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Publishers Clearing House (PCH) Reviews Summary

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.

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80
value
79
shipping
72
returns
60
quality
81

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Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I'm sick and tired of filling out Surveys and not being compensated for my time. These unethical bastards work as follows. I spend 30 to 55 minutes filling out the survey, then being informed that the "survey is closed. We are no longer accepting surveys." So, what this boils down to is that I'm getting screwed. The bastard survey company is receiving free labor and absolutely wasting my time. And contacting Publishers Clearing House is another exercise in futility. They won't answer to any complaints, further proof that they are not an honest, forthright company, but a den of cheating, disreputable, lying, bastards.

Date of experience: February 2, 2025
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam
January 30, 2025

I downloaded the app today and played a couple of games. Said I won seven dollars and then my Apple app pops up in the seven dollars said deposit seven dollars. Well I checked my bank app to see if it actually deposited seven dollars and instead it withdrew seven dollars Calling my bank right now to report this as soon as it clears. People do not use this it is a scam. I don't care what anybody else says. It is a complete scam.

Date of experience: January 30, 2025
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible waste of time
September 28, 2024

I have been playing for 5+ years in hopes of winning something. In fact have spent over 3 billion tokens in trying to win a stupid 50 dollar amazon gift card, but nothing. Complaining does not good to customer service, the overseas people could care less, their other part time job is doing fraud virus calls. I hope they go out of business. I am not playing anymore as of today...goodbye scammers!

Date of experience: September 28, 2024
Washington
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Review
February 23, 2024

I been with pch for a while and claiming my stuff until i had a question i called customer service got hung up on. Then called again the lady side step my question im dislike customer service not very friendly i m trying to figure out about the lotto i hit all the numbers but they wont tell me nothing there there starting be scandlist

Date of experience: February 23, 2024
Delaware
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Playing over 30 years
December 24, 2023

Its either racist, or search engine scam, started when I was 19 years old I am now 59 years old. I truly believe this is some kind of scam, magazine, search or the company is racist

Date of experience: December 24, 2023
Ohio
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Ruined my mom's life!
December 1, 2023

My mom is elderly and has been playing for 5 years now, she has a spare bedroom with all the stuff she has bought covering the whole bed. She keeps saying they'll be here any day now and she's on her phone constantly playing all the games. She just lost her house because she was expecting pch to come any day, she was behind on her property tax and had such faith in pch... it was ridiculous! Well they never came and her house I grew up in is gone.
It should be against the law to do this to people.

Date of experience: December 1, 2023
Michigan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It's not fun anymore
October 31, 2023

I use to have fun playing pch but not anymore. No one ever wins anything anymore and tokens are to hard to get. Bummer bye PCH

Date of experience: October 31, 2023
New Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My Pchprize patrol reviews Tim.C
October 29, 2023
Updated review

Right now I only rate pch a one star rating because of there propaganda BS. To try to get you to purchase somthing before you can get to the part of the site to submit entry to munch product advertising online for those only wanting to play the online sweepstakes and sumitt a entry my guess is there clue of where there heading is Idaho because the clue said the state bird is the color of there uniform wich is Blue unless there misleading and there are other states that have a bird that's the color Blue

Date of experience: October 29, 2023

Tim's overall review
November 16, 2022
Previous review

Not a very good Buisness in overall always trying to sell you something and I get to many emails from them I have called them recently no to long ago and in the past to not to send me all these emails I could play by calling in my entry over the phone

Date of experience: November 16, 2022
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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DON'T BUY ON PCH+ APP
October 8, 2023

I have been presented with many great bargains on the PCH Plus app. They are too good to be true. The latest one was shown to me at least a dozen times and said I could get a deluxe box set of karl Lagerfeld colored pencils for $39.99 plus tax. A dozen times, I thought this is a rip off. There is no way the price is this low but, they finally wore me down. I figured if it was a rip off I could just contact PCH and they would fix it because these people were advertising on their app. NOPE. I waited 2 months for my pencils to arrive and then checked the URL they gave me during checkout which went to a no longer existing site. I contacted PCH through their laborious and deliberately complicated help site. 2 days later, the response was that there are many different types of advertisers on the app and the particular advertiser I responded to was the kind that they don't monitor or endorse. WHAT? This means that if you donate to a charity on their side, or subscribe to something or buy a product on their app, it may or may not be legit. You will know if it is legit when you do or don't receive something for what you paid. If you don't receive something for what you paid, it's not legit, so please don't bother PCH. Yes, they let them rip you off, but tough luck. Maybe next time you pay for something on the PCH app you will be lucky enough to get what you paid for. The lesson is that buying something on the PCH app is similar to entering a PCH contest, you may or you may not win.

