travolta
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Post by travolta on May 2, 2020 9:30:27 GMT
Anybody win this month? They have put off devaluating them for this plague month . Not sure for how long tho' . I have max amount and won £175 for May . Usually an average £100.
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jonno
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Post by jonno on May 2, 2020 11:33:35 GMT
Anybody win this month? They have put off devaluating them for this plague month . Not sure for how long tho' . I have max amount and won £175 for May . Usually an average £100. Won my fairly usual £25  I've got the old max (£30k) but rarely seem to win more than this. My biggest win was £500, but a long time ago.
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Post by bernythedolt on May 2, 2020 12:26:42 GMT
Anybody win this month? They have put off devaluating them for this plague month . Not sure for how long tho' . I have max amount and won £175 for May . Usually an average £100. If that's a genuine average £100, you've enjoyed extraordinary good luck! Most holders of the full 50k win around £500 per year. Only 2.66% of them win >£1200, so don't expect the same next year. 
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Post by bernythedolt on May 2, 2020 12:30:20 GMT
Anybody win this month? They have put off devaluating them for this plague month . Not sure for how long tho' . I have max amount and won £175 for May . Usually an average £100. Won my fairly usual £25 I've got the old max (£30k) but rarely seem to win more than this. My biggest win was £500, but a long time ago. Sounds about right, Jonno. See the calculator here.
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Post by wildlife2 on May 2, 2020 13:31:29 GMT
Just £50 this month which is all I seem to get these days, even though I have the max amount now.
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Post by bernythedolt on May 2, 2020 14:46:28 GMT
Just £50 this month which is all I seem to get these days, even though I have the max amount now. This is about the level you should expect, to be fair, with interest rates so low. Premium Bonds currently pay out 1.4% in prizes. Deducting the high value prizes which most of us will never see, that leaves somewhere around 1% - 1.2% prize money distributed amongst the vast majority. £50k at 1.2% is £600, or £50 per month. The MSE calculator reckons £500 per year for your holding.
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2020 18:14:46 GMT
Big fat zero for me this month, but I've had £200 so far this year and I lucked out and hit £1500 last year so I'm not complaining (too much).
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Post by carol167 on May 2, 2020 19:59:35 GMT
My all time average from the past 14 years is £51.70 a month (1.53% average return a month).
But I won just the 1 x £25 for May and zero for Apr. Did better earlier in the year with £150 for March, £100 for Feb and £75 for Jan (all in 25s). My total for last year was £875. I have the maximum amount. A friend of mine won a £500 last month.
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Post by ozboy on May 2, 2020 22:18:09 GMT
Anybody win this month? They have put off devaluating them for this plague month . Not sure for how long tho' . I have max amount and won £175 for May . Usually an average £100.That's absolutely extraordinary! You are very, VERY lucky travolta. I have the £50K max for nearly two years now and my average is just under £50 per month, and last October and November I received nothing for each month.
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2020 22:36:25 GMT
Anybody win this month? They have put off devaluating them for this plague month . Not sure for how long tho' . I have max amount and won £175 for May . Usually an average £100.That's absolutely extraordinary! You are very, VERY lucky travolta . I have the £50K max for nearly two years now and my average is just under £50 per month, and last October and November I received nothing for each month. For the 44 months I've been tracking it I've averaged £85 a month. Cheers for the beers ozboy 
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Post by bernythedolt on May 2, 2020 22:49:41 GMT
That's absolutely extraordinary! You are very, VERY lucky travolta . I have the £50K max for nearly two years now and my average is just under £50 per month, and last October and November I received nothing for each month. For the 44 months I've been tracking it I've averaged £85 a month. Cheers for the beers ozboy Impressive! [Assuming this lucky streak holds out another four months] MSE calculator says, "You are lucky - only 1.45% of people who have put £50,000 in premium bonds over 4 year(s) win more than £4000".
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2020 23:06:46 GMT
For the 44 months I've been tracking it I've averaged £85 a month. Cheers for the beers ozboy Impressive! [Assuming this lucky streak holds out another four months] MSE calculator says, "You are lucky - only 1.45% of people who have put £50,000 in premium bonds over 4 year(s) win more than £4000". Damn. Four months left to make £325 from something that I can have absolutely no impact on, whatever am I to do? 
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Post by bernythedolt on May 2, 2020 23:13:10 GMT
Impressive! [Assuming this lucky streak holds out another four months] MSE calculator says, "You are lucky - only 1.45% of people who have put £50,000 in premium bonds over 4 year(s) win more than £4000". Damn. Four months left to make £325 from something that I can have absolutely no impact on, whatever am I to do? ...Pray you don't come down to earth with a bump as you join us mere mortals scraping £50 a month if we're lucky!
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Post by travolta on May 3, 2020 17:42:30 GMT
There was one month last year when I won £1000 and £500 in the same batch I've had some since I was 6, but taken them out now and again and lost a month or two before returning. (I also survived a head on collision 27 years ago. D'you reckon Corvid 19 has any chance against me? ) |
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Post by registerme on May 5, 2020 9:01:31 GMT
Damn. Four months left to make £325 from something that I can have absolutely no impact on, whatever am I to do? ...Pray you don't come down to earth with a bump as you join us mere mortals scraping £50 a month if we're lucky! I must be towards the back of the processing queue, £100 turned up this morning.
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I've got the old max (£30k) but rarely seem to win more than this. My biggest win was £500, but a long time ago.
