[Closed] Ever won anything? (Worth having)

Do eBay auctions count? 🙂

£5 for the heaviest fish, twice.

I guess if you "won" with 0p!

I won the lottery!

Ok, only a tenner but it was the same week as winning a tenner on the thunderball as well!!!

Do prizes for sporting competitions count?

Other than that I won a load of airmiles vouchers - which I never used.

Bloke I know won the lottery, twice. £800k and £500k.

Odds must be ridiculous. Irritating thing is, he didn't really need the money. Often the way.

I won a Nike 6.0 snowboarding jacket once and also a 686 plaid flannel shirt.

I won a bicycle book for a tale of woe on BM.

Thule Backpack - really good
Weekends accommodation - never used
Pair of approach shoes in a photography comp
3 albums - Verve Urban Hymns (limited and signed) and a couple of others for something on the Simon Mayo R1 show in '97.
Some random cd's and a $50 seafood voucher for another random photo thing at a 20/20 game

i won a hammock and a load of schwag for a letter in White Lines.

My wife won a trip to Budapest and took me

I won back the bottle of wine i donated for the kids school easter fair. I'll donate it again next year 🙂

A holiday ski touring in Lapland
A holiday in Spain
A Reverb
A decent bike light

I've been pretty lucky so far but I enter quite a lot of competitions so my hit rate is probably about 3%

Harrythespider to the forum 🙂

Tuesday treats Red Kite Enduro entry for next month.
Nokia phone (years ago).
Camping lantern for a photo comp.
Weekend on the IOW

Wife won £2K apple products through work. That was nice.

My mate used to enter all the free competitions he could. He won a fair bit.

A cycling jersey with some stripes on the sleeve and a medal.....seems a loong time (and 9kg) ago. 😕

DMR Rhythm in Anti Radar Green with a load of DMR accessories(MBUK Comp)
Trek HT with a days guided riding (MBR Comp)
Reading Festival Tickets (Doc Martin Comp in Schuh)
Glastonbury Tickets (Guardian Comp)

Just won a Lloyd bank comp for a 205years of banking hardback book (donated it to local library!)

🙂

A few fairly useful things:

Avenir bike rack
Diamond necklace for the wife
Alpine car stereo
Free suit hire for our wedding

I won the Mountain Mayhem Christmas Competition - some really nice stuff worth a total of £800. Thought it was a hoax when I first got the email saying I'd won.

a months supply of fray bentos pies

lasted just over a week

A TAG McLaren P1 amplifier back in about 2000/2001.

Xbox360

Tickets to see Spiritualized in a tiny club as part of a (brewery sponsored, I think) "back to the bars" series of gigs. That was quite special, and genuinely one of those "can't buy it for money" prizes.

A CD for ringing in to some ludicrously easy comp on Phil Jupitus's brekkie show on 6music - it was not long before the whole "faked competitions" thing emerged, and it may well be that I was the only entrant since it later transpired that at least some 6music competitions were won by fake contestants because there were no real ones!

I also struggled to get rid of him (Jupitus) as he seemed to want to have a long conversation with me (on air) when I had kids to get up and dressed for school, porridge to make etc etc. I may have come across to listeners (if there were any) as a bit ungrateful...

Hungry Hungry Hippos.
RM.

Won the Bingo at Woolcoombe beach holiday park last year...

Eat my own body weight in cream teas the next day ... 🙂

A Pespi Max T-shirt for having the right letter under the ringpull;
A custom bike frame at SSUK2006 for the "spirit of singlespeed" category;
A pink camo USE Exposure helmet light for being last finisher at the first Kielder100 race;

Won the chance to play on the Reebok (now Macron) Stadium pitch. A big deal for a Bolton fan.

I won a Harley. Too shiny for me, but the money I sold it for came in handy 😉

Best ones are a GPS (top of the range eTrex at the time), and £250 of outdoor kit (photo competition).

Backstage passes to see the All-****ing-mighty in 1994.
A Yamaha watch which I sold on ebay for a couple of hundred quid
A nice signed piece of original artwork from a card game I played, that I won in the national championships.

I won a spot on the Atherton experience at Antur last year, whilst that was pretty cool, the mahoosive box of 661 / One industries swag was the real cherry on the cake. The day was awesome, the BBQ was decent, and to top it all off it didn't rain all day!, I did snap by frame on the last run though 🙁
Gee wasn't at all like he's portrayed to be by some of the media, had a good chat with him about how DH fitness has changed over lunch and he was a genuine top bloke. Couldn't have been happier when he won the stripes again at the end of the season.
Still wearing the socks that were in the box, TBH they are probably the most worn item in my riding wardrobe!

