Two million additional digital lottery tickets, introduced by the Government Lottery Office (GLO) for the September 16 draw, were sold in just 22 seconds, GLO Director Lt Col Noon Sansanakhom disclosed today.
He said that the 20,000 books of tickets were offered for sale to the dealers via the Pao Tang application on September 6.
The demand was more than the supply, as the dealers had placed orders for seven million digital lottery tickets, but only two million were available.
To solve the problem, he said the additional digital tickets will be allocated on first-come-first-serve basis.
The additional tickets have increased the total number of tickets for the September 16th draw from 24 million to 26 million, which will increase access to digital lottery tickets, priced at 80 baht/ticket.
The GLO director explained that the idea of gradually increasing the number of digital lottery tickets per draw is intended to reflect the real lottery market situation.
He warned lottery dealers, however, that they should consider their financial status as to whether they can afford to buy more digital tickets, otherwise they would have to absorb the loss themselves if they could not sell all their tickets.
Instead of just increasing the number of digital lottery tickets, he also said that the GLO plans to increase more outlets, to help the dealers sell the digital tickets to members of the public via the www.glolotteeryshop.com website.
