I heard about something the other day that I'm curious to hear what you guys think about it or what you may have experienced....
I heard a story about a guy at work whom I don't know. (I know who he is, but I've never spoken with him.) I was told that the guy "won 400 bucks on a lottery ticket" (I don't know if it was a scratch off or an online game) and that they guy had trouble cashing it at more than one store. Supposedly the guy ended up going to the NY Lottery's Fishkill, NY claim center and cashed it there. I'm told he complained about the stores not wanting to cash the ticket at the claim center and identified them to the person who worked at the claim center.
Apparently he was given various excuses by store clerks/managers/owners as to why they couldn't cash it. Not that the wouldn't cash it, they said they "couldn't" cash it for various reasons. I was told one store offered to give him the equivalent amount of his win in "tickets" but not the cash.
I've never known what it's like to cash a winner that's more than 50 bucks, so I've never run into this kind of thing, but I'm sure it happens. I also know that retailers are supposed to cash a winner up to a max of 600 bucks. But do they?? Or how willing are they to do it???
I'm sure there are legitimate reasons why a store couldn't cash a winner at any given time. But being bounced from store to store with multiple stores saying they couldn't cash it?? Sounds like too much of a coincidence to me. G5