Hardcore Pawn

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Anyone else like this show? I don't necessarily agree with all his morals but he sure knows how to make some money. He's a straight cut guy. Interesting, anyways. Definitely some idiots on the show.

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[Boomsday 10+ year member]

Pawn Stars>Hardcore Pawn

 

[09civic 5,000+ posts]

Pawn Stars>Hardcore Pawn

this.

pawn stars is more for the info, hardcore pawn is for the shits and giggles

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Yes but they are usually on a different times. Sometimes I like a little violence in my TV.

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

Hardcore pawn seems too fake and scripted compaired to pawn stars.....

and they are a bunch of jack wads....

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Id rather watch Operation Repo, but they are both good.

 

[ColterDC 10+ year member]

I have a problem with any program that is faked, which they all are.

Tru TV = a bunch of prescripted faked programs.

 

[Bassin Brandon]

Yes but they are usually on a different times. Sometimes I like a little violence in my TV.

watch "all worked up" or "operation repo" you might like ;D

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Hardcore Pawn is full of a bunch of people making scenes just to get their face on camera. And the son/daughter are extremely unprofessional. Yesterday I caught an episode where a woman came in and was mad about something or another. Turns out she was one day late to come make a payment on the item she'd pawned. The son flat out told her that he was going to consider her loan in default unless she apologized. Uhm, that's a mild form of blackmail. I dont care if the woman pissed him off, you dont conduct a business that way.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I saw that episode. I didn't really like that either.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

this.
pawn stars is more for the info, hardcore pawn is for the shits and giggles

Pawn Stars is centered around the items that are being sold/pawned, HCP is centered around a bunch of crack addicts making a scene because they are strung out, desperate, or just craving attention.

I imagine a (now) famous pawn shop in Vegas gets a lot more interesting/expensive items in than does a pawn shop in the ghetto in Detroit. PS has ancient artifacts come in the shop, one-man submarines, AC Cobras, airplanes, historical documents and items. HCP gets cheap gold necklaces, stolen power tools, and used clothes. PS is like watching the history channel, HCP is like watching an episode of Cops.

What annoys me is, an entire channel (Tru TV) dedicated to copying successful and even just semi-successful reality shows from other stations. Ive seen a couple episodes of operation repo and that storage wars copy-cat show... both were so obviously scripted/fake that it was hard to watch more than 2 or 3 minutes of them.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I'm not a fan of op-repo or anything else besides hardcore pawn. The only other thing I watch is Most Daring and shows like that, usually for background noise. But anyways, I've seen people act the same way in real life as they do on Hardcore Pawn.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

I agree that HCP seems like its less scripted than the other shows on TTv. But even a lot of the people on the show who are customers not appearing to be following a script, still seem to be just making a scene so they can get attention from the tv cameras. That's not what makes a reality show interesting.

Even the original storage wars show is pretty boring, so an inferior copy-cat show based on it just sucks balls. Op-repo is just one scripted scene after another. Im of the opinion that a show being labeled as 'reality tv' should have to follow some sort of guidelines, as in not be scripted and fake, in order to advertise itself as a reality show.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Anyone that thinks there's any reality to ANY of those shows is an idiot. Pawn Stars is the worst, that show is 100% bullshit. All that historical crap doesn't just wander into the store, it's all set up in advance and scripted. Hardcore Pawn at least attempts to make it seem real but it's still just as fake.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Anyone that thinks there's any reality to ANY of those shows is an idiot. Pawn Stars is the worst, that show is 100% bullshit. All that historical crap doesn't just wander into the store, it's all set up in advance and scripted. Hardcore Pawn at least attempts to make it seem real but it's still just as fake.

I agree PS is scripted too. IIRC, that pawn shop has about 70 employees these days (huge for a pawn shop), so the chances of one of the 'stars' of the show being behind the counter when someone walks in with an item worthy of airing on the show is pretty remote. And yet, on the show they are always just standing there, waiting to help a customer. IN reality, if Chumlee, the old man, or the dad (forget his name) were standing behind the counter like that, people would be swarming them for autographs and crap.

Also Ive noticed that the situations often go smoother/faster than they should irl. For example, how often have you seen someone bring an item in, the shop employee says "I need to call in my expert friend to appraise this later today", and the item owner says "ok thats fine" then simply picks up the item and walks out of the store. I guess in reality tv world, people dont ask questions like "when should I come back to meet the expert" or "do you want my phone number to call me when you are ready for me to come back". I think the items are real, the sellers are real, but often times (most times) the actual interaction for the transaction is set up ahead of time.

In fairness, once a famous tv show is based around your local business, it would HAVE to affect how the business is run. If Chumlee or one of the other stars were always standing behind the counter waiting on regular customers, the shop would just become a tourist attraction, not an effective operational pawn shop.

Has anyone here ever been out to the shop in Vegas? Im curious if my assumptions here are correct.