The Dark Side Of The Moon – Immersion Box Set over a decade ago in an online contest. Wasn’t super familiar with Pink Floyd at the time so I didn’t think much of it.
I have tried to win the lottery. You need to choose three numbers from 0 to 9 to form a three-digit number. If the numbers and their order are exactly the same as the winning numbers, the prize money is $136.
I won a competition. I wrote a story about a disabled child that, now I think back on it, was alllll kinds of wrong. Anyhoo, I won a trip to the Christmas circus in Rotterdam, a fancy dinner in the Euromast and first class train tickets to get there.
I won a hundred and one dollars from a radio call in contest, but I did have to split it with my brother. I got all my siblings to call in with me, and if we won, we’d split it. When we went in, they had me sign a document that I couldn’t win anything else from them or their parent company for one year.
Not an official giveaway but some guy on The Other Website got a boatload of coupon codes for Chromecasts on the Play Store, likely by abusing a glitch from a promotion. I don’t know the deets.
Anyway there was a Discord server set up to distribute them and I hopped on. Guy said to make him laugh (he apparently had a stone face), so I sang a few lines of a famous song from my country.
He said “Stop singing and I’ll send you the damn code!”
So he did, I redeemed it, and got 100% off a Chromecast.
Yes fuck Google but hey, free Chromecast.
About 630€ worth of SteelSeries gaming peripherals including their flagship keyboard and mouse at the time.
I had to RMA the keyboard twice because of its input messing up; I didn’t bother trying to replace the third one once that messed up, I just bought a Model M instead. The mouse was fine, albeit very over-engineered; It has an OLED screen on its side and a vibration motor for some reason. Had to RMA that once for wear issues but I still use the second one as it’s a great mouse all things considered.
Their customer support is great, their products not so much.
I was once in a raffle where I was the only name that did not get picked. Does that count?
Won a suitcase style record player! It was a short term in the past when Amazon would do a giveaway once a week.
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.
I won a duffle bag from a planet fitness raffle, after not going there for like 3 months lol.
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 “golden” PS4 from Taco Bell
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.
