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TESCOBABE56 wrote: »

The wife bought £1000 in 1989, so far £50, good luck !!!

Jeez, maybe I shouldn't have bothered :eek: I'll keep them for a year (or maybe two) and then reassess. I'm kind of looking forward to the fun element of checking each month if I've won anything

TESCOBABE56

Deleted_User wrote: »

Jeez, maybe I shouldn't have bothered :eek: I'll keep them for a year (or maybe two) and then reassess. I'm kind of looking forward to the fun element of checking each month if I've won anything

She has another £28500 from 2006, winnings so far £6600.

We might cash that £1000 in.

Money_Saver_Jen

2 x £25 for me on a holding of 22k for January.

Pincher

1 x £50
2 x £25

£50k

Very odd, getting far too much pay out.

This means I should be hitting a dry spell, or the computer is broken.

£50,000 x 1.25% = £625
£625 / 12 = £52.08 a month.

Just give me £1million, and I don't mind no prizes ever again.

cheesetoast

trademark wrote: »

mm ... didnt i make it clear that i didnt want to discuss my theory only test it ...

You can't test your theory in the way you are trying to anyway, as you don't know who ISN'T responding to you.

You might get 10 responses, 9 from "new" bond holders who have won £25 each, and 1 person with a 20-year-old bond that won £25. You would conclude that your hypothesis is correct.

However, you might just not be hearing from the other 90 people with 20-year-old bonds that also won £25.

That said, you may well fall foul of confirmation bias, and not care anyway.

LeafGreen

cheesetoast wrote: »

You can't test your theory in the way you are trying to anyway, as you don't know who ISN'T responding to you.

You might get 10 responses, 9 from "new" bond holders who have won £25 each, and 1 person with a 20-year-old bond that won £25. You would conclude that your hypothesis is correct.

However, you might just not be hearing from the other 90 people with 20-year-old bonds that also won £25.

That said, you may well fall foul of confirmation bias, and not care anyway.

The post you quoted was written in 2005 :-)

Just reviewed my stats for 2016 - max holding for the whole year... I got at least 1 prize every month and on 2 occasions I got 3 prizes. In total, 19 prizes all £25 = £475 so 0.95% overall, broadly in line with expectations so I'm reasonably happy. I won £1000 a few years back so still consider myself in credit from that!

Despite the reduced number of prizes I'm going to hold onto my bonds for now.

TadleyBaggie

February prize checker is now live, I won nothing...

SallySunshine

2 X £25 for me.
That's £455 since July:T
Probably nixed my luck now:(

Kim_13

Zilch.

Better luck next month I hope as I will have more bonds in the draw then.

ffacoffipawb

Nothing this month on £25k, oh well, perhaps next month ....