Most pawn brokers won't knowingly take stolen goods, but every time I've been on a jury involving stolen goods, at least some of it was recovered by police in pawn shops. That was how they found the theif - the pawn dealer keeps records on where the stuff came from.(OK, so we have dumb crooks in Wisconsin who give real names and addresses to the pawn dealers)

Another good place to look is in Thrift Stores. A good friend of mine once found a really nice Yamaha. Not concert quality, but a nice practice guitar. First time he saw it it was marked $60. He didn't really need another guitar, so he took the chance on someone else buying it and waited until the next day, which was half-off-day, and picked it up for $30. My guess is somebody wanted a guitar, and then never played it after the first 2 months.

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