I won a competition. I wrote a story about a disabled child that, now I think back on it, was alllll kinds of wrong. Anyhoo, I won a trip to the Christmas circus in Rotterdam, a fancy dinner in the Euromast and first class train tickets to get there.
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I won a hundred and one dollars from a radio call in contest, but I did have to split it with my brother. I got all my siblings to call in with me, and if we won, we'd split it. When we went in, they had me sign a document that I couldn't win anything else from them or their parent company for one year.
A "golden" PS4 from Taco Bell
A year worth of groceries. $100/week for a year.
Something I could really use now.
I once won a 5kg Toblerone bar (picture below for reference). I used to really like Toblerone, one of my top 5 chocolate bars, untill I won that one, I couldn't give it away to people, we had one block left that we let our "pet" mouse eat and even he bailed on it.
If you really really like something, don't try and win a large amount of it, you will hate it by the end.
I really feel for you mate. Your greatest joy became a chore.
That's why I hate when anyone says, "Find a way to get paid for your hobby and you'll never work a day in your life." No, all that does is ruin a fella's passion for something.
we had one block left that we let our "pet" mouse eat and even he bailed on it.
I mean, chocolate is toxic to mice so that would make sense
He gave it a good old go tho, he ate about an inch off the top.
The Dark Side Of The Moon – Immersion Box Set over a decade ago in an online contest. Wasn't super familiar with Pink Floyd at the time so I didn't think much of it.
I won an ipad air once and immediately sold it on kijiji cause I don't use apple's proprietary ewaste
I used the money to repair my bike :D
I won a radio call in contest which made me "brewmaster for a day" at a large brewery. Not only was it a pretty cool day, it also came with a bunch of swag and $1000 prize.
I've tried to participate in so many giveaways and lotteries and never won anything. I believe that's my superpower: lose against the odds.
I was once in a raffle where I was the only name that did not get picked. Does that count?
I once won on the /r/millionairemakers raffle. I didn’t get a million 😅 but so many wonderful people sent donations with awesome heartfelt messages. It was really nice.
I was at a LAN party about twenty years ago put together by a buddy. Roughly a hundred people, and my friend really went all out getting sponsors for it - I think some of them may have been under the impression there'd be about five times the number of people present, because there was a lot of stuff - not counting cheap swag, we had prizes for three or four tourneys plus about a dozen draws. I won a pretty high end CPU/mobo combo.
Most valuable prize was a copy of Maya; think it was worth about $6000 at the time. The company that donated it stipulated it go to someone with an interest in 3D modeling so rather than a random draw, everyone who was interested faced off in a rock, paper, scissors elimination. I made it to the final round and lost - my opponent psyched me out saying "Rock always wins," I threw scissors, he won with rock.
My mom won an instant win giveaway game on my Coke rewards over a decade ago, got a ps3 move kit.
Played that thing to death, logged over 1k hours in Skyrim in 2012 on that machine.
I have tried to win the lottery. You need to choose three numbers from 0 to 9 to form a three-digit number. If the numbers and their order are exactly the same as the winning numbers, the prize money is $136.
Yes, when I was much younger I won 2nd place in a Diablo II fan site giveaway. You had to answer 5 difficult trivia questions about Diablo II to be entered into a drawing and my name was selected second, so second place.
Unfortunately, I never received my prize. The prize was shipped to the wrong state, they used the wrong two letter abbreviation. If I recall correctly the city & street was a valid address in the other state. I tried to contact the organizers and the post office (obviously they couldn't help) but it never planned out.
I think my prize would have been a small Diablo figurine.
I wrote to the show Video & Arcade Top 10 and they sent me a copy of Super Mario 64.
A 100$ gift card for Amazon US
I'm from EU 🙂
I actually won twice.
The first time was on a radio show and I won two tickets to see the first Ice Age film.
The second time was recently, I won a youtube giveaway, and I won a painting. The guy was asking so much for shipping that I stopped replying.
I won a Coldplay CD. It was fine.
Not an official giveaway but some guy on The Other Website got a boatload of coupon codes for Chromecasts on the Play Store, likely by abusing a glitch from a promotion. I don't know the deets.
Anyway there was a Discord server set up to distribute them and I hopped on. Guy said to make him laugh (he apparently had a stone face), so I sang a few lines of a famous song from my country.
He said "Stop singing and I'll send you the damn code!"
So he did, I redeemed it, and got 100% off a Chromecast.
