He had them the minute they walked in the door. They were acting like the shadiest idiots on Earth. If you notice he doesn't take his eyes off of them when he hands back the stuff. He knew they weRe going to pull something. Also I guess when you handle something every day you get to know the feel of it, like generally people who handle cash every day can feel even the best fake note straight away.
+Sheri Owens All these shops should have a rule that every time an item is touched by the seller after being tested, then the buyer has to go through ALL the tests again. Post this policy right on the front window. Then the buyer wouldn't have to deal with most of these clowns in the first place.
+SaintsTantrum People who handle cash every day can feel even the best fake note? Not true at all. In fact, it's the ones who handle cash all day that you want to scam with counterfeit $$$. They hardly pay any attention to the money, other than counting it. I was a bartender for 10 years, I know this.
theeèazy Trinh I know they failed and I'm new to this trick so maybe it's a classic but I thought hats of to the scammers to haha Was pretty smart trick :P maybe if they were better looking like in oceans 11 it would have worked...
I love the fact that they stood there and watched him check the cheaper jewelry knowing full well that he'd see it wasn't the same stuff - I'd have started running the moment he started looking at it.
notice how carefully he is watching the second testing and how he is ready to say something still hoping the guy would make a mistake... also notice how the guy conviced him to pull out his license and how he is trying to grab it making sure its not his name
he already gave him his Driver's License lol, the shop guy put it below the counter. probably running it to verify if it's a real i.d or not but the point is he couldn't just run away now because he had his I.D still lmao.. idiots at work haha. unfortunately it does work on alot of people and it hurts the buisness.
I feel like it's a bit of both crossing thier fingers that somehow hopefully the fake stuff would pass givin the pad/stone he's using just had real gold on it a.k.a., hoping for a f*cking miracle but also they're both trying to watch the test carefully in order to come up with a way to get the fake chains to pass each test at the next pawn shop.The hard part is, it's a surface strength/scuff test followed by a chemical agent being applied. You'd have to be one hell of a scammer to foolproof that sh*t.
I love that he retested it because when I saw the dude take the jewelry back and give it back I knew he switched it I'm just glad he figured it out before giving them the 600 or 500
You can tell when they're trying to scam you when they watch your every move noticed they didn't look very closely when he had the real stuff but when they switched it for the fake stuff their noses were up against the glass
The chances of either of those things happening are very slim. The sellers have the advantage when switching because they have the jewellery and can get a fake replica. The buyer needs to be very lucky to have something looking identical at hand. As for the cutting a couple of links, as long as they leave it on the counter that he's working on like this one did then there is literally no chance of pulling that off unless the seller was paying 0% attention, no slight of hand would be able to pull that off unless they took it out of sight.
Thanks for posting this video. I'm new at buying gold. This video will keep me active with a 2nd test. You offered him $600. That can be a lot of money to be scammed out of.
I use to work at a moderate to highend jewelry store and I can't even tell you the lengths some people go to,, buy a diamond tennis bracelet remove the diamonds at home replace with CZ Then try to return it larer within the rerurn policy end date and actually think we wouldn't examine the items.. Most common are ladys engagement rings.. 😒😒😒😟💩💩 Some people just don't think!!! That guy in the video has probably been duped before, but never again.. 👍
Lol u must have had some outstanding arguments over the years... They prolly pulled out their Oscar worthy " YOU SOLD ME THIS HOW IT WAS" routines... Yikes... Being a jeweler has to be so stressful... Everyone and their mother trying to get over on you daily... Crazy...
@@johnrotten3268 absolutely! 😂😂 and just when you think that you've herd every lame excuse, a fresh new one is born 😂😂😂 It can be a Lil scary tho, some people will get right belligerent and aggressive because they know at a certain point the cops are going to be called ( if it escalates to threats or violent behiever) and they don't want to go to jail because tampering with expensive jewelry can result in a number of different charges especially if they have a history of this sort of thing and also the if the piece of jewelry is very expensive... 👍👍 thank you for your comment 👍
That's a pawnbroker I will hire and pay $75,000/year starting out. Promote him to districts manager within 5 years, and have run my shop when I retire and make sure he lives comfortably.
***** Hi Honcho, I was just speaking figuratively. I did work at a pawn shop when I was in college and we use to see this kind of stuff all the time. I was just simply pointing out that the guy in the video did a really good job and I felt he should be praised which is why I said what I said.
My dad bought 13 gold necklace rope chains for the family use not to resell, the man had a briefcase with the chains into the case after we went to check them they all was solid 14k paid the guy 1500 and then the switch came into play, he turned the briefcase around and then came out the other side of the fake sonto gold ( real gold look and feel) I don’t think they lasted 3 months after then all turned to fake silverish plaque Yes sir we also got scammed back in the days It happens to us all only thing we can do it just be careful if the next time live and learn I guess
That's so unfair.... How the hell does anyone know what there purchasing!! The Sophisticated way there churning out pieces of shit,to look real is astonishing!! Some even pass the chemical test!! There's no way of knowing if you can't dig into it 🤦 Beggars belief, really does.... Scum of the earth 💯🤢🤮
Not all pawn brokers are on the up and up. I recognized the area of Chicago referenced. South side. This may even be the same shop that tried to rip me off. I brought in a 1 pound ingot of .999 silver. The clerk guy took it and inspected it. He asked me if I had the original receipt. I said, no. He then immediately picked up the phone, dialed operator, and asked to be connected to the police. He expected me to run out the door, leaving the silver behind. So, after about 1 minute, he saw that I was not running away, and he paid me. He is just as much a thief as the shitbags just featured in this video.
