To have expected them to swap DD’s tombola prize?

[LionMummy8]

DD had a go on a family tombola this morning in a family pub/restaurant style place. She won and it was bottle of wine. I asked if she could swap it for one of the more child friendly prizes or one of the teddies but they refused. So she’s won a bottle of wine that she can’t even have! AIBU to have excepted them to swap DD’s prize?

good grief op

good. grief

I guess that’s the risk you take when you play? I remember school fairs where mine often won alcohol, I was chuffed 😂

what happens if a child won the teddy that had been given to your daughter

It’s a tombola, getting whatever random prize you’re given is kind of the point! When you bought her a ticket you knew there was a chance she’d win an unsuitable prize.

That's tombolas. A middle aged single man could a Ny Little Pony hair set while a child wins a bottle of wine.

Oh come on, op. Keep it in perspective.

when you bought the ticket

did you not see the wine bottles?

do you understand what a tombola is?

Jesus wept

Wrm..YABU...do you understand how tombolas work?!?😂

That’s what a tombola is. Don’t do it if you don’t want to take the risk.

🤦‍♀️

There were other child friendly prizes there.

where I work, when a child wins alcohol on a tombola we let them swap it for a more suitable prize. That’s just the right thing to do.

Pretty sure it's illegal to have kids playing for alcohol prizes.

Well you can ask. If they refuse you should accept that.

Yabu. Also what age is child? At any age child should learn how these types of games work.

Tbf they aren’t supposed to give alcoholic prizes to under 18s

Just spend your quid on a packet of sweets next time if it offends you so much.

Fair enough. Just seems ridiculous though to allow a child to win a wine bottle when there’s other child friendly prizes there.

YABU. They can’t just swap prizes, that’s not how it works. I used to win alcohol all the time at those things when I was a child. It was a running joke in my family to send me over every time we saw one because I would usually come back with a bottle of wine for whichever adult I was with. They never swapped the prize for me and I didn’t expect them to. I was just happy to be able to give something to my family, and it was fun.

Exactly.

True. Stalls that have alcohol can only sell tickets to adults. OP didn’t say her daughter bought the ticket though, an adult may have purchased it for her.

Anyway, be glad you won something. I never do!

YABU. The prize is random - that’s the point! When my 6yo daughter won a bottle of whisky on a tombola almost a decade ago, I bought her some chocolate in exchange. We were both very happy with the result.

Surely you buy the bottle of wine off her, and she buys herself something she wants with the money you give her for the wine.

With Tombola, you get what you win, you don't get to choose what you win!

DD gave the pound to her for the ticket.