Premium Bond Winner ?

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....

onthebench

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.

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.

What would possibly be the benefit in going to all the trouble of fixing the draw? These lunatic conspiracy theories make no sense at all.

metrobus

The fact is £50k max holders are getting massively lower proportinate retuns compared to small holders,you only need to look at past posts on here,for whatever reason who knows.

On average we should have had 20 x £25 wins,but have actually got ZERO,if you think thats not suspicious then thats your look out.Makes no difference to us since its cash out time and its an extra £100k in to vanguard. I will post in the morning to let you know how much the £100k got us in this months draw when I check,but i already know it will be another ZERO.

grumiofoundation

onthebench said:

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.

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.

What would possibly be the benefit in going to all the trouble of fixing the draw? These lunatic conspiracy theories make no sense at all.

Clearly the lizard people control everything else by now and have too much time on their hands so they have moved onto fixing premium bond draws!  

eskbanker

metrobus said:

The fact is £50k max holders are getting massively lower proportinate retuns compared to small holders,you only need to look at past posts on here,for whatever reason who knows.

Do you know what facts are?  Exactly how many maximum holders have you asked?

Edit: here are some actual facts:

According to NS&I figures reported by Thisismoney a couple of months ago, 43% of PBs are held by maximum holders.

According to this month's breakdown of large (£5K+) prizes, 43% of them were won by maximum holders, i.e. exactly their fair share.

I don't think NS&I publish holding sizes for small prizes but your allegations are presumably backed up by something meaningfully scientific rather than anecdotal, right?

kuratowski

Cheer up, you're helping the government to finance itself without increasing our taxes.  In a way, everyone's a winner

AlwaysLearnin

Langtang said:

eskbanker said:

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

The £1 will be an old purchase from before the minimum block size was introduced, unrelated to prizes....

Where do you find all this info? I've just got an app on my phone that says "yes" or "no"

https://www.nsandi.com/prize-checker/winners

pbcpdeveloper

metrobus said:

The fact is £50k max holders are getting massively lower proportinate retuns compared to small holders,you only need to look at past posts on here,for whatever reason who knows.

Is this holders who have £50k in a single block or holders who have £50k made up of lots of small holdings?

My £50k holding is having one of its best years this year.

pbcpdeveloper

Which continues this month, 5 x £25, 1.72 % for this year.