Society Hill Loan

Everyone was very polite, and very fair with prices! A must visit, as well, for music lovers!

This place is great I wish it didn’t close as early!!! Very polite and helpful staff. I got my beautiful electric ukulele here!!! So awesome

So much music gear! I’ve only been there for music related purchases and in a town lacking a large retailer such as Guitar Center, I’m happy to have these guys in my neighborhood. Just a head’s up to those unfamiliar with how pawnshops work I recommend if you’re trying to sell something you go through a private buyer via Craigslist, Ebay, etc. They need to be able to 1^st: Be able to resell the item and 2^nd: Be able to make a profit. So don’t take it personal if they don’t want it or offer you a low price. Also, be warned, these guys do have some attitude, but hey, it’s Philly! This is a tough town and you get a lot of rough types in these shops so you won’t get a lot of warm, huggy, feelies from these dudes but that’s the way it should be, it works towards your advantage in the long-​run :)

Dont even bother wasting your time. Ive been here to sell electronics multiple times and never once was I able to succeed. It’s amazing that every item they rejected from me I was able to sell with a breeze from a store on S 7^th street, or market street. Frustrated with their complete lack of knowledge on electronics, as they seek the help of eBay and Google to look up information, I will never even attempt to set foot in this store again.

Got a fantastic deal on a great acoustic guitar. Not only did Eric help me find one that suited my budget and playing level, but he threw in a capo, extra strings, and a case.
I left the shop with a great guitar and even the nostagia of it’s own individual history and the story of the former owner who had purchased it in 1971 and given it some of the character which I only hope to be able to add to.
I hope I can pass it along one day myself when I need to upgrade to super high-​end model before I take stage at arenas across the land.
Seriously, great place! great guys. Second guitar I’ve purchased there. The other was an electric guitar in great shape which I got for about 100 bucks.

I wrote my review by the cool pic I posted… Love this shop, no need to go anywhere else for reasonable prices. Great atmosphere too, even when I most recently (out of years of going here) wandered inside when they were almost closing up. Worthy of saying all the dudes are helpful and work with you find what you’re looking for. Go there often, it’s fun.

Strange that I decided to write a review of a pawn shop; maybe I’m getting desperate or maybe I’m just running out of new places to review? Meh.
I’m not much for trying new things when there are already places out there that I love and compare everything else to so when I wanted to buy a new bass a couple years ago and I wasn’t exactly in the market for something in the figures involving a comma after the first number nor was I satisfied with the little league specials at Sam Ash that were in my market range I decided to hit up some pawn shops in the area. There really is only one that carries a good line of instruments and it is the same pawn shop I have been staring at every time I get off of the 47 bus going to South Street.
Put it this way, I am partial to the neighborhood since I did and still am growing up a South Street kid so I was stoked when I found the perfect four string Fender precision bass and amp for three hundred total. The bass was in perfect condition so I am assuming someone got desperate for money or just didn’t like the gift mommy and daddy gave them. The amp was a little dinged but worked and still works great and is a conveniently portable should I need to actually take it out of my house.
The people working there are your typical pawn shop dude types, the kind that remind you of walking into a jewelry shop and hound you so that they can get the commission… except maybe a little worse at times. but once you put it out there that you know what you want and what you want to spend they kind of back off.
There are TONS of guitars and woodwind instruments hanging along with your typical trashy gold jewelry and other shit people hock. I went for the strings and nothing more and probably would just stick to that anyway.
There is also the coolest camo colored gun shaped guitar in the window that is the closest thing to a Ted Nugent wet dream you could ever see in your life so you have to just stop by and stare if anything.
I’d say I’m a fan simply for the convenience and good deals. So if little Johnny wants to be a rock star and you don’t want to break the bank swing by and see what they have.