Dumbest Things People Brought To Pawn Shops Thinking They Were Gonna Strike It Rich (r/AskReddit)
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“A guy brought in a bag of used syringes and wanted to trade it for a TV”
*Ah yes, the negotiator*
D- Luuxx 😂
This is where you need to roll a nat 20 on a charisma check.
*Mercantile 100*
The Art of the Deal
What a prank lol
“In grade twelve he stole it from his father.”
“It turns out his grandfather had forged the letter and gave it to his dad as a gift”
Jesus, poor dad
Disappointed by 2 generations at once.
That grandpa must have been real proud of himself: it took years for the dad to figure out that he’d been had.
I have my doubts if the story is true because they used the exact same scam-idea in the movie Hateful Eight.
Exact thoughts, a year or so after the movie as well. Reddits full of shit like this and reposting. I love reddit myself but don't believe everything.
@@noxure yes.
"Worth billions"
"Wanted $2000 for it"
Math checks out.
Seems legit...
Especially for a piece of the true cross
Hell of a deal for the shop then, eh?
Gamestop:
"Descended from ancient noble line of knights sworn to protect the cross"
Tries to pawn the cross.
"brought in an RPG"
Took me a moment to realize he wasn't talking about a video game.
Lol, you kids. At first I thought he meant a set of books for a paper and pencil RPG.
I’m sorry Paul, but...
ok boomer
@@valecrassus7835 ...wOw KiDs ThEsE dAyS!
Dude. Who cares what kind of game it is or when it was dated. It legit makes you sound weak and whiny AF.
@@julyajohnson4787 stop shitting on him, what he said wasn't even whiny at all.
@@valecrassus7835 I already knew it was a explosive gun tho
I’m a militaria collector and I’ve seen everything, someone wanted to sell me a chair Hitler supposedly sat in, it was a god dang lofa with Chinese markings on it from 1995
But was it from argentina?
@@Pillar_of_Salt ah yes... the real questions 😂
Lol
as a militaria collector i feel that on a spiritual level, or also that guy who found a ww2 american helmet and thinks it worth 10 000€. Or that guy who knew a guy whose cousin was friend with the brother of the husband of Hitler/Eisenhower/DeGaule cousin's
I had the opposite happen at a pawn shop. I was in there getting some sockets when I decided to peek at the jewelry section. I collect gem rough and cut stones, so I always like to peek around. I saw a gold ring with a peculiar orangish yellow stone in it about 8mm across round cut. They call it a citrine, but the way it reflects the light internally catches my attention immediately: the faces inside look hazy and the edges are blurred. That's what I see with opals. I ask for a pen light and hold it up to the side of the stone. Sure enough it lights up with brilliant greens, reds, blues, and purples. It's a faceted Mexican opal. This was before Ethiopian opals entered the market so a faceted opal was *very* rare. I kept my mouth shut and bought the ring for $75. I then pried out the stone and sold the ring to a "we buy gold" friend for $60. I got a gorgeous faceted Mexican opal for $15.
Good call.
thats some big brain energy right there
2,000 IQ play
What did you do with it?
@@creeper_ninja_ I ended up using it in a very elaborate gem tree sculpture that I still have.
Worked at a game store.
Had a guy come in wanting $400 for Pac man on the Atari 2600. We had two copies of the game for $1 a piece on open display.
Did you show him the displays?
@@shawbros He was very rude. I did tell him that we had two copies and he could buy them for $1 each and if they were so expensive he could make a lot of scratch selling it to another store. He promptly left
I only bought them to display them on deer mounts
lol even E.T. wouldn't be that expensive
@@AlexRonai there are some very expensive Atari 2600 games, but the vast majority are worth $5 or less. We sold almost every loose cart for $1 or 11 for $10. This was back in 2015. E.T at the time was a rare exception at $10.
I was at a pawn shop once, just shopping. Some guy strolls in and lays down a human tooth on the counter and says "how much for this gold tooth". The proprietor takes one look and says "that's not a gold tooth, it has a mercury filling, and by the way, it's the same tooth your friend brought in here the other day. Get out."
Meth is a scary drug
I was in a pawnshop looking at video games, some 18-19 year old kid walked in trying to sell a six pack of coca cola
zack murray did he get any money
Yeah don’t leave us hangin
DID HE GET ANY MONEY DAMNNUT
I mean, I'd pay money for someone to bring me soda while I work...
There are collectible cans. I assume that's what those were. Not advisable to drink
Had tons of swords and knives as collectables in my apartment. One night it got robbed. A few days later, we found that a local pawn shop has recently received several swords and knives matching my description of them. I identified them, and turned out to be my sister's druggy-friend who unlatched the window when he was visiting, crawled through, and stole them. It was funny when the pawn shop owner told us that he tried to explain that those $200-300 swords and knives were only worth about $15 at the pawn shop. X'D They were collectibles, dude! Not antiques.
