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Pawn shop case (The partial return of Shamoli?)(10/8/15)


Anyone get a Shamoli vibe from the owner of the pawn shop in that last case today?

I was just watching it from this afternoon, and what we can see on the video is just the Plaintiff since the pawn shop owner is the one recording, but this seems like it just has to be her.

For those who don't know Shamoli, she's a pawn shop owner who has been on the show 3 times

11/09/12: (PC-16050 10/13/12) Pawn shop moves and Shamoli doesn't contact Plaintiff until long after the pawn expires.
10/15/13: (PC-17027 9/15/13) Shamoli claims pawn shop was robbed by an employee and Plaintiff's ring was stolen.
01/17/14: (PC-17075 12/15/13) Plaintiff claims she got an extension on her loan, but Shamoli claims it never happened.


Judge Milian didn't seem to recognize her on the 2nd and 3rd appearances, but maybe after losing all 3 cases, she thought she may have recognized her a 4th time and decided to send this manager in her place instead.

I really wish we could've seen her on the video, because I have this feeling it was her.

EDIT:

http://www.companiesny.com/n/business/24-7-pawn-shop-inc/4127673

I thought "24/7 Pawn Shop" sounded familiar!

Queens, 24/7 Pawn Shop, irate and unreasonable Indian woman owner... It was definitely her.

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I thought the same thing. Coincidence maybe but I can't help feeling it's her.

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As soon as I heard Kurt say it was a pawn case, I was hoping Shamoli would walk through the doors.

When the guy was introduced as the manager, and that he was authorized to represent the owner, I instantly thought it was Shamoli.

Then the Plaintiff mentioned that the owner was a woman, and was waiting for her to mention "Shamoli" or "Mrs. Kapoor" but she never did.

Then the Defendant had the video with the owner yelling at the Plaintiff, I was waiting to see her on it but she kept the camera on the Plaintiff the whole time.

Even without visual confirmation or someone naming her, it HAD to be her.

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Oh wow! That never occurred to me! Now it makes perfect sense. Why does she keep allowing that her shop to show up on the People's Court!, Good catch guys!

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I'm impressed that everybody (but me) remembers Shamoli's name.

I know I'm setting myself up for the classic, "So, are you saying they all look alike?" gotcha, but I thought the sleazy pawnbrokers were just a recurring stereotype.

I was glad that the plaintiff got her jewelry back this time, though. Anyone who watches TPC enough knows that in pawnbroker cases, plaintiffs usually get hammered by the "fine print" governing the original transaction.

The plaintiff lucked out, because this time around the pawnbroker didn't even bother to bring any "ducks" of proof, much less line them up in a row.

I try not to second-guess litigants too much, because God knows Judge Milian often gets carried away doing just that. But I do wonder why the plaintiff decided to run away from Shamoli (or a Shamoli clone) instead of calling the police when Shamoli confronted her in the parking lot.

All's well that ends well, but if the Shamoli-person actually had the jewelry during that confrontation, it would've made more sense to call the cops and try to resolve the problem while the missing jewelry was at hand.

The litigant was lucky that the jewelry didn't disappear after that encounter.

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SBL84 - how do you remember all of this? Do you keep detailed archives of every show?

I'm super impressed.

And yes, after reading all that you guys have to say about Shamoli, I'll bet it was her too!

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Shamoli is a special case. She was memorable from her first case because of how ridiculous her defense was. The Plaintiff said she went back to pay off her item within the loan period, but the store was gone and she had no way to get in touch with them, by the time she found out where they moved, they had already melted her jewelry because she didn't pay off her loan in time. Shamoli said that she personally hand-delivered notices to every single person who had an item pawned at the store, to tell them that they were moving. Judge Milian obviously didn't believe that.

Then a year later, she was on again and I thought they were rerunning the case from the previous year, but she didn't say anything about the store moving and it was about an employee robbing their safe and running away with the customer's stuff.

After two times, I started looking for case titles that had to do with pawning on the People's Court website that lists upcoming episodes. Then a few months later they had the 3rd case with Shamoli. In the third case, she said that the guy the Plaintiff said she spoke to and took money to extend her loan didn't exist because it's just her and 1 other employee who worked there 7 days a week, and neither of them extended loans. Although if it's just the two of them there, I wonder who was the employee that robbed her in case #2? There must've been at least 3 people working there at some point during that period if one of her employees ran off with her customers' items.

It's been a year and a half since then, so I didn't expect to see her again, but hearing that it was a pawn case instantly had me wondering. All the evidence of the case points to Shamoli. Although I wonder if the store is closed for good like this defendant claimed.

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Thanks! Interesting.

Did she win any of her cases?

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She lost every one. And she got yelled at for her ridiculous reasons for not paying the plaintiff or returning their items. Judge Milian was angry at her this time too and she wasn't even in the courtroom.

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I remember the first two cases but not the last one. Im surprised I didn't recognize her because I'm usually good with faces. I loved when she said she was the only employee yet took the time to hand deliver everyone a note saying she was moving.

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