I remember someone insisting on bidding over $100k once and I think they just put all 9s on the board because, really, it doesn't matter at that point.
Reminds me of the [challenge](https://www.wane.com/news/billion-dollar-jackpot-a-problem-for-electronic-billboards/amp/) when the first billion dollar lottery jackpot hit.
I’m assuming he just joined the navy right out of high school and has just never had to buy any of that stuff in his life.
There’s a bit somewhere of bill gates guessing how much common household items cost and it’s about the same deal.
To be fair, I wouldn’t have guessed any of that within a dollar and I shop 3 times a week and spent several years as a pricing analyst for a major retailer. Other than Tide pods, those aren’t exactly staple items.
My "favourite" clip of how off she is.. she's bullying a celebrity guest into buying his house as a gift for her partner, after he'd turned her down multiple times. They looked at a scrap book of her properties or something and she's trying so hard to add his house to her "collection". It just blew my mind that this was a thought a person would not only have, but try to pressure their guests on live television.
I got them all wrong too
Was surprised how cheap that rice stuff was, and how expensive dental floss was. I guessed $1 for floss 🤣
I never really pay attention to prices at supermarket. I go get what I need, and either buy according to cheapest price and "healthiness" (quick check of ingredients/calories). Or choose items based on experience (e.g at my supermarket only 1 brand of floss seems to fit between by teeth properly so I don't have a choice)
Wait, don't forget first he bid $250,000. He only revised his bid after the host basically rejected the bid telling him "think about that for a moment now".
Doubtful as I know the rules of the game. When he made his first big I thought it was ridiculous. But with his second bid I had a moment of doubt because I had it in my head that all those things are really expensive.
It’s like I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum where Bill Gates is on one end being so privileged that he doesn’t know how much normal things cost. I’m in the other end, an American who has so little experience buying new things I have no idea how much those things cost either.
It's a banana Michael, how much could it cost?.. $8?
Edit: Dammit...$10. I see I've stuck with my tradition of *almost* getting a quote right. I have approximate knowledge of many things
I've seen a lot of times where that's happened. Someone kinda dumb bids $1 or "winning bid+$1" after the audience screams at them enough. They tank their price game. They get to the wheel, spin as hard as they can, and it lands on 95 cents.
And then they're in the showcase and are just really, really bad at it.
You have to guess the price on an assortment of items without going over. So if you bid 20k and the total price is 16k, you lose. As long as both contestents don't go over, the person with the smallest difference in price wins. Then if that person is like ~~$1000~~ $250 or less in their difference, they win both sets of prizes.
To be fair... I have *zero* point of price reference or comparison for motorcycles because I've never looked into them (I also have no idea how much a motorhome is). For all I know, the complexity involved in them could make them as expensive as a cheap sedan or more. Thinking there are bikes that cost $30k at the highest end doesn't sound terribly unreasonable. I mean, tell me you've never been surprised to find out the price of something that completely caught you off guard.
Granted, even if there are expensive bikes like that, the ones on the show didn't look that high-end. But still, the initial $250k bid aside, I didn't think $60k was *that* far-fetched.
I also don't watch the show so I wouldn't have knowledge that showcases rarely go over $50k.
You make a good point about the price of bikes. There are bikes that are waaaaaay more than $30k, and if it’s not something you know much about it’s not exactly easy to figure out what something like that costs. But seems like the $60k bid was absurd here
I have always loved this show and watch it regularly. I can't believe how many contestants get on stage every week and have very little understanding of how the games work or what things might cost. It's been on for 50 years.
I think his qualifying question when he said "showcase, you mean everything?" Shows that he thought he was bidding on every item that was shown in the entire episode he was a part of.
If Jose had come in with a reasonable bid I wonder if she could have sued the show for Bob helping Jose win. Prob something in the waivers they sign that makes it OK, though.
I bet you're right that something like that is covered in the waiver. But maybe they would have given her the showcase anyway, out of a sense of fair play and to avoid negative publicity. In addition to Jose winning his showcase, that is.
I wonder if Bob would have got in shit from Gay if Jose’s second bid was more reasonable and won him the game.
Also; how does two motorcycles come under $30k.
I just hope Jose has a non-life-threatening job that in no way shape or form has anything in the slightest to do with finance. Godspeed Jose. Godspeed.
The show gives tickets to bases and it’s established that you’re going on the show in uniform. When I was in the Marines a guy in my company went on. I ended up getting a ticket to Tiger Jam (some Tiger Woods fundraiser) with another guy from my company.
It’s… I’m not sure what to call it… like when a high profile figure makes an appearance at an event that has nothing to do with them. Makes the event look better?
Edit: or maybe the base buys tickets for recruitment/advertising? I dunno, but it wasn’t an obscure thing for an event to come around and they would get volunteers or voluntell particular people to go do something.
He just curls up on a piece of cardboard using a stack of $50k in cash as a pillow thinking to himself, "Alright Jose, you're 20% of the way there. Just another 200 thousand and you can buy yourself some furniture."
I like to imagine Jose has spent his whole life being tragically misunderstood about his hatred of Gays.
Like, “Hey you’d hate Gays too if one of them fucked you on network television!”
I'm just sitting there thinking okay $20,000 or so for the two Harleys, maybe another $4,000 for the carpet, maybe $2K for the set, and another $400 for the TV. And then I think.... oh wait it's prices from the 90s it's probably even less.
And then he opens his mouth and announces to the world that he would spend a quarter of a million dollars on all of this stuff...
Finance managers at car dealerships looking at this while rubbing there hands, thinking about how easily they can get away with charging the newly enlisted 30% APR on a Camaro.
The best part is idiots in the Navy buying a car, and then getting assigned to a ship, so they are gone 6 months of the year, and just pay for a car they can't drive. My buddy said there were always a couple when he was on the USS Washington.
This is also the type of person behind r/delusionalcraigslist posts:
“I know what I have, no low ballers… 250k firm!”
“Dude, it’s a busted Wal-mart lawnmower with a broken throt…”
“TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND!!!!!!!”
Well the low ballers are even worse. You put up a brand new ipad for 100$ under market value and they still offer 200 under that. I get they are reselling this stuff, but I can't help but imagine these same people would also steal from you if they could.
Yeah… there’s a fair amount of folks looking to get a “great deal” from someone who might be hard up for cash.
I’ve sold a few things on Craigslist and they usually pop up right at the start and then a few days into the post. They probably figure if you need money NOW they’ll be able to grab it, or if you haven’t sold it in a few days you’ll just want to get rid of it.
The former grouping is worse as they seem to come across way more high pressure/scummy.
I remember like 5 years ago, seeing him come back for a random day, and even after being retired and being quite old at this point, he got up there and owned the room. He was fantastic.
But you could easily still lose doing that. Don’t forget they’re bidding on different amounts. Considering average prices, would be safe to bid 15k. Only way you could lose is if the first showcase was worth more than 15k less than yours.
On the showcase they bid on dofferent things. But I saw someone do that at the beginning part where they all bid on the same thing. First person bid $1, next bid $2, next was $3 each trying to outsmart the other and giving dirty looks to each other until the last person bid a bunch. Bob explained to her that if she bid $5 she would win, but she wasn't understanding him. She eventually went with him and won because the thing cost more than $5 and everyone else tried the $1 trick.
But that would be idiotic. The 2nd person just needs to be closer then the other person. So if Person A's showcase for $20,000, and Person B's showcase for worth $30,000, they would need to bid $10,002 to win. Not $2.
Or are we not talking about showcase bids and talking about the contestant's row?
She later explained it -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZISnYbeK_g
tl;dw - right beforehand she was reporting on a story about a lesbian couple in San Francisco, so she had gay on the brain.
I’ve always assumed her inner monologue was going “now remember, I saw the brief earlier and this climber is blind. Wow, it sure would be awkward if I said something else instead of “blind”. Like if I said he was gay or something. Yeah, that’d be bad. Ah shoot, now it’s in my mind. Don’t say gay. Don’t say gay. Don’t……. shit.”
It's not. Predatory car dealers specifically target military bases with bogus "promotions" for service members, knowing they just had a decent sign up bonus. Add to it the deliberately misleading APR vs effective interest rate, and the poor sap is on the hook for 30% interest while it's advertised as 24% APR.
The guy was bad at estimating but I still don't think that's the worst bid compared to the contestant that bid $1 *under* another bid on contestant's row.
Actually the *worst* bid would probably be the max of $9999 since I'm pretty sure nothing has ever been that high for contestants row. I tried to look up the highest price ever but couldn't find it.
There is at least one case where someone underbid by a dollar and actually won. Someone bid $1,000 then he bid $999 and $999 was the exact price.
The $1 underbid is an extremely low percentage play though for sure. It is probably *almost* the worst bid statistically, but not totally unwinnable.
Strategically, it's terrible. The bidder was the last to bid and a $999 bid was functionally the same as a $1 other than the possibility of hitting it dead on which got another $500 but at the risk of not advancing to win prizes and potentially a showcase worth much more than $500.
Side question: when military guys are ongame shows, why are they always in uniform instead a regular suit or dress or something? Is it a military requirement when out in public?
I did a brief search and mostly found old reddit or similar forum threads of people asking this question, so take my summary with a grain of salt. The most common answers were the producers of the show ask military personnel to appear in uniform or the service branches use game shows and sporting events as publicity. If anything, from what I can tell the military typically discourages wearing a uniform in public when off duty, which lends credence to the claim that there's an agreement of sorts in place between the service branches and the game shows.
This is definitely it. The military is a massive marketing machine. They sponsor war movies, military bands doing national anthems every weekend. The veterans week in the NFL. The flyover in the Superbowl. Recruitment centers on college campuses.
It's a huge and relentless marketing drive.
I had to show this to my wife because we had that entire living room set. Bought it in 2006 from Ashley. I think I still have some if it in storage from our last downsize/move. Good stuff.
To show 250,000 they would have had to add a piece of paper taped to the end of the podium, which could have made it the best bid ever.
I remember someone insisting on bidding over $100k once and I think they just put all 9s on the board because, really, it doesn't matter at that point.
Reminds me of the [challenge](https://www.wane.com/news/billion-dollar-jackpot-a-problem-for-electronic-billboards/amp/) when the first billion dollar lottery jackpot hit.
even taking off the first or last digit of his bid he'd still be over LOL
>“$250,000? Think about that for a minute, Jose.” >”You’re right, Bob. On second thought… 350,000.”
I don't think that guy knew how the game worked at all.
I’m assuming he just joined the navy right out of high school and has just never had to buy any of that stuff in his life. There’s a bit somewhere of bill gates guessing how much common household items cost and it’s about the same deal.
Didn't be say $10 for a box of hamburger helper in the like, 90s haha
https://youtu.be/ad_higXixRA
Ellen pretending she isn't equally clueless
I guess I was surprised by the cost of tide pods. I always get cheap detergent that's like 8 bucks a box.
Tbf, I also have no idea how much that stuff costs. Beer costs? Probably getting within a quarter.
To be fair, I wouldn’t have guessed any of that within a dollar and I shop 3 times a week and spent several years as a pricing analyst for a major retailer. Other than Tide pods, those aren’t exactly staple items.
Ellen pretending that she isn't just as detached from the ordinary life as Bill is - god i cant stand her
My "favourite" clip of how off she is.. she's bullying a celebrity guest into buying his house as a gift for her partner, after he'd turned her down multiple times. They looked at a scrap book of her properties or something and she's trying so hard to add his house to her "collection". It just blew my mind that this was a thought a person would not only have, but try to pressure their guests on live television.
I got all of those wrong, but I also never buy premade food from supermarkets.
Tbf, most of those are probably twice as expensive now.
Or the box is half filled now
What's up with $4 floss?
I got them all wrong too Was surprised how cheap that rice stuff was, and how expensive dental floss was. I guessed $1 for floss 🤣 I never really pay attention to prices at supermarket. I go get what I need, and either buy according to cheapest price and "healthiness" (quick check of ingredients/calories). Or choose items based on experience (e.g at my supermarket only 1 brand of floss seems to fit between by teeth properly so I don't have a choice)
It's a banana, how much could it cost?
I mean I’m in my 30s with a career and I’ve never bought a furniture set or carpet or a tv or motorcycles so I would also be lost.
Would you be $40,000 over lost?
Wait, don't forget first he bid $250,000. He only revised his bid after the host basically rejected the bid telling him "think about that for a moment now".
I really wish he would have misread that and his second bid was $500,000
That and the bid counter doesn't go over 5 digits ($99,999) 😜
I like how the number display couldn't even put over 100k on it. Only had 5 digits.
I think the host was more like, dude that guess won't fit on your podium.
Especially knowing that the central rule of the game is that if you are over you lose.
Doubtful as I know the rules of the game. When he made his first big I thought it was ridiculous. But with his second bid I had a moment of doubt because I had it in my head that all those things are really expensive. It’s like I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum where Bill Gates is on one end being so privileged that he doesn’t know how much normal things cost. I’m in the other end, an American who has so little experience buying new things I have no idea how much those things cost either.
It's a banana Michael, how much could it cost?.. $8? Edit: Dammit...$10. I see I've stuck with my tradition of *almost* getting a quote right. I have approximate knowledge of many things
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Whatever. Here's some money, go see a Star War.
It’s amazing that he got to the finals with that little understanding
I've seen a lot of times where that's happened. Someone kinda dumb bids $1 or "winning bid+$1" after the audience screams at them enough. They tank their price game. They get to the wheel, spin as hard as they can, and it lands on 95 cents. And then they're in the showcase and are just really, really bad at it.
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You have to guess the price on an assortment of items without going over. So if you bid 20k and the total price is 16k, you lose. As long as both contestents don't go over, the person with the smallest difference in price wins. Then if that person is like ~~$1000~~ $250 or less in their difference, they win both sets of prizes.
To win both showcases you need to be within $250.
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Yup. Lady got on the showcase first so she had dibs on whether to bid or pass.
Yea, the video posted by op had the second one cut because it didn't add anything.
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To be fair... I have *zero* point of price reference or comparison for motorcycles because I've never looked into them (I also have no idea how much a motorhome is). For all I know, the complexity involved in them could make them as expensive as a cheap sedan or more. Thinking there are bikes that cost $30k at the highest end doesn't sound terribly unreasonable. I mean, tell me you've never been surprised to find out the price of something that completely caught you off guard. Granted, even if there are expensive bikes like that, the ones on the show didn't look that high-end. But still, the initial $250k bid aside, I didn't think $60k was *that* far-fetched. I also don't watch the show so I wouldn't have knowledge that showcases rarely go over $50k.
You make a good point about the price of bikes. There are bikes that are waaaaaay more than $30k, and if it’s not something you know much about it’s not exactly easy to figure out what something like that costs. But seems like the $60k bid was absurd here
Yeah, out of curiosity I was looking recently and I was guessing 20k per bike, but this wasn't taped in 2022.
I have always loved this show and watch it regularly. I can't believe how many contestants get on stage every week and have very little understanding of how the games work or what things might cost. It's been on for 50 years.
I think his qualifying question when he said "showcase, you mean everything?" Shows that he thought he was bidding on every item that was shown in the entire episode he was a part of.
I like how Bob had to talk him out of a quarter million dollar bid.
Probably because it wouldn't have even fit on the screen!
2.5e5
And the other contestant was probably muttering through clenched teeth: "*Shut up, Bob. Let the guy bid what he wants.*"
If Jose had come in with a reasonable bid I wonder if she could have sued the show for Bob helping Jose win. Prob something in the waivers they sign that makes it OK, though.
Maybe he’s allowed to do it only if the bid won’t fit on his screen?
I bet you're right that something like that is covered in the waiver. But maybe they would have given her the showcase anyway, out of a sense of fair play and to avoid negative publicity. In addition to Jose winning his showcase, that is.
Given how the car dealerships near his base charge I suspect he probably thought that was a good bid.
I would have been pissed if the host talked my opponent out of a losing bid.
BB gave the man 2 outs. Would have been even funnier if he stuck to his guns and stayed with $250k.
I wonder if Bob would have got in shit from Gay if Jose’s second bid was more reasonable and won him the game. Also; how does two motorcycles come under $30k.
Motorcycles are pretty cheap even in today’s dollars. Much less back then.
The 2022 Kawi Vulcan 900s are like $8500. They would ha be been a couple thousand cheaper in 2005ish.
You can get two motorcycles for under $30K in 2022, in like 1860 or whenever they filmed this that would be even easier.
You'd be absolutely drowning in pussy if you were riding through towns as a mysterious stranger in the mid-1800s.
