ice cream machine cause another indian manager probably thought i was retarded - cleaned bathrooms with enough chemicals to shorten my lifespan by 10 years Pros: - made friends as we suffered together - angriest indian boss on earth gave us extra $50 when we broke sales - the working environment was like family not the fake ones companies try to get you to work harder but actual family cause we suffered together. - learned how to talk to girls Angriest indian boss said during the start of employment: "you'll never find a more better boss than me" An after two years ive left and worked multiple jobs he is still right. ✅️
@@mahelttaiyono1013 she wasn't a fast vacuum, got an extra five for doing a brilliant job, i didnt really buy speed with it though, just made for a more fitting story.
@@eternity8811 um well the lady behind the counter turned it on to check to see if she went, and from there I started moving it along the floor in a backward and forwards motion, while everyone else in the room where the buy/loans counter is looked on thinking this guy is a bloody australian hero.
LOVE IT! I worked at a Cash Converters for 3 weeks. In Personal Loans. Had no experience but did some bookkeeping/accounting at Tafe and never completed it. So once I had the loans thing worked out I started explaining to customers how much they were getting ripped off and they'd be better off with a credit card. The store was also being audited so they gave us prefilled timecards to sign. I changed all the finish times to the actual time they let us leave (every day nobody was allowed to leave until ALL the money in each department was accounted for) the manager came the next day and made me sign a blank timecard. I folded and signed it. And then quit. CC is the absolute last resort when you need money. Devastating so many of the customers were just born into that way of life and don't know any better. The day their pay goes in, all of their loans come out. And they'd call every week to see if they can apply for another one yet. 😓
Hahaha Cash Converters can always be found in those dodgy suburb shopping centers along with Thai Massages, Chinese takeaways and one of those random Arab Tabacco King shops that probably sell other things if you know the right password...
Years ago when I had just finished my HSC and was looking for things to do I took a job as a mystery shopper and was given a few cash converters to audit - had to fill out full reports for each store and everything. Safe to say it was one of the more depressing things I’ve done
Worked at Cash Converters for 3 years. was a pretty interesting place to work. there would be people lined up 2 hours before the store opened to hock their wares.
I bought some "real" gold plated hoop earrings for roughly $180 from cash converters for my partner, brought them back in a few months later as we needed some quick cash for a holiday, I asked for about $90 but didn't mention and the EXACT person that sold them to me looked me in the eyes and said "oh these aren't real gold so we wouldn't sell them for that much", I then told them that they were sold to me as "real" gold from the same store, they literally froze for a second, went and talked to the manager out the back then came and said "sorry we shouldn't have sold them at that price we can do you $80". Offered me less still despite being made to look dumb. 0/5
@@grimace4257 damn straight son, twas a rough time in our lives! Haha Don't need to rely on this sort of thing now we've got our head on straight, but we were young and dumb 😂
You say that cashies exists as a glorified fence for stolen bikes like that's a surprise. Guaranteed that if you could magically remove all stolen inventory from casheys you'd be left with nothing but cracked crock pots and old shirts with permanent pit stains.
Damn, wish I'd known you were taking cashies stories. I worked at their Chapel St Store two doors down from Revs. What a soul destroying place it was. I was spat at, abused, experienced multiple death threats. Two guys even waited outside for me to knock off so they could kill me. They got bored after an hour and left. Constant encounters with the police. Found fucked up shit on peoples devices. Soooo much stolen stuff. Incredibly toxic workplace too. The best though was one one guy came in off his face and grabbed a dvd player off the shelf before walking up to the counter and trying to sell it to me. I told him that I'd clearly seen him take it off the shelf but he tried to convince me that he'd brought it from home. Thankfully he was that out of it that he gave up without too much of a fight and left. I definitely have ptsd from that place. Minus 10 stars
When I had my bike stolen (because no one in Australia has NOT had their bike stolen) I reported the theft to the police who suggested I check out local cash converters. I kind of thought that investigation was their wheelhouse. How wrong I was.
Work in Fyshwick ACT Was disagreeing with a co-worker how many bordellos are in the area, tried to look it up and found out there are a heap of google reviews for the local brothels. The comments are absolute comedy gold and an excellent example of ethnic stereotypes.
I haven't been to a Cash Conartists since the 90's. I still remember some guy I knew back then decided he needed some quick cash and thought "Oh, this doesn't really belong to anyone important. I'll just go and hock it at Cash Converters so I can have some money for smokes or some other kind of drug." I eventually found out he had done this so I went to the loans area and told them they had given money to someone who stole something that belonged to me. The kicker in my description was the game that was in my Gameboy that was in the store's possession at the time. Thankfully it hadn't been put into the store yet so I was able to get it back.
for the love of god, do the worst Telstra in Australia. I use to work at a few stores and in my spare time I would read reviews myself. its incredibly sad and hilarious
I was once offered $8 CAD for a $380 Snap On tool (that I bought new and used once) at a local pawn shop. They charge more than new price for ancient electronics. They obviously only make money on people pawning things and being unable to buy them back, and straight up scamming people.
I went into a cash converters in my home town and I knew the place had turned because all the guitars were behind glass. They don't bother at my local store
Wait, hold on. For the guy who bought the game but got no disc, there's a cash converters receipt INSIDE THE GAME CASE. Meaning, the employee opened the case and put the receipt in there, saw that there was no game disc, and gave it to the customer anyways...