Most weapon thieverys are from someone you know or within your inner circles.
That's why you gotta be careful who you show your collection to.
What happened to the druggy guy did he get arrested?
@@PSN_OGRE it's been at least more than a year, a slim chance you get a response
@@holyspectator3830 yeah but sometimes guys like this answer back.
@@holyspectator3830 Nah nevermind
No one:
The bot: P*rn shop workers of reddit
Snak1ty I know my dad freeked out at me
I had to hear the beginning about 5 times to make sure I heard it as porn not pawn
I’m glad I’m not the only who heard that. I thought I was going crazy for a moment and chalked it up to the accent.
And this is why we don't call them pawn shops in Australia.
i dont understand, pawn and porn are pronounced the exact same tho?
the ming lamp went from $5.2 million to $715k so not "worthless" but still
chinchenping highest I saw 1.3 million for one
Still, essentially losing out on 4.5 million dollars has to sting, moreso if she was the one to do it..
That's assuming she'd actually be able to SELL it for $715k.
@@db9944 lmfao, imagine if she was the one who drilled the hole
i felt that the whole ordeal was just mean
I know the feeling of that Ming vase. I got an Arasaka Type 38 rifle from my grandfather; his brother brought it home from the Pacific in WWII (great uncle was in the Navy).
Well, those idiots did a hack job of sawing the barrel down because they wanted to turn it into a deer rifle. Didn't even have a gunsmit put the front sight back on...
Heartbreaking bro
Damn, I feel for you. If it makes you feel any better, I’ll share my best deal EVER.
Just got a Lee Enfield no1 Mark 3, Ishapore
.410. Price? My old marlin 30-30 lever action for a trade, lol. All numbers match, all original, even have the bayonet. And shoots great.
This just makes me miss the type 38 I had even more. Gorgeous condition, early production nagoya with its chrysanthemum, and a correct bayonet.
I sold it for gas money after I lost my job, and I regret it ever since.
Fun fact on the Ming vase according to The Telegraph it still sold for over £500,000 so maybe there’s still hope for your rifle lol
@Samuel Shin Thing is they might not always be antique at the time, the only reason a good condition original WW1/WW2 gun would be worth a lot now is they are usually more rare now, if they were say modified in the 40s-60s then they probably weren't worth as much at the time so they wouldn't care about modifying it as much, especially if they might not have actually spent anything on it in the first place such as in this case. That or they were modified by someone who simply didn't know how much it could have been worth.
trying to sell anything at a pawn shop is a mistake, actually.
Why?
Landon Blazer pawn shops rip u off half the time lmao
Don't sell on eBay either they take like 35% of all the money
Depends on if you have inside connections or not
@@DeCarbonZo5979 Lol
When I was a kid, I asked my mom to buy me some promotional reprints of classic Batman comics. My mom bought me two of each, one to read and one to save "because it will be worth money someday". Her logic was like: 'the original comics are worth millions now, so in 60 years their reproductions will ALSO be worth millions!'. Anyway, years later my step-dad stole them and tried to sell them for thousands of dollars on craigslist, toy'r'us logo and all.
He get anything for them? 🤣
TheCookieHero probably like $2
Your stepdad's a fucking ass
That took a dark turn :-0
I assume the guy was white.
Reddit be like:
*Never been in a pawn shops but......*
*Never heard of a pawn shop before, but..*
@@legosharkproductions1100 LMAO AHHA
*never been outside but...*
Not me but my mom’s aunt’s sister’s younger cousin’s classmate’s great grandma’s child...
@@hugebean8073 OMG
"A guy literally brought in an RPG"
Took me a while to realize you meant Rocket Propelled Grenade, not Role Playing Game.
Lol, and when they had to bring in a bomb squad to diffuse it as it was actually live I was like, B R U H.
Rpg
“A guy brought in a bag of used syringes and wanted to trade them for a tv” “I think this is gold,I think this is a chuckle cheese coin” lmao
I went to the local pawnshop trying to find a cheap laptop and when I was there, this crackhead looking guy comes in with a McDonald’s bag. He puts the bag on the counter and tells the guy he wants $20,000 for what he is about to show him. He reached in the bag and pulled out a cheeseburger. He said it was the first cheeseburger McDonald’s ever made and he got it while he was working as a cashier at the first ever McDonald’s. I was about 28 at the time and the dude looked younger than me
Was it... was it still warm?
Even if it was the first cheeseburger from McDonald's, nobody wants to buy rotten food
@@liamzakhaev I'm sure somebody will
Brb, I have a sticker with the Blockbuster logo on it that I need to take to a pawnshop.
