My Profile

  • NAME: Scott Wegener

  • BORN: Melbourne, Victoria Australia 1977

  • NUMBER OF ATLANTIC CROSSINGS: 0

  • NUMBER OF PACIFIC CROSSING: 3 (to go to Disneyland)

  • EDUCATION: High School + Advanced Certificate in Interactive Multimedia and Motion Graphics

  • WHAT I DO FOR A LIVING: Own my own business creating Web sites and Multimedia (CD-ROMS)

  • COLLECTED SINCE: Some time between 1985 and 1988 can’t pin a date on it yet, I was only about 10 years old!!

  • OTHER COLLECTIONS: Lot’s of stuff! Promotional scratch cards, Transportation tickets, competition ice cream sticks, bullet cartridges, BMW models and books, Disneyland maps and aerial photos, all other theme park maps and aerial photography. I Used to collect Stamps, Tazos, how and why books, Mr. men books. see here

  • CURRENT LOCATION: Lived in Melbourne Australia all my life. I've been to USA 3 times and I’m NOT considering moving!!   :P 

  • PERSONAL: Married - to my high-school sweetheart.

  • LOTOLOGY PRIORITIES: To promote Aussie tickets and lotology in general.

  • TICKET INTERESTS: All of Australia’s tickets, especially Victorian tickets

  • COLLECT: Scratched only.

  • SPECIAL THANK YOU: My wife and father for their support. See here for all other contributors

  • NORMAL DAY IS: 30 minutes e-mail answering, web site creation and usually end up playing computer games. Working for yourself is great!

  • NUMBER OF TICKETS: 10,000+ click here

  • MOST ENJOYABLE PART OF LOTOLOGY: Finding winners or unscratched tickets in the rubbish bins.

  • MOST ANNOYING PART OF LOTOLOGY: Mostly not having the time or money to trade worldwide anymore!! I wish I was retired and could devote all my time to this, I guess because I am so young I will be able to see the prices go up over the next 50 years!!!

  • MOST SURPRISING PART OF LOTOLOGY:  That there was actually someone besides myself out there collecting this stuff! before this web site I knew of no one in the world who collected them.

  • LOTOLOGY PET PEEVE: No dates on tickets and that they are not yet a recognized collectable to everyone on the street!

  • GREATEST HOBBY FEAR: That I’ll loose all my tickets in a house fire and have to decide whether to start collecting again or not.

  • FAVORITE STATE: Victoria, Australia

  • SCRATCHED LOTOLOGY STATES COMPLETED: not even close yet

  • FAVORITE TICKET: no specific ticket, innovative extended play tickets, photo tickets and ones with confusing games or layouts that cause people to miss prizes!

  • FAVORITE MINT TICKET: Any cause I’ll scratch it (sorry mint collectors)

  • PERSONAL BEST LOTTO PLAY: Never played, waste of money IMO

  • PERSONAL BEST INSTANT PLAY: never bought one but have found over $150 so far. $25 best so far on 1 ticket but will improve on that. For a found prize list click here

  • BIGGEST LOTTERY-RELATED MOMENT: I have two:

  1. How I started collecting.

  2. Jeff Hungerford (Illinois) contacting me about my web site on scratch tickets. 

Click here to read about them.

  • CHANGE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE LOTTERY BUSINESS: More help from the Australian Lotteries 

  • RECOMMENDATION FOR A NEW LOTOLOGIST: Heaps better than stamps and other collectables. You can collect as wide or narrowly a subject as you want. Always a chance of finding a winner too!! see here also

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