I have to agree with the other guy, I think you were just being tested. Most of the time, the way to out a person doing something suspicious is to have them think they've been caught. The logic is that a person with no guilt won't be worried. Of course, it doesn't always work like that. Sometimes, a person with nothing to hide just doesn't trust that others will recognize their innocence, especially if they've been falsely accused before.
There used to be a Cash 4 Gold store near a restaurant that I like. They got busted using a faulty scale to make the gold seem to weigh less, so they don't have to pay as much, or have it weigh more so the customers have to pay more for less.
Blah b ...shouldn"t you be helping your brothers "liberate" yourselves from the "oppressive West" by setting off a bomb at an Arianna Grande concert in "self defense" somewhere?
From the way those two guys are so jittery, I'd have thought they were junkies pawning stolen goods. I worked at a pawn shop, and anyone that looked like they were on drugs got shown the door. We wouldn't even look at what they brought.
I don't care what people say about not judging a book by its cover. These guys are losers and they could be spotted from the moment they entered the shop.
That's not a scam, they're a business and it's how they make money. Anybody with half a brain knows they offer below value and it's your choice to sell it to them.
I agree they buy the staff for less and sell it for 2 times more the value they bought for. But I think the only people visit these pawn shops are either desperate for cash to pay for their rent or thieves who rob houses and sell them the staff
Chris Morse. Grocery shops are a complete differance from pawn shops, lol. I didn't understand much from your comment or what is your point. I'm talking from my personal experience as pawn broker tried to mug me off for my 60gb ps3 backward compatible console for £30 instead I sold it on ebay for £100.
+Pakidadon so yea, you are one of the idiots that walks into a reseller like 'this is worth(retail price) I want that for it.' maybe when you grow up you will understand business cost money and if they give you what it's worth on an open market(eBay) they won't make any money or stay in business long. I bet you got that eBay money soon as you listed it too, right? I can see why you have trouble understanding TH-cam comments...
Wow that was so slick. I was wondering why he took it back and then decided to give back in 1 second. The buyer probably knows every trick in the book.
Ironic part is these cash4gold places are themselves often scammers, offering a mere fraction of a piece's gold price, but willing to offer significantly more once they realize the person actually knows their shit.
They're not scammers, no one forces you to sell it cheap, you can sell on offerup for more. You go to pawn shops to get quick cash, not so you can make profit. You want profit, then take the time to wait and sell on Craigslist. I can guarantee you, your local pawn shop owner isn't even taking home 100k, probably 50k after bills on both the business and his own personal expenses are paid.
@@basicbodybuilding I'd say offering someone who is desperate for money $90 for something worth $1200 is scamming them. Or even worse offering a tiny amount to someone that has no idea what their gold is worth.
I've been buying precious metals and gem stones for years out of my three antiques shops, flea markets and shows. Honest people have no problem having tests done on their items. I'm in my 70s now and retired and can proudly say I've never had a dissatisfied customer in all my years of buying. This man did everything the right way and hopefully turned these crooks into the police. Sadly I can say I've had my share of scammers and dare say, crooked greedy antique dealers to deal with. Gladly I can say I have never gotten stung by any of them.
Notice he hands him with the opposite hand. And the guy in the backward baseball cap did not give the guy his identification card he used his so-called friends. When the cops show up they will be after his so-called friend instead of him due to his address and identification. One of the reasons you should never give your drivers license or do anything for anyone.
Tom Pinion...Yeah but who's to know if he has a fake tester. I just think the buyer's the con-artist here and a rude one at that. If the buyer would con the customer, the customer would have to deal with it because it's his business he's running. Believe it or not these owners of Pawn Shops are not always honest with people, it's all about money. He's just as criminal or even more so than these customer's. Point made!
He rubs off a tiny bit of it onto a touch stone then applies a testing solution to it. If it is fake or of a lower Karat then the solution will dissolve it. Gold plate will also be obvious since it will only transfer a tiny bit then expose the metal underneath.
I don't condone what these crooks did but if think about It. I wonder how many pawnshops and gold buyers prey on low income people that need fast money to put food on the table cause of a situation and these places low ball them cause they know their weak. I'm just saying it's ok for them to prey on weak people but not weak people to prey on them. double standard in a way but I guess that's how they make their money and it's up to the weak not to go to these places and do business with people that genuinely screw them in a way to make their money.
