People have different experiences buying something from a pawn shop. Mine have always been bad when it comes to electronics. I won't buy them in a pawn shop any more. Remember, when you buy a DVD player for example from a pawnshop, you're buying somebody else's problem. Also, there's no warrantee so if the thing stops working properly 3 days after you buy it, good luck. I have a question about my DVD Apex player. I've had it for about 2 years now and never had a problem. I got it at Walmart. Now, whenever I put a DVD in the player, I see on the TV screen --"Disc Loading" and then it immediately switches to "No Disc". Anyone know what could be wrong?