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Up to £2. Ridiculous 100% increase....greedy!

Anyone stopped or not?

I have......did 4 every Wed and Sat cost £8....now £16
Same numbers so can't reduce......will try and avoid results for ever more.

Glad to be released from it though:)
 
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I used to stick £2 on rollovers so will keep doing that but it means only one line rather than two.

I'll still do the Euromillions though...

I'm thinking of doing the MacMillans lottery. It wouldn't bother me to lay out £100 per year anyway to such a wonderful cause so the prospect of a return makes it even more appealing.

And remember... if I do ever win the Euromillions I'll just go and get lost somewhere far away and no-one will ever see or hear from me again!

PS - I could never do the same numbers just in case. I'm purely a lucky dip man.
 
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I've had the most success with the racing welfare one - and none at all from the air ambulance. The one I'd like to do but I don't understand is the irish lotto, but I think I do quite enough for the mo!!!
 
With the Irish Lottery numbers Trudy, you are just betting at fixed odds with the bookmakers in England, your money is not actually in the pool.
 
Been using the same numbers on two lines since it stated in 1994 so what to do? When it started it was only on a Saturday so think I will revert to that and leave Wednesdays and avoid the Wednesday results.Haven't been brave enough to do that yet though :lol:

Think the prize structure on this and Euromillions is wrong , I mean who needs more than say five million, even that may be too much, and the residue spread around to bump up other prize money.
 
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Wasn't it a quid per line in 1994? If so, 2 quid now means you're probably staking a lower percentage of your income per line.

Not my cup of tea either way. Rather stick an EW ACC on.
 
The minimum wage in the UK didn't start until 1999 and was (for over 21's) set at £3.60 per hour, it is now at £6.31 per hour. That's pretty crap for 13+ years, as most things tend to double in price every decade (7% per annum). Were talking 5 years prior to that though as well. Thats what I based my assumption on anyway, and it was a rough guess as I haven't been in the UK for 10 years. I didn't realise people in the UK were being screwed so badly.
 
When I retired (early) my pension was based on the three best years of the last ten (or something like that) but when the figures eventually came through my pension was higher than I'd calculated because in the small print there's an allowance for where the salary should have been had wages kept rate with the cost of living.

It turns out I was earning £2000 per year less than I would have been had we had fair wage increases in the preceding years, according to independent calculations. That's money I will never get back. It's money that would have covered holidays that I forewent as I didn't feel I could afford them. It might alternatively have covered the cost of a car instead of having to source more affordable, but riskier, ones at auction.

I try not to think about it as it might make me resentful but there must be millions of workers being screwed equally royally.
 
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I don't see any reason why it should rise to £2tbh..Branson said he would run it for nothing...would have spoiled theh gravy train for a few though

i haven't seen any justification in a rise at all..its just a stealth tax at end of day

DO..you are better off putting less on and having a go at every lottery. Buying one ticket you have a 14 mill to one chance of winning..buy 2 and you have a 14 mill to 2 chance..not really increasing your chance of winning much but you have put 100% more on in stake
 
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I dunno, put 100 tickets on, and you're down to 140K to 1, or 7 million tickets and you're down to Evens. :)

"Someones got to win it", but come on, it's a seriously bad bet. As for the charity side of things, I'm sure we'd live in a much finer world if people simply donated their ticket money and lost the greed.
 
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