Ever opened a wrapper that said 'You win!'?

cashback · 27-02-2007 01:24AM #1

Cos I sure haven't!!
All the years buying mars bars to try win a football jersey, Pringles to win an ipod, Cans of Coke to win a holiday.
Have you ever won something worth talking about?
Think I won a free packet of perri crisps once...

Mossy Monk · 27-02-2007 01:40AM

i won crisps and a can of coke

Blush_01 · 27-02-2007 01:56AM

I won a trip to New York once. Back in 2003. It was only for 4 days, but still, worth the price of a stamp!

27-02-2007 02:17AM

Mr Coffee Coffeemaker.

biko · 27-02-2007 02:21AM

The wrapper on my last Durex

Ruu_Old · 27-02-2007 02:32AM

cashback wrote:

Cos I sure haven't!!
All the years buying mars bars to try win a football jersey, Pringles to win an ipod, Cans of Coke to win a holiday.
Have you ever won something worth talking about?
Think I won a free packet of perri crisps once...

Them were the days, found 4 free bag vouchers in the one packet and that was a fairly regular occurrence.

Splinter · 27-02-2007 11:14AM

won a jersey with the last coke promotion, got the irish rugby jersey for nothing

that was kool, saved me spending the 75euro on it

Donegal Lass · 27-02-2007 11:21AM

My friend won that Villa for ten thing that was a prize on a Cadburies Dairy Milk bar! Shes really feckin jammy though...she also won a weekend for 2 in Barcelona on the radio last month!! Biatch!!:mad:

phantom_lord · 27-02-2007 11:25AM

never

Hagar · 27-02-2007 11:33AM

I won a packet of Walker's when I bought a Toyota Corolla once.*

*may not be 100% true

digitally-yours · 27-02-2007 11:34AM

I used to eat "Morro" choclate

but always found "better luck next time " and in getting that luck i was gaining wait so i just stopped eating choclates altogather and turn their marketing on its head upside down !

Terry · 27-02-2007 11:55AM

Just the odd can of coke and a bag of crisps.
Nothing major that I can remember.

smashey · 27-02-2007 11:57AM

I got one of the i-pods from walkers crisps and a football from a can of coke last year.

Archeron · 27-02-2007 11:59AM

I used to find it quite a regular occurance to open the wrapper of a lucky lolly when I was a kid and find the magical Number 5 on ths inside thus winning me yet another free lucky lolly. After winning 10 lollies from your original 5p, and half your teeth fell out, it began to turn into a bit of a vicious circle though.

cold_filter · 27-02-2007 12:01PM

Years ago when i was in school, perri crisps ran a promotion where you could win £1000 or a bag or crisps i won quite a few packets of crisps, then at my school sports day while standing on the stage i opened up a packet..... it told me i won £1000 i jumped around like a lunatic for about ten mins, then i actually read the thing,i needed to send in my coupon and it would be entered into a draw i was devastated....:(

Faith · 27-02-2007 12:03PM

I used to work in a place that did children's birthday parties a few years ago, when Walkers were giving away money in their bags of crisps. We used to have to fill big trays with Walkers crisps for the kids parties every day. I won between €5 to €30 a day for a few weeks!

GreenHell · 27-02-2007 12:14PM

Won a 10 euro out of a packet of crisps once, that was a great day.

smashey · 27-02-2007 12:15PM

I also opened a can of beer one night and £10 popped out but no beer. :mad:

petes · 27-02-2007 12:29PM

Nope never.:(

Splinter · 27-02-2007 12:41PM

smashey wrote:

I also opened a can of beer one night and £10 popped out but no beer. :mad:

aww duno if id smile or cry if that happened

Marksie · 27-02-2007 12:43PM

Faith wrote:

I used to work in a place that did children's birthday parties a few years ago, when Walkers were giving away money in their bags of crisps. We used to have to fill big trays with Walkers crisps for the kids parties every day. I won between €5 to €30 a day for a few weeks!

i havent wone anything, not even the little blue bag in the salt your own.

Faith: Have you ever seen "the green wing" where the medical students put the walkers crisps through the MRI scanner to get the ones with the money in?
My sister-in law was the lucky one: she won 5K in flights and hotels anywhere in the world (this was 10 years ago) from american express. they went to the states, thailand, bali, hong kong and had enough for the isle of white.
She then won 2K in a lottery and just last week 2K at bingo!

smashey · 27-02-2007 12:45PM

splinter wrote:

aww duno if id smile or cry if that happened

It turned out okay. I bought another dozen.:)

Terry · 27-02-2007 12:51PM

Do perri still make crisps?

cold_filter · 27-02-2007 12:53PM

I'm not sure, they still do popcorn i think

yom 1 · 27-02-2007 01:28PM

Terry wrote:

Do perri still make crisps?

Yeah you still find the odd pub that serves them
Actually think you can get their crisps in Aldi's or Lidl

cashback · 27-02-2007 10:31PM

At least I'm not the only one with no luck whatsoever.
I was looking at Cadbury Dairy Milk bars in the shop a few weeks ago.
Win €10,000 instantly or something. The thing is, the outter wrapper can easily slide off and back on again, thus revealing the win or lose message.
Would any shop workers be that devious?
I wonder.

TOPDAWG · 28-02-2007 01:29AM

smashey wrote:

I also opened a can of beer one night and £10 popped out but no beer.

Homer: Aw, twenty dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer's Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how!
Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Homer: Woo-hoo!

^^^^^^^^^^^
Think that covers that!!

cashback wrote:

The thing is, the outter wrapper can easily slide off and back on again, thus revealing the win or lose message.
Would any shop workers be that devious?
I wonder.

YES! YES! THEY WOULD!!
I remember years ago working in a shop while Coke were running a promo on free bottles, check the label and see if ud won kinda thing. So what we'd do is go through all the bottles in the fridge to find the winning ones and stick them to oneside, then we would purchase a winning bottle,hand over the winning wrapper and go select our free bottle of coke...which (amazingly) would also be a winning bottle!!! INCREDIBLE COINCIDENCE NO!?!?!

ha ha. we'd get like ten bottles for the price of one. simpler times. oh and the laughing as we'd watch some kid eagerly rip off his wrapper in the hopes of another free bottle knowing he'd had two chances of winning!! haha.

Evil but yet simpler times.

KamiKazi · 28-02-2007 01:57AM

ah, the days of getting free cool-pops just by picking ones with the number 10 printed on em

Skyuser · 28-02-2007 02:20AM

I got a free phone from Coca Cola. It was worth hundreds at the time. When camera phone were really expensive.

Karl Hungus · 28-02-2007 02:27AM

Yep, got a few bags of crisps back in the day, but nothing like money or anything.

unreggd · 28-02-2007 02:53AM

I always had a superhuman ability to read the inside of drink labels to see if I won

years ago usta win free cinema tickets on diet coke ever time, and the same with video rentals on Sprite

also won Walkers and a bar

Ever opened a wrapper that said 'You win!'?

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