Has this ever happened to you?

Reply #19

tiggs95 — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:16:29 GMT

When tiggs sees unwanted tickets on the machine he buys them..Anyone who orders a ticket by mistake either by you or the machine and don't buy it are stupid..ITO..

Reply #18

Pick3forSC — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:46:32 GMT

I absolutely understand where your coming from, i partly did understand the woman at the store. NO WAY could i do your job, i couldnt handle the stress of dealing with people 1on1 all day long. I knew she couldnt cancel the ticket, i just wanted her to see that i hadnt made a mistake, but she was having none of it, it was gonna be my mistake one way or the other. I know the lady was stressed out that day, but if someone gets hateful with me for no reason no matter who they are or where they work... [ More ]

Reply #17

rdgrnr — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Good post gsc5.

Nice to hear the story from the other side of the counter for a change.

Makes me want to strangle you people a little bit less, LOL.

Reply #16

gsc5 — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:45:16 GMT

I am a store clerk, so I just have to respond. It wasn't your fault nor the clerks. All she did is put the play slip in the machine. She can't cancel the ticket, so if you don't pay,she has to, period.

The best way to play for most are play slips, but there can be problems. Most play slips are where people often scratch their scratch tickets, so it not hard to pickup a small bit of a ticket on

a play slip, or it could be a slight smuged or lint. I seen this more than a couple of times. Yo... [ More ]

Reply #15

PrisonerSix — Sun, 16 May 2010 22:41:45 GMT

I don't normally play those games so that hasn't happened. However, this morning I asked for an Easy5 and a Powerball tickets and the clerk accidentally printed out a Lotto and asked me if I wanted to buy it and I said why not. Maybe it will be lucky.

Reply #14

WILLWRK4NUMBERS — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:53:06 GMT

WOW!!!

What great stories and insight here. Thanks for sharing! It's appreciated. Needless to say, I've gotten the tickers for 10 draws and I checked today before I left the store.

No mor faux pas!

Again thanks everyone! You all ROCK

Reply #13

increase — Sat, 15 May 2010 12:55:35 GMT

I had a similar experience.

I went to play 268 on Wednesday at midday it was close to the cutoff time before the drawing.

Anyway, the machine wouldn't read my playslips.

The clerk insisted on marking them darker which didn't work.

After her 3rd attempt, the cutoff time for the day drawing passed.

She insisted on scanning the playing slip again when she did, it printed the tickets for Thursday, May 13th. The machine printed all of the tickets exact even though they were marked 50/5... [ More ]

Reply #12

Raven62 — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:51:34 GMT

It's an imperfect world populated with imperfect people and imperfect things!

Learn from the experience and check your tickets before leaving the store

Reply #11

tiggs95 — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:55:10 GMT

It diden't matter you numbers diden't come in..99% of the time they won't and if a mistake is made keep the tickets but if you want to then buy the other ones to..NEVER give back a ticket that was printed by mistake,NEVER..

Reply #10

ThatScaryChick — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:09:38 GMT

I'd probably be oh well about the situation and just hope that it came out straight,

Reply #9

joker17 — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:20:57 GMT

The clerk must've been thinking outside the box when he ran the slip. But I'm sure it wasn't intentional. I think he was being straight with you, but confused.

Reply #8

Longarm — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:07:06 GMT

I also won once because of my own mistake. I played 1824 straight/box, intending to play Saturday day, but didn't mark the day box, so it played Friday night and matched 1428 and won me $100. That Saturday was my friend's birthday so I bought us some pricey alcohol with my winnings.

Reply #7

CutlassBob — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:21:12 GMT

Yes DARN IT (sensored for profanity) This happened to me on Saturday April 24th 2010 Midday 4 didget here in Michigan!! My pick was 3298. I played $1.00 Straight and $1.00 Box. The person at the store did not BOX it. I did not check until i got home and it was too late to call him (12:45 pm) and have him box it.

What did i do? I let the store clerk know he lost me some cash and to pay attention!! DUH.

Ohh the lottery memories.

CutlassBob.

Reply #6

Pick3forSC — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:17:15 GMT

The very first week South Carolina got the lottery i was in a store buying a powerball ticket. The store was packed full of people buying everything from powerball to scratchoffs being the lottery was brand new in SC. The woman behind the counter was in a very nasty mood. I filled out a playslip for 1 qp with the powerplay, $2, simple enough. When she ran the ticket it printed me 2 qp's with the powerplay, she said $4. I looked at my playslip showed her where i only had 1 play marked, and heres... [ More ]

Reply #5

tiggs95 — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:04:58 GMT

Yup bashley that's what it's called luck ..Good for you..

Reply #4

bashley572 — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:01:30 GMT

I won once because of my own mistake. I wanted to buy 818 and *I* wrote 181 on the slip but never looked at the ticket till the numbers came out and double checked my numbers. That was a nice, lucky win

Reply #3

rdgrnr — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:42:26 GMT

I have to drive too far to get tickets so I always get multi draws and check them closely.

If I found them wrong after getting home I'd just live with it probably thinking maybe it was meant to be.

I rarely play the daily games though.

Reply #2

sully16 — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:47:20 GMT

I keep a supply of playslips now just for that reason.

Reply #1

luckyshoes — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:19:10 GMT

I just got back and realised the clerk played my big4 for night instead of day. At first I thought

geeeeesshhh but then it came to me--it must have been for a reason. And Im not going back to play

it, just gonna let it fall that way. Try to see the sunny side.

Has this ever happened to you?

WILLWRK4NUMBERS — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:14:34 GMT

I went to the store this morning to get my midday picks, and played the following numbers: 034, 589, 126, 267 all str/box.

I didn't look at the tickets till I got back to the hotel I'm staying in. When I did, I realized that 589, 126 and 267 were marked str/box on the play slip but somehow, the tickets said straight. I'm gonna let it ride today and just pray that if either of those 3 fall, they come the way I played them...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO