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Publishers Clearing House (PCH)

pch.com
New Jersey
1 review
10 helpful votes
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IT TAKES HOURS TO ENTER AND COMPLETE ALL THE GAMES. EVERY GAME HAS WAY TO MANY SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENTS. YOU NEVER HEAR OF PEOPLE WINNING THE HOUSE, THE CAR, THE SPA, NOT A THING. NO MATER HOW MANY TOKENS YOU EARN, YOU DON'T WIN ANYTHING. I REMEMBER ONE WINNER STATED THAT SHE ONLY PLAYED THE GAMES ONE TIME AND WAS A BIG WINNER, THAT'S NOT LUCK WHEN SOME OF US PLAY EVERYDAY. I'M STARTING TO HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS MYSELF ABOUT PCH GAMES. I HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOR YEARS. LET'S ALL BE REAL. WITH TODAYS ECONOMY WHAT IS A 5,10 AND TWENTY DOLLAR GIVE AWAY...

Date of experience: July 23, 2017
Ohio
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Bull$#*!
April 29, 2017

Twice was sent emails stating i won joke scam that is all it is i have contacted att. Generals office they called sending said they would send an investigator out to talk with me we will see

Date of experience: April 29, 2017
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I've been playing everyday. Until one day, for the past week or two, your app froze up & keeps saying error! Can't play if the app won't download correctly! UGH

Date of experience: June 9, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ive been playing for 6 years from 7:a.m in the morning till 10:00 PM at night. Hund reds of thousands of searches and a spent a lot of money on items you can buy at a Dollar store. You won't get any item for under $25.00 so you can rack up a lot money in 2 months of playing series of $5,000 dollar per week Super prizes. My last bill was $700.00 and my bill now is $800.00. My main gripe is they lead you on thinking you are winning and they already know you did not win.Waste of time and money. I guess I was too desperate to keep playing after losing my home and car. Don't let desperation cloud your judgement. The whole scheme is really brilliant and on prize day you can almost hear them saying "Got Ya" People do not need to partake in these schemes desperate or not. My whole family was always mad at me and called me a fool so I set out to prove them wrong. I feel like such a fool. Nobody is ever going to drive up to your house and hand you a check for $1,000,000. Or even $5.00. The game cannot be won. If someone wins it might be one time a year and they still give you payments on anything you win so I've read from other customers. When they are sending you a message on prize day telling you just wait and see if its You, they already know it is not you. That's better left unsaid instead of getting your hopes up. All is a big rip off. Play your state lottery.

Date of experience: December 31, 2022
Arizona
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Cheap crab from china
February 3, 2020

I got their "free" gift that I paid only $5 for shipping it was a crap set of kitchen towels you can buy at the dollar store for a buck quit trying to rip us off

Date of experience: February 3, 2020
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Shut Down PCH!
May 25, 2022

American Citizens! Quit dreaming that you are going to be the 1 person in TEN MILLION to have Publisher's Clearing House knock on your door and give you a barrel of money! PCH has now become the Scammer's Playground, and 99% of you are too STUPID to know you are getting took! REMEMBER the old saying: "If it's TOO good tone TRUE, ITS NOT TRUE!". PCH contacts you IN PERSON, UNEXPECTEDLY! NOT BY PHONE! WAKE UP! Don't be a MORON! PCH is now nothing but a nuisance! Quit sitting around in your underwear and bunny slippers waiting for the doorbell to ring! Don't feed this beast! Toss all the crap they send you, and go make an honest dollar! PCH is a SOCIETAL MORIAH! Kill it by Not feeding it with responses and empty Hope!

Date of experience: May 25, 2022
California
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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I have the play and win app. In the past 2 years I've won three times ($250 twice and a$5 Gift Card for Amazon). I have over 60million tokens and the only thing they're good for is trying to win prizes that we should be able to buy with the tokens instead. I have been playing PCH since the late 80's (through the mail) and I won't quit now maybe my turn to win is coming up soon. I'm grateful for the $505 winnings cause some people haven't won anything yet. Well good luck to all who will continue to play the game and for those of you who quit THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for giving me better odds of winning!

Date of experience: May 29, 2016
Arizona
1 review
12 helpful votes
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I have ordered few items hoping to use but none of them were of any good quality. Same things I can get it for less than half price in Chinese stores.
VOLTAGE TESTER, ICE CUBE TRAY 25.00 cheap plastic, PET HAIR CLEANING GLOVE 19.00 only few hairs stick, ICE TRAY WITH STORAGE BIN 21.00 cheap plastic not BPA free. All products made cheaply in China. The shipping cost kills it too. I need to return everything. I will never buy any products from them in hopes to win to support cheap products from China.

Date of experience: August 14, 2021
Florida
3 reviews
28 helpful votes
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I wish I had researched PCH's merchandise before I purchased. Now I see why it only has 2 stars. I ordered a ceiling fan cleaning brush for $9.95. What I received was a cheap piece of crap. In addition to the cost of the product, it also TAXED the shipping charge! So, I ended up being charged $17.65 for a $9.95 item! If you're smart, DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE (PCH). Buy from ANY OTHER source.

