Nice.

One interesting thing about the shop is how many mysteries it generates. I've just put up for sale two identical, mint condition Galaxy S4 phones that came in to the shop as a pair... both without back covers.

Explain that.

http://cellar.org/2013/sammywoback.jpg

They are stolen and the original owners had the back cover engraved!

That's a possibility. I would say it's less likely than you'd imagine, because crooks generally don't care about such things, and will sell us items that are heavily personalized and clearly not theirs. But it's possible.

Perhaps the original backs were replaced with metal; or, wireless charging backs and the seller decided to keep those for themself or someone else.

Could be that the back covers were damaged, like cracked from being dropped or warped by heat, and the seller was unloading the phones in case the exposure shortened the phone life.

The backs for those kinds of phones are a bastard sometimes. Once they've been taken off and put back a few dozen times they can get a bit loose and drop off.

Maybe the backs make excellent soap dishes.

Or cocaine trays.

Matched butter trays?

Lovely earrings.

Wonder what the TSA would make of a ziploc bag full of phone backs?

anyone seen lady gaga's latest ensemble?

Pawn shop graduate makes good.


http://www.npr.org/2013/08/25/214483...-lose-the-name

I like Black Joe Lewis.

I liked what they played of him. He's new to me.

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