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Big winners on game shows, how did winning a prize really pan out? (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Examples: If you won a car, did you get a car without a hitch? Any help on insurance payments? Not the prize or cash you were promised?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I won a free LASIK in a contest from the local newspaper. The surgeon’s practice office manager tried to claim that the prize was a free single eye (effectively buy one get one free) but the way the contest prize statement was phrased made it very clear that it was both. We mutually decided to cash-value the prize at 0.75 because I decided there’s no way I want a pissed-off surgeon pointing a laser at my eyes. In exchange, I signed a 5 year NDA about the whole thing—that was about 7 years ago.

Used the cash for a down payment on an awesome car, instead. That’s my story on how I got my Tesla. The company’s frontman is a massive douche but the car is freaking awesome.