Is the Lotto down everywhere?

AndonHandon · 05-02-2015 12:14am

I would say it does have something to do with the takeover; right in the thick of negotiations. They could have been demonstrating the network.

PizzamanIRL · 05-02-2015 12:23am

Imagine the feeling of extra luck from the person who does the lotto tomorrow and wins now that we have an extra day to do it.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 05-02-2015 12:35am

Banjo String wrote: »

Whatever they did with the new takeover, they made a (pardon the pun) balls of it.

Can't even remember the last time I was able to check my ticket on the self scanners yokes.

It's down everywhere I tried between Newlands cross, Naas and Newbridge btw.

The self scanners only read the older yellow tickets from before it was taken over bynthe new shower.

A friend of mine works in a very busy newsagents and has said there has been a dramatic drop in the number of peoe winning money on scratch cards and on the lotto but no drop in actual sales. I do the lotto twice a week every week religiously and I tegularly won small amounts with the odd bigger amount but since the new people took over I haven't won a single penny.

C.K Dexter Haven · 05-02-2015 1:00am

Yeah, down down, deeper and down, even...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKe2OfXLxuc

WallyGUFC · 05-02-2015 1:17am

Yeah the most annoying thing is waiting for the light to come on on the new machines. Can take 10/15 seconds sometimes, fairly annoying. I've also noticed a lot less winning scratch cards. Thought the first few rolls might have a few more winners than usual but clearly not.

brian_gall85 · 05-02-2015 9:13am

The whole o2/Telefonica thing I don't get, I haven't seen a single report of any major European networks being down apart from this instance with the Lotto.

It must be a very specific part of the data connection, one that regular data users don't use. That being said, up until about a week or two ago when the latest update was applied, the connection to HQ was a joke, regardless of connection type.

Can't wait to read this week's Csna newsletter lol

vienne86 · 05-02-2015 10:15am

It's a huge contract, the lotto. Inexcusable if it doesn't run smoothly.

Fresh Pots · 05-02-2015 10:19am

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Yeah the most annoying thing is waiting for the light to come on on the new machines. Can take 10/15 seconds sometimes, fairly annoying. I've also noticed a lot less winning scratch cards. Thought the first few rolls might have a few more winners than usual but clearly not.

Maybe your already doing this but you need to tap the screen to wake it up before scanning a ticket. So if the scrolling text is on the screen you need to tap the screen once before scanning the ticket.

Calibos · 05-02-2015 10:24am

The UK lotto was down too I heard

somesoldiers · 05-02-2015 10:25am

Some bloke tripped over the plug in Lotto HQ, same fella that brought down Ulster Bank a couple of years back

brian_gall85 · 05-02-2015 10:35am

vienne86 wrote: »

It's a huge contract, the lotto. Inexcusable if it doesn't run smoothly.

So is supplying water to the nation, but here we are. Sums up perfectly the way the current Government are running the place.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 05-02-2015 10:45am

vienne86 wrote: »

It's a huge contract, the lotto. Inexcusable if it doesn't run smoothly.

Especially when you consider that in the 20 odd years the lotto has been running I can't remember a single instance where they had to cancel the draw because of some technical glitch or anything else for that matter.

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-02-2015 11:37am

There are only so many times you can gunter the machine for roll overs before it finally snaps

seamus · 05-02-2015 12:03pm

bugfreebob wrote: »

The Lotto are blaming Telefonica/O2 network in Spain. Perhaps a problem due to the takeover by Three. Three have managed to disassociate themselves from the announcement, however. It probably suits them to blame the previous owners of the network. Why do Irish Lottery transactions need to go through Spain? Does that mean that O2's data network goes through Spain? The announcement said that the outage affected other business customers of Telefonica/O2.

From what I can tell, Telefonica/O2 are the only Irish network who don't peer at the INEX, so it's very much possible that all of their priority business traffic is peered and routed through somewhere else in Europe.

This may be a case that in preparation for O2 being taken over by Three, Telefonica were screwing around with their network config.

Betty Bloggs · 05-02-2015 12:24pm

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Imagine the feeling of extra luck from the person who does the lotto tomorrow and wins now that we have an extra day to do it.

I've never done the lotto before. Going to give it a whirl today for the craic.

RainyDay · 05-02-2015 12:30pm

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Imagine the feeling of extra luck from the person who does the lotto tomorrow and wins now that we have an extra day to do it.

Imagine being the person who did the same numbers on Tuesday, and finding you have to share €10m with some other fecker who bought their ticket after the proper deadline?

silverharp · 05-02-2015 12:33pm

RainyDay wrote: »

Imagine being the person who did the same numbers on Tuesday, and finding you have to share €10m with some other fecker who bought their ticket after the proper deadline?

That makes no sense , the numbers are random so a different set of numbers would have been picked.

Calibos · 05-02-2015 12:35pm

brian_gall85 wrote: »

Yeah have noticed that with the cards and the positioning of the cards on the tray, the biggest problem isn't getting the camera to read the ticket, card or slip, it's in getting the camera/sensor to activate at times when the red light has gone off. Total nightmare at times and only compounded by the self checkers being out of action.

I'll tell ya what the biggest problem is.

If an old lotto ticket barcode wouldn't scan we only had to enter a 12 digit (IIRC) number to validate it.

It's now a.............55 digit number !!!

And if you get a digit wrong near the beginning without noticing you have to delete the whole lot nearly and effectively start again.

Royal pain in the @rse

123balltv · 05-02-2015 3:06pm

Only two months after taking charge of the National Lottery, the new operator Premier Lotteries Ireland are causing a drop in sales and service levels.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/retailers-call-for-lotto-inquiry-over-new-ticket-terminals-1.2070476

seamus · 05-02-2015 3:09pm

Retailers claim there's a drop in ticket sales.

It would be interesting to see what the figures are like for the whole of the last two years rather than making any grand statements about the effect of the new company.

I suspect that retailers are massively losing out to online sales as people realise that buying your ticket in the shop is for mugs.

PLI asked me to come in and interview for a senior technical position a few months back. Glad I didn't go for it now

Timberrrrrrrr · 05-02-2015 3:11pm

seamus wrote: »

Retailers claim there's a drop in ticket sales.

It would be interesting to see what the figures are like for the whole of the last two years rather than making any grand statements about the effect of the new company.

I suspect that retailers are massively losing out to online sales as people realise that buying your ticket in the shop is for mugs.

PLI asked me to come in and interview for a senior technical position a few months back. Glad I didn't go for it now

Why?

seamus · 05-02-2015 3:14pm

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Why?

Because online takes a couple of seconds.

Granted, plenty of people will have a routine that includes popping into the shops, but I don't see the inside of a newsagent from one week to the next, I'd have to go out of my way to buy in a shop. Even then you have to queue in the lotto queue. Yawn.

Online, couple of clicks, done.

Timberrrrrrrr · 05-02-2015 3:17pm

seamus wrote: »

Because online takes a couple of seconds.

Granted, plenty of people will have a routine that includes popping into the shops, but I don't see the inside of a newsagent from one week to the next, I'd have to go out of my way to buy in a shop. Even then you have to queue in the lotto queue. Yawn.

Online, couple of clicks, done.

Lotto queue? I just pay when i am buying something in there but each to their own i suppose.

brian_gall85 · 05-02-2015 4:23pm

The sale of their main scratch card game is through the floor because of the new game show!

As for online v in store, a hell of a lot of players are impulse buys, which only happens in store.

05-02-2015 4:26pm

Hardly ever do the lottery but bought 2 lines today because the boo boo was on my mind. Perhaps this was a marketing ploy????

If more people buy today, does the prize fund increase?

seamus · 05-02-2015 5:48pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Hardly ever do the lottery but bought 2 lines today because the boo boo was on my mind. Perhaps this was a marketing ploy????

If more people buy today, does the prize fund increase?

Yep.

The total prize fund for any lotto draw is made up 52% of the gross ticket sales up until sale close.

The jackpot is 46.15% of this (so 24% of the total ticket sales), plus whatever has rolled over from previous draws.

They are able to tell you that the jackpot is €10m in advance because they have a good idea of the minimum ticket sales they expect in advance of the draw.

But this is the reason why you only see the actual jackpot right before the draw.

FloatingVoter · 05-02-2015 6:19pm

I was talking to the lady in Centra this morning about the whole mess. She was telling me that regular punters were coming back to buy a second ticket for today's draw. And she was bang on...when we were running this, it worked. The New Improved Super Duper Lottery is a load of bollix.
They're all paying for my retirement anyway because I bought the winning ticket yesterday.

PizzamanIRL · 05-02-2015 7:13pm

So they only had 50% expected sales yesterday after guaranteeing 10 million so they pretended to have a technical fault so they could get another day of sales

brian_gall85 · 05-02-2015 8:15pm

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

So they only had 50% expected sales yesterday after guaranteeing 10 million so they pretended to have a technical fault so they could get another day of sales

They had less sales because the Lotto terminals couldn't connect to the main system in Dublin...

Amazingfun · 05-02-2015 10:37pm

Somebody won the 10 million! Congrats you lucky duck

The numbers drawn were 9,10,18,20,24,26 and the bonus was 35.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/one-winning-ticket-of-10m-lotto-draw-30968414.html

Is the Lotto down everywhere?

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