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Welcome to the LP martinfan763. With there being so many dishonest clerks out there it's best to scan your ticket yourself, however I do both I use the self scanner then I have the clerk scan the ticket as well, just make sure you sign your ticket before you hand it over to the clerk to check.
Jul 13, 2011, 2:48 am - dallascowboyfan - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Which is worse?
I often read stories on LP about dishonest clerks like the recent one with the guy pinning . I was just browsing Lottery news and came across a story about some burglaries in which scratch off tickets were stolen. It seems that every couple of weeks I read stories like these. What really gripes me is that these idiots think they can actually get paid but all they are really doing is preventing someone else from winning. To make matters worse it's uncertain if Lotteries will update their re
Feb 3, 2015, 7:20 pm - Enigmas - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Do not get burned by this service station!Reply
In response to b$Rizzle, No I don't think all of the prizes are at the first of the roll, just a quite a few of them. All I asked was for honesty, but I did not ask, it was implied. I have trusted the lottery up until this point. Not to win in every certain number of tickets, but to be given a fair chance. Think about it for a moment, if the last tickets in the book never had any big winners in them, then they would just sit on the shelf with no one buying them. I have over 60 that say that they
Dec 15, 2010, 5:38 pm - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

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I find them useful. I like to double-check sometimes, so they come in handy. And I saw the Dateline show too. I was surprised at how dishonest some clerks could be. (Kudos to the honest ones.) I would not be able to live w/myself if I lied stole someone's winning ticket.
Jul 12, 2011, 5:59 pm - CashWinner$ - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

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Have you ever discarded a winning scratcher unintentionally, or suspect this has ever happened to you? Or do you feel like there was ever the opportunity for a dishonest clerk to pull a fast one on you? One time I had a clerk toss one of my $5 winners at a Kangaroo gas station. She was very salty, and unwilling to double check. I never returned to this location again. Publix typically does a much better job in being transparent, and scanning the winners one at a time. I've seen s
Dec 10, 2016, 7:17 pm - Dracos - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Do not get burned by this service station!Reply
Sorry, I did not read this post before I responded to your next post. I will respond to it now, part by part, because you bring up a lot of good points. I can understand how you might feel that the book was not even distributed fairly, but its not always true that a decent winner is at the front/back of the book. For example, I have won $1,000 several times now and every one of them was in the middle of the book range. I have won $500 probably 15-20 times and the majority of them were #'d 10-
Dec 15, 2010, 10:36 pm - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Do not get burned by this service station!Reply
It doesn't matter HOW many tickets he has..I'm a manager at a gas station (not the owner) and the owners usually only had 5-8 books of tickets at a time. Yes, but I bet you have several hundred tickets altogether, not less than a dozen. I would think nothing of a store that had 8 books of tickets, especially if it was in a slow area. I have been in this store three times, over the period of a couple months. The first time, I bought the last two tickets he had, in the entire store. Meaning tha
Dec 16, 2010, 6:47 am - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum