One-upping bids and one unit bids outside of America

[gshowguy]

I'm just wondering-- how often have other countries (besides America, obviously) have contestants "one-upped" the highest bid in Contestant's Row or bid only one unit of the local currency when they thought the other bids went over the ARP?

[CeleTheRef]

In Italy one-upping was not too common, or at least it wasn't emphasized.

I don't remember any minimum 1000 lire bid.

[brosa0]

I really can't remember to well regarding Aussie TPIR, but I thought it wasn't a common occurrence.    There were usually differences of at least 10/20/25,  which actually is a reasonable difference when you have some IUFB's that are only $200-400.

[jandallo]

One-upping and one unit bids would only work under two conditions:

1. The currency is stable (i.e. small grocery items wouldn't cost tens or hundreds or even thousands of the unit currency)
2. The prizes aren't ridiculously cheap (while one-upping could work in places like Australia or the UK, their IUFBs were so low priced that one-upping wasn't really necessary)

Again, that's just me using my sense of logic; I wouldn't know for sure.

[bduddy]

One-upping and one unit bids would only work under two conditions:

1. The currency is stable (i.e. small grocery items wouldn't cost tens or hundreds or even thousands of the unit currency)
2. The prizes aren't ridiculously cheap (while one-upping could work in places like Australia or the UK, their IUFBs were so low priced that one-upping wasn't really necessary)

Again, that's just me using my sense of logic; I wouldn't know for sure.

I really don't see how either of those have anything to do with it. You bid 1 if everyone else is over, and you one-up if you think someone else is close or you're last; the currency shouldn't have anything to do with it.

[Samhodkin]

In the 4 or so years I watched BPIR (and a brief smattering of the awful 2006-7 UK version of TPIR), I never saw a 1-up or £1 bid.