Rick’s Olde Gold

This is one cool pawn shop was my first impression when I walked in.
This place has a basement full of items along with the first floor. This place is very cool and it was like going to a museum with all the old and odd items on display. Who ever prices the items obvious shoots for the moon and everything is super expensive to be haggled down to a better price it looked like.
After seeing how super expensive the prices were the woman asked me if I would help her get a huge vase looking thing down from a high shelf, I said after seeing how expensive everything is I’m not touching anything in here, see my pictures.
Even if your not going to do business with them it’s worth stopping by and just looking around because the place is just cool.

Sadly scammed. Brought thousands of dollars worth of Victorian/​Art Deco/​Native American jewelry in to sell and should have walked out when I was told my jewelry was «nothing special,» but he’d «buy it to take pity on» me. Humiliating. Won’t go back. I came home and thought I’d check eBay and Etsy for similar items just in case. Well, I missed out on $thousands$. Very sad, but I’ve learned my lesson. And his female assistant is hyper as Hell. Be careful! She had no problem throwing my expensive, late 19^th jewelry around like it was yesterday’s trash. She was irritated with me the entire time because she wanted to go home and was scratching my scrap gold to test it like a complete fiend. I finally had to say, «Easy with that please!» Ugh. Never again.

BEST PLACE IN Madison to buy jewelry or pawn items! The staff is filled with information and extremely helpful! I will be back! I will never go to a nother pawn shop again! !! Rick’s is the absolute best!

Yeah, so I’ve lived in Madison for 13 years now. I’ve been to Lazy Jane’s and the Willy St. co-​op more times than I can count, but when it comes to the smaller shops on Williamson St. I never have really taken the time to stop in. I guess I felt like I needed a reason! Well, last week I had a reason to stop into Rick’s Olde Gold, located across the street from St. Vinny’s. I had picked up a copper antique in Door County and wanted to know if it was possible to get it polished up because I was giving it as a gift to someone. I love a good thrift store, and I had never thought of Rick’s as such, but I will now! There are so many interesting items in that shop, not just antique or pre-​owned jewelry, but antiques, funky art pieces, and other random objects of intrensic value.
I stopped in on a busy day (the appraiser was in) so at first I felt like I may be in the way, but once I got someone’s attention I was able to ask if they might have a way to help me out. I was told they were busy but they’d do their best to get around to it.
I asked them how much money I should bring back with me when I picked it up and Rick said it’d be on the house because he didn’t get around to helping me right away when I came in! Uh, awesome! Guess you don’t have to be at a big box store to find great customer service, and, my gift looked AWESOME! (Way nicer than the $ 15 I had paid for it!)
Looking forward to the next time I’m in the neighborhood, never know what I’ll discover next.

Love Ricks. He has a great selection and saves antique jewelry! If you are planning to look at pawn shops for antiques or jewelry definitely stop in to Ricks. Just beware that Rick does have a slightly condescending personality but he’s really a sweetheart. Planning on buying my engagement ring here that is original from the 30s. Can’t wait! Excellent prices, like a ring with over a carat for under 2K excellent.

From the outside, you’d never guess how much this place holds. It’s a modern-​day Olde Curiosity Shop. I could spend hours just looking at stuff, and they have several unique and functional pieces I plan to add to my collection over the next year or so! Prices are fair, staff and management exceptional and friendly, it’s a great little Willy St shop.

Very easy to deal with, I did research and they do pay the highest in town. Another place was going to pay me a 10K price for dental gold, where Rick paid for 18K. Very honest, friendly, and fun shop to look around in. I will go back, even to buy jewelry.