Ever had to (reluctantly) refuse/pass a prize?

andrew71

As there ever been a time when you've had to regretfully refuse a prize?
For example a getaway or concert that falls on a special event last like a wedding or even a funeral?
Or a white good or furniture prize that you found out wouldn't fit into your home?

Monkey_Chinchilla

Can’t recall refusing a prize but have won some stuff I couldn’t use, at least not for its intended purpose.

I always wanted a free-standing bath so was made up when I won one but it didn’t fit in my bathroom so it sat in the shed for years. Had no luck selling it so just last week, I put it in the garden and converted it into a vegetable / herb garden. Waiting for a comp looking for photos of imaginatively upcycled stuff :rotfl:

Marg2k8

I won some tickets to a festival of light that I was looking forward to, but I was ill and couldn't go.

samfa

I won an Easter Egg this year, found out it was collection only - in Exeter (I'm in London)!

Blueyez

Won flowers that turned out to be collection only, I was in the wrong part of the country. I don't like entering comps that don't have Ts&Cs anymore so it has only happened the once (touch wood!)
Also won tickets to the first screening of Big hero 6 at my local Odeon, but a few of us woke up with Chicken Pox the day before so we couldn't go.

Autumnella

Won tickets to a show for the day after, had to turn it down as there was no way I could arrange childcare and get sorted in time.

Autumnella

Also my first ever prize was an ebook, which I couldn't use as it turn out to be through itunes and only compatible on apple devices, which I don't have.

Misslayed

I won a runner up prize of a week's holiday in a self catering apartment in Portugal, not included the flights, transfers and estimated food costs were much more than we could afford so we couldn't go.

l1sa

I Was Supposed To be in Ibiza this weekend with my daughter decided the day before she didn!!!8217;t want to go because the weather wasn!!!8217;t going to be nice and she would rather stay home were the weather is hot so a weekend away has gone to waste in an amazing boutique hotel because the name change on the flight would of cost £195 and nobody was able to go due to working or not being prepared to pay the name change cost for 2 days away.... Next holiday I win if am lucky I will not be taking her that!!!8217;s for sure

grannybiker

A couple of years ago I was thrilled to win Download tickets.
Unfortunately, I hadn't been 100% healthwise and there was no way I could have gone to such a huge gathering with dubious sanitation. Gutted
However, I was able to pass them on to another comper's daughter and Mr GB and I enjoyed a more formal weekend away instead.

oliveoyl

A week's holiday to Marbella, inc. flights & hotel... my partner got diagnosed with cancer, so we couldn't go - my brother and his gf went instead.