Date of experience: October 8, 2023
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Not true!
September 16, 2023

I revive emails saying instant wins, all it does direct me to real state to buy homes I wish for & I can't afford, to change auto insurance I am not interested in. Not true, no one wins. Of course this is a negative review I bet won't get posted

Date of experience: September 16, 2023
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fake...I feel so bad for dad. He has been playing for 23 years and only one 5 bucks. He keeps I'll keep trying, I'll probably be in my grave playing, he says. Lol...I'll try to convince to leave it alone and to stop wasting his time...

Date of experience: August 31, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No one ever win black and young someone who could really make a difference with the founding like build safe havens for homeless in my home town or make a way for battered woman if I had a chance at pch I'd make it actually worth given the prize to a young driven to change our world and less fortunate world sum our system yet failing to accomplish after all their rules and restrictions to resources no homeless want to even get the help of the broken system if it ain't rules it's limits and hold backs

Date of experience: August 30, 2023
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Is PCH honest?
August 29, 2023

I once loved PCH. I got great deals on things. Now all that has changed. I got charged for things I didn't order. I received things I didn't order. I offered to return them if they would pay the postage. No response. Now they have collectors pestering me. I have concluded that PCH is not very honest.

Date of experience: August 29, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Date of experience: August 15, 2023
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Jason Ellis
August 14, 2023

I really enjoy the new PCH app, very good graphics and easy to use, they have better games this time around.

Date of experience: August 14, 2023
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ok my PCH story short version that girl that says you don't pay anything well she ask for me to spend money 300 dollars on a gift card so she can activated my prize
So spend money on something they say doesn't go to them but you send it to them

Ok now when you getting closer to getting your prize they want your information that's do one but i had a problem with that for one she wanted me to send a picture of my ssn card
Ya over the phone so i had a problem with that so you no what she did she sent me a picture of someone ssn card and i told her now that why i don't want to do that that is all they need to take e from you
So she got upset that wouldn't do that
I asked her to send me proof of who she is so maybe i would do that for her
So she sends me a picture of her she says i just did this in my office so i was ok then i got to thinking wait i seen that be so i looked back at pictures she. Sent me days ago geuss what there it was sane picture so she lied to me and when i called her out on that she got up
Then she said if i won't give that card to her she giving my prize to someone else and she quit me and block me from her

So watch out don't believe
They just got sued for doing this to people

Date of experience: July 27, 2023
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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So this is simply a narrative about something that occurred to me. I got a strange call from some unknown person claiming to be from PCH and asking why I hadn't responded to the PCH notification that had been mailed to me. "What was the address to which the notification was sent?" I inquired. He began to mention some numbers but asked me to wait as he looked up my phone number to identify the address linked with it. He returns after a minute or two and says he has no idea. "Then you're simply a horrible scammer," I said. How are you going to contact me if you don't even know what my name is or my address? He hung up, unsure of how to answer.

Date of experience: June 1, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Winnings
April 12, 2023

My name is Joanna Mita. I was told by Danielle Lam threw Facebook, followed me on Instagram claim I won money, and prize. Danielle Lam told me she is with holding my money and prize that I won. Danielle Lam said I have to pay a fee, and go get a Walmart gift card. Danielle Lam told me until I pay her the fee, Walmart gift card. She will come to my door step with my winnings. This is illegal and Fraud. I'm going to Sue Danielle Lam, and report PCH to the Better Business Bureau. For PCH to go out of Business. It's false advertising that we don't have to pay for our money, prizes.

Date of experience: April 12, 2023
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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PCH is a legal scam
February 26, 2023

PCH main objective is getting you to buy cheap merchandise under the disguise of making you a millionaire they even say they Love their customers. I am 70 years old - have ordered from them since my 20's 50 years now. The merchandise is super cheap. I have never won any money and I I don't understand don't know anyone who has ever won a cent. I don't understand how they are legally allowed to take advantage of people especially elderly.

Date of experience: February 26, 2023
Ohio
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I would like to see more often PCH giving a million dollar prize to someone in their 40s living in a $30,000 home. Instead of only upper middle class people. That makes me think the game is rigged much like the state lotteries. Always filtering the money to the upper class. Some people who only live on $12,000 a year should be winners at sometime.

Date of experience: February 12, 2023