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Publishers Clearing House (PCH)

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New York
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Building Sand Castles
March 30, 2016

I have been entering PCH since the early 1970's as a 20+ year old. I recently concluded, I am building castles in the sand that wash away with the tide as I am now 66+ years old and never won so much as a dollar. My last token totals were in the millions. I have stopped playing.

Time to construct on a solid foundation,

Date of experience: March 30, 2016
South Carolina
1 review
17 helpful votes
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As a result? I have YET to 'Win' even a dollar. I realize the odds are more than vast... but, I also have reason to believe PCH should be investigated for any indication of their scamming trusting 'players'. Never again will I use my time to tolerate "Respond Immediately" or whatever!

Date of experience: November 16, 2017
Arkansas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I can tell you i been doing this since they started. I can tell you how it goes you push the button the ball comes out spins around the 500.00 dollar area always hitd bumper into 2000 coins it goes. I have also noticed that on slots it will skip as it is spinning and about to stop it speeds up then stops no way you can get the instance win 5 times. Also on live drawing you see your name spinning right in front of tube but dont go in. I hit one time and it said error in services and cuts the whole app off. Now i been doing this when you did this by mail 23 years havent miss a year so my review is good

Date of experience: August 19, 2019
Illinois
2 reviews
30 helpful votes
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I ordered a voltage tester both don't work! They never replied to that problem they just wanted money! Its a big assed scam! They're making money! Your not gonna win anything though! That's why they call it clearing house! They scam you into buying up all this cheap crap they can! This aught to be shut down!

Date of experience: June 24, 2019
West Virginia
1 review
40 helpful votes
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Total scam
July 27, 2015

I have figured out how Publishers Clearing House never awards the "mega prize" with their "special early looks." All the numbers for the "special early looks" have to be returned by a certified date. Then all the numbers are fed into a computer. Then PCH has the computer churn out a "winning number" that does NOT match any of the returned ones, so they can honestly say "the winning number was not returned." This has happened all last year and now twice this year. Just wait--the August "special early look" won't result in anybody winning the" $5000 a week for life and then $5000 a year for the life of someone you choose," either. This is just a scam to drum up business through the life of the sweepstakes. I have already contacted the Federal trade Commission about this and I hope they put a stop to this!

Date of experience: July 27, 2015
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Products are from "Smart Home" and pre pretty low quality. Most items can be gotten cheaper for the same or better quality from Amazon.com. Getting them to lose your number or email or address is next to impossible. Getting them to cancel an order is next to impossible. Refunds? Forget about it. Best to stay away from this company. They suck you in with the sweepstakes and keep pushing the cheap products. Stay away...

Date of experience: January 25, 2023
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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It's fun!
March 17, 2015

I don't mind if I don't win, however it would be nice I have three kids and a miracle would be a nice change... but I'm happy(: I see a lot of bad reviews but personally I like it, it's free to play, out passes time, maybe one day I'll win big :p and for all the advertisements there is a skip button, it's not required to veiw their sponsors, it clearly says spending money doesn't increase your chances. Also if you click on game details or rules it gives the odds of winning and their contact info... I give it 5 stars even though I've never won anything exciting just because it's free and fun(:

Date of experience: March 17, 2015
Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Selling Machine
May 25, 2022

Very few high value prizes are awarded. The company is a marketing and sales machine. I bought 1 thing and 1 magazine in the past at 2 different times. Both items were not the items ordered. I called the so called customer service and received arguments from both representatives that could barely speak English. I think they were in the Philippines. Haven't ordered since. The excuse for not awarding the high level prizes is they didn't respond. Funny how that occurs most of the time. If you look at the odds of winning, you'll notice it is 10x worse than the state and national lotto games. I feel it's a scam.

Date of experience: May 25, 2022
Massachusetts
1 review
21 helpful votes
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Shoddy, cheap foods worth less than their excessive shipping costs. Always comparison shop anything they offer, you will get better customer service, lower prices, and better quality than ANYTHING PCH offers. Also don't be misled by mystery gifts. You will get endless repeats of things that wind up in the trash.

Date of experience: July 19, 2020
Alabama
3 reviews
22 helpful votes
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Never met a PCH winner.
January 24, 2016

I've been entering PCH sweepstakes for many years and never won_anything, not even a $10 daily prize giveaway.
I don't believe anyone wins and the only way I could be convinced is if a winner came to my home and was able to prove they won.
I don't know why i still bother considering the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.