It's a free market, getting screwed owner does not exist in a free market where you know how much you get for your property. It's a choice you make, obviously these people need to earn money if they are to offer you the service of turning goods into money in seconds.
Casinos, lotteries, churches, and liquor stores are vices of the poor too. They all take from people who could use it better elsewhere. How do you feel about them? Maybe education in finance would help those people more. Or just more education in general. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
He literally said I'm going to keep your ID...and then he said I'm going to call the cops with your license plate #....wtf did you even watch the video
This happened to me a Romanian gypsy walked up to me took a big chunky ring of her finger handed it to me and pulled a apple knife out and started scraping it gold scrapings fell on my hand i said how much she said you tell me i said twenty she said no no give me so i handed it back and she said "ten is to little" i said "i said twenty not ten" she said "oh still too little but ok " handing me the fake i went home my wife got angry saying "its fake " after sraping it i was angry to see it was fake a few days later i saw her at the shopping mall i waited until she went to the bmw topping up on more rings a skinny guy was in the driver seat i opened the passenger door and took twety thousand in money and fifty rings five were real gold "i said i would shoot him if he ever came back to the area" i never saw them again.... Please be careful and thanks for showing this video
tim vanderlinde bro if you believe that you don't know gypsies. They'd die for 1k, more than 20k they just drove off? Yeah right. Great story though. If he had said he got $200 from them maybe. The truth is probably more like he got scammed for $20 and making up this story helped him feel a little better
MrSimondee1 he's completely full of shit. First of all they just happened to have 20 grand in cash sitting on the back seat for him to grab? Lol. Not to mention that he said they just drove off after he grabbed the money and the rings, like they were just so afraid of him that they let him get away without even trying to do anything? Ppl who scam for just $20 dollars a pop aren't gonna have $20,000 in cash on them and certainly not just sitting in the backseat of the car. Except for maybe him getting scammed for the $20 nothing about the story is believable. He's probably a kid who's not even married but who knows? I could be wrong lol
Thieves actually use that method so he likely would have done it. You can get cheap suite that still looks ok for $100 or even rent a really expensive one for that price for a day and then make thousands pulling the scam off. But yes, dressing nice does give people more confidence in you.
He should at least have given back the customers their junk. Just saying it was their junk. Pawn shop workers also scam customers so they're not so innocent themselves. 💍💎💰
Frances Lovato you're as dumb as dishwater give him back to jewelry why and lose the evidence of the crime to try to commit let them try this shit with somebody else that's how fucking stupid you are Francis whatever the hell you call yourself are you sure your name's not Frank and your transvestite does Frank want to be Francis
Pontious. Yeah I won't liberate the humor in your idiocy buddy. Lots of guys are named francis. Your ignorance astounds me. I hope the rush you get from trolling reminds you of why your life sucks so much. Karma and ignorance are great allies.
No. An advertizement of "something for something" implies "we will give you the first something for you giving us the second something" So for a shop advertizement "CASH for GOLD" is correct.
First the buyer looked for the place where he had tested it before, when he didn't see the mark he knew what was up but he played along til he knew for sure
When he said he was going to call the cops they took off running. . .But the guy in the shop was low balling the numbers as well. They buy the gold by penny weight for what scrap gold sells for and the gold guy sells it for what it is actually worth.
Family owned pawnshop for 30 years you can tell just by looking at it if it's plated or solid gold the texture, and color looks different he spotted it wasn't real the 2nd time but the acid test was just to confirm he knew. You test gold all day long get to know what your doing those guys hope to find a new employee who isn't monitored when we had a new employee he wasn't allowed to buy any gold worth more the $20 without one of us checking it over. Several pawn shops got scammed by fake gold coins inside plastic cases we always told anyone have to remove the coin and acid test if they refused just pass on pawning or buying it. You can't keep their stuff or ID it's not against the law to try and sell someone fake gold doesn't matter that he swapped it out he didn't tell the guy it was the same that's just the game can't get butt hurt over it.
Tommy Boy... You'd have to be really gullible to believe that the Pawn Shop owner or worker would call the cops when there was no money exchanged. It seems like you would be a susceptible victim to these professional crooked places & people. Lol... 😆
My mother pawned her ring that she had appraised as a 1920s 1.2 karat diamond because she needed grocery money. When we came to get it 6 months later (she got an extension) it was a different ring that looked alike. She had the ring since she was 18 and it has been in the family since the 50's. She told them it wasnt her ring and they said it is because its still in the envelope they had put it in when she pawned it, she didn't believe them at all but they kept denying and she isn't a jewelry expert. She never felt the same about the ring again so when I needed a car repair we took it to a jeweler and they said that it was a 1 karat diamond from the 1960s. Im so pissed this day but its been 2 years since sold and 4 since it was pawned so I just feel like is they can do that to my mother who knew the people who worked there for 28 years and my grandmother has known them since the 80s. My family has sold them ww2 era m1's and a 1911 we got when my grandfather died and made them alot of money its so scandalous. San Diego
Ty Muzz actually the crime was committed when you knew about the switch of diamonds. Anyhow documents and pictures and weight should be with everything both pawn shop and her should have same. However, these days police come in and look at everything pawnshops have now for stolen stuff. Same with junk yards looking at Vin numbers air bags etc radios..
where was this taken?? was this in Baltimore cause I heard him say Pulaski that's about all I heard during the video...I can't make out anything they saying or what's bgoing on....could someone explain to me please?
i bought some gold at around the 200.00 mark cant remember price, but sold an oz. when it was around 780.00 pawn shop only took 30.00 for them self,first place i went guy wanted to cut a piece off to test and said they charge 25%
That happens when amateurs scammers try to scam a professional scammer
Never a truer word said.
