Pawn Stars is a cable TV show in the USA. It promotes itself as a "reality TV show".
Ocassionaly, I watch a few minutes of this....it always appears to me to be fabricated with unrealistic prices offered by the pawn dealer......I saw a guy with what appeared to be a crude 16mm film camera from the early 30's...the camera angles were too distant to make an identification...the pawn dealer offered $800 because he "knew some film student could use it". From what I could see you would have to be a marketing genius to get $5. for a junky looking camera like this on Ebay. Of course, the pawn dealer could have more cents than sense.
Pawn Stars ...pure fantasy?
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Re: Pawn Stars ...pure fantasy?
I've watched that show a few times, you're right about the prices they pay. They may get top dollar for some of that stuff with the flood of tourists that go through their shop.
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Re: Pawn Stars ...pure fantasy?
Actually it's become completely staged.
The guys really did work the counter at one time, but the last few years it's become impossible for them to work there without people snapping pictures.
The laws regulating the pawn business specify that the transactions are supposed to be made with reasonable confidentiality, and their celebrity kind of blows that out of the water.
So if you go in there today you may see the old man, or Rick or Corey or Chum, but when you make a deal at the counter it will be somebody else. Show up early though, on Google Earth you can actually see the line out the front door. It's just another Vegas tourist stop.
As far as making a living, all four of them are media personalities now and don't need to work at a pawn shop any more.
The guys really did work the counter at one time, but the last few years it's become impossible for them to work there without people snapping pictures.
The laws regulating the pawn business specify that the transactions are supposed to be made with reasonable confidentiality, and their celebrity kind of blows that out of the water.
So if you go in there today you may see the old man, or Rick or Corey or Chum, but when you make a deal at the counter it will be somebody else. Show up early though, on Google Earth you can actually see the line out the front door. It's just another Vegas tourist stop.
As far as making a living, all four of them are media personalities now and don't need to work at a pawn shop any more.