West Sussex winner of £1m Premium bond .....

[Deleted User X18H]

......thats a happy New Year

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

See, it doesn't always pay to live in Central Brighton.

 

[SNOOBS]

My friend won £50,000 in the premium bonds not long ago but thats nothing to £1m

 

[Billy the Fish]

That's from december, the january results won't be released for another couple of days. 100 grand for a 1 quid bond bought in 1969 isn't bad going either

Prize value Winning Bond Holding Area Bond value Purchased

£1,000,000 21NV983736 £30,000 Lothian £5,000 Feb-04
£1,000,000 71HM352679 £16,094 West Sussex £1000 May-05
£100,000 55YT972153 £20,000 Glamorgan £5,000 Jun-99
£100,000 24YM924026 £30,000 Essex £ 5,000 Jul-04
£100,000 63KM209234 £27,50 Cambridgeshire £5,000 Mar-05
£100,000 3DL014816 £521 Leicestershire £1 Jan-69
£100,000 18PS932682 £24,350 Lincolnshire £50 Jul-83
£100,000 14CC815400 £30,000 West Sussex £2,000 Jan-00
£100,000 44NK085014 £13,467 Gwent £5,000 May-95
£100,000 76RY897029 £29,740 Cumbria £5,000 Jun-05
£100,000 54DH949805 £30,000 LB of Merton £5,000 Dec-99
£100,000 44XM104985 £30,000 Surrey £5,000 Nov-04
£100,000 114YX158286 £30,000 East Sussex £5,000 Sep-06
£100,000 47DS152393 £20,000 Belfast £5,000 Jan-96
£100,000 104LR547691 £24,203 Nottinghamshire £100 Jan-06
£100,000 126WR396665 £30,000 Lothian £5,000 Apr-07
£50,000 107ZX491633 £100 Surrey £100 Mar-06

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Probably Greg Stanley.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

No it is not december it IS January

 

[Billy the Fish]

No it is not december it IS January

Read the green writing above the list. The draw is on the first of every month, the results aren't on the website until a couple of days later.

http://www.nsandi.com/products/pb/winnerlist.jsp

 

[BensGrandad]

Has the winner been notified or do I still have a chance.

 

[BensGrandad]

A publican I know, since reaching the age of 65 kept working and put his entire pension each week into Premium Bonds until he had deposited the maximum permitted, either £30k or 35 k , not sure. He maintains that over a 12 month period he receives more money in winnings than the interest he would have received had he put the money in a deposit account.

I was also told that the vast majority of big winners are people who have bought bonds in the previous 18 months so if you have any dating back to the 60s or 70s you would be best advised to cash them in and buy new ones to stand more chance of winning. I am not sure if that is strictly true but it is what I was told and I am sure the learned ones on here will put me right.

 

[Cian]

I was also told that the vast majority of big winners are people who have bought bonds in the previous 18 months so if you have any dating back to the 60s or 70s you would be best advised to cash them in and buy new ones to stand more chance of winning. I am not sure if that is strictly true but it is what I was told and I am sure the learned ones on here will put me right.

They claim its not true, but if you look there the majority of the main prize winners have been on bonds 4 years old or less.... so I suspect it may be accurate enough.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Just checked the NS&I website - it wasn't me. Surely it will be me next month though - can't wait.

 

[scooter1]

I've got about 5 grands worth and I do get more in winnings that I would if it were in a high interest account - not by much, but its also nice to get the envelope through the door and the anticipation that it might be more than 50 quid

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I've got about 5 grands worth and I do get more in winnings that I would if it were in a high interest account - not by much, but its also nice to get the envelope through the door and the anticipation that it might be more than 50 quid

I have 8k's worth (but I bought 2k's more last week). Up until they raised the maximum a couple of years ago, I seemed to be getting a win practically every month, but I get must less now it seems.

I do, however, now recognise the envelopes that the cheques come in !

 

[Gazwag]

They claim its not true, but if you look there the majority of the main prize winners have been on bonds 4 years old or less.... so I suspect it may be accurate enough.

People who invested the £30k maximum three years ago will always have more chance that somebody who invested £3 in 1975, people paying higher rate tax now view them as a tax free investment, with no risk

 

[Cian]

People who invested the £30k maximum three years ago will always have more chance that somebody who invested £3 in 1975, people paying higher rate tax now view them as a tax free investment, with no risk

Hrm, the reverse is true over here sales wise, less and less people have been buying them over time - the prize fund has reduced in size and the prizes are at times rather pathetic compared to the UK though...

 

[Marshy]

Hooray for Premium Bonds...havent checked my numbers but its bound to have been me thats won.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Hooray for Premium Bonds...havent checked my numbers but its bound to have been me thats won.

Don't bother checking, just go straight out and spend the money.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Hooray for Premium Bonds...havent checked my numbers but its bound to have been me thats won.

hmmm your still working though Buying as many propertys as you could in 1990/1 was the key old boy!!!!

 

[Marshy]

hmmm your still working though Buying as many propertys as you could in 1990/1 was the key old boy!!!!

very true

 

[Billy the Fish]

I was also told that the vast majority of big winners are people who have bought bonds in the previous 18 months so if you have any dating back to the 60s or 70s you would be best advised to cash them in and buy new ones to stand more chance of winning. I am not sure if that is strictly true but it is what I was told and I am sure the learned ones on here will put me right.

Surely the odds are the same for each £1 bond, it's just a number that's picked by a computer at random. As has been said, there's probably been a shitload more bonds bought in the last 18 months than there were in the whole of the 60's.