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  • Blulu
    Blulu Posts: 7,846 Forumite
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    It was a Bosch cordless wine opener thing which I eventually sold on eBay, once I could bring myself to part with it :D Selling it on was fab; like winning twice :)
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  • hannahlw85
    hannahlw85 Posts: 36 Forumite
    I first started comping about 5 years ago and didn't enter comps like I do now as I didnt know about the comping community and sites like this to help, so had very few wins and ended up stopping. Back then my first win was some Coleen Rooney books and perfume.
    I started comping again about 20 months ago, only entering a couple a day, and my first win this time around was a load of skin care - cleansers, creams etc that was just perfect for my skin, and a special light designed to kill the bacteria that causes acne. It was the ideal win for me at that time, and was won only a week after I started up again, so spurred me on to continuing my hobby and entering many more a day.
    Still waiting for that big win, or even just a bigger win like a washing machine as I so desperately need one - mine puts bad smells into my clothes if I dont take them out straight away, talk about backwards!!, let alone a Real Deal win, so will keep comping and my fingers crossed that lady lucky will sprinkle some luck on me someday to achieve my dream of those bigger wins.
  • Keeley1986
    Keeley1986 Posts: 130 Forumite
    First was about 2004/2005, I won a massive hamper of summer goodies.
    Radio, frisbee, picnic hamper with cutlery/crockery/salt and pepper shakers etc, razor to get my legs outin the sun I assume haha.
    I only did comps for a few days, maybe a week and still have no idea where it came from.

    Since I started comping properly in 2012, my first prize was a gorgeous wicker hamper full of food.
    I won about 2 days into comping through Twitter.
    Comping since Feb 2012.

    Best wins - Pram, £800+ Baby equipment, Big :eek: gadget bundle, Summer hamper, £500 worth Freeze 24/7 products, Sony Xperia Z, £200 worth tanning/beauty products.
  • Luckyone
    Luckyone Posts: 23,016 Forumite
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    I've seen a lot of lovely new people winning their first wins which is brilliant :T & this started me thinking :p

    What was your first ever win?

    Mine was a cross stitch kit of a horse in a field I have still got it, it's still in kit form hopefully one day I will get around to doing it

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  • Moneybot
    Moneybot Posts: 11,389 Forumite
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    The Fine Art of Surfacing by The Boomtown Rats on vinyl in a local radio competition when it was released.:j

    Umm I was in fact comping as a child...

    A very young child...

    A baby in fact ;)
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  • System
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    Mine was a signed Ryan Giggs football shirt :)

    When I first started, I entered everything and anything. I didn't want that shirt....I don't even like football.....to be totally honest, I didn't even know who Ryan Giggs was!!! I sold the shirt but got a nice amount for it.

    Since then, I only enter things I want :p
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  • tghe-retford
    tghe-retford Posts: 1,019 Forumite
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    £1000 from ASDA and I got that WEM not long after I split up from my ex and just before Christmas. It was a good Christmas that year! :D
  • Barnabysue
    Barnabysue Posts: 9,058 Forumite
    A 3 months supply of Ayds (remember those) they were a kind of toffee that you ate before meals and they were supposed to stop you eating so much. This was about 35 years ago, I was overweight then and I'm overweight now, so they didn't even work :o
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  • nanto3girls
    nanto3girls Posts: 5,974 Forumite
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    I was 10 (62) now,when i won my first competion.Long before the days of the internet.
    It was an EP,(vinyl record) from Typhoo tea.
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