Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
I looked into the guy that Oskar was talking about, and he had an army of people working for him. He's a Romanian mathematician, and raised the money by bringing in investors. Every time he won in Australia, they changed the rules to stop him from doing it again, so he changed his methods to ensure it was legal.

You've got to take your hat off to the guy.
When the ROI does turn positive, you actually could get surprising margins that allow you to run a large operation because the jackpot isn't a linear growth. By the time it hits + ROI, the pot can more than double if there are a few roll overs. Sorting the tickets really isn't that big of a deal, as you'd have buyers assigned sequential numbers and process them as such. Also, you don't actually need to buy all the numbers for it to be profitable. Once it's +ROI, just buying one ticket is profitable. Of course, with one ticket at a time, you can't expect to realize your profit in your lifetime, since your opportunities are so limited. But you certainly don't need to purchase all available numbers to expect to realize your profit in a reasonable amount of time. Doing so would be ideal, but it's not an all or bust proposition.