Down here at the pawn shop

[jimhelm]

Okokok.. Easy now.

[limey]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

Okokok.. Easy now.

Originally Posted by jimhelm

Did I mention that I have not one , but TWO swords displayed on my hearth?

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[Nirvana]

Down at the pawn shop
Down at the pawn shop
It's the kinda shop where you can sell a jawn there
They hate you, you hate thieves
This is part of society
FSM have mercy on a guy that's
Down at the pawn shop

[Undertoad]

"Is it real?" "Yeah... real fake."


People come in with all kinds of gold. Most of the time there's a small mark on it somewhere that says what amount of gold is in the item. 10K is 40% gold, 14K is 60% gold, 18K is 80% and 24K is 100%.

I have yet to see anything 24K. Most simple jewelry is 10K and if there is a real stone or an item of real importance, it will be 14K.

If it's sterling silver, it will usually be marked 950.

Lady comes in with a chain, saying "It's real! Oh it's real!"

"I believe you ma'am, but I have to examine every item."

Look at it through the loupe, and sure enough: "14KGP" which means it's Gold Plated. Not solid gold.

"No ma'am, this is gold plated, we can't do a loan on it."

She takes it back in silence and leaves the shop with her man. And once the shop door closes, we hear a shit ton of screaming and yelling.

The poor old man probably never told her. Oh well.



"Is it real?" "Well, it has mass, that's a good sign."

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

One thing I don't enjoy is having a gun pointed at me.

Even if it's an antique, and the guy is looking to see if we buy them.

We don't, and please take it off the counter where I'm looking at an open barrel, a foot away from my abdomen.

This guy came back, and told me that his antique gun sold to a collectables shop for $2000.

[Chocolatl]

What was his purpose in coming back? Letting you know you guys "missed out" somehow?

[footfootfoot]

I bet they probably bought his 40 Watt Phased Plasma Rifle too.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

At that point her crazy fever went up to 12 for another full minute and we wondered if we would have to call the cops in order to get her to leave. Finally she walked out for good.

Banner day today. BANNER day. She came back in just now and apologized. She said she was totally drunk.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Chocolatl

What was his purpose in coming back? Letting you know you guys "missed out" somehow?

No he had a few more items to offer, and only brought that up after everything else was done, so it was just conversation.

I would love to deal in antique items, which we don't do, and coins, which we don't do. But there has to be a limit.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by limey

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I can **promise** you limey that I will never cross swords with jim, not even if he brings both swords.

[Undertoad]

A crazy woman comes in and sells us her computer. In the middle of the transaction her man ? comes in and tells her to pay the taxi driver.

Out of nowhere she goes apeshit on him. He's trying to get her to pay. She's yelling at him that he should pay out of the money that he owes her.

She's at about an 8 out of 10 and at one point she pretends to go to hit him. The guy doesn't flinch, he just looks over at us and says "Guys, I box for a hobby." And it's clear he sees her as no present danger, and isn't going to do anything, but she goes on screaming, even saying "call the cops on me if you want!" She's cussing all over the place, "Mother fucker, I ain't payin', you pay, you mother fucker!"

The battle goes out and back into the shop. At one point the taxi driver makes an appearance. He's an old guy. It sounds like she took the taxi to the store to get her computer here, then asked her man ? to come retrieve her.

Why she doesn't want to pay is unclear. She's now been given $65 in cash for her computer, so she does have money; and we are speeding to try to get all of her transaction done.

In the end, we think she just wanted to not pay the taxi ever, and developed this scheme to not pay: call her man ? , make a big fuss, get rid of the heavy computer and then just walk.

Because this fracas does not involve us, we think it is just funny, and behind the plexiglass we are laughing and our other customers are laughing too. Crazy woman, if she is not attacking your ass, is just entertaining.

[Trilby]

One time a doc was examining a prospective employee and I was there in the room with them. Doc sees a scar, says, "What's this?"

Dude says, "Wife stabbed me,"

without missing a beat the doc said, "They do that sometimes,"

It happens. Crazy happens- a lot of crazy happens. It CAN be rather entertaining if you aren;t involved.

[Nirvana]

UT I saw you post that people can only pawn 950 silver? I was looking at the silver I have because I was sure 925 was the definition of sterling and that seems to be the case except some of my silver is Mexican silver which is supposed to be 950 but its stamped 925. I am metally confused..

[sexobon]

UT simply misspoke: sterling is .925. Mexican silver in jewelry ranges from .925 (typically) to .999 and is stamped accordingly. Pawn shops and other bullion value [BV] metal buyers usually deal in coin silver [.900] or better fineness. US buyers often accept Canadian silver coins [.800] and US transition coinage [.400]. Anything else less than .800 usually isn't worthwhile (considering smelting costs); unless, there's considerable volume.

[Undertoad]

this is true.