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€20 Scratch cards - a step too far ?

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    #32
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Wasn't there a €20 a ticket for the the for some draw at easter. Only 500 tickets sold or something.

    Pretty sure same thing for new years too.

    For a chance to win a million.

    What's that game called?

    Bought a ticket once, never won anything, what a waste. I was sure I was going to win it.

    Well, 20€ x 500 = €10,000

    If the prize is €1000,000, em, I'll buy all 500tickets.


    Yoink :)


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    #33
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    Wasn't there a €20 a ticket for the the for some draw at easter. Only 500 tickets sold or something.

    Pretty sure same thing for new years too.

    For a chance to win a million.

    What's that game called?

    Bought a ticket once, never won anything, what a waste. I was sure I was going to win it.

    Millionares draw. Think its 50,000 tickets sold ( or maybe even 500,000 :/ )


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    #34
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Well, 20€ x 500 = €10,000

    If the prize is €1000,000, em, I'll buy all 500tickets.


    Yoink :)

    You literally can't lose.


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    #35
    Tardful Slakerly II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭Tardful Slakerly II


    Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »
    Work with someone, who has a degree

    A broad statement, you think the kind of degree might matter? Philosophy, Law, Engineering, Microbiology, Mathematics.. some kind of media course..


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    #36
    amkin25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭amkin25


    kneemos wrote: »
    It supports worthy causes in your community.

    I have to say i have major issues with this along with other national lottery gimics,i don't mind anyone selling any type of scratch cards for 20 50 or whatever but national lottery implies government and this is where it bothers me.
    As the above person states it supports worthy causes in your community,this is true to the extent that 33% of its profits do the other 66% goes in the back pocket of the owners of it.
    The national lottery is profit driven it is not driven to make money for good causes,i have no problem in a lottery being driven by profits but it shouldn't be called the national lottery when it has very little to do with the government of this state anymore.


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    #37
    Amazingfun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,161 ✭✭✭Amazingfun


    Professey Chin wrote: »
    Millionares draw. Think its 50,000 tickets sold ( or maybe even 500,000 :/ )

    Pretty sure it was 180,000 tickets sold.

    I bought two (40 euros)....and I won.........

    Nothing!:mad:


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    #38
    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    They should at least be required to print "EXPECTED PAYOUT 50%. If you gamble €100 on the Lottery your average winnings will be €50." - like betting machines


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    #39
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    goose2005 wrote: »
    They should at least be required to print "EXPECTED PAYOUT 50%. If you gamble €100 on the Lottery your average winnings will be €50." - like betting machines

    All Lotto scratch cards have the odds written on the back.


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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,487 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Amazingfun wrote: »
    Pretty sure it was 180,000 tickets sold.

    I bought two (40 euros)....and I won.........

    Nothing!:mad:

    A maximum of 180,000 were available, around 158,000 were sold. The last winning number was actually 158000. 579 tickets won prizes from €1 million to €250. They probably think it was great, a lot of the 157,000 odd losers probably think it was a fix.

    http://www.lotterynews.info/news/2014-easter-irish-millionaire-raffle-results-21573

    I think the Christmas Millionaire draw sold all 180,000 tickets.


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    #41
    That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy


    I very rarely buy scratch cards. Once in a while I might get an urge to buy a scratch card. The most I ever won was 25 euro.

    I know a girl who bought a scratch card and won a few thousands.

    Last year I got one of my urges and I was at the counter and there in the ticket roll machine was a 10 euro scratch card. Thinking of the girl who thousands I asked for the 10 euro scratch card in the hope of getting a surprise was underneath the scratch surface and thinking I might have more of a chance winning something nice even if it was a 50. I was disappointed and shameful too in case family saw the card and the price on it.

    Did anybody ever win anything on the 10 euro scratch cards.

    I'll be keeping well away from the 20 euro cards.


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    #42
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Scratchcards are good earner if you know how to play them.


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    #43
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,469 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    kneemos wrote: »
    It supports worthy causes in your community.

    wasn't there some scandal last year about how only a tiny tiny % of total sales ever went to charity, the rest was used by the lotto company on costs to produce and expenses.


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    #44
    Dangel4x4
    Registered Users Posts: 255 ✭✭Dangel4x4


    Our Year wrote: »
    Scratchcards are good earner if you know how to play them.

    How's that? :confused:


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    #45
    yawhat!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 970 ✭✭✭yawhat!


    Dangel4x4 wrote: »
    How's that? :confused:

    Don't buy them!


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    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    wasn't there some scandal last year about how only a tiny tiny % of total sales ever went to charity, the rest was used by the lotto company on costs to produce and expenses.

    That was REHAB though ?
    Rehab lottery scratch card sales of almost €4m in 2010 yielded profits of only €9,452, according to Minister for Justice Alan Shatter.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/shatter-rehab-scratch-card-sales-of-4m-in-2010-yielded-9452-in-profits-29938027.html


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    #47
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Dangel4x4 wrote: »
    How's that? :confused:

    Well if I told you that then everyone would be doing it.


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    #48
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    That's crazy but then again they're not forcing ye to buy them!


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    #49
    Amazingfun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,161 ✭✭✭Amazingfun


    Our Year wrote: »
    Well if I told you that then everyone would be doing it.


    :P shhhhh, we'll keep it just between us.


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    #50
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    I'm a fiend for the Hanly Centre ones


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    #51
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Mocha Joe wrote: »
    Oullads spend 20 quid on 4 pints in the pub. Oulwans spend 20 quid on a scratch card. Both get a lil buzz off it in their horrible mundane lives.

    Wow, let's hope you never make it to pension age. You'd clearly be unhappy in your retirement


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