Came up with a pricing game for discussion. 4 grocery items with a price. The object-match the prices with the supermarket they came from-Walmart, Ralph\'s or Safeway. Get all four right, win the big prize. You could make it more difficult by showing all three supermarket prices and matching the price with the supermarket.
If I\'m Ralph\'s, why in the purple hell would I participate in a promotion that merely points out that people can buy the same products I sell for less at other stores?
As for the \"what things actually cost\" angle, you have to have a baseline frame of reference to keep the game fair. Otherwise, just in Redmond, I can buy the same bottle of ketchup at three different stores (two of them owned by the same corporation) and the price range between the three might be as much as fifty cents or more. (Maybe a buck. I don\'t buy ketchup at QFC.) When your margin of error jumps into double digits, that breaks a lot of your games. MSRP and ARP are equivalent terms for that purpose. (Also I want to say at some point very early in the run of the show that was specifically referred to more often.)
This sounds like a game more suited for Let\'s Make a Deal...or at least it would if they offered \"pricing games\".
Instead of making it about the grocery store, perhaps make it geographical, i.e. a store in L.A., then three other cities across the U.S., or even other countries.
I agree that it sounds more like a Let\'s Make a Deal game...
Hmm, no. You would never get three different supermarkets to agree to do that. Someone who doesn\'t have a Ralph\'s or Safeway won\'t have any frame of reference. That\'s not dealing with the MSRP.
Did I miss anything?
This brings up another interesting question:
-- Is the show required to use a MSRP for prizes/products that are *not* sponsored by the manufacturer (i.e. \"Make hair styling easier with this stylish new hair drier\"), or can they use the price that store \'X\' is advertising that item for in that that particular week?
Instead of making it about the grocery store, perhaps make it geographical, i.e. a store in L.A., then three other cities across the U.S., or even other countries.
That would certainly make more sense but that doesn\'t really improve on Jimmy\'s original not entirely logical idea. To me, it\'s overcomplicating things and you\'d probably be better off just not doing it altogether IMO.
Maybe make it an east-west thing and discard the supermarket tie-in. Is this bottle of ketchup $1.98 in the east or the west? Do the reveal and if you get 4 right you win the big prize.
Maybe make it an east-west thing and discard the supermarket tie-in. Is this bottle of ketchup $1.98 in the east or the west? Do the reveal and if you get 4 right you win the big prize.
I thought The Price is Right dealt with what things actually cost, and not what the manufacturer suggests that they be priced at.
So when Bob would announce that the actual retail price of the frenulator was however much, was he making up host language?
So when Bob would announce that the actual retail price of the frenulator was however much, was he making up host language?
The actual manufacturer\'s suggested retail price, as opposed to the contestant\'s guess of the manufacturer\'s suggested retail price.
I KNEW I overpaid for my frenulator.
I KNEW I overpaid for my frenulator.
Not me. When I walked in the door I remembered the ads on TV, stamped my foot down, and cried out \"I\'m not gonna pay a lot for a frenulator!\" As such the salespeople knew I was a man to be reckoned with, and provided me with a top-quality frenulator at a competitive price.
What would go into the difference between MSRP and ARP besides profit and cost of shipping/doing business?
cost of living in an area, etc?
Largely this, I suspect. My mom marvels when I tell her I get a gallon of milk for under three bucks here, which mostly points out how insanely friggin\' expensive it is to live in Monterey, since Pugetopia isn\'t exactly the cheapest place to live either.
Like anything, a business is going to charge what they can get for an item.
cost of living in an area, etc?
Largely this, I suspect. My mom marvels when I tell her I get a gallon of milk for under three bucks here, which mostly points out how insanely friggin\' expensive it is to live in Monterey, since Pugetopia isn\'t exactly the cheapest place to live either.
Like anything, a business is going to charge what they can get for an item.
Keep also in mind it pays to know where to go.
This brings up what strikes me as a small problem--when the producers buy small merchandise items at, say, target.com, which they have said they do. The price at target.com would be much less than MSRP. Does anyone know, do they dig up the MSRP of, say, the Hello Kitty cotton candy maker, or do they use the target.com price?