Just Like (a) Human

Okay, so, this year here in Florida, the [tag]Florida Lottery[/tag] Commission decided to have a “[tag]Holiday Millionaire Raffle[/tag]“.

For $20, 1,250,000 tickets were sold (Total of $25,000,000 pulled in), as a limited run. This game sold out in ten days. No one else may purchase a ticket from a retailer location.

My coworker and I were standing around the lotto machine at work one afternoon, when an urgent email popped onto its screen, telling us that there were only 65000 tickets left. I tell her, “That game’s selling out tonight. I bet there’ll be a ticket on eBay soon. Sell me a ticket.”

Now, [tag]eBay[/tag] has a policy against selling lottery or raffle tickets through their site.

This person found a clever way around that particular rule, by [tag]auctioning[/tag] a CD Jewel Case, and giving the ticket with it for free.

I think I’ll have to tell her about that, and how right I was.

Now, I don’t think that guy’s gonna get too many bids, starting his so high. I’d have started at $100, not $1,000. That’d be profit right there, at least, and of course, it might even escalate into a bidding war. But, starting at $1,000? If I bought that, and the ticket inside lost, I’d be mightily irked about that. $1,000 for a piece of plastic to store a CD or DVD in? Yeah. Right.

Still, it’s pretty funny. ;D