Threat to boycott the UK National Lottery as tickets double to £2

Comment #15

jamella724 — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:14:49 GMT

Rise in price will definitely bring people into rage. I think it will be reasonable to make a gradual increase if it indeed necessary. However, double the price will draw the players away. If they could justify the increase it will help, so people will understand. They need to reconsider the increase in price, what will be their point in increasing the price if they are going to lose 70% of their players.

Comment #14

mikeintexas — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:52:56 GMT

The day this was published, I sent the link to this article to my long-time British friend who manages a Martins and she sent one of the longest replies I've ever received from her; the gist of it was this: Its not a vital thing if people dont want to play it then they dont have to. It's not like bread, milk or petrol thats been going up rapidly over the year and no one says a word. Just silly imbeciles whinging because they can. She also said some of her customers said they are switching to the... [ More ]

Comment #13

JoshUK — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 21:01:29 GMT

As a UK resident, they did do some awesme promotion and they also added a whole new raffle so it's not like they just boosted the price and not changed it, the prizes are bigger and a 20K raffle for like 100 people.

Comment #12

RedStang — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:40:54 GMT

Don't know why their crying. Each ticket will include a raffle # to win 20000 and there's 50 winners. The first new draw promotion launch will start at 10mill and 1000 raffle winners.

Comment #11

savagegoose — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:39:59 GMT

The way australia does it is a big win for the Gov. they get the tax ea week as the tickets are sold. and the losers all pay the tax,. in USA the gov only gets the tax when prize is collected and the winner pays the tax. Even though i prefer our way, the prices are all messed up, but thats what computers are for. I also like the fact the advertised jackpot is what comes to your bank account. no stresssing over taxes and deductions etc. start planning from the night you win. BTW we dont have gift... [ More ]

Comment #10

HaveABall — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:21:46 GMT

So, in U.S.A. monies, what used to cost apx. $1.50 is now apx. $3.00 per row of #s.

A bit too high, perhaps Camelot could change the cost and advertising campaign to read: now costs 1.50 (or near, easy coinage).

Comment #9

CLETU$ — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:08:48 GMT

Sounds better to me than anything we've got.

Comment #8

Coin Toss — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 05:08:31 GMT

As Todd implied, players hate it at first and then when there's a big jackpot, they can't wait to get tickets.

How many here at LP had 'swore off of PB' when the price went up - some of them even posting in the jackpot fraezy threads afterwards.

RJOh,

The way savagegoose described the Austalian lottery (winners are not taxed) each ticket is $1.03 AUS and that $.03 is what keeps the winners tax free. How many here would not go for that?

Sounds better to me than anything we've got.... [ More ]

Comment #7

RJOh — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 04:38:51 GMT

Increasing lottery tickets prices by a fraction of a whole unit doesn't make sense when you consider the trouble of making change. Can you imagine pricing lottery tickets at $1.15 or $2.07 per lines, it's either add another dollar or forget about it.

Comment #6

CLETU$ — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:30:06 GMT

People don't mind a reasonable increase in price.They do mind,however,a 100% increase in price.If the ticket price jumped by 5% or even 10% people could understand,but 100% is nothing but pure greed and no fancy talk about more winners is going to convince them otherwise!The people are getting hosed and they know it and they don't like it.

Comment #5

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 02:03:00 GMT

Yep

Comment #4

noise-gate — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:45:56 GMT

That 73% that is unhappy or very unhappy are probably long time losers anyway- the poll would matter not if they were winners.

They will get used to it because l may be wrong on tbis but the price never reverts back to a dollar once its been raised .

I stand to be corrected.

* Our Toll bridges price went up and we were told the increase is temporary - right, and that was back in the mid 80's.

When one thinks lottery price increase- think Toll bridges

Comment #3

rdgrnr — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:43:38 GMT

I know how to handle them Canadians.

Take off, Hosers

Comment #2

mypiemaster — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:32:38 GMT

I was just gonna say that about PB. Time will tell, time will always tell.

Comment #1

Todd — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:29:39 GMT

Remember the January 2012 Powerball price increase? Remember the hatred spewed towards the lotteries for raising the price to $2 per ticket?

Well, I think we're about to see that again, this time in the UK.

Surely they will hate it before they love it.

Threat to boycott the UK National Lottery as tickets double to £2

Lottery Post — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:28:24 GMT

UK National Lottery bosses came under fire last night as Britons voiced their outrage at today's price rise.

A poll carried out to coincide with the hike revealed 78 per cent of Lotto customers say the increase in price is unfair.

The price of a ticket will double from today to 2 a line, prompting furious players to threaten to boycott the game.

A survey of more than 1,500 people found 73 per cent of weekly players are either unhappy or very unhappy .

It also found more than half of... [ More ]