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Have you ever won anything online?

  • 15-01-2015 8:29am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭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



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


    The Nigerian lottery.

    18 times or so.


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


    So, how are skoda treating you these days Chris?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Great boot in a Skoda


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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!


  • 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 ..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    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.


  • 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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,409 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭wijam


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Sarn


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


  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    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....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭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,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    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.


  • 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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,498 ✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,402 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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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,821 ✭✭✭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.


  • 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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


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


  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,810 ✭✭✭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.


  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    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!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    I won and ebay auction once.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭al_E_kat


    An iPad mini on Twitter :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,921 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    al_E_kat wrote: »
    An iPad mini on Twitter :D

    You bitch :D how we envy you right now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Does Paddy Power count :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭al_E_kat


    Chris___ wrote: »
    You bitch :D how we envy you right now

    Haha I wanted one but couldn't afford it figured what have I got to lose by entering a few competitions!!!


    *Sent from my ipad* :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Your Superior


    My son won a new snowboard and a full set of kit, boots etc in 2012 from a Twitter competition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I won a signed Best of Mike Oldfield CD.

    They got my name wrong on the attached compliments slip but still, pretty sweet.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭NormalBob Ubiquitypants




  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    I win stuff every so often but the best prize I won online last year was a Heineken competition: 2 Champions Club tickets to the Chelsea v Maribor Champions League match at Stamford Bridge. We got a private tour of the stadium, access to the lounge with loads of food and beer, seats in the Champions Club section, and they gave us Champions League footballs to take home as well!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    No, I've won nothing. Not even an argument :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Entered an online fantasy forumla 1 game back in like 2003. It was run by BPM engery drinks (if you remember those minging things).

    Anyway, I started off going through the process of picking my car chasis, engine, driver. Then it start asking me about supension settings and tyres and stuff, I haven't a clue about F1 so I just selected soft for everything!

    6 Months later a guy delivered a crate of BPM and an F1 game to my house with a letter. I had won that months race meet apparently. I was delighted, completely forgotten about the game. Hadn't even looked at it since I had created the team.

    Couldn't even remember my login to see the game! Forgot about it agian when I got a later two months later to said I had won that quarters race meeting (or something along those lines).

    Won a two day trip for two to silverstone, flights, accomodation, 500 pounds spending money. Was delighted!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Every so often when I click a porn link I win a million dollars or a green card to america


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,768 ✭✭✭dmc17


    "Congratulations, you have won a new Skoda Fabia." Thanks OP!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    won a boards competition a few years back on one of the talk to forums, loadsa goodies just in time for christmas.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There's a poster, Sarannewrap, she used to win everything. Wonder if she still does!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    A HTC One, two tickets to Oxygen and dinner for two at a Michelin starred restaurant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,325 ✭✭✭smileyj1987


    I thought I won a free boat but I ended up getting arrested .


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