What would you do if.....

columbiana

Oh no, I bet she's gutted

Easy way to find out if he has won and kept the money himself- she should get him to log on to his lottery account and see his recent transactions. It does seem a bit odd that he is saying money is tight but he can just produce £100 to pay her back...

On a seperate note, a woman I used to work with put her lottery on one day, but had forgotten her glasses. She thought she'd got 5 numbers up, but it turned out that she had marked the number to the right of all her usual number on the slip. Whoops!

jellyhead

sulkisu wrote: »

He has offered to give her the £100 or so that she has given to him to buy the tickets over the past few months, and apparently her family all seem to think that she should be grateful for that! She's in her 20's and he is 19.

I think I would kill him. What would you do?

She should be grateful to get the £100 back - she wasn't expecting him to pay her what the winnings would have been is she? :eek:

She should chalk it up to experience and buy her own tickets in future. If she can afford to spend £40 a month on gambling she's a lot wealthier than I am! Tell her to put the £10 a week into a savings account, then every 6 years she can win £3k

peaceandfreedom

claire16c wrote: »

Who knows if he had bought the ticket, whether those numbers would have come up anyway!?

I don't follow this. The numbers DID come up, that's the whole point.

property.advert

19lottie82 wrote: »

Not quite. I think 5 numbers only actually pays about £1200 - I know 2 people who have won it.

What would I do? I don't think there is a lot that i COULD do. Be pretty miffed at my brother but it's just one of those things, you'd have to get over it. Not worth a life long family feud, is it?

This is one of the reasons that I think putting the same numbers on every week is a bit daft - you would be kicking yourself forever if you didnt manage to put them on, then they came up. Lucky dips all the way!

The only prize amount which is fixed is £10. All other prizes are dependent upon the sum of tickets sold. Google for the maths.

newcook

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

I don't follow this. The numbers DID come up, that's the whole point.

I think Claire is on about the whole ‘butterfly effect’ thing. If something in history could be changed would it alter future events regardless of how big or small they were?!

I’d be p!ssed off to say the least – though Im a firm believer in if you want something done properly you do it yourself!

19lottie82

property.advert wrote: »

The only prize amount which is fixed is £10. All other prizes are dependent upon the sum of tickets sold. Google for the maths.

I know it's not fixed but I was going by the way the OP worded her original post. She sounded like she thought that on average 5 numbers paid over £3k, where in fact it is less than half of this.

paddy's_mum

I'd take the 'loss' as a blessing since it's given her absolute proof that the brother is both a thief and a liar and to do those things while his sister was ill in hospital is a pretty despicable trick, don't you think?

The reaction of other family members shows where his somewhat dubious sense of honesty comes from.

sulkisu

My mistake, it was early March not a few weeks ago (she only found out a few weeks ago), and the amount was just under £3k.

19lottie82

sulkisu wrote: »

My mistake, it was early March not a few weeks ago (she only found out a few weeks ago), and the amount was just under £3k.

Whoa bummer :mad:

As I said, not a lot she can really do, as such.
Depends a lot on if she has a suspicion that her bro actually did put the ticket on and pocket the cash?

sulkisu

She's gutted because she does a lot for her family - she doesn't live at hme but helps out with bills, food, etc - and if her brother had asked her for money because he was short, she would have just given it to him.