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<p>[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1679095, member: 37498"]That's what I see around here too. I know you're supposed to haggle a bit, but at those starting prices, they're going to make you feel like you're taking food off their table for talking them down from $100 to $75 for an item that is probably worth less than $50.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make things even worse, most of the pawn shops around here hardly ever have any coins. I've tried haggling on a few coins here and there with a couple different shops, but they just won't come down to a reasonable price. Maybe they can sell those to some sucker who is willing to pay top dollar for junk silver, but not me.</p><p><br /></p><p>And even worse are their guns. I spoke with the owner of a pawn shop here about a 92FS he had in the case. He told me he knew the owner of this gun and that it had at most 50 rounds fired through it. I could see by the wear that it had at least several thousand rounds fired through it. I shook my head in amazement, handed it back to him, told him he's full of it, and I haven't set foot in that pawn shop since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1679095, member: 37498"]That's what I see around here too. I know you're supposed to haggle a bit, but at those starting prices, they're going to make you feel like you're taking food off their table for talking them down from $100 to $75 for an item that is probably worth less than $50. To make things even worse, most of the pawn shops around here hardly ever have any coins. I've tried haggling on a few coins here and there with a couple different shops, but they just won't come down to a reasonable price. Maybe they can sell those to some sucker who is willing to pay top dollar for junk silver, but not me. And even worse are their guns. I spoke with the owner of a pawn shop here about a 92FS he had in the case. He told me he knew the owner of this gun and that it had at most 50 rounds fired through it. I could see by the wear that it had at least several thousand rounds fired through it. I shook my head in amazement, handed it back to him, told him he's full of it, and I haven't set foot in that pawn shop since.[/QUOTE]
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