Gonna ask for $5,000 for this ancient piece of history.
@@cloudysaku Það er stutt.
Dude put it in a museum not a pawnshop
@@evolvedbread1370 don't museums pay finders fees for priceless relics?
@@liamzakhaev idk
*Guy comes in*
Do you know what this is?
it looks like a golden baby bracelet
..... yep that's exactly what it is.
Damn I need to buy some golden cock rings
“No, I won’t give you meth money for your Dark Magician.”
I have no idea why that made me lose my shit, but it did. 😂😂😂
Remember when they sold "gold" coins on TV ads? Yeah, my hubs bought one of those, took it to a pawn shop and the guy laughed at him. I still have it in my safe, but now, it's flaked and rusty. And certainly not gold.
ANY COINS sold on TV or magazines are usually not even sterling silver (92.5%) plated. I've seen genuine 50% silver plated for the price of a solid PURE silver coin at some of the places I went to. Many of the BS commemorative coins are what's called "aluminum bronze" where it's a mix of copper and aluminum instead of normal bronze which is copper and tin. That stuff usually holds up for YEARS. Your coin must be something else.
I've seen commercials for coins that were on the Titanic, necklaces made from the silver of ancient knights armor, and jewelery made from the gems from the "area near the stable Jesus Christ was birthed in". People will do anything for a buck.
That reminds me of when I made a GoAnimate video in, like, 2011 (before I knew nobody likes those videos), where one character said she thought a yo-yo was made of gold, but it turned out to just be plastic. The funny thing is, I didn't even know it was common to sell fake gold - the character was meant to be a dumbass - so this turned out to be a case of accidentally correct writing. :D
I think those coins have the word 'Promotional' stamped on them too. That means they're minted by the million and have almost no value.
@@user-yn1bd4yf3h why coal? Wouldn't it just disintegrate in the water?
"That cheap son of a ..."
Lady, who is the one trying to pawn a gift?
I would keep anything "real" my husband gave me and give it to my children as a prized heirloom. If it's fake, our children (and their children) can just live with the fact that their father was a deceitful scumbag who gave their mother worthless junk and lied about it on the day of our wedding and throughout our marriage.
Probably after one of them cheated though
@@krystal1722 why does prize matter if you arent selling it?
"I called my Lincoln chair guy" LOL, whats next? "I called my Trump cheesburger wrapper guy" ???? lmaoooo
Trump cheeseburger wrappers are too numerous to be valuable., UNLESS he signed it with his Sharpie.
Might have been trolling Pawn Stars.
If such a guy exists, I think you need to spray him with at least a ton of de-greaser and raid before he's even safe to shake hands with.
I am in the market for a Trump cheeseburger wrapper.
Lincoln cheeseburger wrapper signed by Trump. I’m going to be so rich.
Did that Lincoln letter end with, "Ole Mary Todd is calling, so I guess it must be time for bed."
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I thought it said porn shop workers of reddit
It sounds like that ngl
yeah i don’t think you can trade used items in a porn shop lol
choo choo pickle pie used dicks maybe?
Same
AND YOU PRESSED INTO IT
"This is Kansas City, we dont know what a hockey stick looks like"
But.. but... we have a hockey team :(
This comment actually makes me a bit sad, have my like.
They used to be the KC Blades, who then folded, and now we have the KC Mavericks. Plenty of pawn shops and sports memorabilia shops here that have a hockey stick signed by Wayne Gretsky.
As an outsider, I read that response as /s (sarcasm). They know but they don't care because of the low value? Idk.
I don't understand why people don't test their own gold and silver before bringing it to a pawn shop..
I pawned my crockpot - used once, still had all the package inserts and box- to my local pawn shop for $6 more than I paid for it at Walmart.
I was grateful, I was going through a rough divorce.
Why do I feel like if you get paid more selling it a pawn shop, you could make money without working?
_ BONDREWD _
Could be a good way to make money ngl
Laziness can go pretty far.
the same reason they would pawn their 'priceless' items, theyre desperate for quick cash
I don't even know how to test gold or silver.
pawn
/pɔːn/
porn
/pɔːn/
Everyone in the comments: oh they sound similar!!!
If you go to the Northeast, the two words absolutely do sound the same
David Burke nobody lives in the northeast unless ur in ny or nj lol
P-aw-n
P-ore-n
Nope, doesn't sound remotely the same.
In Australia they are pronounced the same lol
@@hyperionwhitestar1453 Literally have the same pronunciation for so so so many people as evidenced by the IPA pronunciation guide that I placed in the first post. If you pronounce the r in porn then sure they're different but that's not universal at all.
The point is that they are pronounced the same for a huge number of people so it's not just a slight resemblance but identical pronunciation.
Thanks for making me explain this.
