adrenaline
Footballguy
Auction Hunters is a good show too, along the lines of Storage Wars.
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Pawn Stars on History Channel (2 Viewers)
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Porkchop Express
Footballguy
From the greezy hair to the fake tan to his name, Les Gold is the personification of a inner city pawn broker.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
I want to punch every person on that show. Especially the chick. I can't watch it anymore.
newteech
Footballguy
I have to agree. But when the local Detroit folk begin losing their mind and start dropping F-bombs every other word, it's hard not to laugh.I couldn't work at this place. My first day I would either get fired.... or beat-up.... or shot-up
Mario Kart
Footballguy
The client when Chumlee busted out his intelligence on the Air Jordan's was pretty good. I guess Chum has some value even if he buys the stuff with his own money.
johnnycakes
Footballguy
That girl definitely has an attitude problem. I don't think she could work anywhere else. I wanted to smack her myself when she called one guy on the carpet for pricing jewelry in her showcase without asking her first. That is... she didn't have a problem with the prices themselves. She had a problem that he didn't ask first. ####.
Mario Kart
Footballguy
Cajun Pawn Stars
The Kerminator
Footballguy
Anybody catch tonight's show with the new girl working the night shift - Olivia?
Sarnoff
Footballguy
She's pretty cute. Funny picture of her they chose to use for the "dollar bill" nametag thing that pops up on screen.The Les Paul was really cool. As soon as the guy dropped below $100K, I knew Rick was going to jump. The stalling between $88 and $90K must have been for show. No way he cares so much about $2K in that spot that he'd let it walk out the door.
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NeverEnough
Footballguy
Mmmmmmm Olivia
chet
Footballguy
The guy was stupid to sell IMO. Take it to an auction and try your luck.
Mario Kart
Footballguy
Les Paul guy was dumb but I wonder what else he has from him. What taxes does the guy have to report for that?
"$4,000. It's 3:00am in Vegas. Where else are you going to get $4,000 cash?"
"$4,000. It's 3:00am in Vegas. Where else are you going to get $4,000 cash?"
Sarnoff
Footballguy
Could go either way there. Auction house takes like 30%, right? So he'd have to get it north of $130K to break even, if he gets a good crowd. I have to assume Rick wasn't the first guy he showed it too... gotta think he shopped it around a bit and didn't get better offers, right?
ffldrew
Footballguy
Just looked up a Christies Auction Oct '11 that sold some guitars that Richard Gere owned a 1960 Gold Top Les Paul went for 98,500 and a Flying V went for 75,000 - the guitar on the show was more of an SG design - but I'd say it's history alone makes it worth more than the 90,000 - just to look at those pickups and to think that it was all Les Paul's ideas to set it up like that has to put it in that 130,000 range.
http://www.christies...64&sortby=ehigh
Here's one of that is a '63 - no provenance - no where near the beauty of the bridge and the pickups that were on the show - 20K
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/gibson-incorporated-a-solid-body-electric-guitar-les/5482652/lot/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5482652&sid=bc26a8eb-7181-4a2c-b5f9-ede046c3a794
http://www.christies...64&sortby=ehigh
Here's one of that is a '63 - no provenance - no where near the beauty of the bridge and the pickups that were on the show - 20K
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/gibson-incorporated-a-solid-body-electric-guitar-les/5482652/lot/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5482652&sid=bc26a8eb-7181-4a2c-b5f9-ede046c3a794
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What happened with the Rolex, my DVR cut off? Did Olivia take her shirt off?
The Les Paul was pretty sweet. Guy really came down from his price. I went back and re watched it and there's no way Corey is that good an actor. Big dude was sweating. I think the negotiating they showed was real and not a reenactment.
The Les Paul was pretty sweet. Guy really came down from his price. I went back and re watched it and there's no way Corey is that good an actor. Big dude was sweating. I think the negotiating they showed was real and not a reenactment.
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shadyridr
Footballguy
She was hot in that whole interview outfit she had on. Dress, tats, piercings, big boobs. Im a big fan
Redwes25
Footballguy
Yeah, who sells that kind of stuff to a pawn shop. That is stuff that belongs in an auction house as he could have gotten significantly more than 90K.
shadyridr
Footballguy
people who need $$ right away
shadyridr
Footballguy
staged? The "story lines" between the family and even them hiring a new girl all are staged obviously but the items brought in and negotiated all seem legit to me.
comfortably numb
Footballguy
Do auction houses also give you tax forms and crap to deal with?90k in $ bills on the spot > better than 130k -house fee, -whatever tax crap you have to deal with
Captain Placeholder
Footballguy
the whole show is fake? im sure the re-enact certain parts or arrange for cool objects to come in...
shadyridr
Footballguy
interestingThey had a guy bring in a guitar claiming it was a 1960 Gibson Les Paul. Turned out to be a 70s Les Paul. He seemed very dejected when he found out what he thought was a $25,000 guitar was actually a $3,000 guitar. The guitar, the guy that brought it in, and the expert they brought in to value it were all from the same music shop. The guy that brought it in was a luthier at the shop and would have known the approximate year. Season 2 episode 5 if you wanted to watch in on Netflix.
identikit
Footballguy
shadyridr
Footballguy
This doesnt bother me. But I still thought it was real customers with real items and real negotiations that the producers preselected because they thought they would be interesting to the viewer.
