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Financial Crisis Hits Home
p3skyking
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Business at the pawn shop is great! Everybody is scraping to cover fuel cost and food. Durable goods and antiques can be had for pennies. I've just about quit taking electronics as they are worthless. I don't pawn guns anymore, but I am buying some choice pieces for myself. I just bought a Colt Pocket .25 in 80% for a C note.
Anyone else notice the panic?
Oh well, it can't last much longer.
Is that good, or is that bad?
Anyone else notice the panic?
Oh well, it can't last much longer.
Is that good, or is that bad?
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Business at the pawn shop is great! Everybody is scraping to cover fuel cost and food. Durable goods and antiques can be had for pennies. I've just about quit taking electronics as they are worthless. I don't pawn guns anymore, but I am buying some choice pieces for myself. I just bought a Colt Pocket .25 in 80% for a C note.
Anyone else notice the panic?
Oh well, it can't last much longer.
Is that good, or is that bad?
Seems a bit unethical to me. Operating under the umbrella of a pawn shop, buying a gun for less than half of what it is worth, then putting the gun in your pocket. I understand you probably own the joint and used your own money to purchase it but you were probably putting that person in an awkward situation by being in that pawn shop. They probably wouldn't have taken that price from anyone else.
Maybe I'm way off base, but that's my thoughts
Paying a good friend's widow $100 for the pistol because her husband is dead and she does not know any better is unethical. Paying a guy who walks into a pawn shop looking to sell that same $100 is just a business transaction...Period.
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quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
Business at the pawn shop is great! Everybody is scraping to cover fuel cost and food. Durable goods and antiques can be had for pennies. I've just about quit taking electronics as they are worthless. I don't pawn guns anymore, but I am buying some choice pieces for myself. I just bought a Colt Pocket .25 in 80% for a C note.
Anyone else notice the panic?
Oh well, it can't last much longer.
Is that good, or is that bad?
Seems a bit unethical to me. Operating under the umbrella of a pawn shop, buying a gun for less than half of what it is worth, then putting the gun in your pocket. I understand you probably own the joint and used your own money to purchase it but you were probably putting that person in an awkward situation by being in that pawn shop. They probably wouldn't have taken that price from anyone else.
Maybe I'm way off base, but that's my thoughts
that is how pawn shops work
Seems a bit unethical to me. Operating under the umbrella of a pawn shop, buying a gun for less than half of what it is worth, then putting the gun in your pocket. I understand you probably own the joint and used your own money to purchase it but you were probably putting that person in an awkward situation by being in that pawn shop. They probably wouldn't have taken that price from anyone else.
Maybe I'm way off base, but that's my thoughts
Rob,
Usually pawn shops are the last place people bring good stuff. If a friend or family member had the dough, THEY would have bought it. To be perfectly honest, it makes people happy as hell to know I'm buying it for myself. They hate to think I could turn around and make money off of them, a quirk of human nature.
quote:Originally posted by rogue_rob
Seems a bit unethical to me. Operating under the umbrella of a pawn shop, buying a gun for less than half of what it is worth, then putting the gun in your pocket. I understand you probably own the joint and used your own money to purchase it but you were probably putting that person in an awkward situation by being in that pawn shop. They probably wouldn't have taken that price from anyone else.
Maybe I'm way off base, but that's my thoughts
Rob,
Usually pawn shops are the last place people bring good stuff. If a friend or family member had the dough, THEY would have bought it. To be perfectly honest, it makes people happy as hell to know I'm buying it for myself. They hate to think I could turn around and make money off of them, a quirk of human nature.
No problem man. It just struck me funny when I read it. I have a few things on my mind tonight. Didn't mean to insinuate you were unethical and I apologize.