Pawn Stars card for monday

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

Sheesh...you guys are a bunch of pit bulls!!!! How many of you out there are truly experts on all baseball cards ever made...let alone everything ever made.

Rick owns a pawn shop...not a vintage bb card ebay store...he can't be expected to be an expert on everything in the world?!

Rick went from being someone that just "owns a pawn shop" to a TV star that is giving out information to the masses on his very own show on a channel that is suppose to be known for HISTORY facts.

I am ignorant but I also know it and don't go on TV talking about the things I don't know as if they are fact. I have no problems with Rick admitting when he doesn't know something and says that he needs to have expert explain it to him. It is when he acts confident about something and leaves out qualifiers like "I think" or "it is possible". I did not see this episode so I am only talking from the general sense of watching the show not from this particular episode.

[tbob]

I have heard that what happens is if someone brings something unique or off-beat in to the shop, they have them come back later to film it while Rick immediately gets on the internet to look it up on Wikipedia and then spills his "knowledge" on the seller for the show. His "knowledge" of the LaMat revolver came straight from Wikipedia....

[brownscollector78]

The show might be hollywooded up for TV but I still like the show. I watch it every monday

[Leon]

Originally Posted by brownscollector78

The show might be hollywooded up for TV but I still like the show. I watch it every monday

My family and I love the show and watch it all of the time. I would imagine it is 100% rigged.....but still very fun to watch.

[tbob]

Originally Posted by brownscollector78

The show might be hollywooded up for TV but I still like the show. I watch it every monday

+1. It's addictive. I don't watch much TV but I am addicted to Storage Wars, Pawn Stars and Shipping Wars.

[matty6]

My girlfriend and I barely watch real TV anymore. It's Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, Auction Hunters, Storage Hunters, American Pickers, Restaurant Impossible, Kitchen Nightmares and Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives...

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

Rick went from being someone that just "owns a pawn shop" to a TV star that is giving out information to the masses on his very own show on a channel that is suppose to be known for HISTORY facts.

I am ignorant but I also know it and don't go on TV talking about the things I don't know as if they are fact. I have no problems with Rick admitting when he doesn't know something and says that he needs to have expert explain it to him. It is when he acts confident about something and leaves out qualifiers like "I think" or "it is possible". I did not see this episode so I am only talking from the general sense of watching the show not from this particular episode.

History Channel has very little history on it these days. All of the pawn and storage locker shows are staged, some more than others but I believe any of the negotiations over items that take place are reasonably close recreations of the actual deal. There must be many takes shot on some of these shows of certain scenes-they are all just too perfect. You have to remember it's TV and it's edited for entertainment value.

Having said that, I do enjoy Pawn Stars, Auction Hunters and Storage Wars; my 16 year old daughter likes the last two as well. I have also started watching American Pickers,although they cannot make a living on some of the deals they make; I assume they just show highlights and often times buy far more than is shown on the program.