Anybody else watch Pawn Stars?

Good episode last night. Les Paul's nephew came in and sold Mary ford's guitar for 90,000$.

Thing looked sick.

I watched a few episodes of auction kings. I thought it was pretty good.

first off....yes, its just entertainment...so please dont take the show seriously...

i watch it and really enjoy it...also the wifey and kids watch it with me...its really become cool 30-60 minutes a week of pretty fun entertainment...

its just amazes me though of how many people ive met that get mad at the show cause they think they are ripping the people off whom pawn stuff there...

its like...obviously, your either from a very very small town or just dontt know the pawn business...

if an appraiser value's it at 1000 bucks...and you want to do all the leg work it takes for months to get somewhat close to that...than feel free to do it....

the pawn is giving you cash money right on the spot...so they are immediatly out money (actually in the hole, operating in the red)...
even though they get the shit cheap...they are still in the red so to speak til they can re sell it...which ask any of them...could take months to years...specially when people go into the pawn shop to get shit cheap or to get a killer deal on stuff...

sorry....i just don't get it....how many people think the pawn shop is screwing people...
how the heck do they think they come up with the money to pay all their employee's/rent/etc etc...

Golden Rule i learned in JR HIGH...its only worth what someone is actually willing to pay you for it...

New episode tonight.

Better Dan wrote:

Haven't read the whole thread so apologies if this was already brought up but Isn't this show completely fake? There was a web site out there that detailed how some of the "customers" are minor actors and some of the things they supposedly "fix up" aren't even the original product "brought in"

Oh shit. Calling DS. Maybe another investigation needs to happen.

Yeah some of it's fake (like when they went to look at that 1 million "robo sauraus" thing) but i think some of it's real just like Storage Wars. Also i find it kinda odd when "customers" go in to sell their merchandise seems like they are the only ones in the store

The "Bullit" car was kinda cool though.

LloydXmas wrote:

Antique's Roadshow

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://collectibles.about.com/od/valuab ... dfake2.htm

Is nothing sacred? :nono:

I always thought Storage Wars was fake too..you would think the owners of the storage lots would take all the valuable stuff before auctioning off the remaining items.

eeriepadave wrote:

The "Bullit" car was kinda cool though.

I liked how that car was the segway into Danny's new show Counting Cars.

81 wrote:

DS1119 wrote:

Better Dan wrote:

I always thought Storage Wars was fake too..you would think the owners of the storage lots would take all the valuable stuff before auctioning off the remaining items.

Yup. Who leaves a box full of valuable jewelry in a storage unit if they can't pay for the storage unit? :?

a dead person?

an arrested person?

it's not like people want to let their stuff go. When you miss making a payment they lock up your stuff, so you can't get the valuable stuff out to pay the fees, after 3 months, they auction it off.
I went to a swap meet, and one of the guys was saying how most of the people there (the vendors) do go to the auctions, they don't really find a lot of valuable stuff, and a lot of it is crap. One lady did have some nice jewelry, but it was all gold.