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Best/Worst (or most disappointing) wins of 2013...

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BlueBella
BlueBella Posts: 10,374 Forumite
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edited 26 December 2013 at 3:33PM in Compers chat corner
My best...a cheque for £1700!

My worst...I won a £25 voucher to spend at a certain Christmas site and ordered a little Christmas cottage that lit up. Well, when it arrived I was very disappointed with the quality (certainly NOT worth £25!). It looked so cheap and the plastic was cracking and detail and paintwork looked like it had been done by a 3 year old at Nursery! If I hadn't won the voucher I would have sent it back and demanded my money back. I actually put it back in the box and handed it in to a charity shop as didn't even want it on display in my home! It looked nothing like the photo on site! :(
:TA big thanks to all who post and sprinkling lucky dust to all who enter :smileyhea
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  • sarah182xxx
    sarah182xxx Posts: 1,229 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I won, I won, I won!
    Best - Probebly a £250 voucher for Clarins or a huge Thomas the Tank engine bundle for my nephew

    Worst - Nothing really its all free things which I use or can pass to family so grateful for everything

    xxx
    :j First prizes back into comping after a break - romantic break to 2 to Venice/ Paris or Rome with romantic trip and a 42 inch TV and blu Ray amazing !

    Thank you all so much and good luck guys and girls xxxxxx
  • BlueBella
    BlueBella Posts: 10,374 Forumite
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    Best - Probebly a £250 voucher for Clarins or a huge Thomas the Tank engine bundle for my nephew

    Worst - Nothing really its all free things which I use or can pass to family so grateful for everything

    xxx

    I agree Sarah - all wins are a blessing - I have changed the thread title from Best/worst to include 'most disappointing' win of 2013' :j
    :TA big thanks to all who post and sprinkling lucky dust to all who enter :smileyhea
  • Marg2k8
    Marg2k8 Posts: 5,838 Forumite
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    My best prize was a gas barbeque that we won at the end of summer and have not yet had a chance to use.

    My most disappointing was when I received a book as a runner up prize and was thinking I had won first prize, which would have been a nice hamper. It is a book that I will not read and so will probably be given to the charity shop.
  • My best has to be my I Pad as it is soooo useful and quick.
    Nothing really disappointing, the vauxhall corsa golf ball is a bit naff especially as we don't have a Vauxhall.
  • sydroo
    sydroo Posts: 768 Forumite
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    I think the worst prize I've won this year was a fluffy hat thing from WKD, it was a mystery prize from their facebook page. It's truely hideous, bright orange and really badly made, I couldn't bring myself to take it to the local charity shop, I would've been too embarassed and they probably would have chucked it straight in the bin, so I saved them the bother and did that myself.

    The best prize I won was an all expenses paid trip to London from Nivea/Grazia.
  • the best was either my £250 shopping vouchers or my holiday.

    the worst was CD by a couple of blokes off one of the "talent" shows, it almost hurts the ears it's so bad
    proud gran to 4 lovely boys and one little girl
  • kisto
    kisto Posts: 7,075 Forumite
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    My best is a Harley Davidson (which I am not going to receive for several weeks yet).

    and my worse is probably the same as independance - the Vauxhall Corsa Antenna Ball (which my cats now have as a toy) - such a random prize and I have no recollection of entering for it either!
    :T*Thanks to all who posts comps * :j
  • mclarkie
    mclarkie Posts: 13,536 Forumite
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    The best was a Pashley bicycle, the worst was a motorbike training day!
  • lilrahi
    lilrahi Posts: 1,483 Forumite
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    Best - Nokia Lumia 920 - in January and Sony Xperia Z1 in December - lovely way to bookend the year ;)

    Disappointing - a book about the history of potatoes which I don't remember entering
    You'll have to speak up; I'm wearing a towel
  • Best win this year was a VIP trip to Alton Towers - chauffeur driven car from our house to AT, night in the hotel and £400 spending money - we had an amazing time!

    (Although if it counts, I won a trip to Disneyland in Dec 2012 which we went on in Sept 2013 and that was amazing!)

    Most disappointing in a way was a big canvas map I won in March, I chose a map of Europe so my daughter could see where we'd been on holidays etc - it took THREE MONTHS of chasing up to finally arrive, and when it did it was a map of China instead of Europe. They did offer to swap it, but as it had taken so long to arrive in the first place I didn't want to wait another three months to swap, so kept it and it went to a friend who used to live in China (so not that disappointing as it went to a good home, but a big frustrating that it was so much effort to get it and then it wasn't what we asked for!)

    Hope everyone has had a lovely christmas - and best of luck for 2014! :)
    Best of 2011: London Trip,Hot Air Balloon,£1660, phone,Kindle,Trip to Lapland! Total 2011 wins: £6865
    Best of 2012: Trip to Disneyland Paris, £1665 cash/vouchers, trip to Harrogate, trip to Birmingham, £230 vacuum, 2 x mobile phones, Olympics tickets! Total 2012 wins: £6624
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