Cemal Celikkanat, the post worker, threw away his Lottery scratchcard after winning a £100,000. The man had been buying scratchcards for over six years and thought that the same rules applied to all the tickets, not realising they had changed over time.
When Celikkanat bought his first ticket he had to have three winning symbols in a row to win a price but now he only needed three symbols on one card. Celikkanat found out what he had done the next day. When a colleague asked him to collect her price of a £25 he saw her ticket did not had three of the same symbols in a row but just three the same symbols.
The post worker raced back to the shop where he bought the ticket the next day to check the bin, but heard it had been emptied and that the contents had been taken to the incinerator. He did manage to get the the serial number of the winning ticket but the scratchcard company told him that they, unfortunately, needed the original ticket to cash out. The post worker himself says: ‘I threw away £100,000. I feel so terrible, I think about it every day, it's had a massive impact on my life.’
I first laughed my head off when I read this article but then I felt very sorry for the man. It is not his fault he is ignorant, he only bought scratchcard for the last six years. This tells us that he must be very stupid and that really is not his fault. Overall, I think that people who buy scratchcards are stupid or at least not thinking clear. I bought one once and afterwards I could only come up with the words: 'what was I thinking?'. I was not.
In the Netherlands the gambling taxes for prices worth more than €454 are 29%. The odds of the best scratchcards are one out of three with prices starting at one Euro. This means, if you would buy a scratchcards each week for five euro your worst case scenario will be: 52x5= €260 - 17 = a loss of €243 which is probably also the most common scenario.
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