What happens when a couple of Meghann’s friends from college enter a gift shop in San Diego on a mission to expose them for their overpriced trinkets? They get asked to leave. But not before inventing a new game, “How much would you pay for this?” It’s like The Price Is Right, except it feels so, so wrong.

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