A guy I used to know was a pro sax player and a junkie used to hawk his sax at the same CC regularly and would go and pay it out and get it back a few days later. Obviously it was an expensive instrument so he would get more than a grand for it each time. They made $thousands out of him. Anyway he got clean and was moving to Indonesia to live so he took his horn in one last time except he had swapped it for some piece of sh*t saxophone he had found. The guys at CC didn't even open the case as they were so used to him hawking it. So he took the money and was never seen there again.
I see cops in there often, I swear most of their stuff is stolen. I tried asking the local cash converters if they buy iPads and they said, no. I had 30 unlocked non stolen ones. I would have sold them for $100 each. I ended up selling them for $200 each on Marketplace and eBay. Honestly their loss.
I can confirm as an ex cash converters employee, this job has the worst customers ever. I once had to drag dark man who was potentially overdosing on heroin out of my store and I'll never forget the way he looked at me when I got him through the door and said "you will meet God". I respect the fuck out of any degenerate that continues to work here.
My Dad's no longer allowed to sell anything to our local Cashies since there was an argument that happened between him and the manager there. He is, however, still allowed to go right next door and buy stuff from them. Sums them up pretty well
A few Americans moved into town and opened up a pawn shop (Ballarat) and they are awesome they kill cashies in every way possible and actually like to bargain a deal. Props to them I forgot their business' name
The worst laundromats in Australia. I've nearly been robbed at a local one in Frankston about 4 - 6 times in 12 months in the middle of the day by crackheads.
I remember in the 90's they we clean and high quality department stores that you were always excited to visit. Most of them now are just shit heaps with poorly maintained and poor quality items
I nominate Glenmore Maccas in Rocky. Seen the staff playing a game throw a coconut to each other in the carpark in uniform, must have been their break time. Mostly kids, top employees.
I got so many cheap SNES RPG's from them when I was a kid, loved it. Lots that weren't common either but they wouldn't have known any better so same price as all the others.
The Cash Converters here closed down about 15 years ago, and it's now re-opened in town as a loan shark office only. There's nothing for sale inside :(
worst return and earns would be actually mega. I went to the one in Rockdale with my ex once and it was so bogan. everyone was piling in with their bin bags full of coke cans, they were all so short and had no teeth, also there was nowhere to park and two bogan families started fighting in the queue. so fucking weird I never went back.
I was at a cash converter. I brought a PlayStation 3 guess what when I get home the disc drive doesn't work, they refunded it. about a year later I got a Grand Theft Auto V for Xbox 360, was missing a disc and the other one was scratched and didn't work and refused a refund because it wasn't on the same day because it was like 4:30 and when i got home it was like 5.
Worked at Cashies - One Boss was a bona-fide conman who was also a practicing Baptist Minister.. the other was creepy AF and made Dalhmer seem like a pleasant fellow. 'Buyers' were told to offer the lowest prices, prices on sale goods was ridiculously high. Attic was haunted - never been that scared in my life. Turns out building used to be a police station in the 1850s or so and many criminals were thrown in attic cells, tortured and killed back then.
They actually sold my stolen bike too. My pop bought me a pushy before he carked it and it was stolen years later. Cue me seeing it in the Cash Converters nearby, easily identifiable from many unique damage markers from me doing dumb shite on it (might have been Kipparing? It's been well over a decade now, not 100% on the store location) We said it was stolen, went to the cops and... It just went nowhere. Cops never contacted. Store never contacted.
I suspect the stolen goods from two other unrelated home robberies probably passed through there. I imagine the people that did at least one of them were 'professionals' as they pilfered only the mainstream and popular titles from my video game collection at the time and left more obscure gems like Asura's Wrath whilst any military type games disappeared. same with movies, popular titles went byebye but anything normies wouldn't like stayed. That must have been about 2009 maybe...? The other they literally only stole the alcohol from the cabinet and my mum's jewelry in the box in her room which was nothing important, she kept all her good stuff all over her fingers and neck lol Craziest thing about that theft was there was $2000 in my undies drawer I'd been stashing away in my teens from doing repairs on the side for less than my mechanic shop employers quoted and they didn't find it.
Love ya jordies. Here's a yarn for ya from NZ. I once lent my bass guitar to the man who taught me my first chords, ten years after the fact (it was in after school care, and then saw him busking in the street). This man inspired me to become a music teacher. However, upon my request to have my bass back, i learnt he had pawned it off to cashies and they made me pay 120 for it befofe getting it back. Maybe i shouldve called the cops but he is white and i am half-cast and from my experience they probs wouldn't take my side. Anyway i had looked up to this man thoughout my formative years and when he basically lied about "borrowing" my bass and then pawned it for drug money it made me question my fundamental view of humanity as inherently good. Im still confused as hell about this
We need bunnings, its my favourite part of the day checking the recent reviews on the bunnings store I work at Most of them are either mad that the 15 year old part time teenager who works here can't help a tradie with literal tradie work that they should know themselves. Or when we refuse to refund a $1k product to a methhead with 0 proof of purchase
I am wondering if you watched The Block final? It has a few perfect examples of Realestate Agents having zero care for their vendors wishes and just wanting to get the properties off their books. Even if that meant zero profit for the contestants.
Cash converters spoiled video game consoles and games and paper boxes by putting stickers on them.always ask them to remove stickers and watch them refuse.
