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Whats the biggest prize you've ever won?

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  • Rarchy
    Rarchy Posts: 78 Forumite
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    I won a 2 minute trolley dash about 6 years ago, which was really good fun.

    My sister won the ultimate trolley dash about 8 years ago. It was a 4 minute trolley dash for 4 people (won in Take a Break magazine).
    That sounds like such fun! I'd love to do that, I'd be like you running around like a maniac putting as much as I could into the trolleys. Reminds me a lot of Supermarket Sweep thinking about it!
  • I won a set of caserole dishes and a years supply of tights.
  • BONJOEY
    BONJOEY Posts: 819 Forumite
    Ive Never Won A Sausage,

    I Have Entered Hundreds Of Competitions , Do You Believe In Luck??

    Cus I Aint Got None Lol
  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,935 Forumite
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    Who on earth wins all these big prizes then? Do you think anyone wins them?
    2008 Comping Challenge
    Won so far - £3010 Needed - £230
    Debt free since Oct 2004
  • AnnieH
    AnnieH Posts: 8,088 Forumite
    I've never known anyone to win anything from these sits and magazines offering huge prizes. Namely Take a Break, My Offers, !!!!!! etc....

    Are they just a swizz?
  • nearlyrich
    nearlyrich Posts: 13,698 Forumite
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    I have won lots of things but mainly in competitions at work (I am in sales) I had a particularly good year in 1998, £5k holiday, weekend at the Grand Prix in Germany, weekend in New York ( Limo xfers and a helicopter trip etc). I also had a £1000 camera, TVs and other electrical stuff and loads of vouchers.

    Outside of work I won a "top of the pops" album on the Radio 1 roadshow in 1974 and tickets to see Eric Clapton this year from Radio 2. I have also won a couple of CDs and DVDs on the local radio station in the last couple of years.
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  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,935 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    AnnieH wrote:
    I've never known anyone to win anything from these sits and magazines offering huge prizes. Namely Take a Break, My Offers, !!!!!! etc....

    Are they just a swizz?
    I did every puzzle in Take a Break for a year and never won a thing. I don't think they are a swizz but I think they get thousands and thousands of people entering them so the chances of you winning anything are slim.
    2008 Comping Challenge
    Won so far - £3010 Needed - £230
    Debt free since Oct 2004
  • my friend won a £2500 kitchen about 8 yrs ago from take a break
  • BlondieE
    BlondieE Posts: 266 Forumite
    My cousin won a luxury weeks trip to new york, 5 star hotel plus spending money. From Hello magazine
  • I've been doing competitions for quite a few years and the prizes really are out there, I've won about 9 holidays by just sending in postcards or collecting tokens and last year won £5,000 in a slogan comp - the prizes really do exist!
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