I'm curious to know if your friend brought the cue in on his own to see what they would say about it or if the show is that manipulated that they contacted him to bring it in. I mean I know a lot of things are set up for TV. It wouldn't surprise me if they contacted him. I just find it strange that they get so many "rare" and valuable items walking in the door. People have to realize a pawn shop is not the best place to get full value from collectible stuff, be it cues, rare documents, or whatever.
I have done "Reality" shows about 5 or 6 times in my life, every single time its staged. period. And edited to hell and back. PawnStars is no exception. They shoot a scene if the editors dont like it for what ever reason it will never be seen,
Reality TV aint so real, I have been on the History Channel, Discovery and a couple networks from Europe doing car things one I remember was RTL from Germany,. Some are more realistic than others but we did multiple takes of most shots-in ALL cases.
With this cue, its owned by Author Cues from Germany, Its with a friend in Vegas(who is very trust worthy), He thought it would make great content for the show, he had been on it once before, So he took the cue in, they might put it in a episode later on. Who knows. I saw the cue after it was shoot for the TV show and its still in mint condition FWIW.
They ran a article about Rick in the Vegas paper, he will make a ton of $$ they just signed a 80 episode 4 years deal, I remember driving by there 2 years ago and there would be a few people outside, now the line is a mile long. The fat guy and Chum Lee are getting $1000 each to appear at local night clubs. these guys went from a hock shop into Rock-Stars with oil barrons $$$ in 2 years. They might be the only people in Vegas making $$$, LOL Good for them. But dont think that that show isnt staged-it is to a large extent.
Here is how you can tell, when some one gets pissed off and storms out the door, they are still wired for a mic, they had to get wired before they came in, so they are screened right up front, and when they walk out they cant keep the mic, you can see it on the customers(sometimes) if you look carefully. So when someone gets all pissed off they have to go un-wire them or they would lose one hell of alot of mic's-that takes a minute or two and the cooperation of who is wired up. You dont mic people bringing in a $5 hamster cage, why waste the time to mic up a person who is bringing a POS just to be on TV-That aint reality. Nobody would watch the show if people came in with hamster cages. Or bother to film them. It would be too costly to shoot everyone who wants to be on TV with their POS forsale. So they are screened before they walk up to the counter. There are no surprises, Someone there is making the decision of who to film and who not to. Maybe the guys behind the counter dont know whats comming in, but someone in the building does, there was not a prep area outside last time I drove by. So someone in the building knows whats next, which means the guys behind the counter do as well. Did you ever notice how convenient they match the items up with the cast? Its not random. And some of the scenes that get filmed never make the show-i'd bet 35%-50% of them never make it, thats reality TV. Sorry if that ruined your day, Santa aint real either.
Reality TV is much like 3 card Monte-what you see and what really is can be confusing.
