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Take a dive if the prize sux?
« on: February 19, 2007, 03:22:07 PM »
If you were on TPIR and were offered a prize you didn't like, would you lose on purpose so you don't get stuck/have to pay taxes on it?
  I've seen the "dive" strategy once in the showcase. A woman had a trip to Russia in hers and promptly bid $86K. It looked deliberate to me. I guess she didn't want to go to Russia!

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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2007, 03:28:06 PM »
I REALLY want to lock this thread up, but I want to see some more responses first...

Why in the name of all that's good would you waste waiting HOURS in line to be one of a very fortunate few to be called down only to blow off the pricing game?! If you don't want the prize YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACCEPT IT!!!

Now knock off these ridiculous threads!
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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2007, 03:29:56 PM »
OK, sit down Duff, it's time to have a serious fan-to-fan chat here.  I'm no mod here, but I have to guess that you are perilously close to losing your posting privledges here.  

This current post is silly.  If you read some of the last few threads, you can see that contestants are allowed to refuse prizes.  

But, beyond that, can you put a little more thought into some of these threads?
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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2007, 03:33:43 PM »
This is a common sense question! Do you ever see some of the contestants' reactions when they see a prize they don't like? They try to act enthused but they're not fooling anyone!

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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2007, 03:35:20 PM »
Duffy, I heartily agree with sidey here.  Now, as for your question:  I would NEVER "tank" a pricing game, even if is for a "crummy" prize that I don't want.  Since I live in a small-market city where contestants on TPiR get some face time on the local news, let me go on record to say that if I were to EVER do something like that, I would face a HUGE storm of criticism, not just from fellow posters on this site, but from my family and my University friends.
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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2007, 03:38:07 PM »
The only situation in which I would ever take a dive is if I won something really nice in my pricing game and wanted to see someone else win a car or something in the showcase.  In that situation, sure, I might bid $83,650 on an Ashley kitchen group out of altruism, but otherwise, you bet I'm trying as hard as I can.  If nothing else, just to prove once and for all that Me > Roger.  :-D
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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2007, 03:39:48 PM »
And who knows? That horrible prize might make your more noteworthy! Or it might become a family heirloom! You could always have a story behind that randomly ugly purple sofa you keep in your living room.

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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2007, 04:20:56 PM »
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If you were on TPIR and were offered a prize you didn't like, would you lose on purpose so you don't get stuck/have to pay taxes on it?


Since it's well established (including on a thread not too far from this one) that contestants can forfeit any and all prizes they don't want, what would be the point of deliberately losing the game?

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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2007, 04:31:40 PM »
Perhaps the phrasing of his question is incorrect. Perhaps "taking a dive" is a much harsher scenario. However, I know there have been times when contestant's DID NOT CARE if they won a prize or not. They may not have put their 100% into it because if they lost, they felt it was no big deal. Thoughts? Again, take yourself away from being the DIE HARD fan and make yourself an AVERAGE, occasional viewer who is lucky enough to be called to come on down. Sometimes, there is no accounting for logic...

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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2007, 07:53:45 PM »
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This is a common sense question!


No, it's not.  There's nothing sensible about it.  You don't have to take any prizes you don't want.  If you take a dive in Contestants' Row, you're screwing yourself out of a chance to get onstage.  If you take a dive in your pricing game, you're screwing yourself over with regard to the spinning order in the Showcase Showdown and your position as Top Winner or Runner-Up if you get into the Showcase.  If you're the Top Winner in the Showcase and you don't like #1, you pass it to the Runner-Up and bid on #2.  If you're in a different situation in the Showcase and you don't like your prizes...maybe you deliberately make a bad bid if you like your opponent and want to see him or her win something; otherwise, you have no incentive to not at least try to keep that person from winning.

So no, nothing you've said in this thread comes anywhere close to "common sense."
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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2007, 08:57:03 PM »
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I REALLY want to lock this thread up...

I really want you to lock this thread up as well.  Just like the "trip to your hometown" thread, this is going nowhere.
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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2007, 09:27:12 PM »
Duffnation, I understand that you have questions.  That's fine.  But please read the FAQ that Steve has put so much time and effort into constructing for us.  Also, don't beat a dead horse just because everyone doesn't agree with you all the time.  You've posted an awful lot of threads like this and they all went pretty much nowhere.  Don't take this the wrong way.  We want to see you post.  Just stop and think and check the FAQ before you do.  Now, this thread is probably gonna get locked.  Don't let that discourage you.  This has happened to me before, and I've learned.  You should too.

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Re: Take a dive if the prize sux?
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2007, 10:51:37 PM »
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I really want you to lock this thread up as well.  Just like the "trip to your hometown" thread, this is going nowhere.


Point taken, Fireball my man. We've had some different responses, and this thread has reached a dead end. I hope our friend Duffie takes the hint or he or she is going to be riding on a fast train to Banville.

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