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| - Not a "bad" place... but if you like actual pawn shops to buy items and not just look at a tv show set, this is not the place to you.
The wife and I went down to the shop after seeing it not only on the Pawn Stars tv show, but also on Insomniac with Dave Attell... About seven months ago (spring of 2010) it was a real pawn shop with the showcase items at the front and the occasional piece from the show on display.
There were a few t-shirts and bumper stickers you could buy at the front but they still sold things like Blu-ray discs, nintendo Wii systems and all sorts of jewelry.
The most interesting things in the store was the superbowl ring and the old barber chair.
Fast forward to december of 2010, and the entire store was renovated with the entire back part that used to house most of the electronics made into a museum from the show and a huge gift shop.
The middle glass display cases with jewelry were gone, and the championship rings had multipled to SIX (two superbowl, one ALCS baseball, one NBA Championshop and two CFL Football rings) which seemed strange, and I suspect that they are actually BUYING these things to display in the store.
so if you like a good deal, and want to find a great item, forget this place. If you want a really cool experience for the fans of the show, this is great.
My wife commented to another woman that most of the jewelry there was there the last time we were in the shop over half a year ago. Most of it is not cleaned up and in dull looking shape. Most pawn shops in las Vegas take time to clean their jewelry, but not this one.
Perhaps they do not care about the pawn business as a business anymore, and they are mainly a tv show now. A shame since there are several awards from the pawn brokers industry hanging on the walls.
These people will also NOT DEAL WITH YOU ON ITEMS.
Important to note for Vegas pawn shops is that most all shops will knock 20-40% off of an item. You can ask for a discount and see one. My wife asked about an item that was $800 and they would barely budge. We have managed to get jewelry items from other stores that were marked at $700 for around $400, but these guys are far too firm on their prices.
The parking is an absolute JOKE.
They have kept the same parking they had twenty years ago and this is probably because of the location that is on an old part of the strip.
What is NOT acceptable is the fact that of maybe twenty parking stalls, there are TEN taxis waiting for fares. They are pretty aggressive and outright RUDE. We had to wait five minutes for an open spot because the taxi drivers were all running around for fares.
There is also the issue of people running out into las vegas boulevard to get photos. This is a street where the speed limit is 35 mph, and is not a good spot to dart in and out of traffic.
Other than that, stick with one of the many superpawn locations in town!
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