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Complete the list if you can

Ok just a little game/idea/boredom or whatever. Have you ever won from this list. If so please post details as described in the example.

Example
Ever won from:
TV Company: TV Comp name (ie UKTV) Prize: (Your biggest prize here if more than one)
I've done a list below of examples of companies for each number
List.
1) National Newspaper: Prize:
2) Regional Newspaper: Prize:
3) Magazine: Prize
4) TV and or Broadband Provider: Prize:
5) TV Company: Prize:
6) Supermarket chain Prize:
7) Large Retail Company: Prize:
8) Localised small business: Prize:
9) Internet only shop: Prize
10) Internet only site: Prize:
11) Food/drink company: Prize:
12) Restaurant/take away company: Prize:
13) Gadget company: Prize:

Example list
1) The Sun, The Guardian
2) Manchester Evening Times: The Liverpool Echo
3) Now Magazine, The Beano
4) Sky TV, Plus net
5) ITV, Discovery Channel
6) Tesco, Spar,
7) Boots, Debenhams
8) Bob's fishing shop in town, Sheila's dry cleaning shop (no idea if true shops:rotfl:)
9) Ebay, Amazon
10) Shortcut, Style
11) Pepsi. Heinz
12) McDonalds, Giraffe Restaurants
13) Sony, Bosch, Hotpoint

Comments

  • Elsbells21
    Elsbells21 Posts: 1,702 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Off the top of my head is actually quite difficult but here goes:

    3) Fabulous - tickets
    6) Sainsbury's - voucher
    7) New Look, Westfields - shoes and vouchers
    9) Liz Earle - hamper
    10) MTV - tickets
    11) Far too many :rotfl:

    I don't think I'm doing too well!
  • cagsd
    cagsd Posts: 7,693 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    3) Magazine - Have won a few times with magazines, a £100 voucher from one of the Look dailies, a £250 voucher from GQ, and a few smaller prizes such as Glamour dailies etc

    7) Large Retail Company - Nisa / Loco won an iPad mini

    8) Localised small business - tickets that never materialised from a local magazine

    10) Internet only site - Christmas dinner ingredients for 8 from a blog, plus another few v small prizes from blogs such as DVDs



    You could also add radio stations - some people have had great prizes from these - I won my Sonos system from XFM a few months ago.
  • nelie
    nelie Posts: 1,568 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    List.
    2) Regional Newspaper: Taz Goodie Bag (I was 7!)

    3) Magazine: CD (Someone I have no idea!)

    4) TV and or Broadband Provider: Sky+ HD Box (Broadband choices)

    6) Supermarket chain: Bunch of flowers (Tesco blog)

    7) Large Retail Company: £300 children's books and £100 for giraffe (Bareface books - as one competition win)

    8) Localised small business: Digital Photo Frame

    9) Internet only shop: Hand-made cards (etsy shop)

    10) Internet only site: Harrods magazine for iPad - £500 for jeans. Silent Mark - £450 silent extractor fans
    December Wins: £300 worth of board games, £500 Tesco Vouchers Best Win in 2023: £500 Tesco Vouchers
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