Premium Bond Winner ?

1882

No doubt it is a random thing but I won 2 x £25 in draw 1 and 1 x £25 in draw 2 but nothing in draws 3 & 4. 15k plus the winnings being used for more bonds.

Notsop

Thought I'd register and post my luck - or lack of - with premium bonds.
Full 50k holding purchased, first draw in September:

Sept 2x£25
Oct 0
Nov 0
Dec 0
Jan 0

Pretty dire!

Apricota

Well £50 this month. Last year managed 12.5% return. 2017 managed 12% return and 2016 11% return. So all is good but would love to win more!

inflationbuster

Nothing on £50K i'm shocked

qwert_yuiop

1882 wrote: »

No doubt it is a random thing but I won 2 x £25 in draw 1 and 1 x £25 in draw 2 but nothing in draws 3 & 4. 15k plus the winnings being used for more bonds.

If it’s not a random thing, it’s all one enormous swindle perpetrated against the public for the last 60 years.
Amazing to see the number of people on here who are happy to believe it’s not random, and don’t seem to object to the apparently deceptive advertising.

qwert_yuiop

redpete wrote: »

It proves that humans instinctively see non-existent patterns in random events. (See also 'confirmation bias'.)

Indeed. One time I watched a bloke playing roulette ( well, all right, me) - started with $100, was up at $1200 in no time flat. Got this strange irrational idea this should continue. Walked out in disgust with $200 about 2 minutes later, more upset at losing $1000 than gaining $100.

Wheres_My_Cashback

2017 £975 on 50K so 1.95%
2018 £750 on 50K so 1.5%

5 x £25 to start 2019

concorde1966

Here’s my winnings from beginning of 2018 till now

Jan 18 - zero
Feb - £25
Mar - £25
Apr - zero
May - zero
June - zero
July - zero
Aug - £75 (3x£25)
Sep - £25
Oct - £25
Nov - zero
Dec - zero
Jan 2019 - zero

I now have £12,025 invested - one block of £11,000 and the rest are bits and pieces. All my winnings have been from the £11,000 block apart from one £25 which was from a £100 bond I put in five months earlier.
Hope everyone is lucky this year 🤞

concorde1966

Oh - I won £25 in Jan 2019 ...whoops!

eskbanker

Apricota wrote: »

Well £50 this month. Last year managed 12.5% return. 2017 managed 12% return and 2016 11% return. So all is good but would love to win more!

If those decimal points are in the right place then you've done extraordinarily well over the past three years, winning about ten times the average, so wanting even more is just plain greedy!