Taylor Ricciardi- Lost in Translation

Speakers: Taylor Ricciardi, Account Executive

Taylor Ricciardi: I think that, I don't know if it's funny but I think that one of the lost in translation moments between Data Age and Bravo, I don't necessarily think it's lingo. I think it's more of my understanding of how the estimators work because at Data Age, we were taught that, you know, these estimators take all the thinking out of it, right? They take the art out of pawnbroking, you can pull any Joe Schmo off the street and have them run a pawn and somehow we spun this into being a bad thing. Only to realize that the more tools you have the better, right? So yeah, being able to pull anyone on off the street and be able to train them to properly value items is a good thing, right? Especially when it's really hard to hire people these days. And you know, the estimators we were told you have to use them. They take forever, you can't get past them. And that's just not the truth. I mean, you can bypass them, they take a couple seconds and why wouldn't you want extra data at your fingertips? So I think it's just funny how we spun things and in a way we thought was true until we got here and actually learned how the Bravo program worked. So, it was funny to be like, wow. You know, this isn't what I thought it was at all for all these years. So, yeah.