News about your ticket!
OK, this is going to be for my benefit as well as everyone else because I’m a little fed up of the National Lottery site. I got another email today telling me that there was exciting news about my ticket (woo!) and I needed to click on the link to check the message.
So I click on the link, it tells me I need to log in. Fair enough, except it never seems to let me log in first time round [note to self: the username and password are the ones you think they are, just enter them in again when it errors and all will be good]. Anyway, a bit of faffing and looking up of emails later and I confirm I am trying to log in correctly and just try again. Get to my account page and… nothing. No messages, no alerts, no nothing telling me anything about my winnings.
Hmmm… a bit off.
But then I seem to remember the same thing last time. I spent absolutely ages hunting around the site trying to find somewhere that showed me even the slightest bit of information. Finally I clicked on My Subscriptions from the My Account page and got to see that I had won all of £10. Great. I’ve got a wish list of toys that now covered in excess of £30,000 (not to mention that I could really do with retiring and living the life of Riley for the rest of forever) and they’re getting all excited about £10. That’s not exciting news at all. From now on I want my email titles from the lottery to be customised with the following:
£10: Your lottery winnings: Meh.
>£10 <£100: News about your ticket.
>£100 < £500: Exciting news about your ticket.
>£500 < £1,000,000: You’ve won new toys, courtesy of The National Lottery!
>£1,000,000: Email to my boss: Dom says stuff your job!
[Oh - and so I can find this post when I'm swearing at the site next time I try to log in a few random keywords: national lottery lotto login logging in winnings]
Is it worth pointing out that if you win the jackpot (or anything over I think 3/4 Million) then they call you, and then you get a ‘personal advisor’ from Camelot who turns up in an ‘unobtrusive’ (In other words it doesn’t have the National Lottery Symbols all over it) car and then talks you through if you want to go public and tries to stop you blowing your winnings in the first 5 minutes. Usually you have the Camelot advisor for a year and by that time you’re then deemed less likely to go off the rails or buy yourself a fleet of Ferrari’s when you cant drive… (Didn’t work with Michael Carroll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carroll_%28lottery_winner%29 ).
I did not know that. They don’t have a hope in hell of stopping me from going mental at the shops if I won. That said I’d probably only spend about £50,000 on toys, pay off the mortgage and then do sensible things like invest in property and get other people to pay me rent rather than having to do dull things like work
Ah you pay the UK version of the Stupidity tax!
I do indeed pay idiot tax. I decided to see how much it cost me over a couple of months and if it worked out quite cheap I’d keep going since it’s just about the only way I’m going to get all the toys I want and get out of the rat race.