This is slightly cf - raffle

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So, we had our nativity play this week for my ds' preschool and they do a raffle afterwards with some great prizes.

There were about 12 prizes in total and one parent, who had bought a lot of tickets (but no more than others) won 7 of these.

Now, I know you technically win fair and square. I get that... but surely after the second or third ticket was pulled, any polite person, would have said to draw another ticket.

Overheard the parent when they were leaving whinging they would have to pay for a taxi as they won so much stuff.

Slightly cf? Ready to get called

Yes, I would start giving away my prizes after the first two. Not very classy behaviour!

I think YABU (though not biscuit-grade U ). It's the luck of the draw. If she wanted the prizes, she was right to keep them.

CF! We were at a raffle where this happened - even worse it was the organiser's family.

Yeah, I mean technically they're hers but at any raffle I've ever been to, if someone has won, say, more than two items, they'll ask for another ticket to be redrawn. I never win at raffles so haven't been able to do this myself But there are always people who want what they're entitled to and don't really enter into the spirit of a local raffle!

Must have been a bloody good raffle if 7 of the prizes were worth having!

We had a raffle at work once. Somehow the person organising it had scored a tv as the main prize. He sold tickets to colleagues and some of his neighbours.

A neighbour won the tv, but the organiser decided to draw again because "he's not here, is he?".

It depends. I organised our fair and DH won 2 small prizes ,several prizes later my ticket was pulled out. The ticket puller ( nothing to do with the organising) decided to put my ticket back in. one of the prizes DH had won before was 4 bags of crisps, I wanted the wine I had won but didn't get a choice. I didn't realise he had put my ticket back in till the end. I have to admit to still being cross.

(We had about 40 prizes which were all pretty good-apart from the crisps hehe)

@MrsChollySawcutt proper hampers with booze, nice chocs etc. They were all donated by the parents and then put together.

I have seen this happen SO often - the winning tickets are added when all the others have been put into whatever the holder is and quite often they sort of connect with each other so they come out in clumps.

Happened to me once - out of 10 tickets about 8 were winners. No I did not claim them all - put them back .

Maybe the person who won all those prizes is really skint, and they will make a big difference to their Christmas. While most people probably would say, it's all right, draw again after they've won two in a row, it's not compulsory.
I won three prizes in a raffle once and they wouldn't let anyone refuse... there weren't very many of us who had bought tickets, and the prizes were mostly shite.

One win, two at most then I'd ask it to be redrawn.

This happened to me at a church raffle, i was asked to draw the ticket as i was closest to the person with tin, i drew my own, i couldnt do anything other than give it back to be drawn again,
It was a massive easter egg,i was really embarrassed,

YANBU. I'd take 2 at most then say to re draw

Happened to us, my son's tickets kept getting drawn out. I think we took two prizes and put the rest back.

Hmm I'm on the bench here. Something similar happened at our Fayre, and the parent took all the prizes. There was grumbling, but actually that person had bought £20 worth of tickets, vs everyone else's £1 or £2 worth, so why shouldn't she have everything she won?

It's just chance, isn't it? It's like the lottery, the more tickets you buy, the more chance you have, but someone with one ticket might get the big prize. Does anyone actually buy a school raffle ticket thinking they might get a prize, though?

No, that really annoys me.
Apologies if I'm incorrect, but surely if someone's tickets happen to get pulled out, that means they've won. What if the thing they really wanted was prize number 5 but they had to give it away and keep the bubble bath they'd won earlier!
Nah. If they want to give things back, fine. But they shouldn't have to (or be expected to)

I agree with DannyWallace. Keep everything then at the end if there's something you don't want, throw it back into the raffle or give it to someone else.

Reasonable to take all the prizes, but to complain about needing a taxi? Now THAT'S cheeky fuckery.

Slightly off-topic but it annoys me when raffle tickets are sold for "£1 a strip". If £1 is the minimum price to enter the draw, why inflate numbers by selling strips of tickets? Why not just make it £1 a ticket, which would give the same odds of winning?

I have often been tempted to say, "I'll just have one ticket for 20p then" but I don't want to come across as unsupportive of someone's well-meaning fundraising attempt.

I never win raffles but recognise this scenario. I was at a fund-raising event recently where someone won 3/5 prizes. :) No, she didn't suggest re-drawing.