Originally Posted by ********** (Post 20369291)

I'd love to see some of the classic stuff they might have. Cars, arcade games, 1930's - 60's electronics...

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20369445)

Remember the show is set in Las Vegas so I'm betting a lot of those people selling their shit are degenerate gamblers.

You can tell the real desperate types who walk in and go, "I want $3,500 for this thing" and Rick goes, "I'll give you $400". If the guy goes, "Can you go up to $500??" he's desperate. LOL

Some questions:

Are all those experts they are always calling in ("I have a friend...") just seconds away and always available to haul their ass down to a fucking pawn shop? Do they get paid for their appraisels or do they just do it cause.....why? WTF? LOL

Why is it always so quiet and dead in their "office"? It's like no one is ever there yet there are lines to get in. The Old Man sleeping, etc....wtf?

Do they ever actually SELL anything?

And so basically the entire "point" of the show, it's dramatic center, is whether or not Rick and the Old Man make money.

WTF????????????????

Originally Posted by kane (Post 20369432)

There is a woman that works at a grocery store I shop at regularly. She is likely in her late 70's and just works there part time as something to do. She is very nice. One day she and I were talking about my buying storage units and she told me about something she and her husband have. Her husband is older then her and was an 18-year-old communications operator at the end of WW2. He was stationed in Hawaii at the time. When the word came down from the pentagon that a cease fire with Japan had been reached and the war was over they sent communications via teletype to their four main hubs and those hubs then relayed the information via radio etc to other bases, ships, communications outposts etc. He was stationed at one of those hubs and was working when the teletype came across. After they did their job and relayed the info, he rolled the teletype up and kept it. He still has it. It is one of only four originals from that day and he has no idea what became of the others so it may be the only surviving original. I have no idea if it is valuable or not (I assume it is), but it means a lot to him and she is worried their kids will throw it out because they don't care about it. I told her to take it to someone to have it appraised and even if it has no real value if her kids don't want it arrange for it to be donated. Any number of museums would love to have it.

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20369445)

Remember the show is set in Las Vegas so I'm betting a lot of those people selling their shit are degenerate gamblers.

You can tell the real desperate types who walk in and go, "I want $3,500 for this thing" and Rick goes, "I'll give you $400". If the guy goes, "Can you go up to $500??" he's desperate. LOL

Some questions:

Are all those experts they are always calling in ("I have a friend...") just seconds away and always available to haul their ass down to a fucking pawn shop? Do they get paid for their appraisels or do they just do it cause.....why? WTF? LOL

Why is it always so quiet and dead in their "office"? It's like no one is ever there yet there are lines to get in. The Old Man sleeping, etc....wtf?

Do they ever actually SELL anything?

And so basically the entire "point" of the show, it's dramatic center, is whether or not Rick and the Old Man make money.

WTF????????????????

Originally Posted by Brian837 (Post 20369509)

You cannot be this stupid. Do you just post shit just to post shit? Come on porn nerd, if you are going to post this much crap at least pretend a little better lol

Originally Posted by TCLGirls (Post 20367684)

Average rate pawn shops pay for current and in demand consumer goods is around 20% to 25% of retail price. So if a hot new TV retails for $1000, expect to get around $200...and only if it is still current and in-demand (meaning the TV is 1 or 2 years old).

Originally Posted by SilentKnight (Post 20369297)

The wife and I often watched the show for the first few seasons.

I felt bad for some of the people who came in forced to give away priceless family heirlooms. The worst was some guy who had a tactical invasion map of Iwo Jima his father (or was it grandfather?) carried in to battle. How fucked up is your life if you have to part with something irreplaceable like that for chump change?