I bought my first skateboard from cash converters dee why, it was a “vision phyco stick” , I was 7, I’m now 34, have 3 kids, still skate, had my Powell peralta vallely stolen from my ute recently, ended up in a cash converters, I feel like I’ve come around full circle.
Back before I turned 18, mum put a loan against my Xbox 360 when we needed to get through until payday. The day we got it out was also the first time she took me to go play the pokies. Even though I was 16, I looked way older than what I actually was and staff didn't bat an eye. When we got home I went to set up the Xbox, only to find the controller wasn't working. Turned out it wasn't my controller, and I knew because I'd put a little sticker on the back. I was pretty angry, but it just so happened that my little pokies trip had netted me a cool 80 bucks. So after a quick trip back into town, I used that 80 to buy a new controller and was back gaming that very night! So gotta ask, what's more Aussie than an underage gambler having enough winnings for what they need?
@@sexyfacenation I'm not a problem gambler, if that's what you mean. I haven't played the pokies since... I don't know how many years. And last time I tried was during a work Christmas party last year, when I decided to pub crawl after all my workmates left. I went through one door the pokie room normally was, but it wasn't there, so I awkwardly walked through glancing around for the fabled pokies room, then exited out the main entrance. I decided to go down the road 5 minutes away to the RSL, until some random guy called out to me (some dude with long hair and a beard). I turned around and decided to hear him out; he seemed insistent that I had some unresolved problem, even though I explained that the new layout of the pub was off-putting and I was just looking for a pokies. He seemed totally out of it, but the girl hanging off him was down to earth and we chatted for a while. I ordered a couple drinks, then ordered an Uber home. So yeah, that was what happened the last time I tried playing the pokies. Since then I played a few keno games and the Melbourne Cup. Just sign me up for gamblers anonymous
Years ago some burglars broke in to my mums house and stole some things along with my mothers t.v.. Little did they know it was broken from my younger sibling throwing the remote at it. A week later my older sister found our mums t.v at Thornlie Cash Converters. 😂
In Brisbane a few years ago the cops actually got two stores under police funds and had actual police running the stores. They got so much stolen goods they started a second store for their crack down on crime. One store was west end and the other was marooka, Moorooka and Indropilly worked hand in hand with cops daily providing reports of stuff taken in for loans or sales daily, those two stores were owned by the same person, probably a ex cop by the chatter in population of druggies on streets. Once the people found out what the cops were up to they avoided those stores like the plague and drove to other side of Brisbane to sell their stolen goods. Now they just sell them online.
I've played enough Subnautica to recognise the music at 3:00 what a jam that game was....screw it im redownloading it, modding it, and doing another run
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When I was a teenager I figured out that cash converters gave you a flat rate of $5 for any PlayStation or Xbox game unless it was a new AAA title. I used to go to EB Games and buy all of their $2 games on clearance without their original case (I bought so many copies of sonic tennis) and sell them to cash converters. As there were multiple cash converters and multiple EB Games in my area I'd spend the day hitting up each EB and buying every single game that was sub $5 and selling them to the multiple cash converters, I made about $300 in a month doing this. It's because of me that cash converters has a rule of not buying any game without it's original case.
weird i bought a pokémon game without it’s case from cash converters
I had a similar situation. 7-11 had this promotion where if you signed up for their 7Rewards, they’d give you a ton of points, but they wouldn’t verify the emails were even real. You could type literal gibberish and they’d give you the points. I got a bag of chips and a brownie or soda every single day before school for a time period so long I can’t remember, it became routine until I graduated.
On top of that, you could refer a friend for points. I had a main account that I would use the “new” accounts to refer to, and just had it stack points. It had somewhere in the mid hundred thousand points before it got reset and suspended.
They’ve since added a non-voip phone number requirement, removed the refer program, and points now expire extremely fast so you can’t passively hoard even if you could. I’d like to imagine I single handedly made them change, but I’m sure other people were doing it too. I know damn well I abused it enough to cost them thousands.
I abuse myself.
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@@BigRamifications word
I worked at Cashies 15 years ago. Once had a dude ask how much we would give him for his Bic lighter. Also had a dude selling a car stereo, mid way through me testing it the cops walked in and I have never seen anyone run so damn fast. Fun times.
So what was the offer for the Bic? Asking for a friend.
@@Loctorak Pretty sure he wanted 2 bucks haha
How much stuff is stolen you reckon?
@@wittoist There was a 2 meter wide shelf full of things we had to put aside for police to check out at any one time. There was a fair amount of stolen stuff but also a fair amount of knock offs like fake Gibson guitars.
@@eternity8811 another day, another junkie to them haha
Worst Fish & Chip shops in Australia. The biggest roll of the dice was based on if they had one of those coin lolly dispensers that had four sections that were either empty, filled with only the crap stuff, or were older than country.
Your mum's older than country.
@@looksirdroids9134 goatham
There was a fish and chip shop in a coastal town where i lived, this was in like 2012. They had those toy coin machine things but, it was pokemon. I emptied the machine (there was like 4 left) and it was all 2nd gen pokemon and the sign on the machine was so sunbleached it was barely readable. Food was good, shut down now tho
The best fish and chip shops are the ones with those old chiko roll posters featuring some bimbo on a Harley.
