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Posh Pawnbrokers, what happened to Posh Pawn?
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I have seen this new show "Posh Pawnbrokers" on channel 4, what happened to "Posh Pawn", this new show is very similar.
It seems strange I hope the old lot have not been ditched.
It seems strange I hope the old lot have not been ditched.
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It's a no from me.
Does anybody have any more info?
Seems he used to work in recruitment, and took over the shop 7 years ago.
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sheffield-shop-is-pawn-star-in-new-television-show-1-7236653
As for all of that sports memorabilia. Also those trainers in the big box.
Everybody gets annoyed or has their off days (as James did on Posh Pawn) and it doesn't seem natural to be smiling inbetween every word.
I'm sure it wasn't all put on; perhaps I'm just a misery guts
The thing I don't understand is most of the items brought in are for sale not pawn. Given the pawnbroker will want to make a profit and they tend to feature quirky stuff which they need to find a buyer for first before buying from the customer surely the customers are getting a poor deal. Surely it must be better to try and sell themselves at auction (which is usually around 20% sellers commission including VAT) or on somewhere like eBay.
Or do they think the pawnbrokers have a wide contact list to pass stuff on to ? so they get the item sold even if the price is not as high as it could be if they did more work themselves.
I also presume they deliberately don't show the expert the pawnbroker calls in giving their valuation of the item to the pawnbroker. Surely that is something the pawnbroker would ask as well as the generic chat on saleability etc. I expect they don't want people seeing they are probably only offering 50% of that valuation at best, given they have the risk of selling it on. Plus they must be paying the expert a few quid for their advice.