Premium Bonds - have you won anything?

£50 for me this month.

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Cold Sweat Over. Patience wins.
Happy Chappy. 2 Bonds Scoring. .4%Pa. Still on target.

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Just been notified of a £175 win for February…
Best not to be impetuous…
:mini: :mini: :mini: :mini: :mini: :mini:
Get on yer dancing shoes, I’ll bring the shandy…
:wink:

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£250 this month… :slightly_smiling_face:

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Nowt this month. :cry:

No Tears.
Next month. By Hook or By Crook >>
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MARCH :point_right: After checking through the higher value bond winning numbers today, I am pleased to receive a transfer of a decent sum. Tomorrow all the winning numbers for all values will be released, so maybe there’ll be even more to come my way :clap:
Now it will be time to surrender that block and reinvest with some new numbers :+1:

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Congrats. Like your style. Recycling blocks seems to pay off.
Coincidently. I’m now pondering. Whether to fund someone in the family to open another “Family PB account.”
Or. Singly invest in the “NS&I Cash ISA’S.”
Would be interested to know. How they have performed.
If anyone here has experienced them.

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A £25 win for March. Will hardly see it, seeing as I’ve just spent £22 in Wickes on various items, then shopping in Lidl. Still, every little helps.

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My investments, at the Bank, have been paying out much betterthan my full investment in Premium bonds, even after having to pay tax on the Bank interest.

I’ll be dumping my PBs as the tax year ends.

Another blank return on 50 grand invested, this last Month!

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Probably time to sell and buy fresh Ted…

Thanks for the Heads Up Ted.
We seem to be on the same wavelength, “Sparks.” :wink:
“Freezer Geezer”, this end of the Qwerty.

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£25, Better than nowt.

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In the end of March I traded all my bonds in. My experiment is to see if recycling makes a difference, so, at the beginning of May (after the one calandar month rule) my bonds will be all refreshed…and I will win several millions!

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I hope so Ted. It will be interesting to see what happens.
I’ve won something every month this year from £75 in January to £225 in April…
But I’ve been buying new bonds with the winnings, maybe that’s why I keep winning because I’m reinvesting…Or maybe not… :069:

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Snap. Im on the same “Payroll”.
.100% payouts until the end of the fiscal year.
April Sweet Fanny Adams.
This qwerty has a feeling in its water.
That the Exchequer is using more of the £ 240 billion pot. To fund its overall deficit.
Resultant. A lower amount available to fund the Winner Pot.
Having bought them since the 60’s, in small quantities as able.
Have loads of £10’s buried away. With no recognition of them having been winners.
Tedc’s useful Post is also being pondered.
ie Withdraw all pre 2000. And reinvest. As Another Block. Similar to those performing well post 2000.

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OK. As I posted before, I withdrew all of my full set of Bonds , then, re-invested the whole lot, in one go, in time for the start of March, so that the “must be invested for whole calendar month” rule would be applied.

However, on looking at the results, today (1st May) I find that not a single win has been achieved - for the 50000 invested.

Being somewhat sniffy, about that I checked the dates to see if a mistake had been made.

What I found was that, although the money had been invested before the end of February, they did not show up, as deposits on the NS&I web page until the middle of March!

So they missed the basic need to have been deposited for a full calendar month, because of the way NS&I process the investment.

This even though I met the rules according to the instructions!

Maybe my scheme will come good, after all, at the beginning of June but I won’t hold my breath.

Looks like delaying the acknowledgement of Deposits can save a whole month, if handled carefully, and the NS&I could profit from such.

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£50 for this month. Niiiice!

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£150 for me this month,

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Nowt for me this month…
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