Ever won in a raffle?

Badly Drunk Boy · 10-04-2015 10:56PM

About 8 years ago there was a raffle in work, in aid of the brother of a co-worker. One of the people selling the tickets asked if I'd be interested, as the tickets were €10, the only prize was a €1000 holiday voucher, and the draw would take place at 1.30 in the canteen. I gave him the tenner and said "Will you drop the prize in to me at 1.45, please?"

When he came back, he said "How did you do that? HOW DID YOU DO THAT?" Myself and the girlfriend got a very nice holiday out of it.

And people say that positive thinking doesn't work...

:pac:

tomwaterford · 10-04-2015 10:57PM

EGriff wrote: »

I've heard you can look into the future with a crystal bowl.

:pac:
All I've ever seen us the ground!!

Such a pointless prize

I can't really give em away...as I feel it would be bad luck to give away something you won??

tomwaterford · 10-04-2015 11:00PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Very, fish need proper tanks, even little goldfish.

You could put floaty candles on some of them, or pot pourri or ... I don't know
Raffle them off yourself

I've not taught on floaty candles....would make a nice feature I guess

Are they really that bad for fish...even if you were to adapt in the proper pump thing?

eternal · 10-04-2015 11:00PM

EGriff wrote: »

I've heard you can look into the future with a crystal bowl.

Crystal BALL, crystal BALL.

lycan238 · 10-04-2015 11:05PM

A bottle of wine (when I was 11 years old), a tin of biscuits (same raffle) a hotel voucher for €250, €50 cash and an easter egg hamper over the years. Must have sold about ten grand worth of raffle tickets over the last ten years.

osarusan · 10-04-2015 11:07PM

Won a bottle of 2008 Chateau Brane-Cantenac at a university function a few months ago. Saved it for a special occasion (3rd prize in the function, so we all thought it must be decent) but nobody really liked it in the end.

10-04-2015 11:08PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

I've not taught on floaty candles....would make a nice feature I guess

Are they really that bad for fish...even if you were to adapt in the proper pump thing?

A small bowl? yes, definitely bad
Imagine if someone stuck you in a lift!

nuttlys · 10-04-2015 11:09PM

In college I was on a ski trip, locked off my rocker in a pub on THE group night out. The pub owner put on a raffle, with a snowboard as the main prize.

As I said I was hammered, so I as a good business student I approached the pub owner to negotiate the price of a book. After a minute or two, I had a book in my hand for €200. I reckoned the board was worth 350-400, and I was going to purchase one anyway, I figured.

Went back to my friends. A girl comes round "who wants to buy a strip?" couple of my friends purchase a few, she comes to me, I show her the book (my most ross o'carroll kelly moment in my life) and the rest of my mates stop purchasing.

So I wait for my ticket. Down the back of this pub. Waiting for a BROWN ticket. Any brown ticket.

The draw starts, I'm occupied so I miss the start of it. "....AND ITS A BROWN TICKET!..."

I run up to the front of the pub, ecstatic in my win. Only to realise I had won third place, a dinner for two. I sober up real quick.

Long story short - I don't win second prize (my nerves), but I win the board, which I still have. Plus a good story.

MonkstownHoop · 10-04-2015 11:36PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

I grew cabbage in another one of the bowls one time....like I've about 8 of em...good sized ones....I taught on using them As fishbowls....though I dunno would that be unhealthy for the fish??

I once had to put my goldfish in one just for an hour while I bought a new bowl, when I came home it was on the ground but still alive

brummytom · 10-04-2015 11:42PM

I won a bottle of Sambucca at a fundraiser for a trad festival thing at Christmas. I'd already had a serious amount of drink at that point, and after a few sips of the bottle, I sat down to play a few tunes, put the bottle in my case.. but forgot to zip it up.

Ended up fcuking the bottle across the floor and didn't notice the dozen people clearing it up. So I don't really deserve to win raffles.

harry Bailey esq · 11-04-2015 12:00AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

She had no idea of the revenues of the charity for the previous year. She couldn't tell me the breakdown of the spend on wages and administration vs charitable works, she didn't know the average wage of the office staff, only that she wasn't paid - not the question I asked!, etc.

