Crown Jewelry & Loan

Pawn shops tend to have bad reputations. It’s rare to find an honest, stand up experience with this type of business. Kevin and his crew are top notch. I won’t go anywhere else.

I absolutely enjoy this pawn shop. Kevin pays top dollar and has a lot of different items to look at in the store. Will return definitely.

I’ve been living in Normal Heights my entire life, I am a well known member of this community and have been for over a decade. I come here pretty often with random stuff I look to get rid of and I’m making the decision to not come here anymore. Every time I step foot in this place the owner gives off such a bad additude that I feel like he does not want me in his store and I should leave as soon as possible. He just has a «I’m a lot better than you» or «you’re really wasting my time, buddy» demeanor and it’s just very unwelcoming. For lack of a better word he just seems like a dick.

I went here to sell a ring today. The guy working was very nice and even offered me more than I was expecting. As he was entering my information into the computer, he ran into a problem with his system that wouldn’t allow him to enter new customers. He apologized profusely, and since I was going to be in the area for a couple of hours, I offered to come back later. He said that if I did the problem would be fixed and he would buy me lunch. After a couple of hours I went back, and he had fixed the computer, and he did indeed throw in an extra $ 10 «for lunch.» He provided very fair compensation and great customer service. If I ever decide to sell jewelry again in the future, I will definitely return.

I gotta give the guys kudos for being nice to my friend even tho she was being pretty picky over a $ 2 used DVD. They cleaned the disc for her not once but twice as she noticed tiny scratches on it, just the normal kind you’d find on any DVD or CD. They had what I thought were pretty decent prices on computers. They don’t have a huge selection, but it included video games and players, instruments, electronics, jewelry and watches.

…was at this spot a long while ago, but was recently in the area and remembered that this was actually an a-​ok pawn shop. Im not one to frequent pawn shops, but when i had some old jewels to get rid of, i stopped in one day before washing the car across the street.
Dude in there was alright. Who would believe the pawn shop guy was more honest than the damn jewelry store crook who tried to play me on the weight of my jewels… cmon man i got my own digi-​scale! Yea, lemme call him out again on here, Francis Jewelers — avoid that spot!
Bottom line: I understand the whole fingerprint nonsense because of thieves and what-​not, but it is a bit ridiculous to have to be printed just to get a fair deal when selling jewels… id go back if i had more ish to pawn, but thats just not the case. The dudes not the friendliest, but he was a straight shooter, i respect that.