sharing bingo winnings

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

peachyprice wrote: »

If you daughter only bought 1/3 of the books she's only entitled to 1/3 of the winnings.

If she stumped up for 1/2 of the books she's entitled to 1/2 the winnings.

Simple really.

I think peachyprice summed it up perfectly (glad i read before posting as it's just what i was about to write).

I am assuming she put in 1/3 so tell her to stop being a greedy little madam. As for her partner i would tell him if he made any more snidy comments like that he could very well be finding himself waiting for your daughter on the doorstep from now on - rude !!!!!!!!!!

Evansangel

Haha i love that everyone knows "the rule"
Would she be complaining if say, you won the £1000 and it was split like that?

Whenever i've gone its always been, whoever your with you split the winnings with, unless you agree before hand that your winnings are your own.

What if it was say, you, your daughter and her husband that went. Would he want it to be split 50/50 then as they are a couple?

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fsdss

i sometimes go with my mother -we split equally, but have agreed that if we have a biggie (ie over 1000), we would share, i once won £1500 when she was absent and i split it, but lucky for me she won £10k last year and came round my house on the way home with £5k cash.

when going with friends we agree to split or whatever beforehand - and that includes those that are playing half the books.
imo your daughter was entitled to a third.

it works both ways!

ben500

I think the easiest and most rational way to deal with this would be to sit down to a nice lunch together, explain to her over a glass of wine the outlay to win ratio in simple maths, then stab her boyfriend in the eye with a fork before feeding his dinner to the dog.

jenhug

To be honest, it doesn't sound like your daughter has a problem with this system. Her partner does, and thats all it is, HIS problem. I'd carry on as you are.

Sylvester

Sounds like it's the daughters partner who has the issue.

You can either split it so it's 50/50 and tell her you don't want to go anymore and make it known it's because of her greedy hubby, or stick to the original agreement and offer the option of whether she wants to go again with you or not, if she is allowed to make her own decisions.

Whatever you do, make it known it's because of the greedy gits actions. It sounds like he's no good and would cross his own granny for a fiver.

carolan78

I think your DD is been unreasonable. You and your wife spend twice as much on tickets and have twive the chance of winning.

When I go to bingo my aunties and mum who go religeously every week invite me into their pot...they won £1000 last time and still split it with me when I rarely go to make it worth their while iyswim. I would tell her you are no longer sharing because she seems unable to grasp the way it works is actually very fair you both paid the same as her for tickets after all.

SingleSue

I never had that problem when I went to bingo...what I won was mine and what my parents won was theirs.

Just like rounds at the bar, I don't do splitting of wins.

mountainofdebt

I work in a bingo hall and often see groups splitting their winnings between each other.

The way I read the initial post was that the OP, his wife and daughter each pay for their own books but one person actually buys them (have seen this done as well) instead of the 3 of them going individually.

The way I would look at it is that by you and your wife buying a set of books, you have a double chance of winning than your daughter so yes you should split the winnings 3 ways.

Daughter's OH obviously doesn't understand the convention.

ceridwen

Looking at this as a total "outsider" - as I have never gone to bingo myself - so dont have any ideas at all as to what the norm is.

I would say that, on this occasion, that as you each pay a one-third share for the books then that means you each get a one-third share of the winnings. In this context, the fact that two of you are husband and wife is irrelevant. For the purposes of book-buying you are paying as individuals (the fact that you all take turns to do that paying is irrelevant - if over the course of time you are paying one-third share per person for the books).

So - I would stick to this rule on this occasion that its a one-third share of the winnings per person. From here on - it would be best for you each individually to buy your own books on each occasion and then there could be no gripe about it - ie "I paid for this book that the winnings are on - so the winnings are mine alone".

So - personally - I'd ignore the griping from SIL and take my share and institute the new book-buying rules from here on in. Its only £1,000 in total - not a Kings Ransom - so surely he will hardly gripe about such a small sum for long.