Premium Bond Winner ?

polymaff

lr1277 said:

I have just had a weird and unexpected bonus. At the beginning of the month, using an app I saw that I had won £50. Fine.

Yesterday the £50 was put into my account. Great, as expected.

Today a deposit into my account of £25, with a reference indicating it was a PB win.

Checked the app and no indication of the further £25.

Loggined into NS&I and looking at my win history, no indication of the further £25 win.

So an unexpected bonus.

Updating my win for May 2024, it should now read

£75 on a £32k holding.

I believe that there is often a secondary distribution each month - as a result of bonds picked for prizes being - on checking by NS&I - invalid.  I believe that they're bonds that were encashed just before the first of the month.

I had such a £25 bonus - about 25 years ago.

I'm not holding my breath 

kipsterno1

If I was this winner from Nottingham I might be tempted to cash in and walk away now   

Martico

Or the person in Yorkshire with a holding of £700 (£500 bought in Nov 2023) who just won £100,000

polymaff

NS&I likes to look competent, and then they post this - and the bubble bursts.  Was this hand-typed/edited by someone who didn't then proof-read it?

kipsterno1

polymaff said:

NS&I likes to look competent, and then they post this - and the bubble bursts.  Was this hand-typed/edited by someone who didn't then proof-read it?

You will have to help me with this one, what is it that I can't see on here?

booneruk

kipsterno1 said:

polymaff said:

NS&I likes to look competent, and then they post this - and the bubble bursts.  Was this hand-typed/edited by someone who didn't then proof-read it?

You will have to help me with this one, what is it that I can't see on here?

I had to squint, but perhaps...

InvesterJones

kipsterno1 said:

polymaff said:

NS&I likes to look competent, and then they post this - and the bubble bursts.  Was this hand-typed/edited by someone who didn't then proof-read it?

You will have to help me with this one, what is it that I can't see on here?

Small typo of a missing digit in the Total prizes row for May 2024 - should be 5,88[0-9],574, rather than 5,88,574

BooJewels

There's also a missing £ before the 500 prize.

polymaff

booneruk said:

kipsterno1 said:

polymaff said:

NS&I likes to look competent, and then they post this - and the bubble bursts.  Was this hand-typed/edited by someone who didn't then proof-read it?

You will have to help me with this one, what is it that I can't see on here?

I had to squint, but perhaps...

You got it - and [I guess that] it is probably a six between the two eights that was never typed - or spotted as a typo - despite the glaringly obvious misformatting of the commas.

It is the implications, though.  The table looks very convincing- but it is wrong.

Classic NS&I lack of care, though.  A few years ago I used NS&I's boss, HM Treasury, to force NS&I to provide correct Certificates of Interest Paid during a particular tax year.  NS&I sent me set after set of Certificates.  They never got them right - and their final excuse was that the Certificates had had to be calculated by staff members, so were more subject to human error.

It doesn't look like things have improved since - and they're still getting the Certificates of Interest Paid wrong.

polymaff

AND the columns of numbers are, against all common practice, left-justified.