Check out different pronunciations of pawn on Forvo forvo.com/word/pawn/
And porn. Note the variation in the fucking r. forvo.com/word/porn/
Once saw a really strung out lady come into a gamestop trying to sell a few gold chains. Kept saying she'd take anything. Dude was like "uhm....this is a game store"
Moral of the story: don't go to pawn shops for top dollar.
Kody Eldridge porn
Since they are the ones set up to turn it over for maximum profit, you are going to get the least amount possible from a pawn shop.
@@AlexFlockhart Are you telling me that they're in the business of making money and if they were to give everyone top dollar for their items, that their shop would be short-lived because getting rid of your profit margin entirely is a garbage business model?
David Burke Smart collectors never go to pawn shop because they offer below market values so they can sell it at market value and make money. Same with Autographed Jerseys at the Auctions at the Hockey games. The minimum bid is often whats it’s worth chances are you would be overpaying.
@@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307 I know. I was being facetious.
Honestly, "A Funeral for a Friend" 8 comic run that happened immediately after the "Death of Superman" is worth more (per issue). So maybe $5-8 a piece, $40-60 ($70 if lucky) total.
There are a few valuable comics from the 90s, but they are rare in many ways. Even then only a few thousand, not even breaking 10k.
I think there is a X-Men comic called "A heroes welcome", is that worth something?
@@l.gsmith8411 I have never heard of it, but I don't follow X-men at all.
Is there any significance to the issue? Is it a (true) first appearance? Is there any demand for the comic in general?
Look on the first couple pages. At the bottom of one of them is the copyright and other legal stuff. This will tell you the EXACT series, title, and issue number (because sometimes the actual cover doesn't do that, I know, it annoys me as well). Use this to look it up online.
Don't use Ebay, it's no longer considered very reliable (occasionally you get lucky, but not often). Check dedicated comic book auction sites.
Good luck.
@@Gilhelmi thanks
@@Gilhelmi X-Men 134 too late the heroes
I found it
frozen fire there’s the also X-men #1 with around 12 variant covers (artwork by jim lee) which was the number one selling comic book for a time (I forget which comic surpassed it). They made tons of money because if all the variants were put together they made a giant image of the X-men fighting magneto.
Parents own an antique store. Pianos, typewriters and sewing machines aren’t worth anything
I love antique stores 😊
Pianos? How is that possible? If it’s in good condition they can still be worth a lot even if it’s old. Even a crappy old piano is still in the hundreds.
Spencer Smith Most people who go into an antique store for instruments are only looking for something to beat on and save money so when they get decent at playing the instrument they can upgrade. pianos are extremely hard to move and take up a lot of space so it’s not exactly an instrument you can just pick up and play. A lot of people who come to us that want to sell them usually have them appraised or look at internet prices and expect us to pay something similar so the return is pretty small on them, space is also an issue since we are bringing a truck load of junk up to 3 times a week so having something sit for over a month is considered a waste of space ,time and money. We did come across a small one that had hand painted flowers but it wasn’t tuned properly so we basically had to give it away since nobody would pay more than what we paid for for it
I sold a typewriter to an antique store for $35. That was his first offer and I took it.
@@OffGridInvestor Was it manual or electric? I can definitely see hipsters creating demand for the former.
The Abraham Lincoln letter thing ain't even dumb, even if there's a 1% chance of it being real that's atleast 10k
Not dumb but a funny story nonetheless
You my good sir are stupid
So you’re gonna buy an abraham Lincoln letter that has no proof of being real for 10k? HMU
Lilboicoen yeah for real, this guy needs to hit my line because we over here at xltsalad industries have an infinite stock wed be happy to sell for that fair price
Y a l l trippin obviously they aren't gonna buy it right away there gonna verify if it's real, all I'm sayin is even if you don't know if it's real might as well just bring it cause it could be and that's 10k.
12:04 - If I was the Pawn Shop Owner in this story I would have just looked at the seller with disgust in my eyes and said "We don't do business with Oath-Breakers!"
That man has disgraced his family's blood line.
"I won't give you meth money for your Dark Magician"
Who knew Yugi turned to drugs after the series ended XD
My parents own an antique store. My favorites are:
1- People getting upset that their item won't be purchased for full resale value. When trying to explain that if they are paid $100 for their $100 item, the store can't make money. 75% of the responses to that is "that's not my problem." 🤦
2- People claiming that the same item is on eBay for $1000.... (Anybody can ask any price in the world. That doesn't mean it's worth that.) Check completed listings. Same item sold for $45. Customer still insists it's worth $1000.
