… Or, sometimes, on a similar note, I will hear the Pawn shop guys say that they will have to have it restored or refurbished and that will cost us “X” amount of money. And here all along, I have seen and heard conflicting advice from experts of the antiques roadshow variety, that one shouldn’t restore, alter, or damage the original integrity of a valuable antique item. Yet, Rick is always taking something to that tie-in, History channel, American Restoration shop. Seems, all too convenient.
I had a neighbor that managed a pawn shop and he invited me there for a special pre-Christmas special sale.
I do a LOT of home repair, and I know the exact retail of about half the electric tools you’ll find at Home Depot. There were old, battered sets of tools that were priced at 100% RETAIL.
Ooh! Get me summa that!
-Joe
Didn’t he trade a guy a guitar for his item once on the show? Don’t see how trading gold for an item would be any different (but maybe they did the “I’ll buy your item, you immediately buy the guitar” deal/paperwork/etc. the same way offscreen).
A “sort of sad and sort of funny” staple of pawn shops is wedding rings and half of them seem to be engraved with something like “To Trudy from Buck- I will love you Forever- July 22, 2005”.
Well, he didn’t say he’d ONLY love her forever…
He said it wasn’t legal, and I took that to mean a specific pawn shop law. It was a fancy old car. The price was tens and tens of thousands of dollars. 25? 70? I don’t recall.
I’m pretty sure that guy got his show after a couple seasons of Pawn Stars because of his affiliation with the show/shop over the years.
Yes, but then sometimes they switch things up not taking the deal…tricky.
I think the real point of these shows is to provide you entertainment while also educating you on the item itself and the history behind it, still fun though, some of the better reality shows, if only because you do learn something ;).
Ummm… yea. That’s kinda what I am getting at. Incestual business relationships breed corruption and graft.
Yeah, in one episode Rick will tsk-tsk at an old item (“this is not the original paint, that affects the value”), then in the next he’ll be moaning about how much he’d have to sink into an item to restore it so it’s presentable.
On another note,
Coincidentally, I just watched a DVR’d episode immediately after reading this thread about the document/signature appraiser and his enormous magnifying glass. Yep, they called him in, satchel and all, to evaluate Ronald Reagan’s signature. One of the boys (Chumlee?) said, “ain’t you gonna break out the big magnifying glass?”
mmm
I pawned my wedding band for $25 many years ago.
The Memory of that band would probably be worth tweny dollars, alone… why would I give it away for 5 dollares? No, the sentiment is more valuable… and I think that is half the pawnbroker’s jobe- bRGining your nostalgia down to a realistic price… devaluing life, ,memoriea, and dreams.
Bolding mine.
An unfortunate and inappropriate choice of words.
Not if that is a common voculabary. Entirely consistent and colloquial… I’
Entirely consistent and colloquial to my dialect. We might jew or bargain you down in total tribute to retail GOds… no shit, Jews are really good professionally at striking a bargain.
No it’s not and you know it, unless you hang out with a bunch of anti-semites.
ISTR Rick said something about federal regulations about gold sales having to be for dollars.
well, here’s the deal… we are long converted catholic jews… can’t choose your antisemitic, semitic family.
My point being that Rick’s relationship with the guy goes a lot further back than his History Channel program. Rick was getting antiques restored there long before the guy’s restoration shop was of any interest to the History Channel.
I’d ask what in the hell you are talking about, but since every post you make on this board is equally indecipherable, I won’t expect a reply that makes sense.