Premium Bond Winner ?

WindfallWendy

What?!? So I have been logging in all day today just to realise my winnings are less than £1000 and they won't add this news to my account until tomorrow?!?

Gosh, I really am pinning a lot of hope on winning big one day 😄

IanManc

Someone has won £10000 on a £4 bond bought in July 1961, with a total holding of £19. I love to see wins like that. I just hope they're still around to enjoy it. 

And there's another with a £5000 win on a £25 bond bought in June 1958.

Primrose

Someone has won £10000 on a £4 bond bought in July 1961, with a total holding of £19. I love to see wins like that. I just hope they're still around to enjoy it.  

Well I hope so.and that it makes up for losing their winter fuel allowance!

njkmr

When cashing in bonds you can request them before the next draw and it asks you if you want the bonds left in to take part in the next draw before they withdraw them for you after the draw has taken place.

pbcpdeveloper

ChewyyBacca said:

I have to withdraw all of my premium bonds. Should I withdraw them on 3rd Feb or 4th Feb?
What day is draws?

Actually the rules are, any bonds sold in January won't be eligible for the February draw, so selling anytime after midnight Feb 1st is ok.  The 'draw' will actually have taken place in the last week of January sometime, the results don't become available until February.

Newbie_John

IanManc said:

Someone has won £10000 on a £4 bond bought in July 1961, with a total holding of £19. I love to see wins like that. I just hope they're still around to enjoy it. 

And there's another with a £5000 win on a £25 bond bought in June 1958.

Not really, these people are likely not longer around - more or less they were 30 years old in 1960, so probably would be around 90 now - and these bonds have high chances of being abandoned/forgotten. 
So sadly they just take prizes away from us 😅

silvercar

Newbie_John said:

IanManc said:

Someone has won £10000 on a £4 bond bought in July 1961, with a total holding of £19. I love to see wins like that. I just hope they're still around to enjoy it. 

And there's another with a £5000 win on a £25 bond bought in June 1958.

Not really, these people are likely not longer around - more or less they were 30 years old in 1960, so probably would be around 90 now - and these bonds have high chances of being abandoned/forgotten. 
So sadly they just take prizes away from us 😅

I was born in the early 60s and have the odd premium bond dating back to relatives and parents friends buying one or two when I was born, so don’t dismiss the possibility that they could be owned by people still working!

pbcpdeveloper

There is over £88 million in unclaimed prizes.

Section62

Newbie_John said:

IanManc said:

Someone has won £10000 on a £4 bond bought in July 1961, with a total holding of £19. I love to see wins like that. I just hope they're still around to enjoy it. 

And there's another with a £5000 win on a £25 bond bought in June 1958.

Not really, these people are likely not longer around - more or less they were 30 years old in 1960, so probably would be around 90 now - and these bonds have high chances of being abandoned/forgotten. 
So sadly they just take prizes away from us 😅

Not sure who you mean by 'us', but that would only be the case for the bondholder whose bond was found to be ineligible.

If a prize is awarded to a bond which turns out not to be eligible then there is a redistribution process in which the first winning bond in the next lower prize band is 'upgraded' to the higher amount... all the way down to someone who just missed out becoming a £25 winner.

So the prizes are only 'taken away' from bondholders who weren't eligible to start with - and the gain would be to another bondholder, not to NS&I.

SandyN21

silvercar said:

Newbie_John said:

IanManc said:

Someone has won £10000 on a £4 bond bought in July 1961, with a total holding of £19. I love to see wins like that. I just hope they're still around to enjoy it. 

And there's another with a £5000 win on a £25 bond bought in June 1958.

Not really, these people are likely not longer around - more or less they were 30 years old in 1960, so probably would be around 90 now - and these bonds have high chances of being abandoned/forgotten. 
So sadly they just take prizes away from us 😅

I was born in the early 60s and have the odd premium bond dating back to relatives and parents friends buying one or two when I was born, so don’t dismiss the possibility that they could be owned by people still working!

I was born late 50s and have two £1 bonds given to me by my late godparents which are included in my £50K holding