What have you won? Good/Bad, lottery or comps tell your story 💵 🥇 🎉

morse on 09/09/2024 - 20:36
Last edited 10/09/2024 - 03:21

curious to hear what oz bargainers have won whether through competitions (popular on here), lotteries, raffles or otherwise.

Personally I don’t do sports betting or pokies. However I do like online competitions (25 words or less), raffles, prize homes and lotteries.

So far I’ve won:
Dining vouchers
Vacuum
Fridge
Garden products/tools
A drill
Clothing voucher
Beauty products
Subscription box
Minor lotto wins
and various other things

Nothing major but I do like it even though the time probably doesn’t justify the ends.

Share your wins or regrets!

General Discussion

Comments

  • altomic on 09/09/2024 - 20:43
    +15

    i've posted 1000+ competitions on ozbargain.

    prizes won so far-
    *a book
    *pair of movie tickets.

    that is it.

    • Jimothy Wongingtons on 09/09/2024 - 21:08
      +9

      I signed up for many… and all I got was junk mail and depression.

      Ah who am I kidding the depression was already there.

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 03:08

      Damn! That’s not great returns. All my bigger prizes have been by writing creative 25words or less answers. Plus I’ve had some smaller wins with local magazine and radio station websites. I’ve never won anything from those gleamio ones where you have to follow and sign up to various things.

      • whyisave on 10/09/2024 - 06:29

        by writing creative 25words or less answers

        so, they actually do judge on the creativity ?

        I thought, that was just a way to bypass some gaming regulations, by making it a game of skill but without a lottery license, etc.

  • Tee Rex Arms on 09/09/2024 - 20:44
    +1

    I won a push bike in a comp off here. Worth a few hundred.

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 03:12

      Nice! Now I’m imagining a t-Rex 🦖 riding a bike. “roar Look! No hands”

  • justworld on 09/09/2024 - 20:50
    +5

    I won a grand off betfair.com by taking advantage of their sign-up promotions. I made accounts for my friends and family and shuffled money around various accounts to get the $100 sign-on bonus. Unfortunately, those sign-on bonuses are now illegal. I also lost half my profits when betfair froze all my accounts. I never had any desire to 'legitimately' bet on betfair as gambling is for losers.

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 03:23
      +3

      Well done! Those online betting scams deserve to be taken advantage of.

  • 87percent on 09/09/2024 - 21:07
    +3

    I won $10k on a $5 bet at pokies once. Bought some dumb shit

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 03:28

      Do you regret buying the dumb shit? Or did it make you happy at the time? I’ve never won a big cash prize but I think I’d just put it in my account towards mortgage, already planned holiday or other expenses.

      • 87percent on 10/09/2024 - 06:42

        I was 19 at the time, so was fun.

  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 09/09/2024 - 21:09
    +4

    Won a free paddlepop, and a free sprite when they used to do those stick and bottle cap promos back in the late 90s…

    • elgrande on 09/09/2024 - 22:55
      +2

      What about a free mars bar?

      • morse on 10/09/2024 - 03:19
        +1

        Yes, loved the Mars bar ones! When makes me think back to the days when I’d actually buy a mars bar as a single unit from a shop - something I wouldn’t do anymore.

  • MeesusEff on 09/09/2024 - 21:42
    +2

    Back when I was in year 9, I won a phone from those Girlfriend magazine competitions, they phone s pretty advanced for the time haha

    A sound rocker chair from the uni tav, even though I wasn't 18 yet and had to get my sister to claim it

    $50 gift card from a Homeco Facebook competition

    Husband won an iPhone 6 (current at the time) at work Xmas raffle

    Assuming for MSWA grand prize leskoooo

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 03:16

      Those are some good ones!

  • Sye on 09/09/2024 - 21:56
    +7

    I just won $9.5 Million in the Nigerian lottery. I can't even remember entering it. All I have to do is pay the $420.69 to get the winnings shipped to me.

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 03:31
      +2

      Flick that $420.69 to me, I can make the payment on your behalf.

  • Gills on 09/09/2024 - 23:23
    +2

    I have won free coffee for a year from Maccas. Was entered into draw automatically when purchased coffee via their app.

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 02:59

      Nice to see someone wins those ones! I always wonder with the auto entry ones, like at coles and Woolies if anyone actually gets the prize.

  • Luminary on 09/09/2024 - 23:24
    +3

    My biggest wins was a trip to Japan which I couldn't take cos of covid but they gave me $9k cash instead and next biggest was a Macbook Pro.

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 02:57

      Those are both great! I’d love to win a trip to Japan. A shame you couldn’t take it, but $9k isn’t bad either.

  • Loopholio on 09/09/2024 - 23:45
    +1

    Many years ago I won $500 from a competition on a bottle of Cheesy Vegemite.

  • MrThing on 10/09/2024 - 00:15

    I got an inheritance of 50mil from a prince in Nigeria

    • morse on 10/09/2024 - 02:55

      Nice. 50 million Naira would be a nice step towards a house deposit or a high yield investment vehicle.

  • GnarlyKnuckles on 10/09/2024 - 00:32
    +1

    Hey Sir Thong,

    I don't doubt your account of the facts you allude to for even a second, but kindly note that inheritance does not constitute a 'lottery or comp'. Ergo your highly believable claim, most admirable though it is, does not qualify for a mention here.

    Soz

  • solidussnake on 10/09/2024 - 05:43
    +2

    I won plenty of things working at JB, Playstation 4 Pro, Surface tablet, 2x Sonos 1 speakers, Rear Hifi speakers Dali, plenty of Sony speakers and heaps of headphones, catch was it was out of hours unpaid training.

    On the weekends they ran comps where you could win blurays valued at up to $20-$30 where I would come home with about $100 worth of movies and it got to the point where I was doubling up lol

  • Mugsy on 10/09/2024 - 07:06
    +1

    The last physical possession I remember winning was a Red Faction: Guerilla promo pack from Sony. Before that a crappy PC joystick from a raffle, before that a Lego hotrod .

    The last thing I gambled with was my heart… I'm married now so I'll let you decide if I won or not.

  • Slinky0111 on 10/09/2024 - 07:11
    +1

    I won a free maccas birthday party in 1995 approx from a colouring in competition. Does that count ?

    Apart from that I won at life with my 4 kids.

  • TrustNoBody on 10/09/2024 - 07:27
    +1

    i won nearly $8k on powerball but the crap thing was i was 1 number off the $12m win i had 27 and it was frigging 28 ..story of my life

  • Clear on 10/09/2024 - 08:01
    +1

    Won the lotto a few years back. Great for some holidays and mortgage repayments. Helped kickstart my booming business too.

  • Archi on 10/09/2024 - 08:16
    +1

    we won a tray of cooked prawns at the bistro last Thursday from the meat and seafood raffle

  • DingoBilly on 10/09/2024 - 08:22

    In my life (not including lotto tickets):
    - $2000, lucky draw for filling out survey
    - $200, some radio show giveaway
    - Playstation 5, Gleam comp
    - $100 x 2, Virgin Airlines surveys won twice

    Decent haul, nothing life changing but helps.

  • ihfree on 10/09/2024 - 08:25

    Biggest wins that I can remember are

    • Sonos speaker froma raffle at a conference.
    • few hundred betting on the result of an election
  • CurlCurl on 10/09/2024 - 08:42
    +2

    $8,600 In a Saturday Lotto. I'm not a regular player.

    Two nights in a Newcastle hotel from a radio show.

  • afah0447 on 10/09/2024 - 08:45
    +1

    Pub raffles:
    - Christmas ham
    - Two cases of beer

  • AngusD on 10/09/2024 - 09:13
    +1

    I won $450 (across 2 separate tickets) in Powerball a few weeks back. Still nowhere near enough to cover the cost of all the other tickets I've bought over the years.

  • singlemalt72 on 10/09/2024 - 09:14
    +2

    360 Cam
    Pool Cue
    Holiday ($12,000)
    Various small lotto wins, most was about $180
    A few years back put $100 on a team to win the NRL premiership at 18 to 1 and came up Trumps
    various meat trays, vouchers etc at the local ex-servies club (probably $1000 in total)
    Recently won a Monster Energy Cap in a Motorcycle comp.

  • brokenxsmile on 10/09/2024 - 09:24
    +3

    I’ve been entering competitions since I was about 19/20 (now late 30s). I’ve had many wins - my bigger wins were pre-Instagram, but still do pretty well each year. Last year I won approx $30,000 of prizes (at their RRP), which included gift vouchers, hotel stays, theatre tickets, so much haircare and skincare, homewares etc.

    My biggest wins ever include:
    Trip to New Orleans for 4, with spending money (WOL entry)
    Business class flights to and from Europe in Qatar (WOL)
    Trip to Cook Islands
    Trip to Bali
    Trip to Iceland (WOL)
    $1000 cash x 2
    Speed queen washing machine

    I don’t tend to enter purchase comps, unless it’s something I’m already buying. Don’t have much luck with them.

    Now most my wins are on Instagram. This fortnight alone I have won $250 Pet Circle voucher, sleep and hydration supplements, 4 pack premix vodka drinks, skincare serum, $100 pizza voucher, laundry liquid and pods, spa/sauna voucher and skincare set.

    It’s a game of persistence and numbers really.

  • YTW on 10/09/2024 - 09:43
    +1

    Never won a raffle but you can bet my name will come out of the jury ballot box every freaking time.

    Been called up 6+ times and every time I've made it to the courtroom stage my name has been picked in the first three out of the box.

    Oh, and when I was 10 I won a $25 Fosseys voucher in a writing competition. I was thrilled as I got to buy a new outfit - a rare event back then.

  • SlickMick on 10/09/2024 - 09:53
    +1

    I won a fancy Canon camera and a trip for 2 to Vivid here. Unfortunately, of the 3 entries I submitted, it was my daughter's entry that one, and she took my wife on the trip, and the camera of course.The photos looked like it must have been a great prize though.

  • jrjr on 10/09/2024 - 10:08
    +1

    Won a car during covid which was nice, sold it to a dealership for about 50k.

    Also won an iPod nano at the Melbourne show when they were still new, then about 5-6 years later I found out they recalled them so I dug it out and swapped it over a (at the time) brand new iPod nano model, was pretty happy with that.

    Have been reasonably lucky with competitions over the years (although the car was more of a game of skill)

  • sharkyoz on 10/09/2024 - 10:30

    diddley-squat

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