Topic: A man is unable to collect his price cos he forget where he bought the ticket. - page 6. (Read 1161 times)

I see no need putting blames on the casino for their refusal to pay the supposed claimant, we are talking about a huge amount of money and it is very possible that anyone can just walk to the casino and try to claim what is not rightfully his. I find it hard to believe that someone will be unable to give any information on where and how he bought the lottery tickets, chances are that it is either he is lying or he bought the ticket from an unauthorised vendor. People can be tricky therefore we need to be smart not to fall for any form of blackmail.

If i ever play any lottery, I'll make sure i keep every documents pertaining to the lottery intact, including receipts, tickets and even the most insignificant writeups on a plain sheet. I should be able to proof that i am the bonafide winner. If at the end of the whole investigation and he is still not given the money, his carelessly caused me such great loss.

Bet shops in my area operate in similar rules, if you can't provide the best slip or your ticket then you can't claim your mkney if you won it, so you would see a lot of persons holding on yo their slips cause they know its the olby way to get their money, there was even a man that played a long running game for about 3 months and when hiswon the game he had to start finding the slip, he Brought an only copy for them but they didn't accept, so he had yo start looking for it, luckily he found it in his old jeans trousers.

That is kind of weird if you asked me,. here works different here in country he comes to lottery. One does not need to know exactly where or at what agency one acquired or purchased the winning ticket.
Actually, the only thing that matter is you have the ticket to proof you are the rightful winner then give that winning ticket to an agency which is an official representative of the lottery, it does not even need to be the same place where one bought the ticket.
If there is any reasonable explanation to this, then I cannot find it, beyond giving more excuses for lottery winners not being able to get their prize because little details which have be irrelevant when compared the high amount of luck he had to get the weight ticket. I am pretty much in favor on how it works here in my country, It is easier that straightforward enough for anyone never to lose their won money to administrative and inner regulatory stupidness by those lottery companies...  

Ontario Lottery has different policy and I think other countries has different policy too over claiming lottery prize.

I read the article and I learned that they have a standard protocol of asking some questions to verify that the lotto winner is the rightful owner of the ticket. Also the victim in subject is not old but in mid range man which is capable on remembering where he purchased his ticket.

I believed the main concern is not answering security verification but rather the claiming time is already over due to the delayed transfer of the money until they use the security verification question as reason to delay the released of reward.

           -   It is possible to forget where the ticket was purchased, especially if the person who bought it is old, or someone else may not remember where they bought it. Because the important thing is that he has the ticket, and it will be properly given to the person in charge if he ever wins the jackpot prize.

I have never heard of a lotto winner being disqualified just because they couldn't remember which lotto outlet they bought it from. Because they needed to claim their prize jackpot, they had to hold the ticket to prove that they really were the winner.

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).