Competitions - does anyone actually win?

[Japveesix]

I won a copy of the dreadful Def Leppard album Euphoria. It's rubbish

Also won a very expensive PC processor a few years ago (without doing anything) that I sold for £680 on ebay. Paid for a whole new pc with the proceeds

[Corsair7]

Friend of mine won a prize in an internal works 'competion'. The prize was awarded to the student that did the best non-compulsory additional project work on their training course. As the students didn't know there would be a prize for this project work, and they all knew it didn't count towards their final results, only my mate was eligible for the prize because he was the only one that handed in the project at the end of the course.

So you could say that he won because nno one else bothered, but they were impressed with his project work anyway.

The prize was a round trip to New York on the Concorde, with the entire trip (apart from when being served meals) in the cockpit with the crew. When he was having meals, he was sat with George Michael and some other 'celebs'. (before George was known to be a gayer).

Lucky bd

[CobolMan]

Over the years Mrs C has won CentreParcs vouchers, a holiday in New York (which was changed to a week in Cyprus thanks to Osama B.L.), various hotel short breaks, £1500 Ikea products, £1000 Habitat vouchers, a £1700 Loewe TV, a PS3 plus many smaller prizes. She does enter a LOT of competitions though, well over 500 per month.

[Acehood]

I won tickets to the F1 at Silverstone a couple of years ago

Can't remember actually entering a competition for it though

[Jackleman]

I used to manage a fairly well known magazine and web publishing company, the comps we used to run in the magazines would never bring in much more than 2 dozen entries! So I think the odds where pretty good!

[ShiggyBiggs]

Did someone on here not a win a porsche a while ago?

[Hedders]

I can only imagine that people who enter hundreds of competitions must get totally inundated with junk mail and sales calls from being added to so many marketing lists??

[al1991]

ShiggyBiggs said:

Did someone on here not a win a porsche a while ago?

Keep up at the back.

[filski666]

Hedders said:

I can only imagine that people who enter hundreds of competitions must get totally inundated with junk mail and sales calls from being added to so many marketing lists??

I have a seperate email account for use when I need to sign up for something which might result in me getting spammed. No one other than family and close friends gets my "proper" email address - so I never get any spam on that one......so far!

[Dixie68]

$9,999 (about £6,000+ at the time) by correctly saying what the 'H' in General Norman H. Schwarzkopf stood for. If you're at all interested it doesn't stand for anything as it's an initial only, not an initial for a longer name, (I'd just read his autobiography).
I also won a Best of Texas CD signed by the lovely Charlene Spiteri (sp?).

[chunkymonkey71]

I won a wii and wii fit plus last year in an advent calendar!

The chocolate was quite nice too!

[Nightmare]

Gretchen said:

I did.

Recent lazy Sunday afternoon reading one of the supplements, I, through a sheer inspired one off mad moment, entered a competition to win a £3,000 or a luxury holiday to Mauritius.

I won. Which was nice.

Of course I received an email notification, which I didn't believe. Checked their website - my name was on there as the winner, I still didn't believe them. Phoned them and told them I didn't believe them. So they sent me proof. I now believe them

this reminds me...if ou have a spare 15 mins its well worth listening to some of the phone calls made by the guy from 'best of the best' (the airport car thing - they're on the website) - bloody funny having people hang up on him etc cos they dont believe it

[piratekiller]

I've never won a thing, after reading some of the prizes people have won on here I might start entering a few more competitions from now on.

[ShiggyBiggs]

al1991 said:

ShiggyBiggs said:

Did someone on here not a win a porsche a while ago?

Keep up at the back.

I read the whole thread lol, dont know how I missed the second post.

[Famous Graham]

rpguk said:

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shoggoth1 said:

Not when it involves an Elise and a popular motoring website...

That's the 'Bin for you!!

Can somebody explain this to me.

I've heard all of the 'hush-hush', 'sin-bin threat', cloak & dagger whisperings (such as those above) for ages now and wish someone would explain.

I know that there was a (PH?) competition to give away an Elise, and there is some dissatisfaction with the outcome. Anyone want to elaborate further?

It was a competition to win an elise which PH were going to tune up. There was a photograph of the car with PH stickers and everything. Text in at a quid a time or something.

Turned out that the car didn't exist and it was pretty much forgotten about until someone kicked up a fuss and people were rightly pissed off.

There was talk of some lotus goodies for the victims (although I never heard anything else about it which is strange as you'd think they'd have a list of those who entered )

The car did exist, afaik, but the take up on the comp wasn't enough to cover the cost. At least, that's how I remember it.

Anyone who entered was able to get their £1 refunded.

[Twincam16]

Years ago, I did a work experience placement at a local radio station. Chatting to the DJ, he said that most of the competitions the station ran only had about three or four people in the running at any one time, especially the ones run in the middle of a weekday.

So if you're after a conservatory...

[soad]

No the one to enter any competitions normally - biggest win from few years ago? Sparkling PS3 console, that was mega

[thatone1967]

I was helping out a boss at a charity do back in the late 80's selling tickets on a counter at the entrance..

Got the end of the evening and one of the "star" prizes, a weekend for two donated by a german airline remained unclaimed, so my boss said "congratulations, you just won!

to cut a long story short, I took the current girlfriend and it was about 3 days after we had had a massive row and decided to go as friends.. fell out again in Frankfurt and ( as far as I know) she still lives there...

[simonrockman]

I won a table for 10 at Salon Prive with lots of other goodies in the Sunday Times.

Simon

[roscozs]

I won a Mont Blanc wallet embossed with "Range Rover" which was given to journalists at the launch of the Range Rover TDV8. The competition was run by Car magazine.