Pawn King 3108 North University Street, Peoria, IL 61604

"Although I did sell an item there this time, the policy changed from only buying guns and gold. The staff whispered and giggled amongst each other while conducting transactions. Unknown people in the store felt at home inspecting and questioning my items before I spoke to staff, even tho I went directly to sales counter. Finally, I was given an offer for my items, only to have a manager come from the back of the store and completely withdraw offer on one item. I felt intimidated and mocked."

"What kind of absolutely useless pawn shop, only takes cash? The employees here are incompetent and all around unpleasant. Here's to hoping this business loses enough customers that they go out of business."

"Staff is always friendly, have given me good prices on items I’ve taken in on loan. Always helpful when I’ve had a question. Always been able to get my items out of pawn. I think they recently went to cash only. Hands down best pawn shop to go to."

"This place is a joke, I took a signed Curtis Martin football Jersey to them to sell, the woman says do you have the certificate of authenticity, I say yes, I open the box and try to hand it to her, and she refused to even look at it. It has two of them, one is a 3x5 card that says certificate of authenticity, the other is a smaller card with a code you can scan to verify the signature, it also has a sticker on the jersey with the same code, to verfiy they both match, and the signature is valid. It is a Tristar jersey and it has all the original certificate of authenticity paperwork. She said I need a paper that says certificate of authenticity, I said this is it, here it is, and she refused to even look at it. It was the worst customer service I have ever seen in my life, and the woman should be fired. The other 5 star ratings must be fake, this place is the worst. Update: 10-8-23 - I put the Curtis Martin signed jersey on Ebay with a starting bid of $69, and it sold for $81. Pawn King would not even look at it, let alone make me an offer, and it was good for me, because I got $81 for it, that is how bad they are."

"Theft. They will steal your money. Came in for a tablet. First one I was interested in wasn't wiped and couldn't be reset. Bought a different one and I was told bring it back in 24 hours if it didn't work out. Brought it back under 1 hour (the tablet was broken) and was told I could not have my money back only store credit. I had to literally buy hand tools I did not want just to use up the store credit. Will not return."