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Have you ever won anything online?

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  • 15-01-2015 8:29am
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    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭


    15 phones all with their own 3g/4g connectivity. Entered this competition http://www.skoda.ie/competition 17 times (two are dual sim phones) won nothing not even the ****ing water bottle. :(

    Yeah I tried cheating it was wrong and I'm sorry fictional baby Jesus but I really wanted that bottle or green cheap sunglasses.

    Last thing I ever won was a Siemens phone in 2004 off a Fanta bottle. I didn't even buy the bottle just found the empty bottle picked it up and entered. Since 2008 I have entered loads of competitions on Facebook, Twitter etc and have won **** all. Then again all the info on my Twitter/Facebook is fake even my name.

    I bet you I will be bombarded now with Test drive the new Octavia blah blah blah. That's a load of new sims to order.

    So whats the best thing you ever won online? Are all these competitions just a scam to get you to test drive the new Octavia?

    No fictional prizes please. You are allowed to rub it in/show off your prize to the losers though.


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    #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,924 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    A book

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    The Nigerian lottery.

    18 times or so.


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    Desolation Of Smug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    So, how are skoda treating you these days Chris?


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    wandatowell
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Great boot in a Skoda


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    #6
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Desolation Of Smug wrote: »
    So, how are skoda treating you these days Chris?

    I don't work for Skoda :D

    To add Skoda cars are the Tesco Value VW and ffs those water bottles are like 20c I should have at least won 5


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    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    I won 2nd prize in a scan.co.uk competition about a year ago. 8gb ram was my reward. 1st prize was a whole gaming rig. . .baxtards!


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    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    you sir have won the internet ...

























    For the most sour/i didnt win anything and im throwing my rattle out of my pram thread ..


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    #9
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    FluffyAngel wrote: »
    For the most sour/i didnt win anything and im throwing my rattle out of my pram thread ..

    I wasted 30 minutes of sending call me's IOUs and typing 17 numbers. I think I deserved a mug or a t-shirt.


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    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    Chris___ wrote: »
    I wasted 30 minutes of sending call me's IOUs and typing 17 numbers. I think I deserved a mug or a t-shirt.

    Why would you get a mug for being a mug?


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    Tzardine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Play lotto online. Won €9 yesterday. The drinks are on me*.




    *Drinks limited to tap water, without ice. One drink per person.Subject to availability.


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,363 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Tzardine wrote: »
    Play lotto online. Won €9 yesterday. The drinks are on me*.




    *Drinks limited to tap water, without ice. One drink per person.Subject to availability.

    Can I keep the glass.


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    wijam
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭wijam


    A laptop on a Microsoft LinkedIn competition, that's about it


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    Sarn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,061 ✭✭✭Sarn


    Two Nokia phones, some cinema tickets and a pair of tickets to the last Ireland v Australia rugby match.


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    harrymagina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 126 ✭✭harrymagina


    Ever see the idiots liking and sharing stuff on fake facebook pages hoping they win something? I have to hold back typing your a f in idiot under it.


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    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,575 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    harrymagina wrote: »
    Ever see the idiots liking and sharing stuff on fake facebook pages hoping they win something? I have to hold back typing your a f in idiot under it.

    An online marketer's wet dream....


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    lazeedaisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭lazeedaisy


    A Christmas hamper via twitter but they never delivered, crap really, bad customer service

    Need a new car (who doesn't) tried the Skoda one the other day, kept getting check your homepage error messages finally gave up,

    Apart from that nothing, but I don't enter many,


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    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    harrymagina wrote: »
    Ever see the idiots liking and sharing stuff on fake facebook pages hoping they win something? I have to hold back typing your a f in idiot under it.

    Imagine how they'd feel if they shared the link and their friend entered it then and won lol.


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    harrymagina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 126 ✭✭harrymagina


    Chris___ wrote: »
    Imagine how they'd feel if they shared the link and their friend entered it then and won lol.

    Yes but I'm on about fake pages


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    recyclops
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭recyclops


    I have won two free meals and night in a hotel in those F**KIN IDIOTIC facebook competitions
    won a trip to a grand prix in barcelona and fair few free tkts.

    having little to do in work is handy sometimes


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    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,258 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    Won a €200 voucher from Entertainment.ie a few years back. I read the rules beforehand and it said that you could enter as many times as you want, so I automated the "Enter Competition" process using the Software Testing program in work. I let it run over night, had about 20,000 entries in the morning.

    They changed the rules afterwards. Ah well.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Mostly tickets to music - couple of other small things but not much. Won tickets to that U2 gig in the Astoria London years ago. They sold for a pretty penny.

    Won a couple of iPod minis some time ago too - but that was easy as they seemed to be giving 1000s of them away at one point - to the point I wondered if anyone who owned one was actually buying them.

    Won a few Nokia Phones back when "Nokia Game" was a thing too. Sold them on too.

    Havent really entered anything of late - so have not been winning anything.


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    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    Won a ps vita from sony playstation irelands facebook account.
    Next day entered same competition, won that book of spells game for the ps3.


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    #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I won a headlamp on boards a few weeks ago thanks to The Great Outdoors :D

    Apart from that, no. Nothing. Never win a thing!


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    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Won an entry to the Bupa London 10,000 and a swimsuit in separate Twitter competitions last year.


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    #26
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    99.99% of it is scams. None of it is worth your time.

    I remember years back, Microsoft had some thing where they had games you could play and earn points. Then redeem the points for real prizes. It was legit, but impossible to get anything worth having without cheating.


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    #27
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,669 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    About 15 cds , tickets to 2 or 3 gigs, a tablet. I don't really enter too many online competitions these days.


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    #28
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Never won anything online or any other place, except I once won a Murphy's ballpoint pen during a promotion night in a Cork pub. There were only about 6 people in the bar. We all got pens.


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    #29
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,234 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    harrymagina wrote: »
    Ever see the idiots liking and sharing stuff on fake facebook pages hoping they win something? I have to hold back typing your a f in idiot under it.

    The worst is people liking and sharing a shop's status 'We've bought a lottery ticket, like and share if you want to share the winnings'. I've seen this a few times, wtf!?


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    #30
    petrolcan
    Registered Users Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    I won and ebay auction once.


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    #31
    al_E_kat
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭al_E_kat


    An iPad mini on Twitter :D


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