Premium Bond Winner ?

deejaybee

Is there a "best" time of the month to invest in PBs ?  I dont have any currently, thanks.

molerat

deejaybee said:

Is there a "best" time of the month to invest in PBs ?  I dont have any currently, thanks.

The last day as that is the shortest time your money will be sitting doing nothing.  Not sure if you could manage to set up an account by the end of today though.

deejaybee

Thank you, will leave it to end of Feb if i decide to go for it, i do already have a NS&I "customer" no as i have held some of their products in the past, but not PBs for a long long time.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

if you buy in Feb you will be in April draw, you miss a month.

ljayljay

Although the majority of wins are announced tomorrow I see that all the bigger wins are showing today i.e. £5K plus.

I can now see by deduction that I am not one of those people. Conversely if any of the winners matched my holding & geographic location it would suggest that I may well have won a bigger prize.

So am curious to know, along with the lucky millionaires, are all the £5K winners also contacted in advance?

strawb_shortcake

ljayljay said:

Although the majority of wins are announced tomorrow I see that all the bigger wins are showing today i.e. £5K plus.

I can now see by deduction that I am not one of those people. Conversely if any of the winners matched my holding & geographic location it would suggest that I may well have won a bigger prize.

So am curious to know, along with the lucky millionaires, are all the £5K winners also contacted in advance?

I would assume that you would be informed prior to the bigger prizes being announced, I'm not sure if they announce when the actual draw is done but it could have been done in the last week rather than last 24 hours.
I also believe that there is a slightly different process for the larger prizes and there is more due diligence done to ensure the prize is paid to the correct account.

Sadly appears that I also wasn't one of the big winners this month

FirstTimeSolo

ljayljay said:

Although the majority of wins are announced tomorrow I see that all the bigger wins are showing today i.e. £5K plus.

I can now see by deduction that I am not one of those people. Conversely if any of the winners matched my holding & geographic location it would suggest that I may well have won a bigger prize.

So am curious to know, along with the lucky millionaires, are all the £5K winners also contacted in advance?

Thanks for that tip. I am not one of the winners either in the list based on my bond nos. 

gt94sss2

ljayljay said:

So am curious to know, along with the lucky millionaires, are all the £5K winners also contacted in advance?

No - I know someone who won 5K once and they only found out when they received the warrant/prize notification in the post

ljayljay

Also notice that the winning bond numbers are also published.

My wife thinks I'm a spoil sport & should wait until all the results are available & to stop peeking in advance.

PS she hasn't won big either, but I'm keeping stumm....don't think she looks at this site....fingers crossed.

Lornrussell

£25 on 32k holding - £125 running total this year 😊