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Offline hotriceguy

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Prices: US vs CAN
« on: July 14, 2015, 07:52:10 PM »
If you have won the race and get to choose, which prize will you take back home? Which one is actually worth more?  :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2015, 08:00:52 PM »
Gas for life would do me tbh.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2015, 08:03:40 PM »
I would want to have free business class flights, free gas, and money. So even though the money prize is big in TAR US, but TAR Canada prize is better.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2015, 08:04:43 PM »
Gas for life would be great and very appreciated here in Brazil  :funny:
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2015, 08:13:41 PM »
A big difference in Canada that narrows the gap: Canada doesn't tax prizes.

Whereas in the US, Uncle Sam takes like 40% of it.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2015, 09:48:22 PM »
Then I definitely want the gas for life. I think they underestimate what you could spend on gas lol.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2015, 09:58:55 PM »
Not me. Unlimited travel? Would quit the day job and spend a year traveling again. That alone would be worth way more than a million dollars.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2015, 10:14:21 PM »
Free gas is one of the best prizes out there! I would pay for all of my, and my friends' and co-workers', fuel expenses if I won that. Even if I won a lottery jackpot let alone the $1 million for winning TAR, nothing would really change drastically. I would still feel the instinct to budget and save money.

The unlimited business class flights seals the deal though. I could trace an entire TAR season in style.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2015, 10:40:42 PM »
I'll take free gas for life and free business flights (even for 1 year) over 1,000,000$ any day.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2015, 10:42:12 PM »
Free business class I would be somewhere new every week! TARCAN WINS!
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2015, 10:43:21 PM »
One would be crazy in my opinion to pick the million.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2015, 02:36:18 PM »
Two things...

1: Jon said at the starting line of Season 3 that this year's prize totaled almost $1 million, unless I misheard him.
2: When the Bransen Family won "free gas for life" back in season 8, they revealed later that there were quite a few stipulations to this, and that "for life" was just an attractive little label that didn't really mean "forever, infinitely until you die".
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2015, 04:38:35 PM »
That might mean that there was a set amount of gas, they had evaluated should be enough for your life. :lol:
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2015, 12:11:08 PM »
Quote from: GB on July 15, 2015, 02:36:18 PM
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2: When the Bransen Family won "free gas for life" back in season 8, they revealed later that there were quite a few stipulations to this, and that "for life" was just an attractive little label that didn't really mean "forever, infinitely until you die".
This would be so that, for example, you don't buy gas for all your friends and co-workers.  :)

The website said it uses 50 years in order to evaluate the value of the gas for life prize.  Not sure whether that is a limit or simply an actuarial estimate for valuation purposes.
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Re: Prices: US vs CAN
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2015, 11:54:59 AM »
Quote from: sharkshooter on July 16, 2015, 12:11:08 PM
Quote from: GB on July 15, 2015, 02:36:18 PM
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2: When the Bransen Family won "free gas for life" back in season 8, they revealed later that there were quite a few stipulations to this, and that "for life" was just an attractive little label that didn't really mean "forever, infinitely until you die".
This would be so that, for example, you don't buy gas for all your friends and co-workers.  :)

The website said it uses 50 years in order to evaluate the value of the gas for life prize.  Not sure whether that is a limit or simply an actuarial estimate for valuation purposes.
I would still share the gas. :funny: 50 years.... that's still a lot in my perspective. I would be ecstatic if the estimate is even a year of free gas.
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