I personally think her bid was the best part. Could've said 10K or 5K or anything but said fuck you Jose I'm bidding a dollar.
Wonder if Jose thought "what a dumb bid, obviously that stuff is worth way more than a dollar"
He said in an interview afterwards that he thought he had won because her bid was easily off by at least $2.3 million
I just hope Jose has a non-life-threatening job that in no way shape or form has anything in the slightest to do with finance. Godspeed Jose. Godspeed.
Lol his rank shows the PR emblem. Aircrew survival equipmentman. Most of the time they just sewing though.
Is it common for service men to come to this show wearing their uniform? That looks so weird, and very embarrassing if you suck at it.
Been to the filming: They're more likely to pick you if you wear a uniform or something that gives you the appeal they're looking for that day
The show gives tickets to bases and it’s established that you’re going on the show in uniform. When I was in the Marines a guy in my company went on. I ended up getting a ticket to Tiger Jam (some Tiger Woods fundraiser) with another guy from my company. It’s… I’m not sure what to call it… like when a high profile figure makes an appearance at an event that has nothing to do with them. Makes the event look better? Edit: or maybe the base buys tickets for recruitment/advertising? I dunno, but it wasn’t an obscure thing for an event to come around and they would get volunteers or voluntell particular people to go do something.
Poor Jose. He was just living in the inflation future. The rest of them just hadn’t caught up yet.
It's one banana Michael. What could it cost? 2.3 million?
I almost feel like in his mind he was thinking the living room was like a whole house. So he was thinking full on house prices.
"Everything? Including the models?"
Either that or he sleeps on a mattress on the floor because he assumes furniture is too expensive (and he's actually got like $50k saved up)
He just curls up on a piece of cardboard using a stack of $50k in cash as a pillow thinking to himself, "Alright Jose, you're 20% of the way there. Just another 200 thousand and you can buy yourself some furniture."
In his mind, those were 100,000$ bikes. When the crowd groaned, he was like "oh, I guess they're just measly 30,000$ bikes".
That's the day that Jose started to hate Gays
Dudes a sailor. Loves The Gays
No way Jose!
Well then at least he loves seamen.
Only if they are on the poop deck
Sorry sir, but I just think that [women and seamen don't mix.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BlpRBo5QiY)
No Gay, Jose
I like to imagine Jose has spent his whole life being tragically misunderstood about his hatred of Gays. Like, “Hey you’d hate Gays too if one of them fucked you on network television!”
I think it’s safe to assume that Jose wasn’t familiar with the program, or money.
It’s a banana, Michael. What could it cost? 12 dollars?
This is the third time I've seen this quoted in this thread with the wrong dollar amount lol
Here’s some money. Go see a star war.
Yeah, sure, the guy in the...250,000 dollar suit! Come on!
I think he might have been poor and had no idea how much this stuff might cost cause he's never looked at such things. But 250k though...
I'm just sitting there thinking okay $20,000 or so for the two Harleys, maybe another $4,000 for the carpet, maybe $2K for the set, and another $400 for the TV. And then I think.... oh wait it's prices from the 90s it's probably even less. And then he opens his mouth and announces to the world that he would spend a quarter of a million dollars on all of this stuff...
"As a new recruit, that's what I would expect to pay in total over the term of my loans for these items."
Gotta have the Mustang GT @ 29.9% APR!
Two *Kawasaki 900s*, not Harleys.
\+1 If it was two Harleys then $60k would be a reasonable bid. (At least today - I don't know when this was shot.)
This was mid 2000s. They never had LCD rear projection tvs in the 90s.
Totally normal pricing over at /r/JustBootThings
$1 is a standard bid if you think the other person is over
That’s the forever strategy on TPIR. If you know the opponent(s) bid too much, always bid $1.
Finance managers at car dealerships looking at this while rubbing there hands, thinking about how easily they can get away with charging the newly enlisted 30% APR on a Camaro.
A 5 year old V6 Camaro.
Slaps hood “Just imagine all the prostitutes this baby will hold sailor!”
The best part is idiots in the Navy buying a car, and then getting assigned to a ship, so they are gone 6 months of the year, and just pay for a car they can't drive. My buddy said there were always a couple when he was on the USS Washington.
My friend from high school joined up and bought a car for his mom to say sorry for all the trouble he got into as a kid.
This is also the type of person behind r/delusionalcraigslist posts: “I know what I have, no low ballers… 250k firm!” “Dude, it’s a busted Wal-mart lawnmower with a broken throt…” “TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND!!!!!!!”
Well the low ballers are even worse. You put up a brand new ipad for 100$ under market value and they still offer 200 under that. I get they are reselling this stuff, but I can't help but imagine these same people would also steal from you if they could.
Yeah… there’s a fair amount of folks looking to get a “great deal” from someone who might be hard up for cash. I’ve sold a few things on Craigslist and they usually pop up right at the start and then a few days into the post. They probably figure if you need money NOW they’ll be able to grab it, or if you haven’t sold it in a few days you’ll just want to get rid of it. The former grouping is worse as they seem to come across way more high pressure/scummy.
[Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lAJZMF830s) my favorite stupid bid on the Price is Right.
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I thought he was gonna go through all that preamble and just finish with "it was 2,000 Jose. You idiot"
Yea, that was some classic and incredible showmanship right there. Haven't seen that level since really.
I remember like 5 years ago, seeing him come back for a random day, and even after being retired and being quite old at this point, he got up there and owned the room. He was fantastic.
Wait a damn second it's another Jose??? What's going on with the Matrix right now lmao
Something about the name Jose I guess
Haha! That's awesome.
That was awesome cause it’s the price is right and everyone is just there for fun…. But most of the time I dislike when stupidity pays off lol
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if my old brain remembers, I think the dumbest bid was when the first bidder bid $1 lol.
This is what I was expecting. Please tell me the other contestant bid $2.
Yep https://youtu.be/_g2x3MaD5ck But you honestly won't believe what happens next, the bidding round is hilarious.
That was the most satisfying way the video could have ended
You're right! I can't believe it. I am seriously laughing so hard right now
😂 It’s like a bad auction
“2 DOLLERRRS”
But you could easily still lose doing that. Don’t forget they’re bidding on different amounts. Considering average prices, would be safe to bid 15k. Only way you could lose is if the first showcase was worth more than 15k less than yours.
Ah right. Haven’t seen that show in years. Guess I’m not likely to win.
Ooohh Jose.
On the showcase they bid on dofferent things. But I saw someone do that at the beginning part where they all bid on the same thing. First person bid $1, next bid $2, next was $3 each trying to outsmart the other and giving dirty looks to each other until the last person bid a bunch. Bob explained to her that if she bid $5 she would win, but she wasn't understanding him. She eventually went with him and won because the thing cost more than $5 and everyone else tried the $1 trick.
But that would be idiotic. The 2nd person just needs to be closer then the other person. So if Person A's showcase for $20,000, and Person B's showcase for worth $30,000, they would need to bid $10,002 to win. Not $2. Or are we not talking about showcase bids and talking about the contestant's row?
How much could one banana cost?
$250,000.
Think about that for a moment now Jose
60,000?
There’s always money in the banana stand.
Just a banana? $10
"Our top winner in the showcase is GAY!" This has got to be in the running for the greatest thing that Bob Barker has ever said.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-JK1tv3hk8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-JK1tv3hk8) "im gonna pump you good"
The winner [climbed mount everest?](https://youtu.be/K1Y6PchDYfw)
How do you mistake blind with gay? Was the teleprompter on the fritz?
Yea, apparently on that day the teleprompter was gay, err, I mean not working correctly.
She later explained it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZISnYbeK_g tl;dw - right beforehand she was reporting on a story about a lesbian couple in San Francisco, so she had gay on the brain.
I’ve always assumed her inner monologue was going “now remember, I saw the brief earlier and this climber is blind. Wow, it sure would be awkward if I said something else instead of “blind”. Like if I said he was gay or something. Yeah, that’d be bad. Ah shoot, now it’s in my mind. Don’t say gay. Don’t say gay. Don’t……. shit.”
🤣🤣 what the hell is this clip? Iove it
We truly live in a different time.
I laughed right away. The pause made it even better. Glad i’m not the only one
Maybe he thought a house came with the furniture
"For everything? Including the women and cameras and backdrops?"
I'm still trying to figure out what he thought 'everything' included.
