A way to get some extra $$

[precious_woman]

Ok,,, so, almost a year ago I had a store owner ask me If I would double check the lottery tickets that his
customers had thrown out. They would throw them into a box inside the store while playing keno, he would then
dump them into a "tote" and each day I would pick them up and double check them for him. Our "agreement" was
that anything I found I would split with him 50/50. After just a couple of days of checking them and finding a few
winners here and there ($5 and $20).... I decided to approach a couple of other store owners. I would ask them
if I could "take thier ticket trash" and almost every one of them said yes (liquor stores usually will not let you take
them because they know that drinking patrons make mistakes!)

If you are looking for a way to get some extra money... then believe me you... this is the way!! In the past year
I have found 4 or 5 $200 winners!! A couple of $100 winners & countless tickets from $1 to $50!! I have found
MANY UNSCRATCHED tickets that have been over looked and thrown away!! Sometimes they just do the code &
throw them out (if it's over $500 it will have a losing code out here!!) So now I have 6-8 stores that I go to
everyday and almost everyday I find something! (If I wasn't in so much pain everyday then I would do more!!)
This pays for my cigarettes and usually gas for my car!

The surprising thing is that I never know what dollar amount is under that matching number! Maybe someday
I will see $1000, $25,000 who knows maybe even a million!!! The attached pic is just one example. That ONE
SPOT was overlooked and not even scratched!! and when I scratched it there was $100 there!!
There are so many people who do exactly this out here!!
I just wanted to share this secret with my Streak family! I never, ever BUY scratch tickets anymore but I
do cash them in!!

 

[sorcer3ss (RETIRED)]

Wow thanks for sharing precious_woman what a novel way to make some extra cash. I will definitely be telling my son's girlfriend about that, her mum won $100K or so once and the whole family buy scratch tickets all the time. Hope you hit that big one some day!

 

[CareyG]

Thats a pretty cool idea precious_woman! thanks for the tip!! ​

 

[Luck3Sevens]

awesome!!

 

[weesie]

Woman who lost Ark. lotto ticket entitled to $1M - Yahoo! News


This is wrong! The woman who found the ticket should get to keep it!

 

[precious_woman]

Woman who lost Ark. lotto ticket entitled to $1M - Yahoo! News


This is wrong! The woman who found the ticket should get to keep it!

Yea... seriously??!!! Here in Massachusetts, I remember reading about an 80 yr old guy who found a million
dollar winner that was being disputed! But at the Lottery website, it states this:

It is important to sign the back of your ticket to establish your ownership of the ticket. Without a signature on the back, a lottery ticket is considered a “bearer instrument” and can be claimed by anyone presenting the ticket

I have HEARD STORIES about people finding 10 grand, 5 grand and a million... but I myself have never been lucky enough to find a ticket that sends me to the lottery to cash it!! Anything over $500 you have to go to Lottery headquarters. I HAVE found $100, a couple of times $200, last night I found $21. It varies. I pray that I will be lucky enough to find one that sends me to the lottery to cash it!!

 

[CURTLOVE107]

read this thread yesterday and then saw this on yahoo.com just though i would share

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 millionlottery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it, according to a judge's ruling Tuesday.
The judge decided that Sharon Duncan was entitled to the prize money, not Sharon Jones, who claimed the prize money after she took the ticket from a trash can of discarded lottery tickets at a convenience store in Beebe, a city about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock.
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Jones' attorney, James Simpson, said he plans to appeal. Jones had testified that she already spent some of the money on a new truck and cash gifts to her children.
Simpson noted that Duncan testified she threw away the ticket after the read-out on a ticket scanner said, "Sorry. Not a winner." The attorney argued that people shouldn't be allowed to throw items away and then say, "'ooh, I want to un-abandon it.'"
"We'd have garage-sale law all over the place," he said. "It became trash when someone threw it away."
White County judge Thomas Hughes, however, said Jones never met the burden of proof that Duncan abandoned her right to claim $1 million.
"The $1 million was never found money," Hughes said.
Earlier Tuesday, Jones testified that she gathered a handful of discarded tickets from the trash can — as she had done many times before — and said there was no sign alerting customers not to take tickets.

That contradicted Super 1 Stop store manager Lisa Petriches' earlier testimony that she had taped a sign that read "Do not take" on the can. But a former store clerk testified that Petriches posted the sign only after Jones claimed the prize.
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Petriches brought the lawsuit against Jones, and Duncan joined it after the judge said at a January hearing that she may be the true owner of the ticket. Hughes ruled that Petriches and the store's owner, Louie Dajani — whose corporation, Summer One LLC, joined the suit — weren't entitled to anything.
The judge instructed the winning side to write the judgment for his signature, and it will become official once Hughes signs it. Jones' attorneys will then have 30 days to file an appeal.
Hughes found that the evidence weighed in Duncan's favor that she bought the winning ticket, even though lottery records and store security video didn't synch up to the precise timing of the purchase.
Arkansas Lottery Security Chief Lance Huey testified that he investigated the circumstances of the ticket falling into Jones' hands. He said the lottery was satisfied with the investigation and awarded the prize.
Duncan's attorney, James "Red" Morgan, argued that she simply made a mistake by throwing away a $1 million ticket and that the only right she willingly parted with was to enter the ticket for the possibility of a secondary prize.