17seconds
root of all aliai
There's some of that, I'm sure.It does bother me that the shop we see is a set and none of the guys ever really work in the shop. The premise of the show is reality TV.
shadyridr
Footballguy
dammit i did not want the red pill
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Luke Skywalker
Guest
That one is actually real. I used to live in that town and went into that place probably once a month for 5 years. The store looks the same as it always has and the family that runs it actually works there.Having said that there's nothing remotely "Cajun" about Alexandria. It's about 100 miles north of the real deal.
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B-Deep
Footballguy
there will be a cajun pawn red pill soon, book it
I think most of these shows start out real then as time goes on the staging/setups keeps increasing
Mario Kart
Footballguy
So, does Rick and his family even work there? Where is the store "staged" if that is not the place they film? I'm going to see if Olivia is really there. If not, fake.
Max Power
Footballguy
Most of the history channel shows are going downhill fast these days. I could accept some of the scenes were stagged, but now its obvious the entire thing is scripted.
I wonder if Rick is really as smart as he was portrayed.
On a side note, the Axe Men show on history channel took that same turn for the worst this season. So fake, it's hadrly watchable. I think that show will end very soon.
I wonder if Rick is really as smart as he was portrayed.
On a side note, the Axe Men show on history channel took that same turn for the worst this season. So fake, it's hadrly watchable. I think that show will end very soon.
chet
Footballguy
comfortably numb
Footballguy
I agree, a room full of producers throwing out ideas on what would make a show interesting.We have 2 months of footage, and all we have gold watches and an old Willie Mays card....let's see, how about someone walks in with 100k guitar.What really turns me off about these shows is how the shows become more about the people, rather than the product.Let's have Chumlee do something stupid, let's have a card game, where the old man will win on all 4 people going all in.Same things happens to every show, maybe i am not smart enough to know what people want, but, just make the show about the product, not the people.
I've been to the actual pawn shop. It's on Las Vegas Blvd between the strip area and downtown. They definitely film in the main area of the shop. None of the main players were out in the shop. I think if they are there that they spend most of their time in the office area to answer questions from employees and only come out if needed. I did recognize one guy who has been on the show a few times, the employee they called over to give his opinion on some Nascar stuff if you remember that episode. He's also the guy they called over to plug in that old suntan machine this season.
JaxBill
Footballguy
Moving onto a different reality show and different part of Louisiana, Sons of Guns - staged or not? I find it hard to believe they just happen to have some of these guns stroll into the shop.
GoFishTN
Footballguy
Maybe the guitar shop owner did it for some free publicity?
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Sons of Guns isn't owned by Will and Stephanie. They lost their FFL a couple of years ago when the ATF did an audit and a bunch of guns were missing. Red Jacket Firearms is actually owned by some of the guys just portrayed as "employees." Like Vince. Only Vince left a few months ago because he got sick of all the lying and waiting for the show to finally reveal the truth.So Will is always acting like the big blowhard and the bigshot that can push everyone around and act like a jerk because he owns the place, when the truth is that he and his daughter are a bunch of incompetent morons who can't even legally build guns and are the real bottom-rung employees.
Ok so Pawn Stars is fake. What's everybody say on Hardcore Pawn? I'm watching it now and these people are nuts. Les' negotiating tactics seem lacking but he usually gets the stuff he really wants.
Former Red Wing Darren McCarty just helped his buddy sell a 14 ft alligator to the store for $2000 cash and $500 in store credit. Can't believe cheap ### Les actually paid that much.
Former Red Wing Darren McCarty just helped his buddy sell a 14 ft alligator to the store for $2000 cash and $500 in store credit. Can't believe cheap ### Les actually paid that much.
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Unwatchable.
Kevrunner
Footballguy
There is an episode of Pawn Stars in season 1 or 2 where a guy brings in a beat up old coke machine to sell. Rick ends up buying it and takes the coke machine to Rick's Restoration to get fixed up. I guess they were not counting on Rick's Restoration to get their own show. As it turned out the guy who brought the beat up coke machine to the pawn shop, ends up being the brother of the Rick's Restoration owner. Also, there is even talk that the restored coke machine isn't even the same machine that was brought in to be restored. Regardless, I still find the show entertaining and I don't believe all of the scenes are faked.
identikit
Footballguy
Jojo the circus boy
Footballguy
I could see Hard Rock Casino easily scooping that up.
Foosball God
Foos
It wasn't. The beat up old Coke machine was a Vendo 39 I believe, and the one Rick from Rick's Restorations wheeled out was a Cavalier 72. Not even the same brand.'Kevrunner said:
