The Perfect Bid, or How To Win At “The Price Is Right”
You may have seen, or maybe heard about, the contestant who bid the exact correct value on the Showcase Showdown on The Price is Right. If you haven’t, watch below.
Never in the 38 years of the show had any contestant gotten the price exactly right – until Terry came along. There have been many conspiracy theories about how this happened. Many people think it was fixed due to Drew Carey’s lack of reaction when he announces the actual price of the showcase.
Chris Jones over at Esquire looks into how the perfect bid came to be. It’s a very interesting write up, well worth the read.
The article not only gives a glimpse behind the scenes of the show and explains how Terry studied and prepared for the moment, but also how luck came into play…and the changes that were made to the show so the chances of this happening again are incredibly slim.
The producers no longer rely on Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup; now they have different soups. They have different everything. They’ve built more luck into the games, dumb luck, and they’ve started doing sneaky things like changing the options on the cars — adding floor mats, taking away the stereo system — to mess with the prices. And they’ve started adding more luxury items, like Burberry coats, the sorts of things for which ordinary people who have lived their ordinary lives would never have clipped a coupon.
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Still remember you emailing me about Car-Part's website.
never flown?! that blows me away! typo in the 'caliper'. 
Hey Chris, how have you been?
You are right that article on the Price Is Right was a good read.
Sean! How are ya? It’s been quite a while. Things are well here. Keeping plenty busy for sure. Hope all’s well with you and the fam.