Shotguns and pawn shops! Oooh yeeeeaahhh

I hate pawn shops they always want top dollar for their junk and offer you nothing if you try and sell them anything.
 
There is a pawn shop a few doors down from my bank. I stop in whenever I go to the bank. I run into the used guns priced over NIB retail all the time. Sometimes even MSRP. I have no idea what they are thinking. I even asked them about it once, I stop in a lot, so I talk to them a little. They looked at me like I did not know what I was talking about.

I went to see what they would give me for a Winchester 1300 once and it was half what the local gun shop offered. I was there when they bought a rifle off someone last week and it was very hard not to make him an offer above theirs.

They do sell stuff sometimes though.
 
These days bargains are few and far between at pawn shops.

They often sell stuff on eBay or other online auctions if they can't get what they want for the stuff in the shop.

There really is not much downside to having the gun sit there a few months hoping someone is fool enough to buy it.

The manager probably has a pretty good idea what he can net elsewhere and if it has been sitting for a while he may well sell to you for about what he could net elsewhere.

Its about the same thinking a lot of gun stores have, especially with consignments.
 
i shop at a local army navy store as they get quite a few trade ins, and they put high prices on their items the first week, if i see some thing i want i will ask the price,when i am told the high price,i don,t p*ss them off by telling them there crazy, i say i would realy like to have that gun but my wallet is strained right now. in a couple days i go back in and usuly am offered the gun at a much better price. i turned it into a game and i have gotten some very good deals off of them and am now considered a friend. and they have even saved certain types of guns behind the counter untill i see them first. life is good at times,eastbank.:)
 
If you know they have something you want but have it priced too high, do a search on the net, find it at a few places with lower prices, print those off and take them with you. If you happen to have the Blue Book, even better. If you can show them what it should be selling for, and they still won't deal, don't bother arguing or going back, just walk away and buy elsewhere. Up to you if you want to tell all of your friends about their pricing..........
 
There really is not much downside to having the gun sit there a few months hoping someone is fool enough to buy it.
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They have a colt Woodsman in less than perfect shape with no accessories listed for 479 that has been there over a year. A number of shotguns also there as long as I have lived there.
 
I had the guy at the pawnshop try to convince me that I needed a Colt New Service in .357 Magnum.

"It's REALLY RARE! This is a GREAT price!"

$1,000 was NOT a great price for an unusual, but not particularly, rare handgun, especially not one that looked as if it had been dragged by a chain down a gravel road.
 
So are all these pawnshop owners/ workers just stupid?
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They are actually being smart.

Say you have $100 in something that was pawned. Whats the downside to having it sit for a few months hoping a fool walks in?

If they borrowed the money to buy the item, they are probably paying no more than 10% on it. Its costing them less than a dollar a month for it to sit on the shelf. Very low risk for them.

They may also prefer to have more stock thinking it brings in more buyers.

You often see the same thing with consignment guns. The gun shop does not own the gun so could care less if it sits there forever in many cases.
 
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