Winning Lottery Ticket

[10ClarionSt]

I think it's despicable of Camelot that they're not doing all they can to trace the winner of the �9M prize.

Why don't they say which shop sold it? Why don't they say what time it was purchased? Why aren't they reminding people of events on that day? e.g. it was sold on 6th July 2005. This was the day that London won the Olympic bid. Am I doing their job for them?

What's the big deal if they want the winner to come forward? Come on Camelot! Get doing your job properly!

[Loosehead]

Come on 10cs if they paid out like that the jackpot would be zero and the amount for 4 numbers would be about 25p. Look at the break down and you'll see that to apply your illogic would decimate the whole thing. By that thinking 6 out of 6 should also give you 20 sets of 3 at �10 each and 15 times the prize for 4 numbers and 6 time the prize for 5 numbers! I guess you didn't think it through did you!

I am not particularly a Camelot fan but check your figures, last time they where published they had taken less than 1% in the first 10 years of the lottery, hardly exploitation.

[Loosehead]

I'm not saying there aren't ways of ensuring more prizes, I'm just saying that the arithemetic doesn't work with your combinations.

It's a whole new discussion I suppose but people play the lottery to win big, more smaller prizes would be less total sales which is less for good causes

"You're wrong Loosehead. They could do it. They could ensure there were more winners. But that would mean them making less money. So the punters have to pay for that by having smaller pay-outs."

the prize fund is 50% of takings amend that will not effect the operator's income.

[Loosehead]

Sorry I meant to say:

the prize fund is 50% of takings amending how that is paid out will not effect the operator's income.

[joko]

of course they make a profit - why shouldn't they? - you think they are just running the lottery for a laugh?

they don't have to run a lottery and why would they if there was no benefit to them?

for you? for me? I don't think so!

You'll be telling be shopkeepers make a profit on the stuff they sell too next!!

i do think 6 months is too soon for expiry - but then if they last forever, someone could present the ticket in 50 years time when the money is worth much more - unlikely, but who knows? they would also have files and files full of unclaimed ticket details.

it would be good if there was some way of imputting your phone number when buying a ticket so they could contact you but i doubt the machines have the capability at the moment

[jno]

I think it's the other way round joko - in 50 years, �9m will barely buy you a box of matches, if they're still using them, so Camelot would be fine if they had to hold on to the money all that time - earning interest, since they wouldn't be handing it out to good causes. (I don't think they have to pay out the interest to the winner.)

[joko]

oh yeah...i was thinking they would have to up it with inflation but i guess the amount on the ticket won't change.

still be a pain for them to deal with though - going through 50 year old files and numbers etc - paper may even be obsolete by then and the ticket might be worth even more!!! lol

I'd say 2 years should be about the limit.

its sad that someone has lost out but without details what can anyone do? would be a bummer if they had died and their next of kin found the ticket when going through their stuff.

[hopalong]

I think the �9m, if the winner doesn't turn up then the money should put to good causes in the town where it was brought.

[spinchimp]

What a bunch of sad ******* - particularly 10ClarionSt!

[Drisgirl]

spinchimp - I think half of your post is missing - must have pressed submit before you finished as your answer forms no basis of an opinion on the comments 10Clarion St and the rest of the ABers have made.After all you wouldnt go to the bother of posting a response if you didnt have something constructive to say - would you?Chump!!

[Robert G]

Oh dear! I win on the lottery every week. How? I don't spend money on tickets.