Reply With QuoteYeah he got shafted. Don't think he was bothered though, he certainly didn't look to bothered. Isn't that a 10k watch now?
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Sad for a Friday night but watching posh pawn on TV after home from the pub for Fri evening drinkies. A punter was offered and accepted £5.5k for a d blue DSSD. Wtf??
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Yeah he got shafted. Don't think he was bothered though, he certainly didn't look to bothered. Isn't that a 10k watch now?
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You do know all these shows are scripted for the shock awe viewer value and the actual deal is done off the set right?
Is that the show with this guy ? https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/ne...hug-and-bully/
I wonder if members realise how much of that show is fiction. Stooge clients anyone?
Is there much pawnbroking carried out, or just the "arranging of deals" involving assorted items, about most of which the pawnbroker seems to know little? As a customer, if I'm going to sell my yacht I'll go to someone who specialises in them myself - but then I'm not desperate to get on tv today, or trying to promote my beauty business / potential as a glamour model.
A good pawnbroker might not need to trawl through a pantomime cast of eccentric advisers to tell him what the things in which he deals are worth.
Many here know someone who was asked but refused to have anything to do with the show.
Last edited by Haywood_Milton; 26th May 2017 at 21:17.
It didn't have any box or papers though, they're worth a few grand these days aren't they 🤑
Hopefully, he'll use some of the money to buy some clothes that actually fit him.
Quite so, although I fear it will be spent on more facial surgery rather than a new car!Originally Posted by hhhh
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The same Ken doll chap was on last week or the week before flogging his Bentley
No, that was some Snapper, this guy is learning to drive still, unless they're being shown out of sequence?
Anyone know 'Nick' the watchmaker who evaluated the Cartier ?
but that unbuttoned shirt?... All he needs now is a big gold medallion, and i'm not talking about Ken.
That is Nic Chronomatic
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AKA Heuerboy
With all that plastic surgery how would you tell ??!!
Just staged , fake deals , fake people .
That bloke was weird...looked like he been made by a mad scientist rather than being a normal human.
Anyway, whilst we are talking about Pawnshops, on a couple of shows people have brought in Rolexs, and of course, given the large number of fakes, the pawnbrokers have to examine them very carefully. This includes taking the back off to examine the movement. Personally, I wouldn't be too pleased that some bloke in a shop - who may or may not know anything about watches - took the back off. Unlikely to be resealed properly, so would this affect water resistance? Or is there something different about how Rolex are made??
Regardless of who or what he is Pawnbroking is in a business to make money.
I'm sure he has huge overheads to cover like any business especially with high footfall shops and the rent/rates that come with them, plus several employees and all that comes with the latest employment laws..
I'd like to know what his cut was on the £400k guitar
The Deep blue may have been watch only with no spare links (often the case on this program) and may in need of a service/clean up so I am not surprised at the offer
it is all fiction but still :)
The state of that guy though!
Last edited by Montybaber; 27th May 2017 at 11:52.
I remember a producer of one of those 'Storage Wars' type shows was interviewed by 'On the Media' a while ago. He said, "Here's a useful rule of thumb for working out how much of what you see is real, and how much is fake. Everything you see is fake."
He said there was another producer hiding under the counter whispering instructions to the participants. More revealingly, everybody is working from a script.
A script! That says it all really, doesn't it?
Yep, and Alvin's last wish was to have his most beloved guitar sold to a pawn shop.... it was what he wanted... no really it was what he wanted... and it's so hard to do.... sob sob.... Me and my friend (boyfriend) aren't really going to be buying a yacht with the money or anything.... just doing what Alvin wanted... sob sob.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that Alvin considered the guitar to be a 'pension' for his family after he'd gone given the age gap. And she didn't really sell it to a pawn shop, it seems they just took it to the auction people and had a network of collectors that then became a middle man. I don't doubt that with this show 'sequences have been shortened' and the commission he may have got sorting out this deal was completely glossed overYep, and Alvin's last wish was to have his most beloved guitar sold to a pawn shop.... it was what he wanted... no really it was what he wanted... and it's so hard to do.... sob sob.... Me and my friend (boyfriend) aren't really going to be buying a yacht with the money or anything.... just doing what Alvin wanted... sob sob.
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