3- The only bad review of their store is written by a customer that was offended because my parents didn't like what they brought in and didn't want to make an offer. 🤷🤦
When it said pawn shop at the beginning it deadass sounded like it said "pornshop"
*I am c o n f u s i o n*
SpaceRX I don’t fucking care
SpaceRX whomst has summoned the almighty one
Ayee cool profile pic sizzle 😎
My father watches that show "pawn stars" and every time he says the name it sounds like he's saying "porn stars" lmao.
A skiss made rolflex? That’s worth at LEAST a 7 dollar bill.
Comedy GOLD.
"7 dollar bill"
If you have a 7 dollar bill hit me up
I wonder if anyone tried to sell them Battle Toads for the Wii, as that is incredibly rare.
"The big defense contractor laid over 10,000 people overnight" Damn my man got some stamina
Hey babe, wanna see my missile silo
Buys glass figurine with "Occupied Japan" logo
Sells it for *45* Dollars
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme" - Mark Twain
I took a knife to a pawn shop hoping to get 100$ for it but i got 10$
That ten dollars got me McDonald's 😂
Should have kept the knife and gotten yourself a lot more McDonald's
@@db9944 😂 Nah the knife was absolutely shit
I sold some yellow handle case knives for 25 dollars. A brand new one is 33 dollars and they were in boxes from the 90s
@@reikyfoxxe1847 the older ones are worth more...especially in original boxes. The newer ones are made in Japan and they're almost all just stainless steel now. I'd have happily given 40-50 for a new case trapper from the 90s
Krista Berck yea but the pawn shop was probably going to sell them for 50 too
RPGs aren't illegal. You just have to pay out the ass to be allowed to get one. My coworker has two different RPGs.
Lucky bastard.
"Xs of reddit"
"not an X buuut..."
Ooh, I'm interested in the AMA guy.
Arcanine-Espeon im especially interested in the $800 TV story
"old" "1990"
sigh😞
Lol... It's just ten years before 2000. Even if now is 2020, we're still only in our 30s, unless we're older but that's still not something to be sad about.
When it said “guy literally brought in an rpg” I thought he was takin bout an extremely rare rpg game
I was thinking he was talking about an rpg-7 (the launcher part) not a fucking rocket XD
People have literally brought rocks... just “nice looking rocks” saying it’s some meteorite or a rare metal. Thinking they would get the owner beg them to buy the rock..
On the shores of the baltic sea you can collect amber, so going around the beach and collecting rocks can actually earn you some money there.
It's also advised you are super careful, because there are a lot of old WW2 incendiary bombs in that ocean and the phosphorus gets washed ashore, too. If it dries in your pockets, you will suddenly catch fire.
Ole Nickel rocks aren’t worth jack shit unless they are clean and have a good size in pawn shops. and diamonds are the only thing that aim for cause they are easier to sell.
*chips away at rock to make one side smooth and the other sides rough*
*paints one side of rock*
*goes to pawn shop*
"I have a peice of the berlin wall give me $1000"
It's my pet rock so it holds a lot of sentimental value I want at least 1k
Pugs 4 life that is quite frequent. The wall was massive though so it's likely there are quite a few actual pieces. I've got one I put through a vigorous authentication process and it came out the other end, so not all of it is fake. You can never be sure when collecting though
Descends from noble knights who protect the remnants of the cross.
Sells it at a pawnshop for 2K
Had a pawnshop owner as a landlord for a few years. He was good to his tenants. The things I learned from him... we joked about how people were so... I made and sold high end costume jewelry. I would buy single diamond studs in 14k mounting for $5 a point ( usually 1 to 2 pointers) clean them, match them up and sell them for $10 a point. One day he offered me a trio of studs with bright colored stones. He said emerald, ruby, sapphire. Ends were sharp and steel- piercing gun studs. I had a pair myself, got them, and showed him. He had plated mounted with CZ’s. He threw them. He’d never seen those before. The sheer number of people thinking he was a fence was incredible. Just because he ran a pawnshop didn’t mean he was a fence. So many stories.
I went to a pawn shop with one of my fathers old watches and got offered $25. It was a punch to the stomach. Then I went to the jewelers about half a mile away and got offered $425.
What kind of watches?
Was moving out of an apartment when I was 21. My parents had bought me a second hand hide a bed couch to sleep on. One of those early 80s brown couches with the wood accoutrements on the arms and the images of flowers and deer on the cloth. When it came time to move I asked for their help getting rid of it as the new place came with a bed. Parents refused, saying a pawn shop would buy it off me for $50. I knew no pawn shop would take it. But they stubbornly kept telling me to call a pawn shop and that the shop would haul it away. So just to get my parents to shut up I called a pawn shop. Told them I had a couch they could have. They laughed and hung up on me. Parents caved after that and helped me haul it out and they sold it at a garage sale (this was pre internet).
