The Big Secret “Pawn Stars” Doesn’t Want You to Know

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The Big Secret “Pawn Stars” Doesn’t Want You to Know

I have an even bigget secret "pawn Stars" doesn't want you to know...

...  You get way more money for your stuff if you sell it on Ebay/ Craigslist/Facebook Marketplace.

Lol!

More than likely

I originally read about this a year and a half or two years back and it makes sense. With it's popularity, both filming and business would hurt trying to do it in the shop. Using the line outside as an indicator, they would be far busier than what you see on the show.

Another bit of trivia. The sign says they're open 24 hrs, but the shop isn't. After closing hour you can do business using the drive through.

Most of the "reality" tv shows are staged, scripted, and fake.

Here in Indianapolis they film the show "Good Bones" on HGTV.    Every week they show a different house the two ladies have decided to strip down and renovate.   Watching the show you would think they did all that work themselves.   In truth they have a team of designers, contractors, architectds, and laborers who do 99% of the work and then the stars show up for the finished product and pretend like they were in charge and hands-on with the work.   

Before that show started those ladies  actually did all of the work themselves which is how they were discovered.   But they obviously cant redo a house every week like the TV schedule requires....so enter the aforementioned workers.

And you can bet thats the same deal all the other HGTV shows are too.

I think what titillates people about Pawn Stars is when somebody brings in a bar of gold bullion and the fat chunky guy looks at it, shakes his head, and says he can't "give" more than $20 for it. Then the camera pans to the seller's face and his expression is priceless. The next line in the script is that Big Chunky says, "Tell you what, I'll give you $23...if you throw in your car keys and your pants."

In other words, it's schadenfreude...and being able to laugh at some poor sucker who's being had. Most of us have been there at some point--needing some quick cash to tide us over and pawning a diamond ring for $30---with $45 more in fees to get it back, even if you do that the very next day.

Every pawn shop should be burned to the ground and its owners tossed into the flames. They take advantage of desperate people---and nowhere is that more true than Las Vegas, the desperation capital of the world.

Nobody makes anyone enter a pawn shop to do business. 

Many folks simply take items to a pawn shop cause they know they will get “something” for it. It may very well be crap they have had in the garage and just don’t need it! Pawn shops offer a quick deal, of course they won’t offer you top price. It may well be junk that they may well hold for a long time before some thinks they need it! They operate a business with the idea of making a profit! Crazy thought huh Kevin!

I was 10 years old or so when I got a little transistor radio for Christmas.  I loved it, over the moon.  Later learned my dad had purchased it from a pawn shop just down the street from his office.  We weren't poor, but my mom was the definition of thrifty.  Probably some other items in the household came from Maxie's at one time or another.  

Candy

Predatory paycheck lenders cater to the same desperate people. Yes, they're in business to make a profit. But there is such a thing as exploitation. Back in the late 19th century, there were no such things as consumer protections and the motto was "Let the buyer beware." Since then, though, it's become less accepted, as well as less legal, to simply screw people over.

I do realize that the conservative philosophy, to which you apparently subscribe, is "Profit before people." In that mindset, any and all things that businesses do to make money are OK, even if people are hurt in the process.

I don't like such ruthlessness, nor do I condone it. Pawn shops and paycheck lenders charge people well over 100% annual interest rates. This is when you have to look under every rock to get paid 3% when YOU loan a bank money, such as when you open up a savings account. Preying on desperate people is no doubt quite profitable. It's also amoral.