Pawn Shop Rolex's Over 40 fakes I saw in 2 days

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I spent the last 2 days driving around at every pawn shop withing 30 miles of my house looking for a non watch related item. I saw 54 Rolex watches all together out of them 10 were 100% fake Italian gold DD. 25 conversion watches were most likely the case and movement were the only original parts left. 6 newer flat out fakes in the cases in every instance I pointed it out to the manager they listend and were shocked. Told me they CANT tell and really try to authenticate. They have been to seminars by a known book writer and bought software to help. They claimed to be into these watches much higher than the TRF selling prices of similar real watches. Now not 1 of these guys pulled a watch from there case and ALL told me they were going to sell them as is. I have bought many watches from pawn shops and you can get good deals there but YOU have to know what you are looking at as the ones I went to were totally clueless.Only 2 shops I went to they were a bit knowledgeable and cared, they had NO fakes. All of the PAWN SHOPS were in the Tampa Bay area.