Selling lottery tickets online, don't ban it if it's hard to manage.

According to the Southern Lottery Council, currently, there are some individuals using social networks to sell lottery tickets, paying via technology applications, the seller keeps the tickets for them, and only delivers the tickets or pays the winnings when they win.

This distribution method violates the provisions of Circular 75/2013 of the Ministry of Finance providing detailed guidance on lottery business activities. And will cause unnecessary legal problems and disputes.

Some people agree with this argument, but it also causes many concerns because if there are "unnecessary legal problems or disputes", there is a civil court, and it will be handled according to the law.

Moreover, now is the digital age, 9 out of 10 people on the street talk about 4.0, along with every house and every person selling online, but the Southern Lottery Council banning online lottery ticket sales is unreasonable, going against the development trend.

The Lottery industry is a bright spot in the difficult economic context with extremely impressive growth figures.

Specifically, at the 130th Southern Lottery Conference (held in Can Tho City) on July 24, businesses in the industry were excited to report the success of the first 6 months of the year with traditional lottery sales of the southern provinces reaching 69,920 billion VND, an increase of nearly 12% over the same period in 2022.

In particular, 21 southern lottery companies reported a profit of nearly VND8,800 billion in the first half of the year and said that the number of tickets issued "is currently not enough to meet demand" so they proposed issuing more lottery tickets to serve buyers.

However, lottery ticket vendors up to this point still do hard work without labor contracts or health insurance, accident and disability insurance, etc.

In addition, to receive lottery tickets to make a living, street lottery ticket sellers must accept the "unwritten rule" of the agents not to return lottery tickets that are not sold out during the day, or face the risk of having their commissions cut by the agents... as Lao Dong once reported.

No matter how much profit they bring, street lottery ticket sellers are still the weakest and most vulnerable group in society. That is a very bitter reality! And now they are even weaker and more vulnerable with the regulation that they are not allowed to sell lottery tickets online.

In the current context, the need to buy lottery tickets online is real and that need is increasing in direct proportion to the development of technology. There is no other way, lottery businesses are forced to adapt, reform, innovate, and update technology to be able to sell online even with printed tickets that are being sold as before.

This way of selling is nothing new because many years ago, businesses selling train tickets, plane tickets, concert tickets... also implemented it, bringing many conveniences to buyers.

Lottery ticket businesses, please propose to adjust regulations, circulars... to suit the movement of reality and for the practical benefit of those who bring lottery tickets to the market on your behalf, instead of finding it difficult to manage, issue a ban for safety as is being done!

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