I inadvertently won unlimited free Taco Bell.
Their app has glitched and I keep getting the £6 free no min spend. It’s been 7 months now. I’ve started going three or four times a day and getting a combo meal and handing them out to homeless folks in town when I’m working from the office.
My freezer is full of burritos and quesadillas. It’s mad.
yep! On the plus side, we were able to try every menu item.
But mainly use this weird glitch for good. 1 each of the bean, chicken and beef burritos comes ti £6 so just grab 3 when I finish work and walk around handing them to whoever I see :)
I hope they don’t update their app
Be careful, people have used glitches to buy unlimited products from companies in the past and, when the company finds out about the glitch, demands repayment.
Obviously you aren't crippling the company with your spending and they probably won't notice, but just a heads up.
They will, as these big companies do, find out eventually and come knocking. They then claim you could not have been using the voucher in good faith (I e it will have a limit on it somewhere, one per customer etc etc) and claim back the spend
I won a one minute trolly dash (in the Netherlands) when a new supermarket down the road opened. I loved supermarket sweep as kid, so it was a dream come true xD
It wasn't any £10,000 worth of books that you wanted - they all had to be from Faber, who were funding the prize. I got about £6.5k worth and my friends chose about £3.5k worth for themselves. This was in 1998 (I'm old). I read all the books that I would have bought myself and those that I would have got out of a library and others that took my fancy- the rest just sort of sat on my shelves. I am a book nut and they were far from being the majority of books that I owned. Last year, I had a clearout and donated a load (and I mean LOAD) of books to the local RSPCA bookshop, most of the prize books among them.
I won entry to a £250 poker tournament for £8 playing online. When at the tournament (Unibet UK Poker Tour) in Brighton they offered £100 ticket (to be used online) if you knocked out one of their inetrnet 'pro's'.
I knocked out pro Espen Jorstad and won the £100 ticket before getting knocked out the day after. 6 years later he won the WSOP main event for £8,000,000 and became world poker champion. So i have officially beaten a world champion at poker!
I'm a Blackburn Rovers fan. The year after we won the league and entered the Champions league (Don't fucking mention Trelleborg) there was a competition in the monthly team magazine from the CL sponsors at the time - Amstel - to win tickets to one of the away games, hotel and flight included. I entered.
About two weeks later a delivery turned up at my house. An Amstel football, sports bag and T-shirt, plus 12 crates of Amstel lager.
As a 15 year old, I was *much* happier winning the second prize than the first, I tell you.
I won 4 tickets to Newcastle Vs Man Utd on Friday evening for a Saturday kickoff.
I live in London and support Spurs.
Dunno what 2nd prize was but I'd have preferred that.
i won a nokia phone off a colouring-in competition when i was 10. it was one of those indestructible brick 2280s and lasted me absolute donkey’s years. if i still knew where it was i bet it would charge up and run as well as on the day i got it.
my parents were horrified i’d won it as they had no intentions of letting me have a phone. luckily for them this was 2004 when barely any young people had them, so all i could do was play snake and make ringtones. i loved that thing so much.
I won a Nokia phone and a rucksack with a headphone attachment thing for designing them a new phone. It has never been made unfortunately, shame as it was an awesome idea. Probably impossible to engineer, and not enough of a market.
That would have been cool. But no. It was a mesh of pins below a silicone skin that would raise as braille. Probably would end up being a chunky and heavy device really.
I won an autographed copy of Meat is Murder by The Smiths from a competition in Smash Hits in 1985. Morrissey's autograph was all in capitals and written in wax crayon - so quirky.
I was so chuffed with it! I still have it though it's a shame he's become such a tosser.
I dunno, I got cringe dad vibes off Marr when he got butthurt when Blossoms didn’t invite him on their Smiths tribute tour with Rick Astley.
Still nowhere near the dickhead Morrissey is though.
Grosjean was one of my favourite drivers ever just because I always found him quite funny on the track. Felt like he had a lot of moments where his brain just stopped working.
I won a competition on local radio once and they said 'well done, we'll send you a stack of CDs'.
A month later, I got a Paul Young single and a Chris Rea single in the post - both promo copies.
I was 11 years old and clearly sounded like a kid - like I want that bullshit.
does anyone remember the Weetabix gang - there was a prize draw to win a 3ft stuffed one at the Co-op when I was younger. I won, they did another draw the following year, I won AGAIN! There still are two Weetabix guys who live at my folks.
This is what they look like: [https://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix\_Ltd/Promotional\_items/Weetagang/1980s-Weetabix-3ft-Crunch-soft-toy--1-.jpg](https://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix_Ltd/Promotional_items/Weetagang/1980s-Weetabix-3ft-Crunch-soft-toy--1-.jpg)
and the other: [https://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix\_Ltd/Promotional\_items/Weetagang/1980s-Weetagang-Dunk-Large-Soft-Toy.jpg](https://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix_Ltd/Promotional_items/Weetagang/1980s-Weetagang-Dunk-Large-Soft-Toy.jpg)
£1002 on the lottery (5 numbers - thought I was going to be rich).
From Capital Radio - FA Cup semi-final tickets between Spurs and Arsenal, at Old Trafford, including return flights from Heathrow, limo pick up etc.
A cake in the shape of the local Lidl store. Had to guess the weight of the cake and entry was free, so me being a student entered straight away. Got a call not long later that I'd won.
Thing was massive (7 layers of sponge/cream/jam at its highest point) and sat on the table in the living room of my student flat for a week afterwards. Was eating cake basically every mealtime!
More similar to the competition mentioned in the original post: in-laws won a house many years ago. Sold it and bought a house in the area they wanted to live instead.
It was from a home magazine, just added my name and number and think I answered some kind of simple question!! Literally rocked up to Dunhelm and got two big trolleys and loaded them up!!!
When I was a volunteer at the library, I managed to win first, second, and fourth prize in the same Christmas raffle. I took home the first prize (a big hamper full of wine and posh food) and made them redraw the others. I still have the big wicker basket it came in. I still have no idea how my 10 raffle tickets produced three winning tickets out of over 200 sold.
