to think that if you buy raffle tickets and you win 4 times you wouldn't chose a prize each time?

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School play day raffle. One mum stood there with a pile of strips of tickets and overall she won 4 times.
AIBU to think she should have told them to pick another ticket after the 2nd time to make it fair?

And i'm not cos i won a £5 argos voucher!

Blimey... glad I'm not at any of your school raffles...

I'd have put the last 2 prizes back...

FWIW, YANBU

I thought it was raffle etiquette to look mildly embarrassed when winning 1st time, red faced 2nd time, and then shocked and mortified and say "oh its ok, pick another one?.

And yes there is such a thing as raffle etiquette, in my house growing up there was etiquette for everything

I am surprised at how strongly feel about people who think that it's reasonable to take all the prizes

it seems such a scummy reaction

I am part of a community amdram group and we have a raffle, there is alwasy at least one person who wins loads of things and i (being the one who is calling it) always jests about how many they have one, most people usually only collect one then put the rest back. I thinks its just good manners.

Eh-hem lets thr that again without the terrible spelling.

I am part of a community amdram group and we have a raffle, there is always at least one person who wins loads of things and i (being the one who is calling it) always jest about how many they have won, most people usually only collect one prize then put the rest back. I think its just good manners.

First time I would have taken the prize (hooray!). Second time I might have sent one of my DCs up. Third time I would have asked them to draw it again.

One prize good.

Two prizes iffy.

V. Bad Form to accept more than 2 prizes at a school raffle.

(btw, I call dibs on the 'Mumsnet Book of Playground Etiquette').

we get this at the school raffle
parents walking away with 6 prizes while some kids snivel they have none

Luck of the draw. Perhaps better to limit the number of tickets in any such raffle if this is going to cause such a mix of views.

I think the 'etiquette' of not accepting more than a couple of prizes could go out the window if the prizes were 10K, 20K and so on, increasing.

I think YABU, in this case, on the basis that there's no knowing whether the winner had bought strips of tickets for members of her family, 1 strip per person.

We none of us know quite what the situation was, regarding where the prizes ended up, but having bought these tickets, which won, there's (IMHO) no moral problem for her to accept all the prizes, even if many would feel uncomfortable (and 'assume' she should too).

I personally would feel awkward about taking 4 prizes and TBH I doubt there would be 4 prizes I would want to give house room to !
But I don't think people should feel under any obligation to give up their prize

Yes it's 'luck of the draw' but I wouldn't collect prize after prize - as others have said, I'd collect one or two prizes then tell the person doing the draw to pick again.

Definitely - bad form.

YANBU

But console yourself with the fact that all the other mums will be talking about how common she is !

So it's not OK to win the raffle more than once, but it's OK to bitch and judge?

I would have taken 2 prizes and said put 2 back, and that has happened to me once.

We had a charity work draw with prizes donated by suppliers and the fairly new and very highly paid head of department won first prize and took it. The majority view was outrage.

I don't think the OP is bitching or judging she justv wanted to know what out opinions were.

katiestar, I wasn't referring to the OP, it was what tinkerbellesmuse said, about all the other mums "talking about how common she is".

Well of course the etiquette of taking raffle prizes would be different for the average person if the prizes were £10k or £20k, or the fekking lottery. Talk about stating the bleeding obvious.

We are talking about a school raffle here. A school raffle. So I mix in some rarified and poncestastic circles occasionally but I have yet to hear of a school offering £20,000 as a raffle prize.

wewll she paid her money ,she was right to go get her four prizes,maybe they was