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I haven't had mine yet but what is are the security arrangements when it comes to collection? They have to be claimed in person, presumably at a regional office. The location of these offices must be known to villains. I can envisage them lurking outside, looking for happy-looking people entering, later to follow them with threats of extortion. I feel this must sometimes be the case, yet the only instance I have ever heard of involved the winner's family, not criminals.
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My 'big win' of £600 was delivered in person to my home by a fellow syndicate member.
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When I go to collect my double roll-over jackpot I'm going to walk into the claims office with a stone in my shoe so I look like a miserable git going in for a days work.
You gotta think ahead mate.
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...looking for happy-looking people entering...
In the event of a big win, I believe you will be invited to one of Camelot's regional offices.
There's one in Watford, one in Sunderland, and a couple elsewhere.
They all have dozens of staff, so plenty of people coming and going.
It would be next to impossible for anyone watching to spot the arrival of a big winner.
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Besides which your money wont be in hard cash, im guessing its transfered to a bank account or cheuque
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Well
I phoned them up, they invited me to a regional office. Specialist were on hand to advise on the finances and dealing with publicity. They tried to persuade me to go public, but I insisted on complete and absolute anonymity.
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>>but I insisted on complete and absolute anonymity.
You've blown that away now then. ;>)
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>> >>but I insisted on complete and absolute anonymity.
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>> You've blown that away now then. ;>)
Damn.
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That's right, that's what they did with me too ;-)
John
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That's just for the "smaller" millionaires.
They sent a flight of helicopters for me and whisked me away to a tropical island full of dusky maidens.
Then I woke up.
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"That's just for the "smaller" millionaires."
I am of average height!!!
John
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Same thing lying down.
John
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Allen and Jane got more than me.
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Yeah but you shot them, remember?
John
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Yeah, my recreation period ends soon. Managed to avoid BBD in the showers this morning tho.
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It wears the soap, as the old 2 nuns in a bath joke goes.
John
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As always, you can skip this, largely because, well, because I wrote it. I am Undeterred.
Lottery winners seem to have no sense of how to spend money. Cars? Houses? Pah.
At the beginning on the 20th century, the Romanovs, most of whom were eye wateringly wealthy, used to visit Monte Carlo.
One used to have the flowerbeds in the gardens rearranged every night so he could have a new view each morning.
One used to have twelve baskets of fresh strawberries brought to his room every morning, whatever the season, where he would crush them with a fork, inhale the scent, and then have a servant take them away.
And a Grand Countess complained the ship she was travelling on was unsuitable, so had the French Government send a frigate just for her. At the other end she wouldn't set foot in the boat that was to take her to shore, so lived on the ship in luxury for two months until they had built her a special pier.
That's how to spend money.
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I agree. New money upstarts have no class.
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When I win big, I'll follow Wayne's example in how to spend it gracefully...
:-)
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>When I win big, I'll follow Wayne's example in how to spend it gracefully...
What, when you get invited to the next Car4play meet you'll come in an old Escort?
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With Tracy in the passenger seat?
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What, when you get invited to the next Car4play meet you'll come in an old Escort?
Brilliant...
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"Managed to avoid BBD in the showers this morning tho"
I was distracted by George Michael
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Talking of how to gamble, the Aussie billionaire Kerry Packer was a renowned gambler who was a regular high roller in Las Vegas at the tables reserved for the richest of the rich....
A loud and obnoxious Texas high roller is playing at the same table as Mr. Packer. This man is being as obnoxious as, well, as the stereotypical obnoxious Texan in countless obnoxious Texan stories.
Finally, Kerry asks the man to ease up. The man gets louder: "Do you know who I am? I am worth 60 million dollars, pardner!" He pauses to let this sink in, then says: "Sixty million dollars, pardner. That's what I'm worth." Packer eyes him and says: "I'll flip you for it!"
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The lottery people must have a wealth of experience of paying out big wins and will no doubt offer the appropriate security arrangements. They also give advice on investing the winnings.
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Prizes over £50,000 can be claimed at your home. Prizes less than £50,000 can be claimed by post. tinyurl.com/32y76jr
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The Romanovs had a bit of a setback in 1916 or thereabouts, IIRC...
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Indeed. There might be a reason for that. Those revolting peasants.
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Which leads us nicely into the old joke:
If Wat Tyler led the peasants revolt, who led the pedants revolt?
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Many thanks for answers to my original question. I see £11mn is up for grabs tonight and £82mn on Friday. After years of patience, I must surely get one of these prizes. Since I don't need the money myself, I shall establish a charity to help children of overprivileged families. The underprivileged have bored us for far too long.
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...After years of patience, I must surely get one of these prizes...
I feel another Lotto thread coming on....
