Is your lotto ticket valid – Part 3

As you know from earlier post I recently discovered a lotto ticket I bought, which I won £10 on I discovered I could not cash because it was cancelled, and in the end I had to send it to Camelot for investigation. I did not receive a phone call last week as I thought I was getting, but maybe I heard wrong. I don’t know. But I emailed them anyway to see what was happening in which I got a very quick response saying I should receive my cheque for winning ticket any day soon, and money for cost of sending a few days later. Well I received my £10 cheque today, but still not a clear explanation as to exactly when it was cancelled which I thought they would. Maybe they can’t discuss that I don’t know. But I still reckon as they said more likely it was where I got it from to blame. Which if I ever buy a ticket again, it definitly won’t be from there, and I will go where I usually go.

Is your lotto ticket valid? – Part 2

As you know from previous post I won £10 on the National Lottery but did not discover I had a problem with my ticket until I tried to claim my winnings.

I received a phone call from Camelot today as they wanted to ask a few questions as part of the investigation regarding my lottery ticket. This person who spoke to me was very reassuring, knowing this will get sorted. She is going to check on a few things now after this conversation and find out also exactly when after buying my ticket, the ticket was cancelled. Hopefully they will find out soon, so they can sort my claim, along also with results from investigation.

Is your lotto ticket valid?

I bought a lotto ticket one day last week for The National Lottery on Saturday 21st February, before work.

The lotto numbers for that night were 18 – 22 – 26 – 42 – 45 – 46 and bonus ball was 44.

I got three of those numbers! So I won £10.  But when it came to collecting my winnings from a newsagent near me, I found I couldn’t cash it as my ticket came up cancelled. To sort this problem out I had to go back to where I originally bought it from. So before work, I went back to where I bought it, to hopefully sort it out.

After leaving it with her to call back later, I’ve now got to send it to The National Lottery at Watford for them to investigate.   So as I said in a letter, for me now to do this, I expect also refund for cost of sending it, otherwise as far as I see it, I havn’t won £10, because if I been able to collect my winnings as I should normally have been able to do it, then I wouldn’t have been charged for collecting my £10 winnings, would I? 

I don’t know how long I should expect them to investigate this, but I’m allowing them 4 weeks to sort this. If I’ve not received what I should have received or heard by then, I’m taking this story further, as to make sure everyone is aware.

As for buying another lottery ticket. I know I won’t be buying another from where I got from again. But also when I think about it, do I trust buying a National Lottery Ticket anywhere now? I think from now on I’ll be buying an Irish Lottery Ticket that everyone keeps telling me about from now on.