€25k invested in prize bonds

Sligo Quay

Sligo Quay wrote: »

Ok I say this with tongue in cheek, I think the Prize Company have rewarded you for starting this thread, I'm a conspiracy theorist lol, I've won €50 this year on 60k and you've won €150 on 25k, it isn't fair:p LOL

Ok I smell a rat;);), something fishy going on, Prize Bond office must have read my post from last week:D ''keep that loose cannon quite:) anyway €50euro today on my €30k batch, last win April 9th, 3 batchs €10k €20k and €30k total €60k and 100 old bonds from the 1980s. Total wins to date in 2020 €100.
Total winnings to date €1,300 since August 2015.
2015 €100
2016 €350
2017 €400
2018 €100
2019 €250
2020 €100

Sligo Quay

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Move to Roscommon.

45 prizes shown
Prize Value Winning Prize Bond Location

€50 PJ008927 Roscommon
€50 PJ010481 Roscommon

€50 ADJ208458 Roscommon
€50 ADJ209120 Roscommon

That's the whole point, I've no connection with the lovely town of Sligo, and Roscommon is a bit far from Dublin:D if I ever get that big payday it will be listed as a ''Dublin winner'', hungry relatives won't find me in Sligo:)

carrickbawn

[QUO!TE=Sligo Quay;114799808]Ok I smell a rat;);), something fishy going on, Prize Bond office must have read my post from last week:D ''keep that loose cannon quite:) anyway €50euro today on my €30k batch, last win April 9th, 3 batchs €10k €20k and €30k total €60k and 100 old bonds from the 1980s. Total wins to date in 2020 €100.

Strange to say I won 50 euros today from a batch that last won 6/3/20.
I hadn’t posted on here for months until last week when I could no longer resist a little whinge.
There might be some truth in the old saying. “The crying baby gets the bottle “.
Anyway,I’m glad to have a win after a long drought.

adox

Nothing for me again. First week with two new batches added to the pot.

tuisginideach

Delighted for you Carrickbawn - hope it lasts!

dxhound2005

Nothing for me today. 5612 €50 prizes in Oct draws, up from 5548 in Sept. Looks like 2 out of 3 wins in Derry went to the same person, and 2 out of 6 in Tyrone.

Prize Value Winning Prize Bond Location

€50 YR917356 Derry
€50 YR919186 Derry

€50 ADW930646 Tyrone
€50 ADW933584 Tyrone

50K to 2013 bond, and looking at the Offaly results for the past few draws the winner might have made a major investment in bonds back then.

https://www.offalyindependent.ie/2020/10/02/big-prize-bond-winner-in-offaly/

downtheroad

My bank has a daily limit of €2,500 on my debit card. I don't want to have to buy in numerous transactions. How have others bought more than this value in one go? Crazy that Prize Bonds don't take bank transfer.

Mantis Toboggan

Ring the bank and get them to up the limit, mine was set at 25k a day so done it over multiple days.

maebee

downtheroad wrote: »

My bank has a daily limit of €2,500 on my debit card. I don't want to have to buy in numerous transactions. How have others bought more than this value in one go? Crazy that Prize Bonds don't take bank transfer.

Not sure if this is helpful to you but how we did it was by bank draft. We closed our TSB savings account and they made out a bank draft to us, with which we purchased the prize bonds.

downtheroad

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Ring the bank and get them to up the limit, mine was set at 25k a day so done it over multiple days.

Called the bank before posting and the person I spoke to said this couldn't be done. Not very helpful from them. A draft might be easiest as suggested by another poster.

sportsfan90

I went into AIB lately to ask if they could increase the limit on my card and the person behind the desk looked at me like I’d two heads.

So I used a bank draft instead, I made it out to An Post.

scheister

Earlier in the year someone linked an excel that shows odds of winning each prize based on your holdings. Does anyone have easy reach of that excel. I have looked in the thread but cant find it

Thaks

Ignore it was posted on Ask about Money not here

sportsfan90

scheister wrote: »

Earlier in the year someone linked an excel that shows odds of winning each prize based on your holdings. Does anyone have easy reach of that excel. I have looked in the thread but cant find it

Thaks

Ignore it was posted on Ask about Money not here

Could you put up a link to that please?

