Topic: A man is unable to collect his price cos he forget where he bought the ticket. (Read 1161 times)

It's very funny to see that someone win lottery or something else and forgot were he bought the tickets, it's still not clear to me because it shows how careless the said user could be. Note, my reply was based on the tile of your post.
When buying lottery ticket is there no indication or a kind of names that corelate with the company's name if I may ask?

I don’t think he’ll be frustrated - if you take a look at the last few replies i made on this thread you should be able to see where I mentioned that he was able to get the money back. Remember that we’re dealing with a lottery company here and since the media was already involved in the case they wouldn’t want to risk ruining their reputation for a few thousands of dollars so they had to revisit his case and gave him his reward ( the article also mentioned it at the bottom).

The Man is in a mess, because if Care is not taken, he may end up not getting his prize since the casino have already made their intentions and decision known to him that he have to forfeit his winning if he can't remember where he made the bet from, because in this regard the casino is right in a way, most especially when he have staked the bet through a betting agents, because there is how the agents betting work's and how they pay out winnings to winners.


So the man is frustrated by now, and he should be considering to move one in this situation by now because he has lost that winning eventually unless he is able to prove the casino wrong after all this crisis.

Some gamblers are just like smokers; they can buy cigarettes from as many shops as they can as long as they offer what they want. All that matters is that they can remember that they have some left-over park they can make use of when ever necessary and not to remember each store they enter to buy it.
 
I believe such can also be the case here, as the lucky dude can't remember the exact place he bought the ticket because it's not just one place that he buys from; they should just get over it as long as there is no report for stolen tickets or such, and his reward should be handed over to him.

It seems to me that they shouldn't put so many restrictions on that. If he won, he proved that he was lucky, he won. Telling him that he doesn't remember where he got it from doesn't mean anything. He could have been drunk and forgot. Sometimes drunks have unique luck, they have road accidents and don't even kill themselves, So why not win the lottery? It seems to me that it's a very bad excuse not to want to pay. And if the person suffers from Alzheimer's, what would they do there? The lottery would look bad.

The article says the lottery company actually has records, so that's not the issue here.
The lottery company only wants to ensure that they are paying the winning ticket to the rightful owner, so they need to asks series of questions, if one answer do not match their information, the process would take longer than usual as they need to review further information about how the claimant obtained the ticket.
It was also stated in the article that a good habit when purchasing a lottery ticket is to keep the receipt as it shows the time, date, and place of the purchase.
Therefore, the claimant are most likely lost the receipt.

I had to buy physical tickets to play the lottery for a long time, even though I didn't win big prizes there. So I want to say that if I bought these lottery tickets every week in different places, then of course I wouldn't remember where I bought them over the last six months.

But there are 2 options in which I would remember this:

1) This is if I bought in the same place throughout the entire period of the game. For example, a store near where I live.

2) This is if I very rarely bought tickets in different places, then I would most likely remember these places, even for several months for sure.

What if someone has bought me a ticker or I have received it as a present? I dont know where it is from, nor the value of it, as people often remove price tags when they give presents How things works in this case in your place? I am used to "providing paycheck is a proof that item isnt stolen" kind of situations. Providing info where ticket was bought - is it enough to say "gas station by address" ? They will check if lottery machine issues that ticket there, and that is it?

Except that there is no talk about innocence here and the burden of proof lies with the claimant!
It's a known thing in the US and Canada, you need to know where you bought the ticket, everyone knows when they buy one, and everyone has seen cases of them getting stolen even by cashiers who were supposed to check if you won and so on!
Prof of burden is with you when you claim possession of something!


That's not how lotteries work here and it's definitely not the case, the reason is simple was explained in the article and in a ton of links following that post so I don't understand why people still do guess work on this!

This kind of things happens nowadays but in different categories, someone might buy the same things from different stores and if one among the things he bought have problem and would want to return it (or would like to change them), he might find it difficult to recall the particular store he bought them because he didn't buy the things in the same store. However, since it is a lottery ticket, I would say that the dude is a chronic gambler that gambles in different places and forgot the particular place he bought the tickets because he's kind of addicted and not conscious of the kind of places he bought his tickets or how he plays he's bet.

It is rather unfortunate, but it's probably a last fail safe check for a lottery operator to determine if a ticket is genuine. You'd think there might be some kind of unique identifier on the ticket so it cannot be faked, which leaves the only reason for the question of - where did you buy this ticket, being that they want to prevent stolen tickets from being submitted by a wrongful claimant. Personally I don't buy many lottery tickets, but tend to know the geographic locations and could probably recall shops that I'd be around in the last 6 months which could be the location of the purchase. If he is able to give some specific shops that it might have been purchased from, then they should take that in good faith because it could be hard for a thief to identify accurately.

