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AIBU to have kept my raffle prizes?

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MatLeaveForever · 22/12/2011 21:41

At work suppliers give the company gifts (mainly wine) and it all goes into a raffle so that the management don't get 15 bottles of wine each. It's for charity and it was £1 a ticket if you wanted to join in.
I bought 5 tickets, and managed to win 3 times! 2 bottles of wine and another wine/food gift set - so definitely got more than my money's worth!
A couple of people had suggested that after I'd won the first time I should have put the next bottle back in the draw, but a couple of friends said I should keep it, which I did.
Quite a few other people won at least one or two bottles (obviously some got nothing), some won expensive champagne so even one of those could have been worth more than my 3 bottles combined.
So I was just wondering if I'd been unreasonable to have kept all 3 prizes, or if I should have given some back?
Thanks!

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squeakytoy · 22/12/2011 21:42

You bought the tickets.. you won fair and square. Sod those who moan.

ballstoit · 22/12/2011 21:43

YANBU. The element of luck/some winning, some losing is the whole point of a raffle surely?

PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom · 22/12/2011 21:45

I bet the people who were muttering "unfair" were all under about 25 years old. It's this bloody "nobody must ever lose" shit they've been teaching the DCS for the past 20 years old gimmer It's character building to both win and lose graciously!

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MatLeaveForever · 22/12/2011 21:47

It was the guys in the office, not all under 25! I even bought some chocs at lunchtime for the office as I felt a little guilty. But not guilty enough to give them back! Xmas Grin

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GoingForGoalWeight · 22/12/2011 21:50

YANBU - you bought the tickets! People can create bad feeling out of the smallest detail, even when a person is in the right. Enjoy your lovely prizes Xmas Grin

Sirzy · 22/12/2011 21:51

Its entirely up to you what you do with them. You weren't unreasonable to keep them you wouldn't have been unreasonable to tell them to draw again.

I tend to (on the rare occasions it happens!) keep 2 prizes and then tell them to redraw others.

AgentZigzag · 22/12/2011 21:51

If it was like a garden fete or school raffle people normally let the ticket be drawn again.

But the fact it was at work makes a difference to me for some reason.

Maybe because I've worked with some wankers and I'm being shitty? Grin

I would have put it back just so I didn't piss off all my colleagues

troisgarcons · 22/12/2011 21:52

Hmmm its usual to keep one prize and decline the rest

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MatLeaveForever · 22/12/2011 21:54

I was thinking if people were only allowed one prize then we should have only been allowed to buy one ticket (even if that one ticket had cost more?)

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AgentZigzag · 22/12/2011 21:57

It's not a matter of being 'allowed' to have another one if you've already won Mat, it's polite not to.

Heathen Grin

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MatLeaveForever · 22/12/2011 22:00

Okay well I wasn't polite then.

But the 3rd prize I won was the best one!Xmas Biscuit

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AnneTwacky · 22/12/2011 22:00

I think you should keep them. You paid your stakes and won them fair and square.

PointyLittleDonkeyEars · 22/12/2011 22:02

YANBU, it's luck of the draw. At my work we had a Red Nose Day bake sale and raffle with a fabulous main prize (and lots of other good ones too). People from three different organisations including ours attended. The fabulous prize happened to be won by one of our team, who were hosting the event. No-one moaned.

Having said that, at our archery club we have a family rule that we keep the first two and then put back anything else, and it has happened once or twice that we have done this. I don't think that's quite the same thing as a work raffle though, so enjoy your wine.

GracieW · 22/12/2011 22:03

Friends of ours bought winning raffle tickets in the school draw.

First prize was meal for 2 and wine at v posh restaurant.

They're muslim so don't drink - but they didn't hand the prize back, they gave it to me and DH as our sons are friends!

Now that's what I call a nice decision (wishing good karma on them both) Xmas Grin

slavetofilofax · 22/12/2011 23:50

I would not have accepted the third prize, that does seem unfair and a bit greedy. But if it was the best one, you could have given back your least favourite bottle of wine instead.

You buy more raffle tickets to give to chairty as well as to increse your chances of winning one prize surely?

ThoseClementineShoes · 23/12/2011 00:01

Of course you weren't being unreasonable. It was a raffle. You won. Enjoy!!

IloveJudgeJudy · 23/12/2011 00:17

If it had been for a charity or something, then it would have been a bit bad form, but as it's for work it's perfectly fine. Enjoy your good fortune. If you hadn't bought the tickets you wouldn't have won.

flamegirl77 · 23/12/2011 00:22

Unless you're the chief exec, keep 'em and tell the moaners to buy more tickets next time

PeelThemWithTheirMithrasKnives · 23/12/2011 01:48

I've never heard of it being "usual" to keep one prize and decline the rest.

I do know that some people decline more than one prize while others don't. Either is fine with me. However from the point of view of a raffle organiser, I've cringed sometimes when the raffle drags on and on while people decline more than one gift. Also some people buy more tickets just to be in with the chance of winning more prizes, so that's good for fundraising isn't it?

PeelThemWithTheirMithrasKnives · 23/12/2011 01:50

However it looks like if I am lucky enough to win more than one raffle prize in the future, my enjoyment of the second or even third prize will definitely be spoiled now that I know about the supposed "etiquette".

Fortunately I am very mean and don't buy lots of tickets Xmas Grin

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