Money Moral Dilemma: Should I share winnings from my secret lottery tickets?

Person_one

melanzana wrote: »

It is an MSE clickbait jobbie.

Yes, but apparently they do indeed come from real people! One even posted last time to respond. I dread to think where they found this person though...

melanzana

MX5huggy wrote: »

No it would not be wrong to keep the extra winnings but it is wrong to get the same numbers in the first place.

A £20m jackpot split 5 ways is £4m each. If you take half with your private ticket you get £12m and the others £2m each. Don't expect to stay friends.

Who would know that the person in op WON?

Easy to keep it quiet if you have a brain.

PasturesNew

If you buy a duplicate set of tickets with your own money, for yourself, then that's yours.

But, it is a weird thing to do - and ridiculously expensive compared to the potential for a win.

Yolina

Oh great, another totally weird and pointless MSE money dilemma

Autumnella

Wwjd??????

JJG

So on the very small chance you win, you want to make sure you're richer than your colleagues? I'm not sure why you're a part of the lottery syndicate if you're wasting loads of your own money replicating their numbers.

scotsbob

So every week you throw money away as part of a group and now you want to double your losses!


Why???

consumers_revenge

MX5huggy wrote: »

No it would not be wrong to keep the extra winnings but it is wrong to get the same numbers in the first place.

A £20m jackpot split 5 ways is £4m each. If you take half with your private ticket you get £12m and the others £2m each. Don't expect to stay friends.

I can buy new friends.....

coolcait

melanzana wrote: »

It is an MSE clickbait jobbie.

Are you using the bolded word in the West coast of Scotland way?

coolcait

I am surrounded by lottery syndicates at work.

I understand that many of the syndicate agreements - yes, there are written agreements - state that the syndicate members are free to play the lottery as individuals, but they may not use the syndicate's numbers.

Your guess is as good as mine as to how legally binding those agreements are - or if such agreements have ever been tested in court.

The fact that the agreements exist - or so I have been told/ have gleaned from the discussions about the issue - suggests that the people who organise syndicates are aware of the possibility that syndicate members will use the same numbers themselves, and have taken measures to address it.

My own view? If I had chosen to pay money into a syndicate, and also wanted to pay/lose more money on the lottery, I'd probably choose different numbers, in a vain attempt to increase my chances of winning.