To ask what's the worst thing you've ever won in a competition or raffle?

[ChunkyKnit]

Blatantly based on the other thread

When I was 12, I won a vinyl record of Bill Cosby’s greatest hits at a raffle.

We didn’t own a record player, and I wasn’t a Cosby fan.

I asked the lady running the raffle if I could swap it for another prize but she gave me a very firm “no”. I’m still bitter.

A bottle of Pina Colada 'aromatized wine product' at a Labour party fundraiser in 1997.

Mushroom soup 🤢

I was at a fancy quiz night once and the raffle prizes were rather nice.
Call out first number and Family A (two adults, one teenager) win the first prize, MacBook Air, lovely, lucky them!

Call out second number and it's Family A again!!! They claimed the second prize too of an iPad!!!

Much cross tutting and dirty looks...

Surely, it is an unwritten rule that if you win a 'big' prize any other numbers you insist that it be called again!

Tossers.

Once I had my numbers called out 4 times. Was a few prizes in, my number was called. I trotted up and chose a bottle of Whiskey, next number was mine, I shouted "chuck it out and pick again!".... The NEXT one was mine! Cue lots of laughter and banter about it all being rigged etc. Then at the end I got a 4th one drawn! and everyone said "take the prize!"... I took a bow as I collected a beautiful inflatable parrot 😁

won one competition. tickets to manchester united game......

At my primary school (mid 80’s), anything confiscated during the school week would be raffled off at the whole school youth club on a Friday evening. This ranged from small things like sweets and crisps, to proper toys (like action figures/ balls etc.) that poor kids had been caught with. The raffle also had genuine prizes and was really popular as it was the last thing before home time at youth club. Outrageous now I think about it as an adult.

Not a raffle prize but another secret Santa. Having carefully selected a suitable gift for a teacher I, at that time a member of support staff working with SEN students, was landed with a can of room fresher spray. Not only was it quite insulting but anyone who knew me was aware that my daughter, who was at that time a student there, had a chronic condition requiring surgery which rendered aforementioned gift completely unsuitable. I forced a smile but ‘accidentally’ left it behind in the staff room and it eventually disappeared.

I was on a P&O ferry to France about 20 years ago and they were running a competition - guess the number of passengers travelling on that particular crossing. I entered and won, got it exactly right I think. I was pretty excited when I heard my name being announced and went to see what I'd won. But when I got to the desk it kind of looked like they hadn't actually got around to sorting out a prize. Someone went off and eventually came back with a nasty looking fake leather bag with the name of a well known whiskey on it - my guess was that they'd gone to the duty free shop and grabbed something that would have been given away free with a bottle of whiskey. I'd have been a lot happier with the whiskey, being well over 18 at that point!

A bottle of tomato sauce on a tombola - that woman had no heart giving a 6 year old such a 'prize'!

I won a voucher for a perm in the local hairdresser. Twas a village fair in the 80s. Total disaster, chemicals left on far too long and had to wear a hat for two years till it grew out. Photos show I looked like a rare breed sheep.

At a pre Christmas lunch, my then partner chose it, a plastic bag of makeup. Every item had been used. Even the lipstick.

A bag of home grown potatoes. Which was way preferable to the star prize of an amateur hand painted decorative slate.

A bottle of vodka that was at least 40 years old, it didn't even have a barcode on it. Had clearly been languishing in a 70s G-plan sideboard for decades 😂.

A pair of aeroplane compression socks. Used.

A pair of boot shapers (the things you put in boots to keep their shape) with some sort of scent in them....the scent was awful.

The best thing I ever won was a microlight flight in an African country about 5 days after I’d arrived to work there.....that was awesome!

I won then on the O2 priory app, I just entered any competition without giving it much thought.

I'm not a fan at all, I live up North the concert was in London & you has to collect the tickets at the gate - so didn't have an opportunity to sell them on. I'd hoped they'd go to someone who'd appreciate it, cos I really wouldn't

I didn't win, not sure if that makes it better or worse 😂 But from the same website -

One WHOLE MONTHS supply of teabags one months supply equals one box of 40 tea bags

'too much', is my simple answer! I got excited about the cause and bought lots of raffle tickets, as that was how they raised the money. Unfortunately, it meant that with every 3rd number called, I was heading up to the front to collect a prize. The looks from everyone else, were getting dirtier with each collection. Made me feel like a cheat, or a show off.

An expired voucher for a meal out.

A pair of used plimsolls