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Whats the biggest prize you've ever won?

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  • Finch7
    Finch7 Posts: 1,428 Forumite
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    Wahh i get so excited readin this post!!:j :beer: :j

    The biggest i have won is £100 of iceland vouchers from real people, still waiting for them to be delivered and giving them to my parents as they have a massive bbq for me for my birthday and it will go towards that:D
  • hjb123
    hjb123 Posts: 32,002 Forumite
    Towards the end of last year I won a nights dinner, bed and breakfast at a boutique hotel in Edinburgh which was worth about £250 I think. Was great to get away (even though we had to pay for travel etc) as we managed to do it over my brithday as a treat
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  • maniac886
    maniac886 Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    How many comps do you guys enter on average on a daily basis? Also when you enter daily to you enter comps that end near that day or do just enter every new comp that appears every day if you get me?

    I think I am doing about 40 a day so far and have only won office 2007 so far...
    "He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure,
    He will kill your cat and nail him to the door" :eek:
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  • bibbly
    bibbly Posts: 267 Forumite
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    ooh, me miss, me miss - jumps up and down in excitement!

    last year i won a chauffeur driven car to a west end show of my choice (The Rat Pack), then champagne and dinner at a posh restaurant (can't remember what it was called). worked out that it was worth about £500.

    never ever ever ever won anything before or since. (actually it was a radio competition and i gave the WRONG answer on air but the dj misheard me!!) i said "Monte Carlo" and the answer was "Monaco" ... same sort of thing anyway!!

    bibbly
    x
  • Roberta1
    Roberta1 Posts: 649 Forumite
    I won a weekend in Scotland for the whole family in a 5* hotel, with £600 spending money, flights, taxis and meals out provided - worth about £2k.

    I have also won a satnav, mobile phone, signed Billie Piper Dr Who goodies and £500 TK Maxx vouchers.
  • greyskittles
    greyskittles Posts: 877 Forumite
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    I still haven't won anything big... But I've had a collossal amount of small prizes, so it's alllllllllll good :)
  • welshboyk
    welshboyk Posts: 50 Forumite
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    £4000 diamond and a trip to amsterdam to collect it!! only this month my first win!! keep going you'll do it. Im off next month to pick it up

    I gave up entering until i won, keep going, if it can happen to me it can happen to you
  • PisceanPet
    PisceanPet Posts: 10 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    I hardly enter anything - I'm rubbish at tie breakers and I refuse to pay for premium rate phone numbers, so I tend to only enter odd online and radio comps. Previously I'd only won a video from Radio Leicester, a meal for 10 at a local pub from Mercia, a Bon Jovi t-shirt, and a bottle of champagne from one of my suppliers.

    Then I hit big! I won a huge prize from Red Bull last year!!! They took us to the Red Bull Air Race in Budapest (top hotel, flight in an aerobatic plane, full hospitality etc)...
    Then they gave us tickets to the Autosport Awards (met loads of famous people and had a fab night out)
    And then..... unbelievably they also sent us on a VIP holiday to the Australian Grand Prix a few weeks ago! Flew us business class, top hotel, pit straight grandstand seats and passes to the Red Bull marquee all weekend.

    It took a long time to sink in that I'd actually won it, and I'm still smiling about it! Wouldn't have a clue how much all that adds up to - an awful lot I guess.
  • freebird65
    freebird65 Posts: 1,751 Forumite
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    Wow, PisceanPet - that's an outrageous prize!! Well done!

    I entered one of those silly email comps a couple of years ago for Mazda - you know the ones, answer a couple of questions and click submit - and won a raceday at Rockingham. It was on car-mad OH's birthday so guess who I took along?

    For 5/6 hours we got to do loads of different racing challenges in different Mazda cars, finishing with a Zoom-Zoom challenge in actual race-spec cars around the main track, first with an instructor (scared me half to death) and then on our own, racing against each other.

    Brilliant day out!
  • catz747
    catz747 Posts: 20,381 Forumite
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    I won a Tahitian pearl and platinum ring (worth £1165) - should have it by Friday :D Wooohoooo! Thanks Kipper :D

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=445301&highlight=ring
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