Botox in the School Raffle?!

[Bartlebum]

One of the prizes in the kids primary school raffle is a voucher for 50% off Botox! I am interested to know your opinions and if this an appropriate prize for a raffle (not mentioning it's a rubbish prize as it's only half the cost!)

I think prizes of money off vouchers are rubbish no matter what the product or service is.

It's a regulated medicine, I don't see how this can be legal

I live in central London and don't know anyone who uses it. I know posters will say they use it and don't admit to it, but I don;t think so because most of my friends are mid 50s and just as wrinkly as they always were.

It's a crap prize.

It's like the bottles wine- when you don't drink.

Or a those special days. But the days you can go are very limited and will get out of date before you can use it.

Would much rather have family day out passes somewhere local.

A meal somewhere local.

Or small bits of food. That anyone could eat.

That happens at DD3's school - lots of the parents who have their own businesses get very competitive at giving the best raffle prize.

One who has a salon now offers a free full cut, colour and blow dry at every school events and then moans furiously for ages if anyone actually dares use the voucher!

At least one can regift a bottle of wine.

virtually everyone i know uses it apart from me and that price is with 100-150 pounds! great prize imo

Haha love that!

well it's half price off a treatment not an actual bottle of botox

Fairly standard prize. There’ll have been a round robin sent round asking local businesses and parents to donate what they can. Someone either owns the business or knows the person who does and asked for a favour. If you win it and don’t want it, hand it back. Or as a pp said, ask if there’s an alternative prize, although it is a bit cheeky. At the end of the day, someone has offered this; they didn’t have to, so don’t be snarky about it.

I’m a holiday cat sitter and I donated a week’s cat sitting in the past. The first winner complained about the prize as they didn’t have a cat and felt short changed 🙄. The second winner asked me if I’d walk their dog instead (I said no; I don’t know anything about dog care). I didn’t bother donating the next time I was asked.

Most people in my friendship group (including some of the men) have Botox.

Our school fayre yesterday had tanning vouchers, eyebrow tints, Restaurant vouchers, hampers, afternoon tea, a deliveroo voucher, voucher for the local coatcutter, a babysitting voucher, a football taster session, a pt session amongst others.

I don't think it's weird.

I once won a photographer sitting at our school raffle. The cheapest photo package to buy was £60 so if I used the prize it would actually cost me money. These are rubbish so called prizes and would think the Botox even more so.

You are correct and this is very unethical.

That's hilarious ! The world we live in now

I think any prize that could involve you spending money on top is rubbish TBH.

If I won it - I wouldn't use it or re-gift it I'd just throw it in bin and secretly feel a bit miffed. I wouldn't of been able to use the cat sitting voucher either.

Generally crap prizes arent they? What wrong with donating a bottle of wine?

Somebody will have contacted all of the local businesses in the area on the scrounge for donated raffle prizes. It’s quite a generous prize from the local aesthetics clinic/beauty salon for the right person, seeing as Botox generally goes for between £150 and £300 nowadays. I suppose you could always sell it on to one of the glamour mums at the back of the playground.

I don't like services as raffle prozes.

Much better to give something that someone can take home at the end of the raffle.

Makes me less likely to purchase tickets.

Would rather win a box of chocolates to be honest.

The title of the thread made me LOL.

Odd to me but I'm going to grow old as nature intended.

It’s a weird prize. I have had Botox and stopped because of the cost so I’d like 50% off but you have to really trust the person doing it. Offering such a high discount wouldn’t convince me that they are in high demand. At least that’s a prize I could give to a friend or something, unlike a round of bloody golf 😅

Its rubbish because its only 50% off so isn't a donation but a marketing ploy. As a prize its no odder or more inappropriate than bottles of alcohol. Loved by some, disliked and judged by others.

I would love that prize!

Money off isn't a prize. I think its gross AF but seems to be becoming normalised.

Is it?

Surely only if you want to have botox - its hardly a week all inclusive in the Seychelles

Wrong post quoted

Which age are you thinking of?