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Whats the biggest prize you've ever won?

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  • When I was younger my mum won some tickets on the radio...my brother and I came home from school and she said she had given them away as she did not want to go to the ballet ...I asked her what ballet was it ..."Spandau Ballet" she replied ......................argggghhhhh at 14 and 15 we would have loved those tickets!!
    I have had brain surgery - sorry if I am a little confused sometimes ;)
  • freebird65
    freebird65 Posts: 1,751 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Biggest (and pretty much only) thing I've ever won was £500 from Equitalk last year.

    I had an email to say every call I made would be entered and I just thought "yeah, yeah" and forgot about it......until I had a letter congratulating me and asking me to confirm my address by return. So I did.....and got a £500 cheque by special delivery......still thought it was a joke until the cheque cleared.

    Now that was buzz!!!

    :D
  • Kat2
    Kat2 Posts: 24 Forumite
    Hi All,

    As I mentioned on another post, the biggest comp I ever won was an all expenses paid holidya to the Caribbean for two. That was a few years ago - 1999 I think! Booked an all inclusive 2-week hol to Barbados worth £3000. It was fantastic. At the time we couldn't afford a holiday and lived in a freezing cold student house in Sheffield. We took the holiday in the February - the perfect time to escape the cold dreary British winter.

    At the time I wasn't entering competitions, so it was a complete one-off! I went to Meadowhall to do my Christmas shopping and had an invite to a Christmas shopping evening at 'Principles'. I only popped in because they were offering a free mince pie and glass of wine (it was evening and I'd not eaten since lunchtime)... Thought I might as well enter the prize draw. Never dreamed I would win!

    Just goes to show, never give up... Someone has to win!

    Kat x
  • I won £500 with kellogs Nutrigrain, digital camera, bike, gas bbq, luxury shower hamper & a holiday to Jerez in Spain with free car hire.
    I am comping crazy, though!
    You can if you think you can!
  • gerretl
    gerretl Posts: 427 Forumite
    Its a toss up between a £400 phone/ hand held PC/ tom tom, and tickets for the queens 50th Jubilee party in Buckingham Palace.
    "Don't critisise what people look like, how they speak, where they are from, and what they are called. They cannot help it.
    Do critisise what they say, and what they do, especially if what they say is different to what they do. They can help that"

    Anon

    "Life is the three weeks and six days between paydays" - gerretl

    £2 savers club =£42
  • I think the biggest prize i've ever won was gold circle tickets for live 8 these bagged me front row position. To me they were priceless lol
  • maniac886
    maniac886 Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    Just bumping the thread to see if there have been any big wins recently!
    "He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure,
    He will kill your cat and nail him to the door" :eek:
    Murphys No More Pies Club Member #95
  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I wish I had. Wins seem to have slowed down just lately.
    2008 Comping Challenge
    Won so far - £3010 Needed - £230
    Debt free since Oct 2004
  • Gemma84_3
    Gemma84_3 Posts: 311 Forumite
    becsxxx wrote: »
    wow! that's fab! where did you win that from?

    Just what i thought :beer:
  • kimnhol
    kimnhol Posts: 61 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Just to give you hope :D We have won a family holiday for 5 of a 3 day pass to Eurodisney, including 3 nights in the disney hotel travel on Eurostar, and £500 spending money. We are so excited, going in July. :j
    2013 the year to be more organised :p
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