Buying and reselling your book may be more cost effective than renting. If you think about it--if the book cost your $100 used, you can probably sell it to someone else next semester for about the same, and the cost is effectively zero (minus some time, and probably shipping).

Guy in New Mexico claims he should have won $500K on this scratch-off ticket since he had two "1" symbols, but the lottery says it's a misprint and he didn't win anything (and the back of the ticket says they aren't responsible for misprints)



Besides the characters to the right of the 1s (which were supposed to be an 8 and a 2), if you look at the letters underneath, it doesn't say "ONE", so other than it resembling a couple of 1s, how does he have a fight here? They offered him $100 in scratch-offs but he declined, saying he wants his $500K. Good luck with that

tie goes to the one-er?

casinos always get away with that, too. he won't win.

I'd be psyched to get $100 for a misprint that still clearly shows I lost.

PrattRules wrote:I'd be psyched to get $100 for a misprint that still clearly shows I lost.

Yeah no shit, it's pretty clear it's not a winner

I don't think I've read an actual Phillies thread on this board since the season ended.

Swiggers wrote:I don't think I've read an actual Phillies thread on this board since the season ended.

It's difficult to do without crying.

Ace Rothstein wrote:

PrattRules wrote:I'd be psyched to get $100 for a misprint that still clearly shows I lost.

Yeah no #$!&@, it's pretty clear it's not a winner

you can tell it's supposed to be thirteen on one of them and i assume eighteen on the other. this guy has no case. gotta love people that look a gift horse in the mouth.

Ace Rothstein wrote:

PrattRules wrote:I'd be psyched to get $100 for a misprint that still clearly shows I lost.

Yeah no shit, it's pretty clear it's not a winner

They offered $100 worth of scratch offs, not cash. So, really, probably more like 20 bucks. But hey, you never know...

Hell, I would try to fight it. 100 bucks ain't doing you anything. Never settle with the first offer when it is that low. Reject and they will probably come back with a counter offer a little later.

They don't need to give him a counter offer, they don't owe him anything. And he'd probably get more than $20 with $100 worth of tickets. He's being a greedy POS.

I posit that the average scratch-off player is not the best at weighing statistical likelihoods of success for a given activity.

WheelsFellOff wrote:I posit that the average scratch-off player is not the best at weighing statistical likelihoods of success for a given activity.

*like*

heery casting is still looking for a ton of people for background/extra work for the new rocky movie "creed"


i submitted for the hell of it. details are at heerycasting.com.

Slowhand wrote:They don't need to give him a counter offer, they don't owe him anything. And he'd probably get more than $20 with $100 worth of tickets. He's being a greedy POS.

This. The most they owe him is the price of the ticket. Maybe. He should take that $100 and run.

I can sympathize with the guy being a little irrational after thinking he won 500,000 bucks for a while

probably took a long shower thinking about buying his mom a car and stuff

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Slowhand wrote:They don't need to give him a counter offer, they don't owe him anything. And he'd probably get more than $20 with $100 worth of tickets. He's being a greedy POS.

This. The most they owe him is the price of the ticket. Maybe. He should take that $100 and run.

It might be a $20 scratch off. That is a thing.

my parents pass out a few every year at Christmas. last year I had the first pick of envelopes. I won nothing but my bro got 1,000

TenuredVulture wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Slowhand wrote:They don't need to give him a counter offer, they don't owe him anything. And he'd probably get more than $20 with $100 worth of tickets. He's being a greedy POS.

This. The most they owe him is the price of the ticket. Maybe. He should take that $100 and run.

It might be a $20 scratch off. That is a thing.

yeah, i ended up with one a couple weeks ago when the automatic lottery machine was offline and couldn't print mega & powerball and it wouldn't give me my 20 back either. was in a hurry and didn't have time to wait for a clerk so i just pushed the button for the scratch off. i lost.