€25k invested in prize bonds

AlmightyCushion

Agent Smyth wrote: »

Finally someone on here see's PBs the way I do

In relation to the UK PBs afaik, I as an Irish citizen can buy them once I have a UK bank account so how does one go about getting a UK bank account when your not resident in the UK ??

Revolut give you a UK IBAN. That could work.

dubrov

Agent Smyth wrote:

Finally someone on here see's PBs the way I do

I think everyone views them that way.

tuisginideach

€50 this week but it has been a particularly disappointing year overall - great run in July but bad otherwise.


Just looking back, I won €50 in July with a bond number - let's say AB123456; on 3rd November, I won another €50 with a bond just 2 digits away e.g. AB123458

and in April 2016 I won €50 two weeks running with bonds (from a different batch to the above) which were only 3 digits apart!

Andrew Flexing

glad you got something Tuis!

Andrew Flexing

No Joy.
Weeks without a win: 5

Taylor365

2 months, no bueno.

Thargor

The last time they cut the prizes it was like a door slamming shut, haven't won a thing since.

dxhound2005

tuisginideach wrote: »

€50 this week but it has been a particularly disappointing year overall - great run in July but bad otherwise.


Just looking back, I won €50 in July with a bond number - let's say AB123456; on 3rd November, I won another €50 with a bond just 2 digits away e.g. AB123458

and in April 2016 I won €50 two weeks running with bonds (from a different batch to the above) which were only 3 digits apart!

In today's draw with a cursory search I found two instances of less than 20 numbers between winning bonds. In theory someone with a holding of less than €150 won €100.

Prize Value
Winning Bond
County

50
SM871297
DUBLIN

50
SM871316
DUBLIN


50
XK043789
WICKLOW

50
XK043807
WICKLOW

Cork Lass

The usual “sorry, you have no new winners” for us again this week.

Agent Smyth

November had just one win (€50) on the 17th for me
But after Tesco and Supervalue sent me emails about winning vouchers, Easyjet and Aer Lingus have also informed me of my continuing good luck in winning vouchers for companies that I don't use :rolleyes:

honey12345

I haven’t won anything on 80k since June! 😡

dubrov

honey12345 wrote:

I haven’t won anything on 80k since June! 😡

You should be winning closer to every five weeks with that amount. That would suggest ridiculously bad luck

dxhound2005

dubrov wrote: »

You should be winning closer to every five weeks with that amount. That would suggest ridiculously bad luck

That would make about 10 wins out of every 52 draws. But using the odds worked out by Agent Smyth when the rate went to 0.5% on 1 August it is 5.6 wins. Since then more money has flowed in, increasing the number of prizes from 4068 in August to 4155 in November. But that would also worsen the odds for the holding of €80K.

It is a run of bad luck all right, zero wins instead of two, but hardly ridiculously so.

€100,000 = 7 wins per year
€50,000 = 3 wins per year
€25,000 = 2 wins per year
€10,000 = 1 win every 2 years
€5,000 = 1 win every 3 years
€1,000 = 1 win every 14 years

dubrov

dxhound2005 wrote: »

That would make about 10 wins out of every 52 draws. But using the odds worked out by Agent Smyth when the rate went to 0.5% on 1 August it is 5.6 wins. Since then more money has flowed in, increasing the number of prizes from 4068 in August to 4155 in November. But that would also worsen the odds for the holding of €80K.

It is a run of bad luck all right, zero wins instead of two, but hardly ridiculously so.

€100,000 = 7 wins per year
€50,000 = 3 wins per year
€25,000 = 2 wins per year
€10,000 = 1 win every 2 years
€5,000 = 1 win every 3 years
€1,000 = 1 win every 14 years

I had forgotten that the fund had dropped to 0.5%.

Let's say a 3.2Bn in the prize fund.
At 0.5% => 16m prize fund
2 X 1m and 50 X 50k = 4.2m.

So assuming you don't get a big prize, 80k should get you about 72% of the interest =>288 per year.
For 5 months that's about 120 euro.

So I agree, it is bad luck but not shocking.

dxhound2005

Also 520 X each of 1,000 and 500. Not going to affect the odds much.

honey12345

dubrov wrote: »

You should be winning closer to every five weeks with that amount. That would suggest ridiculously bad luck

Two separate batches one for 30k the other is 50k

karltimber

Hi,

Have 41K in PB since June 2017.

Had 5 * e50 wins = e250.

Not too bad since June.

K

honey12345

karltimber wrote: »

Hi,

Have 41K in PB since June 2017.

Had 5 * e50 wins = e250.

Not too bad since June.

K

I don’t believe you

dxhound2005

honey12345 wrote: »

I don’t believe you

It's possible. I have a block of €10K which won three 50's within 2 months this year. I posted the details on 11 August. It won no prize in the 18 months before that. The draws in June and July had over 7,000 prizes every week, down to just over 4,000 since the start of August.

Someone would need to have a few million Euros worth to consistently iron out the quirks of the random numbers prize system. I posted last Friday about how bonds less than 20 numbers apart won 2 prizes in that draw.

karltimber

honey12345 wrote: »

I don’t believe you

It's true.
Am I allowed to post winning numbers?

Q- I bought mine online in 5k amounts over a few weeks. Would that have made a difference. Do ye buy in 1 big block ?

For those not winning - would it be worth selling and rebuying - renew the numbers !!

K

**pic of winnings attached. Plus 1 cheque for e50 from paper certs.

prizebondloser

€50k for 4 months

Zero wins

Holding out for the €1,000,000 draw in December before I have a little moan!

tuisginideach

karltimber wrote: »

It's true.
Am I allowed to post winning numbers?

Q- I bought mine online in 5k amounts over a few weeks. Would that have made a difference. Do ye buy in 1 big block ?

For those not winning - would it be worth selling and rebuying - renew the numbers !!

K

**pic of winnings attached. Plus 1 cheque for e50 from paper certs.

You have the golden touch!!! Well done. Pls give the rest of us a virtual handshake with that golden touch!

colliemcc

karltimber wrote: »

It's true.
Am I allowed to post winning numbers?

Q- I bought mine online in 5k amounts over a few weeks. Would that have made a difference. Do ye buy in 1 big block ?

For those not winning - would it be worth selling and rebuying - renew the numbers !!

K

**pic of winnings attached. Plus 1 cheque for e50 from paper certs.

Super stuff, hope it keeps going for you, I plan on buy a 12k ground in the coming days will have to go post office with a cheque. How did you buy 5k online I can only buy 1500 at a time.

karltimber

colliemcc wrote: »

Super stuff, hope it keeps going for you, I plan on buy a 12k ground in the coming days will have to go post office with a cheque. How did you buy 5k online I can only buy 1500 at a time.

5k money with debit card. 1800 units in total.

Taylor365

prizebondloser wrote: »

€50k for 4 months

Zero wins

Holding out for the €1,000,000 draw in December before I have a little moan!

Sounds about right.

Love the name :pac:

carrickbawn

My 17 grand approx has been there since May with zero return... Can’t say I had any expectations,but just 1 fifty would have been nice.Might leave it until I find a better use for it.

Andrew Flexing

what date is the e1million draw on?

FoolsGold1

Nothing for me since the €50 on 2lst July on c.€70K.

Andrew Flexing

No Joy.
Weeks with out a win = 6

tuisginideach

Sorry, you have no new winners :(:(