Andrew Flexing

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

tuisginideach

:(Getting upset/cross/despondent here

PB2018

Wins on 9th October 2020: €0
Last win - 25th September 2020: €50
Weeks since last win: 2
€134k invested in prize bonds since July 2017
Win ratio: 21 wins in 171 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): 7 x €50 = €350

pbwinner

Winnings on 9th October 2020: €0
Last win 25th September 2020: €50
Total winnings on €25k from Feb 2011 to date: €3050
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 3 €150

Cork Lass

€50 for us this week - a very old bond.

Hibernicis

sportsfan90 wrote: »

Could you put up a link to that please?

This is the AAM post containing the link

Note that the number of €50 prizes has increased considerably since the spreadsheet was last updated (2018) so you will need to update the "Total Prize bond fund" in the table on the second sheet accordingly to get an accurate result. (The spreadsheet is based on a prize fund of €3.1bn. Only the number of €50 prizes vary, the remainder of the prize structure is unchanged)

Hibernicis

Cork Lass wrote: »

€50 for us this week - a very old bond.

How old, as a matter of interest (the bond, not you!)

pbtracker

Winnings on 9th October 2020: €0
Last win : €50 Aug 28th
Investment :
Up to Aug 2020 : €12K
Aug 2020 : €72K
Sept 2020 : €77K
Total winnings to date: €150

Cork Lass

Hibernicis wrote: »

How old, as a matter of interest (the bond, not you!)

25 years old, unfortunately that’s how old the bond is - I’m a bit older than that 🤣🤣

Sligo Quay

Cork Lass wrote: »

25 years old, unfortunately that’s how old the bond is - I’m a bit older than that 🤣🤣

Nice to see an old bond winning, what series is it if you don't mind me asking, my oldest bond was purchased in February 1985, over 35 years old from the AF

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Nothing for me today, last win 2nd October 2020 €50euro.

dxhound2005

Nothing for me. There are more than usual close numbers winning today, the best ones these two from Mayo.

Prize Value Winning Prize Bond Location

€50 AJD919235 Mayo
€50 AJD919240 Mayo

Hibernicis

Cork Lass wrote: »

25 years old, unfortunately that’s how old the bond is - I’m a bit older than that 🤣🤣

First birthday present was it

dxhound2005

Sligo Quay wrote: »

Nice to see an old bond winning, what series is it if you don't mind me asking, my oldest bond was purchased in February 1985, over 35 years old from the AF

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Nothing for me today, last win 2nd October 2020 €50euro.

206 winners today, 3.66% were £5 bonds. The first Euro denominated bond was DL 000001. Well over half of the bonds in circulation now are triple letter, mid 2015 and later. This is reflected in the winning numbers every week.

maebee

I had a little too much time on my hands this evening and did a bit of a list from our PB online account


AK - £10 - Sep 1988 - no wins

AS - £10 - Jan 1993 - no wins

KI - €1,000 - Apr 2009 - no wins

KS - €1,000 - Jun 2009 - no wins

ANF - €50,000 - Jan 2019 - 8 x €50 wins


Our last €50 win was in July 2020.

Sligo Quay

dxhound2005 wrote: »

206 winners today, 3.66% were £5 bonds. The first Euro denominated bond was DL 000001. Well over half of the bonds in circulation now are triple letter, mid 2015 and later. This is reflected in the winning numbers every week.

Interesting and yet each individual bond, they say, has an equal chance of winning, how does the random calculator actually work, I see today a 5 number bond won €50, 63 years old, the original purchaser could well be dead or very old, a bond from March 1957.

adox

Nothing for me again. Second week of my increased stake. Increased it by approx 40%.

One win in approx 12 months.

dxhound2005

Sligo Quay wrote: »

Interesting and yet each individual bond, they say, has an equal chance of winning, how does the random calculator actually work, I see today a 5 number bond won €50, 63 years old, the original purchaser could well be dead or very old, a bond from March 1957.

Saying that every bond has an equal chance is a useful shorthand. But £5 bonds (worth €6.35) have a slightly better chance than Euro bonds worth €6.25.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2004/si/582/made/en/print