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Lol exactly. This dude preys on poors and scams people all day long . They know what to look for when ripping someone off.
Beautifully said!!!!
@@bradhoke5833 Let's be honest only crackheads go to pawn shops.
The buyer was so smart to take the time to retest the jewelry. I'd hire him!
He had them the minute they walked in the door. They were acting like the shadiest idiots on Earth. If you notice he doesn't take his eyes off of them when he hands back the stuff. He knew they weRe going to pull something.
Also I guess when you handle something every day you get to know the feel of it, like generally people who handle cash every day can feel even the best fake note straight away.
+Sheri Owens All these shops should have a rule that every time an item is touched by the seller after being tested, then the buyer has to go through ALL the tests again. Post this policy right on the front window. Then the buyer wouldn't have to deal with most of these clowns in the first place.
+SaintsTantrum
People who handle cash every day can feel even the best fake note? Not true at all. In fact, it's the ones who handle cash all day that you want to scam with counterfeit $$$. They hardly pay any attention to the money, other than counting it. I was a bartender for 10 years, I know this.
A bartender comparing themselves to a money handler. Lord jesus save me now.
Sheri Owens not about being smart. its something u know u jave to do. probly one of the first rule in these kind of places. its an old trick
Hats off to you for retesting!
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theeèazy Trinh helll ya hats off
theeèazy Trinh I know they failed and I'm new to this trick so maybe it's a classic but I thought hats of to the scammers to haha Was pretty smart trick :P maybe if they were better looking like in oceans 11 it would have worked...
know your customer
I love the fact that they stood there and watched him check the cheaper jewelry knowing full well that he'd see it wasn't the same stuff - I'd have started running the moment he started looking at it.
notice how carefully he is watching the second testing and how he is ready to say something still hoping the guy would make a mistake... also notice how the guy conviced him to pull out his license and how he is trying to grab it making sure its not his name
@@Judas1911WR1 Did you also noticed the Dracula running past the camera wearing a Speedo?! I sure did MATE
He has the guys ID bro, they're locked in lol
he already gave him his Driver's License lol, the shop guy put it below the counter. probably running it to verify if it's a real i.d or not but the point is he couldn't just run away now because he had his I.D still lmao.. idiots at work haha. unfortunately it does work on alot of people and it hurts the buisness.
I feel like it's a bit of both crossing thier fingers that somehow hopefully the fake stuff would pass givin the pad/stone he's using just had real gold on it a.k.a., hoping for a f*cking miracle but also they're both trying to watch the test carefully in order to come up with a way to get the fake chains to pass each test at the next pawn shop.The hard part is, it's a surface strength/scuff test followed by a chemical agent being applied. You'd have to be one hell of a scammer to foolproof that sh*t.
Funny how he walks out and start running 🤣😂
KInda running... he sort of wombled as fast as he could manage.
He should have some monopoly bills to give in these situations. that would be so freaking hilarious.
Brilliant.
I love that he retested it because when I saw the dude take the jewelry back and give it back I knew he switched it I'm just glad he figured it out before giving them the 600 or 500
he owns the place
Good call on the recheck. Always make sure your the last person to touch the merch after testing.
Awesome. Guy protects the store interest. Sharp. Always measure twice , cut once.
You can tell when they're trying to scam you when they watch your every move noticed they didn't look very closely when he had the real stuff but when they switched it for the fake stuff their noses were up against the glass
The chances of either of those things happening are very slim. The sellers have the advantage when switching because they have the jewellery and can get a fake replica. The buyer needs to be very lucky to have something looking identical at hand. As for the cutting a couple of links, as long as they leave it on the counter that he's working on like this one did then there is literally no chance of pulling that off unless the seller was paying 0% attention, no slight of hand would be able to pull that off unless they took it out of sight.
you have to watch with gold coins. dont let a pawn-broker or metals buyer take your coins out of sight.
2:55 And it was at that moment the scammer knew he FU. 😂😂😂
more like at 2:29
Befor that even
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That was actually pretty slick just imagine how many times he actually got away with it
Jewelry swap takes place at 1:30
Smart of the pawn broker to retest the piece. Kudos!
Its funny how theyre glued to the window!!!
Thanks for posting this video. I'm new at buying gold. This video will keep me active with a 2nd test. You offered him $600. That can be a lot of money to be scammed out of.
