Pros and cons of online lottery purchase
Buying anything over the Internet carries both positive and negative aspects.. Consider the pros and cons of buying a lottery online. Among the clear advantages of buying tickets online:
1. Saving time and effort. No need to look for an official point of sale and get to it. The site works around the clock and there are no queues on it.
2. Safety. The online ticket cannot be lost or stolen. Information about him is always in your personal account on the site.
3. Many convenient ways to pay for your purchase (bank cards of all types, through a bank account, from mobile phone account, internet wallets Webmoney, Qiwi, Yandex money, by replenishing your personal wallet on the website or with bonuses).
4. All valid and official (legitimate) lotteries are collected in one place. For each game there is complete information about its essence and conditions. The player is given the opportunity to auto-match the lottery using a special option. You can purchase a ticket package of the most popular lotteries with automatic selection of combinations.
5. Registration on the website in your personal account allows you to track all purchased tickets and their status. Information about all runs is stored in the archive, and the player can track the statistics of his games, analyze, choose lucky combinations. Bonuses are awarded for purchases online, which can be exchanged for a new ticket.
6. The site conducts promotions to reduce the cost of individual games. Tickets can be more expensive at points of sale.
7. No need to wait for TV broadcasts. The results of the draws are immediately published on the website and are available in the participant's personal account.
8. You can participate in instant lotteries. The result of such a game becomes available immediately when buying a ticket. You can also play fast lotteries via the Internet with draws every 10-20 minutes.
The negative aspects are not so much related to the technology of buying tickets via the Internet itself., how much with the level of trust in lotteries in general
Minuses, which, undoubtedly, worth taking into account, may be as follows:. 1. Possible technical points: Internet does not work, site overload by visitors and its slow work
1. Possible technical points: Internet does not work, site overload by visitors and its slow work.
2. It is not always possible to pay for your purchase online. Now cashless payment is available to everyone, but there are situations with a lack of funds on the phone or bank card.
3. Lack of transparency in the conduct of games. Most lottery draws are not broadcast on TV or recorded.
4. The lottery business is weakly controlled by the state. Moreover, the very essence of the lottery does not allow checking the process for fraud.. No oversight of distributors and no one knows, who programs the lottery equipment. Although, organizer approves, that it is certified and guarantees the randomness of the result.
5. It is impossible to check exactly how much of the proceeds is actually distributed among those who bought lottery tickets. The distributor states, what 50% from each ticket goes to the prize fund, and the rest - for the needs of the organization itself. There are circulations, in which the main prize has not been played, and he must switch to another edition.
6. From the point of view of mathematical laws, the chance of winning a large sum is negligible, near 1:1000000. On this are built absolutely all lotteries and wins they, primarily, organizer. However, it is possible to return the ticket price. According to reviews from the Internet and information on the Stoloto website, every third ticket wins.
7. There is very little reliable information and first-person feedback from those, who won a large sum.
8. Interest is charged for buying tickets online. From 1% to 10% depending on the payment method. For withdrawal of the received winnings, you will have to pay the same percentage to the payment system.
9. You must pay tax on the winnings received 13% for Russians and 30% for foreign citizens. From amounts to 15000 rub. this responsibility rests with the player. Higher amounts are paid net of tax.
