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• Karen Nathan

  

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  One day a few years ago, I intended to play $2 in Play 4. The Lottery Retailer told me I owed $6! I was like,"WHAT?" He then informed me that I had played a $4 Powerball ticket. I had accidentally picked up an unwanted Powerball slip that someone else had bubbled in for $4 and left it in the Lottery slips station, and I accidentally picked that up too and accidentally handed it to the Lottery Retailer. I asked him to cancel the $4 Powerball ticket as it was a complete accident. He informed me that Powerball tickets couldn't be cancelled. I told him I only had the $2 I intended to play the $2 Play 4 with at the time. I was planning to get a couple of dollars from another place soon after, and I told him this and he let me go to get that extra $4 which was pretty nice of him to do. I got the $4 from that place, and came back and he informed me that someone else already bought the $4 Powerball ticket and handed me my $2 Play 4 tickets. I thank God that that Powerball slip was only $4 and not a slip for $100 or something like that...
• DELotteryPlyr

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Karen Nathan on Feb 10, 2021

  One day a few years ago, I intended to play $2 in Play 4. The Lottery Retailer told me I owed $6! I was like,"WHAT?" He then informed me that I had played a $4 Powerball ticket. I had accidentally picked up an unwanted Powerball slip that someone else had bubbled in for $4 and left it in the Lottery slips station, and I accidentally picked that up too and accidentally handed it to the Lottery Retailer. I asked him to cancel the $4 Powerball ticket as it was a complete accident. He informed me that Powerball tickets couldn't be cancelled. I told him I only had the $2 I intended to play the $2 Play 4 with at the time. I was planning to get a couple of dollars from another place soon after, and I told him this and he let me go to get that extra $4 which was pretty nice of him to do. I got the $4 from that place, and came back and he informed me that someone else already bought the $4 Powerball ticket and handed me my $2 Play 4 tickets. I thank God that that Powerball slip was only $4 and not a slip for $100 or something like that...

  YUP! Gotta look at the playslips BEFORE you use them.  I once had a playslip that I had been using for a couple of days which was $5.  But a drop of water had gotten on it and the machine picked it up as the '7 days' option and the clerk said $35!!! The machine asked the clerk to verify that much before submitting it, so I didn't have to pay. 

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• Karen Nathan

  

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  I mentioned this on another Website before I even knew what Lottery Post was, ;) and someone replied something like,"I would have said,"Yeah, I'm not paying for that Powerball ticket that was an honest mistake," and left." I replied something like,"I came back with the $4 out of Principle...."
• GiveFive

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Karen Nathan on Feb 11, 2021

  I mentioned this on another Website before I even knew what Lottery Post was, ;) and someone replied something like,"I would have said,"Yeah, I'm not paying for that Powerball ticket that was an honest mistake," and left." I replied something like,"I came back with the $4 out of Principle...."

  Of course it was an honest mistake, but you did the right thing.  What you did is called being ethical.  It was a sticky situation, but you did the ethical thing.

  That's the problem with the world today, a lack of ethics, not to mention a lack of respect for other people and their property.  We'd all be living in a much nicer world than we currently do if everybody respected other people.  Sadly some don't.  G5

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• GiveFive

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by DELotteryPlyr on Feb 11, 2021

  YUP! Gotta look at the playslips BEFORE you use them.  I once had a playslip that I had been using for a couple of days which was $5.  But a drop of water had gotten on it and the machine picked it up as the '7 days' option and the clerk said $35!!! The machine asked the clerk to verify that much before submitting it, so I didn't have to pay. 

  That's a good/smart feature the Maryland Lottery has... not sure if it exists elsewhere, but if doesn't, it should.  It protects both the player and the retailer. G5

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• Karen Nathan

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Feb 11, 2021

  Of course it was an honest mistake, but you did the right thing.  What you did is called being ethical.  It was a sticky situation, but you did the ethical thing.

  That's the problem with the world today, a lack of ethics, not to mention a lack of respect for other people and their property.  We'd all be living in a much nicer world than we currently do if everybody respected other people.  Sadly some don't.  G5

  Thank you for that. :) And, it worked out in my favor anyways as someone else bought that $4 Powerball ticket anyways. :)