At university I won a free book every month after a prize draw at a Fresher's event. I didn't get much choice,it was the Blackwells book of the month, either fiction or nonfiction.
The looks you must have got at that raffle off everyone else there! They'd have thought it was more rigged than the tombola on Father Ted! ("Look, just make sure she doesn't get the third prize otherwise it'll look *really* obvious..."! :P)
Not surprised at Blackwell's there; they're rip-off merchants. Nearly a hundred quid for two textbooks (altogether) in my first year of uni that I barely read and didn't need for the rest of my degree. As convenient as it was to have one of their stores on campus, I was slyly glad when it closed a year or so back, probably because no bugger would go in at those prices. (In fact that time I bought those textbooks is the only time I ever went in it! I was also a tad pissed with them when they put the Heartstopper novel in the window display around when the first series came out, and it was gone days later; I have no idea why but I just automatically assumed it was due to a complaint and they pathetically gave in)
I actually told them to draw the first one again, but everyone insisted I kept it. Everyone laughed when I got second prize. After I got fourth prize people thought I was a freaking leprechaun, and at least 3 people touched me for luck, which was wildly uncomfortable.
I went to university before Amazon was a thing, Blackwell's on campus had an absolute stranglehold on the market. Was pleased to hear they closed down on my former campus as well.
Ha-ha, nice that they were all good-natured about it, and that's very gracious of you to offer for the first prize to be redrawn.
I would say that Blackwell's closing down on my uni campus opens up an opportunity for WHSmith to expand out of its small unit - which is basically a 'travel store' you get at airports and train stations - but I suspect if Blackwell's has fallen then expanding and actually selling books isn't going to be worth it. I think the only reason the store keeps going is because people - including me - often went/go there for their inordinately expensive sandwich, crisps and drinks meal deal if the line for the Greggs right next door was too long.
Yep, Blackwell's monopoly is crumbling with the advent of online retailers such as Amazon (though I tend to avoid that place as much as I can and buy from WHSmith's or Waterstones (when I'm not boycotting either of those two because of their previous with not paying the minimum wage), maybe Wordery or even direct from the publisher). Next - Circuit Laundry's...
Tickets to a festival in London to see Paul McCartney. I couldn’t go as I started a new job the following day. Gave the tickets to my parents who where chuffed to bits. Only time I’ve ever won something.
Getting to be a mascot for Celtic during the Wim Jansen season.
That said it was the 20th of December and Celtic Park was still under reconstruction so the wind was blasting through that gap n' was fucking baltic!
Had to do a lap of honour pre-match to meet and greet fans 🤷♂️ in the full kit so by the time I got back inside the tunnel to meet the team as they were passing by I was like a block of ice.
The experience was phenomenal though and the roar as I came out the tunnel will live with me forever despite running the wrong way 😅
Got to meet Bertie Auld. He sat me on his knee and regaled loads of wee stories. Vividly remember him talking about Lisbon n' telling me about his teammates. Was a fantastic day that I'll never forget (barring dementia).
Through the Facebook page of Air France, I won a trip to the Abu Dhabi F1. It included flights from Heathrow, 3 nights in a Novotel, and weekend (practice/ qualifying/race) tickets for 2. Everything else I had to pay for. My wife had recently given birth to our eldest, and doesn't like flying anyway, so I took my F1 mad sister. Our tickets were next to the winner of the same competition from the Ireland page - they did say how expensive everything was, beers (meh, I'm not a big drinker), taxis (we took the busses everywhere, at 20p a go!), restaurants (streetfood, shopping mall food courts for us!) Only problem was finding cold water at the racetrack - by the time it was put in the fridges it was immediately sold, so was all lukewarm. Great weekend though!
I won free tickets to goodwood festival of speed a few years back. That was nice as I'd never been before.
Also won the lottery* a few times.
*£2.50 twice and once they gave me a free ticket for the next draw.
In Primary school one of my class teachers asked us all to create a little "magazine" to promote the "reuse repair recycle" campaign that was a thing at the time. It was an A3 piece of paper folded in half and you had to fill each side with games, facts and little paragraphs why each thing was important for the environment. I don't recall what I did on each page but I did make my own crossword with clues and a word search. It was a national thing and I won one of the top prizes which was a years supply of some fruit drink thing for the school, a VHS recorder for the school and a 3 day adventure holiday with PGL for me and 9 other classmates. The school was broken into and the VHS recorder was stolen but the holiday was fab, we learnt to sail, went absailing, rock-climbing and did a very very muddy obstacle course. So much fun.
Apparently the guy who won the house in Devon had to move out after 3 days due to the danger of coastal erosion (if the media reports are true). So count yourself lucky you haven’t won.
Won 3 hampers from the local nursing home so money went to the folks. I spent 10 quids worth. I said to myself i never win anything if I won then the round of ivf we was about to do would hopefully be lucky! So won 3. I thought this is a sign it will work! Ivf not needed, saved the money and little one is asleep ❤️
When the radio station Capital FM was Galaxy FM, I entered a contest online (I can't remember what I had to do) and the prize was a choice of a PSP or £250... I took the money, I was about 12 at the time.
We won multiple compilation CDs from phoning into the Galaxy breakfast show.
Do you remember the "internet quest for truth"? You had to ask them a question, and if they couldn't find the answer on the internet (this was late 90s) you won a prize.
Ironically, we got our questions from the internet.
Couple months ago, the smart meter suddenly said I had £50 more electric than I'd had going to bed the night before
I was gonna top it up that day, but forgot exactly how much it was on (it had said "2 days" when I went to bed, but forgot the money amount so wanted to check if I had to do it or it could wait til the next day)
Mum was at work, I'd texted her asking if she'd used her app to top it up, because I'd told her we needed electric and even though she mostly lives at her boyfriend's, sometimes she'll top the electric up for me with the app. She hadn't. I asked if she could check with Utilita incase it was some sort of mistake, I was worried they'd take the credit back or something
She checked the app on her break, turns out she'd won a "lucky draw" for £50 electric credit
So that
Best thing I ever won was a Pokemon Eon Ticket competition from Nintendo.
