88.5c Petrol Applegreen Lusk

deadimmortal

Got a pop up from the App.
To celebrate applegreen selling the winning Euromillions ticket in Lusk they are offering Petrol and Diesel at 88.5c per litre. While stocks last.

Davy

Just to make clear its the M1 services northbound only!


https://twitter.com/NationalLottery/status/824904600293486593

philstar

i thought it was sold in cork

Wanderer78

philstar wrote:

i thought it was sold in cork

Na lusk

slave1

Fair dues to them, I hope they give the staff a treat also.
Best of luck to the winners, dream come true

unkel

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

Wanderer78

unkel wrote:

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, you'll get begging letters, nightmare. 3 or 4 million would be more than plenty for me. Nice house, a few nice cars and modest financial independence for life.

More hassle than its worth, but that wouldn't stop me trying. Best of luck to them

Soarer

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

Keep €5m and give the rest away?

ILikeBoats

I'll be passing around 2pm, I wonder will stocks be well gone by then

km79

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

Are there not 30 of them ?

Basq

km79 wrote: »

Are there not 30 of them ?

No, it was originally rumoured to be a syndicate in Cork.

Now it's confirmed to have been in Dublin, and rumoured to be a single winner.

wandatowell

Applegreen's making the most out of it. Fairplay to 'em.

Blazer

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

Just think of all those luxobarges you could buy

witnessmenow

Blazer wrote: »

Just think of all those luxobarges you could buy

You'd burn through the winnings in no time on their tax

I can only image the queues for the pumps, I remember it being bad the day they announced it was going up 10c in the budget, and that load was spread across every pump in the country!

slave1

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

That's a problem I would welcome

blastman

That Applegreen is a long way from Lusk! Still, I'll be passing on the way home from work tonight, hope the offer is still available then.

frozenfrozen

blastman wrote: »

That Applegreen is a long way from Lusk! Still, I'll be passing on the way home from work tonight, hope the offer is still available then.

tonight? the tanks will be empty in 3 hours id say. not a single person who passes won't brim their tank

Stheno

frozenfrozen wrote: »

tonight? the tanks will be empty in 3 hours id say. not a single person who passes won't brim their tank

The queues are all the way back to the motorway

Powerfairy

Stheno wrote: »

The queues are all the way back to the motorway

Ah I was thinking I will get in on the way home. No chance of that so!!

the.red.baron

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

Are you mad, I'd kidnap you if you won 5 million, better off sticking with the scratch cards, the worst you'll get from that is a rash off Marty's tache

But seriously, 88 million would be an awful curse, you wouldn't have just first world problems, you'd have moved up to one percenter problems

The horror

I'll be on my jet ski if you are looking for me..

unkel

Blazer wrote: »

Just think of all those luxobarges you could buy

What would I do with 19,000 luxobarges?

chinwag

Wonder how much the garage (seller of winning ticket) gets?

weldoninhio

chinwag wrote: »

Wonder how much the garage (seller of winning ticket) gets?

€25k

eh i dunno

The offer is finished now

mailburner

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

agreed
you couldnt live here if you won that kind of money to be fair which in itself might not be a bad thing
then think about all the friends you would have no matter where you went :pac:

slave1

the.red.baron wrote: »

Are you mad, I'd kidnap you if you won 5 million, better off sticking with the scratch cards, the worst you'll get from that is a rash off Marty's tache

But seriously, 88 million would be an awful curse, you wouldn't have just first world problems, you'd have moved up to one percenter problems

The horror

I'll be on my jet ski if you are looking for me..

It's 'only' €29,185 of annual income to get into the top one per cent.....not as high as you would imagine, lots of us already there without realising

Copper_pipe

https://twitter.com/goapplegreen/status/824949246260609025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

loki7777

mailburner wrote: »

agreed
you couldnt live here if you won that kind of money to be fair which in itself might not be a bad thing
then think about all the friends you would have no matter where you went :pac:

Honestly you would be stupid if you would share your personal details with whole world after winning. Just lay low, don't overspend and you will be fine.

Senna

.....and its gone!!

Atlantic Dawn

They were probably under pressure from the NRA not to block up the motorway.

bk

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

You'd just as likely to be targeted for winning 5 million as 88 million. The advantage of 88 million is that you could buy yourself a nice fortress at the top of a swiss mountain and hire some armed ex-military special forces guys to patrol the grounds like a Bond super villain

In all seriousness, there are plenty of gated communities around the world, where 88 million would be pocket change for many of your neighbours and you could live quietly under the radar.

You don't have to reveal your identity if you win the lotto. Best to just keep it to yourself, maybe tell family and friends you inherited a small but nice amount of money to explain the new flash car and then head off on a year long around the world trip.

BTW I assume a Tesla Model S P100D would be on your list

shar01

As me granny sez, that sort of money won't bring you happiness but it can bring you the kind of sadness you can live with.