Me: try’s to enjoy a video
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"GTFO this is Kansas City, we don't know what a hockey stick looks like"
*wheeze*
My friend works in a pawn shop and told me one guy tried to sell a "Jump" bike. (Those electronics bikes you rent via the Uber app). The guy was serious about it but my friend told him there was no way they were gonna buy it lol.
Lol that one about the guy thinking he had a LEGIT invisibility cape from Harry Potter had me rolling. And even if it was the real deal, there is no way in hell I'll sell something that can turn you invisible.
My God could someone please animate 14:08. That story made me laugh so hard and I NEED to see it animated.
I bet the guy who thought he had the real invisibility cloak is the florida man that bought an invisibility potion from a wizard
I manage a jeweler store and we buy gold as well. We had this one younger homeless guy, (was obviously on drugs) bring us a huge bag of brass colored door knobs telling us they’re definitely gold. Dude was like Samantha‘s aunt on bewitched. We explained to him that they were not gold and even did the acid gold test in front of him. He was actually convinced that they were gold and we told him to go to the gold refinery, we wrote down the address said to him to bring us back a slip with numbers saying what percentage gold it is and we will personally give him $1,000. he was laughing at us for being idiots and not realizing we were passing up such a good deal on golden door knobs.
some antique door knobs are actually worth money since making new ones in the same style and quality is more expensive
@@toomanyaccounts They were probably not legally acquired so it'd be a risky purchase for minimal pay off
Imagine getting pulled over on your way to the pawn shop:
“Sir do you have any weapons in the car?”
“Yes just my concealed carry”
"Called my Lincoln chair guy" lol
1:53 Reminds me of the Blackadder episode where Percy tries to make gold and instead makes "Precious green"
5:25 yay Vintage Stock! The manager at my local VS rebuilt my beloved NES when it finally perished. She's great.
I can only presume she either munches uppers like popcorn or smokes copious amounts of weed to survive her customers.
I used to work at a pawn shop and was the resident "expert" (it's my hobby) in the gold and diamond jewellery department. After I quit, I would often visit the shop when I had extra cash to see if I could get any sweet deals and add to my collection of fine jewellery. I went into the shop one day with a friend and was just perusing the "cheap" case of rings, when something caught my eye. It caught my eye because it was a beautiful .40pt marquis cut diamond with small accent diamonds on the side. High setting, one of the claws was bent, but fixable. I was curious as to why such a nice looking diamond was in the cheap case. I asked to see it, and the price tag read $95. Keeping a straight face, I asked to purchase the ring. After the transaction was finished, I told the cashier, "You know this is real, right?" After years of working with diamonds has given me the ability to tell if they're real at a glance. The cashier said that in the system it just says, "white stone" as the item description. He didn't believe me and we went to the back of the store to test the diamond. Turns out that it WAS real. The diamond tester at that store often gives bad readings when the battery gets low. So I walked out of the store with possibly the best deal I had ever gotten on anything in my life. When I took it in to a jeweler friend to get the claw fixed and re-sized, he told me it's probably worth $1600.
Imagine going to a Pawn shop expecting a good deal.
6:50 Kansas City has done hockey in the past, for two seasons from 1974, KCMO hosted the pro NHL team the "Kansas City Scouts", but moved in 1976 to Denver to be renamed the Colorado Rockies, then six years later moved again to become the present New Jersey Devils.
4:25 There has never been a greater stonks moment ever.
Hearing the one at 12:30 made me smile a little, I hope that guy did eventually get back on his feet
11:02 it first I thought it was a board game
But then I realized it was just the GTA universe
Don't give me ultimatums in my store.
I just won't even deal with it.
I will instantly call the police.
"I called my Lincoln chair guy, he said it was fake."
I'd like to think that so many people try to sell Lincoln chairs that there are indeed experts who specialize in authenticating and appraising such.
As someone who buys a lot of stuff from pawn shops, I love it when neither the employees or the sellers know what they have.
Every time he says "pawn" it sounds like he says "porn".
Voice: "I used to me a porn broker..."
Me: "what's a porn broker?"...
Glad I wasnt the only one that noticed xD
A porn broker is a pimp.
@DN I believe I know what you are saying
-It’s basically a pimp-
Oh wait someone said it already, my bad lol
"I won't give you meth money for your dark magician" lol best quote
"'I'm not sure what started the idea that old trading cards were going to be ridiculously valuable.." Probably the fact that they are indeed incredibly valuable. For pokemon TCG just some Lvl X cards from the late 2000s can be worth $50+. A sealed booster box from around that time can easily go for over $1000. For magic it's even more insane. If someone had a sealed alpha started deck they would be sitting on a ton of money. Old trading cards can be super valuable if they have the right cards and in decent condition.
That's the thing though. Only about 0.5% of all tradings cards are worth something. But people hear about these few expensive cards and suddenly think that ALL cards are worth big bucks when the vast majority are barely worth the paper they're printed on.
