€25k invested in prize bonds

John arse

Essex Man wrote: »

Not me John , a five figure sum here , to wit 40,000 euros , last win two

years ago june 2018 ! 50 euros

yeah think we chatted before essex man,wow scary numbers there and people on here with a lot less than you seem to be winning every couple of months.i'm down to 66k myself after Building a nice new house and i'm not getting a sniff either(i had over 130k there for a long time)anyway we'll keep hoping,mind yourself,ps are you david essex???

anewme

Logged into the prize bond tracker today and got the green congrats page telling me I'd won 50. Won another 50 about 5 weeks ago.

Prior to that had only won 50 about 2 years ago. Have about 24k in bonds.

Sligo Quay

Robodoc wrote: »

€60k in prizebonds, 3 wins last year, not a sausage this year............

This is the random of it all, I've 60k too and I had 5 wins last year and only 1 win this year on April 9th, have you got your 60k in 1 single block, I'v mine in 10k 20k and a 30k purchased over the 3 years, pbwinner who start this long running thread has done considerable well with 25k, here's my figures for the last few years 2019 €250euro
2018 €100euro
2017 €400euro
2016 €350euro and here's pbwinner's figures
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: €50 x 4 €200
2018: €50 x 2 €100
2019: €50 x 6 €300
2020: €50 x 2 €100
It's an interesting comparison, I had considered putting in another 40k bringing my holding up to 100k, but I've reconsidered, enough is enough, another poster here has 134k and is not doing much better, I'II just stick with my 60k plus 100 old bonds that I purchased from 1985 to 1990 AF to AN series, which won €75 in 2012 & 2013 after holding them for 24 years, it's all just pure radom luck yesterday's bond OU121530 could be just a single lone bond sitting in a dusty draw maybe not part of any holding and randomly wins a million, I hope the holder is still around and in good health to enjoy thieir newfound fortune.

dxhound2005

It is not possible to do an exact comparison without knowing when you bought the 30, 20 and 10. And what months you won the €400 in 2017. The nominal interest rate used to calculate the number of prizes went down from 0.85% to the present 0.5% on 01 August 2017.

But for arguments sake if you held the full 60K from the start of 2017, and the interest rate was 0.5% from the start of 2017 you would expect to win 14.7 prizes. 4.2 expected wins per year on 60K x 3.5 years. You got 16 prizes so it has worked out pretty close.

The expected wins is calculated at a nominal interest rate of 0.35% because that is the portion of the prize fund which goes to €50 winners.

Icsics

Has anybody here ever won more than €50 ?

dxhound2005

Icsics wrote: »

Has anybody here ever won more than €50 ?

I won €1,000 in 2010, and again in 2015. See my post #3402 on page 227. A work colleague who would not be aware of this thread won €500 about two years ago. We are only a tiny minority here, so you would not expect to see many reports about big wins.

Negative_G

Negative_G wrote: »

Winnings on 15th May 2020: €50
Last win on 4th October 2019: €50
Previous win 14th June 2019: €50

Total winnings

Total winnings since Feb 2015 on €50k: €1,300
Total winnings since Oct 2016 on €20k: €250

I must say, 7 months for a €50 return is pretty applying when there is €70k 'invested'.

Winnings on 26th June 2020: €50
Last win on 15th May 2020: €50
Previous win 4th October 2019: €50

Total winnings since Feb 2015 on €50k: €1,350
Total winnings since Oct 2016 on €20k: €250

Mantis Toboggan

What time is the draw on Friday's?

Mrsmum

anewme wrote: »

Logged into the prize bond tracker today and got the green congrats page telling me I'd won 50. Won another 50 about 5 weeks ago.

Prior to that had only won 50 about 2 years ago. Have about 24k in bonds.[/QUOTE

Quick question - just when you say you logged onto the tracker, are the winners not contacted or is it up to the owner of the Bonds to keep checking ??

anewme

Mrsmum wrote: »

anewme wrote: »

Logged into the prize bond tracker today and got the green congrats page telling me I'd won 50. Won another 50 about 5 weeks ago.

Prior to that had only won 50 about 2 years ago. Have about 24k in bonds.[/QUOTE

Quick question - just when you say you logged onto the tracker, are the winners not contacted or is it up to the owner of the Bonds to keep checking ??

You can log into the tracker to check if you have won in the most recent draw (or since you last logged in)

Last week I logged in on the Saturday and if you have won - you are greeted by a green congratulations page - if you are not greeted by that, no need to look further, lol.

About a week later the notification of win and new prize bond (I elected to get new bonds for small winnings) came in the post.

Hibernicis

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

What time is the draw on Friday's?

