Uninformed Pawn Shop owners (was: A word of warning!)

[danial stocks]

>It's that way everywhere. These stories are few and far between. I've been
>hitting pawn shops for at least 7 or 8 years now, and I've found ONE good
>deal. For the most part, they just have Roland D-10's for $800, and Ensoniq
>Mirage's for $650. Don't know why I keep going back.

It is also good to know how to 'know more' than the guy in the shop...  like 
knowing how to make a completely functional device crackle coz the leads are 
faulty etc... I remember looking at HR16s in a shop - the guy had 2 of them 
.. one was really stuffed on the keyboard - obviously not going, but I knew 
and he didn't that once you take the top off it's a 10 minute fix.. so I 
offer him $50 for it.. he wanted $200. So he refuses my offer but says I 
could buy the other [essentially working one] for $100... so I got a 1/2 
price drum machine because the one next to it was faulty.. how about that 
eh?
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>-dan
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