Hmmm.. Do sporting endeavors count? I've won loads in Sailing, world champs n' all sorts.. kitwise: sails/foils/boards/board bags/wetsuits/dry suits/boots/gloves/wet gear/dry gear/charts/bin's/GPS units/hundreds of free entries into other competitions/flight tickets/hotel accom in some s****y places

But all that was hard earned, I had to learn my craft to get that lot.. so it wasn't free by any means..

And

Erm... won £15k in the lottery a good few years ago..

how DH fitness has changed over lunch

A bit slower at first, then quicker once you've digested?

Before I could drive, I was in a newly opened bar and was quite drunk.

Won a mini cooper (original type) in a raffle.

Woke up next day with a stinking hangover thinking I'd imagined it, then looked out of my bedroom window and there it was 🙂

Mrs Spider used to have a bit of a knack when it came to doing slogan competitions.

From memory she has won:
1 week in Iceland
1 weekend in Paris
2 weeks sailing in the Caribbean (sadly before she met me)
2 weeks in Australia (we couldn’t go due to the imminent arrival of kid#1)
1 week at Windemere Marina
Another week at Windemere Marina
Long weekend in Bristol
Long weekend in Nottingham
Trolley dash type thing at a book shop where she won a Samsonite suit case and as many paperback books as she could fit in it
About £1k worth of Berghaus kit
Dozens of DVDs
PS2
Pallet of dog food
£1k shopping vouchers
2 video cameras
1 digital camera
Numerous beach toys
25 bottles of cocktail sprirts type stuff
1000 condoms and a sex manual
Garden climbing frame
A bike (she gave it to her mum, who fell off it and broke her leg so badly that she was off work for a year)
A painting (by Rolf Harris that is no longer as valuable as it once was)
A painting by somebody else that hangs on her office wall
Some socks
Farrow & Ball paint (which is rubbish BTW)
Loads of Barbie Dolls
£250 trolley dash at Smyth’s Toys

….and loads more that I can’t remember. At its peak something would be turning up every few days.

A bit slower at first, then quicker once you've digested?

In the space of one month as a 14 (ish) year old I won a GT Avalanche (Saturday morning TV) and a pair of top of the range Reebok trainers (Bank of Scotland). Was pretty happy with that.

Oh and two tickets to T in the park in 1999 I think. Won them in the student union and immediately sold them for beer money 🙂

1000 condoms and a sex manual

OH won a holiday to Mauritius - by entering a comp on the plane on the way back from Mauritius!

I won a mug and a few games in an old ZX mag

Also shirt, tie and cufflinks from Lewins on one of those drop your business card in the jar type affairs. Wasn't that surprised as I'd just bought two suits and a shed load of shirts from them and they "suggested" that it might be a good idea to drop the card in!

Not me but my dad won a car in the 90's. It was a bright red mk3 Ford Fiesta 1.6s
My brother won a weeks mtb holiday to Whistler but had no bike so blagged one from a local bike shop in Birmingham by getting an article about them placed in the local paper.
He also won a padi dive course and then a few months later won a dive holiday to Turkey.

I won a high end Denon car hifi from a motoring mag - it was actually worth more than the car I put it in!
It got nicked, and the insurance bought me a £500 Alpine, which got nicked out of my next car.

I gave up after that...

I won a rock once. I came second at my first ever real XC race a few years ago, in the Have-A-Go category at a round of the Brownbacks series at Lee Quarry. The rock was supposed to have an engraved brake rotor in it but they hadn't sorted them out for the fun cats and we were promised that they'd post them out later. I never got mine. Never won anything else because I moved up to the next category, and those boys were ridiculously fast.

Still got my rock though, pretty much the only thing I've ever won in a sporting event. 🙂

I've just remembered this one..not me but good story anyway.

I was sat next to my ex's father one day when he got a call from what sounded like a marketing/scam company telling him he'd won a 45 day luxury cruise. He was quite short with them, knowing something was fishy, and said something along the lines of "well just post my prize out to me then, thanks" and hung up.

Two weeks later a pack arrives at the house and it's a load of stuff about this 45 day luxury cruise and all he has to do is call this number to sort it out.

He is still completely unconvinced, but then spots the name of a laser company he recognised (he's an eye surgeon type) and the hairs go up on the back of his neck. He calls the number and sure enough he had actually won the thing...from sticking his details down while at a conference in Asia.

Prize was top spec, worth about $50k. He still shudders at how close he was to ignoring the whole thing!

2nd in a balloon race: £40 quid which i had to split with my brother.
a snowboard - which i gave to my brother
a rukkus t shirt in the bull heart raffle off here.
loads of stuff in WRT raffles. bag, gloves, STW subscription, alpkit gear
privateer subscription - didn't technically win that: just no-one else did so the organiser of K100 told me to email her and i got it!
Loads of stuff at the big bike bash. carbon bottle cages, seat posts etc etc.

pretty happy with that - just waiting for my little bro to win big on the lotto!