That's easy, look for fish and chips stores that were run by aussies or greeks and now are ran by chinese immigrants who barely speak English, you'll be able to find dozens of the country's worst shops :)
Can confirm, I even have a few mates who have had engraved watches, anniversary jewellery, and stolen bikes show up in their local cashies on MULTIPLE occasions. Best part, the staff let one - who found his stolen goods - take their watch back because they recited the engraving on it from their deceased father. Yes, occasionally the stories end well.
glad you found an actual reasonable and compassionate person. CC stories don't end well very often. And in my experience their staff have no qualms in profiting off what they basically KNOW is theft. And have no qualms in backing that business model up with illegal force and operations.
If their customers were RICH... ASIC would have outlawed them decades ago.
@@eternity8811 do laws like these not exist or are just ignored over there?
NC General Statutes - Chapter 66 Article 45 1
Article 45.
Pawnbrokers, Metal Dealers, and Scrap Dealers.
Part 1. Pawnbrokers and Cash Converters.
§ 66-385. Short title.
This Part shall be known and may be cited as the Pawnbrokers and Cash Converters
Modernization Act. (1989, c. 638, s. 2; 2011-325, s. 2; 2012-46, ss. 2, 4.)
§ 66-386. Purpose.
The making of pawn loans and the acquisition and disposition of tangible personal property by
and through pawnshops and cash converters vitally affects the general economy of this State and
the public interest and welfare of its citizens. In recognition of these facts, it is the policy of this
State and the purpose of the Pawnbrokers and Cash Converters Modernization Act to do all of the
following:
(1) Ensure a sound system of making loans and acquiring and disposing of tangible
personal property by and through pawnshops, and to prevent unlawful property
transactions, particularly in stolen property, through licensing and regulating
pawnbrokers.
(2) Ensure a sound system of acquiring and disposing of tangible personal property
by and through cash converters and to prevent unlawful property transactions,
particularly in stolen property, by requiring record keeping by cash converters.
(3) Provide for pawnbroker licensing fees and investigation fees of licensees.
(4) Ensure financial responsibility to the State and the general public.
(5) Ensure compliance with federal and State laws.
(6) Assist local governments in the exercise of their police authority. (1989, c. 638,
s. 2; 2011-325, s. 3; 2012-46, ss. 2, 5.)
course not all pawnshops give enough of a shit to record all their transactions or big ticket items, even, but these comments sound like its the wild west out there lmao. If something of mine was stolen and ended up in a pawnshop, and it was provable, like having a custom engraving, there would be no asking to return it. It would be demanding my shit back from the store and they'd have to oblige.
“The shop is not as big as the owners head” will make me laugh for days
Kinda rube
2 stars.
I agree! 😂
I worked for cash converters in fortitude valley for about two years so so in my early 20s. A guy got stabbed out the front, someone took a shit on the sales floor, a woman fell asleep on one of the couches and did not wake up (not sure what happened to her in the end). All in all, great time, loved it.
What sticker price did they put on the piece of shit and the dead lady?
@@caveyfulabout $3.50
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ohhhhh gotta go down to cashiees
@@sgtjonzo where you can find your dreeeams
@@42neddy They've got wares an' chairs an' a bog downstairs and out of date movies!
@@NevNeedsALifeyou forgot the clubs and tubs and hats for scrubs
@@johnxina2140 ah bugger
Haha. I've sold one thing ever to Cash Converters and actually made a small profit. I was working at Harvey Norman, my store had a beer keg system at recommended retail price of $1299.00. After two years of trying to get rid of it, my boss sold it to me for $250 staff price. Took it to cashies and they gave me $315. Went in for a look for years later and it was still sitting there with its $650 price tag 🤣
As ya doing Cash Convertors, here's a funny story from here in the UK.
About 15 or so years ago, was waiting for my mate opposite a Cashie's while he was in the corner store getting a drink, as I was rolling a cigarette I watched a drunk bloke walk down the road, stroll into the guitar store right next door to the Cashie's, grab a guitar then walk out of that shop and into the Cashie's to sell it before walking into the store my mate was walking out of to get some beers. All while the guitar staff just sat there looking confused and not knowing what was going on. 10/10 skill fo that drunk.
That is is just nasty. Why I will never buy from these hock stores. Does it ever occur to you there are victims who have small stores, work their are off and then get trashed by these people. You never pick on the rich you just hit the vulnerable. What a man!
@@ulrikezachmann7596 The guitar was marked up anyway, you pay for the name on the guitar not the guitar itself…
That's very convenient TBF.
Crime converters.
@@fanatamon theft and gambling debts are 90% of their business
If you're not an Aussie and you want to see what cashies are like, I highly recommend DankPods' Cashies Special series, it's always a laugh
Totally agree on that one!
I love the cashies specials
They aren't unique to Australia
oooooh gotta go down to cashies
it's nugget time
I used to know some guys that would steal and sell to cashies. They sold the same exact wi-fi router that they had racked from JB Hi Fi to cashies 7 times before they caught on and banned them. Rotated to a different cashies in another neighbourhood, lasted 6 times there. Went back to the first one and got away with it a few more times because by then they had forgotten.
Dear god that's some turbo incompetent management
@@Brakiros dude it's a pawnshop. they KNOW the goods are stolen. but they still have to refuse business if it gets too obvious, like some random kid having access to a dozen brand new routers.
unusually specific story these guys told you....😉
@@billynomates920 I was there I just didn't participate in the theft. Last I checked giving someone a lift to cashies to sell stolen shit is not a crime
are u speaking from experience
Funny story I was told by a salesman in Collingwood (vic) cash converters some years ago. In the middle of the store they used to have some stairs going down to the buying area. He told me they purchased the same guitar 3 times from someone who would take it from the sales area and sell it to them downstairs lol. That downstairs area no longer exists.