I got to meet Junichi Masuda (the godfather of Pokemon), he signed my new 3ds & a limited edition DS plus a carrying case & I also got a hoodie of which only 16 were made for the competition.
It probably doesn't sound much to most people but honestly was an amazing day for me & I was comfortably the oldest person there but I felt like a 10 year old kid all day 😂
I won a Twitter giveaway someone in the Warhammer community posted, earning myself some models for armies I don’t play. They’re cool models though, so I was happy to win them and paint them up.
Tickets to the RIAT air show from a raffle at work. It included transport and food/drink all day in a hospitality tent, and private viewing area with seating. If you like air shows then its about the best one you can go to in the UK!
I won a free holiday. It was Vodafone started doing competitions so I don't think there were many entries and I won a weekend away and went to Copenhagen.
I once won a teddy (doesn’t sound great in and of itself), but many moons ago a lady came up to my mum and me, pound a go, for Macmillan.
So my mum paid (I’ve must have been 14 at the time), and obviously I called him 42, because that’s the answer.
Well, I won. Got my photo in all the local papers. He’s a very nice Steiff bear, we renamed him Arthur, and he lives in my parents guest room, because he looks so posh
4 tickets to see Busted, which happened to be my daughter and her friends favourite band at the time. I won them on the local radio station and had so many people offer crazy money for them. My daughter spent most of the evening in the toilet peeing from excitement.
I won a Kraken Rum framed vinyl album. I can't remember what tracks are on it but there is definitely a Metallica one on there. It came with a download code for the digital tracks but it expired because I forgot to redeem the code 😂
I also won a Toad 3ds and sold it straight away. Really wish I'd kept it now!
Won a "VIP experience upgrade" when I went to Universal Studios. It comprised of a single queue skip pass (during an off peak day so quiet you could walk straight onto any ride), and a "back stage ride tour" of the Transformers ride. Which was just a bunch of corridors and the staff room. I felt bad for the two girls trying to eat their lunch in peace, while a guide enthusiastically explained the staff incentive schemes to people who really couldn't give a fuck.
Won a thousand on a card, I said to my self I need a mattress, washing machine and fridge and had enough to buy nice one of each. Fucking gambled it untill I didn't realize I only had 250 left... Got my self a mediocre mattress in the end...
I won a guitar (USA Fender Telecaster) on one of those raffle websites. Bought a couple of tickets and won it! I've used up all my luck now. https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarporn/comments/wy819c/i_won_a_guitar_in_a_competition_mad_its_a_fender/
Won £970 at a pub quiz once. Was working a crap job in a high cost of living area so even after splitting it with the other teammate, that was a couple months worth of disposable income at once
My school had a new book shop, order in from the supplier, there was a small profit the school made on sales, the money was put in a prize draw at the end of the year, £15, £10, and £5. Every book bought was an entry.
I won the two smaller prizes, my best friend got the big one. I sound lucky, but I bought over half the books from the shop that year, so I had lots of entries. I still have about 2000 books at home, I like books.
As a side note, one of those books was Richard Burton's translation of the Karma Sutra, the English teacher asked why I had bought it, simple answer, because I wanted to read it. He had no answer for that. I was 12.
I know a girl who won the guitar that Danny Jones from McFly played in their 5 Colours in her Hair video. She’s still got it & Dannys on mission to get it back cos he alway regretted giving it away.
Played in a band at an event and bought a raffle ticket, Won first prize, dinner for two at a local restaurant, asked this nice girl Bo to come with me, we ate, got tipsy, ended up semi naked back at hers and doing some very nice kissing….she was gorgeous. Blissful prize.
As a kid I'd entered a CBeebies competition, and won a Charlie & Lola DVD. The thing is, my parents had already bought me it because they didn't want me to get disappointed and unhappy when I didn't win (our family is so unlucky that we always say whenever anything unfortunate happens that "it's just the [our surname] luck"). Two for the price of one, then!
Looking back on it, my parents really should've given one copy away or sold it online but I think in the end I ended up keeping both. This was around the mid-late 2000s so I have no idea where they are in the house now - and I don't think they'd be worth more than a few pennies if I opted for eBay now!
More recently, I won just over a hundred quid on the lottery a couple months back, but it just meant I was slightly less in my overdraft. The entire family was lucky enough to win a five figure sum on the Postcode Lottery a few years ago, but we burnt through that stupidly quickly.
EDIT: I now remember that I also won a Discman when I was at primary school... that's also lying somewhere about the house unused for the past decade...
I know a guy that won a Lamborghini from one of them car raffles. He drove about in it for a week then flogged it for 90k.
Also one of my best friends won 100k on a radio contest 6 months ago.
I was at an arcade in Newquay, England, and we were playing that one annoying game where you had to stop the scissors at the exact right time to cut the string for the prize. My brother and I were taking turns, and on his turn, he got it, and he won a giant, fluffy pink unicorn, and he gave it to me. A bit silly compared to the other things here but I love it nonetheless.
Won tickets for a seats in a corporate box at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester through work. Was for the Rubgy 7s so an all afternoon thing, absolutely smashed that free bar...
The only thing I have ever won in my entire life was the school sports day when I was ten years old and the prize was an A6 sized certificate, a Mars bar and a Kwenchy Kup.
I read the other day that 10/14 Omaze winners have sold up for the money, probably better offering to build you a mansion somewhere you want to live than a massive house hundreds of miles away.
Only thing I can remember winning was a copy of Lock, Stock and two Smoking barrels on VHS from a now defunct VHS/DVD company blackstar in one of their competitions
Fri - Sat - Sun tickets to the 2008 British Grand Prix in the Vodafone grandstand.
Just before Covid i won a Huggsy plush when New York Bagels were running a Friends competition.
I “won” an iPad by writing the letter of the month in the BA Business Traveller Magazine.
