Friend Buys you A lottery Ticket....

birdbox

Friend Buys you A lottery Ticket. For your birthday etc and you win a million
Would you....
A...Send a thank you note ?
B...Buy them a holiday etc worth 2/5 K ?
C...Give them half ?
D... Say Nothing ?
E....?

Pint.

GenieOz

Give them half.
You'd be a serious bag of shít if you didn't.

Ihatecuddles

Give them half! Would feel even better to share it

force eleven

Refund him the price of the ticket. Quits.

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birdbox wrote: »

Friend Buys you A lottery Ticket. For your birthday etc and you win a million
Would you....
A...Send a thank you note ?
B...Buy them a holiday etc worth 2/5 K ?
C...Give them half ?
D... Say Nothing ?
E....?

E....lope

snaphook

€100k and a Pint.

hatrickpatrick

Give them half. If nothing else, f*ck being rich alone - what's the point of being able to afford to do loads of mad things if you have to do them by yourself?

whomitconcerns

half...no way...for a million quid...i would give them 50k so by that ratio Dolores would owe her mate 5.8million..wow...

gazzer

I think I would have to give them half. It would be only fair imo

GenieOz

whomitconcerns wrote: »

half...no way...for a million quid...i would give them 50k

you realise you'd have nothing if it wasn't for them, right?

Incredibly selfish attitude.

BNMC

I'd go for option E. Definitely.

Boom_Bap

They are no longer a friend, they are just another peasant.

snaphook

Alternatively, if you gave someone a ticket would you expect anything if they won a million??

GreeBo

GenieOz wrote: »

you realise you'd have nothing if it wasn't for them, right?

Incredibly selfish attitude.

Do you always give half of your gifts back?

The Master

Buy new friends

Gannicus

Dunno if I'd give them half but I'd defo give them a good few quid.

GenieOz

GreeBo wrote: »

Do you always give half of your gifts back?

If my gifts are ever an opportunity that multiply into something more then yes, I do.
I won €250 on a scratchcard bought for me before, 125 to the person that bought it.

Caliden

GenieOz wrote: »

you realise you'd have nothing if it wasn't for them, right?

Incredibly selfish attitude.

And if you gave them half, 33% would be gone straight away on tax. Waste.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/cat/leaflets/cat1.html

snaphook

GenieOz wrote: »

you realise you'd have nothing if it wasn't for them, right?

Incredibly selfish attitude.

Why didn't they just buy a ticket themselves in that case.
It's equally selfish to expect to share in someone else's windfall.
An incredibly entitled attitude.

Once you hand it over it isn't yours anymore and are entitled to fawk all.

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snaphook wrote: »

Alternatively, if you gave someone a ticket would you expect anything if they won a million??

Good way of looking at it... I buy someone a lotto ticket, they win a million... I get a pint, 50 grand, half?

I'd be pissed with anything less than half.

So, I'd definitely E...lope!

GenieOz

Caliden wrote: »

And if you gave them half, 33% would be gone straight away on tax. Waste.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/cat/leaflets/cat1.html

Unless you say it was a syndicate. not a waste.

snaphook wrote: »

Why didn't they just buy a ticket themselves in that case.
It's equally selfish to expect to share in someone else's windfall.
An incredibly entitled attitude.

Once you hand it over it isn't yours anymore and are entitled to fawk all.

It's not the person expecting the money back. It's what I believe people should be expected to do. It's the right thing imo, and not doing it is selfish.

whomitconcerns

I think the lesson here is most people expect half of your winnings if they give you a ticket as a present....so they want to give you a present with strings attached. Some friends!! :P

Riskymove

Caliden wrote: »

And if you gave them half, 33% would be gone straight away on tax. Waste.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/cat/leaflets/cat1.html

if you both sign the ticket and claim it together then no tax

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Caliden wrote: »

And if you gave them half, 33% would be gone straight away on tax. Waste.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/cat/leaflets/cat1.html

The revenue can go fücking swivel on it.

Tax me hole... On a lotto win?
Fūck right off.

No way I'd be declaring that!

GreeBo

GenieOz wrote: »

If my gifts are ever an opportunity that multiply into something more then yes, I do.
I won €250 on a scratchcard bought for me before, 125 to the person that bought it.

What if 100 friends buy you lotto tickets for your birthday, divide by 100?

GenieOz

GreeBo wrote: »

What if 100 friends buy you lotto tickets for your birthday, divide by 100?

Er, if they're all winning lotto tickets then divide each one by two?
I don't know where you're coming from with that.

Caliden

Hooked wrote: »

The revenue can go fücking swivel on it.

Tax me hole... On a lotto win?
Fūck right off.

No way I'd be declaring that!

A lotto win isn't taxed but if you gave half /50k / x amount away to someone, that can be taxed as a gift. The taxable amount depends on your relationship to the recipient of said gift.

Seve OB

Look at it another way.

You buy 2 lotto quick pick tickets. One for yourself and one for a present.... even let the person decide which ticket they would like.

