[BeanTown]

I used to watch all 3 of the pawn shows. Hard Core pawn out of Detroit was panful to watch. They were all about low balling and basically taking advantage of people who needed money. Im sure they had a lot security in their shop. Bevery Hills Pawn was a fun show to watch as Yossi paid a very fair price and had a little Swag while doing so. Just really a nitche market as I didnt know many of the values of the items that walked into their shop. Pawn Stars without a doubt is the king of Pawn shows as they have a variety of items walk into the shop and seem to be fair or average on what they offer to customer compared to other pawn shops. The crew there has a nice personality, which goes along way to.

At times I do not like some of the Pawn Star experts. The experts are getting good exposure being on the show. So, many times they will give a low estimate, to make sure the shop does good on the purchase. We don't ever hear about items that were bought and then sold for a loss do we?

The biggest complaint I have is when they switched to Steve Grad to look at autos. I'm sorry but that guy just a creep. He came out of the Bill Mastro web of lies. I saw one program where he came into the shop to look at a huge group of autographed photos and postcards. The seller was the Daughter of the Mom who recently passed and you could tell she didnt know anything about them. He said the entire collection was worth 3-5k and in actuality its more like 50-75k. People tried posting about it at the CU board but as quick as you did, it got pulled down and sensored.

I enjoy watching the Pawn Star show and just watched the episode where Rick went to Boston and saw a private collection which included an 1893 Cy Young Cabinet. He didnt buy buy the collection, but was fun to watch. If I ever decide to collect something other than sports.... Its going to be rare guns from the 19th Century!!!