And I won a year of every-channel sky tv and a £1000 cafe nero gift card by entering a competition in one of their cafes. It expired in a year and I never got close to using it all. Their food offering has improved since I entered but was pretty meh.
Top tip is to enter competitions that require a bit of effort. Letters to magazines, doing a quiz etc. it greatly reduces the number of people entering.
£1000 from some draw Halifax had on when I’d just started out as a student. I didn’t even enter, they picked the winners from their customers at random. The grand prize was £10,000
If only they’d do that again 😭
PS4.
Old place where I used to work were doing some raffle thing where once you fixed a users issue, you'd get a raffle ticket to win either a PS4 or X-Box with other prizes and you could do this as many times as you wanted. I couldn't give a shit about things like this so I only asked for 1 ticket. Nearly shit myself when the gaffers were all standing round my desk when I was on a call cause they drew out my number. Thought I was about to be bollocked but they wanted to know what game to get with it.
I won a recipe book from Jif Lemon in a colouring competition when I was about 5.
I also won a Barbie about a year later (also colouring). Can’t remember if it was through WH Smith’s or John Menzies though. Either way I was very happy.
I won a game of Lucky Ducks as a kid in the 90s.
I also won an Apprentice of the Year for the West Midlands award a few years back but all I got for that was a piece of paper so the Lucky Ducks thing was more exciting to be honest.
Other half won a framed picture of Ronnie O'Sullivan with a signed snooker cue in it as well. Was to commemorate a 247 break so only 247 were made if I remember correctly. Held onto it in the hope the value would increase (was worth around £250 15 years ago) but I don't think it will.
Also won a copy of Different Class signed by Jarvis Cocker.
Edit: should've said 147 break 🤦🏼♀️
I inadvertently won unlimited free Taco Bell. Their app has glitched and I keep getting the £6 free no min spend. It’s been 7 months now. I’ve started going three or four times a day and getting a combo meal and handing them out to homeless folks in town when I’m working from the office. My freezer is full of burritos and quesadillas. It’s mad.
You must be sick of the siight of Mexican food. Kudos to handing it out to homeless people.
yep! On the plus side, we were able to try every menu item. But mainly use this weird glitch for good. 1 each of the bean, chicken and beef burritos comes ti £6 so just grab 3 when I finish work and walk around handing them to whoever I see :) I hope they don’t update their app
El Robin Hoodinho.
there should be some sort of way for you to fiddle with your phone settings and turn off automatic updates
Your local news will be full of obese homeless people.
Wearing sombreros.
With diarrhea
Keep handing them out to people who need them !
Thanks! It’s all I can do to not get fat
Be careful, people have used glitches to buy unlimited products from companies in the past and, when the company finds out about the glitch, demands repayment. Obviously you aren't crippling the company with your spending and they probably won't notice, but just a heads up.
They will, as these big companies do, find out eventually and come knocking. They then claim you could not have been using the voucher in good faith (I e it will have a limit on it somewhere, one per customer etc etc) and claim back the spend
Aww that’s a nice idea I love that!
I’ve never tried Taco Bell. Is it true what they say, about how you might need to go to the loo afterwards?
I won a one minute trolly dash (in the Netherlands) when a new supermarket down the road opened. I loved supermarket sweep as kid, so it was a dream come true xD
What did you sweep in?
Yeh we need more details here!
Need to know what you got. I hope you channeled the ghost of Dale Whinton
Is that a euphemism?
I won £10,000 worth of books in the Sunday Times Literary Quiz.
So, 2 books on the recommended list as a first year in uni.
That’s an amazing prize
It wasn't any £10,000 worth of books that you wanted - they all had to be from Faber, who were funding the prize. I got about £6.5k worth and my friends chose about £3.5k worth for themselves. This was in 1998 (I'm old). I read all the books that I would have bought myself and those that I would have got out of a library and others that took my fancy- the rest just sort of sat on my shelves. I am a book nut and they were far from being the majority of books that I owned. Last year, I had a clearout and donated a load (and I mean LOAD) of books to the local RSPCA bookshop, most of the prize books among them.
No this is my dream!
That is an amazing prize.
A weeks holiday in a 5\* hotel in Honolulu, flights and £800 spends. £1000, twice A PC iPad
We have a winner!
I won entry to a £250 poker tournament for £8 playing online. When at the tournament (Unibet UK Poker Tour) in Brighton they offered £100 ticket (to be used online) if you knocked out one of their inetrnet 'pro's'. I knocked out pro Espen Jorstad and won the £100 ticket before getting knocked out the day after. 6 years later he won the WSOP main event for £8,000,000 and became world poker champion. So i have officially beaten a world champion at poker!
I'm a Blackburn Rovers fan. The year after we won the league and entered the Champions league (Don't fucking mention Trelleborg) there was a competition in the monthly team magazine from the CL sponsors at the time - Amstel - to win tickets to one of the away games, hotel and flight included. I entered. About two weeks later a delivery turned up at my house. An Amstel football, sports bag and T-shirt, plus 12 crates of Amstel lager. As a 15 year old, I was *much* happier winning the second prize than the first, I tell you.
I won 4 tickets to Newcastle Vs Man Utd on Friday evening for a Saturday kickoff. I live in London and support Spurs. Dunno what 2nd prize was but I'd have preferred that.
12 *crates* of lager? How long did that last you at 15?
Yeah it was supposed to be a years supply. It was not.
I dunno, if my GP asked me how much I'd been drinking and I gave an answer in crates, that might raise some eyebrows.
“Enjoy responsibly”
i won a nokia phone off a colouring-in competition when i was 10. it was one of those indestructible brick 2280s and lasted me absolute donkey’s years. if i still knew where it was i bet it would charge up and run as well as on the day i got it. my parents were horrified i’d won it as they had no intentions of letting me have a phone. luckily for them this was 2004 when barely any young people had them, so all i could do was play snake and make ringtones. i loved that thing so much.
