€25k invested in prize bonds

Cork Lass

tuisginideach wrote: »

:(:(

and yet another - this is the worst ever spell!

I have won 42% this year to date of last year's winnings on same bonds :(:(

Sorry to hear that. We had a dry spell through April and May until we won €50 last week. €50 for us again today so hopefully that dry spell is well and truly behind us.

Thargor

€50 for me today, first win for 6 weeks.

Cute Hoor

Happy days, a small win at last

€50 win today, PB bought February 2016, first win since 24/2/2017.
Next Friday definitely - the big one!!!

Winnings to date (no winning records kept pre 2005) €1,325 on €8,765 worth of PB's bought monthly over a 19 year period plus €20,000 bought in Feb 2016 (second €50 on the February 2016 purchase).

Winnings 2011 €75
Winnings 2012 €150
Winnings 2013 €200
Winnings 2014 €100
Winnings 2015 Zero
Winnings 2016 €200
Winnings 2017 €150 (so far)

Taylor365

Business as usual.

pbwinner

Winnings on 2nd June 2017: €0
Last win 23rd December 2016: €50
Total winnings on €25k from Feb 2011 to date: €2300
2011: €75 x 4 €300
2012: €75 x 6 €450
2013: €50 x 12 €600
2014: €50 x 9 €450
2015: €50 x 5 €250
2016: €50 x 5 €250
2017: 0

Big C

set a date of 2018 January to give up this crap. One €50 euro win on 16k since jan 2016

Taylor365

Big C wrote: »

set a date of 2018 January to give up this crap. One €50 euro win on 16k since jan 2016

This i'd consider the norm.

A few outliers in this thread, or porky pies even! :eek:

Cork Lass

Taylor365 wrote: »

This i'd consider the norm.

A few outliers in this thread, or porky pies even! :eek:

Can you expand on that comment?

Nabber

Cork Lass wrote: »

Can you expand on that comment?

Suggestion is that some people are not being honest in their winnings.
Not sure why anyone would bother, maybe similar to how gamblers are always "up" on the bookies.

Prize bonds are based on luck. Flipping a coin is 50/50, flipping a coin 20 times is unlikely to give you 10 heads and 10 tails.

The chance factor

Thargor

Nabber wrote: »

Suggestion is that some people are not being honest in their winnings.

Do you have anyone in mind or are you just talking through your arse?

Nabber wrote: »

Prize bonds are based on luck. Flipping a coin is 50/50, flipping a coin 20 times is unlikely to give you 10 heads and 10 tails.

What does that have to do with anything?

Nabber

Thargor wrote: »

Do you have anyone in mind or are you just talking through your arse?
What does that have to do with anything?

I didn't make the suggestion I was just interpreting taylors post. I could be wrong in my interpretation.

I quite like this thread and don't reckon anyone is making false claims.

PBs are luck. Why would a comment on luck be irrelevant in a PB thread?

Thargor

Oh so you did, apologies.

Sligo Quay

Well after a barren dry month of May, this week Friday 2nd June PB tracker informs me ''congratulations you have new winners'' €50 euro this week on 30k batch, last win 7th April €50 euro on 30k batch.
Last win on 20k batch 31st March €50 euro.
Total wins on 20k batch since September 2015 €400 euro.
Total wins on 30k batch since August 2016 €350 euro.

Cork Lass

Sligo Quay wrote: »

Well after a barren dry month of May, this week Friday 2nd June PB tracker informs me ''congratulations you have new winners'' €50 euro this week on 30k batch, last win 7th April €50 euro on 30k batch.
Last win on 20k batch 31st March €50 euro.
Total wins on 20k batch since September 2015 €400 euro.
Total wins on 30k batch since August 2016 €350 euro.

That's actually not a bad return at all. Be careful that you're not accused of telling porkies :eek:

Zimmerframe

10K bought June 2016

Total winnings for the year - NIL

Agent Smyth

If my figures are correct it would appear the PB fund is now about 3,044,917,647 Euro as of the end of May 17,
Which means at the moment there are about 487,186,823 bonds.

During May I reckon the PB fund grew by 23,247,059 Euro,
Which means there will be an extra 3,719,529 bonds in each draw during June compared to May.
May's growth has added 76 extra €50 prizes to the weekly draw.

I would estimate that on average there was a net growth in the PB fund of 1,107,002 Euro for each working day during May.

