Alicia
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Yes and no. The pawn shop is real and most of the people you see there are real.
However, most of the time when you're seeing the guys looking over a big ticket item, odds are it's one of the many items that they seed the show with. Especially if it's something that they need to call in an expert on.
If you watch carefully, you can see in some of those item segments where Rick says it'll be a couple of hours before my expert can come over...something interesting.
In a few of these, I noticed the people in the background shopping. "A couple of hours" later when the expert comes in, I've seen the same people.
Now I can browse a pawn shop that size and see everything that catches my eye in less than a half hour. I find it hard to believe that these same people are in the shop for as long as the two to three hours Rick claims it'll take to get the expert.
Jere
Yeah.
Anonymous
Its a real store ( in a novelty kind of way)
The show is mostly fake. Its an exaggerated series of anecdotes from the real pawn business
Angelofloveā”
Yep, it is.
perfectlybaked
I don't know about that one but the drama on Hardcore Pawn seems staged.
That's just what it looks like to me personally. I try to find nuances of acting.
The events seem reenacted, but perhaps based on a real prior event.