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  • txteach
    Banned
    • Jun 17, 2005
    • 3769

    Best thing you ever won?

    Could be a raffle, on ebay, or any other place you can win stuff.


    About 15 years ago I went to Las Vegas for the Western Athletic Championship with the Wyoming Cowboys (We Lost) and played black jack the friday before the game. I started with $150 and after 4 hours had $18,600! I quit once I realized how much I had. It helped me have a very easy time in my last year in college. Only other thing I won big was a 7ft snoopy in a middle school raffle. I gave it to my mother.
  • Mikey
    Verbose Member
    • Aug 9, 2001
    • 47242

    #2
    Captain Dunsel's original Kahn Mego custom from his contest.

    I never won anything before or after that

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    • huedell
      Museum Ball Eater
      • Dec 31, 2003
      • 11069

      #3
      I won a thousand dollars when I was in Junior High from a radio station contest

      I think that was the best probably
      "No. No no no no no no. You done got me talkin' politics. I didn't wanna'. Like I said y'all, I'm just happy to be alive. I think I'll scoot over here right by this winda', let this beautiful carriage rock me to sleep, and dream about how lucky I am." - Chris Mannix

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      • jwyblejr
        galactic yo-yo
        • Apr 6, 2006
        • 11141

        #4
        I would have to say the Huffy bike I won in a raffle at a county fair when I was eight.

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        • Comic Book Geek
          Stays Crunchy in Milk
          • Aug 2, 2004
          • 2299

          #5
          A Schwin bicycle when I was 3. One of my earliest memories, and Ronald McDonald presented it to me before a live crowd.

          Since then... well I just won a poster in the raffle.

          ..actually when Heroclix came out I played for the first few years and was way too competitive. I would win local tourney's and back then the prizes were work decent cash on ebay. I sold all my winnings to pay for more figures. At the big tourney in Chicago i came in second. that was my biggest haul.
          Evildoers tremble at the name... Aaron

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          • Mikey
            Verbose Member
            • Aug 9, 2001
            • 47242

            #6
            Oh, I almost forgot, I won a free soda at my local mall theatre raffle when they ran Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown

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            • theantiquetiger
              Fra-gee-lay Thats Italian
              • Nov 12, 2005
              • 3435

              #7
              I had a weekend where me and my girlfriend (now wife) could not lose gambling. We started at the restaurant and won $500 on video poker. Then we went to our regular watering hole and won $500 more dollars. By that time, I said we are going to the boat, we could not lose. We won another $300 or $400 dollars and it was time to go home. I drop her off and when I was heading home, I missed my turn off and ended up at the boat again . I played poker until day break, winning another couple hundred dollars. I had made plains to pick my girlfriend back up at 10 am and go play some more. She about killed me when I told her I went back to the boat with all of our winnings from the night befor, but not after telling her I was up $200 more. We went back that day, played for a few more hours, won another hundred or so. At the end, we won around $1600, ate and drank for free.
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              • RG
                Removed.
                • Oct 1, 2004
                • 235

                #8
                When EP III product display stuff was all over the local stores, the local Safeway took all of theirs and had a raffle for the whole lot of them. Both my dad and I bought tickets and just put our last names on it so it was either one he bought or one I bought but we won There was a R2 cooler, Yoda air mattress thing, Pepsi cardboard cutouts of Vader and Chewy, Lays cardboard cutouts of Vader and Yoda and two Kelloggs/Keebler 3-D cutouts with vader and a small picture of Yoda, Chewy and 3 PO very cool stuff

                I also won $500 from a radio station, KGON out of Portland last fall ... I got me a nice minty Mego Wonder Woman with some of the cash

                I've won $100 or $200 from time to time at the local casinos

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                • HardyGirl
                  Mego Museum's Poster Girl
                  • Apr 3, 2007
                  • 13933

                  #9
                  That's hard to say. I've won so much great stuff on Ebay, (but those are winnings you have to pay for). I've never won anything like a contest or raffle or award or anything. Guess I'm just unlucky that way.
                  "Do you believe, you believe in magic?
                  'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
                  Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
                  If your mission is magic your love will shine true."

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                  • joshvox
                    Clown Prince of Crime
                    • Mar 21, 2006
                    • 1873

                    #10
                    The only thing I've ever won was an autographed Willie Mays baseball. I was probably 10 or 11 and entered a raffle--never won anything before or since.

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                    • namtab29
                      #1 Aquaman Fan
                      • Feb 22, 2005
                      • 1856

                      #11
                      i won over $400 at blackjack in a Nawlins casino once. i was with a bunch of friends and they all lost their money and found their way back to me, so by the end i had everyone behind me cheering me on. it was like a movie.

                      we were there for the first--and only--Nawlins Comic Con, so i of course spent it all on comics and Aquaman sketches.

                      rob!
                      http://www.namtab.com
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                      http://digestcomics.blogspot.com
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                      http://heykidscomix.blogspot.com

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                      • kingcarm
                        That Ape Guy
                        • Sep 7, 2001
                        • 2060

                        #12
                        The best thing I ever won was a pair of tickets and meet and greet with motley crew. It was a radio contest called "mystery riff" where the DJ pick caller 13 and then would play a riff on the guitar and I had to guess the artist and song. The song was DOA by Van Halen. The meet and greet with Motley crew was quick....no autographs either. Kinda Lack-luster but hey.....it was cool that I didn't have to pay to see them play.
                        Carm

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                        • jemboy2004
                          Persistent Member
                          • Aug 14, 2005
                          • 1703

                          #13
                          The best thing I ever won was recently but that was an ebay purchase from a member of MM too!

                          I have not gotten it yet but I can't wait. I just need to finish paying for them first! I won a set of prototype stinger dolls from jgallo. If you collect Jem it's like getting the 8" mego reg. carded Wonder Woman! Only set known to exist.

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                          • steelcouch
                            Career Member
                            • Feb 11, 2006
                            • 866

                            #14
                            Well Ive been somewhat lucky. When I was first married 11 years ago went to savemart had to have been about the second week of marriage and wond a $500 shopping card. Also first trip to Laughlin, Navada put three quarters in the slot as my wife was checking into the room at the front desk and hit a $1500 jackpot. And recently went to my sons judo competition and bought two raffle tickets and upon arriving home got a phone call that we had won the grand prize a $1000 savings bond.

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                            • Adam West
                              Museum CPA
                              • Apr 14, 2003
                              • 6822

                              #15
                              Best thing I ever won personally was a door prize at a company Christmas party. I picked an envelope and there was a $100 bill inside.

                              My wife always wins door prizes. Too many to mention but one that stands out is a 5 ft. tall Grinch stuffed figure she won through a Hallmark promotion many years ago. It scares the you know what out of my 6 year old.
                              "The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith."
                              ~Vaclav Hlavaty

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