Question about Pawn Shop
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Why are there so many items in the pawn shop? I took out over 150 of one item once.
Some people probably sell their junk items to the pawn shop instead of donating or discarding because then at least they get some sP from doing it. So there could be a lot of the same item in there if everyone is getting rid of it and nobody wants it.
If that's not it then, it could have been a glitch or something.
doesn't the pawn shop not work? Since the prices are usually higher then user shops don't the people buy from user shops instead?
It depends on the item, I've come across some that were cheaper than what was in user shops.
But when you sell your items to the pawn shop, it just gives you a certain amount of sP and then your item goes into the shop to sell at whatever price. You don't have to wait for your item to sell in order to receive sP for selling it to the shop. The pawn shop is like a third party that buys items from you and then sells them to other people.
[edit] Basically if you want money fast and don't want to have to wait for someone to buy the item from your shop, you could just sell it to the pawn shop.
No problem, I hope it makes more sense for you now :)
another reason is that the Pawn Shop will buy based on the "official price" of an item. Some items are necessarily in oversupply because of how the Subetan toy-economy works. Some of these overstocked items have official prices that will always be greater than what they will ever sell for, because everybody already has one who even remotely wants one. Quite independently of laziness of pricing/reselling or immediate greed, it is almost always in one's best interest to pawn these items. The price difference for elixirs between what people want to pay and what the Pawn Shop would pay was so high that the ratio of how much the Pawn Shop Guy would pay out for elixirs was sharply reduced.
The Pawn Shop used to have a maximum size, and used to only allow you to pawn ten items, so there was reason to only pawn the items with the greatest difference. Now that there isn't any size or per-diem limits, there's no reason not to dump on it.