Premium Bond Winner ?

unkle

Frogletina said:

Nothing for two months in a row on full allocation!

Me too, nothing on £50k, again, wife £50 on £50k, one daughter £25 on £20k, the other nothing on £30k.

onthebench

gary83 said:

ranciduk said:

Sadly I don’t think you will win much with £1000

theres people on here with £50k that quite often win £0

Whilst the chances are they won’t win big with £1000 you only have to look through the high value prizes to see that not everyone that wins has 50k invested.  looking at this months the best example that jumped out at me was the lucky !!!!!! in Wiltshire who invested £300 in February 2010, still only holds a total of £300 but this month won £25 grand 

Yes people with small amounts do win but it is very unlikely for any given person with a small amount. 

With £1,000 invested, with average luck you would win £25 once every three years or so. But it wouldn’t be especially unlucky to go much longer than that without a win. 

josh33

1x £25 on max holding. 

strawb_shortcake

1 x £25 on max holding, my luck was definitely better in the first 12 months of holding but currently running at .7% for my second year so not too bad really 

greent

£25 on 48.5k for me and £25 on 2.5k for middle son. I've averaged £25 per month since Sept last year with a holding ranging from 20k to its present value. Happy enough with that

[Deleted User]

2 x £25 on 15k

becky_rtw

Nothing for me again on £22.5k
Nothing for OH on £7.5 (and he is yet to win anything at all since opening about 7 months ago)

Not very lucky in this house it seems. 

cattie

Just 1x £25 for me again this month on a £42,100 holding. I'm sure I'd get dreadfully over excited to win a prize above £25.  

bjohnson

I retired twenty years ago and put the maximum in premium bonds. A couple of months later I won £7,000. Not been as lucky since but I live in hope

pbcpdeveloper

onthebench said:

High value winners are out now. Unsurprisingly I’m not on the list but I hope someone can explain an oddity. 

If you sort the list by date purchased, from earliest to latest, surely you would expect the bond numbers to ascend too (with minor fluctuations within the range issued in any given month).

Yet that doesn’t seem to be the case:

95ST583745 was purchased in Oct 98. So you’d think the “two-digit at the front” bond numbers were soon to run out. 

But then there was one starting 83 sold in Dec 98 and then a 63 in Mar 99. And then in Oct 99 there was a single-digit bond starting with just 9!

Subsequent bonds over the next six years or so were also all over the place, with two-digit numbers seemingly ordered randomly and even the occasional single-digit one being sold. 

Some time between Sep 05 and Feb 06 the current three-digit numbering system started and since then the numbers seem to behave as you would expect, increasing over time from 100XXNNNNNN to the current numbers in the mid 400s. 

Were there different bond ranges being sold through different methods before the current number range was introduced?

I emailed NS&I about this and have already got a reply, which is quite impressive.  The last sentence interesting:

"There are a plethora of reasons that the numerical or alphabetical order of Bond numbers may not sequentially with purchase dates in some instances.

The primary reason is backdated purchases - if there is an issue with a sale that prevents a customer from investing in their chosen month and the fault lies with us, we take into consideration the option to backdate the purchase to retroactively include the Bonds in the prize draw that would have otherwise been missed. This would mean that newer Bond numbers that are purchased ‘in sequence’ can be forced out of sequence with the purchase date.

Another reason, while uncommon, is the re-assignment of Bond numbers - once a particular Bond has been cashed in, it has the potential to be regenerated for a new purchaser."