Competitions - does anyone actually win?

[chris_w]

In the last couple of years:
- a PH t-shirt and sticker in the infamous Elise competition
- a Jaguar XKR*
- a pair of AlpineStars race gloves
- a pair of grandstand tickets to this years GP

As you can probably tell, I only enter competitions I actually want to win (i.e. motoring related ones). Oh, and yes, I am incredibly lucky....

• but had to give it back after 6, glorious months

[rpguk]

monthefish said:

Mazda Baiter said:

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 )

[live ade]

I won a day out with Top Gear, back in the Tiff Needell days. Great day - tracktime at Bruntingthorpe, a couple of autotests in Caterhams and the opportunity to passenger Needell while he shredded the tyres on a TVR they'd borrowed for the day from a local dealer. That was a phone-in.
Won a red-letter day and a Galileo thermometer at a couple of scaletrix events.
Oh..and a christmas cake.

Worked with someone who won £86k on the pools in the 80's and another guy who won a skoda in the days when they really were sh**e. Two people I know well won the Australian Lottery on Millenium Eve..that's a whole tale of it's own.

[Garlick]

I found a Lotus in a shed at PH Towers the other day....looks like it's been there for a while.

I've taken it. Winner!

[BliarOut]

Garlick said:

I found a Lotus in a shed at PH Towers the other day....looks like it's been there for a while.

I've taken it. Winner!

Can I borrow your mod powers for a few mins....

[Kermit power]

I won £500 for filling out some graduate recruitment magazine survey in 1994. It would be nice now, but at the time, as a completely bankrupt new graduate it was bloody wonderful!

I've also won the Encyclopedia Brittanica on CD-ROM and two tickets to the Rolling Stones at Twickenham, which was great.

[Shaw Tarse]

Garlick said:

I found a Lotus in a shed at PH Towers the other day....looks like it's been there for a while.

I've taken it. Winner!

[Loopyleesa]

Mazda Baiter said:

Loopyleesa said:

I won a water rowing machine from Mens Health mag last year, I sold it for 1k

You mean a boat?

No, one of these..
http://waterrower.com/

And I won Miss Butlins, many moons ago

[br d]

A couple I know won a holiday to America. Lots of sight-seeing involved which included eating in the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Centre, which they did on September the 10th 2001.

[5pen]

I won a portable TV (black and white!) when I was about 8 in a 'Guess the weight of the racing car' competition many years ago. Thank you Top Trumps for teaching me approximately what weight a racing car is! The kid who came second won an Aurora slot racing set.

It was presented to me by a chap called Mike Wilds who a few people on here may remember.

[Shaw Tarse]

Loopyleesa said:

Mazda Baiter said:

Loopyleesa said:

I won a water rowing machine from Mens Health mag last year, I sold it for 1k

You mean a boat?

No, one of these..
http://waterrower.com/

And I won Miss Butlins, many moons ago

Obvious response is obvious

[monthefish]

Shaw Tarse said:

Loopyleesa said:

Mazda Baiter said:

Loopyleesa said:

I won a water rowing machine from Mens Health mag last year, I sold it for 1k

You mean a boat?

No, one of these..
http://waterrower.com/

And I won Miss Butlins, many moons ago

Obvious response is obvious

Profile pic...

[Kermit power]

br d said:

A couple I know won a holiday to America. Lots of sight-seeing involved which included eating in the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Centre, which they did on September the 10th 2001.

A bloke I used to work with got fed up with the UK after being knocked off his feet by the blast of the IRA Docklands bombing on his way to work.

He emigrated to the States.

He was about 300 yards away from work in the WTC when the first plane hit.

Whatever you think of conspiracy theories, I'm not going anywhere near him ever again!

[Shaw Tarse]

monthefish said:

Shaw Tarse said:

Loopyleesa said:

Mazda Baiter said:

Loopyleesa said:

I won a water rowing machine from Mens Health mag last year, I sold it for 1k

You mean a boat?

No, one of these..
http://waterrower.com/

And I won Miss Butlins, many moons ago

Obvious response is obvious

Profile pic...

Why the long face!

[qube_TA]

Has anyone in the Universe ever won anything from filling in a marketing survey from MyOffers?

[matty_doh]

My dad enters competitions and fairly regularly wins.

Some of his best wins this year;

Ipod touch, Ipad, weekend in Amsterdam, 32" TV & Bluray, V Fest tickets x4, Global Gathering Tix, £100 M&S vouchers


His best prize by far though was a week in Finland watching WRC, inc. first class travel, a passenger ride in Latvala's Focus, 5* hotel - the works... And I couldn't go because I was already on holiday - 1 week either side and it would have been fine - bugger!

Edited by matty_doh on Wednesday 20th October 17:23

[Gretchen]

Johnny said:

littlegreenfairy said:

I've had Lorraine on this morning (shoot me now but it was only briefly) and there was a competition to win £25k etc etc. You can enter online for free. It made me think, why would someone pay £1.50 per message to enter, if you can do it for free online?

More to the point, do the online applications count the same as the paid ones?

And do people really win stuff from these competitions.

Has anyone ever won anything meaningful from competitions? I'm tempted to spend half an hour a day filling in as many as possible as at some point you've got to win something good... right?

They do.


Ask Gretch.

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

[BliarOut]

I don't believe you

[filski666]

I won an entry in the Pistonheads Powerslide competition at the Sunday Service at Mercedes Benz last december, which was nice.

I won the Pistonheads Powerslide competition at the Sunday Service at Mercedes Benz last december - which was even nicer!

won several £50 Premium Bonds (ie about 4)

I won a giant 3 armed green soft-toy Monster in a Monster Munch competition when I was a kid

I won a £20 voucher for another go on the Best of the Best because my entry was "close"

I won £113 million in the Euro millions the other week


(one of the above is sadly untrue)

[Gretchen]

qube_TA said:

Has anyone in the Universe ever won anything from filling in a marketing survey from MyOffers?

Me.

But I didn't believe them

See my post. A company called IPT owns myoffers. They run many of the newspaper competitions, such as the one I entered. I researched them because I didn't believe them