National Lottery rise

[Tom@Crewe]

Wow 100% price rise and an overall reduction in prizes (except for 3 ball's) I think that's an end for me doing the National Lottery 

[spurno]

i don't see their reasoning behind this.it's not as if they have to charge a certain price to make a profit.the prize fund is dependant on the number of tickets sold.this is just an example of greed.obviously the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

[scruff]

I think people will just cut the number of lines that they put on because currently nobody has spare cash for luxuries due to the state of the economy. Then the total prize fund will fall meaning you get less for your bet.
I for one will pull out of the work syndicate (£10 a month) and half the two lines I put on each week to 1 line a week so I still only pay £2 a week at home. Net loss to  the National lottery=£10 a month and only one line a week going on instead of 2.
Yours dissapointedly
Mark

[EtchedPixels]

Wow 100% price rise and an overall reduction in prizes (except for 3 ball's) I think that's an end for me doing the National Lottery 

You get vastly better returns throwing darts at the stocks page of the newspaper and buying a few (*). The national lottery is basically a fatcut funding exercise IMHO. They should have let Branson run it as a non-profit as he offered to.

Even then it's still basically a tax on people who don't understand statistics   

Alan
(*) in fact the darts method, and random picking by a cat routinely outperform the "experts"

[port perran]

I've only ever bought two lottery tickets.
One in the first draw ever (didn't win) and one about 5 years ago (didn't win).
Shan't be buying any more.
A[art from anything else when I see the draws on the TV it's completely incomprehensible to me with thunderballs and bonus balls etc.

[Bikeracer]

We usually buy a ticket each,but with the doubling of the cost we won't be bothering again.
I think it's just greed from Camelot,I imagine there will be quite a few who won't bother anymore.

Allan

[Agrippa]

I won

[Lawrence]

I'll be stopping my weekly purchase when this comes in, utter disgrace, let Branson do it instead of these money grabbing gits 

[Fratton]

we play every week by direct debit "fire and forget" i think we'll be modifying our tickets, at the moment we pay roughly £20 a month, don't think i can justify £40 really,,,,, 

[guest311]

don't do the lottery on a regular basis, but think I'll do the health one instead.

we do also do the air ambulance one, so we might just increase that instead. at least the money goes to something worth while.

don't start me on what the camelot lot do with theirs 

[Jerry Howlett]

Used to do the lottery, until they declared us "non residents" unfit to play. Despite paying from a UK bank account and being a UK Tax payer. Now do the Italian one which is E1 a time for two entries..bargain. Still never one anything though......

[Dock Shunter]

Don't do the lottery,horses,fruit machines....etc.Gambling is a mugs game.Have you noticed how the tv screens are now saturated with gambling adverts,poker games.The high streets are full of betting shops,and all at a time when spare money is at it's tightest.(Why is that)?
How many people play the lottery every week and although they win nothing will play again the next week for fear of not putting their numbers on and that being the week those numbers come out.
How many people play every week because they see the lottery as the only way to having a better life or escaping poverty.
I think the people who run the lottery are banking on these type of people playing regardless of the increase.

[Newportnobby]

Now do the Italian one which is E1 a time for two entries..bargain. Still never one anything though......

Bit off topic, Jerry, but if you press ALT GR and the $ key it makes € 

[A.Carter (BiG-T)]

Scandalous as has been said already should have let Branson run it in the first place.
I would never do the same numbers because when they increased it to two draws people playing the same numbers were conned into having to play twice a week in case their numbers came up, and so it went on with the other draws they invented.
Is it still owned by a Canadian Pension Fund even so the profits don't stay in this country? other countries are benefiting from the UK players naivety.
The one concern with the 'Health Lottery' is the government will see the lottery funding as an excuse to reduce the Tax payers contributions and the NHS will be no better off.

Tony

[mickeyflinn]

Now do the Italian one which is E1 a time for two entries..bargain. Still never one anything though......

Bit off topic, Jerry, but if you press ALT GR and the $ key it makes € 

Always wondered how to get that - could have done with this post when I sent off my holiday compensation claim!!