Howie Has a Heart! Massey Ferguson and NBC's "Deal or No Deal"
Are Turning Pink for a Good Cause

DULUTH, GA - October 2006 - As Breast Cancer Awareness month comes to a close, AGCO Corporation, (NYSE: AG), a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, has partnered with NBC's hit show, "Deal or No Deal", to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation* by auctioning off a special edition, pink Massey Ferguson tractor. In an effort to keep breast cancer awareness top of minds beyond the month of October, the tractor will go up for sale on eBay starting Tuesday, October 31 at 8:00 PM, EST and will run through November 11.
The tractor appeared on "Deal or No Deal" Thursday, October 12 and has since been autographed by the host, Howie Mandel, who is a proponent of the fight against breast cancer.
Why a tractor? "Deal or No Deal" contestant, PJ Dykes, races lawn tractors and was given the opportunity to take a "deal" that included a Massey Ferguson compact tractor with a front-end loader and a large sum of cash. She instead went on to win a larger sum of money.
Why pink? Quite simply, it's her favorite color. "I saw the tractor and instantly fell in love," said Dykes. "They painted it pink and purple just like the one I race, and knowing it will go on to benefit a worthy cause fills me with pride."
Since the show's airing, the tractor has been decaled with pink ribbons and a one-of-a-kind pink Massey Ferguson logo, further reinforcing the cause for which it is being placed in this charity auction.
The tractor is a Massey Ferguson 1547 model, with a 47 horsepower diesel engine, hydrostatic transmission and matching front-end loader (Mfg. Suggested list price of $30,434.00). This tractor is targeted to the lifestyle sector of farming, which includes casual, weekend farmers as well as traditional farms with smaller acreage.
"We are honored to be involved in such a worthwhile effort and are proud to change our traditional 'Massey red' to pink as a show of our support," said Phil Jones, Manager, Brand Marketing for AGCO Corporation, of which Massey Ferguson is one of its cornerstone brands. "This tractor donation is being made in honor of our customers, as many of their lives have been touched by cancer, and the loss of a loved one can be devastating not only to the family, but to the farming operation as well," Jones concluded.
The tractor will be featured on eBay from Tuesday, October 31 at 8:00 PM, EST through midnight (EST) on November 11. The listing can be accessed via the link, www.ebay.com/pinktractor. Auction Cause, a premier online auction management agency specializing in high profile celebrity and charity auctions, is managing the event on eBay.

In the heyday of game shows, programs like "The Joker's Wild" would give contestants who decided not to risk one more spin against the devil to spin "just to see what would have happened." THIS was illogical for the reasons you gave: until you're in that situation, you wouldn't know how long you'd hold the lever or what the SUPPOSEDLY -random wheels would have landed on.

For "Deal or No Deal," at least the first "next pick" isn't illogical at all, because most of the players either have some predetermined game plan when it comes to picking suitcase numbers or they've narrowed the selection down so far that they would have at least a good idea of what their next choice would have been. The more "And which would you have picked after thats" there are, the less-certain (and more illogical) it gets.

But then again, it's just a time-burner. So it doesn't really matter how logical or illogical it is: they're just stretching so that they can drag one contestant's game play over a solid hour, which is about forty minutes too long, by my estimation.

Too much time and too little IQ. Honestly, this is the worst thing I've ever seen written on TVSquad, and I have seen some of the Retro Squad stuff! You guys are just wannabe intellectuals with a blog about TV.

Bob once again you have toooo much time on your hands.

It's been said in previous comments, but as this show is really luck or no luck, the random nature of it would not change what would happen. It would only change whether or not they would continue to push there luck. There is no judgement to be made in which case, only if the deal is good enough to stop or you want to take your chance and you can figure the odds but most don't.

The concept lost it's appeal for me quickly. I like 1 vs. 100 more, just because the trivia questions at least add some redeeming quality to it, whereas a monkey could play Deal or No Deal, and probably on average not do too much worse than a human. DoND is all about luck and chance, and the only real skill is realizing when you're on a sinking ship and the odds of offers increasing starts shrinking.

I think they have picked the most interesting way they can think of to show the amounts in the remaining cases. By showing the remaining amounts they demonstrate that all the amounts were indeed in play and everything is legit. It's more fun than just opening all the cases up at the end of the game.

My wife and I gave up on this show once we started to Tivo things in full instead of just to skip commercials. I mean, really, what's the point of watching somebody pretend to labor over what is simply going to be a random number choice? If you fast forward past all of that...well, what's left to watch? To see whether she picked 11 or 19? Why not just fast forward to see how much money she won? Boring.

That's silly. Do you really think that the number the contestant picks would vary based on whether they were still in the game? The cases are picked either a) at random or b) according to some stupid superstition harbored by the contestant. To say it's illogical to ask them which case they would have picked is a silly thing. The truth is they would probably pick the same case either way since there is absolutely no rational basis for the selection anyway.

"Parts of the show not affecting the outcome of the game may be scripted or edited for TV."

I suspect that's what is happening in the 'what would you have done part'. The show's producers are attempting to make, what you admit is, good tv.