National Lottery Income

[muddlebrain]

Does anybody know if the income to the National lottery increased when they put the ticket price up to £2,or was it offset by the large number of people and syndicates who stopped taking part.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't, but a scan of past jackpots/anticipated jackpots should give a clue, since, are they not based on the amount collected/anticipated collected ?

[Buenchico]

The total number of tickets sold immediately after the price increase was hardly any different to the number sold in previous weeks. See my post here:
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1281672.html

So that means that the total income will have increased considerably.

[janbee]

Camelot totally relied on the fact that sooooo many people keep the same numbers every week and will therefore be too scared to stop doing it " just in case".... I stopped doing it when the price went up.

[aelmpvw]

i'm not interested in winning 20 grand in a raffle, why don't they give you the choice to opt out of it?

[Zeuhl]

/I'm not interested in winning 20 grand in a raffle, why don't they give you the choice to opt out of it??

It's their game so they get to design it.

With or without the 'small change' raffles, they are not going to mess about with ticket prices that aren't whole pounds.

[Old_Geezer]

I to object to being forced to pay for a raffle that is in addition to the draw I actually buy.

But that said I only buy a ticket on rare occasions, ever since I won a line, £9 win I think it was, but could not find my winning ticket until much later when it turned out to be being used as a bookmark in a book I didn't go back to. And when I trie to claim my winnings, I was told (in different words of the same meaning) that they had stolen my winnings because it was 9 months later so they allow themselves the "right" to do that. Their loss. I went from a regular one a week purchaser to one who only buys when the rollover looks big enough for the Big Guy in the sky to opt to make me a winner and set me and my family/friends up for life. Not that he's ever bothered so far. But Camelot lost a lot over the years from that. If they did that to everyone it wouldn't be a going concern by now.