New Zealand lottery shop shortchanges winner

Comment #12

mylollipop — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:01:47 GMT

starchild_45, squeeze that Kiwi. that made me laugh. But merchants have a quick hand too! Some will get ya if they can. A cashier was talking real fast to my daughter one day and making sure she kept my daughter focused on lookiing at her face and she gave my daughter a bogus total and I saw my daughter giving her the money (I was about twenty-five feet away) and did I run to the counter. She had gotten my daughter's money and was about to give her an incorrect amount of change. Of course... [ More ]

Comment #11

dee man — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:24:56 GMT

Too true Chewie!As for the probable punishment likely to be meted out to this person StarChild_45, it'll probably be a slap over the wrist with a wet bus ticket. We will see but I'm not holding my breath.However Pauline, the part of the story with regards to the winner double-checking his ticket, was slightly misleading.Apparently, he knew that his ticket had won a prize but did not know the exact amount of the payout. After he was paid out, he checked the official results and discovered the... [ More ]

Comment #10

bellyache — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:08:47 GMT

The clerk was a bad man, but the other man who claimed to have double checked his ticket has some fault on his part.

Comment #9

starchild_45 — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:23:26 GMT

i hope they squeeze that kiwi dry for trying to steal from his fellow countryman. bad man bad man.

Comment #8

Chewie — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:58:07 GMT

NZ may be a great place, but they took a hit on this one. Wouldn't worry, some other merchant will rip off some one this afternoon, in another part of the world, and the focus will change. Besides, with the robbery's and murder's taking place in their own cities, most people won't even read about this.

Comment #7

dee man — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 03:11:03 GMT

Gidday folks!I guess we get rip-off merchants everywhere, no matter how idyllic the location.Well, the Kapiti Coast now has another claim to (international) fame, apart from its beautiful cheeses.RegardsTony.

Comment #6

Chewie — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 01:51:33 GMT

Hummmm Good point. Maybe its my reading needs improvement.

Comment #5

bellyache — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:41:29 GMT

That could be true, if it weren't for the fact that he said he double checked his ticket.

Comment #4

justxploring — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 00:02:38 GMT

Very funny!! For some reason your comment had me laughing out loud. Guess I need a life.

Comment #3

Chewie — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:54:32 GMT

I wonder if he could read. There are a lot of people who can't, and need help of the clerk.

Comment #2

bellyache — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:46:28 GMT

A New Zealand lottery winner who double-checked his jackpot found he had been shortchanged thousands of dollars by a storeowner.Obviously, the man didn't double check his ticket very good or he would have known he had won more then $600 bucks.

Comment #1

Chewie — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:52:00 GMT

Guess he thought he won an annuity.

New Zealand lottery shop shortchanges winner

Lottery Post — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:54:00 GMT

A New Zealand lottery winner who double-checked his jackpot found he had been shortchanged thousands of dollars by a storeowner.TVNZ reports the owner of a Lotto shop in Kapiti Coast told the man he had won $642 New Zealand ($440 U.S.). It turns out when the lucky winner checked with the Lottery Commission the actual payoff on his $6 ticket was 50 times that amount, or about $20,000 U.S. dollars.The commission said Lotto shops are required to have computer screens visible to customers and to ret... [ More ]