> From: Nathan Hampton <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Milwaukee Lottery
>
> The application does say "This Customer I.D. was mailed to your last known
> address in March 2004. For those customers who received tickets for the
> first time to the 2005 championship, your customer I.D. was mailed to your
> last known address in March 2005."

so you, like me, got your ID in March, 2004 (a year ago)
the newbies got them last month

> I do not remember receiving anything, so maybe the strategy is to weed out
> us high priority (old timer) ticket buyers. That way when they scrap the
> current system, no one will have anything to lose and they can do as they
> please.

Actually, i rather perfer the rumor about the florida move to the NCAA
conspiracy theory

> But what else would I do with $600 over the course of a year? Or is that
> $708 if I carry that balance for a whole year at 18% interest. It's only
> money, or is it about 130 six-packs of beer? That is about a third of my
> yearly consumption!!!

actually, you should only count the interest as the $600 is earmarked
for the tickets irrespective of whether you pay them now or pay them
later.

> Nathan Eric Hampton

The REAL issue is the "secondary market" and speculation issue. It
just rankles that people with higher priority than me (cuz I bought as
part of a block a coluple of times) are getting "better" seats, and
then selling them to people with NO priority.


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