Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
Well, you show a pretty basic misunderstanding of business practices if you think that pawn shops buy items for anything remotely close to half of their retail value.
Once again, preying on the weak and the desperate is a mediocre business plan at best and certainly is morally reprehensible.
Watch the show. There are hundreds of episodes. They repeatedly pay right about half of current retail value. Maybe a bit less if the item will take up lots of floor/wall space, or it won't sell for years, or it will cost additional money to prepare the item for sale, or there are other risks involved. Or maybe a bit more if the item is small, easy to sell, and there's few risks to the shop. Gold and silver are the best examples.