Lottery terminal number?

I've upcoming shops that don't want scanned receipts, but do require purchase of a lottery ticket, and reporting the lottery terminal number. I'm not a lottery player, can anyone tell me if I find the terminal number on the ticket, or is it the cash register where I purchased? (or none of the above?)

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I don't know what your lottery tickets will show. Here after the game identifiers at the top, there is a line of "Printed" with date and time. The line below that has several numerical strings, one of which is repeated later in the ticket and then you get to the number line, the drawing date, etc. I'm sure that one of the numerical strings on the second line of information relatively unique to the ticket includes the terminal number. Your instructions should clue you in to what the number looks like. Since the lottery can tell as fast as they can find whether there are winners or not just what terminal and therefore at what location the ticket was issued.

Hey Mert, I wish someone paid ME to buy a lottery ticket. The winning one would be nice.

According to the scheduler, each State's terminal numbers differ in appearance and location on the ticket. He gave me the first three digits of one of my locations, so I'll figure it out.

Wouldn't the mystery shopping community be tickled pink if a shopper won with a required/reimbursed ticket? What are the odds . . .

I did buy one on a grocery shop to prove entry time (first required observation is customer service where they sell tickets) because I was on a dead run to get from the previous store and inside this store before the close of the window for the shop. The ticket would prove that I made it because I could not possibly have entered the store and gotten a ticket processed in the 5 seconds past the end of the window that the ticket was timed.

I have gotten tickets on shops in the past when either the pot was large enough it made a nice daydream or I wanted to confirm time of visit. Last year I got one that paid off I think it was $78. The tickets are not reimbursed as part of my expenses, but certainly the ones I get as 'proof of beginning time of visit' I claim as a business expense. I used to be able to recycle them over and over as my question to customer service to ask them to check my ticket. Now the machine prints "NOT A WINNER" on the tickets so I can only recycle them once.

Problem is.. if you were reimbursed for a winning ticket, then legally the MS Company would own the ticket and they would get the money. That would really suck if it were a multi-million dollar win.

I'm no lawyer, but no way in hades are the tickets, or anything else I'm reimbursed for, not mine.

No, the items we purchase under a reimbursement are ours to keep or dispose of as we will. While the thought of returning a fast food meal purchase requirement that you were required to eat on site is delightful (plastic bag or loose in a box?),the issue does not arise. While some shops specify that merchandise purchases cannot be returned, many of them do not specify this, so the option is yours as an individual (instead of as their independent contractor shopper) whether to return it or not. Many shops specifically prohibit the purchase of lottery tickets, gift cards or alcohol to complete a purchase requirement. But in general, unless specified othewise, a reimbursement is for your purchase with no further claim to the material by the company.

Maybe they want the date and time that you purchased it. I know here in Nebraska our powerball has the date and time that it is purchased

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