LOL when he was testing the real stuff they were all relaxed.
when he tested the fake stuff, they were all 👀👀
😂😂😂
I use to work at a moderate to highend jewelry store and I can't even tell you the lengths some people go to,, buy a diamond tennis bracelet remove the diamonds at home replace with CZ
Then try to return it larer within the rerurn policy end date and actually think we wouldn't examine the items.. Most common are ladys engagement rings.. 😒😒😒😟💩💩
Some people just don't think!!!
That guy in the video has probably been duped before, but never again.. 👍
Lol u must have had some outstanding arguments over the years... They prolly pulled out their Oscar worthy " YOU SOLD ME THIS HOW IT WAS" routines... Yikes... Being a jeweler has to be so stressful... Everyone and their mother trying to get over on you daily... Crazy...
@@johnrotten3268 absolutely! 😂😂 and just when you think that you've herd every lame excuse, a fresh new one is born 😂😂😂
It can be a Lil scary tho, some people will get right belligerent and aggressive because they know at a certain point the cops are going to be called ( if it escalates to threats or violent behiever) and they don't want to go to jail because tampering with expensive jewelry can result in a number of different charges especially if they have a history of this sort of thing and also the if the piece of jewelry is very expensive... 👍👍 thank you for your comment 👍
Always like to see a scammer get busted in the act...
That's a pawnbroker I will hire and pay $75,000/year starting out. Promote him to districts manager within 5 years, and have run my shop when I retire and make sure he lives comfortably.
***** Hi Honcho, I was just speaking figuratively. I did work at a pawn shop when I was in college and we use to see this kind of stuff all the time. I was just simply pointing out that the guy in the video did a really good job and I felt he should be praised which is why I said what I said.
Jin Kwon yeah, shut up kwon!!!! you won't hire shit.
+darren barker aw, the illiterate inbred is getting mad from working his pea brain too hard.
bringerofrage 😃😃😄😄😅😅
Jin Kwon Can I work for you?
My dad bought 13 gold necklace rope chains for the family use not to resell, the man had a briefcase with the chains into the case after we went to check them they all was solid 14k paid the guy 1500 and then the switch came into play, he turned the briefcase around and then came out the other side of the fake sonto gold ( real gold look and feel) I don’t think they lasted 3 months after then all turned to fake silverish plaque
Yes sir we also got scammed back in the days
It happens to us all only thing we can do it just be careful if the next time live and learn I guess
That's so unfair....
How the hell does anyone know what there purchasing!!
The Sophisticated way there churning out pieces of shit,to look real is astonishing!!
Some even pass the chemical test!! There's no way of knowing if you can't dig into it 🤦
Beggars belief, really does....
Scum of the earth 💯🤢🤮
Nice catch. Looked like they were waiting anxiously for their fix money
You see their faces when he starts testing the fake stuff! Hahaha Priceless! And also the jog at the end was nice too!
You can see the switch, that's why the guy retest it.
Not all pawn brokers are on the up and up. I recognized the area of Chicago referenced. South side. This may even be the same shop that tried to rip me off.
I brought in a 1 pound ingot of .999 silver. The clerk guy took it and inspected it. He asked me if I had the original receipt. I said, no. He then immediately picked up the phone, dialed operator, and asked to be connected to the police. He expected me to run out the door, leaving the silver behind. So, after about 1 minute, he saw that I was not running away, and he paid me. He is just as much a thief as the shitbags just featured in this video.
SW Chicago maybe.
hey he was testing you if you were a thief...stealing from a thief is excusable..that clerk is smart.
I have to agree with the other guy, I think you were just being tested. Most of the time, the way to out a person doing something suspicious is to have them think they've been caught. The logic is that a person with no guilt won't be worried. Of course, it doesn't always work like that. Sometimes, a person with nothing to hide just doesn't trust that others will recognize their innocence, especially if they've been falsely accused before.
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I would’ve fallen for that in a second.
Just once though, lol
Yep, I would’ve too
There used to be a Cash 4 Gold store near a restaurant that I like. They got busted using a faulty scale to make the gold seem to weigh less, so they don't have to pay as much, or have it weigh more so the customers have to pay more for less.
Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop they can offer whatever they want you don't have to take it
Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop ya that's your typical Indian store
Travis Thacker .....this is your life
lol. pay more for less. that would make a funny store name
Blah b ...shouldn"t you be helping your brothers "liberate" yourselves from the "oppressive West" by setting off a bomb at an Arianna Grande concert in "self defense" somewhere?
From the way those two guys are so jittery, I'd have thought they were junkies pawning stolen goods. I worked at a pawn shop, and anyone that looked like they were on drugs got shown the door. We wouldn't even look at what they brought.
@ 2:56 He knew he was busted!!! lol
The guy still had his ID why would he just walk out.
I don't care what people say about not judging a book by its cover. These guys are losers and they could be spotted from the moment they entered the shop.
x.adam1 . . . Judging book by a cover is a survival instinct.
