WA lottery launches "My Lottery 360°"

Reply #8

eddessaknight — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:21:29 GMT

Triple down on that Bob, all is always done for the direct benefit for the provider and rarely for customer.

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Reply #7

user34 — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 21:07:38 GMT

Some new information to add. So for these Points for Prizes, mult-draw tickets are not eligible to receive points. So if you spend $2-3 on a ticket for a single draw you can accumulate points, though if you spent more on a multi-draw ticket then you cannot accrue points. It's yet to be seen how valuable these points will be and what can be redeemed from them though why excluded players who purchase multi-draw tickets from accruing these points? They're potentially spending more yet excluded, try... [ More ]

Reply #6

BobP — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:09:03 GMT

It's disturbing how often the excuse for making something worse (odds) is the people asked for something else (bigger jackpots) and to give it to them required the change. Just because some people may have wanted accounts to track their use is no excuse what-so-ever to require it of everyone who wants to scan their tickets. Too bad we don't have consumer revolts against these sorts of things, so many targets no one thing can be focused on - in my opinion.

BobP

Reply #5

user34 — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 20:24:14 GMT

From reading the privacy policy it doesn't indicate that the lottery is tracking the tickets per user though I may not have interpreted it correctly.

The lottery claims that these changes are because of the two most common requests from players, being the ability to also scan scratch tickets and to collect points from tickets to get merchandise.

Personally I don't have an issue with it. I would prefer to not have to have an account to scan tickets as was the case previously though I'm not... [ More ]

Reply #4

BobP — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 05:32:26 GMT

It may be the real option is whether the history is visible or not, (saved behind the scenes either way).

BobP

Reply #3

user34 — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 04:20:45 GMT

Just an update as it was my first time using it, it looks like the tickets are not saved in the accounts ticket history unless the user selects so after they've scanned it; the incentive is to accrue points for each one added. That doesn't mean that the lottery doesn't save that information separately.

Reply #2

user34 — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 21:06:07 GMT

Thank you.

Reply #1

Todd — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 14:39:44 GMT

Interesting. I'd say you are 100% correct the lottery is trying to match tickets to the people who purchased them. The lotteries realize that one of their weakest points in the customer relationship is that they have no way of knowing who the customer is and what they purchase. To a lottery-buying public that is accustomed to anonymous purchases, this may introduce privacy concerns. But once online purchasing becomes more prevalent in the US, the public will need to adapt because then the lotter... [ More ]

WA lottery launches "My Lottery 360°"

user34 — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 12:38:31 GMT

There are some new changes with this new program or whatever you want to call it. Obviously most of you are not in the jurisdiction so it won't affect you directly.

There are changes occurring to the app and ticket scanning. Draw tickets are now printing out with a different barcode, similar to scratch ticket barcodes if not the same. Previously they were QR codes on draw tickets that could be scanned with the app. The QR code only contained the tickets number selection(s) and there was not a... [ More ]