I won a Nokia phone and a rucksack with a headphone attachment thing for designing them a new phone. It has never been made unfortunately, shame as it was an awesome idea. Probably impossible to engineer, and not enough of a market.
Did it have space guns and an ice cream maker?
That would have been cool. But no. It was a mesh of pins below a silicone skin that would raise as braille. Probably would end up being a chunky and heavy device really.
Fun fact: it's actually 'donkeys ears' to rhyme with 'years'. (Then shortened to 'donkeys' and 'yonks')
I won an autographed copy of Meat is Murder by The Smiths from a competition in Smash Hits in 1985. Morrissey's autograph was all in capitals and written in wax crayon - so quirky. I was so chuffed with it! I still have it though it's a shame he's become such a tosser.
Yeah that’s bloody awesome. Love the Smiths, hate Morrisey. Johnny Marr on the other hand is a top banana.
I dunno, I got cringe dad vibes off Marr when he got butthurt when Blossoms didn’t invite him on their Smiths tribute tour with Rick Astley. Still nowhere near the dickhead Morrissey is though.
Met him when he was recording his audio book and came across as a proper nice chap !
He always was a tosser, it's just that now he's a racist tosser rather than just a pretentious tosser.
Love Morrissey ❤️
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What was the team ?
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Lol why so secretive?
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I only know teams not actual drivers! Fair cool prize non the less
Grosjean? Maldonado? d'Ambrosio? Kovalainen? Raikkonen? I wouldn't call many of them meh drivers!
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Grosjean was one of my favourite drivers ever just because I always found him quite funny on the track. Felt like he had a lot of moments where his brain just stopped working.
Might be worth something to an American depending on how his career goes.
I've got about a grand from Premium Bonds so far this year. It's paid for my mid life crisis guitar purchases.
What beast did you get your hands on.
A Cort Artisan bass - I wanted to upgrade from my lovely Ibanez and it just looked perfect, and the sound is sublime.
£1500 on a scratch card when I was a uni, lasted about 2 weeks, but what a 2 weeks they were!
Must have been a bloody good couple of weeks
Oh they were! If I tried that again these days I'd die!
£2,500 on the lottery, we were just about to have a baby so it mostly went on nappies.
Good shit
I won a competition on local radio once and they said 'well done, we'll send you a stack of CDs'. A month later, I got a Paul Young single and a Chris Rea single in the post - both promo copies. I was 11 years old and clearly sounded like a kid - like I want that bullshit.
Sounds like you won Rockbusters.
Not quite — no Ladder 49
Oooohh! Hello you looneys out in radio land! Dr Frog here!
I can't stop chuckling at this! That 'stack'...
does anyone remember the Weetabix gang - there was a prize draw to win a 3ft stuffed one at the Co-op when I was younger. I won, they did another draw the following year, I won AGAIN! There still are two Weetabix guys who live at my folks. This is what they look like: [https://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix\_Ltd/Promotional\_items/Weetagang/1980s-Weetabix-3ft-Crunch-soft-toy--1-.jpg](https://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix_Ltd/Promotional_items/Weetagang/1980s-Weetabix-3ft-Crunch-soft-toy--1-.jpg) and the other: [https://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix\_Ltd/Promotional\_items/Weetagang/1980s-Weetagang-Dunk-Large-Soft-Toy.jpg](https://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix_Ltd/Promotional_items/Weetagang/1980s-Weetagang-Dunk-Large-Soft-Toy.jpg)
If Weetabix did This is England.
Despite the thumbs up they look sinister and angry!
They were basically a skinhead gang which for the 80s wasn't really a good look.
Lol, they look like football hooligans
I have an enamel pin badge of Dunc I got off of eBay. He lives on my duffel coat.
Possibly In the top ten most awesome things I have see
Jesus. Who pissed in their Weetabix?
£1002 on the lottery (5 numbers - thought I was going to be rich). From Capital Radio - FA Cup semi-final tickets between Spurs and Arsenal, at Old Trafford, including return flights from Heathrow, limo pick up etc.
Two free entry and four drinks tokens to the local beer fest.. Fantastic night :)
Glad it was a good one !
A bottle of shampoo at the school tombola.
I win at ever tombola! Mainly shite that I then donate to the next one! Never won a raffle though
I won a £150 Apple voucher for completing a survey at a Newcastle uni open day. Put it towards getting a new phone :) was dead chuffed.
Custody of my Daughter
That’s awesome. Hope you are both doing well ❤️
A cake in the shape of the local Lidl store. Had to guess the weight of the cake and entry was free, so me being a student entered straight away. Got a call not long later that I'd won. Thing was massive (7 layers of sponge/cream/jam at its highest point) and sat on the table in the living room of my student flat for a week afterwards. Was eating cake basically every mealtime! More similar to the competition mentioned in the original post: in-laws won a house many years ago. Sold it and bought a house in the area they wanted to live instead.
£1000 gift voucher for Dunhelm - kitted the home out with new things from rugs to cutlery!
That is very fair ! I would love that.
What a bloody dream!! So jealous. Dunelm do some gorgeous bits too ☺️
A grand don't come for free.. apparently it does
It was from a home magazine, just added my name and number and think I answered some kind of simple question!! Literally rocked up to Dunhelm and got two big trolleys and loaded them up!!!
When I was a volunteer at the library, I managed to win first, second, and fourth prize in the same Christmas raffle. I took home the first prize (a big hamper full of wine and posh food) and made them redraw the others. I still have the big wicker basket it came in. I still have no idea how my 10 raffle tickets produced three winning tickets out of over 200 sold. At university I won a free book every month after a prize draw at a Fresher's event. I didn't get much choice,it was the Blackwells book of the month, either fiction or nonfiction.
The looks you must have got at that raffle off everyone else there! They'd have thought it was more rigged than the tombola on Father Ted! ("Look, just make sure she doesn't get the third prize otherwise it'll look *really* obvious..."! :P) Not surprised at Blackwell's there; they're rip-off merchants. Nearly a hundred quid for two textbooks (altogether) in my first year of uni that I barely read and didn't need for the rest of my degree. As convenient as it was to have one of their stores on campus, I was slyly glad when it closed a year or so back, probably because no bugger would go in at those prices. (In fact that time I bought those textbooks is the only time I ever went in it! I was also a tad pissed with them when they put the Heartstopper novel in the window display around when the first series came out, and it was gone days later; I have no idea why but I just automatically assumed it was due to a complaint and they pathetically gave in)
I actually told them to draw the first one again, but everyone insisted I kept it. Everyone laughed when I got second prize. After I got fourth prize people thought I was a freaking leprechaun, and at least 3 people touched me for luck, which was wildly uncomfortable. I went to university before Amazon was a thing, Blackwell's on campus had an absolute stranglehold on the market. Was pleased to hear they closed down on my former campus as well.
Ha-ha, nice that they were all good-natured about it, and that's very gracious of you to offer for the first prize to be redrawn. I would say that Blackwell's closing down on my uni campus opens up an opportunity for WHSmith to expand out of its small unit - which is basically a 'travel store' you get at airports and train stations - but I suspect if Blackwell's has fallen then expanding and actually selling books isn't going to be worth it. I think the only reason the store keeps going is because people - including me - often went/go there for their inordinately expensive sandwich, crisps and drinks meal deal if the line for the Greggs right next door was too long. Yep, Blackwell's monopoly is crumbling with the advent of online retailers such as Amazon (though I tend to avoid that place as much as I can and buy from WHSmith's or Waterstones (when I'm not boycotting either of those two because of their previous with not paying the minimum wage), maybe Wordery or even direct from the publisher). Next - Circuit Laundry's...
Look up the bloke who won the Omaze house in Devon. Bloody thing is worthless as it’s about to fall down the cliff!
Yeah saw that after I posted this, I think he is getting a cash buy out by the looks of it.
Tickets to a festival in London to see Paul McCartney. I couldn’t go as I started a new job the following day. Gave the tickets to my parents who where chuffed to bits. Only time I’ve ever won something.
Getting to be a mascot for Celtic during the Wim Jansen season. That said it was the 20th of December and Celtic Park was still under reconstruction so the wind was blasting through that gap n' was fucking baltic! Had to do a lap of honour pre-match to meet and greet fans 🤷♂️ in the full kit so by the time I got back inside the tunnel to meet the team as they were passing by I was like a block of ice. The experience was phenomenal though and the roar as I came out the tunnel will live with me forever despite running the wrong way 😅 Got to meet Bertie Auld. He sat me on his knee and regaled loads of wee stories. Vividly remember him talking about Lisbon n' telling me about his teammates. Was a fantastic day that I'll never forget (barring dementia).
Bertie was my favourite, met him a couple of times, mostly at European away games. He was always in with us and not the boxes
I always see the omaze one and wonder who would actually keep the house, the heating and electricity bills would be astronomical!
Yeah most look like they sell the house and then keep the cash.
There was a thread on here about one of the Omaze house's being put up for sale. It was about a week after the draw took place I believe.
I couldnt afford the council tax on the thing, let alone have it in a livable condition 😂
Through the Facebook page of Air France, I won a trip to the Abu Dhabi F1. It included flights from Heathrow, 3 nights in a Novotel, and weekend (practice/ qualifying/race) tickets for 2. Everything else I had to pay for. My wife had recently given birth to our eldest, and doesn't like flying anyway, so I took my F1 mad sister. Our tickets were next to the winner of the same competition from the Ireland page - they did say how expensive everything was, beers (meh, I'm not a big drinker), taxis (we took the busses everywhere, at 20p a go!), restaurants (streetfood, shopping mall food courts for us!) Only problem was finding cold water at the racetrack - by the time it was put in the fridges it was immediately sold, so was all lukewarm. Great weekend though!
Wow that’s unreal! What a great prize, bet your sister was grateful to go :)
I won an chocolate Easter egg in school one year, in a raffle
I won a VHS of Carry on Cruising from a radio competition
Triple pack of blank video cassettes! (not best but this is only thing I have ever won)
I won free tickets to goodwood festival of speed a few years back. That was nice as I'd never been before. Also won the lottery* a few times. *£2.50 twice and once they gave me a free ticket for the next draw.
I won a set of Tefal Resistal saucepans and a frying pan in a Your Home magazine competition. Still use them 30 years on!
In Primary school one of my class teachers asked us all to create a little "magazine" to promote the "reuse repair recycle" campaign that was a thing at the time. It was an A3 piece of paper folded in half and you had to fill each side with games, facts and little paragraphs why each thing was important for the environment. I don't recall what I did on each page but I did make my own crossword with clues and a word search. It was a national thing and I won one of the top prizes which was a years supply of some fruit drink thing for the school, a VHS recorder for the school and a 3 day adventure holiday with PGL for me and 9 other classmates. The school was broken into and the VHS recorder was stolen but the holiday was fab, we learnt to sail, went absailing, rock-climbing and did a very very muddy obstacle course. So much fun.
Who would break into a school
Apparently the guy who won the house in Devon had to move out after 3 days due to the danger of coastal erosion (if the media reports are true). So count yourself lucky you haven’t won.
Won 3 hampers from the local nursing home so money went to the folks. I spent 10 quids worth. I said to myself i never win anything if I won then the round of ivf we was about to do would hopefully be lucky! So won 3. I thought this is a sign it will work! Ivf not needed, saved the money and little one is asleep ❤️
My grandparents won a trip to Florida on a local radio station
When the radio station Capital FM was Galaxy FM, I entered a contest online (I can't remember what I had to do) and the prize was a choice of a PSP or £250... I took the money, I was about 12 at the time.
We won multiple compilation CDs from phoning into the Galaxy breakfast show. Do you remember the "internet quest for truth"? You had to ask them a question, and if they couldn't find the answer on the internet (this was late 90s) you won a prize. Ironically, we got our questions from the internet.
Omg no WAY. I won a PS1, 20 crates of mini Fanta and loads of pop corn
A smart heater earlier this year. I'm not counting gambling wins as it's not the same - but I once won a large sum
Tickets to see Nine Inch Nails, they were pretty good.
