Pawn Stars

Pawn shops around here are awful- they dont want to pay you more then 25% of the items value- and then they try to sell it at 5 times what they paid you!


Also- Ive never seen a pawn shop in RL that took in items on historical or collectable accounts- its always been just for the item its self- 'collectables' always being shunned away from real quick. Is the pawn stars show one of the few pawn stores that consider collectability or take historical notes into account? - maybe its just so they have a show- or perhaps, cause its Vegas- where alot of memorabilia comes through.

Or maybe some pawn shows do, and some don't.

And maybe, that shop was selected for this HISTORY channel program, because it does?

You mean theres still history related material on the history channel?!?!?!?!?! NOOO WAYYY!!

That gets me started on a rant though that is compleatly off topic, lol- sometimes I watch the discovery channel and history channel and also animal plannet and often I think "I think they got their shows and channels mixed up.

pawn stars is actually on the right channel IMO history channel- but sometimes I wonder if like ax men should be on discovery channel- and lots of others- but as I said I wont go there. :)


I did aks if it was an exception or not. :P

Quote: Malaru

Pawn shops around here are awful- they dont want to pay you more then 25% of the items value- and then they try to sell it at 5 times what they paid you!


Also- Ive never seen a pawn shop in RL that took in items on historical or collectable accounts- its always been just for the item its self- 'collectables' always being shunned away from real quick. Is the pawn stars show one of the few pawn stores that consider collectability or take historical notes into account? - maybe its just so they have a show- or perhaps, cause its Vegas- where alot of memorabilia comes through.

If you check youtube they have a local-news piece saying how out of the ordinary that place is. The show said the average pawn is about $25 with most of the items being power tools and other everyday items. I've only been in 1 or 2 pawn shops and the reason I was never in more was they were very dumpy. If you want to buy a musical insturment or jewelry one could be your place. One I was in had a bunch of cheapo DVDs; some power tools; guns; electronics that saw better days; plus some musical insturments; and jewelry.

Makes sense when you think about it, low income people go into pawn shops. Low income people mostly don't have neat, rare stuff. This one is in Vegas and even before the show seems to have carved a unique market for those weird things. But I bet 90%+ of their busienss is still <$50 pawns.

Quote: Malaru

You mean theres still history related material on the history channel?!?!?!?!?! NOOO WAYYY!!

That gets me started on a rant though that is compleatly off topic, lol- sometimes I watch the discovery channel and history channel and also animal plannet and often I think "I think they got their shows and channels mixed up.

pawn stars is actually on the right channel IMO history channel- but sometimes I wonder if like ax men should be on discovery channel- and lots of others- but as I said I wont go there. :)

:P

They are mixed up, but the best stuff on TV. I don't watch 2 hours of the networks a week anymore. One thing about these "workplace reality" shows I wonder is if the subjects wonder why anyone would watch them? I used to be in pest control and there was a pest control show on one of those channels. I watched half an episode out of curiosity but later thought, "I hated this job for years, why would I watch it on TV?"

I blame OJ Simpson. He alerted the television executives of the world that millions of people would watch a car driving down a freeway if there was some emotion. Then we got the fat naked guy in Survivor, who proved to everyone that sneakiness was more important than intelligence or class. Now the history channel is all dreck, and Bravo is all gay stuff, and all the networks are people eating bugs, fat people losing weight, and every other kind of train wreck.

IN the late 1980's we had Max Headroom and his vision of post apocalyptic television viewing and Network 23. People sitting around and watching stupid scripted television shows with nothing but explosions and mayhem. Who would have imagined that within a decade the "scripted" would be an unnecessary option.

The success of this show has spawned a competitor on TruTv. I DVRed the first two episodes and have to tell this board to save their time.

It is set in Detroit for a gritty atmosphere. The shop is family owned, like the Harris' on Las Vegas Blvd. This new show seems to concentrate less on the exotic. But it is on TruTv and not The History Channel. If you have seen their Repo show you know TruTv is incapable of doing a show without at least 3-4 scenes in the show where there are 10 or more bleeps with people yelling at each other. The Repo show (sorry I forget the name) I think is 100% re-enacted and if this was the same I would not be any suprise.

Save your time, IMHO.

TruTv is FakeTv, everything is pure baloney. Don't bother.

Is anyone else noticing the turn the show seems to be taking? Last week Rick buys a fake Indian piece. This week Big Hoss buys a pinball machine and does not get the price right. Now, after two years of calling in experts on every little detail, they start guessing and guessing wrong.

I had heard in the news that BH was arrested in a bar brawl where he may have assaulted some one. In California. Anyone know any details?