Premium Bond Winner ?

billbumkins

Nowt on £50k. First month this year I haven't won!

Bravepants

andrewsummers said:

For all the people who won nothing you might want to check again, I checked it last night and it said I won nothing but I just it again and it said I won £50!

Yes, I checked first thing in the morning on last month's draw and I hadn't won anything, and then later on I got two £25. Might want to give it a day or so.

tunde10

Nothing on £11k, AVG holding last 12m of about £14k & returned only £100 this year. Terrible luck.
My fixed 1.8% Saver just matured so now have £41k in Premium bonds. Fingers crossed for better luck.

redpete

tunde10 said:

Nothing on £11k, AVG holding last 12m of about £14k & returned only £100 this year. Terrible luck.

MSE Premium Bond prize calculator says that with a holding of £14k the prizes over a year would come to £100 with average luck - so you've not had terrible luck.

eskbanker

redpete said:

tunde10 said:

Nothing on £11k, AVG holding last 12m of about £14k & returned only £100 this year. Terrible luck.

MSE Premium Bond prize calculator says that with a holding of £14k the prizes over a year would come to £100 with average luck - so you've not had terrible luck.

As usual the calculator doesn't tell the full story, and £125 would actually be a more realistic expectation for £14K (it's just that £100 is more likely than £150, without the middle option being presented), but in any case it's been reset to look forward with the new odds, so a 0.7% return over the past year (at better odds) is definitely below par....

csgohan4

After a bull run, no winnings this month on max

oli356

ColdIron said:

andrewsummers said:

For all the people who won nothing you might want to check again, I checked it last night and it said I won nothing but I just it again and it said I won £50!

They don't show this month's winnings on the first, chances are you were looking at last months winnings yesterday

Seems to usually happen very late in the evening. It was actually showing £0 won for me, but upon expanding "See your prize details and next steps" it showed 2x £25 and the bond number. Then shortly after midnight the £0 won changed to 50. And even earlier in the day it mentioned the month "November" next to £0. So it changed three times in the day  

cattie

Just £25 for me this month on £31k. I can't complain though as the only months I've had zilch this year have been the Feb, June & Oct draws. I'm seeing round about a 1.2% return which is around the projected gain.

concorde1966

Slinky said:

Woodies3 said:

I have several hundred old Premium Bonds (1980's), each value of £1, £10, should I cash them in and buy one block of £10000 new issue to increase my chance of winning

Doesn't work like that. Each and every bond has exactly the same chance. The only thing you'll achieve by cashing in is losing the chance of the value of those bonds winning anything for a month.

I won £25 x 3 this month. I had a similar mindset but two of my £25 wins were from blocks of £25 reinvested  from this year, one from Jan and one from Sept.

MrsPorridge

Nothing on £10k holding