I was on the show in Season 4 and here are my notes…
The “family” segments are entirely made up. Everything – from them being in the store, ever, waiting for stuff to show up, to how many kids Rick has is fake. If you see them speaking dialog and it’s not to someone selling something, it’s fiction.
The customer segments can be broken down into four types. Sellers, Found Sellers, Fake Sellers and Celebrity Encounters.
Sellers (people like me) approach the production company with an item they would like to sell, and if they like it, they ask Rick if he wants to look at it. If he likes it they schedule you for a filming date/time. Most sellers know they aren’t getting full price for their item and (like me) are willing to exchange that for a few moments of TV time. (I suspect some go on the show thinking they will get over on Rick and make more than they could elsewhere.)
Found Sellers are usually people in the Las Vegas area who have listed something interesting on eBay, Craigslist, etc… and were contacted by the producers before TPS shows up. They almost never want to sell for TPS prices, but on rare occasions Rick will pay their asking price.
Fake Sellers are people that have no interest in selling to TPS but have cool stuff that the producers want to showcase. Of note would be Jesse Amoroso and members of his staff at Cowtown guitars and the number of cars that showed up when they were filming Counting Cars.
Celebrity Encounters are obvious and mentioned in this video. It started with Bob Dylan and slowly got more and more blatant and bad over every season.
This video gets the “Seller” segment filming a bit wrong. On any given day the store is filled with tourists buying Pawn Stars logo merch. Shirts, coins, DVDs and autographed pictures, which, btw, I saw signed by interns on the back dock. When filming is about to start they empty the store, except for the seller and their guests. Those guests become the background customers - and if the seller has no guests, they will pull a few from the tourists lined up outside. That’s when TPS walk into the shop and get set up for filming. Background people are not allowed to talk. The seller is asked to go outside and walk in with their item - which has been in TPS hands since the seller showed up over an hour earlier.
My segment didn’t have an “expert” but I’m quite certain that if one was called for, the expert would have been in back with TPS googling or otherwise getting info on the item. No doubt they were told what would be walking in the door before they showed up to film, but they do have hands-on time alone with the item before filming starts as well.
My segment did have Chum - who is so smart her had to be fed his “dumb” comments from a producer. The segments where TPS and the customer talk about the item are largely unscripted. For me, Chum was fed “dumb” comments but my interaction with Rick was largely what you for to see in the episode that aired. The producers were also very clear that when it came to the price negotiation I was on my own with Rick. That part is 100% genuine and what aired was 100% what happened. After this they film some B roll footage (closeups, etc…) and I was directed to the cash register to fill out the sales paperwork. After that, they take you outside to film the bit about what you hope to sell it for. You ever see someone get that price exactly right? That’s how they do it.
I stopped watching around 2015 because they started focusing more and more on the family dialog stuff and they had less and less interesting items. As much as I enjoy Rebecca Romney nerding out over books, it was obvious they were just finding excuses to bring her into an episode because she was more fun to look at than… well, everyone else on the show.
Oh and the item I sold… it’s still at the shop. After my episode aired, people started looking around their homes and found so many copies of what I sold that the prices on eBay tanked. They can’t sell my item without taking a loss over what they paid me. They could have offered me 10% of what they paid me and I’d have said yes just to make sure they used my segment!
Oh and no - they do not pay to fly you to Vegas or stay in a hotel. Everyone always asks.
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fonte https://www.reddit.com/r/pawnstars/s/GL00ptPY3b
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