I once won a chance to be in a drawing for a new car.  Problem was, to sign up for the drawing I had make a two hour drive to some out of the way little town.

Hoffman, you're telling me you never heard of a free car contest before the internet? You never heard of a raffle?

 

Yes I have but in most instances selling said information wasnt as easy. I cant even imagine what most peoples email accounts would look like without spam filters.

I wonder how many folks play the powerball?

 

I never knew anybody that won that either, but I know someone does.

 

You know going into powerball that youre putting your money down for a chance. I can see sort of a resemblence but once they take your $3 they then dont get to sell the rights to your email a thousand times over.

 

I once worked for a company who sold 8,000 email addresses from a wrestling company to a company that makes wrestling gear for $15,000. The email addresses didnt vanish when they sold them, they got a copy of it, sold again many times over.

I guess I'll trade spam emails for a 70K Ranger on most days of the week.

Yup.  Email addies are free.

Funny, yet cruel story. Myself and a friend constantly enter a third mutual friend into every contest we come across. Every time we are out somewhere we fill those postcards out, and enter him for cheesy online contests as well. We enter his name, address and phone number, and have been doing this for years. He still has no clue that we do this, but the real funny part, for me at least, was a conversation he and I had a couple years ago. He told me that he gets an unusually high number of solicitation calls and mail, and he couldn't understand it. As a side note, he has never won anything.

Well put is this way, I have entered thousands of these contests never won anything. Spent money on some, entered some tons of times and never won anything. I have been entering contest for years and the only thing I can say is, Brothers never win anything ever.

I've never heard of anyone winning anything and that sure does not mean it never happens or that it's a scam. It's really simple to enter this stuff, just like the lotto, never know, nothing really to loose except for a bunch of emails. Heck, right now or very soon there's an event taking place for armatures only with a payout of 1 million dollars plus a truck and boat. It's happening in real time so I presume it's the real deal. No wonder bass fishing is a 60 billion dollar a year industry in the US lol Lotta money being casted around. 

On 11/18/2021 at 9:02 AM, Zcoker said:

I've never heard of anyone winning anything and that sure does not mean it never happens or that it's a scam. It's really simple to enter this stuff, just like the lotto, never know, nothing really to loose except for a bunch of emails. Heck, right now or very soon there's an event taking place for armatures only with a payout of 1 million dollars plus a truck and boat. It's happening in real time so I presume it's the real deal. No wonder bass fishing is a 60 billion dollar a year industry in the US lol Lotta money being casted around. 

So only windings of an electric motor can win? I wouldn't think they'd be able to use it.

I remember going to the Fred Hall fishing show in the mid-80's and my wife and I filled out a few 'raffle tickets', but there were so many that we could have spent the entire day writing our names, addresses, and phone numbers on those stupid little raffle tickets.

 

The following year, I thought I would be smart about it and had a small rubber stamp made so I could fill out a ton of them and surely have a decent chance to win something. I didn't win anything other than the chance to speak to the hordes of timeshare telemarketers that began calling soon after the show. 

 

The rubber stamp idea was retired, never to be used again.

20 minutes ago, Big Hands said:

I remember going to the Fred Hall fishing show in the mid-80's and my wife and I filled out a few 'raffle tickets', but there were so many that we could have spent the entire day writing our names, addresses, and phone numbers on those stupid little raffle tickets.

 

The following year, I thought I would be smart about it and had a small rubber stamp made so I could fill out a ton of them and surely have a decent chance to win something. I didn't win anything other than the chance to speak to the hordes of timeshare telemarketers that began calling soon after the show. 

 

The rubber stamp idea was retired, never to be used again.

And that's why I never ever filled out any of the raffle tickets. ?

I filled one out at bass pro once for a boat and they begin calling trying to sell me a vacation package !

My brother was a postal inspector, who investigated false workman's comp claims.  He new the guy they were investigating liked to fish.  The man claimed his back was was so bad he couldn't get out of a chair.  The suspect went to a sportsman's show, and put in for every free fishing trip he could.

    Of course they made sure he won a free deep sea fishing trip.  My brother was undercover on the trip and hooked a big fish.  He asked if the suspect could take over because the fish was too big for him to land with his bad back.  The suspect called my brother a wimp, and landed his fish as well as many others.  The other people on the charter asked to go in early because it was rough.  The suspect complained and said he had won a full trip and wasn't going to go in because of a bunch of pansies.  He made them stay out for the full time or give him another trip.

      The Jury found the man guilty and judge threw the book at him.  I guess he won more than he planned on.

      I told my brother that I though it was borderline entrapment.  He asked me why?  I said because if I ever won a free fishing trip, I would go and catch my fish, no matter what injury, or how much pain, even if it killed me.  I guess that is why he neve understood why I liked to fish so much when we were growing up.

Not from a drawing but I caught a tagged fish worth a 2019 Dodge Ram.

 

BassCashBash top prize is a truck or a 19' fully rigged Phonex.

 

https://www.basscashbash.com/

 

 

Back in the late 80’s I won a new boat, motor and trailer in a raffle from the World Bass Association. The WBA was headquartered out of Daytona Beach FL. They had a members only raffle for one of the boats they used in the Battle of the Sexes tournament that was held on lake Eufaula previously that year. Story is it was the boat Tommy Martin used. 
It was a 1750 Drifter ( local boat company) with a 150 evinrude and trailer. Blue flake with yellow stripe ( their corporate colors). I painted the yellow stripe silver which helped. 
Had it for a couple years before loosing it in a divorce. 

I have a friend at work who won the Bassmasters sweep stakes. Bass boat with a 150 hp. He won it around 2019

On 2/16/2014 at 3:56 PM, jhoffman said:

Im beginning to think its all an elaborate scam to get our email address and home address.

It is.   They don’t even need to announce a winner!   I see people dropping their info into a box at the mall.   Nobody follows up to see if anyone actually won.  

I've not won any of those bigger raffles. I once won the top prize plus a lesser prize (nice pocket knife) on a punch board that a mom and pop grocery store had. They ran it until all the punches was gone before giving out the prizes.

 

There was another country gas station that did similar, but they normally gave away used guns. One of the times someone won the gun on the 8th punch. It wasn't long before they stopped doing punch boards.

I 'won' this killer boat, motor, trailer & truck.

Of course I was the only entry and instead of my home & email address,

I gave up my GTO and most of my savings account contents.

Still feels like a win though.

A-Jay