Premium Bond Winner ?

Cressida100

£125 on full holding. Running total for 2024 is £600.

ForumUser7

Someone from 'Inner London' won £100k on an investment of £100 purchased in March 2023! They hold total £100...

Sg28

ForumUser7 said:

Someone from 'Inner London' won £100k on an investment of £100 purchased in March 2023! They hold total £100...

I love seeing big wins like this. Thats going to be one hell of a shock when the email comes through!  🍾 

BooJewels

I wonder when I see decent wins on small holdings, if they're kids that have been bought some by Grandparents.

ETA:  If it's a small bond holding that has won, but the overall holding is larger, then chances are that it's a re-invested win.

RG2015

Some big surprises here as well.

poppystar

i do wonder with these very small bond holdings from decades ago, especially where it was the only holding,  whether they were simply not known about by anyone other than the holder who might have since died and the paper bond just got lost. I bought a bond for a boyfriend in the seventies which he obviously knew about as it was in his name, I just paid for it. I still have that paper bond somewhere and doubt he would remember it or any of his relatives would know so there could be a lost fortune there🙂!

Kim_13

My dad reckons he has £1 that was bought for him by a friend of his mother's when he was born. He says when he tried to merge it with his holding that NS&I said the name on the bond was wrong. I have never seen this £1 bond though I have seen his holder's number typed on a National Savings card that clearly pre-dated computers (he says another family friend bought those and that they were transferred to him without issue when he became of age.)

I do wonder whether the problem with the £1 is that said friend may have purchased it herself for him, in which case (assuming that the rules on who can buy premium bonds for children are the same now as they were then) she wouldn't have been entitled to do so. The friend who bought the others could have gone the correct way about it and given the money to one of my grandparents to then make the purchase. Surely the worst mistake that could have been made with the name of a friend's child would be to misspell it and not get it wrong to the extent that it is unrecognisable who the bond belongs to.

BooJewels

There definitely were £1 bonds in the early days - I added 2 x 1s and a fiver when I signed up for an online account two or three years ago.  Despite changing my name through marriage and moving house several times, they managed to verify them and add them to my account. I think, from memory the holder card was made out at the address we lived at when I was born.   But if the friend bought it from within her account using her holder number, it might never have been truly his.  I think mine were bought over the counter from the post office. 

poppystar

£100 again on FH 😐. Consistent if not glorious!

GalacticaActual

£225 this month on full 50K holding (4 prizes):

• £100 (from a batch of £275 in 2015, never won a prize before)
• £50 (from a batch of £4,000 in 2020, 8 prizes, £275 won in total)
• £50 (from a £10,500 batch in 2022, 17 prizes, £800 won in total including prize below)
• £25 (from the above batch of £10,500)