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Who's The Bad Guy

February 12, 2008 @ 11:17

I found today’s story about lottery winners to be very ironic. It seems several winners have been put through the grinder before they can collect their prizes.

The OLG insists on knowing where winners bought their tickets before issuing cheques and this has caused big problems for several winners who couldn’t readily come up with an answer.

I’ve got to be honest; I’d be hard pressed in some cases to remember where I bought a ticket because I type of guy who buys tickets on a whim. I might be up north, in Hamilton or around the corner. I see a kiosk, see the prize money and then buy a line of quick picks.

I could easily find myself in the position of not coming up with the location I bought the ticket, which is obviously a cross check by the OLG because I assume they know where the tickets are bought.

What I find ironic as how we get word of an obvious crackdown against purchasers, but there really hasn’t been anything done to crackdown on retailers who were the focus of a major controversy in the fall.

Tickets now have to be signed before they can be accepted in corner stores, and apparently some outlets have scanners that the purchaser can use, but that’s about it.

There has been nothing done about retailers being prohibited from buying tickets, and nothing else to make us feel any more secure when it comes to who’s handling our money and tickets.

How ironic that all of sudden the purchaser has become the suspect.

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69 Responses to "Who's The Bad Guy"


craig
February 12, 2008 / 12:21

Hey freddie, I think the crackdown is actually a crackdown on the retailers. I know the press is going on about legit people getting a hard time to cash in. But if you think about it, this is one of the ways to go after the retailers. If they are fraudulently cashing in then you have to treat everyone the same rough way to catch them. I don't mind them asking as long as they don't put me under a hot light. I do agree it would be hard sometimes though to remember where i bought it. I am not a regular player so I do it on a whim wherever i happen to be.


Ball
February 12, 2008 / 13:25

Hey Freddie,
They have always wanted to know if you knew the location of where the ticket was purchased.
In the middle 80's I took my mother in law down to pick up a 649 cheque for 75,000.00. After taking us into a meeting room, they asked a series of questions to nonchalantly ask if she knew where the ticket was purchased. I got the feeling that if she did not know the answer, it would have been difficult to leave with a cheque at that moment.
The best part of the story that is now become family folklore... all the way driving back to beautiful Brampton she did not say a word, just looking at the cheque. When I dropped her off I said "If I had known that 75 grand would shut you up, I would have given it to you years ago."


Jim
February 12, 2008 / 15:55

The OLG is in shit heap of legal problems and they can't afford any more so they are forced to cover there ass.
As for the ticket sellers playing the games I don't have a problem with them playing the electronic portions but they should not be able to the ticket games
I worked at Casino Rama for 6 years
and the 1st rule they tell you is if you work here you can't gamble here


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