I didnt win, but he did!!!

SystemFan

A house, 33 cars and 20 trips to Tenerife ... Amazing £1m contest bonanza of man with 600 aliases

A man won almost a £1 million in competitions run by magazines, radio stations and supermarkets – by entering under as many as 600 different identities.
Police officer Yvon Bouvy, 54, won a fully-furnished house, 33 new cars, lorry-loads of electrical goods, and hundreds of holidays to luxury hotels worldwide during a 10-year period.
The officer, of Arlon in southern Belgium, spent all his free time in the local reference library looking up the answers to quiz questions or filling in entry forms.


Eyes on the prize: Bouvy won no fewer than TWENTY holidays to Tenerife


To get round the rules banning multiple entries per person, he used his friends' names and addresses in exchange for a 10 per cent cut of his winnings.
"I had 600 different names to maximise my chances of winning," he said. "It was a full-time job filling in all the forms because I had to disguise my handwriting. and use different pens.
"The biggest moment in my career was when I spent £2,000 pounds buying up copies of a magazine to get the entry forms for a contest for a house, two cars, three time-share apartments and 20 holiday trips to Tenerife.
"The investment was a lot of money - but it paid off as I won every single prize on offer - in different names, of course. I sold off the cars and holidays, but I kept the house and still live in it.
"I remember another supermarket competition where I bought 25,000 cans of Coca-Cola in order to get 1,000 entry forms.
"That was worth it as well as I won a Volkswagen Passat and two VW Golfs.
"Afterwards I sold the Coca-Cola at knock-down prices to some chip shops and I sold the cars back to the showroom. I always did the same with all the big prizes."
Now PC Bouvy has given up his lucrative hobby because of a change in the Belgian law which forces the organisers of competitions to choose the winners by a draw.
"It's not worth all the trouble any more," said PC Bouvy.

Lynsey76

So thats where I'm going wrong! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

hjb123

wow, he sounds mad, none of us are that bad.....are we?

toniq

wow........... xxxx

JodieAnne1

and my OH calls ME a compaholic lol!!

BenhamsLC

you've got to read it to believe it!

pnq06

:eek: I'll give up now then

jacquie3167

Even using a draw, with 600 identities he would still have a better chance than most people of winning!

princessmoneysaver

I know some people think I do nothing but comp (they are almost right lol) but even I wouldn't do that! Personally I think it's awful, if it's true, I least I can say I won all of my prizes fair & sqaure because what he did is cheating in my book.

DUKE

princessmoneysaver wrote: »

I know some people think I do nothing but comp (they are almost right lol) but even I wouldn't do that! Personally I think it's awful, if it's true, I least I can say I won all of my prizes fair & sqaure because what he did is cheating in my book.

Mmmm - I agree with you there Princess.

bargainhuntergal

Oh my goodness, that's completely mad! :eek:

I have trouble finding the time to enter all the ones I want to enter in my own name! :rotfl:(I get distracted way too easily!)