Yep, finally a Sweet Million winner from Nassau County, great news for the lucky winner (s)! The $3 free promotion must have spiked up the sales and number of combinations to get a winner.
I bought the $5.00 Sweet Million quick pick for the $3 free and reduced my purchases of MM, PB, and Lotto for tonight and Sat. to make up for spending more money on SM.
I had a terrible experience trying to purchase the Sweet Millon promo on Wednesday, I didn't realize the promo is only good for SM purchases on Mon. and Thursday. I went to a lottery retailer on Wed. and asked for the $5.00 SM promo, $3.00 PB and $3.00 NY Lotto for Wed. night. When I checked my SM ticket, the $3.00 Free lines were not there. After she waited on one other customer, I asked her if she forgot my "3 free lines", she said no, and that I would need to purchase the SM promo on Thursday! I told her I wanted my $5.00 back and I would give her back the SM ticket, but she refused, saying she could not cancel it in the computer. I told her that I asked for the "SM promo" before I purchased my ticket and she should have told me that I needed to purchase it on Thursday before I paid for it, at first she said she didn't hear me, but then she changed her tune and told me three times that I never said it, so I told her that's the reason I asked for the SM ticked first, to make sure I didn't forget to ask for the promo, and showed her the order of the tickets she just gave me. I was really upset at this point, because now she is calling me a liar, so I asked to speak to her manager, but at the point she returned my $5.00 and took the ticket back.
On Tuesday, the day before the SM fiasco, I experienced another lottery retailer mistake, I asked for my Mega Millions tickets and figured I would change it to 26 annual payments instead of getting cash value this time, but he gave me cash value anyway, but I let it go and didn't ask for new quick picks.
I wrote to the New York Lottery and inquired about how lottery retailers mistakes are supposed to be handled just in case I run into lottery retailer mistakes again, I didn't receive a response yet.