Comments on: Co-workers sue Mega Millions lottery winners

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:14:58 +0000

I run a lottery pool for my office.

When I started it, I simply wrote out the rules up front.

If the winnings for a week are too low (less than $10 apiece), they go back into the pool for the next week. If you don’t play the next week, you get no benefit.

I e-mail copies of the tickets each drawing with a list of who paid & is therefore eligible to win.

I couldn’t imagine telling anyone, “Oh, yeah, just contribute when you want to, if we win we will share it.” That’s not fair to the people who gave their money.

Sharing with those people is not the “right thing to do”. If you do that, then where do you draw the line? When I buy tickets for my company, I also get a few extra just for me. If I win on one of MY tickets, should I share with them? heck no.

By: L Nettles

L Nettles — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:18:06 +0000

This was a subplot on a recent episode of NBC’s LIFE. A member of a Lottery Winner Anonymous group (surely this is a scriptwriters invention) is murdered and on of the members thinks his friend did it. The Lottery winner and a buddy had been buying tickets for 20 years and one day the friend didn’t have a dollar, and guess what happened.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:31:03 +0000

Hey I just missed my new years party because I took a vacation maybe I should have my office have another one.

By: mrscorie

mrscorie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:31:22 +0000

Well I think the problem is that they used money from last weeks’s winnings. When they all participated. So how do they decide how much they get based on them putting money back into the pool from the winnings of the previous week. They should just give these people the money. If they had been particpating for 5 years and just happened to be absent someone should have put in for them, or just deduct their 5 dollars from the winnings. People need to stop being so greedy.

By: Dirk D

Dirk D — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:18:40 +0000

“everybody should buy their own ticket (with the same #) on these joint lottery deals! would save a lot of headache!”

That completely defeats the point of pooling.

By: susan

susan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:03:21 +0000

no they were out…did not pay any money..don’t get no dough! everybody should buy their own ticket (with the same #) on these joint lottery deals! would save a lot of headache!

By: jay

jay — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:56:50 +0000

quit being so greedy share with your friends

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:36:15 +0000

These disputes have become so common I’m surprised that people don’t enter into written agreements and that the states haven’t passed “Statute of Frauds”-like laws denying the validity of oral agreements to share in lottery winnings.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:48:49 +0000

how arrogant is that?

give me a break.