NC Retailers- Reserving entire rolls of scratchers for favorite players -Can they legally do this?

Reply #12

DoctorEw220 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:27:38 GMT

Idk how it is in your state, but I remember that in PA, we could sell whole books to customers who had the CASH up-front, provided they were legal age. We could special-order books of tickets to customers who gave us enough advance notice. We could not, however refuse to sell anyone a ticket, as long as they were legal age an d had the cash up-front. It didn't matter if someone else was playing a lot of that game.

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Reply #11

Keystone — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:20:21 GMT

A store is allowed to sell a whole roll of tickets to a customer.

Once a roll is opened, the store must sell to the customer as long as the customer is of legal age. Thus the store can not allow someone to buy half a roll and then deny the next customer from buying tickets from the remaining portion of the roll.

Reply #10

Tenaj — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:58:45 GMT

I would report it to the lottery commission. That is one reason I don't buy scratch off tickets.

Reply #9

reddog — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:49:48 GMT

All you need to do is call the Raleigh head office and report that store and hopefully the name of the a$$ who wouldn't sell you the scratch off. The Raleigh office will burn them a new one. Or just tell that store next time they pull that crap what you plan on doing. The Raleigh office does not play around. They will come over there and jerk the store's ability to sell Lottery because of unfairness. I am talking from experience. I had to do this to to a store because they refused to cash a winn... [ More ]

Reply #8

passion&purity — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:04:19 GMT

Thanks again, and I like all of your ideas, especially yours Tigg95

Reply #7

Set4life — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:10:55 GMT

I would wait till its closing time and have a private talk with the clerk... show him why your fist is full of dollars

Reply #6

dr65 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:28:14 GMT

Preferential treatment = a clerk's cut. Kind of like: I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine.

Reply #5

tiggs95 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:22:18 GMT

Buy your tickets at another store and hit a jackpot and stop in and say hi and show him the check,up close..

Reply #4

rdgrnr — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:39:25 GMT

I believe a retailer can make any kind of deal he wants but if he is reserving one roll of tickets for somebody he shouldn't have them on display as if they are for sale.

He could refuse to sell you corn flakes if he wanted to because he was saving them for somebody but then he shouldn't have them on the shelf.

I'll bet you're not the only customer he's lost if he leaves the tickets on display and refuses to sell them.

Reply #3

passion&purity — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:03:15 GMT

Indeed ca-dreamin,

I will call the NC lottery and let you know. If they are doing this to cheat the system to find a big winner, it is being badly done! Badly done indeed!!

I'll keep everyone posted!

Have a great week-- in all of this pollen

Reply #2

ca-dreamin* — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:26:51 GMT

I was thinking the same thing. Ask your state lottery. This sounds like an agreement between the store and the customer. Who knows maybe the store is getting something out of this arrangement.

If this person only purchases half the roll then by rights ANYONE should be able to purchase whatever is left over. Sounds to me like the roll is being purchased a half at a time in hopes of finding a big winner. Of course if the winner is found (in the first half) I'd be willing to bet the rest of the... [ More ]

Reply #1

JAP69 — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:05:39 GMT

This would be something to be asked of your state lottery.

For someone to reserve a roll would seem questionable. If a roll is in the rack they should be available for individual or quantity purchase in my opinion.

NC Retailers- Reserving entire rolls of scratchers for favorite players -Can they legally do this?

passion&purity — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:59:05 GMT

Hello Everyone,

First, of all, thanks to Kidzmom for posting the info - sales tracker for NC payouts!

A few questios for everyone:

One of the vendors with the highest sales in a county- based on the payout tracker mentioned above, is a store that I frequent about once a week. They have a few highroller players who constantly come in and buy the $10 and $20 dollar tickets by the roll or by the half roll. So, one day, I asked to buy a $20 ticket from a roll that one of the