Date of experience: January 24, 2016
New York
1 review
13 helpful votes
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But I am so lucky they are coming to my zip code. And I have VIP status and 4,956,500 in tokens. Which will give you absolutely Nothing! And if you owe them $11 and your late with your payment you are threatened with collection even though you have been a customer since 1999. JW

Date of experience: July 12, 2017
Washington
1 review
20 helpful votes
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Always a final step.
October 2, 2017

I stopped doing Publishers Clearing House years ago. I guess they just do not get it. I am not interested in getting rich or what they are selling. Still they tried again by sending a final step to win the jackpot prize letter. It was to be the very last one!
Ha! I got 4 more letters saying it is the final step and I am one of the winners! Really? Than why is it there is always another final step?
Do not waste your time! If you like what they are selling fine, but forget about the winning angle! All they are doing is feeding on your greed! I guess they think that is the only way to sale products, that people do not want!
I do not know why they are still in business! I guess there are many fools out there who do not read the rules and regulations of the prizes awards! Personally, I think it is all a scam to get people to by their products. There is no prize, just words!

Date of experience: October 2, 2017
South Carolina
1 review
20 helpful votes
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Its all BS
October 19, 2017

If you think you will ever win anything from this place, guess again. ALL of their games are fake, even the alleged so called "winners" names are fake. Its true, I searched the names of about 50 random names from their "winners" list and NONE OF THEM exist. All your ever going to get from them is a bunch of useless tokens from their online games that you can cash in for chances at non existent gift cards and stuff. The only thing i will say is that it is a great way to kill time if your bored. It takes hours to get through games because of all the commercials.

Date of experience: October 19, 2017
Missouri
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Fake emails from this company. Telling innocent and trusting people that they have won and this is the final step. I was a victim of pch for only 4 months and that was too long! These people prey on trusting people that want to " Supposedly Get Rich" abd these people actually become victims!

Date of experience: November 9, 2017
California
3 reviews
30 helpful votes
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I have been playing games and searching now for over a year, every day I get a different email, search now for this drawing & another for this drawing. I've also redeemed so many tokens & have won absolutely NOTHING. I understand there are millions of people playing, but come on over a million tokens & not even a lousy 10$ gift card to McDonald's not that I would want that, dnt eat there jus an example. Just how many different drawings do they actually have a year. I'm tired of searching, playing games, redeeming tokens, just a waste of time. Plus I'm disabled & just had back surgery, rather play a game from the play store on my phone. If there was a lower than 1 rating, I would give a -10

Date of experience: July 29, 2015
Arizona
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Bad programers
September 29, 2018

Their games freeze up, everytime they have a "winner" they change games and obviously do not test them... they OFTEN cheat you out of "bonus" points like daily... big ones like the 45,000 tokens and bonus tokens for searching... they just take you back to zero

Date of experience: September 29, 2018
Minnesota
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Political ad
September 17, 2016

The political ad about Rick Nolan that keeps running over and over is very misleading. He voted for raises 20 years ago. Pres. Obama was going to veto the bill that included pay raises for military because it only funded the military for one year. Pch should review content before runnung ads.

Date of experience: September 17, 2016
Pennsylvania
5 reviews
57 helpful votes
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Like others have said the PCH site is a joke. It takes hours to complete the games, the entries, the scratch-offs, etc, etc and there is no way anyone can rack up the points like you see on the token board everyday. I tried and on a good day of high token earnings got to 104,000 tokens but that was all day. I have no idea how anyone can get to past 200K from midnight to noon unless they don't sleep and have a trick or two. Even playing the extra games, it can't be possible.
As someone in need of cash and good fortune from a win it's easy to see how they pull people in. They got me for 4 small orders(only things I need for the house) but it adds up. I usually don't go for magazines but have noticed in the last 3 days that nearly every entry comes with a chance to order something.
It's good if you're bored with nothing else to do I suppose but avoid ordering.

Date of experience: September 24, 2014
Georgia
1 review
31 helpful votes
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I have noticed the same thing. On last night 10 mins into a new day and several people have over 100,000 token... I can't even get that in a whole day, no way they can get that many in 10 minutes unless they have uncoverd how to cheat the system. And by the way the same people keep winning the 100 daily token. Frank V from CO just won again that last 2 days in a row... with something like 180,000. Seriously PCH... some of us are honestly playing yet people are obviously cheating the system and you have done nothing about it.

Date of experience: September 14, 2014
Oregon
1 review
26 helpful votes
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I have been participating in various PCH sweepstakes, magazines since 1973 and since 1989 online games and sweepstakes. Applying my 100's of millions of tokens... with no results. It wasn't so bad when I had access to the Savings Coupons but now, they are even gone. I started when I was 19 and now almost 66. Should I just be satisfied playing games to keep my mind active. Sounds like I have no chance of winning even the Camera I've been trying to win on Token Games much less thousands of dollars in their Sweepstakes. Really? As stated on the blogs, are the winners shown on the Video's really PCH family members? The Rules clearly state that family members can't win much less participate. If the comments are true, how on earth are they getting away with this? I am so sad.

Date of experience: January 17, 2017

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