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• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  where do you usually buy your lottery tickets or scratch offs?
• ineed9million

  

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  I buy them at gas stations.  And, I try to go to the smaller places because if i do hit it big, i'd prefer that the 100,000 retalier bonus go to some small business than a huge corporation.
• Annual Payments

  

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  Well there's 3 for me.  convience stores, liquor stores, and tobacco stores...but more so at convenience stores.  I've never heard of a winning powerball ticket being sold at Kroger #345 in Indianapolis.  =)
• CASH Only

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  And I've never heard of a $200 million winner taking the annuity.
• kbcherokee

  

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  Tso-gali-I

  
  

  For MM at a 7-11 right next door

  
  

  For PB at a DC Gas Station or Union Station

  
  

  

  
  

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  May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house. May  the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. May your mocassins make happy tracks in many snows. And may the rainbow always touch your shoulder.
• Elizabeth03

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by LOTTOMIKE on February 17, 2005
  

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  where do you usually buy your lottery tickets or scratch offs?
  

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  I buy lottery tickets at convience stores, gas stations and the drug stores. I would like to see the clerks at the stores get a good prize for selling the winning tickets.
• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  i buy mine at gas station usually.......
• Elizabeth03

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by LOTTOMIKE on February 17, 2005
  

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  where do you usually buy your lottery tickets or scratch offs?
  

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  Also  sometimes at lottery kiosk's at shopping centers.
• CASH Only

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  Almost always at convenience stores. But now I'll go to a supermarket to cash a $100+ winner.
• LOTTOMIKE

  

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  a gas station never has enough to pay on tickets that are over a hundred dollars.....
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  Quote: Originally posted by CASH Only on February 17, 2005
  

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  And I've never heard of a $200 million winner taking the annuity.
  

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  Me either.  But if I win you'll know someone who did =)
• lazyjim

  

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  I get my tickets at the liquor store so I can get something to sedate myself with after the drawing.

   

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• CASH Only

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• JimmySand9

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by CASH Only on February 17, 2005

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  And I've never heard of a $200 million winner taking the annuity.
  
  

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  A $200 million winner that takes cash would therefore become a $100 million winner. If you take annuity on the other hand, you'll only win $5 million (after taxes approx.), but you'll get the same amount 29 more times.

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• CASH Only

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  I'm still taking the cash.