[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'121075\' date=\'Jun 11 2006, 03:27 PM\']
Someone posed this question to me and since I didn't know the answer, I will forward this to the Big Board world:
Say on a show like TPIR, where a common contestant could potentially win a semi-load of prizes, if a contestant refuses any or all of their prizes for any reason (does not wish to pay the taxes on a $78,000 RV, has no use for a $3,000 barrel-shaped jukebox, etc...), does the unclaimed prize(s) count against the prize budgets for the show? Do the prizes get re-offered on a future episode? Are they simply considered "prizes not won" for all intents and purposes just like actual prizes that were never won?
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If you take the NBC tour in Burbank they'll take you by an area (at least they did 6 years ago) where you'll see all sorts of 80's era furniture at it's best. They explain these are all unclaimed prizes from the days when NBC did game shows in daytime. Looking at the loot, I don't blame the "winners".