PriceFanArmadillo, we'll start with you. You bid $17,637 on your showcase. The actual retail price is...
$19,589, for a difference of...
$1,952.
FloridaAdam, you were right, he didn't leave you a lot of room. You bid $12,888 on your showcase. The actual retail price IS...
$20,636, for a difference of...
$7,748. I should have known -- PriceFanArmadillo, you win the car showcase!
A grand total of $35,156. That's an incredibly high total for somebody who got up on stage late enough that I didn't want to see them win.
This is MSTieScott, saying I hate you all. And help control the pet population -- have your pets spayed or neutered. Good-bye!
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Totals:
PriceFanArmadillo -- $35,156
Joe_Mello -- $24,199
Punchboard91 -- $17,200
CrimsonViper -- $14,065
FloridaAdam -- $8,557
Mr. Matté -- $852
Jordanar18 -- $852
Robert Searcy -- $852
sideshowPA -- $709
CampDaddy90 -- $100 (door prize determined by a random draw)
Comments:
Let's see... three cars, over $20,000 in cash, and tons of other prizes given away. Not only did this episode go over budget, it spent nearly double the budget!
Here's how it was supposed to go down: I expected the first pricing game to be won -- most of the episode would hinge on Pathfinder and It's in the Bag. If Pathfinder was lost, I would use an easy setup of It's in the Bag; if Pathfinder was won, I would use a hard setup of It's in the Bag. If both Pathfinder and It's in the Bag were lost, then I had some easy giveaway prizes lined up, including a car for Range Game and a $14,434 car for Dice Game (or a $20,000+ car with slightly tougher numbers, depending on where things stood).
But since Pathfinder was won, that pretty much forced the remaining four games to receive my hardest and/or cheapest setups. Even if they were won, I'd be okay. But when It's in the Bag was also won, I was hoping for pretty much everything thereafter to be lost.
In retrospect, I shouldn't have placed Step Up and Dice Game in my lineup -- I probably should have done something like Buy or Sell and That's Too Much, so I could have more power to cause full losses. But I really didn't expect the hard It's in the Bag to be won. I mean, that was tough!
The goal at the end was to have the train depot showcase be won (yes, I know it was more expensive, but in the complicated way this was determined, it was much friendlier to the budget). I considered going the opposite route that I ultimately went for the car showcase -- use three prizes that I know people would drastically underprice, moreso than someone would underprice the train depot. But that plan required a $29,000 car and once the budget started going deeper and deeper into the red, it would have been too risky to maybe give a $29,000 car away. On the real show, pretty much any contestant would have overbid on that HHR and I would have been fine. But
you...
To avoid a double showcase win, I picked train depot prizes that were slightly different than the ones seen on the show. Not that that helped me any.
So what have we learned? While my plans may have worked with the average contestant, I didn't stand a chance against you guys. Well done.
