Aibu not to give up my raffle win

[MammyNeedsASpaDay]

I won a good prize at a raffle. Fancy tickets for a football match between premiership teams with meal and drinks included.

I don't have much interest in football, but I quite fancied going, or even if I sold the tickets I feel that's my choice as I won them.

People keep saying it's wasted on me and I don't deserve to have won.

Am I being unreasonable thinking a) it's a bit harsh and b) it's up to me what I do with them?

You won, they didn't. You paid for raffle tickets just like everyone else. I've won stuff I didn't particularly want/need/like and I've either sold it or given it to someone of my choosing not anyone who thinks they are more entitled by virtue of having also bought tickets in the same raffle.

What you do with the prize is your decision. Use them, sell them, give them to a family member who likes football for Christmas, burn them or wipe your bum with them - they're yours. Tell the sore losers to get over it.

Excuse typos, my hands are cold.

Im a bit on the fence. Of course YANBU as you won the prize. However, as someone not that interested in football, i would think that prize a bit wasted on me and would give to my BIL who loves football. so I think it sort of depends ...

Is it from the VIP box?

That's the only way I'd be going to a match!

Congrats & I hope you enjoy.

Do you have someone to take with you?

OP What goes with Gomorrah?

Enjoy it!

Why on the fence?

She chose to buy a raffle ticket. She won. She can do whatever the hell she likes with the prize, including throwing it in the bin... the charity, or other recipient of money raised form raffle sale, doesn't care who wins... no one else should either!

There really isn't anything meaningful A N Other person can think about someone winning a raffle prize. You can be of the opinion that it is pearls before swine, but actually voicing that? Pointless, jealous, snarky... all totally unecessary!

I won a weekend break once in a tale. Someone accused me of cheating to win it. How on earth can i cheat in a raffle that i had nothing to do with organising? Enjoy your prize op.

Even if it had gone to someone who loved football, I'm sure the others would still have felt that they deserved it more!

Well, if any were hoping that Op might offer them, they've fucked that up!

Maybe they shouldn't sell tickets to people who don't "deserve" to win. How ridiculous.

Yes it's a VIP box. Thought it'd be nice to take hubby if I won as he'd appreciate it more than me.

I work in a male environment and was advised of my win at work. 3 different blokes said I didn't deserve it, wouldn't appreciate it and that it was wasted on me.

I actually bought several tickets too not just one as it was for a good cause. I never win anything so I was so pleased and it put a downer on it.

Ah! Well you know what to do then.

Go, take pictures, take notes, go back into work and RAVE about it for WEEKS!!!! Tell them you now know why they were so PISSED OFF when you won.

Then revert back to "Football? Can't stand it? Overgrown schoolboys running up and down a field. Pathetic!"

Sod them! Enjoy the experience.

I see - so if their wives had won it at their workplaces, they would be happy to discover their wives had given the prize to a more "deserving" colleague rather than sharing it with them?

No, I thought not.

Utter wankers - ignore them and have a super time. Have you told your DH and is he suitably impressed?

In that case OP, you & DH go to the match and make full use of the VIP hospitality offered.

Then return to work on the Monday and be very sure to retell every little luxurious detail in full. Loudly. Right next to the twattish colleagues desks .

If you bought a raffle ticket you're as entitled to the prize. It's a prize not a charitable donation you don't have to prove your worth to enjoy it. Sometimes it's nice to do something you would never normally do for a night, especially if it involves food and drinks.

In that case I would create a FB account just for work and people you generally don't want to share personal stuff with (Lots of people do this to compartmentalise. Obviously if you don't have them on FB)
Add the work people, and random other people, just because
Go to the game
Drink the free booze. Eat the free food.
Take loads and loads of photos and post on FB
Lots of comments - fab time.. Really enjoying myself. Cannot believe I won. So glad I didn't give the tickets away.

Plus you never know who you will meet in the VIP room.

Oh my god windycat that's awful!! My BIL suggested he would like it but wouldn't demand it or fall out with me. I talked to my brother who advised me it's a pretty expensive prize to win (I've yet to receive tickets but I've been told cost price it's approx 4000!!! By the organiser)

People at work had actually suggested putting it back in the draw as I wouldn't want it!! Thankfully that wasn't done or I'd have gone mad!!

Many of the jealous comments are coming from people who never even bought a ticket!!

You and DH will have a whale of a time.
Take LOTS of photos of you and DH pulling the classic Daily Fail Sad Face, then show them around work while telling them all what an awful time you had with your fancy champagne lunch

It's pure jealousy on the part of the unlucky ones.

It would have been illegal to pull another winner without your express permission, theft, fraud etc!!

Isn't it funny that the squeakiest wheels are the ones who were too tight to join in

3 different blokes said I didn't deserve it, wouldn't appreciate it and that it was wasted on me.

You know that is bullying, don't you? Why would it be wasted on you exactly?

Admittedly I'm a girly girl who knows absolutely nothing about football. Husband doesn't watch it, but can tell me about it and is interested but prefers other sports.

I entered because it was a good cause and I liked the thought of saying the only football match I've ever attended was in a VIP box! It's actually for 4 people and I don't want people to then get pissed off when I don't pick them to go.

Yes expect offers to buy the win. At most expect offers of £200 for both tickets, you know to do you a favour. After all they are paying more than what it's worth so win/win.
Don't give in. If you really, really want to sell, the auction starts at 5k.
To find the VIP prices alone, you can look at the clubs websites and they are usually listed. Manchester United V Hull, Box prices start at 3k. Some box prices are 11k depending on the game and amount of people in the box.
I have no interest in football, my ex however was trying to convince me to get a box as a present for him.

It's actually for 4 people and I don't want people to then get pissed off when I don't pick them to go.

What you wanna do there is to hold a raffle for the extra 2 places and then put their names in until you get someone you like and say 'see, it's not nice is it, saying that a raffle winner isn't worthy of their prize'.

Ah, if the moaners are people who didn't even buy tickets but could've, simply say 'How many tickets did you buy?' and when they answer go 'Well, you didn't deserve to win, then, did you?'

If you have two spare places, do you know any friends who have kids who are football fans (not very young ones) who might like it? Or elderly people who used to go to matches, don't anymore, but would enjoy the luxury of a box? I wouldn't pick any of the folk who have grumbled.

YNBU. You won fair abs square.
Yes. Looking at it through the eyes of true fans. Perhaps it wasn't fair that they didn't win, but. Who said life was fair.