Competitions - does anyone actually win?

[Davie_GLA]

RE: the elise story. I seem to remember soemthing about this. Was it a raffle that didn't quite go as planned?

Or was it a PH sanctioned one?

[skilly1]

Won a day at Goodwood being driven around it in an SLR by Lewis Hamilton. Followed by a tour of the McLaren factory. It was brilliant !

[Condi]

I won a weekends full corporate hospitality at the superbikes via a PH competition earlier on in the year. Prize was worth about £400 in all.

[s1rallyemark]

Won a two tickets to the League cup final in 2006 courtesy of Skoda

[Coupe_Daz]

Won a one week family holiday to florida out the local paper in 2006, collect tokens and answer question then send it in. Brilliant week, guests of disney

[Tom74]

The wife won £10k on GMTV once, unfortunately this was before I met her so she wasted it on Jewelery....

[littlegreenfairy]

I forgot that I actually won a pen from Pilot. It was a gel pen.

Actually it was a very good gel pen, but thats the sum total of what I've ever won.

[renmure]

Going back a few years now, but I won a new car.. a Peugeot 205 GTi, in a Scottish Daily Mail Newspaper Competition.

It was one of those free, "put your name and address on the back of an envelope" type competitions and they were giving away a 205 car each day for the week. I was lucky to win and even more lucky that the day I won was the "special" day that the GTi was the prize rather than the base models.

(There was no cash alternative and the car had to be registered to me, but the supplying Dealer agreed to effectively buy it from me without me ever seeing it for about £1500 less than the actual value)

[Davie_GLA]

The biggest thing i've won is a raffle at the BTCC at knockhill this year.

We were part of the Ginetta hospitality and i won a podium hat signed by Carl Breeze and had my photo taken. I felt like royalty.

[cal72]

Never won anything, think i am saving myself for the ONE.

[Snoop Bagg]

I won a toy Sherbert Fountain van in oddly enough a Sherbert competition. I enter the gadget show each week and and each week I don't win I shake my head and say no, but all the prizes they say they dish out, makes it too good an offer!

[PaulHogan]

My Aunt who lives in Montreal won a Dodge Viper! She's 79 and virtually immobile. She sold it.

[Bod0fBritain]

AlunR from Seloc...think he may be on here too, won a nice shiny new Cayman...git

[Ikemi]

I won a Nintendo GameCube once ... and then sold it to a mate the day after it was delivered!

[turbolucy]

When I was 8 I won a Forever Friends (those cartoon bears) gardening gift set. It had a little fork and a spade and some seeds. I was over the moon. Oh I also once won a horse grooming brush.

[shoggoth1]

Euromillions, can't find the bloody ticket though...

[monthefish]

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?

[Loopyleesa]

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

[ali355]

I entered a Fantasy F1 competition a good few years ago, the year where Fisichella won in Brazil after the stewards initially said Kimi had won. Thanks to that one change in classification I went from first to second. First place was a VIP weekend at the next British GP as the guest of Jordan. Second place was a signed Olivier Panis/ Alain Prost T shirt. Gutted is not the word- I have never enetered a competition since!

[Mazda Baiter]

Loopyleesa said:

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

You mean a boat?