What's better then being on 'The Price Is Right', making it all the way to The Showcase, being offered four luxury vacations to Chicago, Canada, Scotland, and South Africa worth over $30,000, and only guessing $439 less than the exact price of the entire prize package?
That's right! Making it all the way to The Showcase, being offered a karaoke system, pool table and 17 foot trailer worth $23,743, guessing the exact price of your showcase and winning both your package and the vacations! This has not happened since 1973!
Amazingly, this same contestant previously guessed the correct price of the prize during the bidding game to get onstage!
Now let's not get ahead of ourselves.... There's been a lot of accusations that this man cheated.... Some think that he may have been fed the answer from the audience, and some think he may have been given the correct price from show employees to help bolster ratings.... And for some reason, even though he's usually ecstatic about rare occurrences like this on the show, Drew Carey seems like he's not really too interested....
The contestant, however, while interviewed on the radio refuted the claims that he had cheated, and noted that:
- He had seen the karaoke machine used as a prize before, and knew the price was $1,000.
- He had seen pool tables on the show quite often, and knew the price was approximately $3,000.
- Apparently, the rule of thumb for boats and trailers is that they cost $1,000 a foot. He misheard the announcer, and thought he said the trailer was 19 feet long instead of 17 feet long. So he thought the trailer was $19,000....
- Finally, he opened his mouth and '743' just came out....
What do you think? Does it all add up? Is the 'price right'?