Ahhh, hep c is a bloodborne virus. You can't contract it by handling anything other than a hep c infected blood filled syringe (& even then you'd need to prick yourself with it.
As a retail and lending assistant at a pawn brokers in Logan I can confirm that charger cables are the highest turnover by volume. It is also true that most lenders are in fact flexing what small power they have over the local crackhead population.
LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What was the owner like? Im always curious about the people who work in these type of careers
The worst Law firms 💀
All of them pretty much!
Farrrk, I'd watch that!
Could be incorporated into the biggest slime careers one could take.
Yes yes please
Start with the one that represented #Bruz
I've worked at multiple Cash Converters stores for a total of 8 years. There is always a middle aged Filipino lady who loans against thousands of dollars of jewellery to pay for medical bills or stuff for her family back home. EVERY store has one.
I have several lol
I'm dying for The Worst Hungry Jacks stores in Australia
Hungry jacks can do no wrong
impossible hungry jacks is sacred grounds
That chapel St hungry jacks in prahran was pretty bad . I worked there for a couple of years as a young fella.
The tradition of dropping food on the floor and then serving it to customers was well established when I worked there and if you complained you can almost guarantee someone has spit in your burger.
I have work in hungry jacks for five years so here are some pros and cons
Cons:
- Broken widows (store and our cars)
- cleaning sh*t
- angriest indian boss on earth
- extremely busy or dead quiet
- didnt get to clean the ice cream machine cause another indian manager probably thought i was retarded
- cleaned bathrooms with enough chemicals to shorten my lifespan by 10 years
Pros:
- made friends as we suffered together
- angriest indian boss on earth gave us extra $50 when we broke sales
- the working environment was like family not the fake ones companies try to get you to work harder but actual family cause we suffered together.
- learned how to talk to girls
Angriest indian boss said during the start of employment: "you'll never find a more better boss than me"
An after two years ive left and worked multiple jobs he is still right. ✅️
They're all uniformly bad
I recently sold a vacuum cleaner to cashies and vacuumed the floor of the buy counter to show it worked, got an extra $5 for speed was stoked brah
You got an extra $5 in the sale because of the speed of the vacuum, or used the $5 to buy speed? Real curious, either way.
@@mahelttaiyono1013 yeah I think he meant the drug
what I want to know is how do you "vacuum the floor of the buy counter"..? 🤔😉😃
'cos you were cheaper than their regular cleaners 😄
@@mahelttaiyono1013 she wasn't a fast vacuum, got an extra five for doing a brilliant job, i didnt really buy speed with it though, just made for a more fitting story.
@@eternity8811 um well the lady behind the counter turned it on to check to see if she went, and from there I started moving it along the floor in a backward and forwards motion, while everyone else in the room where the buy/loans counter is looked on thinking this guy is a bloody australian hero.
LOVE IT!
I worked at a Cash Converters for 3 weeks.
In Personal Loans. Had no experience but did some bookkeeping/accounting at Tafe and never completed it.
So once I had the loans thing worked out I started explaining to customers how much they were getting ripped off and they'd be better off with a credit card.
The store was also being audited so they gave us prefilled timecards to sign. I changed all the finish times to the actual time they let us leave (every day nobody was allowed to leave until ALL the money in each department was accounted for) the manager came the next day and made me sign a blank timecard. I folded and signed it. And then quit.
CC is the absolute last resort when you need money. Devastating so many of the customers were just born into that way of life and don't know any better. The day their pay goes in, all of their loans come out. And they'd call every week to see if they can apply for another one yet. 😓
That's a depressing lifestyle, they were failed by their parents.
Don't write yourself off for failing Tafe mate, Barilaro didn't pass it either and look how far he went
Can't get over the idea that THIS is how Jordan's GF finds out he's going to propose
Yea I came to ask if we heard right haha
Hahaha Cash Converters can always be found in those dodgy suburb shopping centers along with Thai Massages, Chinese takeaways and one of those random Arab Tabacco King shops that probably sell other things if you know the right password...
Years ago when I had just finished my HSC and was looking for things to do I took a job as a mystery shopper and was given a few cash converters to audit - had to fill out full reports for each store and everything. Safe to say it was one of the more depressing things I’ve done
the world NEEDS a dankpods and friendlyjordies collaboration
CASH CONVERTERS Part 2 is a must! Holy crap, these reviews are hilarious.
Worked at Cash Converters for 3 years. was a pretty interesting place to work. there would be people lined up 2 hours before the store opened to hock their wares.
which store was this?
I bought some "real" gold plated hoop earrings for roughly $180 from cash converters for my partner, brought them back in a few months later as we needed some quick cash for a holiday, I asked for about $90 but didn't mention and the EXACT person that sold them to me looked me in the eyes and said "oh these aren't real gold so we wouldn't sell them for that much", I then told them that they were sold to me as "real" gold from the same store, they literally froze for a second, went and talked to the manager out the back then came and said "sorry we shouldn't have sold them at that price we can do you $80".
Offered me less still despite being made to look dumb.
