Collecting tickets as a hobby

Buying lottery tickets is something that a lot of people do and once they find out that the ticket hasn’t won them anything, they just crumple it up and throw it away. Although the ticket was not a winning number, it was still worth money. This is because there are many people who would buy those tickets from you even though they had no value to them. These tickets can be sold on eBay, the auction website. People ask for lottery tickets that have been thrown away after discovering that nothing has been won from them.

One might wonder why those tickets would be on sale. The fact is, a lot of people collect used lottery tickets as a hobby. This new hobby is called lotology and there are hundreds of these collectors who place ads to buy those tickets in stores and others who do not use them. There are various websites dedicated to this hobby and people search to buy such tickets on these sites. A lottery can have different prices and the buyer will be able to choose it according to the price of the purchased ticket. So if a person buys a cheap ticket, they will be eligible for a lower purchase price.

Interest in used lottery tickets has led to a museum being set up with all the merchandise that is kept in public view. With so many different lottery tickets available in each state, collectors are obsessed with the need to have as many as possible in their own collections. This hobby is very similar to stamp and coin collections, where people are always looking for a unique piece that they don’t have yet. Most collectors become obsessive and even more so the ticket collector. These people are willing to pay good money for the purchase of used and discarded lottery tickets. Those who have many of these tickets are making a business selling them to collectors. Also, it doesn’t matter what price of the ticket you pick up, because a cheap old ticket would be worth as much as a full value old ticket.