You can tell a thug from a mile away just by the way they walk. They walk like they have really low hanging balls. It's really weird.
This is such a classic video
This is a scam that most people will fall for. Props to him for testing the chain again, because most pawnbrokers would've been taken.
Cant scam a scammer. jk.
You're not kidding. These places are scams, they offer less than the melt value.
That's not a scam, they're a business and it's how they make money. Anybody with half a brain knows they offer below value and it's your choice to sell it to them.
I agree they buy the staff for less and sell it for 2 times more the value they bought for. But I think the only people visit these pawn shops are either desperate for cash to pay for their rent or thieves who rob houses and sell them the staff
Chris Morse. Grocery shops are a complete differance from pawn shops, lol. I didn't understand much from your comment or what is your point. I'm talking from my personal experience as pawn broker tried to mug me off for my 60gb ps3 backward compatible console for £30 instead I sold it on ebay for £100.
+Pakidadon so yea, you are one of the idiots that walks into a reseller like 'this is worth(retail price) I want that for it.'
maybe when you grow up you will understand business cost money and if they give you what it's worth on an open market(eBay) they won't make any money or stay in business long.
I bet you got that eBay money soon as you listed it too, right? I can see why you have trouble understanding TH-cam comments...
LOOK AT HOW HE WAS RUNNING LMAO
2:57 He knew he was caught. For sure.
when he started talking money the guy got to excited ,,lol
He's mad because someone tried to scam him, everyone knows he's the only one that gets to scam people in his shop.
Exactly what I was thinking
Wow that was so slick. I was wondering why he took it back and then decided to give back in 1 second. The buyer probably knows every trick in the book.
Respect to that guy man love that he caught that and his reaction !!!! Scumbags failed big time
And he starts jogging away in the parking lot haha
i knew he switched right off the bat. I was hoping the pawn guy rechecks and he did. glad !
1:38 takes it into his right hand and without switching returns a chain with his left
Wow! I had to rewatch that too catch that, respect to that worker
Damn it Chumlee !BEAT IT !
At 2.57 when he throws his arm down " dammit style"😂😂
This would be a good video to learn from. Especially pawn shops
You'll test it twice since your counter and glass don't allow to see the other person's movements.
Ironic part is these cash4gold places are themselves often scammers, offering a mere fraction of a piece's gold price, but willing to offer significantly more once they realize the person actually knows their shit.
What a business making a profit? The audacity!
They're not scammers, no one forces you to sell it cheap, you can sell on offerup for more. You go to pawn shops to get quick cash, not so you can make profit. You want profit, then take the time to wait and sell on Craigslist. I can guarantee you, your local pawn shop owner isn't even taking home 100k, probably 50k after bills on both the business and his own personal expenses are paid.
That's not scamming. You as the seller can refuse their offer or suggest a higher price or sell it anywhere for the best price.
@@thebestatless916 There's profit and there's ripping people off.
@@basicbodybuilding I'd say offering someone who is desperate for money $90 for something worth $1200 is scamming them. Or even worse offering a tiny amount to someone that has no idea what their gold is worth.
When that first guy got his ID back he was out of there lol. He didn't want any parts of what was going to happen
Nice work bro. Would be awesome if u had bulletproof glass all around and maglock doors so he can't get out until the cops come.
This is great. GOD BLESS SMART PEOPLE!
Good catch !
Glad he went and rechecked it again great catch , and smart to
They were happy to hear 600! All the drugs they instantly thought of buying and splitting! 😂😂😂
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Train ur employees to always retest. Always if the other person touches it. Retest. Good catch
Noticed body language right from the get go, and how they ran.
Funniest part was the way the guy started running at the end..you would think a life of crime would at least generate a sleeker running style
😂😂
They tried the old "switch-a-rew"
***switch - a - roo***
Watching this made my blood pressure go up..
the old bait & switch
Buyer knew he was calculating how he was going to preceed..he had 3 crooks in front of him. Very smart move
I've been buying precious metals and gem stones for years out of my three antiques shops, flea markets and shows. Honest people have no problem having tests done on their items. I'm in my 70s now and retired and can proudly say I've never had a dissatisfied customer in all my years of buying. This man did everything the right way and hopefully turned these crooks into the police. Sadly I can say I've had my share of scammers and dare say, crooked greedy antique dealers to deal with. Gladly I can say I have never gotten stung by any of them.
Sure you have. You'll never know it when a good con has done it.
Notice he hands him with the opposite hand. And the guy in the backward baseball cap did not give the guy his identification card he used his so-called friends. When the cops show up they will be after his so-called friend instead of him due to his address and identification. One of the reasons you should never give your drivers license or do anything for anyone.
I knew we switched it as soon as I gave it back to him
I knew the second he said he may be back and then handed him the jewelry again he switched it on him. Glad the pawn broker retested it.
u can play a player, and u can't bullshit a bullshitter
Chris White: That don't make any sense... Like you can P a P, and you can't B a B??? Dose that make sense???
