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I always think of that happening! Some shops they tear the ticket up and give it back to you or bin it. I always ask for my ticket back.
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They always give you the ticket back in my local shop. Or tear it up in front of you.
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Our shops rips them up.
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I always ask for mine back for this very reason.
Not that I play that often these days.
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We play on-line now..
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14 months for attempting to defraud a pensioner. They should have got more imo!
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Don't people check their own tickets anymore?
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<<<Wishes she'd thought of it!
I check hundreds of these buggers.
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Sandy, I was about to ask the same question. OH always checks - then to make sure he hasn't missed a tenner(!) asks them to double check in the shop.
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it happened to me once...years ago i went to collect my £10 - after carefully checking and being certain id won, only to be told i hadnt...the machine wouldt accept it apparently - i just accepted it and thought i must have got muddled up, felt a bit daft - like id been 'trying it on' and left...then the more i thought about it the more i knew i wasnt confused... i had underlined the numbers so i knew they were there... what could i do though?
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in future joko, if in doubt, ask for a print out from the lottery machine. We can print a "sorry claim unsuccessful" (or worded similar) when we run the ticket through it.
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you should also always write your name and address on the back before handing it over too... i know someone who uses an address stamper and stamps all their tickets every time.
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I had the exact opposite once, went in to claim a tenner but was told I'd actually won seventy odd quid! :-)
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Maybe the machine really wouldn't accept it Joko because you'd marked the slip of paper with your underlining.
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thanks boo
it was when the lotto was new and everyone was excited about it and i just didnt think at the time... my boyfriend at the time was very into it.
i dont bother doing it anymore, odds are too high really
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mmm... i doubt it evian, as it reads the numbers, (and/or bar code?) and millions of people underline their tickets too... if that was a problem they would warn people not to do it, i think
i suppsoe if your lines obscured the numbers substantially but i would have underlined just a dash well under the number
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Not sure. Just an idea really. Often things like that have a little bit that says do not mark outside the box. (Not sure if lotto tickets do, can't remember the last time I bought one).
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Narrr, underling the numbers doesn't make a bit of difference when we run it through the machine to check 'em.
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And just to clarify, the machine's not reading the numbers, its reading the barcode at the bottom of your ticket.
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...support your corner shop...who'd have thought they would be capable of such a crime?
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