I like Pawn Stars. But I think that the prices started getting jacked all the way back to Antiques Roadshow. Since the Roadshow only shows the extremely rare, very valuable item, and not the 1000s of items that are passed up at each location, people started thinking that they had that one, rare, item. Pawn Stars commonly has fakes, old but not valuable items, things like that.
Also, even though Pawn Stars is staged, people on it commonly say things like "I saw someone online asking 1500 for this!" when offered a couple hundred bucks for something. I think that's something that happens in real life, people will research an item online and find the most overpriced asking price and think its the items value, instead of digging a little deeper and seeing what the item is actually selling for.
Also, even though Pawn Stars is staged, people on it commonly say things like "I saw someone online asking 1500 for this!" when offered a couple hundred bucks for something. I think that's something that happens in real life, people will research an item online and find the most overpriced asking price and think its the items value, instead of digging a little deeper and seeing what the item is actually selling for.