Premium Bonds - Not a bean for months now!!!!

[FunkyNige]

Been building it up in my account from June and there was about £11k in there, yesterday was my first prize (£25), I may find somewhere else to put it...

[Free_30_day_trial]

First month in 2 years winning nothing, it usually returns £25 to £75 on investment of £50k

They said one day my luck would run out... although it was my standard of driving rather than investments

[Evoluzione]

11k is peanuts, that's why your pay outs are paltry.
You need the full 50k to achieve a 1 - 1.5% return.

[loskie]

£25 on £50k

[UmpaLoompa]

UmpaLoompa said:

Nothing for second month running... £30k...

3rd month running, nada. £30k.

[Rob_125]

£25 on 50k....100k in next months draw, hopefully might be more fruitful for us.

[EarlOfHazard]

2x £25 on 50k

Last 2 months, nil

[sh1ggsy]

Evoluzione said:

11k is peanuts, that's why your pay outs are paltry.
You need the full 50k to achieve a 1 - 1.5% return.

You will get the same % return with any amount. If you want to win every month, then you need 50k

[sjj84]

First month with the max, won 3x £25. What happens with the prize money, always before I've had it auto reinvest to more bonds but now I'm at the max I assume it'll be paid out. They don't still do it via cheques do they?

[Rob_125]

sjj84 said:

First month with the max, won 3x £25. What happens with the prize money, always before I've had it auto reinvest to more bonds but now I'm at the max I assume it'll be paid out. They don't still do it via cheques do they?

Think they are moving away from cheques, but login and make sure your settings are paperless, will be paid into your nominated account.

[sjj84]

Perfect thanks, any idea when the money usually arrives?

No celebrity for me, there's a lockdown on don't you know, but I'll now be REALLY disappointed if I don't get a comedy sized cheque!

[2fast748]

£25 on my £3k, nowt on the rest of the families £18.6K though.

[TonyTony]

One of this months £1M winners won on a 49k investment last June, thats a quick turnaround!

[doogle83]

How do you work out your annual rate of return against a moving total number? Struggling to find a calculator to do this for me! Thanks

[PushedDover]

Nowt.

[Sheetmaself]

Odd are about 36,000 to one.

I have £50,000 worth and have won nothing. Granted this is my first draw but it about sums st up!

[vixen1700]

2 x £25 on 100k this month.

Think it was £75 last month.

[doogle83]

Edit to make more sense: No that's helpful thanks. So that 50,000 number is the moving number each month.

Do I just work out each monthly return and then add them all up, divide by 12 to get an average for the year?

[The Mad Monk]

Russ T Bolt said:

The Mad Monk said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Well, how long would it take you to try both?

I used the website.

Why did you respond to a discussion about the app saying it worked for you then ?

Some people might call it drift. I don't think it is necessarily unhealthy.

Edited by The Mad Monk on Tuesday 2nd February 14:33

[stevensdrs]

Well £2 x £25 this month which is twice as good as last month but not that good for the running average which never seems to be much better than 1% overall. One day I might get a big win. .....looks at the odds and sighs!