Pawn Stars Watches

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Originally Posted by NKflyer

I was just at Gold & Silver pawn last weekend. They had a whole case of mens & womens datejusts for sale but very few sport models and what they did have was way overpriced and way overpolished. There was another customer there trying on a real beater gold DD with the bark finish. Salesperson went from $12k down to $9k in the blink of an eye and I'm sure the customer could have haggled even lower. I get the feeling that they make about 90% of their current income from T-shirts, bobbleheads, coffee mugs, etc.

You're quite right. While Gold and Silver used to be a real pawn shop, that show has made it anything but. Now it's a tourist attraction. They make the majority of their money from filming episodes of the show, and selling overpriced bobbleheads, shot glasses, t shirts and coffee cups. Once in awhile they will get the idiotic tourist that will actually buy something from them (and pay 150-200% of what it's really worth I might add) just so they can say they actually bought something from "the Pawn Stars shop".

I went in there a year or so ago. It was highly overpriced, very crowded, and they threw everyone out because they were about to film a scene for an upcoming episode. In case anyone didn't already know, everything you see on the show is fake. Their "experts" and customers are paid actors, all the scenes are scripted and staged, the outcome of the "haggling" is already decided before they even start filming, and the items that are being sold are usually props on loan from local Las Vegas museums and other businesses.