Pawnbrokers’ group say most customers came to get jewellery back, nothing unusual about queue
Tuesday, 05 May 2020 09:33 PM MYTKUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — Pawnshops around the country are reporting nothing unusual about the long queues of patrons seen leading to their premises.
Not everyone who goes to a pawnshop is mortgaging jewellery, just like not everyone who goes to an airport is taking a flight.Tan explained the reason for the long queues. A Shin Ngien pawnshop staff conducts temperature checks on customers in SS9, Petaling Jaya May 5, 2020. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
“We may not be able to return to our kampung, but I want my wife and children to have a joyful raya,” he told Bernama. Bibi Safura Ghulam Hydar, 56, owner of Kedai Emas Safura, said the outlet received many requests to mortgage jewellery during the MCO but did not entertain them for various reasons, including riba , and bought the items at market price instead.
Muhammad, 30, said he came to extend the mortgage because he did not want his jewellery to be auctioned off.
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