@@jeezycreezy4220 it's not .5% of trading cards or anything close to that. I went out a bought a box of the newest Pokemon set and pulled multiple cards worth $10+. If I sold everything I could make my money back. I also got a Zacian V which is around $40. Sure, it's not a majority of cards but it's definitely not .5%. it could be as high as %10.
@@MaPleWoRlDOrder again, you're making assumptions. Yes, some of the newer cards, for now, are worth money because they see play in tournaments. But in a year or so, the majority of those cards will be worthless. The people that bring Pokemon and Magic cards into places to sell them expecting to become instant millionairs usually have massive binders or boxes full of old, overprinted, mostly worthless cards. Consider of the thousands of Pokemon cards that have been printed over the past 24 years, how many are worth more than a few bucks? Same goes for Magic or YuGiOh.
@@jeezycreezy4220 no they won't lmao. They still have value until they rotate out of standard in Pokemon which is roughly 3 -4 years. Almost all of the older hyper rare cards are worth roughly $10+ if they are in good condition. Yu-Gi-Oh cards never rotate and older cards that haven't been reprinted can be worth good money. Depends on the meta/etc. Lots of their older secret rates and even super rares can be worth $15$+. Magic has plenty of cards that are still worth a good amount years later because of the different formats. You clearly have no understanding of card games. Please don't speak again
@@MaPleWoRlDOrder having worked in both pawn shops and game shops that buy and sell Magic and Pokemon cards, I have a far better understanding than you know. My stores always had the good stuff on display in the front of the store, maybe about 50 individual cards for each game during a good time. In the back, we had hundreds of thousands of basicly junk cards sitting in boxes gathering dust. Again, certin cards do retain value. But the vast majority do not.
The dialysis one terrifies me, before I got my transplant I was on dialysis for 10 years and dialysis machines are connected to the person via a very large butterfly needles (Usually two 15 gauge needles) to support that massive sized needles a special access has to be createdin either the upper or lower arm or sometimes in the top of the thigh for smaller women and children called a fistula which is literally an artery (A vessel that pumps blood very very fast but doesnt have the ability to grow wide in size) connected to a vein (A low blood flow vessel that can expand very big) so when they are connect the high blood flow artery goes into the vein to make it expand very very big(Hard to image but they're about as thick as an opening to a 20 0z soda bottle where the cap screws on, sorry im looking around my room for a refrence point I can give you guys) to accomadate the large needles so blood can be pulled through the dialysis machine mupltiple times per 4 hours session getting the blood clean as possible (basically doing the job of the kidneys)
Anyway sorry for the lesson I just wanted to explain why I'm so horrified, if that was ripped out of someone in use they're prob dead because when the needles are taken out of the fistula you can to hold pressure for a good 15-30 min to stop the bleeding, if it was ripped out the person literally bleed out dry in under 2-3 min because the blood flow is that fast and powerful.
I was going to make a comment on the text to speech pronunciation of pawn shop, but then I read every other comment
The woodchips that are the cross Jesus died on was hilarious. So didn't expect that lol.
9:17 Pokémon cards definitely are the cause
And magic cards. Sometimes my boyfriend tells me about MTG cards and some of the prices for some of them old cards is crazy!!!
When the pokemon card fad was at its peak my dad kept insisting I keep them in good condition because theyl be worth a fortune some day and other kids parents apparently said similar things, I have no idea where they got this idea from, maybe it was baseball cards?
I once saw an old Charizard card at a shop for like $100
The problem with really old magic and Pokémon cards unless they are pack fresh or Mint they are vastly less I mean a damaged alpha lotus is still worth like 700$ but not 9-15k in mint
I can’t believe that one guy had a black lotus
I worked at a computer store and we had a little old lady come to us wanting to give us a commission for selling her fabulous fortune of commemorative plates on eBay. She had been collecting these plates since the 1950s. She assumed that this would be a good retirement plan. This was her only retirement plan. It was not a good retirement plan. We pulled it up eBay and showed her that an entire year of commemorative plates was going for $30, Maybe $80 if it was in pristine condition. We had to tell her that if she sold all of her plates and got top dollar for them, she would be able to afford a nice cruise somewhere but that would be it. She left in tears, sobbing - She had paid a steep iprice for a plate 12 or 13 times a year and if she had just put her money in a sock somewhere she would’ve been ahead of where she was.
I had a green old bottle I brought in when I was a kid, usually I got 5 to 8 dollars for old bottles and the guy was super suprised I found it he bought it for $400 I have 20 of these he about died they were original moxie soda glasses when it was medicine they worth some big money I guess sold the lot except one.
