Did The 'Pawn-Shop' Thing This AM

SurferJoe46 · #1 05-17-2010, 02:28 PM

A few pieces of junk, a little nicer in some places but one place in particular was just nuts-o.

Imagine a scratched bar-fight weapon - a Fender Affinity Squire P-Bass for $400.00!

Not one - but several.

I told the owner: "How much're you into those? They are priced twice the cost of a new one?"

"Oh - those are classics and they are worth a lot of money".

Uh huh.

I asked her to Google a few of them or at least check double-u double-u double-u GuitarCenter.com, and she said: "They don't know what they're doing - those guys are a bunch of losers!"

Double Uh huh.

bassist4dalord · #2 05-17-2010, 02:31 PM

Hahaha hilarious.

beelzelboss · #3 05-17-2010, 03:25 PM

Yea, I went to a pawnshop. It's actually the one on History channel, their show "Pawn Stars" Neat stuff in their, had only one bass. A cheaper looking Ibanez, they wanted $500 for it. Rip. Off.

LiquidMidnight · #4 05-17-2010, 03:33 PM

That would make a funny scene in a movie.

Gord_oh · #5 05-17-2010, 03:33 PM

one of the best pawn shop stories ever.
go back in a month and see if they are in business.
offer $400 for the lot of them if they havent dropped the ridiculous price by then.

Gord_oh · #6 05-17-2010, 03:40 PM

i had to sig it.

SurferJoe46 · #7 05-17-2010, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Gord_oh

i had to sig it.

Good 'nuff!

iamlowsound · #8 05-17-2010, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by beelzelboss

Yea, I went to a pawnshop. It's actually the one on History channel, their show "Pawn Stars" Neat stuff in their, had only one bass. A cheaper looking Ibanez, they wanted $500 for it. Rip. Off.

Chumlee probably bought it.

lowsound

beelzelboss · #9 05-17-2010, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by iamlowsound

Chumlee probably bought it.

lowsound

Hahah. The funny thing was, is that they weren't even in there. Apparently they do work, but not very often. Reasonable hours monday - friday. I walked in with my dad at around 5 and they weren't in there. Not much really in there, I was really disappointed.

Munjibunga · #10 05-18-2010, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by beelzelboss

Yea, I went to a pawnshop. It's actually the one on History channel, their show "Pawn Stars" Neat stuff in their, had only one bass. A cheaper looking Ibanez, they wanted $500 for it. Rip. Off.

Next time I hit Vegas, I'm going to go check it out. I want to get my picture taken with Chumlee.

hall1k · #11 05-18-2010, 02:59 PM

The ones around here have mostly junk, but you get the occasional decent low-end instrument. I got my Ibanez GAX70 guitar for $120, talked down from $200, and a 2006 CIJ Fender Aerodyne P-bass for $400 (Brand new, came from a music store across the street that went bust).

RonChase · #12 05-18-2010, 03:04 PM

I buy sometimes at Pawn shops,I even cruise the pawn shops once a year some are good and some not so good but if something has been around a while just tell right here right now how much cash out the door,if they dont come to a fair price walk out,I once got a red with tort PG 5 string mexican jazz with hard case 120 out the door so it can be done.

Jim Campbell · #13 05-18-2010, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by RonChase

I buy sometimes at Pawn shops,I even cruise the pawn shops once a year some are good and some not so good but if something has been around a while just tell right here right now how much cash out the door,if they dont come to a fair price walk out,I once got a red with tort PG 5 string mexican jazz with hard case 120 out the door so it can be done.

exactly......i've found some great stuff that way.....

Philbiker · #14 05-19-2010, 09:58 AM

Sounds like the local pawn shop I stopped at a few months ago. Their bass prices made me laugh out loud in the store. They had some half decent stuff but everything was priced at least twice its worth, often a 10 year beat up old bass would be priced at what the equivalent model goes for new today. Their stereo gear prices were even funnier.

thumpbass1 · #15 05-19-2010, 12:50 PM

It's always buyer beware when dealing with most pawn shops. My hometown of Omaha has a mix of pawn shops, and a couple of them do have staff that know the used instrument market very well. It's the antique, second hand stores that crack me up most in my town. I've seen some unstrung and battered, Teisco Del Ray like thing, hung up on the wall of one shop with a $325 price tag. The owner had the similar spiel of " It's a classic! " It's only functional value was that of being sold off to hang on the wall of a Famous Dave's BBQ joint, or similar establishment into such junk yard art.

bassteban · #16 05-19-2010, 12:52 PM

Sadly, some poor schwub may walk in there, see a *Fender* & fork out the 4 bills.

sidd_laroy · #17 05-19-2010, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by thumpbass1

It's always buyer beware when dealing with most pawn shops. My hometown of Omaha has a mix of pawn shops, and a couple of them do have staff that know the used instrument market very well. It's the antique, second hand stores that crack me up most in my town. I've seen some unstrung and battered, Teisco Del Ray like thing, hung up on the wall of one shop with a $325 price tag. The owner had the similar spiel of " It's a classic! " It's only functional value was that of being sold off to hang on the wall of a Famous Dave's BBQ joint, or similar establishment into such junk yard art.

i use to live in papillion for the first 10 years of my life

the first time i went into a pawn shop i managed to talk a pocket metal muff down from 30 to 22. i haven't been in one since, but that's just because there aren't that many that i know of around here, and i haven't really had money to spend at a pawn shop recently anyway...

JoeVictim · #18 05-19-2010, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Munjibunga

Next time I hit Vegas, I'm going to go check it out. I want to get my picture taken with Chumlee.

Chumlee is the man!

"Big Hoss, you finally did it!"
"I do it all day..."
"...you finally did it"

Made me laugh so hard.

Pawnshops always try to price based on location. Demand and supply have a lot to do with it too.

ahc · #19 05-19-2010, 01:23 PM

In 1971 I went on the hunt for my first Fender bass. I found my 1964 Jazz in a pawnshop and walked out with it for the princely sum of $175.00. That was a lot of money to me back then, but it was/is probably the best purchase I've ever made. It's still with me and is my favorite.

SurferJoe46 · #20 05-19-2010, 09:19 PM

...and hit a few of the old ones and some new ones too.

I found a lot of nicer stuff the closer I got to some of the 'poorer' side of the county and that's kinda funny I think.

I hit this Ibanez BTB right away -

....and a Dean Edge -5 Lefty -

...a lefty Starfire 4-knob fretless (whatever that is)

Here's the on-duty luthier at GC - like I said I went everywhere today. Next week - maybe Hollywood for more pawns and the larger GC.

Here's a Fender I was thinking of getting until I noticed it had too many strings -

............and here's what I got today -

$75.00 including the case.

Yeah - I re-wound the strings after this was taken - so don't yell at me. They are new though.

I bet the case costs more than I paid for it and the bass both.

It's really growl-y and I am still working out the controls. It appears to be fairly new as the plastic is still on the back of the tuning machines.

They action looks like it was set up pretty nice. I've got to set the intonation on it and put on a few coats of wax and then it takes it's place in the crib.

I decided to take my money off the EB-O and just get the Epiphone instead.