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I'm lucky and my missus is even luckier, and not all because she's married to me...............
both £20000, 1st draw. I win £25, she wins £225 [2 x £100 + 1 x £25]. :j:beer:0 -
Make £2026 in 2026
Prolific £231.51, Octopoints £4.60, Tesco Clubcard challenges £38.80, Airtime £10 TCB £225.19, Everup £77.04, Roadkill £1.77, Zopa CB £30, Misc £10.11,
Total £629.02 31%Make £2025 in 2025 Total £2241.23/£2025 110.7%
Prolific £1062.50, Octopoints £6.64, TCB £492.05, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £70, Shopmium £53.06, Everup £106.08, Zopa CB £30, Misc survey £10
Make £2024 in 2024 Total £1410 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33 128.8%0 -
Would rather they scrapped the second million.
Sigh, only put more in at the end of January.0 -
Prize fund reduced from 1.25 to 1.15%. Reduction in higher value prizes. Chances of winning remain at 1 in 30,000 each month.0
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For the same reason that the national lottery is skewed to pay out large prices as many people are attracted by the large prize prize they never get rather than the chance of winning small prices.
It at the end it is a lottery - just one you get your stake back.0 -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38893452
NS&I announced that the interest rate for the Direct Isa and for Income Bonds will fall from the current rate of 1% to 0.75% in May.
In November, Chancellor Philip Hammond said that a new savings bond offering a "market-leading" rate of about 2.2% would go on sale through NS&I in the spring.
Anyone over 16 will be able to invest up to £3,000 in the three-year bond. The precise interest rate will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
So, that's alright then.
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Except that your stake isn't the £1 you paid per bond, which you do get back - it's the interest on that £1, which goes into to prize pool (and the further interest you could have got elsewhere, which HM Treasury keeps for itself).greenglide wrote: »It at the end it is a lottery - just one you get your stake back.Eco Miser
Saving money for well over half a century0 -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/savings/premium-bond-prize-cuts-may-2017-odds-winning/
Wow, if no prizes in 6 years wasn't enough to make me whip out my cash, this article is.
What an enormous rip off.0 -
100k total joint holding,
1300 won in year to date,
= 1.3% return
Not great but better than paltry 0.50% offered by most banks0
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