Crappy PrizesCompetitions, raffles, give-aways... sure the prizes look great, but don't they always turn out a bit crap should you happen to win them?
The last raffle I bought tickets for, they'd just given away the all-expenses paid weekend in New York when my number came up. Rushing up to find out what I'd won, I was a little disappointed to be handed a box of "Biscuits for Cheese". Especially as they were busy serving the cheese course (complete with biscuits) as they drew the raffle.
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chthonic, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 11:16)
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I once manged to win a bus trip around Europein a pub promotion "Weakest Link" type quiz that went on far too long and ended up with it being just myself and a girl who worked in the bar. Eventually managed to get my question right and won the month-long trip. That was by bus. That you had to pay for food, lodgings, ferry trips and pretty much everything except the first ride out of the terminal.
Mind you, as part of the promotion I also won 40 pints of Kronenburg that had to go that night so I and a number of friends, some of whom I'd actually met before, necked the lot. Made the bus trip seem more attractive but I still didn't go.
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S tr app y, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 20:48,
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