Four contenders will vie for winning lottery ticket in court

Comment #19

MegaWinner — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:03:02 GMT

I could NEVER see myself handomg back lottery tickets before the drawing. I'd have to live with it for the rest of my life if I gave a winning ticket back to the clerk before a drawing. Thats just nuts.

Comment #18

JAP69 — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:33:10 GMT

When I use to travel to Ga to get lottery tickets Just across the line on 95 I have had the clerk ask me if I wanted to buy some already printed. I said sure, they were quick picks on a lotto game.

I have seen customers at one time or another ask for quick pick tickets. They get the tickets and look at them and I seen one customer say he did not like the numbers on the quick pick and handed them back to the cashier. What a crock that is. You buy quick picks you take what you get.

Comment #17

tntea — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:22:30 GMT

I buy my mistakes...(I am a clerk.)

Even the customers mistakes..

One day a customer will have to split their winnings with me... because they refused to pay the extra dollar for the mistake of not marking mulitple plays..

Comment #16

tntea — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:19:10 GMT

Money belongs to store... to cover the other tickets that were losers...

Comment #15

RJOh — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:26:17 GMT

The lotteries like stories like this one because after players read it they are less likely not to buy their misprints and it proves to retailers that adsorbing the cost of the misprints is not only good customer service but can pay off for them sometime also. However if their workers are allowed to take the winning misprints and stick them with just the losers then this isn't true.

Comment #14

LuckyLilly — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:07:13 GMT

One thing this article didn't make clear is that Maverik has a policy in it's employee handbook that the employee who made the mistake is financially responsible for reimbursing the store for the ticket.

Now, the Statesman article says Maverik Corporation claims to have eaten the cost on a great number of these tickets. However, I remember going into a Jacksons store and a clerk begging me to buy a $5 ticket one of her customers had rejected. She said her store required her to buy these tic... [ More ]

Comment #13

KyMystikal — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:22:55 GMT

I don't understand how everybody is able to try to cash in on the prize when there is only one ticket

Comment #12

MegaWinner — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:17:19 GMT

I am sure thats how it will play out. The only excuse the clerk can make is that she paid the cash register the money early and bought the misprint then forgot to grab it before she left. Then she can say she forgot that she paid the dollar already when she was excited that she won and paid the dollar again. Sounds far fetched but hey, she could try to say that.

Comment #11

CCHS13 — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:02:18 GMT

Its the stores money, they dont need a judge to figure that one out. The store has

to eat any loss on tickets printed that they cannot find a buyer for so therefore they

should eat the wins as well. Slick clerk but not slick enough

Comment #10

Badger — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:44:01 GMT

It does seem pretty clear cut. If the lottery law says it belongs to the company, unless sold, it does seem simple. However, I wonder if the attorneys might bring up something about no law (if true in that state) against selling a winning ticket after it is known to be a winning ticket.

This could get confusing.

As far as the customer coming in on this later, I think legally he's out of luck.

Comment #9

MADDOG10 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:26:12 GMT

MR.Parks And the cash cow jumped over the moon ....

This case is definately simple, it belongs to the store period....

Comment #8

liberal47 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:17:51 GMT

Makes me wonder, what would have happened here in Michigan. About a week ago I reached into my pocket and handed the clerk at my local store a group of bet slips, which I thought I had checked, I had neglected to remove one slip which I play 20 drawing at a time. The tickets were printed out, and when I noticed the mistake, the clerk told me that the store does not buy tickets that are printed in error. Well I ended up paying the twenty bucks, but in the past I have had clerks tell me that if I

Comment #7

BevsPicks2 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:16:52 GMT

I agree completely. Because the store owned the ticket at the time of the drawing. And the store owner should have been given the option to sell the ticket to the cashier. If the cashier wanted the ticket she should have bought it before the drawing and left with it. But according to store policy it could only be sold to another customer. Otherwise the store eats the cost as it usually does.

Insofar as everyone else claiming to have the wrong ticket. Their loss completely. It's... [ More ]

Comment #6

konane — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:49:15 GMT

Comment #5

RJOh — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:24:53 GMT

Idaho lottery law states that once a ticket is printed - even in error - it becomes property of the store that printed it. It cannot be cancelled, but it can be sold to another customer until 7:59 p.m. the night of the drawing.

That rule sounds clear to me, clerks can't print a bunch of mistakes, check them after the drawing, buy the winners and let the store pay for the losers. If they could, a lot of lottery players would clerking for free.

Comment #4

fast eddie — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:23:05 GMT

Lottery player: Never return a mistake ticket for a jackpot game since them clerk cannot void it. Because obviously you can't live with the consequnces.

Lottery clerk: Checking these tickets the next day after the drawing is a nice way to play the lottery for free. Just make a few mistakes and check um later. If you don't win it doesn't cost you anything. But if you do win, buy the ticket and split the prize with your manager.

Comment #3

HiYoSilver — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:30:19 GMT

Unless the clerk can show that she regularly buys the misprints, trying to buy it after it is a known winner is wrong.

The manager of the store could well lose his job also for trying to get a piece of the action.

Comment #2

BobP — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:53:18 GMT

This case is simple. The ticket belongs to the company that owns the store.

Too bad the clerks or customer didn't buy it before it won, then they would own it. To buy it after is stealing. If the customer didn't know which ticket was his, he needed to buy all mistakes or accept the luck he got.

BobP

Comment #1

Raven62 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:24:21 GMT

A Day in the Life of a Lottery Ticket!

This Ticket was returned to the Ticket Agent so many times, even the Judge won't be able to figure out who has a right to the Money

Four contenders will vie for winning lottery ticket in court

Lottery Post — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:51:01 GMT

And the winner is ...

Nobody, yet.

Confusion over who purchased what ticket and when has three people maybe four and one corporation claiming ownership of Saturday's $1 million winning lottery ticket.

With the winner still in question, The Idaho State Lottery announced Thursday, it has turned the case over to the courts to determine who gets the dough.

Right now, the four main contenders for what would be $672,000 after taxes are: Michelle McCollough of Boise, a clerk at the Mav... [ More ]