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>taking a $70,000 guitar to a pawn shop
Why are Americans so fucking retarded?
>>63003369
Because you can totally sell them for $70,000 on eBay in like a week, eh?
Pawn shops exists for a reason. People need fast money, they go to a famous place with a reputation and the guys offer them a few less dollars than its market value, so they can pay the store bills and have profit. I wouldn't mind selling some $70,000 crap for $40-50,000 just to have faster money. It could take years on eBay, literally.
>>63003723
As opposed to figuratively?
It's a scripted show.
dude what is convenience lmao
you can literally get 50 grand in 20 minutes, or have to travel to live auctions/deal with mouthbreathers on the internet/have retarded kids come feel up your shit when you post it on craigslist while waiting months to actually sell it
>>63003740
Haven't you heard? "Literally" literally means "figuratively" now.
>>63003723
>the guys offer them a few less dollars than its market value
>we could probably get one thousand dollars for this item so we'll take it off your hands for fifty
>i'm a dumb idiot so it's a deal
>>63003723
Not to mention eBay/Paypal fees and shipping
it's not worth anything until someone gives you money for it
>>63003723
>let me just call my friend who is a guitar expert
>guitar is worth 100,000
>I'll give you 6,000 dollars
>>63003723
>just to have faster money
what are you, some kind of drug addict?
if you have a collectible item it's not that hard to sell if you're resourceful
selling shit at pawn shops is retarded and is only for people who need quick money, which is usually people who make bad decisions
>>63003369
Is it Yngwie's?
>>63003369
Whose guitar is it?
MY
>>63003785
>You have a lot of bills, college and kids to drain your bank account
>You have a $70,000 item but you can perfectly solve all your problems with half of that amount
>better wait for the right deal, no matter how long it takes
Yeah bro, that's totally how life works, congratulations
>>63003855
>>63003846
Hendrix's 63 Fender Strat
>>63003892
Cool
>>63003843
Depends anon. I've unloaded old electronics, games, and movies at the pawn shop.
And you can usually find some good deals there.
>>63003369
That was a guitar used by Jimi Hendrix, said to be worth up to a million. The guy wanted $750 and Rick offered about $550, I think.
>>63003369
We're intelligent enough to know that everything in a reality tv show like pawnstars is scripted and preplanned. Even the experts they call in are on standby ya dopey cunt.
>>63003843
>implying your bills can wait
>implying you have enough money right now to wait until it's sold for "the right price"
>implying you won't be risking the item to drop in value by any reason
>>63003752
Holy shit, this. I once sold an old Porsche passed down to me. Was worth about 90k and I tried my hardest to get top dollar on that thing.
After months of bullshit offers and time wasters I just sold it to the pawn shop for about 72k in cash
>>63003778
"Now" means Charles Dickens-era, right?
pawn shops are for thieves or people desperate that will take nearly any price asap.
>everyone is saying 70k
it was valued at 700k
>>63003922
So the dipshit literally took half of what it was worth?
And I understand Rick has to pay money to stock and advertise the thing and he has to make a profit, but come on, 55% of its market value? Really?
Why the fuck do people go to pawn shops figuring they'll get the maximum amount possible, instead of logically concluding they will be paid half the price at most. Or even worse, go in without any fucking knowledge and get all cunty when you realize it ain't worth what you dreamt.
>>63004047
Something is only worth what someone else is willing to pay.
1 million for that guitar? Is that the one Hendrix used for Are You Experienced et al? Would that be the most expensive item in rock music? What could cost more? Lennon's Epiphone Casino, maybe?
>>63004069
Why the fuck do you think this is real?
>>63004047
No, the dipshit walked out.
>>63003876
>I totally didn't realize that the debts were piling up over months and now have to quickly sell a valuable item for the price of a PS3!
Silly nilly.
>>63003369
>there's been 13 seasons of pawn stars
>>63004129
I'm talking about people discussing the show, and how they conclude the pawn shops are thieves.
Protip, you can always decide to not go to a pawn shop.
>>63004152
>there's been one season of Almost Human
Well. Thanks.
>>63003369
They hunt out rare things and get collectors to pretend to pawn them in. This is confirmed and they don't even hide it.
Because the Pawn Shop in that TV series isn't just any run of the mill pawn shop.
>>63004150
>car fix
>medical expenses
>natural shit damaged my house
>robbery
I love how life is totally made up of predictable events
>>63003864
KID
>>63004369
>medical expenses
>natural shit damaged my house
>robbery
What is, insurance!
>taking an obviously scripted show seriously
Why are non-Americans so fucking retarded?
>>63003369
Anybody know what that show was called where they bought and sold off props and things from movies? I think it's cancelled now
>>63004236
source
>>63003745
Every TV is scripted, even news follow an script.
Pawn shops will almost never you offer more than 50% of what an item is worth. They're entire business model is based on ripping off naive people and for fencing stolen goods where the person selling doesn't care about getting a good offer.
>>63004391
Sure, a thing everyone can afford!
Let's also consider the valuable item wasn't yours, you received as a payment for a job, so you don't give a shit about keeping it!
Yay!
Everyone is an idiot because I think they are!
>>63004369
Normal people have insurance. But then again, in the US and A a good and affordable insurance is communism.
>>63004391
> Insurance
Take your commie Obamacare somewhere else.
>this guitar is worth one million dollars!
It's not "worth" anything, how do you come up with that number? A few thousands dollars per each year? Hendrix using it adds exactly how much? It's worth exactly what the highest bidder pays, nothing more
>>63004471
>Sure, a thing everyone can afford!
Oh right I forgot. America :)
>>63003740
> Literally
> Means Exactly, the same, like something
He used it correctly faggot.
>>63004396
Jesus I can smell the vaginal juices from here. Those 14 years old girls are the ones that offered to clumsily suck your dick for ten bucks. Those were the fucking days
>tfw I'll never be 14 again
kek
>Played by Hendrix
>People think that improves its value
Its still just a fucking 60s strat
>Strat played by Hendrix
>Has a Sustaining pickup in it that wasnt invented until the late late 80s
>Has a bolt on neck and not a piece through neck
>No Humbucker
Shit is so rigged
>>63003369
this show is fake
all those guys that come in with those guitars are from cow town guitars in las vegas, its all scripted shit and kind of even like fraud
they had that mary ford les paul SG for sale forever in cowtown for like 15k, then it went on pawn stars with some 'i found this under my dads bed' shit, got a bunch of publicity and they were able to sell it for like 90k or whatever
they must be drinking buddies with the pawn stars sleazeballs
>>63004463
>ripping off
Getting profits=ripping off. In that case like 99% of business will be "ripping off" people.
That fancy jeans you are probably wearing costed less than $3 to be manufactured, Coca-Cola cost around 10 cents per litre, a pack of cigarettes cost less than 20 cents, and I could go on, I mean there are products and services that get profits even bigger than pawn shops and they don't even risk their business like a pawn shop, and you don't see people go around they "rip off" people.
>>63003369
>taking a $70,000 guitar to a pawn shop
Whose guitar was it (presumably a famous musician's) and how much did Pawn Stars try to jew him down and did the guy accept the deal?
>>63003982
>being so poor you literally have to selling something worth tens of thousands for bills
You can easily auction off a guitar of that worth pretty quickly.
People always think of Ebay and other normie shit for expensive stuff but anything that has a market and is worth money has constant private auctions going off.
I work in the comic industry and anytime we get a big book in and get it graded we don't even sell it in store we send it to auction for 90% earnings.
>>63005226
>>63003982
I see these types constantly.
Their poorness tends to be self fulfilling because they piss away money on overpriced shit that they turn around and sell in a month for 1/10th the price when they need money for something else.
Having a hobby is one thing but pissing away your money that way is retarded.
>>63003922
>The guy wanted $750 and Rick offered about $550
On a _$70,000_ guitar?!
>>63003812
>I mean I'm gonna have to make money offa this thing, and plus guitars take up a lotta shelf space, you know, nobody is gonna come in here willing to pay $100 for Jimi Hendrix's guitar. That just doesn't. Happen.
>>63004785
>I mean there are products and services that get profits even bigger than pawn shops
Pizza joints have among the best rate of return of any business.
>The items featured on the show are not cold customers just randomly walking in, the items have already been researched and prepped for the show.
>>63004444
Quads confirm
>>63005581
Pretty sure he meant $750,000 and $500,000
>>63005226
>I work in the comic industry
>calling other people poor
>>63006990
Nope. The guy came in looking for 750.00 and Rick haggled him down to $550.00. He was in a hurry so Rick didn't call his buddy down.
After the deal they called in an expert and "found out" it was worth $70,000.
>>63007095
I hope this fuck gets his head busted open.
>>63003723
>Can't wait a while for 20k
You know they did studies where they sat a kid in front of a marshmallow, and said they could eat it whenever, but if they waited five minutes they could have two. The kids that waited were vastly more successful at life when they checked in on them as adults.
I bet you wouldn't have even waited for them to finish explaining before eating the marshmallow.
>let me call up a friend of mine who will drop whatever they were doing, leave their work/office/job on the spot and come here within minutes like they have nothing else to do
>>63007145
>implying
I always got the impression that it sometimes took days before they could come by.
>>63007138
I would've instantly put it my ass.
>not watching BBC's Antiques Roadshow
Plebs.
All of you.
>>63007202
Tell me more.
>>63006374
pharmaceutical companies are the biggest ripoff companies
>>63007196
They have tents and sleeping bags outside the shop so customers can wait for the experts to drop by.
>>63007204
>Not watching the superior Beeb Antique show that is Bargain Hunt
>>63007196
Nice wrong impression. Do you ever even listen to what Rick says, you stupid mong?
>>63004541
a girl once sucked my dick because i bought her chips and a drink.