0/5
Sold your missus’ earrings for “quick cash” 😂
@@grimace4257 damn straight son, twas a rough time in our lives! Haha
Don't need to rely on this sort of thing now we've got our head on straight, but we were young and dumb 😂
Do worst Centerlinks in Australia
That would be a better idea but in the 80s and 90s. Most is online/phone now. I am sure they get a heap of verbal abuse though
Logan Central centrelink can get absolutely fucked
You must be talking about Fairfield NSW
@@chickenlittle5095 You got through to centrelink? what the fuck?
*cough* Frankston *cough*
Thanks cashies for feeding my meth habit all these years... God bless those brave men and women handling my hep c infected stolen goods day in day out
Champion
Maybe the real meth was the friends we made along the way
absolute legend
infections dont work that way but nice try at a joke.
@@WhatisAPaladin probably knows that, probably what makes it a joke, probably twice the idiot than the meth using for writing that
My grandma from Toowoomba is obsessed with John Farnham and thinks everyone is rude. That joke is far too specific but accurate. Well played
You say that cashies exists as a glorified fence for stolen bikes like that's a surprise. Guaranteed that if you could magically remove all stolen inventory from casheys you'd be left with nothing but cracked crock pots and old shirts with permanent pit stains.
Damn, wish I'd known you were taking cashies stories.
I worked at their Chapel St Store two doors down from Revs. What a soul destroying place it was.
I was spat at, abused, experienced multiple death threats. Two guys even waited outside for me to knock off so they could kill me. They got bored after an hour and left.
Constant encounters with the police. Found fucked up shit on peoples devices. Soooo much stolen stuff. Incredibly toxic workplace too.
The best though was one one guy came in off his face and grabbed a dvd player off the shelf before walking up to the counter and trying to sell it to me. I told him that I'd clearly seen him take it off the shelf but he tried to convince me that he'd brought it from home. Thankfully he was that out of it that he gave up without too much of a fight and left.
I definitely have ptsd from that place. Minus 10 stars
I live within walking distance of Chapel Street. I believe you.
This was my idea miiiint
Do you watch dankpods by any chance
🎶let’s head down to cashiessssss~🎵
@Problematic Solutions
Best. Name. Ever.
This solution was not problematic, rather it was hilarious. You have played yourself sir.
No it's my idea
When I had my bike stolen (because no one in Australia has NOT had their bike stolen) I reported the theft to the police who suggested I check out local cash converters. I kind of thought that investigation was their wheelhouse. How wrong I was.
Work in Fyshwick ACT
Was disagreeing with a co-worker how many bordellos are in the area, tried to look it up and found out there are a heap of google reviews for the local brothels. The comments are absolute comedy gold and an excellent example of ethnic stereotypes.
I haven't been to a Cash Conartists since the 90's. I still remember some guy I knew back then decided he needed some quick cash and thought "Oh, this doesn't really belong to anyone important. I'll just go and hock it at Cash Converters so I can have some money for smokes or some other kind of drug." I eventually found out he had done this so I went to the loans area and told them they had given money to someone who stole something that belonged to me. The kicker in my description was the game that was in my Gameboy that was in the store's possession at the time. Thankfully it hadn't been put into the store yet so I was able to get it back.
for the love of god, do the worst Telstra in Australia. I use to work at a few stores and in my spare time I would read reviews myself. its incredibly sad and hilarious
I think we can safely assume that it was cash converters who came after Jordies. They'll never recover after this brilliant piece exposing them!
Whoever does the music choices is cool. Recognized the Killer 7 Russian Rullette track instantly. Edit: That last sequence is brilliant!
Whoever edited this is definitely a suda fanboy
I was once offered $8 CAD for a $380 Snap On tool (that I bought new and used once) at a local pawn shop. They charge more than new price for ancient electronics. They obviously only make money on people pawning things and being unable to buy them back, and straight up scamming people.
Do the worst massage parlors!
It's you moms house
@@event-zero Nah she was pretty good, made me a packed lunch afterwards
"Cash converters, Turning stolen TV`s into heroin for over ten years"
as a half french half Australian dude, I have some complaints I'd like to make
I want to hear said complaints
is the complaint that he does the voice well xD
Which only proves his point
A frenchman complaining? Ive never ever seen such a thing
Excuse me, but with my English ancestry I feel justified in making some complaints about France... and... the weather.
I went into a cash converters in my home town and I knew the place had turned because all the guitars were behind glass. They don't bother at my local store
12:20 That killer 7 reference makes you automatically a cool dude
It was fire
Wait, hold on. For the guy who bought the game but got no disc, there's a cash converters receipt INSIDE THE GAME CASE. Meaning, the employee opened the case and put the receipt in there, saw that there was no game disc, and gave it to the customer anyways...
I would honestly be more suprised to hear that a bike in cash converters wasnt stolen tbh
A guy I used to know was a pro sax player and a junkie used to hawk his sax at the same CC regularly and would go and pay it out and get it back a few days later. Obviously it was an expensive instrument so he would get more than a grand for it each time. They made $thousands out of him. Anyway he got clean and was moving to Indonesia to live so he took his horn in one last time except he had swapped it for some piece of sh*t saxophone he had found. The guys at CC didn't even open the case as they were so used to him hawking it. So he took the money and was never seen there again.
I see cops in there often, I swear most of their stuff is stolen.
I tried asking the local cash converters if they buy iPads and they said, no. I had 30 unlocked non stolen ones. I would have sold them for $100 each. I ended up selling them for $200 each on Marketplace and eBay. Honestly their loss.
