Premium Bond Winner ?

agent69

DoctorStrange said:

Thank you,

So how does one end up with a holding of £1001 if the min prize is £25 and £1000 was bought in a block?

Prize value	Winning Bond	Holding	Area	Bond Value	Purchased
£1,000,000	404KX510146	£1,001	Devon	£1,000	Jul-20

I live in Devon and have bonds purchased last year starting 404. Got quite excited until I saw the bond holding of £1,001

Thrugelmir

DoctorStrange said:

Thank you,

So how does one end up with a holding of £1001 if the min prize is £25 and £1000 was bought in a block?

Prize value	Winning Bond	Holding	Area	Bond Value	Purchased
£1,000,000	404KX510146	£1,001	Devon	£1,000	Jul-20

A relative bought me £2 of premium bonds when I was born many years ago. 

becky_rtw

I feel really happy that someone with such a small holding has won the £1m. Hopefully it will really change their life for the better. 

ranciduk

I wonder if they even know they’ve won yet....!

eskbanker

ranciduk said:

I wonder if they even know they’ve won yet....!

They should do - NS&I are proud of their Agent Million(s), visiting winners in person to tell them the good news, which presumably has to be ahead of the numbers being published....

https://nsandi-corporate.com/news-research/news/april-2019-premium-bonds-results

pbcpdeveloper

They should have been personally notified by 'Agent Million' last week (most likely over the weekend).

ChilliBob

That's a cool business card eh? 'Agent Million' lol. 

metrobus

£50k for me and £50k the OH, nothing for 6 months,also talked to two seperate people last weekend with maximum holdings and both of them have had nothing for many months.

So taking our holding alone thats £100,000 for 6 draws so 600000 entries and not a single £25 win.

If working on 1% £500 would be the average over 6 months or 20 x £25 wins since 99% of prizes are £25.

No way in the world is this random,large holdings recently  get massively lower proportinate wins.

I expect with them knowing they  far exceeded their sales target they are trying to get £50k holders to cash in .

I know after tomorrows smaller wins are made public we will be cashing in.

ranciduk

So.... they are deliberately cheating £50k holders out of winning anything... so they’ll get annoyed and pull their money out..?

ummm....

eskbanker

metrobus said:

£50k for me and £50k the OH, nothing for 6 months,also talked to two seperate people last weekend with maximum holdings and both of them have had nothing for many months.

Last time you were sounding off about this was two draws ago, when it was nothing in three months?

metrobus said:

No way in the world is this random,large holdings recently  get massively lower proportinate wins.

I expect with them knowing they  far exceeded their sales target they are trying to get £50k holders to cash in .

A novel theory but unsupported by the evidence of others beyond your circle, as shown by all the regular posts from maximum holders about their winnings on previous pages.  No denying that you've been unlucky though, but extrapolating that to accusations of the whole thing being bent is going too far....