Blazer

unkel wrote: »

What would I do with 19,000 luxobarges?

hopefully tax them all ,that will be €28million at the very least

Movie Maestro

Crazy queues for this!!!

mailburner

loki7777 wrote: »

Honestly you would be stupid if you would share your personal details with whole world after winning. Just lay low, don't overspend and you will be fine.

easier said than done I'd imagine how anyone could hide something like that and carry on as normal...I know i'd struggle to and sure you have to look after family so somebodys gonna let it slip there anyway
You'd be sitting at work and folks would wonder why you are so happy...miss a few days...buy a nice car...wouldnt take much for people to cop on
I certainly wouldn't be returning to my job though so there'd be no hope for me

Copper_pipe

Copper_pipe wrote: »

https://twitter.com/goapplegreen/status/824949246260609025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Load of taxis in the queue, the cute hoers.

deadimmortal

chinwag wrote: »

Wonder how much the garage (seller of winning ticket) gets?

6%

4068ac1elhodqr

slave1 wrote: »

It's 'only' €29,185 of annual income to get into the top one per cent.....not as high as you would imagine, lots of us already there without realising

But the problem is that global price indices aren't the same.

Imagine a spare €29k would buy you a lavish mansion over in the hills of Nepal, or a nice beach residence upon the shores of Papua New Guinea. Even perhaps a good few years of luxury living, with dancing samba ladies to greet you every morning down on the copa, the copa-Copacabana.

The 8 chaps that own 1/2 of the earths financial wealth between them are the ones that need to lighten up.

dodzy

6%! You looper.

That'd be over 5 mill.

Garage gets less than .03% of this lump

Blazer

€25,000 is all they get...
€15,000 for the regular lotto.

NinjaTruncs

deadimmortal wrote: »

6%

They get 6% of sales not winnings.

weldoninhio

mailburner wrote: »

easier said than done I'd imagine how anyone could hide something like that and carry on as normal...I know i'd struggle to and sure you have to look after family so somebodys gonna let it slip there anyway
You'd be sitting at work and folks would wonder why you are so happy...miss a few days...buy a nice car...wouldnt take much for people to cop on
I certainly wouldn't be returning to my job though so there'd be no hope for me

You only have to sit tight until someone wins 2/3m on the Irish lotto and doesn't go public then let it be known on the grapevine that it was you. Life of Reilly.

unkel

bk wrote: »

You'd just as likely to be targeted for winning 5 million as 88 million.

Nah. Buy a nice house and some other stuff and an ARF and people will know you have very little left. Not enough for any parasite / bloodsucker / gold digger / "republican" :rolleyes: terrorist to bother with you...

MuddyDog

You can pay to stay anonymous though. Obviously would after winning that amount.

rob316

MuddyDog wrote: »

You can pay to stay anonymous though. Obviously would after winning that amount.

**** that, I would flaunt it everywhere. I would travel around in a convoy of Cadillac Escalades to go the shops. €88m is one problem I would love to have.

Kidnappings? Hire a team of ex navy seal bodyguards off the interest, be grand

endacl

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

Absolutely agree. If you offered me €88m right now, I'd tell you to fcuk right off. *












*Not even a little bit true.

MuddyDog

You could go around the country and almost be able to give every single person 20 quid!

rob316

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

The bitter bastards could dig all they want but I'll still be the one with €88m.

the.red.baron

unkel wrote: »

Nah. Buy a nice house and some other stuff and an ARF and people will know you have very little left. Not enough for any parasite / bloodsucker / gold digger / "republican" :rolleyes: terrorist to bother with you...

Nah, they'll come looking for the money, when you can't find it cause you put it in an a retirement fund (the lord wept) they'll kill ya

You might as well take the 88 million and spend it, as your a dead man walking going by your logic

People have been abducted and murdered over the money on their ATM card

Live man, live!!!!!

Capt'n Midnight

People here have been killed over €100 or a mobile phone. And the guilty will only spend a few years inside for manslaughter.

There's lots of Irish people worth way more than €88m wandering around.


88c a litre means you save less than 50c a litre, topping up with 25 litres would save you €12.50 , less fuel costs getting there and idling in the queue. I'm guessing that a lot of people in that queue were on less than minimum wage.

Bargain Blake

unkel wrote: »

They'll need all the luck they can get. Personally I wouldn't want to win anything like 88 million. You need armed security (risk of kidnap), you're an instant celebrity, people will start digging in your personal life, skeletons will come out of the closet, you'll get begging letters, nightmare! 5 million or so would be more than plenty for me. Buy a nice house, pay off a few mortgages for family, buy a few nice cars and then modest financial independence for life.

And Captain Buzzkill is in with all the other nay sayers!!!!! :mad: