Insane clerk at pawn shop

[smhbbag1]

I'm sorry Sir, I didn't mean to use the wrong terminology and offend you.

Some jackal in a shirt boned me out of the price of my shotgun simply because I was desperate.

It was completely my fault for being desperate. I am sorry.

Before the internet, I can easily see desperation leading to using a pawn shop. But now, there is just too much out there to resort to such things.

You can post a gun in the classifieds section of 10 websites, connecting you to tens of thousands of serious gun owners, and many in your local area, in less than the time it takes to drive to the pawn shop.

And with a discounted price, you can get it sold and have cash in hand within a few days, at most.

And that discounted price will be FAR more than any pawn shop will give you.

How many situations are there when you need cash and didn't even have a few days warning of your need for it? Very, very few.

If you don't have at least a few thousand in emergency savings, sell stuff to get that much when you are not desperate. You'll get better prices, and have less stress.

 

[Hudge]

Like others have said, no real deals at pawn shops around my house. Heck, I have seen many want more than retail on a used one than the new ones cost. I have tried haggling with a few, but to no avail.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

My neighbor manages a big pawn show. He often brags of the insane deals he makes. This girl walked in with 6 gold coins that were worth $6K. He asked the girl "so how much are you looking to get". She said $600. and he sealed the deal. When he told me I told him that he ripped her off big time and he just blew it off. I don't see how people like that can sleep. It ain't right to rip people off.

 

[rmfnla]

And yet pawn shops continue to sell a lot of guns. Interesting.

Do they really?

I've gone into shops that have had the same guns on the shelf for over a year.

As someone else mentioned, perhaps they are content to wait for a sucker to pay their inflated prices no matter how long it takes, but the guns are not exactly flying out the door.

 

[Erik M]

most pawn shops around here have some crazies working for them. I had a thread a few moths back detailing how a clerk told me I was going to be forced to pay for damaging the action of a gun because I cycled the slide to clear the chamber. I guess that those kimber's have a really fragile pot metal construction or something.

 

[GRAYRID3R]

OK I guess a full explanation will hopefully let everybody understand this situation, I was contracted to rewire a job that was bungled by the company before me. After getting 3 days into the job, the owner wanted to add some more to our original scope. This required a lift, the lift cost $288.00 for a week. I already had ALL my available funds sunk into the job for materials and labor. I informed the owner of the additional expense, he agreed. My gun collection is worth over $27,000.00 dollars and I don't want to sell any guns. Since I needed the lift immediately I didn't have time to try to sell anything...and,I DIDN'T WANT TO SELL ANY OF MY GUNS!. I've done business with this pawn shop before during emergencies, so I went there again, I knew how much I would get for the gun due to past experience with the owner. I was on my way over to where the owner was sitting, but he was on the phone. I set the box on the counter so the owner would see it. when the idiot clerk appeared. The rest is in the original post. I got my $350.00 and have to pay back $470.00 my net profit on the job for 1 weeks work is over $2000.00. I said before the money wasn't that big of a deal(but $250.00 was an insult) and the clerk was a moron. I still don't understand the bic pen down the barely routine, but when I redeem the gun I will most definitely talk to the owner about his clerk's ignorance of safe gun handling rules.

 

[eatont9999]

I would stay away from that store in the future.
When in a store, I don't expect everyone in a store to have perfect gun safety etiquette but I do expect the first thing they do with a gun is to check if it is loaded. I also do not enjoy having a gun pointed at me. I do not mind as much, being sweeped, if the action is open.

 

[rmfnla]

most pawn shops around here have some crazies working for them. I had a thread a few moths back detailing how a clerk told me I was going to be forced to pay for damaging the action of a gun because I cycled the slide to clear the chamber. I guess that those kimber's have a really fragile pot metal construction or something.

Probably the first time the genius had ever seen anyone work a pistol action!

 

[lions]

I still don't understand the bic pen down the barely routine...

