Clerk wins $200,000 lottery prize by accident

Comment #14

JackpotWanna — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:48:03 GMT

I think the store owner should get the money.

Comment #13

psykomo — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:18:10 GMT

Comment #12

psykomo — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:15:13 GMT

translation:

THANKs to ALL...WHO sell US

LOTTERY tickets

Comment #11

psykomo — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:27:36 GMT

THANKs>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>tntea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for(taking your TIME too.....................telling your experience)!!!! explaining'g>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.tntea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I bought tickets the outter day>> the clerk said, LOL!!!!!! PSYKOMO$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I (BOUGHT) 5 MM ticket's cause I assumed they (D-custermore)? wanted .....Deeee MM ticket$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$>>>>>>>>>>o!o

BUTTTTTT and yes their is alwayssssssssssssssssssssss...... [ More ]

Comment #10

tntea — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:41:05 GMT

With powerball, I have customers who come in and fill out a play slip and not mark the powerplay.. Then after the ticket is ran, they decide they want the powerplay, (vice versa), however , refuses to buy their mistakes. The tickets are usually sold to other customers or bought by the clerks at the end of shift. If any or left over, the boss gets the tickets the next day.

Sometimes they mark the 10 on the multiple draws instead of the void.. and it prints a ticket for ten draws. They have... [ More ]

Comment #9

tntea — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:38:00 GMT

If the ticket was bought in TN, it could not be voided. If left unsold it becomes property of the retailer. (They have to pay the 94 cents for the ticket.. period..

Comment #8

tntea — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:35:16 GMT

If two were printed and no one bought the other ticket, You would only received half since there were two winning tickets. Even if the other was never turned in, it was a winner unclaimed.

Comment #7

BabyJC — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:59:29 GMT

Wayburn was on Ellen this morning. She's a sweet old lady who won the 200k on her birthday. Ellen gave her a new vest to wear in the store with WINNER sewn on the back lol.

Comment #6

dvdiva — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:33:36 GMT

I also buy any mistakes. It would agrivate me to no end if a screwup from a clerk lets them have half the jackpot. I also don't do business with stores that keep screwing up.

Comment #5

justxploring — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:37:01 GMT

typo: legal stance not stand. not that anybody noticed or cares. LOL

Comment #4

justxploring — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:21:46 GMT

As I've said many times, I've kept the same numbers for years, so when this happened to me last year, I requested that the ticket be canceled (which can be done immediately in FL for most games) but when the clerk protested, I paid the extra dollar. I gave her 4 cards and she ran 3 of them, one twice. So I ended up spending $5 instead of $4. It just wasn't worth getting the manager and making a fuss. Anyway, if she had simply kept the ticket and, after all these years and thousands of dollar... [ More ]

Comment #3

Bradly_60 — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:23:20 GMT

I just saw this story on MSN and was going to post it. Interesting...I wanna be a store clerk now! haha

B-rad

Comment #2

LckyLary — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:58:59 GMT

I will usually buy any extra PB or MM tickets. One thing I noticed is that it was rang up twice , meaning if it was QP the #s should have been different. I am guessing that they were the same #s from a betslip that they put in twice. One time it happened to me on a Cash 5 and I kept both and they had 3 of 5 match. In MO they ran tickets ahead for a big PB drawing but in that case they sold the jackpot shortly before closing. Had they not sold it they'd have a similar story but with a jackpot.... [ More ]

Comment #1

justxploring — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:50:47 GMT

Anyway of transferring the comments from:

https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/154814.htm

Clerk wins $200,000 lottery prize by accident

Lottery Post — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:39:25 GMT

A store clerk's slip-up at the cash register has paid off big time.

Wayburn Allen on Tuesday accidentally rang up two duplicate Powerball tickets for a customer in this western North Carolina town. At the end of the day, after she was unable to sell the second ticket, Allen paid for it herself.

The next day, Allen returned to the store and found the ticket matched all five numbers earning her a $200,000 jackpot.

When Allen went to Raleigh to claim her prize, she met the customer who p... [ More ]