Gold & Silver Buyers

CAVEAT EMPTOR: LET THE BUYER BEWARE!
A co-​worker of mine showed up at the job with a case of Tag Heuer watches that supposedly «fell off a truck.» He was selling them for only $ 100 a piece which everyone should know is still a crackhead price for a Tag watch, nonetheless we were trusting and all bought his watches. We had been showing off our watches all weekend at Foxwoods and ended up coming back so broke and busted so that I even lost my rent money and needed get some cash quick.
One of the guys who had bought one of the watches was suspicious that the watches may have been fakes and subsequently brought it to his jeweler to get checked out. The jeweler cracked it open and quickly rattled off about 5 reasons why the Tag was a fake. After learning the true value of my watch I now felt both broke AND stupid. At this point I needed some cash, but there was no way that I could get a micro-​loan from the bank to cover my rent. So where does a broke guy go to get some quick cash when your pockets are empty?
TIME TO GET YOUR BROKE ASS TO THE PAWN SHOP!
Before Gold & Silver Buyers became a straight «Cash for Gold» location, they used also function as a pawn shop where you could choose to sell or pawn your stuff. But it will be a sad day for you when you try selling something expensive without a receipt. Do you remember that scene from Trading Places? Yeah, this guy treated me like that!
Scene from Trading Places (1983)
Pawnbroker: Burnt my fingers, man.
Louis Winthorpe III: I beg your pardon?
Pawnbroker: Man, that watch is so hot, it’s smokin’.
Louis Winthorpe III: Hot? Do you mean to imply stolen?
Pawnbroker: I’ll give you 50 bucks for it.
Louis Winthorpe III: Fifty bucks? No, no, no. This is a Rouchefoucauld. The thinnest water-​resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculptured in design, hand-​crafted in Switzerland, and water resistant to three atmospheres. This is *the* sports watch of the ‘80s. Six thousand, nine hundred and fifty five dollars retail!
Pawnbroker: You got a receipt?
Louis Winthorpe III: Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad.
Pawnbroker: In Philadelphia, it’s worth 50 bucks.
Louis Winthorpe III: Just give me the money.
[looking in display case]
Louis Winthorpe III: How much for the gun?
So the Pawnbroker behind the counter asks me if I have a receipt for my watch. I told him that I had purchased it from a friend and now needed cash to pay my rent (Truth). He told me that a watch like this would be worth $ 1200 if it was in the box, but since I didn’t have a box or a receipt that the most he could give me was $ 300. So I did my best to make a grumpy face as took my profits and made an exit, stage left.
The moral to this story is that if you’re going to be splitting aces and doubling down on your elevens, then don’t dip into your rent money to cover your bets. Otherwise, you’ll have to roll the dice by burning a pawnbroker before he can burn you. Just don’t let him catch you around town!

Becareful when you go there and know what you have. I made a mistake and accepted what the guy gave me, and then was told I would have gotten a lot more somewhere else. The guy is hard to understand behind the thick glass, and is very pushy trying to give you less for your items. It was a learning curve for me as these guys are out to make a large profit. I screwed up and could have gotten more money. Shop around to all the different «We Buy Gold» places because they all offer different prices.