Georgia's new $30 lottery tickets selling 'like crazy'

Comment #14

luckyshoes — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:17:15 GMT

I think the state is rubbing their palms together and thinking...if we can get them to buy a $30 ticket then it ll be easy to get a $50 and $100 ticket on the market .

Just say NO

Comment #13

Lucky4Life — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 17:42:59 GMT

exactly what I was thinking..who in the heck did they poll?

I wouldn't even pay $30 for a raffle lottery ticket and they generally have better odds.

Comment #12

BobP — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:11:13 GMT

Players have been asking for a higher price point ticket, she said.

Translation

Players have been asking for better odds and prizes, she said.

Who gets asked anyway, I'd like to know. Anyone on LP ever been asked a lottery question by your lottery, ever seen a poll on the official site, at least one not skewed to only acceptable responses.

BobP

One weird tip to win the lottery. Buy tickets

Comment #11

TNPATL — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:46:53 GMT

I can't imagine spending that much for a scracth off. But hey for those that do, Good Luck!!!!!! I remember when a friend of mine who travels to Illinois said she bought one when that state released a ticket. It was just crazy to me to spend that much money on a scratch off.

Comment #10

Candlelight777 — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:53:09 GMT

Wow hand over $30 for a scratcher and 5 minutes later over and done!.. $30 gone!!

Least with drawings you get to have fun picking your numbers and experience some excitement and anticipation waiting for the drawing

Comment #9

Jon D — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:52:53 GMT

And among all the big Billion dollar plus lottery states, where does Cali rank on the sucker scale? Way way down towards the bottom. Good stuff!

But you can bet CA lottery guys have major East coast envy, and wish they had the sales per capita of the other big states. You can bet it's their goal to increase Cali's place on the scale.

Comment #8

noise-gate — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 03:51:47 GMT

This piece reminded me of something l read awhile back with a title..

Who Are the Nation's Biggest Suckers. Lottery Players

and it added this....

Billion-Dollar Losing Bets

A recent report out of Bloomberg declares citizens of the state of Georgia some of the biggest suckers in America.

Collectively, Peach State inhabitants spent $3.4 billion on lottery tickets over the past year -- an average of $470.73 per adult. That amounted to a full 1% of their annual income, en... [ More ]

Comment #7

RedStang — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 02:20:12 GMT

I think their well worth it. If you don't win you can use them to kill flys, scratch your back, or clean snow off your car.

Comment #6

larry3100 — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 01:59:55 GMT

A $30 scratch-off ticket- I'll never purchase one. Psychiatrists call all these people who are buying these $30 scratch-off tickets in a frenzy- are having a neurosis of the brain or otherwise called temporary insanity.

Comment #5

dpoly1 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:55:10 GMT

I am going to make up a sales agreement for the Brooklyn Bridge take it down there sell it for $30,000 LOL

Comment #4

maringoman — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:44:19 GMT

I'm glad that some people purchase these $30 scratch off tickets. When they buy them they help the blood suckers hit their revenue targets and therefore not feel the need to F#$! up with the matrixes of the draw type games that I play.

Comment #3

Jill34786 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:48:52 GMT

I have never purchased a scratch off ticket and don't plan on starting anytime soon. I will stick with my occasional PB or MM ticket.

Comment #2

One-Day — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:57:23 GMT

It'd be a cold day in hell the day you catch me buying one of those.

Comment #1

mypiemaster — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:24:08 GMT

Better for me to play 15 MM with megaplier, or 10 PB with powerplay.

Georgia's new $30 lottery tickets selling 'like crazy'

Lottery Post — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:11:36 GMT

Lottery players are lining up to lay down some serious scratch in Georgia and Tennessee, which recently joined a number of states offering instant tickets that cost more than $25 apiece.

People are buying them like crazy, Tessa Mize, a clerk at the Mega Star gas station in Rossville on Chickamauga Avenue, said of the $30 scratch-off ticket that the Georgia Lottery introduced last week. It has a $10 million grand prize.

Meanwhile, Tennessee Lottery officials are happy with sales of a $25 i... [ More ]