Publishers Clearing House Reviews

Stop with the unsolicited phone calls. It’s extremely annoying to get phone calls from different numbers. My phone is listed on a federal do not call list. How is it? These people can call me without me registering?

I have to wait over 1 hour and a half to get someone, then she doesn't know her games. I asked for A SUPERVISOR AND SHE REFUSED, THEN HUNG UP ON ME!!! They offer double tokens on their lotto, yet do not give them to you! SCAM!!!

I've been entering PCH for almost 40 years. I remember when we entered PCH by mail. I have never won one single thing from them. Now they want you to spend hours on a computer to enter and I'm starting to think it's a scam.

I started playing PCH back in 2016. Over the years I was on the game consistently. I also downloaded the app. Back in 2023, I was told by mail that I was going to become the next winner by October 30. When that time came, the prize patrol never showed up. I was very disappointed. Plus I have the red diamond.

Very disappointed. I have been a customer since 1994 and have won 15.00 only. I have over 1 billion tokens for nothing..What do you do with tokens left? Your company should acknowledge the people who have been loyal for so long..

What a rip off PCH HAS COME TO BE, they have sold my personal information to ex employees who have scammed me and have refused to do anything about it. I have accumulated over 1.3 billion tokens and have never won anything, I don't believe that any of the winners they post even exist, I'm playing each and every day, trying to file a complaint for whatever reason is just pathetic,.

I have been a customer for decades buying many magazines, then "stuff". The site seems to have evolved into a video ad machine. There are even ads for foreign dating sites. Many of the video ads cannot be ended and it seems like I was forced to watch ads that were 2-9 minutes long that can't be turned off, so I would just get up and do some chores. I mainly used the site to just play the games which have no prizes, but I started encountering malware and viruses that I literally had to shut the computer down to get rid of them. I did win $100 recently, but I don't remember winning anything.

It's not a scam as others have claimed but you have to understand that the odds of winning a prize are astronomical because they literally receive millions of entries on a daily basis. That being said, someone somewhere WILL win each of the listed prizes and I guarantee that the winner will not be someone who doesn't bother to enter. So have I personally ever won a prize from them? Well actually yeah, I heard one of their radio ads and played around on their site to pass the time because my job has periods of down time throughout the day. Then one day I received an email from them saying that I had won a $250 Amazon gift card from a token entry. I was a bit skeptical but when I entered the coupon code they provided in the Amazon website checkout it was totally legit!

Does PCH have any staff checking sweeps for accuracy? Six months ago, I noticed five for which a zero had been removed from the advancing prize amounts. I.e., instead of amounts from $100,000 up to $1,000,000 by 100 thousands; now, it is $10,000, $20,000…$90,000 BUT THEN $1,000,000. So many zeros missing seems deliberate. Surely 9 entries say, get you a $90K qualification, but 10 get you one million dollars drawing qualified. A website which had a digital time display be eight minutes slow for several months before disappearing a few years ago indicated a lack of oversight. The prize amounts above a certain amount, if not paid in full and minus income taxes prior to receipt do not constitute say, really winning one million dollars.

If you love commercials and don't expect to ever win anything, PBS is where you want to be. For one entry of a particular contest, there were 5 commercials. Even when you cash in your tokens, you have to sit through a commercial or 2. You should at least get some sort of a token prize just for having to endure all the commercials.