June's daily growth €1,786,487 old rate 1.25%
July's daily growth €1,500,280 new rate .85%
August's daily growth €1,529,411 @ .85%
September's daily growth €1,251,336 @ .85%
October's daily growth €145,658 @ .85%
November's daily growth €2,101,279 @ .85%
December's daily growth €3,868,512 @ .85%
Janurary's daily growth €1,768,797 @ .85%
February's daily growth €1,590,588 @ .85%
March's daily growth €1,418,181 @ .85%
April's daily growth €1,308,497 @ .85%
May's daily growth €1,107,002 @ .85%

For the year 2016 I estimate the net growth from 1st Jan to 31st Dec to be around €451,607,529
giving a daily working day net growth of €1,828,370.

dxhound2005

You were close.

http://www.statesavings.ie/Prizebonds/Pages/PressReleases.aspx

Gross sales in 2016 were €670.6 million, reflecting continued customer confidence and attraction to Prize Bonds as a unique and secure investment choice. Repayments of Prize Bonds during the year totalled €252.5 million, representing a marginal decrease of 0.1% on last year’s repayments (2015: €252.8 million). This resulted in a 16.7% increase in the fund value to over €2.894 billion, the highest in the history of the Prize Bond Scheme.

Taylor365

Big C wrote: »

16k since jan 2016 €50

Sligo Quay wrote: »

20k since Sep 2015 €400

Startling contrast.

Fingers Mcginty

18K since March....winnings to date....Zilch

Nabber

Taylor365 wrote: »

Startling contrast.

What are you expecting tho? That the should be identical in winnings ratio.

Agent Smyth

dxhound2005 wrote: »

You were close.

http://www.statesavings.ie/Prizebonds/Pages/PressReleases.aspx

Gross sales in 2016 were €670.6 million, reflecting continued customer confidence and attraction to Prize Bonds as a unique and secure investment choice. Repayments of Prize Bonds during the year totalled €252.5 million, representing a marginal decrease of 0.1% on last year’s repayments (2015: €252.8 million). This resulted in a 16.7% increase in the fund value to over €2.894 billion, the highest in the history of the Prize Bond Scheme.

Interesting!!
It would appear my 2016 year end figure is correct €2,894 billion
but my year opening figure of €2,442 was wrong, should have been €2,481 according to the PB 2015 accounts.
If this is correct then the Prize Bond company it would seem did not pay out the correct amount of prizes in Janaury '16.
They paid out 8113 weekly prizes when it should have been 8296.
Any ideas why this happened??

eamonn147

100 win since january 17 on 46k last win 50e on 28/04/17 not happy at all..
last year I won 400 euro
total wins since december 2014
750 euro..

2014 50e
2015 200 e
2016 400 e
2017 100 e so far

dxhound2005

Agent Smyth wrote: »

Interesting!!
It would appear my 2016 year end figure is correct €2,894 billion
but my year opening figure of €2,442 was wrong, should have been €2,481 according to the PB 2015 accounts.
If this is correct then the Prize Bond company it would seem did not pay out the correct amount of prizes in Janaury '16.
They paid out 8113 weekly prizes when it should have been 8296.
Any ideas why this happened??

You posted in the thread before that 8113 was the number of prizes for December 2015.

Interestingly the prize fund dropped in Dec from 8144 to 8113 prizes, that's the first time I can remember the prizes going down.

Are you certain that 8113 continued into January 2016? The Prize Bonds site only goes back 6 months so I can't check it myself. It would be against the regulations to do this as the fund at midnight on the last day of the preceding month determines the prizes for the following month. I was able to check December 2016 against January 2017 and it was not a pattern that was repeated if it did happen.

butrasgali

30 k plus since last year..still waiting

Agent Smyth

dxhound2005 wrote: »

You posted in the thread before that 8113 was the number of prizes for December 2015.

Interestingly the prize fund dropped in Dec from 8144 to 8113 prizes, that's the first time I can remember the prizes going down.

Are you certain that 8113 continued into January 2016? The Prize Bonds site only goes back 6 months so I can't check it myself. It would be against the regulations to do this as the fund at midnight on the last day of the preceding month determines the prizes for the following month. I was able to check December 2016 against January 2017 and it was not a pattern that was repeated if it did happen.

What I meant was the prize fund must have dropped in Dec because Jan's weekly prizes fell from 8144 in Dec14 to 8113 in Jan15.
The weekly prizes went back up in Feb15 to 8287.

The only reason I can think of is that in Dec14 the PB office processed more refunds then sales and though they have acknowaldge the sales in the year end accounts the bonds weren't processed in time for the end of month prize cacluation due to the office been closed from 23rd of Dec to 4th of Jan??

Sligo Quay

Cork Lass wrote: »

Be careful that you're not accused of telling porkies :eek:

I'm always straight and up front when it comes to my prize bonds, the only misleading information about me is my user name ''Sligo Quay'' because infact I'm not from Sligo, I don't live in Sligo, but if I ever win the million, they'll be seaching Sligo but they won't find me there because I live in a completely different part of the country.
I live in hope, I dream big, and next Friday is only 48 hours away.

tuisginideach

€50 today ... hardly deserves a as it has been so pathetic this year.

FoolsGold1

Nothing since the €50 on 10th March on c.€70K.

Cork Lass

Nothing for us this week :rolleyes:

Taylor365

Cork Lass wrote: »

Nothing for us this week :rolleyes:

Lies! You're getting 2-3 €50's a week!


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