From: https://www.statesavings.ie/help-support/help-articles/when-are-the-draws

When are the draws?
The Prize Bond draw takes place every week and nearly always on a Friday. Details of the next draw are on the Prize Bonds page of our website. The draw results are available online from 12.30pm and the top eleven prize winning numbers are available at all Post Offices from that afternoon.

tuisginideach

Good start to the month - €50 this week again!:)

PB2018

Wins on 3rd July 2020: €0
Last win - 22nd May 2020: €50
Weeks since last win: 6
€134k invested in prize bonds since July 2017
Win ratio: 19 wins in 157 weeks (12%)
2017 (Jul-Dec): 5 x €50 = €250
2018 (Jan-Dec): 4 x €50 = €200
2019 (Jan-Dec): 5 x €50 = €250
2020 (Jan-date): 5 x €50 = €250

pbwinner

Winnings on 3rd July 2020: €0
Last win 19th June 2020 2020: €50
Total winnings on €25k from Feb 2011 to date: €3000
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: €50 x 4 €200
2018: €50 x 2 €100
2019: €50 x 6 €300
2020: €50 x 2 €100

Andrew Flexing

Glitch is back for me today.... €50
7 wins in 27 weeks of 2020.

Jan: XXXXX
Feb: €XXX
Mar: XXX€
Apr: €XX€
May:€€XX
Jun: XXXX
Jul: €

Hibernicis

Good start to the second half of the year

Winnings on 3rd July €50
Last win: 5th June €50
Weeks since last win: 4

2017 (Jul-Dec) - €100k – 7x€50 = €350
2018 (Jan-Dec) - €200k – 12x€50 = €600
2019 (Jan-Dec) - €250k – 20x€50 = €1,000
2020 (Jan-July) - €252k - 13x€50 = €650

Agent Smyth

Winner here as well €50

Mantis Toboggan

First week to have prize bonds and nothing

John arse

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

First week to have prize bonds and nothing

good luck for the future,you'll probably need a substantial investment to win regularly.

tuisginideach

John arse wrote: »

good luck for the future,you'll probably need a substantial investment to win regularly.

Or even to win irregularly !!!!!

Mantis Toboggan

John arse wrote: »

good luck for the future,you'll probably need a substantial investment to win regularly.

Cheers 63k won't be long term maybe a year or if and when the markets crash.

John arse

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Cheers 63k won't be long term maybe a year or if and when the markets crash.

haha funny that,i've 66k myself(i had a lot more previously ),we can compare notes about how often we win nothing:mad::mad::mad:

dxhound2005

Nothing for me today. €50 prizes in July draws 5431 up from 5355 in June.

Some of today's lucky people.

Prize Value Winning Prize Bond Location

€50 AMM733835 Meath
€50 AMM734176 Meath

€50 ALW450336 Wexford
€50 ALW450442 Wexford

€50 PD578761 France
€50 PD578810 France

dxhound2005

There were 4,998 €50 prizes in the January draws based on the value of the fund on 31 Dec 19 which was €3.655 billion. The number of prizes based on the value of the fund on 30 June has gone up to 5,431 an increase of 8.7%. Applying that to the fund value gives €3.973 billion.

Sales in the first half of 2019 were €261,639 million and encashments were €145,999 million, from the Annual Report. Using the newest winning numbers rough calculation method the sales in the first half of 2020 are €420 million. That makes the encashments €102 million.

WhiteMan32

No PB wins for myself since 17th January last.:(

dublinbando

pbwinner wrote: »

Winnings on 3rd July 2020: €0
Last win 19th June 2020 2020: €50
Total winnings on €25k from Feb 2011 to date: €3000
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: €50 x 4 €200
2018: €50 x 2 €100
2019: €50 x 6 €300
2020: €50 x 2 €100

Damn man you've been posting results here for nearly a decade :eek: Love seeing things like this!

Living Off The Splash

I have €290k of Prize Bonds. One group of €100k had a total of €600 in wins in 3 years.

I parked this €100k in Prize Bonds after selling shares in a particular company.

The dividends alone from this company over a 3 year period would have been over €14k. So not a good decision on my part, considering the share price remained fairly constant over the 3 years.

Have started reducing my Prize Bond holding as a result. No worth it anymore. I can put the funds to better use elsewhere.

Taylor365

Living Off The Splash wrote: »

I have €290k of Prize Bonds. One group of €100k had a total of €600 in wins in 3 years.

I parked this €100k in Prize Bonds after selling shares in a particular company.

The dividends alone from this company over a 3 year period would have been over €14k. So not a good decision on my part, considering the share price remained fairly constant over the 3 years.

Have started reducing my Prize Bond holding as a result. No worth it anymore. I can put the funds to better use elsewhere.

It was never going to be "worth it".


Its a place to park cash

Hibernicis

Living Off The Splash wrote: »

I have €290k of Prize Bonds. One group of €100k had a total of €600 in wins in 3 years.

I parked this €100k in Prize Bonds after selling shares in a particular company.

The dividends alone from this company over a 3 year period would have been over €14k. So not a good decision on my part, considering the share price remained fairly constant over the 3 years.

Have started reducing my Prize Bond holding as a result. No worth it anymore. I can put the funds to better use elsewhere.

Thanks for posting this. While I agree with Taylor365 that Prize Bonds are largely a place to park cash (my holding is comprised of three distinct cash piles) it is always interesting to hear what others are thinking.

John arse

Taylor365 wrote: »

It was never going to be "worth it".


Its a place to park cash

yeah good point,it's just a pity that the rate is so low