Anybody won a Gear Giveaway?

[Relsom]

I won a 52" Ultra Hi Def 4K TV from Mcdonald's Monopoly game a few years ago. It was an instant win game piece. Still works.

 

[Keger Jupit]

I won 2 Steve Huey knives & a Vortex scope within a month of each other! Nothing before, nothing since...

 

[Koshchei]

I won a monochrome laser printer as a door prize once, which I donated to the office where I worked at the time. I didn't know that I entered, and didn't want a printer. Other than that, nope.

 

[Fender_Bender]

I won a set of Smith Rockmaster strings about a year ago from a Canadian online retailer who’s name I cannot even remember. Haven’t used the strings yet. I was somewhat stunned that they actually followed through with sending me my prize.

 

[kentiki]

I know 2 people ( my sister and a friend) that have won cars. I have never won anything.

 

[S-Bigbottom]

Nothing, but this ad is timely.

 

[bound'n'blocked]

I have no luck in any of those giveaways, but I do have a gtr player friend who's won several guitars and all kinds of accessories from different giveaways. He doesn't go out of his way to enter billions of times or anything like that. He just has that mojo in all aspects of his life. So rest assured that someone out there is winning stuff it's just not us...

I had a friend who was like that. I could buy a thousand scratch off lottery tix and not win $2and he could come up the next in line and buy one and win a grand. Saw it happen once. Luckiest guy I ever knew.

Not music related.

A co-worker’s Mother-in-law rolled up the rim on a Tim Horton’s Cup and won a Honda Accord. She took the cash value less taxes.

I stood in line next to a guy once who had won a Ford Tempo on The Price is Right. He said in hindsight he would have taken the cash...

BnB

 

[The Mogpipe]

I saw yet another SBL giveaway video in my YouTube feed. It got me wondering if anybody has won anything similar. I'm sure the old cats here (most of us) remember when Bass Player would run those two-page giveaway ads "of over $20,000 worth of gear!!" The BP ones would often include a box of strings and stuff to go with the new bass and rig. It was a lot of Warwick during my reading days. Surely, somebody had to actually be winning these things.

I always enter all those contests. Drums, bass, guitar, whatever. I've never knowingly won one. Like notified I was the winner of anything.
But one day I got a Sure 58 in the mail!
I never ordered it so I have to assume it was from one of those contests entered. Go figure

 

[Snibborwocky]

I won a pack of guitar strings from Dean Markley on Twitter like 6 years ago lol

 

[DanAdams]

Here are some great bad prize stories.
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[HardNHeavy]

won a guitar tuner from sam ash in paramus nj back in the 90's, dont remember why tho

 

[geoff_in_nc]

Around '97 or '98 I won a Squier strat in a contest. It was signed by some guy named Jude or something... Never knew who he was and the sig has long since rubbed off. Not a bad guitar for the price I paid.

I also won a trip to Hawaii when I was about 7 or 8. The family and I were in a store and my little sisters and I were causing a ruckus. My mom sent us over to the contest entry display and told us to fill out entries to keep us quiet. Mine won. My parents took the trip of course, and I've never been to Hawaii.

 

[Tnavis]

I won a Facebook contest for the previous Megadeth album. It wasn't actually put on my Megadeth, just some random metal page that I follow. I had completely forgotten I'd entered, then several months later, got an email about being the grand prize winner. Then like.... six months after that, I got a massive box of swag; the album, a signed poster, a strange coffin thing, a tin full of picks, a t-shirt, a hoodie. I'm not even a huge Megadeth fan, but hey, free swag!

I also won a promotional inflatable crocodile promoting the original Crocodile Dundee back in the 80's.

 

[pudge]

Won a very nice set of KINMAN noiseless pickup in a giveaway

 

[Altitude]

In my opinion the only reason companies hold these give aways is to collect email addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses.

Ya think?

 

[Davbassdude]

Couple of years back I "liked or shared" a Wunjos FB post (Wunjos is a guitar shop in London),2 week before Christmas they emailed me saying I was a raffle winner

Sent me a SUB by SBMM

What color was it?

 

[DeltaPhoenix]

I won $500 worth of gear from Reverb.com about 2 years ago. I bought some Eurorack modules for my modular synth.

I won a pedal 7 or 8 years ago but can’t even remember what pedal it was.

 

[Basehead]

At the Lords of the Low End event I won 3 packs of strings and a Genzler Magellan 350 head (used it last night and it is amazing). I won a D'Addario grab bag at an Aguilar event. Also won strings and a T-shirt a 2 Fodera clinics. This was all in the last 3 -4 years and I never won anything before that...so there's hope

 

[bassist4dalord]

Fret Nation (formerly Bass Strings Online) had an Ernie Ball giveaway. Simply guess a number between 1-9000. I forget what I guessed but Jason will be sending me a 40-95 set of Cobalt Flats as soon as they come off backorder.

 

[Clark W]

I haven't won anything music related. Did win a $2600 ticket package for 4 to the inaugural Indycar race weekend at Barbers Motorsports Park just outside of Bham, AL. Had a great time. I've won some other cool stuff from time to time, skydiving gear that I needed was probably second best to the Inday car weekend.

Then one time, taking a page out of the play book of a lifelong friend who is like my brother, I signed him up to win a Corvette at an info booth at Talladega Superspeedway.

Oh did I mention that part of the registration for the giveaway asked if you were in the market for a new car? Of course he was, he just didn't know it

He had car salesmen calling him for a month trying to sell him a new car.