Worst prize you've ever received

Abbafan1972

Wow, I really laughed at the Dominic Cummings mask!

Off the top of my head, I won a tarmac pen from the comp that lots of people were winning from a while ago.  The envelope arrived with a compliment slip enclosed saying congratulations etc, but no pen was enclosed!

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Molkomad

A Jedward lunch bag from Asda. I don't even know why I entered....

avery64

A runner up prize........seven tea bags! To make matters worse it was undrinkable.

Rahven

A bottle of fabric stain remover that made my washing smell like **ss

Maro1586

You could use the Dominic Cummings mask as a cleaning cloth, maybe wash out the plug hole with it or polish it surfaces with his face 😂 

Maro1586

I can't think of anything bad I have won, I sometimes win silly things, I think I won a nandos cuddly little chicken keyring, which is probably the silliest thing but I definitely wouldn't say I was disappointed, still there's time x

grannybiker

Who remembers the hilarity a few years ago of the vibrating c0ck rings?  Many MSEers were on the winners list so much bawdy humour abounded!

goldfinches

Maro1586 said:

You could use the Dominic Cummings mask as a cleaning cloth, maybe wash out the plug hole with it or polish it surfaces with his face 😂 

You've definitely given me some ideas here, at least I'd have used the blasted thing rather than just chucking it into landfill.

cagsd

My worst prize was one I actually never received.  A couple of weeks before Christmas one year I had a call to say I'd won family tickets to the panto so my kids were really excited to go.  Then just as we were about to set off on the evening of the performance, I happened to check the venue website which said due to technical problems the show wasn't happening that night.  Several emails bounced back and forth, it was rearranged twice, but then the whole show was cancelled.
The prize provider (a local magazine) was supremely unhelpful and not in the least bit bothered about my kids' disappointment.  Obviously it wasn't their fault the show was cancelled but you'd have thought they could have liaised with the panto company or venue or something.  After a month or so, they grudgingly offered, as an alternative prize, a voucher for a specific brand of underwear... but even that never materialised! Chalked it down to experience but it was still annoying.

Other than that, I've had the odd rubbish prize - a few "hamper" prizes which have actually been 2 or 3 cheap items in a jiffy bag or cardboard box, and a couple of years ago a huge box of makeup which looked like an amazing prize but every last item in it was nasty, cheap unusable stuff that one by one got binned!!

However my wins are so thin on the ground these days, that I'd take a rubbish prize over no prize at all 

happysaz133

A years supply of Pringles, which was 12 tins I feel like someone underestimated that!
It wasn't the worst win really, I was grateful, but I certainly didn't feel it was a years worth!