Premium Bond Winner ?

Catw63

mebu60 said:

WH_Saint said:

4th straight blank on a full holding. Statistically that's quite some run of bad luck ! First £20K withdrawn this morning to fund an ISA.

Congrats to those doing better than me !

Thank you. I've been doing ok so far this year on a max holding.

But today yielded a £5k! Plus a £50. Happy days.

It's a fab feeling when you realise a win is something out of the ordinary :-) 
I won £10k on the max holding Nov 23...like you say happy days!!
And THEN hubby lucked out 3 months later with a £25K win on around 38K holding I think it was at the time...we couldn't believe our luck :-)
This month not so good, £0 for him and £125 for me, but we're definitely not complaining!!

Slinky

I've just checked my spreadsheet as it's 5 years that both OH and I have both had a full holding. In that time, I've averaged £90 a month, and he has £103. Which seems quite a difference over 60 draws. We all know that every bond has an equal chance of winning (or not), but I'm beginning to wonder if his small number of big blocks, as opposed to my fairly significant number of small blocks and just a few big blocks has any bearing on our differing success rates. Probably not, but it does make me wonder.

I think we may both have had one £500 prize, but nothing larger than that for either of us.

GlasgowExpat2

£100 on holding of £7k, same in May 

Eirambler

Hi - looking for some advice regarding Premium Bonds. 

I had a decent win this month - 6 prizes for a total of £275. Just one slight problem, I have set my account to reinvest winnings but was only £225 under the max of £50k at the time of the draw.

So £225 has been reinvested to take the total up to £50k, but there's no information on the account about what happened to the other £50 (2 x £25 wins).

I have since withdrawn £2k into a 5.06% savings account I have to avoid this happening again. That has come through, but still no sign of the £50 I won. I assumed it would just appear in my current account by now but starting to worry that it won't at this stage! Anyone been in this position before that can advise how to sort it? Thanks.

poppystar

Eirambler said:

Hi - looking for some advice regarding Premium Bonds. 

I had a decent win this month - 6 prizes for a total of £275. Just one slight problem, I have set my account to reinvest winnings but was only £225 under the max of £50k at the time of the draw.

So £225 has been reinvested to take the total up to £50k, but there's no information on the account about what happened to the other £50 (2 x £25 wins).

I have since withdrawn £2k into a 5.06% savings account I have to avoid this happening again. That has come through, but still no sign of the £50 I won. I assumed it would just appear in my current account by now but starting to worry that it won't at this stage! Anyone been in this position before that can advise how to sort it? Thanks.

It’s still only the 7th of the month, payment into current accounts usually happens around 8th to 10th in my experience so maybe wait a few days more before contacting them. 

mr_sharma

£550 this month on 37.5k holding. 

Eirambler

poppystar said:

Eirambler said:

Hi - looking for some advice regarding Premium Bonds. 

I had a decent win this month - 6 prizes for a total of £275. Just one slight problem, I have set my account to reinvest winnings but was only £225 under the max of £50k at the time of the draw.

So £225 has been reinvested to take the total up to £50k, but there's no information on the account about what happened to the other £50 (2 x £25 wins).

I have since withdrawn £2k into a 5.06% savings account I have to avoid this happening again. That has come through, but still no sign of the £50 I won. I assumed it would just appear in my current account by now but starting to worry that it won't at this stage! Anyone been in this position before that can advise how to sort it? Thanks.

It’s still only the 7th of the month, payment into current accounts usually happens around 8th to 10th in my experience so maybe wait a few days more before contacting them. 

Thanks for this, it was indeed just me being impatient, they've shown up this morning!

HotDog2020

I am slowly building up my premium bonds pot, I have £1000 Although I think the first draw for this will be July, I did have £100 before and won zilch - but I wouldn't expect to win a huge amount with only £100/ Next month £1000. But I want to join in. I am impressed with some of the wins on here. Since I had £25 - £50- £100 - £1000 I have won nothing. I have had more in holding in the past and won very little but I am keen to build up and try again. 

mebu60

HotDog2020 said:

I am slowly building up my premium bonds pot, I have £1000 Although I think the first draw for this will be July, I did have £100 before and won zilch - but I wouldn't expect to win a huge amount with only £100/ Next month £1000. But I want to join in. I am impressed with some of the wins on here. Since I had £25 - £50- £100 - £1000 I have won nothing. I have had more in holding in the past and won very little but I am keen to build up and try again. 

With the 'average' return around 4%, on £1000 you could statistically expect one or at a push two £25 wins a year. 

Keep on building up your stake. Each individual bond has a 1:21000 chance of winning a prize.

There's always hope. A £100k winner this month only had a £300 holding. 

HotDog2020

mebu60 said:

HotDog2020 said:

I am slowly building up my premium bonds pot, I have £1000 Although I think the first draw for this will be July, I did have £100 before and won zilch - but I wouldn't expect to win a huge amount with only £100/ Next month £1000. But I want to join in. I am impressed with some of the wins on here. Since I had £25 - £50- £100 - £1000 I have won nothing. I have had more in holding in the past and won very little but I am keen to build up and try again. 

With the 'average' return around 4%, on £1000 you could statistically expect one or at a push two £25 wins a year. 

Keep on building up your stake. Each individual bond has a 1:21000 chance of winning a prize.

There's always hope. A £100k winner this month only had a £300 holding. 

Thank you mebu60.