Premium Bonds. No wins.

Well, that's wonderful!
Every month I look to see how much the million pound winners hold and it's usually quite a lot if not the full amount.

How exciting would that be.

I was very pleased to win £50 this month.

I think that the amount people will be able to invest will increase because the Government will need to borrow more to pay for the consequences of the virus.

I think if you have had premium bonds for 20+ years and not had a win then you should write to NS&I, it could be that change of address has not been logged.
My winnings average £650 a year and I do not have the maximum holding.
I buy GC bonds for every birthday and have been doing it since birth, they are a good way of saving for them.

I started this thread six months ago and am very surprised at how much and how often many of you win.
Today I got my first win on the £20000 I bought last year. It’s £25!
I’d assumed that the number of prizes had been drastically reduced but it seems to be purely bad luck that my bonds never win (until today’s kick in the teeth)
A few years ago I had about £8000 worth and won a small prize at least four times every year.

Most months, but not this one, I win at least £25 and sometimes that is multiplied by 3 or 4. I do not think I have won any more- but every month I wait for a million to drop in my lap. I am aware that may take more years than I have left!

I think half the problem is that there are a lot of people with premium bonds nowadays.

I just came across this thread and found it quite interesting.

I had a direct debit set up to buy premium bonds each month (not a large amount by any means) and while it was in effect, I won virtually every month i.e in 2019 for ten out of 12 months...never more than £50 though!
I ended the direct debit earlier this year and funnily enough, all winnings have ceased.
Coincidence?

Dee1012 - I too have my suspicions about how random the wins are. I noticed that every time I cashed in bonds I got a win (incentive to buy more?)
After buying £20,000-worth last year I won nothing until well over a year later. I picture a little man in the back office noticing that I’d been missed and hastily chucking prizes at me 4 months running. Since June I’ve won £350.
Nice but my suspicions remain.

watermeadow, funnily enough a colleague mentioned a similar situation to me yesterday too

Let's hope the little man in the office notices us again!

I noticed we seemed more likely to win with newly purchased bonds, and then nothing for ages.

I love it when that envelope drops on the mat - the anticipation of how much we've won. Then finding its (always) £25. Better than nothing though. We haven't won anything for a long time now. I hear they're stopping sending postal payments in the future.

I'm convinced NS & I have mislaid my numbers! I've held a considerable amount of premium bonds for many years and I've only ever won £25 which was last year! Seriously thinking of cashing them in.

I win most months - it was £150 last month.

Any wins I had were always reinvested so I have many mini-blocks of £25.

My personal feeling is the more premium bonds one has in a block the more likely one is to win.

many years ago one could only buy around £4000 in a block rather than eg £10,000.

Somebody has to win the million so why not me?