Euro Lotto Ticket Conundrum

She will not get anything. She was about to pay for ticket only when she found that ticket is winning one. That is not chancing. Intended outright thievery. :mad:

feelingstressed wrote: »

That case was a disgrace, it was maybe five years ago now

Five men in a syndicate.
One stopped paying and was repeatedly asked to pay up. After a few months he was approached in the pub for the umpteen time and asked for money and he said "**** off with your syndicate".

A while later, the Lotto syndicate won 2 million as I remember.
Cool, four paid up members get 500k you'd think

No, no, no. Contract law checked, a solicitor hired and the non paying member took the rest to court for his share.
Lower then low that chap! :mad:

A portion of my winnings would have went towards a hit man in that case.

Most retail workplaces have guidelines on setting aside goods for purchase later. It's not allowed so if thats in her terms and conditions of employment she doesnt have a leg to stand on.

From that article ^^:

Ms O'Reilly said she intended to later buy it for herself if no one else requested a €9 ticket that night. When nobody did, Ms O'Reilly says she tried to buy it, but claims she was given no option to do so.

But then later in the same article:

She said she marked the ticket with a sad smiley face and stuck it to her till, before returning the following morning to pay for it, but was not given permission to do so.

Then she never owned it, never bought it and had no rights to it whatsoever! The first quote makes it sound as if she tried to buy it that night, which she didn't... She went back after it won. :rolleyes:
And anyway, the shop had no legal obligation to sell it to her - they have no legal obligation to sell anything to anyone!

FFS. Ruining her own reputation for nothing. Nowhere's gonna want to hire her from now on...

It will be interesting what comes out in court with this one. If Tesco in the past have forced employees to buy a misprint them it'll be a pretty quick case with the employee getting the ticket, if they don’t Tesco will get ownership as the ticket was never paid for. Just to note quickpicks done without a slip cannot be cancelled so someone has to buy it and employers are reluctant to do that as it becomes costly.

Where i worked the employee would have to buy it, usually it would be put into the machine until someone else asked for a similar quickpick, if no one did the employee would buy it, or sometimes all staff on that shift would pool in and buy it.

IT could be a case where the employee didn't have money to buy the ticket so expected to pay the next day, also the employee may not have known the ticket was a winner, i doubt she memorised the numbers.

And i wouldn't trust Tesco with donating the money to charity, I'm not saying they won't donate it but i think they will claim it's from their funds making themselves look more generous.

Splitting it equally between the 50 or 60 staff in the shop would seem better than giving it to charity.

Plazaman wrote: »

So a €500,000 Euromillions Tickets turns up in Tesco. They say a punter asked for a €4 quickpick, a €9 quickpick was issued by mistake and the punter didn't want it so the issued correct ticket and held on to the "mistake" which subsequently won half a mill.

Todays paper carries story of checkout girl who said ticket was hers as she
(a) Pressed the €9 button by mistake
(b) Did not issue it to customer but gave out the €4 instead
(c) Was going to pay for it the next day but then wasn't allowed.

She is now suing Tesco.

WTF? Am I not right in saying you don't own a lotto ticket unless you pay for it?

Is it a case of an ordinary worker being done out of €500,000 by corporate giant Tesco? OR Take a run and jump ya chancer?

Could have put this in Legal Discussions but wanted a chance for people to finger point, sympathise, enjoy the schadenfraude etc etc

She's a chancer; but hey, Irish courts love chancers, so best of bloody luck to her.