rburg
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You need to be like Dick Burg and go around with a wad of $100 bills stapled together.
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pawn shop negotiation techniques
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In my younger years I loved to negotiate everything I bought. If you had it and I wanted it I saw no reason we "could not talk about it". Now if I see something I want I may or may not make a fair counter offer for it. I carry my cash in my left front pocket held in money clip. When I make my offer I simply hold my money clip in my hand were the seller can see it, a wad of 20's or 50's lets a seller know I'm ready to do business if he is.
Two last thoughts on negotiations, if the deal is not right for you WALK AWAY. Remember the old saw "money talks and s&*t walks.
Two last thoughts on negotiations, if the deal is not right for you WALK AWAY. Remember the old saw "money talks and s&*t walks.
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Engineer,
The problem with taking a check at a gun show isn't so much the risk of it being bad. It is that most of us who aren't dealers, but casual traders and collectors, depend upon that cash from a sale to "invest" in some trinket we have been coveting. (Can't say I've ever bought a gun by offering to endorse a just received check to the seller.) I've been known to send a potential buyer off to the nearest cash machine and I offer to put their prize under the table until they return in a reasonable time. Usually they come back with the required wampum but if they don't I still have control of the deck and will deal with the next player.
Bob
cussedemgun
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I would say the "art of hoss-trad'en" has been pretty well covered. Only one more point to make.
Never, I say NEVER brag about how good a deal you got or gripe about being taken (keep it to yourself). The gun-nut fraternity is a small group & all tales will come back around. If a seller/dealer thinks you are belittleing him behind his back, all bargains will stop.
Jim
Never, I say NEVER brag about how good a deal you got or gripe about being taken (keep it to yourself). The gun-nut fraternity is a small group & all tales will come back around. If a seller/dealer thinks you are belittleing him behind his back, all bargains will stop.
Jim
Aw Jim, no "brag" or "gripe"...where's the fun?
If we took all the "How'd I do" threads out of this forum, it would die on the vineBob
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The last 4 or so firearms I have bought have been from a local pawn broker...
I'll stop by at least once a week on my way home from work to check out what they have.With the economy the way it is now there are a LOT of tools there that tradesman have been dumping as there is no work.
Anyways, back to firearms...
The shop is part of a regional chain, I mostly deal with the manager who knows me as a regular customer. Once I showed him how to date a Garand rile by racking the bolt and exposing the date of manufacture on the barrel. Another time I explained that 1903s often had barrells put on during the war years 1940s.We even had a discussion about Mitchels Mausers vs. Russian pick ups vs. bring backs from Grandpas days as a grunt in WW2...
So, I would recommend building a relationship. I have shown him stuff he did not know about firearms and he has recipricated by giving me a fair price. He will even give me a heads-up to say that he has a S&W coming out and would I be interested? I'll swing by and either say no or buy it...
I usually pay cash and he'll knock off the sales tax.
There is no "code" as far as what is on the tag, he'll get on their computer and see what the paid out for the loan. I worked at a place and their "secret" code was "CONQUESTRY" so I'd look for a 10 digit letter code....
After watching the show Pawn Stars I have realized that the pawn brokers need to make a profit (usually 100%+).I honor that, as a business has to make a profit to keep the doors open.
Some of the deals have included, a Glock 19 for $300.00, a S&W Victory for 250.00, a1980s Ruger Single Six .22 for 200.00, a WW2 era German bayonet for 20.00,etc.
He most often has some crap for sale like a Jenning 9, or other pot metal throw-downs, but being halfway savy and educating him I have walked out of the store with both of us being happy...
I'll stop by at least once a week on my way home from work to check out what they have.With the economy the way it is now there are a LOT of tools there that tradesman have been dumping as there is no work.
Anyways, back to firearms...
The shop is part of a regional chain, I mostly deal with the manager who knows me as a regular customer. Once I showed him how to date a Garand rile by racking the bolt and exposing the date of manufacture on the barrel. Another time I explained that 1903s often had barrells put on during the war years 1940s.We even had a discussion about Mitchels Mausers vs. Russian pick ups vs. bring backs from Grandpas days as a grunt in WW2...
So, I would recommend building a relationship. I have shown him stuff he did not know about firearms and he has recipricated by giving me a fair price. He will even give me a heads-up to say that he has a S&W coming out and would I be interested? I'll swing by and either say no or buy it...
I usually pay cash and he'll knock off the sales tax.
There is no "code" as far as what is on the tag, he'll get on their computer and see what the paid out for the loan. I worked at a place and their "secret" code was "CONQUESTRY" so I'd look for a 10 digit letter code....
After watching the show Pawn Stars I have realized that the pawn brokers need to make a profit (usually 100%+).I honor that, as a business has to make a profit to keep the doors open.
Some of the deals have included, a Glock 19 for $300.00, a S&W Victory for 250.00, a1980s Ruger Single Six .22 for 200.00, a WW2 era German bayonet for 20.00,etc.
He most often has some crap for sale like a Jenning 9, or other pot metal throw-downs, but being halfway savy and educating him I have walked out of the store with both of us being happy...
olskool
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Auto Mag
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I don't get it... why even bother to go in...??
Edit: Ooppss... sorry dredged up an old thread.
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Auto Mag
Thread was dead for nearly 6 years. Do you also go into cemetaries at night and dig up old graves?
Thread was dead for nearly 6 years. Do you also go into cemetaries at night and dig up old graves?
Lee's Landing Billy
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You can't pay too much you can only buy a little too soon. I learned that HERE! One man owns 4 really big pawn shops in this county. I go to all. There is NO rhyme or reason to anything they price as concerned by value. Everything is priced by what they have invested. One of my men recently bought 4 Winchester 94 Commemoratives. Absolutely stunning wood and octagon barrels. All 4 for $800. I stopped in 3 days later they had a plain Jane 94 they had marked $695. Pawn shops are strange places to me, but I can't stay out.
Lee's Landing Billy
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One of my shooters is a crazily successful salesman. He says you make all your profit when you BUY not when you sell. Also, the best sales gimmick in the world is to tell them they can't have it.You know, they don't make this anymore. His number 1 piece of advice to all buyers..Sometimes the best deal is NO deal.
I buy regularly from a couple of pawn shops...i make sure that, every once in a while if the guy has a fair price on a gun, I pay the asking price. I don't need to beat a regular seller out of $25 bucks on a $400 gun if $400 is a good price...last time I did that was on a nice model 39 a guy had in the case for $350. I said I'd take it without asking about the price.....he only charged $325 out the door....relationships have value....
Auto Mag
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Auto Mag
Thread was dead for nearly 6 years. Do you also go into cemetaries at night and dig up old graves?
Just depends what they have on them...
(Search always gets me in trouble)
MrG5122
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It is a good informative thread though...yes?Auto Mag
Thread was dead for nearly 6 years. Do you also go into cemetaries at night and dig up old graves?
I personally love pawn shops! A large portion of my 'gun collection' has been pawn shop purchases. Many have been haggled down and many have been too cheap to pass up.
I walked in one of my favorites a few months ago and a well used nickel Regulation Police was sitting right there. As I was haggling the price I looked on the next shelf up and there sat two cherry Springfield xds45's priced at $350 each. I walked out of there at $800 for all three. You never know unless you go.
A few others that had to be haggled:
65-3, 3", no PD stamp in perfect condition. Marked $550 for $425 OTD .
Springfield MC Operator 1911 barely fired in box, $800.
First year Colt 3-5-7 in near mint condition, $800 OTD
Glock 35 gen4 , $450
Did I say I love pawn shops?
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gman51
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The local pawn shop here that gun would have a price tag of around 5-7 hundred bucks and even in poor condition. I don't even try and deal on rip offs like that.
Frank46
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I got asked to leave a pawnshop after pointing out the bulged barrel on a S&W revolver. The bulge in question was visible from both the inside and outside of the barrel. The young lady got somewhat miffed and told her boss who then came over and asked me to leave. Was a 32-20 S&W. Never stepped foot in that place again. Frank
7shooter
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Is mirth even allowed here ?
How about glee, hilarity, merriment, jollity, joviality or gaiety ?
He's looking to get shut down.
How about glee, hilarity, merriment, jollity, joviality or gaiety ?
He's looking to get shut down.
djt17
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I love old threads almost as much as I love old guns 
I get maudlin sometimes, is that like mirthful? Don't want to drift here though.
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