Sussex wrote:
Do any of you actually go in a shop and buy them?
And then, heaven forbid, actually check the numbers yourselves?
A lot easier to do it online rather than fannying around finding shops, queuing etc
And especially now that my nearest outlet is five miles away
I do lucky dips, and don't note the numbers, so just wait for the email. Or not, as is more usually the case.
Just one of these odd rituals that people have, I suppose.
In fact, when I bought them in the shops I never liked checking my tickets for some odd reason, and ocassionally had six month old tickets that I hadn't checked, so had to do them before they expired
But that was more when I just did the lottery ocassionally. In fact, must have went ten years at one point without buying a ticket.
But the checking thing was another factor in doing it online - your numbers are checked automatically, although the email never arrives until the early hours. In fact, I only got the email about my recent lucky dip win at least 12 hours after the draw
Don't know if you're informed earlier if you win big, but I've never had that pleasure
But I see there's even a smatphone app for checking the tickets now, using a QR code
Don't know why people would download an app or whatever, then buy a ticket in the shops, but I suppose they have to cover every eventuality
But when I used to buy them in the shops, another thing that really annoyed me was people coming in with about ten tickets which they got the shop to check, while I'm waiting to buy a pint of milk and a tin of beans.
So another good reason to do it online.