My guess is that it was a feeble attempt to check the timing.

 

[rmfnla]

Maybe that's how he checks to see if its loaded

If the pen doesn't go all the way down there's a round in the chamber under the barrel and he's saved himself all that trouble of opening the cylinder!

 

[AK103K]

Were there any ink stains with bullet holes in them on the walls?

Maybe thats the test, and confirmation.

 

[Mr.Davis]

Grabbing my gun from me is a good way to get shot. Especially since I usually carry two.

If your first instinct is to shoot when a rude clerk pulls a cased, empty gun out of your hand, then you need to put the guns away temporarily and get some counseling.

A gun isn't the solution for every problem. Lead poisoning is a bit of an extraordinary treatment for rudeness.

 

[Bad Penny 03]

Anybody sweeps me I grab the weapon from them and read them the riot act.
That's IF I like them or have business with them.
Loan pending or not, that's friggin insane.

 

[walksbyhimself]

I still don't understand the bic pen down the barely routine...

I think this would be attributing too much intelligence to the clerk in question, but he may have understood that if the cylinder cannot rotate, it can't fire. Unlikely though, and it's a stupid way to do it when you can just open the cylinder.

 

[welldoya]

You had to pay $120 interest on $350 ? For how long ? That's 34% interest if it were for a year which I'm sure it wasn't that long. If for a month, that's over 400%annually. Good Lord, I thought most states had limited the interest to around 240%.
I watch the show Pawn Stars and it amazes me how low people will accept knowing what something is worth. I mean, the "expert" just told them their item was worth $12,000 so why accept $3,000 ? Go put it on-line and get $8,000 for it. I've got a feeling that , being in Las Vegas, most of those guys immediately run to the casinos after getting paid.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

You had to pay $120 interest on $350 ? For how long ? That's 34% interest if it were for a year which I'm sure it wasn't that long. If for a month, that's over 400%annually. Good Lord, I thought most states had limited the interest to around 240%.

Okay, say you got a $50 loan for 240% annual interest. The loan in Texas is for 1 month and then the broker has to hold the item for an additional sixty days before it can become inventory. Picking up the item anytime in the first month is an automatic $10 of interest, so $60. For the next 60 days, the interest is prorated by the day. So if a customer waited until the very end of the 1 month and 60 days, he would pay $30 total interest on a $50 loan.

I watch the show Pawn Stars and it amazes me how low people will accept knowing what something is worth. I mean, the "expert" just told them their item was worth $12,000 so why accept $3,000 ? Go put it on-line and get $8,000 for it. I've got a feeling that , being in Las Vegas, most of those guys immediately run to the casinos after getting paid.

People are lazy, short on time, or otherwise can't be bothered for a variety of reasons. So they sell items to retailers who have to turn them for a profit and so who can't pay anywhere near the full amount.

Most of the experts give auction prices. Auction prices are often higher than FMV and they are only estimates at best. A single expert appraisal may be high, low, or spot on and the expert ability to comprehend the value of an item stems directly from his knowledge of the item and how much it has gone for recently.

Notice that none of the experts on Pawn Stars provide a signed copy of authentificiation.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

I stopped shopping all but 1 pawn shop down in my parts due to this insane prices and uneducated employees. I have been buying sockets and pocket knifes and that is about it. My Gunshop keeps a fresh supply of used guns and they are price according to the bluebook.

 

[Steve Marshall]

It may be just me, but. You NET $2000 in one week. Good business. Yet you have to finance the same business at a pawn shop? Bad business.

 

[SoberSunday01]

I did not grow up around firearms, and in fact never saw one other than in an officer's holster until last October. Of course I had never held one. I found out one of my brother's friends was into them so I had him teach me a little. I also talked to guys at work and joined TFL. I say that to say this, there will be people whos job necessitates that they handle firearms twice as often as I do, and some of them will take less than half of the precaution that I did.

BTW good job posts #60-62, I got a good laugh.