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Since I don't need the money myself, I shall establish a charity to help children of overprivileged families. The underprivileged have bored us for far too long
Sorry you are now condemned to pay 100% tax to the "Help indigent Yaris owners" Association. Any suggestion that the poor do not deserve the money spent on them is unPC and politically unacceptable.. so to save embarrassment I will relieve you of the money being sole member of the above Association...
I will then poroceed to spend your winnings in a way which shows you how to spend money properly:
Viz:
Hire of Buck House (helps poor royalty) £50k
Drinks: £100k.
Loose change: £50k.
Various strippers: £1.5million.(as recommended by Wayne)
All gone on a worthy cause..
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As your lottery ticket money is split roughly three ways IIRC:
Charitable causes
Administration
Prize fund
You could be more effective by giving your quid directly to charity.
Help the aged might be most appropriate for this forum. ;>)
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>>Help the aged might be most appropriate for this forum. ;>)
Come along, BT. It's Age UK now!
Pedant mode off.
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>>Help the aged might be most appropriate for this forum. ;>)
Cut out the middle man: donate direct.
Cheques only please..
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"Cut out the middle man: donate direct."
I do, out of one pocket, into the other ;-)
John
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>> >>Help the aged might be most appropriate for this forum. ;>)
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>> Come along, BT. It's Age UK now!
Sorry who was that again?
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>> >> >>Help the aged might be most appropriate for this forum. ;>)
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>> >> Come along, BT. It's Age UK now!
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>> Sorry who was that again?
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Nearly 2 o'clock.
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>> If Wat Tyler led the peasants revolt, who led the pedants revolt?
Which Tyler...?
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>> If Wat Tyler led the peasants revolt, who led the pedants revolt?
Which Tyler...?
No, Who led the pedants revolt.
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The China-man? I No Hu?
John
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>>No, Who led the pedants revolt.
No. Who led the pedants revolt?
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If you have any real doubts about your safety after collecting your big win, I can arrange for a couple of heavies to accompany you. Their fee would be a proportion of your win.
Regards
L'escargot Kray.
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My plan is when I win the big one, I claim my money but as far as others wil know, I only won on the 5+bonus. So that will explain the new car etc but will not let on the full extent to how the bank balance has changed!
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I have promised my wife she can have half my big win, the entire house, the car and (all) the children.
I'll leave home with the rest....
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I shall appoint a firm of lawyers, dealing only with the partner, file to be kept under lock and key.
He shall be instructed to appoint another firm of lawyers, dealing partner to partner, file to be kept under lock and key.
Said second firm will claim the cash and forward it to first firm who will forward it to me*.
Nobody but I shall know. As I lack for nothing in this life, nobody will really notice that my car is a little newer, my suits a little sharper, my claret a little more expensive. Equally I have no intention of giving up the day job.
I reckon that in order to give up the day job, the prize would have to be at least £40m. Not that I earn that sort of money, but retirement when young is very expensive. A country pad with some river bank and a good shoot in a good hunting country + the cash to spend on these hobbies during the time that I no longer spend at work.
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* I'm not entirely sure how this ruse would work now that it all goes by DD.
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>> I reckon that in order to give up the day job, the prize would have
>> to be at least £40m. Not that I earn that sort of money, but retirement
>> when young is very expensive.
Very true, but at your age 4 quid should do it.
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...but retirement when young is very expensive....
About 10 years ago I spoke to someone at Littlewoods Pools who advised big winners.
He said their rough rule of thumb was to advise against instant retirement unless the win was in excess of £250,000.
Obviously there are many variables, but a lot of winners already had some assets/savings/pension entitlement.
The win invested would keep them in the style to which they were accustomed, but no more than that.
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If you're really lucky, your investments might manage inflation + 3%. That's an annual return of £7,500 on a 250k win. That won't keep you in any sort of style - it's about the level of the state pension.
I reckon that you'd want twenty times that in order to feel any vague level of serious prosperity (give you about £2,000 a week for spending). That's £5m. Plus another couple of million to buy a nice pad. School/university fees half a mil per child.
And that's assuming you're managing inflation + 3%. If it's inflation + 1%, then you need three times the £5m.
So £20m as a bare minimum.
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I would need 3 million for home, car and boat.
1500 week spending, say i live for another 25 years. Thats two million required.
5 million in total. Stuff the kids school fees and the inheritance. Get it spent
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...That's an annual return of £7,500 on a 250k win. That won't keep you in any sort of style - it's about the level of the state pension...
True, interests rates were much higher when I spoke to the Littlewoods man.
Remember, the aim here is to live to the same standard as you are now, not to buy a yacht the size of Britannia.
In my case, £1m would do it easily.
On Mapmaker's figures, that would give me £30,000 a year, or about £600 a week coming in.
I have no debt, mortgage or any other kind, so £600 a week would pay bills, living expenses, caravan rent and a bit of property maintenance at Iffy Towers.
I might even save a bit.
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