Premium Bond Winner ?

onthebench

eskbanker said:

lozzy1965 said:

This thread always makes me chuckle, as it pops up for the first week of every month.  Is the OP analysing all the results still?  If so, perhaps an update on findings would be nice.  TBH though I haven't trawled back through the pages and pages of £25 for me £50 for me etc etc to see if any analysis has been done

Since OP hasn't been on the forum since 2012, you'd have to go back a long way to find any analysis they did!  In any case, they were just looking for validation of the tired old trope that newer bonds win more - those who believe they have 'evidence' of this crop up fairly regularly (one as recently as the day before yesterday) but of course it's no more than confirmation bias.  In any case, very few posters actually highlight the purchase date of winning bonds when they trot out their results....

Well of course newer bonds win more. There are probably more bonds bought each month these days than there were in the first 20 years of Premium Bonds. (Complete guess, I haven't looked it up)

eskbanker

onthebench said:

eskbanker said:

lozzy1965 said:

This thread always makes me chuckle, as it pops up for the first week of every month.  Is the OP analysing all the results still?  If so, perhaps an update on findings would be nice.  TBH though I haven't trawled back through the pages and pages of £25 for me £50 for me etc etc to see if any analysis has been done

Since OP hasn't been on the forum since 2012, you'd have to go back a long way to find any analysis they did!  In any case, they were just looking for validation of the tired old trope that newer bonds win more - those who believe they have 'evidence' of this crop up fairly regularly (one as recently as the day before yesterday) but of course it's no more than confirmation bias.  In any case, very few posters actually highlight the purchase date of winning bonds when they trot out their results....

Well of course newer bonds win more. There are probably more bonds bought each month these days than there were in the first 20 years of Premium Bonds. (Complete guess, I haven't looked it up)

That's answering a different question!  I posted a link a few pages back to NS&I's statement that 95% of bonds have been bought since 2000, and the substantial increase in holdings since that stat was published probably means it's now 97/98%, so it's indisputable that the average age of winning bonds is relatively low.  However, the fact remains that an individual bond purchased in 1957 still has exactly the same chance of winning a prize in the next draw as one bought last month....

DPR87

£100 on max holding

Kendall80

£50 on 20k - first in a few months.

mummytummy

Nothing since May 2020 on a holding of £20k ☹️

gerdo

Has anyone received their winnings for May yet? It's now the 10th and I still haven't received mine. 

eskbanker

gerdo said:

Has anyone received their winnings for May yet? It's now the 10th and I still haven't received mine. 

They normally arrive on the sixth working day of the month, which will be tomorrow....

gerdo

Thanks Eskbanker

seansjt

gerdo said:

Has anyone received their winnings for May yet? It's now the 10th and I still haven't received mine. 

Yes - received around the 5th

MX5huggy

seansjt said:

gerdo said:

Has anyone received their winnings for May yet? It's now the 10th and I still haven't received mine. 

Yes - received around the 5th

 By warrant (cheque), deposit in to bank account, or reinvested as new bonds?