One of those hypothetical situations

Reply #7

savagegoose — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:01:58 GMT

the more i hear about american lotteries the more suckey they sound. if it wasnt for the huuuge jackpots no one would play em.

Reply #6

KY Floyd — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:57:11 GMT

I've wondered if one of the reasons that tickets can't be cancelled is because it increases sales by forcing somebody to pay for the ones that are printed by accident.

Nobody has any kind of proprietary right to the numbers they play, but in the situation you describe your numbers aren't being played by simple coincidence. That second ticket was printed by *mistake* and the lottery says that tickets printed in error aren't valid. That's the argument I would expect an attorney to make if prese... [ More ]

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ThatScaryChick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:19:35 GMT

He would only win twice the money on any prize except the jackpot. If more then one ticket wins the jackpot, it gets spilt among the winners.

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kwint — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:48:45 GMT

Imagine if you did win the jackpot on the ticket that was ran twice...TWICE THE JACKPOT

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pacattack05 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:37:36 GMT

Poor thing...How will you ever get thru this

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four4me — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:29:51 GMT

It's not hypothetical if it actually happened to you.

After the transaction i would have brought it to the attention of the owner of the store that the clerk put your play slip in twice and wasn't paying attention to their job . And while the ticket cant be canceled not much the manager or owner could do except reprimand the employee and offer you an apology.

I wouldn't be using that store again with that same clerk unless i handed the clerk one play slip at a time.

Reply #1

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:23:48 GMT

Powerball tickets can't be cancelled, so if by chance those set of numbers came out, you would have to split them unless you bought the mistake tickets. Either the store would pick up the tab or they would sell them to someone else.

Sorry, but I don't see how you would have a case. Since the tickets can't be cancelled once printed, someone has to buy them. Either you buy the mistakes, the store buys them or another customer. Even if the clerk wasn't paying attention to his job, someone has to... [ More ]

One of those hypothetical situations

ArtVandalay — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:01:49 GMT

Okay, so I go to my local grocery store to buy some Powerball lottery tickets. And I'm in line at the customer counter, and I notice that the clerk behind the counter is on the phone, and my impression is that he really isn't paying attention to what he's doing. I finally get up to the counter and hand him my one winning ticket and play slips and he runs them through and says, That will be $32.00. And I said, There must be some mistake, it should be only $27.00 and sure enough, I show him where... [ More ]