Topic: A man is unable to collect his price cos he forget where he bought the ticket. - page 4. (Read 750 times)

Maybe the gambler in question was on alcohol or high on cheap weed that will make him forget where he bought his lottery ticket from. If not how is that possible. Assuming he lost his ticket that is understandable, but this is about your own brain to think where he got that ticket from. Who knows if he claims to be the owner but he is not. Gamblers can be funny sometimes, and act funny, because of big dreams.

There's was an instruction on where to claim the prize. But if you will read the article, it indicates that the announcement of winner was done not a few weeks ago or a few months ago, but a year ago. Wherein, it is also said:

That's also a long time ago that anyone would really forget where they purchase their ticket.

Then the first requirement to claim his prize is to confirm the location of where he purchased it which is being done to confirm if he's the real owner of the ticket.
He's lucky to still be able to claim the prize despite being a year late claiming it.

Anyways, yes, it's a great awareness for everyone to look into especially for those people who always buy a lottery ticket.

Is there a note on the casino in order to claim the winning? if there's already a note on there, the gambler should be blamed since he's careless since he didn't read it. But, if the casino didn't have notes, the casino is shady since they want to make the gambler will not able to claim his winnings.

After all, this story will make people in this forum aware to ask the casino's employee to claim the winnings in order to avoid this case happened to them. Good information @OP.

If you read the article, the man was able to collect his prize winning. So he didn't lost the lottery, instead it was just drag for months and thanks to Canadian media and exposure, his case was put into the spotlight and so they have to pay him his prize.


Never heard of lotto tickets though being sold through banks. Mostly, they are being sold by authorized dealer or shop by the government. So they will have the copy of the winning ticket as well and they know what branch have sold it.

Very funny but sad thing is that even after winning the ticket in the lottery he is unable to collect the lottery money because he already lost the lottery. Since he lost and forgot where he collected the lottery from, there is no chance of him getting the lottery winnings.
However, all the lotteries that are organized by the government in our country are mainly sold through banks at various branches and if the tickets are lost for any reason, then if you contact the bank, you can collect duplicate tickets again, there is no problem in this case.

What your saying for me is valid because anything you value there must be a certain preference given, I even doubt how one will buy ticket your hoping to win will not keep records of the place as it's the only means to get your money if there is a win.
If the person is saying of misplaced of tickets I would consider it as normal thing as it can happen to any one , based in individual difference of how caution we operate in keeping valid documents but booking tickets without knowing the place is some how though it all depends on individual.

I agree with you because I have also witness something like this and I think that might just the problem with it.

Maybe someone might lost his ticket and someone else might picked up the ticket and claim it to be his even when he know it's not his but might not be confident to talk about it as of that time because he might be afraid, so that he might be embarrassed or disgrace. Because for me and I'm sure I'm the real owner of it, I will make sure I will see the place or locate the place just to make sure I collect my price but if only I want to collect a good amount of price.

As a gambler if two or at most three gambling officies is not satisfactory to your gambling engagement then there is something really wrong with the person(s) and which is possible they definitely need urgent gambling counseling against addiction.

Speaking of agent address code on the bet-slip, the ink that they do use nowadays fades off  too quick and a gambler could lose claiming his money if the codes are incorrect. What I do is to make sure I write those codes out into a jotter to keep at a usual safe place if it's a bet that the games are going to run for some weeks to avoid such ugly scenario whereby the gambling agents will deny me claim of my win.

So, he didn't notice that he won $1000+ from his lottery ticket and the rule says that a claim over that amount should have a cheque after 6-8 weeks, according to the article. But it has been a year and they have not received anything yet.

This is hilarious. Why would the lottery even care about where he bought the ticket, they can check it themselves because they have the records. I thought about what they should be pursuing the identification of the ticket buyer so they can give out the prize properly and then check if the ticket is legitimate. That's all they need. If the ticket won, there should be no more questions unless they don't want to pay. They have the authority to check it and the equipment too, I don't think there should be a problem with that.

Exactly, the most important thing is the ticket itself, because that will be the thing that will certify your win, and the authorities don't care if that is your ticket. Because the information if that is your ticket. Because the information about where the ticket came from is in the ticket itself, it has details and a unique serial number, which is unique in every lottery booth, so I think the topic itself is nonsense, because there are some news stories or articles about a lottery winner who couldn't get their prize just because it couldn't state where he bought the ticket, and it's common sense that all bettor in the lottery will know where they bought the ticket unless that ticket is not yours, but again, the information is not necessary when claiming the price. I don't know where OP got that kind of question or if he even thought about it before creating a topic for it, because from what I saw, most of the comments on the topic are nonsense.

To contribute meaningfully to this discussion, I have alot of questions to ask, and the first would be, after buying a ticket, how long does it take before the winner of a lottery is announced?
And Secondly, is it possible to buy a lottery ticket at multiple places? Like multiple outlets?

To the first question, if after buying a lottery ticket, it still takes a really long time, like six months to one year or more, before a winner is announced, and also, if the answer to the second question is a yes, that it's possible to buy tickets to a lottery at multiple places, then I personally believe it's highly possible for any one to forget the particular place where they bought a particular ticket, but I still consider this a very rare case, because I assume that every one playing the lottery should have a particular place where they purchase the ticket.

