My pawn shop experience.

I wonder if I write to Dr Phil and tell him about Detecto, would I get a "finder's fee"? Got to be worth a lot of episodes.

 

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Tim,

Hopefully with many of the responses as this thread has received, you have realized that your chastising of the Pawn Industry is really unfounded.

Pawn shops have operated on this basis for not just decades but centuries.

Buy low, sell high. That's their mantra. Your rant is moot.

 

I will definately be holding onto this gem for later use.

 

Come on folks, we are only at three pages and we are just about crossing over time into Tim's next adventure. Hurry up and post.:devil:

 

I've been thinking that Tim, knowing everything there is to know about the mechanics and ethics of running a successful business, should be teaching business courses at the university level.

 

You should split it with me.

Chris

 

This should get us to a page 7. While Detecto has created some inconsistencies here, I believe he adds some spice and creativity to this forum. There is some insight in there somewhere also.

 

After reading about detecto's life for the last couple years, I went to visit my dad. I gave him a huge hug and thanked him for the way he raised me. I realize that he really helped put me in a great position in life to succede. Thanks Detecto, for opening my eyes and making me appreciate my parents even more.

 

Chumlee adds flavour to Pawn Stars too - and curiously because of his significant sales of swag, autographs etc outsells anybody else in Gold and Silver by a long shot. Now if Detecto could find a creative way to laugh all the way to the bank all the better.

 

That's a nice story and I'm glad you appreciate what you've been given. (serious, not a snide comment). I'd "like" this post, but I don't know what Tim's parents are like or whether they are the problem. Could be Tim's biggest problem is himself and only himself. Sometimes kids come along that just don't respond as good as others do with basically the same circumstances. Perhaps the parents are at their wits-end because they've tried and tried and nothing really gets this kid out of the house and away from living a fantasy that somehow, with no fortitude or money-smarts, he'll have (in a few years) a wonderful life in his own home and with a lovely wife. There are plenty of homes where kids are basically given pretty much a really bad situation and they've pulled up their big boy (or big girl) pants and made good and been either moderately or really successful, and others where you could only hope to have lived in that home and been given the opportunities that were there, and those kids turn out badly. We only have Tim's viewpoints on this forum, so perhaps we should just refrain from judging that his parents are the ones at fault. Maybe he fell on his head when he was two and never recovered from that!!!

Tim.... you may want to lower your expectations and just find a way to survive if it ever turns out that your parents aren't able to continue supporting you. Coins are just trinkets in life and all your troubles really aren't worth having a hobby that keeps your little bit of money away from your bills. Lower your expectations, look for that minimum wage job and figure how to keep it once you have it (it's easy: go to work each and every day, get there on time, do as you are told, and never let the boss know you think you are smarter than him/her). Then make your payments each and every month - on time - until your former bills are gone. Each time you get some money saved, and look at a coin on-line or elsewhere, remind yourself that it is better to pay your bills and be responsible than to get a coin that will, in most cases, never appreciate in value and if times get tough you will be pawning for a fraction of your price anyways. Or your life will be a continuous repeat of your last few years, but more dismal because you will not be young and forgiven for it anymore.

 

This evening at the Kroger store I saw a woman that was a checker that has a red mohawk. Even she can get a respectable job.

 

Too Weird! Last night at Trader Joe's I saw a female checkout clerk w/ red mohawk also!

You lost me on this part, though.

 

Our OP looks "normal" but even the red mohawk ladies are gainfully employed while he isn't.

 

Update. Went to the pawn shop, and got my stuff back. Looks like it was never taken out. Coins are safe at my house now, lol.

 

Glad to hear it.
Now start saving so you never have to do that again.

 

Yeah. But did you hit 'em up for a job while you were there?

 

Glad to hear.

 

out of what ?

 

What pawnshop owner in their right mind would want to hire someone who (supposedly) thinks loaning full PCGS guide is a sound business move? Not to mention someone who thinks he knows more than anyone else about everything possible, and cannot help but to let you know it at every opportunity?

 

That's not the point. The point is that the OP has no job, complains he can't find one and does most, if not all of his "job searches" on-line.... which is severely limiting in getting a job unless you have such skills that going out and drumming up any old job is not to your benefit (i.e. a geologist would not be going to all the businesses in town looking for any job to do; but someone with no skills and little education would benefit from going to all the businesses in town looking for any job to do).

Unless he gets totally pro-active in searching and wears out some shoe-leather doing so, he may be a resident of the old folk's basement club for a long time still.