Premium Bond Winner ?

david29dpo

My first full year £50000 Jan to Jan 5.78%.  Feb 2024. £400!!!

Nebulous2

katerobbins2 said:

eskbanker said:

katerobbins2 said:

Should three months of £0 on a full holding be suspicious? I'm not sure what to do... 

The chances of a blank month from a full holding are roughly one in ten, so three in a row is about one in a thousand - unlucky certainly but not suspiciously so IMHO, and an experience that'll be shared by hundreds if not thousands of others, if that's any consolation....

SO I called the helpline, and it turns out I actually did win £350 this month on my full holding, even though the website doesn't show it!

The NS&I call centre system shows the March prizes on my account, but the website & app doesn't yet... I was told it can sometimes take a while to update. Who knew. 

I definitely got 0 in Jan & Feb though, but £150 in November (when I started) and £225 in December.

My partner started a FH account in Dec and has won between £100-350 each month, so I guess it does all average out... 

I'm abroad on holiday at the moment and was a day late in getting the results on the prize checker. I assumed that was because I was out of the country. 

£300 between two of us on a total of £60k this month. 

Dizzycap

WOW! It's great to see some winners!

I've held 2000 PB since the age of 21, so been holding for 34 years, and won absolutely nothing!

I've also purchased £50 of PB's a month for the past 4 years and again, won absolutely nothing!

I hopefully check the NSI&I PB app every month in great anticipation of maybe a £25 win, only to be told, yet again,  'No Luck This Time'

It seems that the PB machine has no problem with finding PB holders in Essex, Norwich, or anywhere south of where I live. For me, and like so many others who have seen the above winner pattern over and over again which questions the 'randomness' of the draw, I decided to dump the whole lot and get some interest on the money, which now means I'm a winner every month!

Wishing you all good luck with future draws!

bobby111111111

£25 on FH following on from last months £50, pathetic.

newatc

I was beginning to get disillusioned but £325 last month and £450 this month (on full holding) postpones any thought of cashing in.

Preacher64

£25 on 10K in my first draw.
Additional 5K will be included in the April draw.

Time2Go_25

Jan - £0
Feb - £0 
March - £50
Apr - £0
May - £0
June - £100

20k holding

RedImp_2

Zilch on full

eskbanker

Dizzycap said:

It seems that the PB machine has no problem with finding PB holders in Essex, Norwich, or anywhere south of where I live. For me, and like so many others who have seen the above winner pattern over and over again which questions the 'randomness' of the draw

It really doesn't - there's no reason to expect that randomness equates to even distribution, except over the very long term, so, even though you're far from the first unlucky holder to conclude that the draw isn't random, that just comes down to not really understanding what randomness means, or how the process of drawing winning bond numbers has nothing to do with geography....

Having said that, nothing from a £2K holding over 34 years is pretty unlucky!

Hoenir

Jan - £250
Feb - £200
March - £550

YTD - £1,000

50k holding