Date of experience: July 23, 2020
Connecticut
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I am approaching the final straw with PCH. The Instacart ad which is 30 seconds without a skip plays continuously. If I press the reload icon, the ad may reappear or I have to wait the remainder of the 30 seconds to get to the next game. I have written PCH 5 times about this. When I respond to their surveys (if not a positive response from me), there is an error notice so they only accept positive responses. This does not reflect well on PCH. One has to think-what else is not legitimate.
I love playing the games when the ad situation is not a problem. I really don't expect to win more than the $10 or $5 that comes my way once a year. I am embarrassed to say how many tokens I have earned over the years.
What puzzles me is the lack of $5,000/$$7,000 a week winners announced each 3 month period.
There is usually the one million dollar winner for that period.
I am also embarrassed to say how many of their items I have purchased. Loved the cotton nightgowns which they no longer offer. However, the rest is junk and expensive-way over what one would spend at Walmart or a discount store.
Bet they have a lot of retired folks like me who spend time on PCH. Remember that stamps are now 55 cents. PCH has improved its ads over the last five years. Some of the stupid ads ran for 2 minutes and there was no skip. Ah, but that improvement isn't enough. Guess it's back to gardening, birdwatching, books, puzzles, and good neighbors. Well, everything in moderation.

Date of experience: October 4, 2022
Texas
4 reviews
11 helpful votes
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I fault myself for even getting involved with such a scam as this. I was looking for a unique gift, found something I could settle with through PCH. I needed several of these items for a project I was developing. So I played PCH game, ordering items as needed. The thing is, I always paid in full when ordering and added $6 for shipping. Because I began to always receive additional fees I am now looking at a large bill. I have been in numerous discussion with PCH trying to figure this out unsuccessfully. Has anyone ever faced this problem? And if so, what was the solution? There are many complaints about this company. I would like to explore the options of a class action law suit. Any suggestions in this area will be considered.To add insult to injury, most of the items ordered were cheap plastic, cracking or breaking after the first use. I even ordered some metal bowls that had plastic covers. The covers were cracked along the edges from the opening of the package. Not happy with this company at all.

Date of experience: July 20, 2017
Pennsylvania
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I love playing the games especially the token toss and the red door memory game lol. Whether I win or lose, it's all good. Thanks for making my days a little better PCH

Date of experience: April 15, 2017
Illinois
4 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Mail
December 15, 2017

I have been a member of pch since 2011 really before that I use to get a lot of mail and emails but for at least 6 or 8 months nothing. What happened?

Date of experience: December 15, 2017
Iowa
1 review
0 helpful votes
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How is it possible that I've played for many years but never been able to win any money at all! I've gotten over 100 million tokens but not a cent in money! Why?

Date of experience: April 19, 2021
Connecticut
1 review
26 helpful votes
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I feel so sad
November 1, 2016

I feel so, so sad that in this time in history a company as large as PCH does such HORRIBLE, HURTFUL things to other people... human beings as they have done both to the people who have been desperately waiting and trying to win what seems to be a BOGUS SCAM. I am one of those people who it has hurt... to the point of tears, thinking that "everything is going to be OK" How do you sleep at night or kiss your spouse and children? How very COLD AND HURTFUL!

Date of experience: November 1, 2016
North Carolina
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Most of the time the site is having problems or not working, I have been putting up with this for at least 40 years. Still love to play games. In 40 years I have only won a $10 gift card on amazon

Date of experience: January 19, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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A scam is all they are
November 9, 2022

Try to register they say no purchase necessary but I keep getting the run around on the website so I purchased something thinking that was my final step that's what they told me then I keep getting emails and mailing circulars saying I have one more step I call customer service number and this guy could not help me said oh you can call and register for the prize I told him no thank you take me off your list this is nothing but a scam and a run around I'm not buying no more crap from you all

Date of experience: November 9, 2022
Texas
1 review
15 helpful votes
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PCH Deceipt TACTICS
December 27, 2017

Every time i go through all orders ti make my entries, something I did not order appears in the purchased cart. It is very important to check it or you find yourself having to through much bs to REMOVE IT! I am seriously thinking if ending my PCH MADNESS IF 30 SOMETHING YEARS and start a new year without my addiction to something nothing more than a waste of life!

Date of experience: December 27, 2017
Florida
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Pch
December 21, 2015

Ok this may have been long ago but I got the message today remember in the comments on the Google play app you told me to go *******@app *******@pchmail.com I was a winner of the 100$ amazon gift card but I fegard out what was wrong I was not signed into a pch account so can you plz give me the money so I can buy something for Christmas

Date of experience: December 21, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Bs
July 15, 2022

I've been a pch member for almost 10 years now. I've never won a single dime but yet they keep claiming everyone else wins. Have you ever met anyone that won anything from PCH? I haven't

Date of experience: July 15, 2022

Overview

Publishers Clearing House (PCH) has a rating of 1.5 stars from 608 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Publishers Clearing House (PCH) most frequently mention clearing house, customer service and gift card. Publishers Clearing House (PCH) ranks 12th among Sweepstakes sites.

service
80
value
79
shipping
72
returns
60
quality
81