I will fault the man for being so careless with the game, to the extent of forgetting where he bought the ticket, but on the other hand, maybe he played the game and was never expecting to win, and this is why he did not bother keeping record of where the tickets were bought from.

Anyways, I've never played an offline lottery before, but if I've ever, it's only ones that only takes about 3 hours for results to be announced, so, there is no way i will forget where I bought ticket to such lottery game.

My opinion on that story - that man should not get his prize, because his intentions on gambling wasnt serious. He has got that ticket without any hope to win a price, that is why I think, if he gets his prize in the end, he wont use it wise. Probably waste it in few days on bs. How much was that prize? A bit more than 1k? Add it to a next jackpot, give that man several lottery tickets and close that case.

It's actually a good news, he was lucky enough to have been paid because in situations like this, they will just take back the funds and not even think about giving it back to him which I had expected when I read through through the post at first place. But is it really necessary to ask for whee his ticket was initially bought? I believe that these were all just a scope attempt to try and default his lottery price. So many cases like this end up not been resolved. If the media had not intervened, he probably won't have gotten his winnings released untime or totally.i also think that there should be a way to check for the place of purchase on the ticket because it's not possible for a ticket not to have an id.

I don't think it's necessary to tell them where you bought the ticket. Their job is just to verify if the ticket is real and then pay the corresponding winnings if it is proven real. This kind of procedure could sometimes lead to not getting our winnings if we forget where we obtained the ticket. Tickets don't need to be bought all the time; someone can also give them to you. But these details aren't necessary anymore. As I've mentioned, they just have to verify the ticket. That's it.

If the lottery rules state that it is necessary to disclose the place of purchase of the ticket, then there is nothing left to do but follow this rule, otherwise you may lose the prize payment, as in the story of this man. If I were in his place, I would first check the lottery rules to make sure that the requirements for indicating the place of purchase of the ticket are legal, otherwise I would have suspicions that the lottery organizers are in this way trying to evade paying the prize money. In general, it is necessary to understand the nuances of this story.

For me personally, this is a little strange, not knowing (not remembering) the place where the ticket was purchased from the position of a gambler. And also, even stranger, from the position of the organizers, because money is concentrated in the places where tickets are sold, which means that precautionary measures are being taken - surveillance cameras, which could certainly have recorded this forgotten ticket buyer.

Most often, people buy lottery tickets near their homes. Probably, this man also bought somewhere near his place of residence (or work), because people’s daily travel routes actually remain unchanged. Unless, of course, the prize ticket ended up in his hands in some other way (possibly criminal).

This is nonsense reason from the lottery outlet to avoid payment. They can check the authenticity of the ticket by themselves since they have code on it which doesn’t need to be verified where this ticket purchased.

I do purchased lottery tickets in rare occasions and many players in my neighborhood manage to win a decent amount close to jackpot but they never encounter this kind of verification since the ticket alone is enough to claim the profit.

It’s odd since they should have record on where the ticket sold since an outlet registered it by themselves to the system.

In North Europe, it is quite popular to ask to provide a receipt when you participate in lotteries or small giveaways. A popular example: you can win bottles/devices/car as a main prize from Coca-Cola. Participation is simple - look under the cap and check the symbol. If exchanging cap to new bottle is simple, the if you win a car, you must provide a receipt that you have bought that bottle. Stupid rules, but I think that man, that is spoken about in topic name, is in a bit similar situation. Same goes with lotteries. If you are lucky to guess all the number in your lottery card, to get a prize you must provide a receipt. I dont know what the receipt is really for. To provide that the ticket is not fake? To prove that you havent stolen it?

this is the role of the media and it's good to know that they've made themselves useful at this instance.

Sometimes, the least things we take for granted becomes a serious problem for us when we least expect them. Most people are fine if betting at different shops and in different centers forgetting that on the part of the gambling owners, a win for the gambler means a loss for the gambling owners and that any form of carelessness on your part would be used against you.
like seriously. It's even strange that one has to visit shops to get betting ticket at this phase of life and still rely on physical means to be able to redeem his win. Crypto gambling is the best as you can comfortably place your bet at your convenience and get your reward without passing through the vigur of physical gambling.

Well it is only going to be possible and confusing if you are buying tickets often, randomly and also rampant that you won't be able to differentiate one for the other. But I think those who keep few stations as a place they purchase such ticket would easily identify where they bought it. In my country, there is a lottery company that has different stations across and it doesn't matter which station you bought your ticket, you can get paid from any station if you present a genuine and ticket that has not been ultered. There is also another company where you have to cash out from the station where you bet, so I would rather be careful when I buy from a company that is strict with where the ticket was bought.

After reading the first part of the article I was shocked by how complicated it is to get your rightful prize with Ontario Lottery. I wanted to write here "I would ignore Ontario Lottery and play anywhere else". But then I read: "his cheque has been processed and will be sent shortly to him in the mail" which meant the prize will be received by the winner. So, no complaints about Ontario Lottery on my part. I like how they handle things.

No matter whether you can remember where you purchased all of your lottery tickets, if you win, you will receive your prize if you deal with a reputable gaming corporation.