In it to win it

[Old Greg]

Why not?

Sell us your other grandmother first and we'll talk about it.

[MarillionFan]

Right, you all as may as well stop buying tickets. I've just bought the winning one so waste of time for the rest of you.

[Platypus]

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[NotAllThere]

I can see the headlines now.

UK economy grinds to a halt after top IT consultants' Euromillions win.

But that would only apply to people who need to work.

[mudskipper]

Right -

So there are some logistical issues.

I don't seem to be able to create a new lottery account using my name and address - and I don't want to use fake details in case that invalidates our big win

As FaQQer pointed out, there's a £350 a week limit on buying tickets online - a bit crap considering they positively encourage syndicates. We could get round this by having two people using their accounts to buy the tickets, or go with the suggestion of reducing to £50 a head.

Problem is, as soon as we're using personal accounts, the element of trust needs to increase as it links to people's own email addresses.

We'd also need to draw up a proper syndicate agreement as advised Lottery Syndicate, Lotto Syndicate Agreement, Lottery.co.uk

An alternative is to go with traditional paper tickets, buy, scan and email to everyone. Downsides - risk of losing them (my paranoia - theoretical rather than actual risk) and requirement to manually check them all and claim any prize. Not sure how the newsagent will feel about doing £600 worth (300 lines) - I think it could prove problematic, and I'm not going to have time to traipse round several different ones.


Potentially in are:

mudskipper
Platypus
MarillionFan
Ketchup
Old Greg
FaQQer


Hmmm, why do they make this so difficult...

[Old Greg]

Right -

So there are some logistical issues.

I don't seem to be able to create a new lottery account using my name and address - and I don't want to use fake details in case that invalidates our big win

As FaQQer pointed out, there's a £350 a week limit on buying tickets online - a bit crap considering they positively encourage syndicates. We could get round this by having two people using their accounts to buy the tickets, or go with the suggestion of reducing to £50 a head.

Problem is, as soon as we're using personal accounts, the element of trust needs to increase as it links to people's own email addresses.

We'd also need to draw up a proper syndicate agreement as advised Lottery Syndicate, Lotto Syndicate Agreement, Lottery.co.uk

An alternative is to go with traditional paper tickets, buy, scan and email to everyone. Downsides - risk of losing them (my paranoia - theoretical rather than actual risk) and requirement to manually check them all and claim any prize. Not sure how the newsagent will feel about doing £600 worth (300 lines) - I think it could prove problematic, and I'm not going to have time to traipse round several different ones.


Potentially in are:

mudskipper
Platypus
MarillionFan
Ketchup
Old Greg
FaQQer


Hmmm, why do they make this so difficult...

I don't have a lottery account. Could set one up and pass you the details or its more complicated than that?

[Platypus]

An alternative is to go with traditional paper tickets, buy, scan and email to everyone. Downsides - risk of losing them (my paranoia - theoretical rather than actual risk) and requirement to manually check them all and claim any prize. Not sure how the newsagent will feel about doing £600 worth (300 lines) - I think it could prove problematic, and I'm not going to have time to traipse round several different ones.

My local newsagent would be delighted, and they check them too (hand over a bunch of tickets the next day, they scan the barcodes, the machine tells them whether you win).

If you "get the big one" you just phone lottery HQ and they send someone out (local syndicate here won £70k so I have some familiarity with the process although I wasn't in it myself, many of my friends were).

[Old Greg]

Can we expense it?

[Platypus]

Can we expense it?

Wrong Forum. try L&A

[mudskipper]

I think it is more complicated - you need to link bank accounts etc.

Let's keep it simple.

£50 a head to keep under the £350 limit.

I'll buy tickets through my personal online account and email numbers to everyone who's in.

Let me know you're in, and I'll PM you my details, (name, bank account and linkedin profile)

You'll PM me your real name, email address and bank account details (I'd hope with 150 tickets we'll win something!)

I'll draw up a syndicate agreement that will basically list who's in (real names preferably - let me know if you have a problem with this), the fact that we're chucking in £50 each for Friday's draw, and splitting any winnings equally, and that I'll be responsible for collecting dosh, purchasing tickets and distributing the winnings.

Sound OK?