So, there are lots of pawn shops near where I live. I have been in a few at most usually just to do transfers. I check out some of their guns sometimes. They usually are asking prices close to gun show pricing or so it seems to me and yes I mean high end pricing. I have never bought a gun in a pawn shop with one possible exception back in the 1970s when I was 21 or so years old.
What I'd like to find out, from those of you who fairly regularly make purchases in pawn shops is this: Is there a certain percentage, more or less, that I can pretty much expect that just about any pawn shop would be willing to come down from what they are asking when it comes to firearms? My guess is that they probably have a 25 to 50% markup over the price they paid for it but that is just my guess.
What I'd like to find out, from those of you who fairly regularly make purchases in pawn shops is this: Is there a certain percentage, more or less, that I can pretty much expect that just about any pawn shop would be willing to come down from what they are asking when it comes to firearms? My guess is that they probably have a 25 to 50% markup over the price they paid for it but that is just my guess.