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First exact IUFB win?
« on: May 26, 2017, 08:20:30 PM »
As everyone knows, occasionally on the show, someone in Contestants Row will get the exact price of an item up for bid and win $500. Does anyone know when the very first "on the nose" bid was? I assume it was back in the 80s or something.

NOTE: I tried posting this in The Price WAS Right, but I didn't get any responses.
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Re: First exact IUFB win?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2017, 08:29:19 PM »
It was actually the very first episode, September 4, 1972.  The IUFB was a General Electric dishwasher, and one contestant bid $250, which was the actual retail price.
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Re: First exact IUFB win?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2017, 09:36:15 PM »
Quote from: htmlcc92 on May 26, 2017, 08:29:19 PM
It was actually the very first episode, September 4, 1972.  The IUFB was a General Electric dishwasher, and one contestant bid $250, which was the actual retail price.

Who was the contestant that won it?
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Re: First exact IUFB win?
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2017, 10:00:58 PM »
Elaine, third item of for bids.  Winning bid announced around 17:26 in this video:
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Re: First exact IUFB win?
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2017, 11:06:12 PM »
Quote from: htmlcc92 on May 26, 2017, 10:00:58 PM
Elaine, third item of for bids.  Winning bid announced around 17:26 in this video:

I see. Another question I have about the exact IUFB thing is what was the first one with a sound (not the bell, as I think there may have been another one used before it)
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Re: First exact IUFB win?
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2017, 12:28:23 AM »
I meant to ask that question, but more specifically, for when they added the $100 bonus for a perfect bid.
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