Friend sells a car they won for $6000 less than market value, gets criticized later because they're “profiting” off of their friends: ‘[I] sold it to friends for basically half the cost’

When you win a car, is it legally yours? 

Lottery winners, gold star earners, and people on a winning streak in Vegas would argue that no matter what you win, once your winnings are in your pocket or in your possession, it's yours. Yet, this winner in our next story, a humble man who'd entered a random car lottery, things weren't so simple. 

He won a car, decided he didn't want to keep it, and sold it for less than market value to a couple of friends. And although he literally paid taxes on his winnings, other friends in the group chimed in with negative comments, claiming he was a "bad friend" because he "profited" off of the folks he sold to. 

Sure, he ended up with an extra $10k in his pocket, but if he had sold to strangers, he would have doubled his earnings. Was this winner ultimately a loser? According to the criticism of his friends, he was, but in my eyes, this man was turning lemons into lemonade and getting scolded for selling at 50-cents a pop. 

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