I can confirm as an ex cash converters employee, this job has the worst customers ever.
I once had to drag dark man who was potentially overdosing on heroin out of my store and I'll never forget the way he looked at me when I got him through the door and said "you will meet God".
I respect the fuck out of any degenerate that continues to work here.
Yeah it's so annoying when the mentally ill are dying, wish they would do it somewhere else
My Dad's no longer allowed to sell anything to our local Cashies since there was an argument that happened between him and the manager there. He is, however, still allowed to go right next door and buy stuff from them. Sums them up pretty well
A few Americans moved into town and opened up a pawn shop (Ballarat) and they are awesome they kill cashies in every way possible and actually like to bargain a deal. Props to them I forgot their business' name
7:34
The best part is that the receipt is inside, meaning they opened the the case in front of him
3:36 anyone else recognise the subnautica music in the background?
Everytime I find my way back to this video I re download subnautica and have fun for 2 weeks
The worst laundromats in Australia.
I've nearly been robbed at a local one in Frankston about 4 - 6 times in 12 months in the middle of the day by crackheads.
once is maybe understandable, but 4 to 6 times?? thats on you dog you shoulda came prepared
3:12 i recognice that music from subnautica, and i must say it is a great choice
i thought i was going crazy
I remember in the 90's they we clean and high quality department stores that you were always excited to visit. Most of them now are just shit heaps with poorly maintained and poor quality items
You need to do Worst Maccas in Australia as Dave of Dave's Dinners!
I nominate Glenmore Maccas in Rocky. Seen the staff playing a game throw a coconut to each other in the carpark in uniform, must have been their break time. Mostly kids, top employees.
@@mahelttaiyono1013 coconut is a secret menu item ?
@@iamspyvspy3077 Only offered to employees.
The colgate/viva Italia/ merry Christmas jumper is a vibe
I got so many cheap SNES RPG's from them when I was a kid, loved it. Lots that weren't common either but they wouldn't have known any better so same price as all the others.
I've got a mate that manages a CC....they idiots pawn goods then never pay CC back within the terms and he just pays them off and takes the items.
Shout out to the Rockdale Cash Converters.... Been past many times, never been in. Thank you for showing me what I've been missing.
"center piece, hey is this yours?" Killed me 🤣
What a goldmine of reviews 😂😂
Could you do the worst Salvos? I saw someone else request it, they’ve got some great reviews
Hopefully some of my personal tirades for this string of scumbag stores turn up. I loath them and have no bones about telling them.
The Cash Converters here closed down about 15 years ago, and it's now re-opened in town as a loan shark office only. There's nothing for sale inside :(
worst return and earns would be actually mega.
I went to the one in Rockdale with my ex once and it was so bogan. everyone was piling in with their bin bags full of coke cans, they were all so short and had no teeth, also there was nowhere to park and two bogan families started fighting in the queue. so fucking weird I never went back.
Cash converters are essentially just a garage sale with dedicated business hours.
4:25 Was it a room full of mirrors?
I'll admit freehandedly that the last thing I expected to see in a friendlyjordies video was a Killer7 edit of a cash converters visit.
I was at a cash converter. I brought a PlayStation 3 guess what when I get home the disc drive doesn't work, they refunded it. about a year later I got a Grand Theft Auto V for Xbox 360, was missing a disc and the other one was scratched and didn't work and refused a refund because it wasn't on the same day because it was like 4:30 and when i got home it was like 5.
Had no idea your French impression was so good. Do more.
Worked at Cashies - One Boss was a bona-fide conman who was also a practicing Baptist Minister.. the other was creepy AF and made Dalhmer seem like a pleasant fellow. 'Buyers' were told to offer the lowest prices, prices on sale goods was ridiculously high. Attic was haunted - never been that scared in my life. Turns out building used to be a police station in the 1850s or so and many criminals were thrown in attic cells, tortured and killed back then.
Bottle shops. I could tell you about Knobby.
The killer 7 edit made me super happy thank you for that
Thanks for opening a store directly opposite the Centrelink in my town, very convenient…
Location, location, location. Crime converters are the scummiest.
They actually sold my stolen bike too. My pop bought me a pushy before he carked it and it was stolen years later. Cue me seeing it in the Cash Converters nearby, easily identifiable from many unique damage markers from me doing dumb shite on it (might have been Kipparing? It's been well over a decade now, not 100% on the store location) We said it was stolen, went to the cops and... It just went nowhere. Cops never contacted. Store never contacted.
I suspect the stolen goods from two other unrelated home robberies probably passed through there. I imagine the people that did at least one of them were 'professionals' as they pilfered only the mainstream and popular titles from my video game collection at the time and left more obscure gems like Asura's Wrath whilst any military type games disappeared. same with movies, popular titles went byebye but anything normies wouldn't like stayed. That must have been about 2009 maybe...?
The other they literally only stole the alcohol from the cabinet and my mum's jewelry in the box in her room which was nothing important, she kept all her good stuff all over her fingers and neck lol
Craziest thing about that theft was there was $2000 in my undies drawer I'd been stashing away in my teens from doing repairs on the side for less than my mechanic shop employers quoted and they didn't find it.
Ahhh Killer 8, a man of true class. Who ever did that transition needs a pay rise.