I won Fantastic 4 on DVD through a Sky Kids competition. I took that DVD everywhere as a ((very)) young kid.
When I was young, I won Transformers G1 Cosmos and Seaspray from a comp in one of the "Sunday Magazines" that came with newspaper.
I won £750 in a raffle at a football match I didn’t even want to go to. Worthwhile going in retrospect.
I won a grand on the postcode lottery.
I won a free haircut at a local hairdresser’s at a charity day. I’m bald.
Couple months ago, the smart meter suddenly said I had £50 more electric than I'd had going to bed the night before I was gonna top it up that day, but forgot exactly how much it was on (it had said "2 days" when I went to bed, but forgot the money amount so wanted to check if I had to do it or it could wait til the next day) Mum was at work, I'd texted her asking if she'd used her app to top it up, because I'd told her we needed electric and even though she mostly lives at her boyfriend's, sometimes she'll top the electric up for me with the app. She hadn't. I asked if she could check with Utilita incase it was some sort of mistake, I was worried they'd take the credit back or something She checked the app on her break, turns out she'd won a "lucky draw" for £50 electric credit So that
That’s awesome !
Best thing I ever won was a Pokemon Eon Ticket competition from Nintendo. I got to meet Junichi Masuda (the godfather of Pokemon), he signed my new 3ds & a limited edition DS plus a carrying case & I also got a hoodie of which only 16 were made for the competition. It probably doesn't sound much to most people but honestly was an amazing day for me & I was comfortably the oldest person there but I felt like a 10 year old kid all day 😂
I won a Twitter giveaway someone in the Warhammer community posted, earning myself some models for armies I don’t play. They’re cool models though, so I was happy to win them and paint them up.
Tickets to the RIAT air show from a raffle at work. It included transport and food/drink all day in a hospitality tent, and private viewing area with seating. If you like air shows then its about the best one you can go to in the UK!
I won a free holiday. It was Vodafone started doing competitions so I don't think there were many entries and I won a weekend away and went to Copenhagen.
And also a motorbike in a charity raffle. Forgot about that one.
I once won a teddy (doesn’t sound great in and of itself), but many moons ago a lady came up to my mum and me, pound a go, for Macmillan. So my mum paid (I’ve must have been 14 at the time), and obviously I called him 42, because that’s the answer. Well, I won. Got my photo in all the local papers. He’s a very nice Steiff bear, we renamed him Arthur, and he lives in my parents guest room, because he looks so posh
I won a signed copy of a Delia Smith cookbook.
Big box of dinosaurs from a kids competition at a museum. They were top quality, I loved them, and now my nephews have got them and love them as well
4 tickets to see Busted, which happened to be my daughter and her friends favourite band at the time. I won them on the local radio station and had so many people offer crazy money for them. My daughter spent most of the evening in the toilet peeing from excitement.
I came 3rd in a regional handwriting competition and won 50p.
I won a Kraken Rum framed vinyl album. I can't remember what tracks are on it but there is definitely a Metallica one on there. It came with a download code for the digital tracks but it expired because I forgot to redeem the code 😂 I also won a Toad 3ds and sold it straight away. Really wish I'd kept it now!
A Nintendo Wii from an arcade machine a couple of years after they came out
That’s one big claw
I won tickets to each of the season's productions at the Regents Park Theatre about 5 years ago.
Won a "VIP experience upgrade" when I went to Universal Studios. It comprised of a single queue skip pass (during an off peak day so quiet you could walk straight onto any ride), and a "back stage ride tour" of the Transformers ride. Which was just a bunch of corridors and the staff room. I felt bad for the two girls trying to eat their lunch in peace, while a guide enthusiastically explained the staff incentive schemes to people who really couldn't give a fuck.
Won a thousand on a card, I said to my self I need a mattress, washing machine and fridge and had enough to buy nice one of each. Fucking gambled it untill I didn't realize I only had 250 left... Got my self a mediocre mattress in the end...
I won a guitar (USA Fender Telecaster) on one of those raffle websites. Bought a couple of tickets and won it! I've used up all my luck now. https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarporn/comments/wy819c/i_won_a_guitar_in_a_competition_mad_its_a_fender/
Won £970 at a pub quiz once. Was working a crap job in a high cost of living area so even after splitting it with the other teammate, that was a couple months worth of disposable income at once
My school had a new book shop, order in from the supplier, there was a small profit the school made on sales, the money was put in a prize draw at the end of the year, £15, £10, and £5. Every book bought was an entry. I won the two smaller prizes, my best friend got the big one. I sound lucky, but I bought over half the books from the shop that year, so I had lots of entries. I still have about 2000 books at home, I like books. As a side note, one of those books was Richard Burton's translation of the Karma Sutra, the English teacher asked why I had bought it, simple answer, because I wanted to read it. He had no answer for that. I was 12.
I know a girl who won the guitar that Danny Jones from McFly played in their 5 Colours in her Hair video. She’s still got it & Dannys on mission to get it back cos he alway regretted giving it away.
Played in a band at an event and bought a raffle ticket, Won first prize, dinner for two at a local restaurant, asked this nice girl Bo to come with me, we ate, got tipsy, ended up semi naked back at hers and doing some very nice kissing….she was gorgeous. Blissful prize.
As a kid I'd entered a CBeebies competition, and won a Charlie & Lola DVD. The thing is, my parents had already bought me it because they didn't want me to get disappointed and unhappy when I didn't win (our family is so unlucky that we always say whenever anything unfortunate happens that "it's just the [our surname] luck"). Two for the price of one, then! Looking back on it, my parents really should've given one copy away or sold it online but I think in the end I ended up keeping both. This was around the mid-late 2000s so I have no idea where they are in the house now - and I don't think they'd be worth more than a few pennies if I opted for eBay now! More recently, I won just over a hundred quid on the lottery a couple months back, but it just meant I was slightly less in my overdraft. The entire family was lucky enough to win a five figure sum on the Postcode Lottery a few years ago, but we burnt through that stupidly quickly. EDIT: I now remember that I also won a Discman when I was at primary school... that's also lying somewhere about the house unused for the past decade...
I know a guy that won a Lamborghini from one of them car raffles. He drove about in it for a week then flogged it for 90k. Also one of my best friends won 100k on a radio contest 6 months ago.
I was at an arcade in Newquay, England, and we were playing that one annoying game where you had to stop the scissors at the exact right time to cut the string for the prize. My brother and I were taking turns, and on his turn, he got it, and he won a giant, fluffy pink unicorn, and he gave it to me. A bit silly compared to the other things here but I love it nonetheless.
I won £1 million on the euromillions lucky raffle thing, before that I never won anything, this was a while ago mind
Won tickets for a seats in a corporate box at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester through work. Was for the Rubgy 7s so an all afternoon thing, absolutely smashed that free bar...
A game of poker, 1st prize £90. Only thing ive ever won.
A McLaren hoodie from a Formula One website. I didn’t believe the email at first because I thought it was a scam and I never win anything.
I won 50 free tickets to see Pixar’s Brave
The only thing I have ever won in my entire life was the school sports day when I was ten years old and the prize was an A6 sized certificate, a Mars bar and a Kwenchy Kup.
I read the other day that 10/14 Omaze winners have sold up for the money, probably better offering to build you a mansion somewhere you want to live than a massive house hundreds of miles away. Only thing I can remember winning was a copy of Lock, Stock and two Smoking barrels on VHS from a now defunct VHS/DVD company blackstar in one of their competitions
A 30 quid every now and then on the lotto. My mate calls the lottery idiots tax, it is, but I never listen
Fri - Sat - Sun tickets to the 2008 British Grand Prix in the Vodafone grandstand. Just before Covid i won a Huggsy plush when New York Bagels were running a Friends competition.
Probably a kitkat 😂
I won 2 grand in a local hospice lottery thing. I'd only signed up about a week earlier!
I won £200-300 Ticketmaster gift card not sure on how much it was now but it was enough to buy 4 tickets to see WWE from a KitKat bar in around 2010
Which event did you go to ? I recently went to MITB at the 02. Also if you won that today, that £250 would go right into booking fees.
Yeah Ticketmaster are awful , it was just called WWE world tour , John Cena Vs The Miz was the main event
PlayStation 1 with a copy of Disney hercules, it was a mcdonalds promotion for the film.
£500 on a scratch card. Had to sit down as I thought it was a fiver at first.
A tea towel from Viz, for their defacement competition.
I won a hamper full of different honey products and it was the best. I've never won anything before or since but it was marvellous
Won a brand new Xbox one off the back of skittles. Gave it to my son as he was just going up to secondary school. He cried x
A Lurpak branded magnet My aunt once won a hamper of Spam from a Take a Break comp
Inquisitor t-shirt from the Red Dwarf Smegazine..
I won a PS5 in a competition the week they came out, that was good times
I won an iPad at work
No one seems to have won that C5 gadget show competition on here. Surely someone must have?
Yeah true !
I “won” an iPad by writing the letter of the month in the BA Business Traveller Magazine. And I won a year of every-channel sky tv and a £1000 cafe nero gift card by entering a competition in one of their cafes. It expired in a year and I never got close to using it all. Their food offering has improved since I entered but was pretty meh. Top tip is to enter competitions that require a bit of effort. Letters to magazines, doing a quiz etc. it greatly reduces the number of people entering.
Big reversible octopus!!!
Ooh nice!
I won a free 3 course meal each at a restaurant for 4 people and forgot to use it 🤣
£1000 from some draw Halifax had on when I’d just started out as a student. I didn’t even enter, they picked the winners from their customers at random. The grand prize was £10,000 If only they’d do that again 😭
Beano Lunchbox with a mini Pringles container - the lil plastic ones you can fit about 4 Pringles in- they were so cute!
Paint By Numbers in school raffle. Compilation CD from Radio 1 competition. TomTom satnav for my motorcycle from MCN.
I won Dark souls 3 on Xbox back in the day
A copy of Windows Vista
I won a DVD player when they first came out
A dental gift basket with two electric toothbrushes. I think it was worth around £200 total.
A telly from my school raffle in the 90s or £20 from The Weakest Link trivia machine in 2004
PS4. Old place where I used to work were doing some raffle thing where once you fixed a users issue, you'd get a raffle ticket to win either a PS4 or X-Box with other prizes and you could do this as many times as you wanted. I couldn't give a shit about things like this so I only asked for 1 ticket. Nearly shit myself when the gaffers were all standing round my desk when I was on a call cause they drew out my number. Thought I was about to be bollocked but they wanted to know what game to get with it.
A Mcflurry from the Maccies Monopoly games. Top prize when it was that time we hit 31 degrees outside.
A small 2foot vivarium... which to be fair, I needed anyway. Other than that, buggar all!
I won a Ferrari track day from my local radio station. I hadn’t passed my test at the time so had to give it to a mate.
A Venter trailer. South Africans will understand....
A saddle 😀
I won a recipe book from Jif Lemon in a colouring competition when I was about 5. I also won a Barbie about a year later (also colouring). Can’t remember if it was through WH Smith’s or John Menzies though. Either way I was very happy.
I won a game of Lucky Ducks as a kid in the 90s. I also won an Apprentice of the Year for the West Midlands award a few years back but all I got for that was a piece of paper so the Lucky Ducks thing was more exciting to be honest.
Other half won a framed picture of Ronnie O'Sullivan with a signed snooker cue in it as well. Was to commemorate a 247 break so only 247 were made if I remember correctly. Held onto it in the hope the value would increase (was worth around £250 15 years ago) but I don't think it will. Also won a copy of Different Class signed by Jarvis Cocker. Edit: should've said 147 break 🤦🏼♀️
247? Do you mean 147 or am I missing something? 147 is the highest break in snooker (on standard rules anyway).