If I'm selling a product I know it inside out. She didn't as she clearly wasn't interested enough to do the research on the charity she represented. Disintersted!

Its only a fiver man have a heart.Besides,if she was in a position to explain off the top of her head the ins and outs of admin costs,staff wages and the day to day running of a charitable organisation she wouldn't be volunteering her free time shaking buckets in a boozer that's for sure.

11-04-2015 12:10AM

I won tickets to the Ireland/Australia rugby-ball-kicking thing at Landsdowne a few years ago, but couldn't and didn't want to go.
Gave the tickets to my friend who gave them to her brother, who I didn't like, and I was annoyed he was getting a day out courtesy of me.

poisonated · 11-04-2015 01:39AM

I won a trip to lap land, a trip to Disneyland... Oh yeah, I also won bottle of wine when I was 10

Badly Drunk Boy · 11-04-2015 01:46AM

I bought my house on 17-12-1997. Between 27-11-1997 and 23-12-1997, I won second prize in the Credit Union draw (£200 plus 5 nights in one of the Great Southern hotels), £150 & £100 (in the same raffle), and a stereo at the work Christmas party.

Yet people seem to think that I'm lucky or something!

Mint Aero · 11-04-2015 01:52AM

Came close once. Eleven came out but I had two upside down ones.

diomed · 11-04-2015 01:55AM

Yes. Ford Escort.

MarkAnthony · 11-04-2015 04:00AM

No I've never been won in a raffle OP. Have you?

Dozer Dave · 11-04-2015 04:04AM

MarkAnthony wrote: »

No I've never been won in a raffle OP. Have you?

Me neither, any news?

MarkAnthony · 11-04-2015 04:07AM

Dozer Dave wrote: »

Me neither, any news?

None, other than porn for the Oculus Rift is awesome.

Dozer Dave · 11-04-2015 04:09AM

MarkAnthony wrote: »

None, other than porn for the Oculus Rift is awesome.

That filth will rot your head, take in some fresh air. Write a book maybe.

Connemara Farmer · 11-04-2015 09:24AM

Won a horse box worth 6k once, sold it for 4k 6 months later.

MarkAnthony · 11-04-2015 02:47PM

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

Won a horse box worth 6k once, sold it for 4k 6 months later.

Why didn't you sell it for 6K there and then...? duh!

ManOnFire · 11-04-2015 03:01PM

Won a 22 inch tv before and also a Guinness branded hurley and case for the hurley

Connemara Farmer · 11-04-2015 03:18PM

MarkAnthony wrote: »

Why didn't you sell it for 6K there and then...? duh!

Gee I wonder why.

An item is worth only what someone is willing to pay for it, not what the dealer/manufacturer says it's worth, unless you're buying from them - even then you can bargain.

Mesrine65 · 11-04-2015 03:45PM

Giant Toblerone

hairyslug · 11-04-2015 03:49PM

A 42" Sony brava tv about 6 years ago in a work christmas raffle, competition was fixed though, not that I'm complaining

Samsgirl · 11-04-2015 03:59PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

I've won a surprising amount of glass crystal?? Bowls in raffles over the years and literally have no idea what to do with them

The joys of being from Waterford. We lived in a council house & we had crystal chandeliers and lamps. Not to mention the walking sticks, swans etc..

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 11-04-2015 04:09PM

I was in a pub once and there was a raffle on, some couple were having a domestic and the girl stropped out, the young fella gave me and my friend a load of raffle tickets on his way out after her.

One of those ticket won us two cinema tickets (it was a sh1t raffle). Anyways then I lost the tickets a couple days later.

It's one of my go-to anecdotes at parties.

SMJSF · 11-04-2015 04:57PM

I won a jar of jelly tots in 3rd class at a Christmas raffle in school for guessing the closest amount....
My foster mum at the time found them in my bag and took them off me.
Only thing I've ever won. I still hate her for it to this day.

WinnyThePoo · 11-04-2015 05:12PM

When I was twelve i won a raffle at a table quiz with my parents.

I won aload of pots and pans which i gave to my mom and an enrique iglelsias cd which i kept. 'You can be my hero baby'

Ever won in a raffle?

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