It’s Killer 7 knob head, killer 8 is the title once you complete the game
Worst comic shops in Australia. You'd piss your pants at the petty nerd rage. I worked in one for 10 years
Bring on part 2! .... if only you could do the worst individual australia post / startrack delivery drivers
Love ya jordies. Here's a yarn for ya from NZ.
I once lent my bass guitar to the man who taught me my first chords, ten years after the fact (it was in after school care, and then saw him busking in the street).
This man inspired me to become a music teacher. However, upon my request to have my bass back, i learnt he had pawned it off to cashies and they made me pay 120 for it befofe getting it back. Maybe i shouldve called the cops but he is white and i am half-cast and from my experience they probs wouldn't take my side.
Anyway i had looked up to this man thoughout my formative years and when he basically lied about "borrowing" my bass and then pawned it for drug money it made me question my fundamental view of humanity as inherently good.
Im still confused as hell about this
We need bunnings, its my favourite part of the day checking the recent reviews on the bunnings store I work at
Most of them are either mad that the 15 year old part time teenager who works here can't help a tradie with literal tradie work that they should know themselves. Or when we refuse to refund a $1k product to a methhead with 0 proof of purchase
0/10, there's warm and cold colours on the shelves but they're all the same temperature. Smh
One of the cash converters in new Zealand had a coffin for sale
I am wondering if you watched The Block final? It has a few perfect examples of Realestate Agents having zero care for their vendors wishes and just wanting to get the properties off their books. Even if that meant zero profit for the contestants.
2:46 bruh is it just me or is this bgm from subnautica?
You should definitely do the reviews of employment agencies they are honestly God tier hilarious
Cash converters spoiled video game consoles and games and paper boxes by putting stickers on them.always ask them to remove stickers and watch them refuse.
Small town pub reviews would be good, specifically the reviews from tourists although I'm sure the local reviews are good too
I bought my first skateboard from cash converters dee why, it was a “vision phyco stick” , I was 7, I’m now 34, have 3 kids, still skate, had my Powell peralta vallely stolen from my ute recently, ended up in a cash converters, I feel like I’ve come around full circle.
An FJ video was the LAST place I'd expect to see Killer7 references, someone must of picked it up on sale!
Back before I turned 18, mum put a loan against my Xbox 360 when we needed to get through until payday. The day we got it out was also the first time she took me to go play the pokies. Even though I was 16, I looked way older than what I actually was and staff didn't bat an eye. When we got home I went to set up the Xbox, only to find the controller wasn't working. Turned out it wasn't my controller, and I knew because I'd put a little sticker on the back. I was pretty angry, but it just so happened that my little pokies trip had netted me a cool 80 bucks. So after a quick trip back into town, I used that 80 to buy a new controller and was back gaming that very night! So gotta ask, what's more Aussie than an underage gambler having enough winnings for what they need?
That sounds fucked. Hope you figure out how to manage money
@@sexyfacenation I'm not a problem gambler, if that's what you mean. I haven't played the pokies since... I don't know how many years. And last time I tried was during a work Christmas party last year, when I decided to pub crawl after all my workmates left. I went through one door the pokie room normally was, but it wasn't there, so I awkwardly walked through glancing around for the fabled pokies room, then exited out the main entrance. I decided to go down the road 5 minutes away to the RSL, until some random guy called out to me (some dude with long hair and a beard). I turned around and decided to hear him out; he seemed insistent that I had some unresolved problem, even though I explained that the new layout of the pub was off-putting and I was just looking for a pokies. He seemed totally out of it, but the girl hanging off him was down to earth and we chatted for a while. I ordered a couple drinks, then ordered an Uber home. So yeah, that was what happened the last time I tried playing the pokies. Since then I played a few keno games and the Melbourne Cup. Just sign me up for gamblers anonymous
Years ago some burglars broke in to my mums house and stole some things along with my mothers t.v.. Little did they know it was broken from my younger sibling throwing the remote at it. A week later my older sister found our mums t.v at Thornlie Cash Converters. 😂
Did not expect the Killer 7 reference, but very welcome
In Brisbane a few years ago the cops actually got two stores under police funds and had actual police running the stores. They got so much stolen goods they started a second store for their crack down on crime. One store was west end and the other was marooka, Moorooka and Indropilly worked hand in hand with cops daily providing reports of stuff taken in for loans or sales daily, those two stores were owned by the same person, probably a ex cop by the chatter in population of druggies on streets. Once the people found out what the cops were up to they avoided those stores like the plague and drove to other side of Brisbane to sell their stolen goods. Now they just sell them online.
THIS ONE! please
cashies used to be pretty good for game collecting but then covid happened and now a used ps1 goes for $100 nowadays
Love the Killer 7 reference
I used to work at the bendigo cashies and we had some dude come in, ask if we had a toilet, we did not so he pissed himself right there in buys
Yooo, can hear that Made in Abyss soundtrack and thought that couldn't be right.
Never would I have thought I’d see a cash converters review over Subnautica menu music. Anyways do strip mall reviews
This is the comment I was looking for. Someone to confirm my ears weren’t deceiving me 😂
A KILLER 7 reference? That is a deep cut! I guess Jordan is a Gamecube fan from way back?!??!
How about a video on the worst landscaping business. With all the estates going up I'm sure there must be some horror stories.
I've played enough Subnautica to recognise the music at 3:00 what a jam that game was....screw it im redownloading it, modding it, and doing another run