Your gifted ticket wins. do you expect half the prize?

Your own ticket wins. do you give away half the prize?

mikom

I'd donate half to REHAB in their name.

GenieOz

stevieob wrote: »

Look at it another way.

You buy 2 lotto tickets. One for yourself and one for a present.... even let the person decide which ticket they would like.

Your gifted ticket wins. do you expect half the prize?

Your own ticket wins. do you give away half the prize?

Wouldn't give away my own ticket, as it's my ticket that I bought.
Wouldn't expect them to give me half either.


However if I received the ticket as a gift, something I otherwise would not have had then yes, I'd give away half.

Seve OB

GenieOz wrote: »

Wouldn't give away my own ticket, as it's my ticket that I bought.
Wouldn't expect them to give me half either.


However if I received the ticket as a gift, something I otherwise would not have had then yes, I'd give away half.

but how do you know which one is your own? you just went into a shop and asked for 2 quick picks.....

GenieOz

stevieob wrote: »

but how do you know which one is your own? you just went into a shop and asked for 2 quick picks.....

the one you kept is your own and the one you gave away is the gift?

KERSPLAT!

I dunno to be honest, I think the hungry c*** in me may take over. I'd give atleast 250k but not sure about half

firestarter51

cash in and get the hell out of here

Caliden

I don't think I would give half and I wouldn't expect half myself.

I'd be happy with a pint and delighted for whoever got it but that's just me. I'm sure I'd feel bummed for a while but I've never been someone to dwell on "what if's..." that much.

GreeBo

GenieOz wrote: »

Er, if they're all winning lotto tickets then divide each one by two?
I don't know where you're coming from with that.

erm only one of them wins clearly.

c_man

birdbox wrote: »

Friend Buys you A lottery Ticket. For your birthday etc and you win a million
Would you....
A...Send a thank you note ?
B...Buy them a holiday etc worth 2/5 K ?
C...Give them half ?
D... Say Nothing ?
E....?

Offer him a half million to mount his missus. And a pint.

GenieOz

GreeBo wrote: »

erm only one of them wins clearly.

then that person gets half...
I really don't know what's so hard to figure out about that.

metroburgers

Propose marriage to the friend... and decide on reaction.

GreeBo

GenieOz wrote: »

then that person gets half...
I really don't know what's so hard to figure out about that.

Because they all chip in and buy you 20 of them for example.
Are you seriously telling me you would expect each person to take ownership of one or more tickets so you could share it out evenly in the event of a win?

Sheesh you are making this very difficult.

Akrasia

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Give them half. If nothing else, f*ck being rich alone - what's the point of being able to afford to do loads of mad things if you have to do them by yourself?

You'd have new, dare I say it, better, friends if you were a millionaire.

danniemcq

Depends on how much of a friend they were, like a bfffffffffff i'd split it 50/50 but someone who cheaped out say and got me a one line quick pick without plus will get a few quid just and be included in a night out

BanksysGhost

It's a **** present in any case. Most of the time you're not getting anything out of it.

And if you do happen to win a significant amount, even if you give the gifter half of it they're still likely to be pissed off knowing they could've kept the ticket and got all of it

GenieOz

GreeBo wrote: »

Because they all chip in and buy you 20 of them for example.
Are you seriously telling me you would expect each person to take ownership of one or more tickets so you could share it out evenly in the event of a win?

Sheesh you are making this very difficult.

If everyone chips in and gives 20 tickets as one present(which seems like a ridiculous scenario that you've made up for god knows what reason)then I'd give the unknown amount of friends half, and I'd keep half.
It's up to them what do do with it.

GreeBo

GenieOz wrote: »

If everyone chips in and gives 20 tickets as one present(which seems like a ridiculous scenario that you've made up for god knows what reason)then I'd give the unknown amount of friends half, and I'd keep half.
It's up to them what do do with it.

You've never been at an event where one of the presents is a bunch of lotto-type tickets???

GenieOz

GreeBo wrote: »

You've never been at an event where one of the presents is a bunch of lotto-type tickets???

Never.

Seve OB

GenieOz wrote: »

If everyone chips in and gives 20 tickets as one present(which seems like a ridiculous scenario that you've made up for god knows what reason)

not really, bunch of people in work for example could chip in to buy a couple of millionaire raffle tickets as a birthday/wedding/ leaving present?????

KERSPLAT!

GreeBo wrote: »

Because they all chip in and buy you 20 of them for example.
Are you seriously telling me you would expect each person to take ownership of one or more tickets so you could share it out evenly in the event of a win?

Sheesh you are making this very difficult.

Here pot, meet kettle..

OldNotWIse

In a weirdly circular way, I would like to share winnings with friends,so if I bought a ticket and won I'd gladly share, but I think a ticket is a sh1t present tbh, so if someone did buy me one, fuuck them they wouldn't get a penny.

vitani

I think I'd have to give them half. I'd be embarrassed to offer anything less than that.