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’ve tried to participate in so many giveaways and lotteries and never won anything. I believe that’s my superpower: lose against the odds.
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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 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.
A “golden” PS4 from Taco Bell
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 $6000 at the time. The company that donated it stipulated it go to someone with an interest in 3D modeling so rather than a random draw, everyone who was interested faced off in a rock, paper, scissors elimination. I made it to the final round and lost - my opponent psyched me out saying “Rock always wins,” I threw scissors, he won with rock.
I won a Coldplay CD. It was fine.
A 100$ 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 wrote to the show Video & Arcade Top 10 and they sent me a copy of Super Mario 64.
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 just won a smaller Yeti cooler at an event last week 😁
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!
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.