You can't fool a fooler :)
Chris White the buyer was not bullshiting.. check your bullshiting definition
Can't lose to a loser
i think his point is that these gold places trick people sometimes
Would instantly give this buyer a raise and make him manager!
I know this is am old video...but what was the outcome? was he arrested and charged with anything? Robbery attempt?
they'll usually just be put on a watch list and notify local pawn shops
Ms.l
No he ran back to Mexico
wow. your the man for rechecking. good job. Hats off ....so happy you won over them scumbags
Tom Pinion...Yeah but who's to know if he has a fake tester. I just think the buyer's the con-artist here and a rude one at that. If the buyer would con the customer, the customer would have to deal with it because it's his business he's running. Believe it or not these owners of Pawn Shops are not always honest with people, it's all about money. He's just as criminal or even more so than these customer's. Point made!
If the test was fake, why didn't the customer argue? He was getting nervous while the guy re-tested the stuff.
I would appreciate someone explaining what the buyer is doing to test the gold.
He rubs off a tiny bit of it onto a touch stone then applies a testing solution to it. If it is fake or of a lower Karat then the solution will dissolve it. Gold plate will also be obvious since it will only transfer a tiny bit then expose the metal underneath.
I don't condone what these crooks did but if think about It. I wonder how many pawnshops and gold buyers prey on low income people that need fast money to put food on the table cause of a situation and these places low ball them cause they know their weak. I'm just saying it's ok for them to prey on weak people but not weak people to prey on them. double standard in a way but I guess that's how they make their money and it's up to the weak not to go to these places and do business with people that genuinely screw them in a way to make their money.
Your take on video proof of someone trying to screw a gold buyer is that gold shops and pawn shops screw customers.
It's a free market, getting screwed owner does not exist in a free market where you know how much you get for your property. It's a choice you make, obviously these people need to earn money if they are to offer you the service of turning goods into money in seconds.
Casinos, lotteries, churches, and liquor stores are vices of the poor too. They all take from people who could use it better elsewhere. How do you feel about them? Maybe education in finance would help those people more. Or just more education in general. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
Alfredo Zertuche / You just condoned what they did
It's like feeling safe behind the glass window at the zoo
SHould of kept their id or license and called a cop on them. Thats stealing. Should of stalled them and called a cop.
+b If anything he'll probably send it to other pawn shops in the area to not do business with the guy.
+b Should've.
He literally said I'm going to keep your ID...and then he said I'm going to call the cops with your license plate #....wtf did you even watch the video
he did
He took a scan of his i.d watch it again you all seeing guy lol
I though of the "switch" as soon as the dude decided to do it...so yeah, that's why I never got scammed. I'm a street smart.
When did he switch it?
rilec hahaha we got a slow one ova heee
Hank Hill don't talk about your mother like that.
OHHHH SHIIIIIIT HE SAID YOUR MOTHER IS FUCKING SLOW
The owner smart good job 👍🏼👏🏽
This happened to me a Romanian gypsy walked up to me took a big chunky ring of her finger handed it to me and pulled a apple knife out and started scraping it gold scrapings fell on my hand i said how much she said you tell me i said twenty she said no no give me so i handed it back and she said "ten is to little" i said "i said twenty not ten" she said "oh still too little but ok " handing me the fake i went home my wife got angry saying "its fake " after sraping it i was angry to see it was fake a few days later i saw her at the shopping mall i waited until she went to the bmw topping up on more rings a skinny guy was in the driver seat i opened the passenger door and took twety thousand in money and fifty rings five were real gold "i said i would shoot him if he ever came back to the area" i never saw them again.... Please be careful and thanks for showing this video
dog you really have to use punctuation marks. I have no fucking idea what you said. see how i used "periods" at the end of each sentence?
youre right bro , i had to read it twice ! lol
I believe it
tim vanderlinde bro if you believe that you don't know gypsies. They'd die for 1k, more than 20k they just drove off? Yeah right. Great story though. If he had said he got $200 from them maybe. The truth is probably more like he got scammed for $20 and making up this story helped him feel a little better
MrSimondee1 he's completely full of shit. First of all they just happened to have 20 grand in cash sitting on the back seat for him to grab? Lol. Not to mention that he said they just drove off after he grabbed the money and the rings, like they were just so afraid of him that they let him get away without even trying to do anything? Ppl who scam for just $20 dollars a pop aren't gonna have $20,000 in cash on them and certainly not just sitting in the backseat of the car. Except for maybe him getting scammed for the $20 nothing about the story is believable. He's probably a kid who's not even married but who knows? I could be wrong lol
The old switcharoo scam 😂😂😂
had the guy been clean cut and wearing nice clothing the guy might not have rested it
Thieves actually use that method so he likely would have done it. You can get cheap suite that still looks ok for $100 or even rent a really expensive one for that price for a day and then make thousands pulling the scam off. But yes, dressing nice does give people more confidence in you.
LOLDONGS doubt it if you’re a smart pawn shop owner you’d test anything.
Correct you test everything but pawn and jewellery stores get scammed all the time by people.
Worthless as tits on a board I have the same body as you on the pic god I hate it
WELL DONE,,,,,,SHOP OWNER,RESPECT,WE. HAVE TOO MANY SCAMS LIKE THEM IN MORROO,GOD BLESS YOU
He should at least have given back the customers their junk. Just saying it was their junk. Pawn shop workers also scam customers so they're not so innocent themselves. 💍💎💰
Frances Lovato that's evidence for the cops
Fuck pawn shops
Frances Lovato you're as dumb as dishwater give him back to jewelry why and lose the evidence of the crime to try to commit let them try this shit with somebody else that's how fucking stupid you are Francis whatever the hell you call yourself are you sure your name's not Frank and your transvestite does Frank want to be Francis
Pontious. Yeah I won't liberate the humor in your idiocy buddy. Lots of guys are named francis. Your ignorance astounds me. I hope the rush you get from trolling reminds you of why your life sucks so much. Karma and ignorance are great allies.
wow well done...obviously you've been around for a while to know how these sleezy guys work
damn i was going dor the other team
When I saw the switcharoo
I thought the buyer wasn't gonna retest
I was like noooooo
Shouldn't it be gold for cash?
Depends what side you're looking at it from, the scammer or the victim.
No. An advertizement of "something for something" implies "we will give you the first something for you giving us the second something"
So for a shop advertizement "CASH for GOLD" is correct.
They want to give you gold for cash...?
First the buyer looked for the place where he had tested it before, when he didn't see the mark he knew what was up but he played along til he knew for sure
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When he said he was going to call the cops they took off running. . .But the guy in the shop was low balling the numbers as well. They buy the gold by penny weight for what scrap gold sells for and the gold guy sells it for what it is actually worth.
DANMMMM MEXICANS!!!!!!
Family owned pawnshop for 30 years you can tell just by looking at it if it's plated or solid gold the texture, and color looks different he spotted it wasn't real the 2nd time but the acid test was just to confirm he knew. You test gold all day long get to know what your doing those guys hope to find a new employee who isn't monitored when we had a new employee he wasn't allowed to buy any gold worth more the $20 without one of us checking it over. Several pawn shops got scammed by fake gold coins inside plastic cases we always told anyone have to remove the coin and acid test if they refused just pass on pawning or buying it. You can't keep their stuff or ID it's not against the law to try and sell someone fake gold doesn't matter that he swapped it out he didn't tell the guy it was the same that's just the game can't get butt hurt over it.
The buyer is the real thief here, he kept their fake bling without money being exchanged! They should of called the cops on him. Just wrong! 😠👎💎
Frances Lovato he kept it as evidence and their identity info to turn over to the police.
You're just assuming Tom because you don't actually know if he turned it into the police. He probably resold it. 💍💎💵💲💰
Why would he resell fake, worthless jewelry? He even told them he was keeping thier info and junk and mentioned calling the cops.
Tommy Boy... You'd have to be really gullible to believe that the Pawn Shop owner or worker would call the cops when there was no money exchanged. It seems like you would be a susceptible victim to these professional crooked places & people. Lol... 😆
Pawn Shops= CROOKED BUSINESSES.
Smart owner. Never trust a seller.
My mother pawned her ring that she had appraised as a 1920s 1.2 karat diamond because she needed grocery money. When we came to get it 6 months later (she got an extension) it was a different ring that looked alike. She had the ring since she was 18 and it has been in the family since the 50's. She told them it wasnt her ring and they said it is because its still in the envelope they had put it in when she pawned it, she didn't believe them at all but they kept denying and she isn't a jewelry expert. She never felt the same about the ring again so when I needed a car repair we took it to a jeweler and they said that it was a 1 karat diamond from the 1960s. Im so pissed this day but its been 2 years since sold and 4 since it was pawned so I just feel like is they can do that to my mother who knew the people who worked there for 28 years and my grandmother has known them since the 80s. My family has sold them ww2 era m1's and a 1911 we got when my grandfather died and made them alot of money its so scandalous. San Diego
Ty Muzz actually the crime was committed when you knew about the switch of diamonds. Anyhow documents and pictures and weight should be with everything both pawn shop and her should have same. However, these days police come in and look at everything pawnshops have now for stolen stuff. Same with junk yards looking at Vin numbers air bags etc radios..
The switch, saw it coming before it happened as did the geezer. Well done son.
where was this taken?? was this in Baltimore cause I heard him say Pulaski that's about all I heard during the video...I can't make out anything they saying or what's bgoing on....could someone explain to me please?
i bought some gold at around the 200.00 mark cant remember price, but sold an oz. when it was around 780.00 pawn shop only took 30.00 for them self,first place i went guy wanted to cut a piece off to test and said they charge 25%
NICE! You rock sir, way to catch em
Good job sr. That guy knows his business.
You can't have your cake this time man. scammer meets scammer. The pawn broker won! Lol
$600.00 that's good money man. That's like half my rent!
Employee of the year. I wish he had locking doors and talked shit to him the whole time the police were in route