# What happens if you win a prize package for multiple people, but no one wants to go with you?

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**Created:** [April 20, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-win-a-prize-package-for-multiple-people-but-no-one-wants-to-go-with-you/1017271 "2025-04-20T22:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-win-a-prize-package-for-multiple-people-but-no-one-wants-to-go-with-you/1017271/21 "2025-04-21T19:36:51Z")

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Most of America is not a very boisterous place. Most of the rest of the world is. Lotta Americans get used to spending their entire life in a child-safe zone.

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**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-win-a-prize-package-for-multiple-people-but-no-one-wants-to-go-with-you/1017271/22 "2025-04-21T22:27:28Z")

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I’d say if you win those seats and can’t find friends to go with you, just go on the St. Louis subreddit and announce that you have 3 free primo seats to the game. I’d be surprised if there were no takers.

Too lazy to look but there may even be a subreddit for the soccer team. Or see if there is a fan forum for the team.

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**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-win-a-prize-package-for-multiple-people-but-no-one-wants-to-go-with-you/1017271/23 "2025-05-03T12:57:07Z")

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Depends on the team - I can sell up to 50% of my baseball tickets on StubHub or whatever. But if course, they can’t track any tickets I sell without using that site. The reason I don’t know which platform is approved is because I’ve never once used it to sell tickets - I’ve always sold my tickets to family/friends/coworkers.

They can’t restrict moving tickets in the app - few people who buy any sort of ticket plans are buying a single seat for themself.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-win-a-prize-package-for-multiple-people-but-no-one-wants-to-go-with-you/1017271/24 "2025-05-03T19:23:16Z")

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> [@OttoDaFe](#):
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> Some years back I won a package that included r/t airfare for two, three nights hotel and a backstage pass to a tv show. At the end of the year I received a 1099 for the retail value of the first two items, plus an arbitrary amount for the third.

I got a tax form for my Jeopardy prize. Which was a bummer, since the value included airfare to the location of the resort I got a week at - which happened to be 50 miles from my house. They wouldn’t give me the money for the airfare or reduce the taxable amount.

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