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.
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.
I was once in a raffle where I was the only name that did not get picked. Does that count?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Won a suitcase style record player! It was a short term in the past when Amazon would do a giveaway once a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A year worth of groceries. $100/week for a year.
Something I could really use now.
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