Yes fuck Google but hey, free Chromecast.
a ps4, sorta.
this is gonna sound weird but giveaways used to be illegal here. there have been laws about lotteries since the 1300s, and in the 1700s the king decided that lotteries needed to have his personal stamp of approval or they were illegal. this has been changed and churned over the years but as it last stood, even temporary lotteries needed to have a license to operate from the local government. this also meant that only the state was allowed to run casinos. weird, i know. this only changed in 2019, at which point we got inundated with commercials for online casinos and the part of our healthcare system that deals with gambling addictions instantly collapsed.
anyway, to get around the need to seek a lottery license, giveaways usually had an "utslagsfråga", an elimination question. this way the person managing the giveaway can show that there was some skill involved in the selection process, which makes it a contest and not a lottery. so technically i won a contest for a ps4, not a giveaway.
I once won spa day vouchers! Flogged them on Ebay for a couple of hundred. Good result!
A decade ago I randomly won a Vizio google tv box from a tech site give away. I don’t remember its ultimate fate but I’m sure it’d be useless at this point due to lack of updates anyway.
Yup, I've won a couple things. I won some tickets to a concert which I handed over to friends since I don't go to concerts, and I also won some art supplies!
I won the big LTT screwdriver in a giveaway
Remember Small Soldiers? When i was a kid i like that movie, the local newspaper run a merchandise giveaway and i enter it, and then i won the giveaway and got a radio cassette for the soundtrack or something, i can't remember the content.
That's really cool!
About 630€ worth of SteelSeries gaming peripherals including their flagship keyboard and mouse at the time.
I had to RMA the keyboard twice because of its input messing up; I didn't bother trying to replace the third one once that messed up, I just bought a Model M instead. The mouse was fine, albeit very over-engineered; It has an OLED screen on its side and a vibration motor for some reason. Had to RMA that once for wear issues but I still use the second one as it's a great mouse all things considered.
Their customer support is great, their products not so much.
I just won a smaller Yeti cooler at an event last week 😁
A popular instant soup brand was doing a 3 month long Air Fryer giveaways, 2000 every month. Partner got to know about it near the end of first month and somehow deduced that it must be an early bird thing. We sent in our entry at midnight when new month began and saw our name in the list 15 days later. By the end of the 3 months, 9 of our close acquaintances were proud winners of air fryers!
Won a suitcase style record player! It was a short term in the past when Amazon would do a giveaway once a week.
Yes! A very nice person on Lemmy gave away 6 months of mullvad, and I was the first reply. That really made my whole week, super nice of them
When I was younger I won a copy of the board game 'Game of Life' through some online giveaway. Think I played it once or twice xD
I also wonder cinema tickets for me and some friends. It was a competition a local cinema did for designing a costume for Stuart Little, around the time that film came out. The tickets were a runners up prize, but I remember it being pretty great - about 10 of us and we were given free drinks and snacks!
In terms of irl won some free art before :3, in general I've won a decent bit of items in various mmo type games tho.. also once won a floatation board thingy in a juice lottery as a kid.. and a few contest prizes but that's getting a bit far from a giveaway
When I was a kid in the mid-90s, my mum won a pair of rollerblades that were in my size from a raffle at the local shop. I wore them and loved them for about 3 days until I was chased and threatened by homophobes 🤷 That was the end of that 😒 I'm not trying to fight off gangs of older kids on my own while wearing bewheeled shoes. I'm not even gay, but wearing rollerblades was akin to licking bumholes back then, apparently.
Oh yeah. I loved rollerblading, sadly it ended for a same reason
I won a duffle bag from a planet fitness raffle, after not going there for like 3 months lol.
My family participated in the Comedy Central thanksgiveaway back in 2008 and won a Wii. We already had a Wii, but were plenty stoked for the second one.
Many years ago i won 2 tickets to see the movie yellowfin. This was a draw from a cerial packet.
When I was a kid a won a bottle of red wine at some festival game where I had to throw some balls into hole to make a toy horse move, something like that.
A DLC for a game while watching a youtube livestream. I got the code in a yt DM!
I won a copy of Overwatch and a Winston themed gaming headset before. Some sort of WoW(in game) item from taco bell too.
Won a CSGO knife worth 250 euros at the time
Won about 100 euros worth of gift cards over time from allkeyshops to use on games
A door prize! A jazz CD of the band that was playing that night. The strangest thing was that my middle school music teacher was there too (I was possibly two decades out of middle school at that point) and he won the other door prize! I mean, it's not out of the realm, same town and all. But it wasn't exactly a small venue. The odds!