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flipnflap | 14:21 Tue 20th Mar 2012 | News
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How often have you had your Lottery ticket swiped in a shop, told it hadn't won anything, watched the assistant bin it, and walked away wondering if you'd been lied to? Well, see this: http://www.dailymail....lottery-winnings.html
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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.
They always give you the ticket back in my local shop. Or tear it up in front of you.
Our shops rips them up.
I always ask for mine back for this very reason.
Not that I play that often these days.
We play on-line now..
14 months for attempting to defraud a pensioner. They should have got more imo!
Don't people check their own tickets anymore?
<<<Wishes she'd thought of it!

I check hundreds of these buggers.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I had the exact opposite once, went in to claim a tenner but was told I'd actually won seventy odd quid! :-)
Maybe the machine really wouldn't accept it Joko because you'd marked the slip of paper with your underlining.
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
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
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).
Narrr, underling the numbers doesn't make a bit of difference when we run it through the machine to check 'em.
And just to clarify, the machine's not reading the numbers, its reading the barcode at the bottom of your ticket.
...support your corner shop...who'd have thought they would be capable of such a crime?

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