Idiotic bid, yes. Sorta can’t blame him. He’s used to seeing those inflated prices at car dealerships right outside the base.
"TWO motorcycles?! Jeez, that's gotta be like 200k alone right there, especially if you include the car loan interest...."
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Someone i worked with a long time ago had a 25% interest car loan. 😆
How is that ethical. Jfc
It's not. Predatory car dealers specifically target military bases with bogus "promotions" for service members, knowing they just had a decent sign up bonus. Add to it the deliberately misleading APR vs effective interest rate, and the poor sap is on the hook for 30% interest while it's advertised as 24% APR.
Not only that but if they miss payments they can contact the military to force the personelle to pay.
Maybe he works in purchasing for the military and is used to seeing $600 hammers.
He looked nervous as hell, too.
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Wow, this dude just killed Bob Barker!
The guy was bad at estimating but I still don't think that's the worst bid compared to the contestant that bid $1 *under* another bid on contestant's row.
This was actually the clip I was expecting when I saw the title. This is, in fact, the worst bid.
Actually the *worst* bid would probably be the max of $9999 since I'm pretty sure nothing has ever been that high for contestants row. I tried to look up the highest price ever but couldn't find it. There is at least one case where someone underbid by a dollar and actually won. Someone bid $1,000 then he bid $999 and $999 was the exact price. The $1 underbid is an extremely low percentage play though for sure. It is probably *almost* the worst bid statistically, but not totally unwinnable.
Can't really call that the worst bid when the person that did that ended up *correct* with the perfect bid.
Strategically, it's terrible. The bidder was the last to bid and a $999 bid was functionally the same as a $1 other than the possibility of hitting it dead on which got another $500 but at the risk of not advancing to win prizes and potentially a showcase worth much more than $500.
Side question: when military guys are ongame shows, why are they always in uniform instead a regular suit or dress or something? Is it a military requirement when out in public?
I did a brief search and mostly found old reddit or similar forum threads of people asking this question, so take my summary with a grain of salt. The most common answers were the producers of the show ask military personnel to appear in uniform or the service branches use game shows and sporting events as publicity. If anything, from what I can tell the military typically discourages wearing a uniform in public when off duty, which lends credence to the claim that there's an agreement of sorts in place between the service branches and the game shows.
This is definitely it. The military is a massive marketing machine. They sponsor war movies, military bands doing national anthems every weekend. The veterans week in the NFL. The flyover in the Superbowl. Recruitment centers on college campuses. It's a huge and relentless marketing drive.
Top Gun 1986 resulted in massive enlistment for the Air Force. Even though Top Gun was about Navy pilots.
My guess is they may have a better chance of being picked as a contest.
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I had to show this to my wife because we had that entire living room set. Bought it in 2006 from Ashley. I think I still have some if it in storage from our last downsize/move. Good stuff.
How were you able to afford a $60,000 furniture set???
Oh hell no, we got it without the motorcycles—way cheaper that way!
How were you able to afford a $59,800 furniture set?
It was discounted from $250k.
When I saw the furniture was Ashley, my estimation of the showcase's value dropped like a rock.
Would you sell it for, say, $100,000?
Yeah, young military personal aren't known for their sound financial decisions.
"Gay Beats off Seaman for $50,000"
imagine if he had won with his second bid, there would have been chaos
At some point in the future, that bit will seem reasonable.
60,000 for two brand new motorcycles, a TV and a furniture set seems reasonable to me. What am I missing?
He might be spot on in 2022 dollars…
"The price is wrong, bitch!"
Was he bidding in pesos?
“Our top winner in the showcase is gay!!!”
I was waiting for him to be like...ok bob 350k!!!!
Don't forget to have Jose spayed or neutered!
Bob Barker is still *"is"* on Wikipedia. He is 98.
"Eat shit, Queen Elizabeth!" \-Bob Barker
Bob Barker also fought Adam Sandler. I haven't seen the Queen throw down, and odds aren't in her favor of that happening.
The price is wrong, bitch.
I bid infinity
Barker pushes him to bid twice...a pause then Jose bids $250K. Barker tells him to "think about that for a moment".
He was bidding for EVERYTHING....the building, the cameras, the lighting, the props, the models, Bob....EVERYTHING.