Anybody else watch Pawn Stars?

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Watching it....right now... :lol::lol:

    As to why on the History Channel??? It's almost a documentary on "stuff".....the items that affected our history, but are not worthy of an hour or a half-hour devoted to them.
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    This type of show is interesting if a person likes to look at old junk. And, as a curious person I DO often like to look at old junk. :lol: (So I watch this when I'm grading papers!)

    I find it funny that the people who try to sell their stuff haven't watched the show enough to realize that they are not going to get offered more than about 50% of what the shop plans to sell it for. I mean, the audience knows it, why don't they?! ;)
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Rick (the main guy) had been pitching the show to the History Channel for a few years. History Channel finally caved and gave him a show, now it's their highest rated show ever.

    If you watch one of the older (2005ish) 'Las Vegas Secrets' shows that's on the Travel Channel, you'll see Rick with hair...kinda reminded me of Homer Simpson with hair... :lol:
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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    RKCNDY wrote:
    Rick (the main guy) had been pitching the show to the History Channel for a few years. History Channel finally caved and gave him a show, now it's their highest rated show ever.

    If you watch one of the older (2005ish) 'Las Vegas Secrets' shows that's on the Travel Channel, you'll see Rick with hair...kinda reminded me of Homer Simpson with hair... :lol:


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  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    BIG FAN
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  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    My hubby is obsessed with this show. I wouldn't watch it by myself but when he watches it I get sucked in every time! The last time we were in Vegas we went to the shop - drove by around 3pm and the line outside was ridiculously long...must have been taping. We went back around 6 and the line was gone. It was cool to walk through, but none of the guys were there.

    Anyone else find Rick's laugh disturbing??!
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  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    My kids and I watch this show all the time - :D

    I find it so funny.... I wish I had something old and valuable - I would love to visit their shop if I'm in Vegas.
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  • iOnlyownMymind
    iOnlyownMymind Posts: 2,959
    Love this show. I especially like it when someone brings in a super old guitar. There was a Gibson guitar that was originally worked on by Les Paul himself and was brought in by a nephew. Rick bought it for $80,000 and it was worth a lot more than that. Freaking crazy. Great show. I bet that Clark Co. Museum guy just shits himself with all the sweet stuff Rick brings for him to look at.
  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    CJMST3K wrote:
    JasonE wrote:
    I couldn't see selling something for $200 when two minutes earlier an appraiser told me it was worth $900.

    It's worth $900 if you find the right buyer at the right moment... and if you need to sell it, and can't find that person, then it's worth whatever you can get for it.

    Very true. It is especially important to remember that this show takes place in Vegas. I am sure a lot of times when people come in with something to sell they need the money as soon as possible. So when you need to spend a few more hours at the casino waiting a week to get your item up on ebay or longer if you sell it at an auction house just isn't an option.

    I have also read that Vegas is a pretty big retirement community. So in a lot of cases when elderly parents or grandparents die in vegas their families will come and clean out their house. I think this is where a lot of the items come from, and I imagine in many of them the people don't want the extra hassle of selling stuff to the highest bidder when also dealing with a death and all that stuff, so in those cases 30-40% of retail value in cash that day would probably sound pretty good.
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    when we went to Vegas last summer, we tried going by the shop a couple of times. no matter what time of day it was, the line stretched out the door & down at least 2 blocks.
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  • USARAY
    USARAY Posts: 517
    love a marathon great show
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    mfc2006 wrote:
    when we went to Vegas last summer, we tried going by the shop a couple of times. no matter what time of day it was, the line stretched out the door & down at least 2 blocks.

    sounds like the line at the courthouse...funny, we were there in the early 2000s and I wanted to go there, (it was on the Travel Channel or something) everybody thought I was nuts wanting to go to a 'pawn shop' I said, "but it says 'world famous'!"
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    It's a little smaller than I thought it would be. The building is big but the actual showroom where the items are displayed wasn't that big. Also, about a quarter of the display area is stocked with Pawn Stars memorabilia.
  • RiotZact
    RiotZact Posts: 6,293
    One of my favorite shows for sure, I just recently bought the Obama campaign style shits that says "CHUM" on it :lol: The only thing that bugs me about it is how obviously staged some of the stuff is, for example like the time Chum dropped that ball and chain on the glass and broke it.
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    my friend's son was on there with a little red scooter once!!

    and I saw the old man in a casino once pushing his wife in a wheelchair. I didn't want to bother him but he was dressed just like he is on the show. :D
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  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    DS1119 wrote:
    It's a little smaller than I thought it would be. The building is big but the actual showroom where the items are displayed wasn't that big. Also, about a quarter of the display area is stocked with Pawn Stars memorabilia.

    They talk about in the book they wrote that they have to keep everything they buy in secure storage for a month before they can sell it (incase the cops come looking for stuff). So they basically have to have this giant super secure warehouse to keep all the stuff in before they can sell it.

    It is the same thing for stuff on pawn, they hold the stuff as colleratal for a loan and can't sell it unless the borrower defaults. In the book they talked about how people will go on vacation and pawn their a bunch of their valuables basically using the pawn shops storage room as secure storage space.
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    has anyone seen the other pawn show in TruTV called Hardcore Pawn?? :shock:

    holy crap! it's in Detroit & there's a fight on every episode.
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  • 81
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    mfc2006 wrote:
    has anyone seen the other pawn show in TruTV called Hardcore Pawn?? :shock:

    holy crap! it's in Detroit & there's a fight on every episode.

    watched it a couple of times....painful

    one of the other stations has pawn queens which is filmed a few miles from here.
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  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    mfc2006 wrote:
    has anyone seen the other pawn show in TruTV called Hardcore Pawn?? :shock:

    holy crap! it's in Detroit & there's a fight on every episode.
    I've seen that one a few times. Sometimes mindless drama makes for compelling tv.
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    uninnocent- wrote:
    mfc2006 wrote:
    has anyone seen the other pawn show in TruTV called Hardcore Pawn?? :shock:

    holy crap! it's in Detroit & there's a fight on every episode.
    I've seen that one a few times. Sometimes mindless drama makes for compelling tv.
    I watched that last night. It's more people focused rather than antique Item focused. I hated it. I'm sure the pawn star family aren't saints but the hard core pawn family seemed like real scumbags

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