Pawn Stars

[Shuffler]

Buying there is not too bad. Selling there is a pass time off thieves I believe.

[Delirium]

Might want to include Doctors, Lawyers, Car Mechanics, Plumbers, Air Conditioning repair, and the list goes on.  They all make money off other peoples misery.

No matter how much money you have or how affluent your community is, you need Doctors, car mechanics, plumbers, HVAC techs, and yea, even lawyers unfortuantely.

You don't need pawn shops, they look for people down on their luck and sell to those that aren't. It is the very nature of the beast.

[Vudak]

No matter how much money you have or how affluent your community is, you need Doctors, car mechanics, plumbers, HVAC techs, and yea, even lawyers unfortuantely.

You don't need pawn shops, they look for people down on their luck and sell to those that aren't. It is the very nature of the beast.

The affluent don't need pawn shops, but the poor do.  When you can't get a loan on credit, you need to have collateral.  Pawn shops serve a useful and necessary purpose and help the poor get by.

Perhaps some do it in a sleezy way, but an unintended consequence of over-regulation to correct that may be to reduce their numbers.  Unfortunately, they are only useful to the needy if they are within walking distance.

[Shuffler]

OMG new Idea......


Porta Pawn..... give us a call, we'll come to you!

Now it is a cross between both shows....... History Channel you can contact me though my agent on the boards.

[lyric1]

One more thing about pawn shops . How can they get away with charging people 30% on a loan when no one else can , like credit card's , banks and so on . That's a rip off right there .

40 years ago 30% was called loan sharking. Today it is just called banking.

[lyric1]

I wish them and the title loan company's should be shut down and I think the law would if it was not for the fact that the cops use them to catch the persons doing the stealling .

Hell around here in this part of Ohio most of the pawn shops are partially or completely owned by the police.

[bmwgs]

No matter how much money you have or how affluent your community is, you need Doctors, car mechanics, plumbers, HVAC techs, and yea, even lawyers unfortuantely.

You don't need pawn shops, they look for people down on their luck and sell to those that aren't. It is the very nature of the beast.

We will start with you don't need a car mechanic because you can walk, you don't need a plumber because you can always dig a hole, though you may violate some laws.    You also do not need HVAC techs, or even lawyers.  Life can continue without any of these services.  Now, for the doctor, one can also do without a doctor, though one could die from some illness, but then again a home remedy may also heal one.

My point is many professions provide services based on others bad luck, or whatever.  No one is forced to walk into a Pawn Shop.  In my life I have never pawned or sold any item to a Pawn Shop.  I have purchased a number of items from them though.  I just don't see why one would be so against the business.  If you get a loan from one, the interest rate, and all other conditions are in writing.  If one does not read the conditions of obtaining the loan, then shame on them.  If one does not like the contract, then they are free to walk away.  I have never heard of someone being forced to pawn an item because the Pawn Shop owner had a gun to their head.  Though someone will probably Google it and find one instance where is has happened.   

The bottom line is if you don't like the service, don't do business with them.  I don't see any reason to bash the business. 

My Opinion

Fred

[bmwgs]

Hell around here in this part of Ohio most of the pawn shops are partially or completely owned by the police.

If I remember correctly, a Law Enforcement Officer can not be owner or part owner of a Pawn Shop in Texas.  They also can not own a bar, or business where the majority of the income comes from the sale of liquor.  There are some ways around it like having it all in the wife's name, but the officer's name can not be on the paper work.

Fred

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

That entire family genetic code is fubar.


Chumlee is version 4, and kids, its not getting any better.  

[Flench]

That entire family genetic code is fubar.


Chumlee is version 4, and kids, its not getting any better.  

You got that right , lol . After the old man and son dies Chumlee will probably put the business and all on red and say oh I got this one , lol .

[Delirium]

The bottom line is if you don't like the service, don't do business with them.  I don't see any reason to bash the business. 

My hometown is a good example, the home of Pratt and Whitney in Connecticut. When Pratt was doing well and military contracts were plentiful, the town did well. When the Cold War ended, so did many of the contracts and the town all but died. We never had any pawn shops in town, but gradually we had one, then two. Now the town has 8 of them as the town continues to decline.

I'm more than happy to bash them and I won't do business with them either. The last time I was in one was to take a picture of stolen merchandise that still had price tags on it from a retail store.

I don't know what kind of pawn shops you have in your area, but we have some real scumbags.

[dirt911]

I think it is funny, I mean if you really want to sell something just get on ebay. 

[sntslilhlpr6601]

I never saw anyone get ripped off on the show. They're just trying to make a profit, simple as that. You can't keep a store afloat if you buy items for retail price.

Sure, there's plenty of people who should have found some place else to sell their item, but that's their own damn problem. From what I've seen, the pawn stars are usually pretty good about informing ignorant customers of the value of the item, at least on camera.

Like that guy that walked in with a gold bar from a shipwreck. Dummy didn't even know the price of gold and was amazed that this giant chunk of gold was worth thousands. Then it turned out to be shipwreck gold which doubled the price. Lucky him. 

It's amazing how many people can't even look something up on the internet, but hey, that's why these guys make the big bucks. I don't blame them for capitalizing on it. I blame the dumb people for not making an effort to get something appraised and sold elsewhere.

[flight17]

pawn shops ripping off people? really? 

how about any sort of department store or any store in general? Black friday, 70% off... but guess what they still are making serious money off the items as they were probably marked up 300+% in the first place...

and for complaining about items being in personal collections... should every warbird that is flying now be handed over to museums because the average joe cant own one?

[crazierthanu]

I have a father who is a flight attendant, and he makes many trips to Las Vegas. We have watched the show many times, and he decided to talk a walk down to the pawn shop. He described it as being much smaller than it appears to be on T.V, and he also said the line to get in was around the block. I guess there doing pretty well. 
He asked around and apparently the cast of the show rarely makes an appearance, they usually have other staff running the shop. The show is very entertaining and a good watch though.