When I worked at gamestop a girl "heard we bought phones." Well gamestop buys cellphones, she brought in one of those 90s plug in the wall hamburger phones! Not saying I didn't think it was cool, just really caught me by surprise xD
I work for a mobile and landline network company im germany. Its actually funny to see how simmilar stupid the customers are in pawn shops and in our mobile stores
I love how the appraiser was low key pissed about the Ming vase lamp!
lol at the "baby bracelet" one!
Lmao "my Lincolns chair guy"
Bekause evryone as a linkon cheir gui
fail
I do
How TF can you not spell "LINCOLN"?????? Apart from him being fairly well-known in the US, you just saw it written down!!!! Did you suffer major brain trauma in the few minutes since you read it?????
@@christopherdean1326 The most hilarious part is that he still hasn't fixed it lol
@@christopherdean1326 how can you be so offended??? Can't you see that this is just fucking CZcams??? You bloody fucktard
0:38 Samuel L Jackson's character in "Hateful Eight" wholeheartedly approves.
Not a pawn shop owner nor have I ever been in a pawn shop
...but I heard from a son of a friend’s cousin who heard that...
@@vaiosony2
I mean, that's basically the "Once, on Antiques Roadshow" entry
8:19 and that "lowballing" is why I realized pawn shops are scams and have no reason to exist.
Bruh I shopped at vintage stock before the location near me moved or it went out of business. I got so many good deals from there.
Lucky. The stores in my area just throw stuff away.
worked at comics shops. I would always tell people straight up that selling to a store is not the best way to get the value from a collectible, but if they were ok with that then show us what you got.
yes we get it, you thought it said porn instead of pawn.
try to contain yourself.
take deep breaths and then think of something else more interesting to say.
the chuck e. cheese token story got me so hard lmao
There's a pawn shop where I live that has the Olympic torch used in either '84 or '86, I can't remember
How the hell did some dude sell the Olympic torch? Like who gets those after the Olympics? Why would you sell it?
Next time I go, I'll ask the guy how he got it
If I remember correctly, the Olympic torch goes from the previous venue to the new one in a sort of relay, so there's usually a couple of hundred made for each Olympiad. If you're chosen to be one of the runners, you get to keep the torch you carried.
@@christopherdean1326 yeah there are lots of olympic torches made and the run has a very cursed vibe to it if you start researching the history of the runs and what occured on them
4:20 I love how he casually has a Lincoln chair guy...
I'm lucky to have a weed guy.
I will never understand human fickleness. People suddenly think an ancient work of art loses all of its value because it was recently modified? Turning a vase into a lamp by drilling a hole in the bottom of it doesn't change the beauty of it. The people who only value the vase solely because it's an old thing in perfect condition are the reason art keeps getting held back. If I were that person who owned that vase, I'd privately take it to a museum. They would probably be more than happy to display it as is, since the hole in the bottom will be completely obscured and the vase itself will be secured so that no one can move it to reveal the hole. Thus, it will give everyone the illusion that the hole isn't even there, and they can simply appreciate it it for what they think it is. Checkmate, society.
Pensive Scarlet yeah never be an art appraiser, if I buy a vase from the Ming Dynasty, its value is muuuuch more if it is as it was when it was first produced. If it has been altered irreversibly by someone else after that, then it changes the value. Especially if that change was made in modernity. It’s just that simple.
@@colin3674 I am aware of how things are, I just don't understand the reasoning behind the majority consensus. If it were my job to appraise then, of course, I'd be doing it for other people and I would do it according to the standards rather than my personal values. ;p
@Gangsta Rock I guess I just think it's odd in general how people attribute value without necessarily being able to consciously articulate why. There isn't really an explanation of why the alteration of the original condition makes such a drastic change in the value people attach to it other than just "that's how everyone feels about it", you know?
@Gangsta Rock Well, for the vase, it's the artistry of it. A person sculpted it and painted designs on it, that's effort, creativity, craftsmanship. None of those were diminished by the alterations, although the original functionality as a vase was completely changed. So if someone said, "I valued this as a vase and now it is worth nothing to me because it is no longer a vase," that would at least make sense to me.
As for a piece of historical correspondence, such things are already fragile and they erode with time. If it were just some random letter I could see reason in the value coming from how well preserved it was. If it were something like the actual Constitution, however, it has a certain greater social significance.
I guess a decent example I could use would be the Mona Lisa. If someone separated the image of her head from the rest of the painting and we were only able to save one of the two pieces, I would like to think the majority consensus would be to save the smile; this would illustrate how people really do have deeper reasons for valuing art than they may even consciously realize. I could be wrong, though, maybe they'd want to save the bigger portion because it's a higher quantity of the artist's work? Given what I've witnessed, I genuinely wonder.
Lmao when I heard about a letter signed by Abraham Lincoln, I immediately thought of The Hateful Eight