Oh, and the people who walk in to sell stuff? They have to pay $200 for Rick and company to look at it and offer to buy it or turn them away. I say "crap" because none of the stuff you've ever seen "purchased" on the show is ever sold there, only typical pawn shop crap being sold at about triple its actual value because you pay for the privilege of buying it there. The tiny part that you do see on the show has a ton of overpriced crap. The vast majority of the "pawn" shop is never seen on the show because it is just for selling show merchandise. If you go to the "pawn" shop on any given day, either they are filming and you can't get in without being picked as an extra, or there are a bunch of people working there that you've never seen before on the show. All of the characters on the show do not even set foot in that shop more than one to three days a month. No, what you see is a staged, filmed, and in all likelihood scripted TV show that is filmed in the "pawn" shop. Watching the show, you think what you see is the best of what happens every day in the "pawn" shop. Everything I found out about the actual reality of this shop and show was gathered from the locals who were in line (over 30 of them that day) waiting for a chance to stand around in the "pawn" shop as extras during filming, looking like they are shopping for something. The actual reality of this show made this "pawn" shop, by far, the most disappointing part of our trip. Of course, besides various entertaining destinations in the desert, Vegas/Primm gambling, and the Hoover Dam, the pawn shop where this show is filmed was one of our main destinations. What happened? Well, we live in the Silicon Valley (Northern California) and decided this year to take a summer road trip to the Mojave desert, Las Vegas, and Hollywood. Up until this year (2013), this was one of our favorite shows. OK, so my kids and I have been watching this "reality" show since it came out because the characters are entertaining and lovable, plus you learn quite a bit of history and trivia. Maybe I'm naive about reality shows, but from what I know they are mostly the reality of some people's lives, heavily edited to be entertaining, maybe with some staged bits here and there to, again, add entertainment. Haha, "This review may contain spoilers".
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