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Premium Bonds

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Re: Premium Bonds

#315529

Postby BrummieDave » June 5th, 2020, 12:54 pm

Then yours was even weaker than mine...! :lol:

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby XFool » June 7th, 2020, 6:58 pm

swill453 wrote:
XFool wrote:Meanwhile...

Stoke-on-Trent man becomes overnight millionaire - thanks to £1 Premium Bond he only bought this year

Stoke-on-Trent News

:lol:

Bizarre headline. All Premium Bonds are worth £1. He bought £27,500 of them at the same time.

Scott.

Yeah. But surely only one of his bonds - worth £1 - won?

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby monabri » June 7th, 2020, 7:13 pm

Yeah, annoying innit!

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby TopStar74 » June 20th, 2020, 9:35 am

It's amusing how easily people defend the secrecy of the winners in a lottery system when someone expresses doubts about weekly jackpot wins which are never announced. This in a country where people otherwise are very reluctant to engage in or are well informed on being extremely careful over any financial schemes or games, boiler room scams, pyramid schemes, here today gone tomorrow companies etc. Anyway, I still have my doubts about dozens of mysterious millionaire jackpot winners happening every week all over the country from so many different lotteries, the winners of which are never actually announced, but once in a while a random marketing article disguised as news gets out about how lucky someone got.

I recently bought some tickets in Omaze and I have more belief in it, because they print the names, photos and a comment of every winner so far, and I think that is the only way it should be.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby swill453 » June 20th, 2020, 9:50 am

TopStar74 wrote:It's amusing how easily people defend the secrecy of the winners in a lottery system when someone expresses doubts about weekly jackpot wins which are never announced. This in a country where people otherwise are very reluctant to engage in or are well informed on being extremely careful over any financial schemes or games, boiler room scams, pyramid schemes, here today gone tomorrow companies etc. Anyway, I still have my doubts about dozens of mysterious millionaire jackpot winners happening every week all over the country from so many different lotteries, the winners of which are never actually announced, but once in a while a random marketing article disguised as news gets out about how lucky someone got.

Nobody here has defended anything other than Premium Bonds. Dodgy lotteries might exist somewhere, in fact I'd be surprised if they don't.

Scott.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby Bouleversee » July 2nd, 2020, 2:31 pm

Prize results are out.

I got 2 x £25. Not much compensation for huge loss of dividends.

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Re: Premium Bonds

#323274

Postby PinkDalek » July 2nd, 2020, 2:38 pm

Bouleversee wrote:[I got 2 x £25. ...


Zero, zilch, nuda, asgjë, ei mitään, ничего, არაფერი etc.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby Bouleversee » July 2nd, 2020, 2:49 pm

Bad luck, PD. I didn't know you were such a linguist. I hope other investments are doing better.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby Laughton » July 2nd, 2020, 2:51 pm

Boo Hoo - nothing here either (from 2 x maximum holdings) :(

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby Bouleversee » July 2nd, 2020, 3:06 pm

Mmm. It's beginning to look as though the govt. has had a dip in the prize fund kitty.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby MaraMan » July 2nd, 2020, 3:58 pm

Like Bouleversee I got 2 x £25 this month, with similar feelings about missing dividends.

MM

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby PinkDalek » July 2nd, 2020, 4:08 pm

Bouleversee wrote:Bad luck, PD. I didn't know you were such a linguist.


I'm not but know my way around the internet. :D

I hope other investments are doing better.


No complaints on that front overall, thanks, and you'll know why but not for this board.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby didds » July 2nd, 2020, 4:23 pm

2 x £25 here...

mrs didds now has a 25K holding which qualifies for entry as of next month so fingers crossed

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Re: Premium Bonds

#323309

Postby Redmires » July 2nd, 2020, 4:39 pm

Nowt for me.
Nowt for the ma-in-law.
7 x 25 for my lucky wife.

All on max holdings

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby richlist » July 2nd, 2020, 5:21 pm

3 x £25 for me & 1 x £25 for the wife = £700 year to date (8 months) on £100K =1.05%pa

I still think we're gonna get a big win before the year is out.....which is what it's all about really !!!

Good luck.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby swill453 » July 2nd, 2020, 5:29 pm

richlist wrote:3 x £25 for me & 1 x £25 for the wife = £700 year to date (8 months) on £100K =1.05%pa

I still think we're gonna get a big win before the year is out.....which is what it's all about really !!!

Good luck.

What's a big win? Your chance of winning £1million in a year with £100K of bonds is about 1 in 35,000.

Scott.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby Mike88 » July 2nd, 2020, 5:43 pm

1x£25. I'm on a roll. 3x£25 last month on £23k holding. I shall probably buy more later this month as cash locked away provides virtually zilch interest.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby richlist » July 2nd, 2020, 7:14 pm

swill453 wrote:
richlist wrote:3 x £25 for me & 1 x £25 for the wife = £700 year to date (8 months) on £100K =1.05%pa

I still think we're gonna get a big win before the year is out.....which is what it's all about really !!!

Good luck.

What's a big win? Your chance of winning £1million in a year with £100K of bonds is about 1 in 35,000.

Scott.

Well most of this thread is about bond holders winning £25 prizes.
Any prize starting from £1000 will boost my annual return nicely.
It's not all about jackpots.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby swill453 » July 2nd, 2020, 7:20 pm

richlist wrote:Well most of this thread is about bond holders winning £25 prizes.
Any prize starting from £1000 will boost my annual return nicely.
It's not all about jackpots.

Fag packet calculation says if you and your wife hold £100K of bonds for 30 years, with average luck you'd expect to win an individual prize of £1000 or more once.

Good luck!

Scott.

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Re: Premium Bonds

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Postby richlist » July 2nd, 2020, 10:24 pm

I won a £1000 prize 5 or 6 years back but apparently I have exactly the same chance of picking up another one every month.


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