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• redhot7

  

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  More often than not, part of the ticket is torn apart when I buy from a clerk. This could be problematic if I buy smallest size ticket. And this is part of the reason why I prefer to buy from a self service machine.
• accesscapital

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by redhot7 on Jun 26, 2013

  More often than not, part of the ticket is torn apart when I buy from a clerk. This could be problematic if I buy smallest size ticket. And this is part of the reason why I prefer to buy from a self service machine.

  It happend to me once. It was a $50 winner but with the way she tore it, small part of the bar code stuck to the next tik. I realized this when I came home, when I went back to store, it was gone..First time it happend to me.
• omiller315

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by redhot7 on Jun 26, 2013

  More often than not, part of the ticket is torn apart when I buy from a clerk. This could be problematic if I buy smallest size ticket. And this is part of the reason why I prefer to buy from a self service machine.

  Here is PA, they can still manually cash it with the hidden long code under the scratch area. I never really had a problem. I have seen it worse in machines where people change out tickets and forget to change the cut length in the machine when going from one size to another. I have also seen it work in your favor where the cut length should be 4 inches and its larger(if they went from a $20 to a $2 ticket in the slot) and you end up with 2-3 for the price of 1 :)
• kaseydia

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by redhot7 on Jun 26, 2013

  More often than not, part of the ticket is torn apart when I buy from a clerk. This could be problematic if I buy smallest size ticket. And this is part of the reason why I prefer to buy from a self service machine.

  Do you get quite a few winners from self service machines?
• redhot7

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by kaseydia on Jul 2, 2013

  Do you get quite a few winners from self service machines?

  Yes. I do get quite a few winners. The last $2 Lucky for Life winner bought it from a vending machine.
• LottoBoner

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  Quote: Originally posted by redhot7 on Jun 26, 2013

  More often than not, part of the ticket is torn apart when I buy from a clerk. This could be problematic if I buy smallest size ticket. And this is part of the reason why I prefer to buy from a self service machine.

  i think clerks are just careless "in general".

  Another problem you see is that a lot of winning lottery tickets go unclaimed.

  Therefore most lottery players are also careless players.

  When a careless clerk sees a careless player, boy I think some fireworks go off.
• RedStang

  

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  Never had a clerk problem, but one time i wanted 4 of the same tickets from the machine and pressed the button 4 times fast. Stood there in shock as the machine was cutting the tickets in half and i could'nt stop it. Got lucky the scratch area was on the bottom.