floydster
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It's your fault, not the shops, the gun should have been prepped for storage, live with it.
I have even seen a handgun passed down the counter to four different guys to look at it. When it was returned to the case it received no wipe-down at all - just right back into the case. We all know better. Greasy fingerprints and sweat are a gun's worst nightmare. Most pawn shop employees I have met do not know or do not care.
Wait a sec!!!
If you pawn your firearm in Tennessee, when you pay your loan off you have to fill out a 4473?
I don't want to be a jerk, but pawning makes horrible economic sense and might be indicative of why money is tight when you own new unfired firearms.
I won't ever pawn anything.
I have never pawned a gun but I have looked at and handled many guns in pawn shops. I have even seen a handgun passed down the counter to four different guys to look at it. When it was returned to the case it received no wipe-down at all - just right back into the case. We all know better. Greasy fingerprints and sweat are a gun's worst nightmare. Most pawn shop employees I have met do not know or do not care.
As a pawnbroker would it not be benifical for you to clean and oil them yourself? I assume a large percentage of them end up as your inventory to sellI am a pawnbroker and have been for 12 years or so now. In every shop i've worked in, your gun is stored in the manner it's brought in. When you bring it in i'll point out knicks and dings, and note them on the ticket. I'll also note rust if I see it.
If your pawning your gun....OIL the hell out of it BEFORE you pawn it!!!!!!!!!! Yes I know you'll be back in two weeks to get it but........sometimes it doesn't work out that way.
I ain't gonna beat your guns up but if you didn't prepare them for storage......I really can't help you. I keep oil and cleaning suppies at the shop.....if you didn't do it at home.....ask i'll give you the stuff to do it at the counter.
You should have prepared them......they should have told you how they store them......and the requirements and paperwork to pick them back up.
I understand that. Time is hard to come by in all professions. As I said before I love pawnshops and feel they get a bad rap. The one I mentioned earlier has been very fair to me. I have never pawned anything but have traded a few guns with them. They have always offered more than the traditional gun shops in town and typically give me close to what I would sell them face to face in trade value.Yes it would, but I really don't have the time to do each and every one. I have several customers who ask to inspect their items when they come in to extend them every month, doesn't bother me a bit, if they want to oil them be my guest.
Today I loaned on 7 guns, I also dealt with other customers with other things. Just ain't got time.
It's your fault, not the shops, the gun should have been prepped for storage, live with it.