StatsMan wrote:
Crikey, you'd have thought a World War had broken out judging by some of the comments on here today!
Ok, so she had £250k in the box. Who cares. There was never any realistic chance of winning it if you were any sane human being (she'd have literally had to put a house on it being there at the end!). So, she said she was a gambler - hardly revelation of the century in a game where that is the central premise. Every time you turn down an offer, you are risking money that could easily be yours if you utter the first word of the title. Some people seem to forget sometimes that contestants are being offered REAL money here - this is not some DVD game, you know. Their decisions, and the consequences of their decisions, may affect the rest of their lives.
I care. She should care. She blew the TOP PRIZE! I don't care if they are being offered real money.. every amount on the board is real money. 1p isn't much but it's real money. i'm the viewer so I expect a good game and so far a chain of deals aren't good. At all!
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As others have said, the offer wasn't poor at all when compared to other boards we have seen (and even if it was sub-standard, if the money is meaningful and life-enhancing for them, they should be entitled to take it without apocalyptic backlash). The board was dangerous, and if the £250k goes, you are chasing the game with a few low blues still there. Comments on here seem to be increasingly based on hindsight, as if we've seen the £250k revealed and are then rewinding to the offers.
She blew the £250,000 whatever way you look at it. Yeah at the time she didn't know she had it but it was still on the board and easily available for win if she carried on and kept it. Losing it wouldn't have been disasterous as there were other reds left. Odds on she was going to keep it anyway, I think.
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Proveout offers don't help matters. I sometimes think that % of means should be displayed, so that the audience, contestants (and Noel) can see how utterly ridiculous they are. Punishing an early deal of over 50% of the mean on a dangerous board with nonsense offers is not clever, it's about time the banker played fair in these situations. Don't know what to make of the box prediction, but I'm fairly certain he just got lucky.
I like inflated proveout offers, it encourages proper gambling which we have seen none off since... well... Orry? Adding a % meter wouldn't be right really.
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you are £21,000 richer from the experience, you played a great game!
WTF??? I've never seen anything so ridiculous on here in ages. She played a rubbish game as she sold £250,000 for much much less! She came out with £21,000 but on the flipside she sold 250k. It's like you're forgetting the other half of the game after the deal. The whole idea of the banker buying the box and you 'managing the sale' The banker bought the box off her for £21,000 and that box was WORTH £250,000 therefore he made a profit on the box of £229,000 which she could have had - perhaps in reality playing on with those proveout offers she would have dealt before but whichever way you look at it she sold HER £250,000 box for £21,000. It's a monetary loss of £229,000 which was there for her to take but she didn't. Therefore she lost that opportunity.
Noel asks who will listen to her in her job now that they know that she gambles in her free time 
Kate shows us a picture from her wedding...
She wants to prove him wrong...
Everyone gets different levels of 'inflation' and she has built up this gambling persona, which would influence it, but even still I was expecting around £20k for that last offer.
That was the only chance to make 2008 the greatest year ever 
