Driver Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Couldn't get my ticket at usual place as it is being dismantled due whatever company going into administration according to the engineer who was taking it apart. I didn't realise it was a franchise, thought it was the official company. I think the £2 price hike may have damaged one of the products. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nationalist Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 The recent quadruple rollover had a £15m jackpot, time was that would have been nearer £50m. Lotto has really lost it due to price hike; Euromillions paying out way more and the Wednesday draw, plus the underclass are wasting their money on scratch cards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
longgone Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) The recent quadruple rollover had a £15m jackpot, time was that would have been nearer £50m. Lotto has really lost it due to price hike; Euromillions paying out way more and the Wednesday draw, plus the underclass are wasting their money on scratch cards. need two lotteries really, one for london and one for the rest of the uk the myleen klass lottery , you will need £2m just for the garage to hold the lambo Edited January 12, 2015 by longgone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
interestrateripoff Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Amazed that someone has built a business model out of selling just lottery tickets!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheCountOfNowhere Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 It could be you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
weirofhermiston Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Amazed that someone has built a business model out of selling just lottery tickets!!! You mean Camelot? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinker Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Camelot were bought out by a Canadian Pension Fund. Even that is no longer British owned. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
interestrateripoff Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Camelot were bought out by a Canadian Pension Fund. Even that is no longer British owned. It seems the pensioners have to hope they don't lose the golden ticket and another lottery provider is picked! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinker Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 It seems the pensioners have to hope they don't lose the golden ticket and another lottery provider is picked! There's the rub. Virgin put in a bid in the 00s. There will be a time-limit on the licence. The Health Lottery has been promoting itself, and then there are all those gambling/bingo adverts. Market could be saturated. Rollover Jackpots are way smaller now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheCountOfNowhere Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 There's the rub. Virgin put in a bid in the 00s. There will be a time-limit on the licence. The Health Lottery has been promoting itself, and then there are all those gambling/bingo adverts. Market could be saturated. Rollover Jackpots are way smaller now. Who needs the lottery to get rich when all you need is a 5% deposit for a flat in london. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SNACR Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) There's the rub. Virgin put in a bid in the 00s. There will be a time-limit on the licence. The Health Lottery has been promoting itself, and then there are all those gambling/bingo adverts. Market could be saturated. Rollover Jackpots are way smaller now.Yes, the people's entrepreneur's noisy bid gave the handy illusion it wasn't a foregone conclusion and a van delivering a sack truck load of document boxes emblazoned with the Virgin logo, to conveniently awaiting cameras, was a nice piece of added theatre.Good ol Dickie and his derring do, if he didn't exist, it's almost as if you'd have to make him up. Edited January 12, 2015 by SNACR Quote Link to post Share on other sites
200p Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Off topic, I notice that the post office in the background has those self service machines, so you can frank your own parcels! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
200p Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 In my yoof, I used to work in a Newsagent - I asked the owner how much they make out of lottery per pound - I remember he said 5p. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
200p Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) A google search of "lottery kiosks administration" Reveals this: Lottery kiosk closes at The Brunel Shopping Centre with jobs lost STAFF arrived to work at National Lottery’s kiosk in The Brunel Shopping Centre this morning, to find it would not be opening and they had lost their jobs. The shopping centre confirmed Rieves UK Limited, the UK’s retail lottery specialist which operates 35 kiosks across the nation’s shopping centres, had closed its unit. 7 January 2015 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11707069.Lottery_kiosk_closes_at_The_Brunel_Shopping_Centre_with_jobs_lost/ http://www.rieves.co.uk Edited January 12, 2015 by 200p Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vin rouge Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 The rent for the pitch was probably eyewatering, and is the real reason for the demise. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
longgone Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Who needs the lottery to get rich when all you need is a 5% deposit for a flat in london. you need at least £2m pounds , myleen told me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SNACR Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 The rent for the pitch was probably eyewatering, and is the real reason for the demise. If it's in the Brunel Centre in Swindon then I would doubt it was. Rents in there are massively on the slide. Never been any trade, to write home about, in Swindon town centre despite seemingly massive footfall. Council, were forced to buy the Brunel, I seem to recall, in the last recession. Poundland was the only store that ever seemed to do anything much even in the boom years. Woolworths also seemed to have a bit of a buzz but their distribution centre was in the town so wouldn't be surprised if a lot were in there with staff discount - although WH Smith head office and warehouse were there and they always seemed empty - incidentally WH Smith are trialling some half-arsed discount greeting card retail concept called Card Market in the Brunel. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
200p Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 They should run the lottery like this You're not winning any more: Spot the Ball jackpot hasn't been won in a DECADEhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/youre-not-winning-any-more-4968466#rlabs=1 Cha Ching Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Austin Allegro Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Never mind there's always the Willie Wonka Golden Ticket draw! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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