Operating Segment Information - Segment Information (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Revenues:
Merchandise sales	$ 108,584	$ 109,639
Jewelry scrapping sales	9,621	18,534
Pawn service charges	66,594	64,927
Consumer loan fees and interest	13,188	18,971
Other revenues	467	655
Total revenues	198,454	212,726
Merchandise cost of goods sold	66,259	72,478
Jewelry scrapping cost of goods sold	8,076	14,675
Consumer loan bad debt	12,603	8,515
Net revenues	111,516	117,058
Operations	85,606	80,087
Administrative	19,983	12,552
Depreciation and amortization	8,059	8,008
Loss on sale or disposal of assets	33	256
Interest expense	9,192	12,034
Interest income	(140)	(531)
Equity in net income of unconsolidated affiliate	(2,055)	(2,194)
Restructuring	1,692	22
Other expense	870	759
(Loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes	(11,724)	6,065
Segments
Revenues:
Merchandise sales	108,584	109,639
Jewelry scrapping sales	9,621	18,534
Pawn service charges	66,594	64,927
Consumer loan fees and interest	13,188	18,971
Other revenues	467	655
Total revenues	198,454	212,726
Merchandise cost of goods sold	66,259	72,478
Jewelry scrapping cost of goods sold	8,076	14,675
Consumer loan bad debt	12,603	8,515
Net revenues	111,516	117,058
Operations	85,606	80,087
Administrative	0	0
Depreciation and amortization	4,929	5,453
Loss on sale or disposal of assets	33	256
Interest expense	5,191	8,290
Interest income	(132)	(497)
Equity in net income of unconsolidated affiliate	(2,055)	(2,194)
Restructuring	1,423	0
Other expense	893	615
(Loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes	15,628	25,048
Segments | U.S. & Canada Operations
Revenues:
Merchandise sales	91,994	89,442
Jewelry scrapping sales	9,600	17,007
Pawn service charges	58,621	57,035
Consumer loan fees and interest	0	0
Other revenues	193	184
Total revenues	160,408	163,668
Merchandise cost of goods sold	55,461	58,617
Jewelry scrapping cost of goods sold	8,060	13,333
Consumer loan bad debt	0	0
Net revenues	96,887	91,718
Operations	63,545	59,507
Administrative	0
Depreciation and amortization	3,560	3,452
Loss on sale or disposal of assets	7	0
Interest expense	86	8
Interest income	(1)	(16)
Equity in net income of unconsolidated affiliate	0	0
Restructuring	891	0
Other expense	0	0
(Loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes	28,799	28,767
Segments | Latin America
Revenues:
Merchandise sales	16,586	19,580
Jewelry scrapping sales	0	1,407
Pawn service charges	7,973	7,892
Consumer loan fees and interest	0	0
Other revenues	191	240
Total revenues	24,750	29,119
Merchandise cost of goods sold	10,798	13,484
Jewelry scrapping cost of goods sold	0	1,261
Consumer loan bad debt	0	0
Net revenues	13,952	14,374
Operations	11,193	10,520
Administrative	0
Depreciation and amortization	801	1,244
Loss on sale or disposal of assets	26	256
Interest expense	40	1
Interest income	0	0
Equity in net income of unconsolidated affiliate	0	0
Restructuring	328	0
Other expense	128	438
(Loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes	1,436	1,915
Segments | Grupo Finmart
Revenues:
Merchandise sales	0	0
Jewelry scrapping sales	0	0
Pawn service charges	0	0
Consumer loan fees and interest	10,814	16,315
Other revenues	83	56
Total revenues	10,897	16,371
Merchandise cost of goods sold	0	0
Jewelry scrapping cost of goods sold	0	0
Consumer loan bad debt	11,991	7,740
Net revenues	(1,094)	8,631
Operations	9,588	8,288
Administrative	0	0
Depreciation and amortization	517	566
Loss on sale or disposal of assets	0	0
Interest expense	5,065	8,281
Interest income	(131)	(481)
Equity in net income of unconsolidated affiliate	0	0
Restructuring	0	0
Other expense	768	174
(Loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes	(16,901)	(8,197)
Segments | Other International
Revenues:
Merchandise sales	4	617
Jewelry scrapping sales	21	120
Pawn service charges	0	0
Consumer loan fees and interest	2,374	2,656
Other revenues	0	175
Total revenues	2,399	3,568
Merchandise cost of goods sold	0	377
Jewelry scrapping cost of goods sold	16	81
Consumer loan bad debt	612	775
Net revenues	1,771	2,335
Operations	1,280	1,772
Administrative	0
Depreciation and amortization	51	191
Loss on sale or disposal of assets	0	0
Interest expense	0	0
Interest income	0	0
Equity in net income of unconsolidated affiliate	(2,055)	(2,194)
Restructuring	204	0
Other expense	(3)	3
(Loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes	2,294	2,563
Corporate, Non-Segment
Revenues:
Merchandise sales	0	0
Jewelry scrapping sales	0	0
Pawn service charges	0	0
Consumer loan fees and interest	0	0
Other revenues	0	0
Total revenues	0	0
Merchandise cost of goods sold	0	0
Jewelry scrapping cost of goods sold	0	0
Consumer loan bad debt	0	0
Net revenues	0	0
Operations	0	0
Administrative	19,983	12,552
Depreciation and amortization	3,130	2,555
Loss on sale or disposal of assets	0	0
Interest expense	4,001	3,744
Interest income	(8)	(34)
Equity in net income of unconsolidated affiliate	0	0
Restructuring	269	22
Other expense	(23)	144
(Loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes	$ (27,352)	$ (18,983)