You've never bought anything from our department, nor have you entered a sweepstakes, but you were contacted and told that you won third place for a vacuum?
n. 1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. sing. or pl. The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. A race for all the sums staked or prizes offered. [ 1913 Webster ]