I was once in a raffle where I was the only name that did not get picked. Does that count?
My mom won an instant win giveaway game on my Coke rewards over a decade ago, got a ps3 move kit.
Played that thing to death, logged over 1k hours in Skyrim in 2012 on that machine.
My family participated in the Comedy Central thanksgiveaway back in 2008 and won a Wii. We already had a Wii, but were plenty stoked for the second one.
Yes! A very nice person on Lemmy gave away 6 months of mullvad, and I was the first reply. That really made my whole week, super nice of them
Yes, when I was much younger I won 2nd place in a Diablo II fan site giveaway. You had to answer 5 difficult trivia questions about Diablo II to be entered into a drawing and my name was selected second, so second place.
Unfortunately, I never received my prize. The prize was shipped to the wrong state, they used the wrong two letter abbreviation. If I recall correctly the city & street was a valid address in the other state. I tried to contact the organizers and the post office (obviously they couldn’t help) but it never planned out.
I think my prize would have been a small Diablo figurine.
a ps4, sorta.
this is gonna sound weird but giveaways used to be illegal here. there have been laws about lotteries since the 1300s, and in the 1700s the king decided that lotteries needed to have his personal stamp of approval or they were illegal. this has been changed and churned over the years but as it last stood, even temporary lotteries needed to have a license to operate from the local government. this also meant that only the state was allowed to run casinos. weird, i know. this only changed in 2019, at which point we got inundated with commercials for online casinos and the part of our healthcare system that deals with gambling addictions instantly collapsed.
anyway, to get around the need to seek a lottery license, giveaways usually had an “utslagsfråga”, an elimination question. this way the person managing the giveaway can show that there was some skill involved in the selection process, which makes it a contest and not a lottery. so technically i won a contest for a ps4, not a giveaway.
A popular instant soup brand was doing a 3 month long Air Fryer giveaways, 2000 every month. Partner got to know about it near the end of first month and somehow deduced that it must be an early bird thing. We sent in our entry at midnight when new month began and saw our name in the list 15 days later. By the end of the 3 months, 9 of our close acquaintances were proud winners of air fryers!
I wrote to the show Video & Arcade Top 10 and they sent me a copy of Super Mario 64.
When I was a kid in the mid-90s, my mum won a pair of rollerblades that were in my size from a raffle at the local shop. I wore them and loved them for about 3 days until I was chased and threatened by homophobes 🤷 That was the end of that 😒 I’m not trying to fight off gangs of older kids on my own while wearing bewheeled shoes. I’m not even gay, but wearing rollerblades was akin to licking bumholes back then, apparently.
A “golden” PS4 from Taco Bell
A 100$ gift card for Amazon US
I’m from EU 🙂
Yup, I’ve won a couple things. I won some tickets to a concert which I handed over to friends since I don’t go to concerts, and I also won some art supplies!
I won the big LTT screwdriver in a giveaway
I actually won twice.
The first time was on a radio show and I won two tickets to see the first Ice Age film.
The second time was recently, I won a youtube giveaway, and I won a painting. The guy was asking so much for shipping that I stopped replying.
I was at a LAN party about twenty years ago put together by a buddy. Roughly a hundred people, and my friend really went all out getting sponsors for it - I think some of them may have been under the impression there’d be about five times the number of people present, because there was a lot of stuff - not counting cheap swag, we had prizes for three or four tourneys plus about a dozen draws. I won a pretty high end CPU/mobo combo.
Most valuable prize was a copy of Maya; think it was worth about $6000 at the time. The company that donated it stipulated it go to someone with an interest in 3D modeling so rather than a random draw, everyone who was interested faced off in a rock, paper, scissors elimination. I made it to the final round and lost - my opponent psyched me out saying “Rock always wins,” I threw scissors, he won with rock.
