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Pawn Stars; "I have a conscience"
Topic Started: Sep 9 2010, 05:20 PM (9,166 Views)
George K
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Fast forward to 3:04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQkB2wGtoQ

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I wonder how much he'll sell it for.


http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/07/rumors-of-faberge-spider-brooch-untrue/

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Rumors of Fabergé Spider Brooch 'Untrue'
By: William Lee Adams



Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but if Internet buzz is any indicator, she'd prefer to hang with bejeweled arachnids.
In recent days bloggers and jewelry fiends have been spinning tales that Fabergé, the iconic jewelery house behind the imperial Easter egg, would soon release a brooch shaped like a spider. One site claimed it would be covered in "hundreds of thousands of little gems," while another speculated that Fabergé's collection would expand to include bracelets and rings with a "spellbinding spider web design." By 7am this morning, Google listed "Fabergé spider" as its third most popular search term and more than 25,000 web sites referenced the phrase.

Alas: anyone interested in the creepy crawler accessory will have to turn elsewhere. In an e-mail sent to NewsFeed, Fabergé spokeswoman Tatiana Zherebkina described the spate of reports as "untrue and unfounded." What's more, she pointed out that eight-legged brooches do not fit into the luxury jeweler's creative vision.

"The new pieces follow the framework of the three themes within the collection - Les Fleurs de Fabergé inspired by famous Fabergé flower studies, Les Fable de Fabergé inspired by Russian fairy tales and Les Fauves de Fabergé inspired by the Fauvism and Russian artistic aesthetics at the turn of the century," Zherebkina wrote.

The House of Fabergé has experienced crises far worse than misguided Internet reports. In 1917, Bolsheviks seized and ransacked Peter Carl Fabergé's workshops, and he fled to Switzerland where he died three years later. Last September, Fabergé's descendants relaunched the firm after a 92-year wait, debuting a collection of 100 pieces ranging in price from $40,000 to $7 million.




Edited by Copper, Sep 9 2010, 05:33 PM.
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Wow. 15k ?? The thing if pre 1917 is priceless. A museum piece. A high end jeweler here recently started selling the enameled eggs and such. New stuff because the company has changed. Very pricey. A tiny egg pendant was 5k and it didn't even open like the larger ones do. I once had a coffee table book on the House of Faberge. Very interesting it's history.
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I love watching "Pawn Stars". One thing to remember is that these guys never, EVER, buy something that they can't make money on. If he was buying for $15K, I'm sure that he was looking at at least a $5-$10K profit. He'd sell it for 20-30. For sure.
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I'm guessing ... Wildly guessing ... That thing is worth 60 -70- 80
k. It's something that shows up at uber high auctions not on Ebay.
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Yep. If a pawn shop buys something for 15k, safe to say it could have been ebayed for about 50k. When a pawn shop offers you a ton of money for something, that's your cue not to sell.
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Horace
Sep 9 2010, 06:04 PM
Yep. If a pawn shop buys something for 15k, safe to say it could have been ebayed for about 50k. When a pawn shop offers you a ton of money for something, that's your cue not to sell.
Sorta what I was thinking.

Some guy came in with a collection of Pez dispensers. Rick (the guy in the vid) offered him (I think) $150 for the collection. The guy said, "You're nuts, I can sell this on eBay for over $500."

Rick told him, "Go ahead. I'm in the money making business, I'm not in the 'selling other people's junk' business."
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I think they make some deals they'd otherwise let walk, simply to make the show more interesting.

She originally wanted two grand for the jewelry. If that camera hadn't been rolling, that's exactly what she would have pocketed.
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Sep 9 2010, 07:38 PM
She originally wanted two grand for the jewelry. If that camera hadn't been rolling, that's exactly what she would have pocketed.
Interesting point.

Is there any legal obligation for a pawn shop to offer a "fair" value for something? If this lady walked out with only two grand, would the pawn shop have any legal exposure if she found out, later on, that it was worth ten times that?
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That's a good question.
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She should've walked out and gone to the next Antiques Roadshow!
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I'm thinking Sotheby's or Christie's .
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Why should they be guaranteed a fair value? They're selling to a pawn shop solely to sell it immediately.
The customers never understand the difference between Wholesale and Retail values. They know the retail value of their object, and want to sell it as a wholesaler for that price.

If you're too lazy to find out for yourself some basic idea of what your antique is worth, you deserve to get whatever someone offers you for it.
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"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."
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Is the entire idea of going to a pawnshop so that you 1) get you money immediately (HT-KB) AND 2) you have some short term chance of getting it back?

I've never figured why anyone takes a car to the pawnshop. Seems like selling it on the open market is so much better an idea.

On a similar note, I've watched American Pickers. Seems like those deals will eventually dry up, as more viewers watch them buy something for a few hundred and sell (or value it) for a thousand or more.
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Kincaid - you hit the nail on the head.
Most people going to the pawn shop don't pawn, they sell.
They need money immediately, and are willing to take quite a hit to avoid the lengthy process of actually establishing a realistic value and waiting for a customer.
In the case of the person pawning they're after much the same thing - only, they're willing to take even more of a hit, but they're also planning on coming back and paying the money back (plus interest) in order to get their item back.
It's like a small collateral-based loan for an emergency situation.

I don't think values will dry out - desperation will always be in great supply.
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While looking on YouTube, I found an interesting video of "other" services that the pawn shop offers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OJFY2QNcqE


Edited by George K, Sep 10 2010, 04:15 PM.
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Well, for some reason, just 4 minutes ago, 181 guests were online and they were all looking at this thread.

Wonder why?
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Sep 10 2010, 02:03 PM
On a similar note, I've watched American Pickers. Seems like those deals will eventually dry up, as more viewers watch them buy something for a few hundred and sell (or value it) for a thousand or more.
I don't quite get that show.

Two guys spend a whole day in a $35K van, sucking up $100 worth of fuel while paying rent, utilities, payroll and taxes back at the shop, all the while celebrating that they found enough stuff that if they can ever resell it they'll make a $600 profit between them.

If it weren't for what the show pays them they'd be broke.
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Jan 10 2011, 08:41 PM
Well, for some reason, just 4 minutes ago, 181 guests were online and they were all looking at this thread.

Wonder why?
Because they all googled P**N Stars?
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That is cool.
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Jan 11 2011, 03:44 AM

Because they all googled P**N Stars?

It was the AZ shooting discussion.

Some genius decided to use the word "conscience".

So the pundits all ran to Google to look it up.

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