>>63004541
>>63007354
>things that never happened
>I have Lincoln's prolapsed anus
>let me just call my friend who is an expert of prolapsed anuses
>oh yes, I know exactly about the value of this
I remember watching some college dude selling a mint condition 52 Telecaster for less than 20k ameriburgerdollars because >I need to pay muh uni fees
I kek'd but I felt sad after
>>63007369
there's a reason for the stereotype of hispanic girls having a ton of kids by the time they're 20.
This thread reminds me of every yelp review of a pawn shop ever
>I HAVE WIDGET I WANTED TO SELL. I TOOK IT TO PAWN BROS AND THEY ONLY OFFER $100! EBAY SAY WIDGET WORTH $250! THEY TRY STEAL AND CHEAT ME, I KEEP WIDGET!
>>63004444
Not the guy but don't be obtuse. He meant scripted as in fabricated, not real, make-believe.
>>63007577
Remember when people were streetwise and understood simple life skills and common knowledge? me neither.
>people actually believe anything gets "sold" or "bought" on this show
>even if it IS real, anyone selling their shit is probably handsomely rewarded anyway for just appearing and bringing something interesting in
Gotta be retarded.
even this show is scripted/fake/hes not alone he has his film crew right there
>>63004618
All strats have a bolt on neck. Always have. And jimi never played a strat with a humbucker. They didn't even make strats with a bridge humbucker until at least the 80s
>>63004618
through necks are a meme
>>63007686
if people were all like that you wouldn't get retards willing to pay 70K for a guitar resulting in it being "worth" that amount.
CALL THE CAWPS
>>63007202
I would have waited 10 minutes for 2 while I ate yours out of your ass
>>63007714
t. Bear Grylls
>>63003740
Yes, as opposed to figuratively. This is a clear example where using literally (old meaning) adds information to the sentence and resolves ambiguity. People often use hyperbole to say "it will take me YEARS to do that!" when they just mean "a long time," but in this case the anon is clarifying that he does, in fact, mean multiple 365-day years.
The misuse of "literally" removes information from that sentence, making it harder to understand and leading to posts like yours and mine that waste time resolving something that shouldn't have been ambiguous in the first place.
>>63003740
yes
>>63003740
No but i could sell it for at least the pawn shop's final price, probably a lot more, and cut out the middle man in a week.
>>63008248
t. "I am huge retard but I look pretty smart when I do this"
ITT: /sp/ normie retards newfriends and really underage
thanks american holidays for letting children out early
>All these people defending selling that guitar at a fucking pawn shop for the 'fast money'
Anybody who has that guitar (unless they stole it) obviously took a lot of time and effort getting it and would probably not find themselves in a situation (barring drug problems) where they need just whatever some dickhead is willing to give them in a pawn shop.
It's not even just the monetary value, that guitar has history. It's part of a pedigree and is symbolic of an entire era and movement of music. It's a fucking 1963 Fender Stratocaster, supposedly played by Jimi Hendrix. Anybody willing to to shift onto some cunts in a pawn shop for a quick buck deserves the firing squad.
>>63008751
>people use hyperbole and I can't handle that because I am literally autistic
You should go critique some novels and tell them all about how they aren't allowed to use metaphors and other forms of nonliteral language.
>>63007106
How in the fuck does one come to own a guitar that's (supposedly) been Jimi Hendrixs and not know the meaning of this. It's not like he found it in a dumpster and assumed it was just a guitar. Somebody must have handed it to him or something but he didn't tell or know about it.
Then how come some "expert" can identify it. Its not the only strato in the world. What the fuck. What made jimis strato so unique?
the show doesnt make sense and is faked because its just a ripoff of a really popular antique show where people bring in old shit they inherited.
>>63010369
>caring this much about someone else's accomplishments and property
>>63003723
>a few less dollars
They're scam artists.
Half the time they try to convince you it's fake or that it's only worth 1/10th of it's actual value.
Only criminals use pawn shops because they pay up front without asking where the merchandise originated from.
>>63006690
No shit
>>63003369
Jimi was left handed and inverted the strings because they didn't make left handed guitars those days. Or they were too expensive for him. Anyway the strings on ops picture are in right handed order.
Theres the possibility of course that someone changed them from left to right handed at some point.
I just wanted to point this out. I haven't seen that episode but it all seems fishy as fuk
>>63011135
Antiques road show.
They don't actually buy most of this stuff. The producers have museum curators and collectors bring high-profile items in, then after the history is explained they play a fake negotiation game.
Some stuff, like cars or vintage vending machines they do actually buy.
I mean, weren't any of you suspicious of why every episode has a hand-written letter by Abe Lincoln or a piece of Apollo 11?
>mfw some dude tried to sell a $100k coin he won in poker for $20k but Rick told him how much it was really worth
Was it staged?
>>63003369
>europoors in charge of believing reality tv
oh god my sides
>>63007106
Guitar player here
Just given the year of the guitar it could easily go for a few thousand
This is bullshit
>>63013738
that's also just not Jimi Hendrix's because the stud for the strap is on the wrong side
>>63003846
yngwie is a hack
