The Lemon Fool

Then yours was even weaker than mine...!

swill453 wrote:

XFool wrote:Meanwhile...

Stoke-on-Trent man becomes overnight millionaire - thanks to £1 Premium Bond he only bought this year

Stoke-on-Trent News

Bizarre headline. All Premium Bonds are worth £1. He bought £27,500 of them at the same time.

Scott.

Yeah. But surely only one of his bonds - worth £1 - won?

Yeah, annoying innit!

It's amusing how easily people defend the secrecy of the winners in a lottery system when someone expresses doubts about weekly jackpot wins which are never announced. This in a country where people otherwise are very reluctant to engage in or are well informed on being extremely careful over any financial schemes or games, boiler room scams, pyramid schemes, here today gone tomorrow companies etc. Anyway, I still have my doubts about dozens of mysterious millionaire jackpot winners happening every week all over the country from so many different lotteries, the winners of which are never actually announced, but once in a while a random marketing article disguised as news gets out about how lucky someone got.

I recently bought some tickets in Omaze and I have more belief in it, because they print the names, photos and a comment of every winner so far, and I think that is the only way it should be.

TopStar74 wrote:It's amusing how easily people defend the secrecy of the winners in a lottery system when someone expresses doubts about weekly jackpot wins which are never announced. This in a country where people otherwise are very reluctant to engage in or are well informed on being extremely careful over any financial schemes or games, boiler room scams, pyramid schemes, here today gone tomorrow companies etc. Anyway, I still have my doubts about dozens of mysterious millionaire jackpot winners happening every week all over the country from so many different lotteries, the winners of which are never actually announced, but once in a while a random marketing article disguised as news gets out about how lucky someone got.

Nobody here has defended anything other than Premium Bonds. Dodgy lotteries might exist somewhere, in fact I'd be surprised if they don't.

Scott.

Prize results are out.

I got 2 x £25. Not much compensation for huge loss of dividends.

Bouleversee wrote:[I got 2 x £25. ...

Zero, zilch, nuda, asgjë, ei mitään, ничего, არაფერი etc.

Bad luck, PD. I didn't know you were such a linguist. I hope other investments are doing better.

Boo Hoo - nothing here either (from 2 x maximum holdings)

Mmm. It's beginning to look as though the govt. has had a dip in the prize fund kitty.

Like Bouleversee I got 2 x £25 this month, with similar feelings about missing dividends.

MM

Bouleversee wrote:Bad luck, PD. I didn't know you were such a linguist.

I'm not but know my way around the internet.

I hope other investments are doing better.

No complaints on that front overall, thanks, and you'll know why but not for this board.

2 x £25 here...

mrs didds now has a 25K holding which qualifies for entry as of next month so fingers crossed

Nowt for me.
Nowt for the ma-in-law.
7 x 25 for my lucky wife.

All on max holdings

3 x £25 for me & 1 x £25 for the wife = £700 year to date (8 months) on £100K =1.05%pa

I still think we're gonna get a big win before the year is out.....which is what it's all about really !!!

Good luck.

richlist wrote:3 x £25 for me & 1 x £25 for the wife = £700 year to date (8 months) on £100K =1.05%pa

I still think we're gonna get a big win before the year is out.....which is what it's all about really !!!

Good luck.

What's a big win? Your chance of winning £1million in a year with £100K of bonds is about 1 in 35,000.

Scott.

1x£25. I'm on a roll. 3x£25 last month on £23k holding. I shall probably buy more later this month as cash locked away provides virtually zilch interest.

swill453 wrote:

richlist wrote:3 x £25 for me & 1 x £25 for the wife = £700 year to date (8 months) on £100K =1.05%pa

I still think we're gonna get a big win before the year is out.....which is what it's all about really !!!

Good luck.

What's a big win? Your chance of winning £1million in a year with £100K of bonds is about 1 in 35,000.

Scott.

Well most of this thread is about bond holders winning £25 prizes.
Any prize starting from £1000 will boost my annual return nicely.
It's not all about jackpots.

richlist wrote:Well most of this thread is about bond holders winning £25 prizes.
Any prize starting from £1000 will boost my annual return nicely.
It's not all about jackpots.

Fag packet calculation says if you and your wife hold £100K of bonds for 30 years, with average luck you'd expect to win an individual prize of £1000 or more once.

Good luck!

Scott.

I won a £1000 prize 5 or 6 years back but apparently I have exactly the same chance of picking up another one every month.