Bargain Hunters
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| BARGAIN HUNTERS | |
 The Bargain Hunters logo. | |
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| Airdates: | ABC July 1987 - September 1987 |
| Host: | Peter Tomarken |
| Announcer: | Dean Goss |
| Producers: | Merrill Heatter Productions/Josephson Communications |
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Gameplay
- BARGAIN QUIZ: Tomarken reads a series of pairings to the two players, an item and a marked price. The contestants buzzed in to declare whether the marked price is a bargain for the item, or not. (e.g.: a $25 hourly rate for a Venice gondola ride, $1M for the rights to Ronald Reagan's life story, etc.) Right answers score a point, and the game is a race to three points; the winner receives a prize.
- BARGAIN TRAP: The two players are presented five merchandise items, each with a price tag. Four of the items are bargains, one of them is marked above the actual price. The players alternated in trying to choose items that are bargains. The player who chooses the "Trap" loses the game, but if all four bargains are found, the players write down their guess as to how much the price on the Trap is marked-up, and whoever was closer to the actual amount won the game. The winner receives all of the items chosen during the game.
- BARGAIN BUSTERS: The players are shown an item and three prices. The players choose what they believe is the actual price; correct guesses earn a point. If a player answers incorrectly twice in a row, she is eliminated. The player leading after three items wins the game and all three items presented.
- SUPER SAVER ROUND: The three winners from earlier are shown seven items, each with tagged with a bargain price (of varying degrees from just $1 to hundreds of dollars). Each player chooses the three items she believes are the biggest bargains. The bargain amounts are added up, and the player who saved the most money overall wins those three items and a bonus trip.
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Notes
- After each mini-game, a horn would sound, signifying the show's "Bargain Shopper" segment, which offered the home viewers various merchandise at "bargain" prices. At the end of the show, host Peter Tomarken would review the three items offered that day.
