Isabelle Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I always get stuck behind the person in the corner shop who wants to pay about 5 different bills on the paypoint machine, various kinds of tobacco, and umpteen different scratchcards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerrangaroo Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 The lottery is very poor now, they have got too greedy with all the different cards etc, the Jackpot for last Wednesday wasn't even £1.5 million. I'd be happy with 1.5 million in my account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansheff Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I'd be happy with 1.5 million in my account. So would I but the prize fund has dropped considerably, last night was about £3.5 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tehs Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I would be happy with a few grand lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Sidney Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Its only like William Hill advertising that customers are welcome to have a 10 quid bet. If you think its steep just don't buy one.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medusa Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Nobody is forcing you to buy a scratchcard or any sort are they? I can honestly say that I have never bought one and I've never felt pressured to buy one, so what's the problem. I have a pretty fundamental issue with gambling as a concept and think that a lot of bingo sites and poker sites are set up in a way that enables gambling addiction problems, but all you have to do to not be sucked in to the issues is to not visit the sites or start buying scratchcards in the first place. For the record, I don't gamble at all, and that includes lottery tickets and raffle tickets as much as going in to a bookies or paying entry fees for a game of bingo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Meh, I do the Lottery twice a week, sometimes 3 times if the Euromillions has a BIG jackpot, and I buy 1 scratch card a week, should I join gamblers anonymous? I think not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curriechick Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 The only time I ever had a scratch card was a couple of years ago when one of my friends put one in a birthday card for me. I scratched off 3 pictures of a horse shoe I think and won £20. I've never actually bought one, although MrC plays the Irish Lottery on Wednesday and Saturday £3 each day, and he has won 2 or 3 times, not huge amounts about £600 each time which is brilliant, we've used it for a treat for ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resident Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 They should be made to stick to the Saturday and midweek lottery only, get rid of all other games. Well when the lottery was first concieved and at recent operator's licence review there were 2 bidders for the licence, Camelot & Virgin. Although BOTH times, in my and many other's opinions, the Virgin bid was better (capped jackpot, more smaller prizes & more to charity), Camelot got the bid both times. I guess Camelot put more in the little brown envelopes given to the MP that reviewed the bids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Well when the lottery was first concieved and at recent operator's licence review there were 2 bidders for the licence, Camelot & Virgin. Although BOTH times, in my and many other's opinions, the Virgin bid was better (capped jackpot, more smaller prizes & more to charity), Camelot got the bid both times. Intending to cap the jackpot might well have been the biggest factor in their bid not being chosen. Capping the jackpots heavily restricts how many tickets you might sell. I don't think many people would think much of a new government policy to tax everyone in the country £1 each week and give the entire sum to one person to make him enormously rich; and yet, when it's an entirely voluntary scheme to do the same thing, tickets are sold by the million. It's all rather odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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