It sounds like you need a taser. If you lit a few folks up, I bet they wouldn't be as rowdy in the shop. Or, I do have a double barrel 12 ga with rubber buckshot

I watched Loopers last night and the guys were being paid in silver ingots, would you guys re-smelt that sort of thing or are there restrictions?

On one of those shows where people buy the contents of unpaid storage "rooms", the buyer melted down all the silver and gold to resell it.

We would happily buy it in and melt it. I've made loans on them before. How big were the ingots?

But we don't have to actually melt anything personally. That would be a pain in the ass. We just sell it to the smelters.

Maybe 2 1/2 x 5 x 3/4?

How much value was that supposed to represent?

One life. It appears to be a literary reference to Judas' thirty pieces of silver. The Loopers live a very fashionable existence in a fallen society. The Loopers execute folks from the future who get in trouble with the mob and are sent back in time for disposal. Those targeted for execution are bound and packaged with an unspecified number of bars (maybe thirty) and sent to a specified time/place for execution. Very interesting movie with (as always) some logical holes created by the timeline alterations. Spoiler: The real fun starts when the Looper pulls gold off the body rather than silver. That means he has just executed himself.

Sounds like the IT I work in - and there I was, thinking insurance companies had quality, well organized IT :yelsick:

~ Some (about half) of the stuff we turned down today ~

Ladies watch, possibly antique, but nothing to us
DVD player, not a brand we deal in
Gold, but you don't have your ID, we need proper state ID
Tool kit w/cordless drill, cheap ass kit of no-name brand, too shitty for us even if it's new
HP Deskjet 1000 new in box, too low-end of a printer for us
Bracelet, alleged silver, but not stamped
DVD player, another brand we don't deal in
Blackberry phone, too old, we only buy iPhones and the newest of other brands
Playstation 2 games, too old, we only buy PS3
Ring, fake, stamped 14K but not actually gold
DVDs, we have stopped buying them because we have too many
White XBox 360 - we don't take the white ones, they are too old and tend to die
Gold-plated silver rings - not enough weight in silver for a pawn
Xbox 360 games - too scratched

I know the Salvation Army store in Old Greenwich, CT are a great place to pick up extremely valuable antiques for a song, I wonder if there are pawn shops that cater to a better class of pawners?

My theory currently is, if the people of the neighborhood can eBay, it will not support a pawn shop.

C'mon UT, how can you deprive these poor people their anti-freeze in this weather. :lol2:

How did you know the ring wasn't gold?

The sellers finger had a green stripe around it.

Pete, google acid test gold