Seriously, just imagine you weren't a LFAT and you got up on stage once and were nervous and wrote $795 for a prize and suddenly everyone started calling you stupid and saying you look like a moron? That is ridiculous and should not be happening - and I'm confounded as to why you are defending it.
This isn't the same thing, and you darned well *know* it. Eschewing the zero rule for a moment, I could *easily* see how someone of sound mind and judgment would try $795. That's an actual-sounding price. If the numbers here were 5,7,9, and 0, and someone went the $795 route, I would *completely* understand that (heck, I'd be understanding of $579!). It's when you start getting into the realm of them doing garbage stuff like $957, $507, or the like that I become completely unsympathetic, and perhaps begin to root against them. There's a host trying to *help* you. There's a SCREAMING THRONG OF 300 who are trying to instill a shard of wisdom into your brain...it takes a certain stubborn foolishness to be that ridiculous in view of all of this.
It doesn't take being a LFAT to understand that the screaming, booing mass of people *might* have a better clue than you do when you're failing at an astronomical rate, and smiling like a silly person the whole time through, with the host trying his level-best to be rooting for you, but not able to actually *tell you* that you're behaving like there's a synaptic disconnect going on, just gazing into the camera, slowly revealing that you're wrong...for the umpteenth time.
There! See? I used "silly person" instead of a more proper word! Is that somehow more redemptive, now? I think not.