Rick Harrison does NGC at FUN

If you want to know how it goes down in a pawn shop just look over profit mans posts. They are very typical of my own personal experiences. I once bought a ms65 Morgan common Pcgs and the guy offered me $2.50 for it. Fyi silver was $4 an ounce way back then.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

By the way, I do not work at a pawn shop.

 

I'm well aware, thanks. I'm not sure why you would let a pawn broker offer you anything if you knew this beforehand except to open yourself up to insults or for a laugh

 

I was 15 and it was my first and last time offering a coin for sale in that venue

 

So you guys think that people who are desperate for money wait possibly weeks to appear on the show and unload their coins and bullion for terrible prices after getting a free appraisal from an expert?

In the case of FUN, why wouldn't they go to any of the other 1000 dealers and get a fair price?

 

TV like this is promotional. I provided links to The Penny Lady's threads on CT about how the show works. See above.

 

I visited the Pawn Stars shop in Las Vegas. It is no longer a real Pawn Shop. 75% of it sells memorabilia of the TV show, with anything under the sun with the TV show's logo and characters (t-shirts, caps, magnets, rulers, postcards, etc.). I was also there on another day, that was a TV shooting day, so the store was CLOSED, but I could see what was going on inside through the window. Only actors were in the store. The people "coming in with their goods" were chosen long before, since you have to submit the item you want to "sell" ahead of time, have the production people evaluate it, and if chosen, the "stars" have plenty of time to study the item and then know so much about it (do you really think they are so smart and knowledgeable?). The entire show is a "put-on" and there is nothing real about it, from start to finish, including the so-called haggling over the price.

 

The collaboration between Rick and NGS is just another publicity trick. Nothing more, nothing less.....

 

Good point. Some of those items though seem like they sell well below fair price... if the items' owners had weeks to prepare, they just sell the item at the appraised price, just for the notoriety of being on the show? I guess some people would do that, unless they get compensated for the difference between the "fair" price and the store's purchase price. I couldn't find that info in krispy's links. Though, of course, you could always deny selling it - in that case, if you're visiting Las Vegas I guess why not be on the show? On non-airing days, I'm sure they run their business like any pawn shop though.

Come to think of it even more, there are always a lot of very attractive "customers" in the background lol...

 

Have you watched the show?

The spend tons of time & money and work on a low 100% markup, and they have to pay gas, hotels, etc.

Many time the markup is lower than that.
And it sits in inventory for ages.

Also, many times someone asks one price and they offer more.

They make Pawn Stars look like a total rip off.
They pay far less than 50%.

 

And they also make donations to museums.

 

gee, I am impressed.

Perhaps they should use the $ to learn to speak English.

As for Chum-Lee, no one that dumb should be allowed to have any money.

 

I guess he's smarter than we think.
It is all for the show, hence he earns $25k per episode.

 

No one is forced to sell to a dealer or pawn shop.

 

...and so are all the rest of the so-called "reality shows". Elements you see MAY be true to life, but if you have half a brain in your head, you have got to suspect a producer is arranging things when you see "plot twists and turns", "huge finds", and "high drama" from simply a bunch of guys trying to dig up gold in the dirt of Alaska.

 

I totally agree! Frank and Mike (especially Mike) are really great "salt of the earth" people, and I love watching them!!!!!

 

The donations to Museums is referred to Frank & Mike (American Pickers) and not the low-lives of Pawn Stars.

When I was there, when the filming was over, the main "actors" got out the back door, and ChumLee stayed behind to sign autographs and take pictures, but he only allowed selfies, would not get behind the counter to take a photo with anyone, and would not shake anyone's hand (only an occasional fist-bump). I thought he was a real a...hole the way he acted, as if he was holier than holy...

 

I would love to play the dumb guy in a store for $25K an episode!!!

 

Plus, they get full visibility on their "finds" and desirable purchases which are probably good for double the money once they put them out for sale. I would like to see a program on what all those items they said were worth $X actually sold for. Same thing for "Antiques Roadshow", how much did those $50K and more appraised items actually bring at auction?

 

Owle:

On Antiques Roadshow, I do remember one piece of furniture that was sold on auction, estimated about $100K sold for several times that amount.

But, appraisals are retail values only