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04-12-2011, 07:10 PM
| | | | What's the latest scoop with pawn shops?
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I've been looking to go to one soon, but havn't been in a while. With the economy the way it is what prices are they offering for musical equipment? I'm talking in general terms of course.
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04-12-2011, 07:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: kansas city, mo | | | Most of the pawn shops I've been into have WAY too much on their instruments. The internet has killed pawn shop deals, I'm afraid.
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04-13-2011, 05:31 AM
| | | | Most pawn shops I've been to lately have like 200$ on beat up squires and soundgears.
Not many deals by a long shot.
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04-13-2011, 05:47 AM
| | | | Yea, nowadays when they buy something stolen, they hit up musiciansfreind.com and take ten bucks off the RRP
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04-13-2011, 06:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I still use the Bay for stuff, shops can't compete.
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04-13-2011, 06:22 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Around here the pawn shops suck. The guy that does the basses and guitar stuff at one of them works for guitar center. Anything good they get, he buy at cost (I suspect) and sells it to GC for a profit. They only keep the worst of the stuff at the pawn shop and charge really close to retail.
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04-13-2011, 06:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Missouri | | | You have to search quite a bit but there are a few deals on USA Peaveys and.such to be found but its the exception. Most of the pawn shop stuff seems to be junk designed and built to market to suckers in stinky ol' pawn shops - where DO they get all that junk?
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04-13-2011, 08:56 AM
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Endorsing Artist : Genz Benz | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago - LA | | | 25 years ago pawn shops had deals. Today....screw it, use ebay or craigs list or backpage.
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04-13-2011, 09:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by blendermassacre The internet has killed pawn shop deals, I'm afraid. | ^^^^^^ +1
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04-13-2011, 09:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | When I got my first bass, ~10 years back, I managed to get a great deal.
These days? No such luck.
+1 on eBay, Craigslist etc.
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04-13-2011, 09:07 AM
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04-13-2011, 09:10 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Have to agree with the others. Finding a good deal in a pawn shop today is like getting hit by lightning--it happens, but generally only to somebody in a remote mountain town, once a year. |
04-13-2011, 10:57 AM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | I have yet to see any worthwhile basses in a pawn shop.
The TB classifieds are another story 
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04-13-2011, 11:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Savannah Ga. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by blendermassacre The internet has killed pawn shop deals, I'm afraid. |
Partially, The Pawn Shop started dying when large pawn shop chains (like Cash America) started moving in. Killing the local pawn shop.
Most of the chains set their prices and won't haggle much, if at all.
There's only one local pawn shop left in my town.
And even in a town like Las Vegas Rick Harrison's pawn shop (from "Pawn Stars") is the only family owned pawn shop there.
(proof reading back, this response looks like an excuse just to type "pawn shop" as many times as possible. It wasn't my intent. pawn shop, pawn shop, pawn shop) |
04-13-2011, 11:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ham Lake, MN | | | We have a lot of Pawn America's locally, and just a few of the local independent shops remain. I occasionally see a deal but very rarely on an instrument. Deals on instruments are gone the next day when I've done my research and decided that it really is a good price. Other stuff - like rack tuners, wireless, and stomp boxes - do come up for decent prices (I bought two of the three). If I think I can use it and the price is below the going rate in the TB classified's I'll go for it.
When haggling it is good to know the going rate for what ever you are bargaining for. One Pawn America I shop will pull up a search for the item and show you what similar items have been selling for on the 'bay and such to show you how great a deal they are offering.
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04-13-2011, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | By and large, they are not paying what instruments/amps are worth when they're buying, and they're asking way too much when they're sellling.
Which I realize has always been the M.O. of the pawn shop but now both ends have been taken to their extremes. |
04-13-2011, 01:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | I've never had luck with pawn shops in any way- they seem to be dumping grounds for instruments which are little better than scrap/firewood. Over here most pawn shops seem to be of the chain variety (such as Cash Converters) which are genuine out-and-out ripoffs for the most part, or at least charge the most part of a retail price, or dodgy backstreet places.
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