ScoobLou

iTrader: (21)

Hmm do you think they just didn't check that it went through ok?

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews...1xQ?li=AAaeUIW


I'm not sure I could live with such a mistake!

dpb

So not even in 2016 does a payment go through , immediatley

Geezer

They are just chancers, the didn't check and now want Camelot to pay out, on their word.

I doubt they even chose the right numbers.

Peedee

iTrader: (4)

If you do the lottery online, you get a confirmatory email when you've paid. If they have that email, fair enough, if not, then chin up. I'm fairly sure Camelot could check to see if the money was in their lotto account, their bank statements etc.

ZANY

Really got on my **** were she said she'll buy her disabled sister an electric wheelchair if they paid her out or if she had won I'm sure with a clean heart she could raise the money easily within the community if needed were are people's morals using that as a sympathy catch I really do feel like swearing at such people

RAF1

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Agree..!

Turbohot

Truly gutting for them, I can imagine. I feel sorry for them. Another drawback of this 'everything online' malarkey. If they had gone to a petrol station and did their business on scratch card or manually filled the numbers by hand and then acquired a submission receipt on the purchase, with all their chosen numbers on it, this wouldn't have happened.

^Qwerty^

Had something similar just before Christmas, I went to buy a ticket, found out I only had £1.30 on my account so added another £10....or at least I thought I had. It's not obvious that you haven't and the ticket purchase then failed. It's more a UI issue and how it presents the information rather than a 'glich'.

pimmo2000

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Turbohot

Well, yeah! At least they won't face fvvk ups like their numbers or payments didn't go through due to internet glitch.

I visited my neighbour last night. She had her TV on. As soon as Lotto etc. results started to show up, she got her purchased tickets out, and started to match them with the results. She has vision issues, so I had to read them out loud for her, which is irrelevant to what I'm trying to establish here. Basically, she buys her tickets manually at the Co-Op, so she doesn't get messed about by the internet glitches. She told me that she won £6.50 and £6.00 in last two weeks on Lotto etc., which shows that people do win here and there. But like Hodgy says elsewhere (ref:https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...l-lottery.html) that 'the lottery was a tax on the stupid', as an 80 YO regular, she would have spent hundreds, if not thousands to get her pinch of money back, even!

I still think that the lottery is a tax on the stupid. All other gambling businesses are also the same! Immoral and duping imo.