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Big winners on game shows, how did winning a prize really pan out? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My father won an equivalent of $40 000 here in Poland which was a hefty sum in 1999, it opened some perspectives for us, we renovated our communist-built flat (bye bye wooden windows), my sister got married with her boyfriend, parents bought them a flat (for silly money, inflation is a removed), paid for a moderate wedding, I got a PC (shitty for that times) and my father bought a car, he had a minor cardiac arrest a year later, he couldn't keep his job with his condition, so he became jobless, money was spent, my education fund was spent, fast forward few years later long story short I got married, had to pay for my wedding by myself, living at my wife's parents