On the technology that we do have today then it cant really be denied that making things go through online or having those transitions does really bring out that kind of convenience or comfort when buying up
tickets since you could really be able to check out the history as long you do have that account or phone besides you but same as you said that people will really be getting used to or much preferred on
going into those physical places because they do really want to feel the essence that traditional way on betting on lotteries on which they could get a hold of with physical ticket and kept in.
The issue on this one is that he had lost the ticket so its understandable that you cant be able to claim up the prize on which this is something which is really that understandable.

Rules are rules and there would really be no considerations when it comes into this aspect on where if you dont have the ticket then there's no prize for you. Just like on what everyone is saying on here
that this would really be giving out a regret that you wont really be able to forget for the rest of your life specially if the prize or money we are talking on here is a life changing one.
This is why its really that important that it should really be kept well and wont really be that making yourself that being careless with those things.

The lottery company just want to deny the man of his prize, if the eventually refused to pay him because he forgets where he bought the tickets, lottery have one rule, which is for a winners all that is needed is to have the ticket with the lucky number and in this case the man have that ticket so why asking his ticket purchase destination, this is somewhat an abuse of the man right .


What if he hard sent someone to help him but the lottery tickets, or a gift from a friend, how then do they expect him to know where the ticket are bought from, so we have to follow-up this Case, but for the man, if he bought the lottery tickets by himself, then forgetting the place he bought it is somewhat a carless act,

most likely that guy often bought tickets and in different places because he forgot where exactly he bought it. I also remember where I bought all my last tickets in the store near my house if I am in the mood and have extra money. I also play the national lottery once a month but I do it on my phone because I can see all the previous draws and numbers there, it is much more convenient than going and checking the results. And despite the fact that now everything is on the Internet, there are those who go to buy tickets because it is more like a tradition.

From my view of how lottery and physical gambling ticket works, each sold ticket are recorded with the agent which they bought the ticket from and claiming your reward would also come from that same agent. The reward is paid ro the agent and then the agent to you. That is why he was unable to access his won ticket at other agents.  Well the only solution to this, is if he manages to get to their head office to make complaint that he forgot the location were he bought the ticket, then they might improvise by debating the agents account and give him his reward or even give him the agent's location if possible.

It would have been quite understandable if he had misplaced the tickets but forgetting where he collected the ticket is quite outrageous, how would he lose tracks of his movements? Is it some sort of memory loss? It's like going to a bet shop to place a bet and forgetting where you booked the bet slip afterwards. If this is actually what happened then it must have been a very regretful experience for him, it's hard to win lotteries, having such luck comes once in a blue moon. It's quite sad that he didn't take advantage of his golden opportunity.

Right, frustrating indeed. I think that’s the consequence if you buy your tickets anywhere, and there’s actually high tendency that you will forget the whereabouts most especially if you drink before you bet. But for some responsible bettors, the fact that you keep your ticket well then you should know also where you have gained that ticket. Those are actually basic information, and yet some have totally forgotten it.

I don't get this story because how can someone forget where he bought a ticket. Don't he have a specific shop that he use for gambling. I don't gamble on different casino or sport bookies and when I'll be participating in lottery, I won't be doing it at random shops or centers but I'll be sure that the place that I'll be using are verified and can give me my cash when I win. There's lots of scams hence I can't just trust anybody as I can lose my winning. Maybe too the individual that forgot where he bought the tickets might have been under the influence of something when buying the tickets. This is the reason we shouldn't be gambling under any influence of any substance or we might find ourselves in similar situations as the individual this thread is about and we can miss out on potential big quantity of money that would've change our story and make us wealthy.

Human nature, I guess. We tend to forget the most memorable things sometimes, not because we have a bad memory but because of how much things roll around our minds every hour of the day. As a man who is responsible for making an income and taking care of a family, I wouldn't find it surprising if someone forgets about such a thing. You might have been somewhere and decided to buy a ticket, and then forgot about it. Even if it's not completely normal, I don't find that utterly surprising either.

The company running the lottery should have all the information about the tickets they have sold, they should have records of the buyers of those tickets, and should be able to verify the details once someone approaches them with a winning ticket so that they can give the winnings to the rightful winner. They shouldn't refuse a winner their reward only because they don't remember where they bought the ticket from, I mean the ticket is not a fake one, after all.

If we are talking about online based ticket then there's a possibility about recovery yet transactions could really be that able to traced upon  but if we do speak about those lottery tickets on which it is really done physically then this is something that cant be easily be retrieved out or something that you could really be able to trace on. This is why it is really that important that you should really be that careful on keeping those tickets because no one really knows on when you would be able to hit up those combinations. Just like on what most people been saying on here is that this is something a lesson that you wont really be able to forget for the rest of your life on which you had missed out on getting some nasty wins or jackpots just because you are really that making yourself careless on keeping things on what should really be that supposed to be kept.