To have expected them to swap DD’s tombola prize?

It really isn’t - have you ever been to a school fair? Kids win alcohol but you only hand it over to an adult with them.

I agree. At our school there was a separate tombola for alcohol and kids couldn't enter.

FFS. Child may have handed over the pound but she clearly wasn’t alone, adults were there. She won, great, get on with it. If she won a prize she didn’t like (say a dinosaur toy but she wanted a colouring book) would you also expect to swap? If you want to choose, go in a shop and buy it!

I would be quite happy with that and get her a little something instead lol 😆

😂😂😂😂 this has to be up there with one of MN’s finest!

It’s a tombola. It’s fun. It’s a game. You get what you win or you lose. You got a bottle of wine for £1. You seem to think this is a first world problem.

Please avoid all events/games in future. Hook a duck, raffles, lucky dips… and never ever go to a bongos bingo event 🙈

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I'd 'buy'.the wine from my child and they can get something they like at the.shop
Easy :)

They are breaking the law as you can't give children alcohol....and as mich fun as it is, children arnt actually allowed to gamble or take part in tombolas. It's not a family tombola if it is offering wine.
And before anyone jumps in with...children can, it's my job to know the law. Most people don't even realise that if your child picks the number for the scratch cards, then the cashier is supposed to refuse the sale and if caught going along with it will lose their job and a heft fine to the cashier and company and possible lose their licence.
You could have reported it if it was a pub, om sure he'd love to swap it for you than get a 38,000 fine.

I won a bottle of whiskey in a raffle when I was about 9.. my dad bought it off me for £5 and I bought myself some treats with the fiver 😂

I see your point, that is why at school fairs, we had kids and adults tombola, and this would not happen. And we also kept a few things back just in case something like this happened and you needed to do a swop.

I won with a raffle ticket at a pony club gala thing and sent my daughters off across the arena saying “get the gin!” They returned with a 50p pack of horses stickers 🙄

Drink the wine or gift it and treat your daughter to an treat or something she would enjoy dont have to cost an lot, problem solved.

So you've got a bottle of wine. Lucky you. Buy her a suitable replacement. Honestly!

I have been to events where the tombola had different colour tickets for booze, kids (sweets, toys) and general (chocolate, toiletries, boxes of shortbread etc) and the tickets were in a different bucket. So you could select tickets from one bucket, 2 or all three.

I remember going to the village (where I lived at the time) brass band's Christmas event aged about 10 and bought a £1 of tickets - 5 or 6 and won on every ticket - all booze! Plus were decent bottles of wine and brandy. The lady of the tombola stall recognised me as I was in the school choir and choir and brass band together did concerts. Had to wait til DM to take them.

Also this could happen in raffles.

When we do those we just take the ticket off the wine and stick it to something else and vice versa. Really not a big deal to swap the prizes over. Don't think you are being unreasonable but at the same time when my son wins wine etc they think it's hilarious and give it to me laughing so prob wouldn't ask to swap anyway. Bragging rights to tell mates they won alcohol 🤦😂😂

They have to make an adult come and claim the prize since it’s alcohol.

been to many fates and such always a tombola with booze even the children school did a bottle stand. Pop and booze £1 for five tickets.

I would have thought it would be illegal to give a child a prize of alcohol. They’re not allowed to sell alcohol to kids in the shops or serve it to them in pubs.

So this wasn’t about the wine at all let’s face it. Dd wanted one specific prize on the table. You thought you’d got the golden ticket when she won booze to ask to swap it but then they wouldn’t.

You went back? This gets bloody worse.

I can't believe you went back for the teddy. I think you need to teach your child they can't have entering and they didn't win the cuddly toy so they couldn't have it.

If a child wins alchohol and a parent is with them it's fine to give the wine to the adult. If there are spare prizes fine but if the ticket for the other prize (that you wanted tk swap it with) is in the tombola then how does that work when someone else picks it?

I really hope this isn't true. So you went back after the event, the teddy just happened to still be there by some miracle, and they let you have it! Yeah right!

So didn't happen.

What utter madness, your child is 7 probably has a room full of teddies and yet you have gone back to the pub to get this one. Total spoiling of your child, why couldn't you have stuck with sorry darling, we didn't win a teddy this time.

Lots of pubs are family friendly, and do kids meals.
Spoons, Harvester etc