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Publishers Clearing House is a direct marketing company that markets magazine subscriptions and some merchandise, including kitchen gadgets, with sweepstakes and prize-based games. Its casino-style games include slots, keno, quizzes, scratch-offs, solitaire and others.
- Daily sweepstakes
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- Marketing overload
- Slim odds
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Reviewed July 5, 2024
The PCH+ app is very quirky. It doesn't add weekly entries correctly. Sometimes it credits more but most times it's less. At least a couple of times a day, it will skip games within worlds or repeat the same game just played. When it gives a 'Submit Error', the app should credit the player the maximum number of tokens and weekly entries. Sometimes it repeats the game, but more times it just moves to the next game. I have hundreds of screenshots showing the mentioned errors. The issues need to be fixed ASAP. And should be completely tested before being rolled out to the public.
Reviewed June 30, 2024
PCH is the worst scam ever under all tv and other platforms that advertise them. I was entering their contest for 25 years and never received anything from them. What they do they are sending 10 and more emails every day with promises that you are the one who will receive their prize but YOU NEVER WILL. All people who fail for this scam should delete PCH from platforms and write reviews everywhere to unmask their scamming.
Reviewed May 29, 2024
I like PCH BUT THEIR SURVEY SITE IS CRAP AND YOU GET SCEWED OUT OF TOKENS IN 4 OUT OF 5 SURVEYS YOU TAKE. IT IS no wonder THEY have such A LOW RATING. I just finished 3 surveys especially J. D. Power and got screwed out of tokens.
Reviewed May 3, 2024
Started to order some items, then changed my mind. Because I didn't remove the items completely they sent me the items anyway, even though I didn't complete the order. So I kept the items, two of them were not worth the money, but one was just bit overpriced. Paid the bill so they wouldn't make a bad report on my credit. Doubt I will ever order again.
Reviewed April 30, 2024
I just want to know how I make my claim from the PCH lawsuit for millions of dollars. There no form for me to make my claim. I won $5 from PCH. I did not enter for $5. I would not waste time on such a little amount. I only enter for super prizes I don’t enter for $10,000 or $15,009 prizes because that won’t help me pay off my student loans. PCH can keep their $5 prize. They only need to bring me a super prize or don’t show up.
Reviewed April 20, 2024
After reading the bad reviews I wanted to write my opinion about PCH. PCH is not a scam, but their odds are much higher than the PowerBall Jackpot. However, you don't have to pay to enter their contests, lottery, or slots. PCH are able to gave those high prizes by allowing the advertising on their apps and sites. I agree it is way too many ads and it is annoying (for that I put 4 stars), but you are entering for free and as many times as you wish. Just imaging spending money on buying 90 PowerBall tickets every day to win their jackpot, instead.
I also believe attitude is counts towards your experience with PCH. You have to do it for fun and not look at it as a source of the income. Also I recommend to include your family playing different parts of PCH games. For example my husband likes PCH Lotto and Slots, I like to play PCH+ and PCH games. Play for fun and I honestly hope everyone will win some prizes! Good luck to all! P.S. Be aware of scammers who will send you fake letters or emails claiming that you won PCH sweepstakes.
Reviewed April 17, 2024
One tablet last less than 24 hours. I used all in less than 10 days and did not clean my toilet at all. Money wasted and money is tight nowadays. The blue stuff stuck more to the bottom of the tank than did any cleaning.
Reviewed April 2, 2024
The Piñata hit game has frozen for 23 hours, costing me 160,000 points which are meaningless anyway. No one there seems to monitor for glitches. Any fixes are opaque. There should be a banner statement of admission of problem and that it is being addressed, and when one is corrected. I recall when the website displayed a digital clock, it became eight minutes slow. This error was UNCORRECTED FOR MONTHS. All the games should be checked for correct function and fixed promptly.
Reviewed March 29, 2024
I have been on pch.com for years. My all time token count is 14,006,405,827. My available tokens are 3,753,215,447. I have scored around 40,000,000 tokens in a single day and I am not a robot. I have never won a daily token count. I have received a few small checks for what I don't know. 5.00 to 20.00 about 2 or 3 times a year. I have purchased a couple of things but it's not worth the money. I gave it 2 stars because I didn't want people to think I was totally stupid. I was told by Pch support not to spend too many tokens at a time. It won't make any difference. The odds are not in your favor. I say Don't waste your time with this site.!!!

Reviewed March 24, 2024
To whoever reads this my name's Luke **. I am VIP Elite on Publishers Clearing House for long time. I play the lotto. I match all eight balls but did not win but the video on Youtube stating if you match your winning number you're a winner but they aren't honoring that. I called PCH. Tech told them I match my winning numbers. They told me I'm not in their system. I gave them my address and name. I'm not in their system. Something fishy about them. Beware of them. Their scandalist customer service suck. These guys need to be investigated. I need help about this because tech and customer service isn't any help. I also tried going up the chain of command but nothing.
Reviewed March 19, 2024
I've been entering PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE since 2002, 22 years, I'm a VIP red diamond elite 5 × over. I have nearly an overall total of 2 Billion coins. I've enter multi millions in the redeem tokens almost everyday and can't even win a money gift card, I play the apps to get the tokens all day, I've done a boatload of surveys to no avail. I've mentioned this to them. From what they say everyone has the same chance of winning by entering. That means I could put a million in entries and a person putting 1 entry in can win it over me 1 to a million!! That's some BOLOGNA! I've been entering years longer than the two prize patrol were even prize patrol members too. It Tuesday March 19th 2024. I'm really thinking this is a Scam in some sort of way,

Reviewed Nov. 25, 2023
Been foolishly playing and entering for decades. Recently, one survey required for an entry seemed normal, until they wanted complete demographic information, including exact date of birth. I would have given a false date, but then just exited. That's phishing and dishonest, as far as I am concerned.
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2023
So, I have played Publishers Clearing House for years, since 2016. Never won a single penny and never will. This is a waste of time and frankly they should be ashamed. I will never mess with this again. You can spend all day playing their games and so on and it will be for naught. They also push that you make a purchase. They claim that making that purchase does not affect if you win or not. But I can tell you the emails they send are all about buying their products. This is a long time running marketing scheme and not even a very good one. Don't waste your time on this bull, I know I won't.

Reviewed Oct. 25, 2023
I've been playing PCH well before the 90s, I've bought numerous magazines and have submitted millions upon millions of tokens, and have never won a single penny. BE AWARE! Just in the past years (you can guess the years, ha) The PCH surveys you get to gain more tokens is a scam. Why would every single survey need to know your political affiliation? Does 1 party buy more than the other party? Maybe it's to get a count so they know who you're voting for. As I've always known that it's not anyone's business what political party you're on. It's also funny that you can prefer not to answer on race, color, religion or what you identify as, but you can't when asked your political party. At the end of the surveys, if you don't answer the political question then it says you did not qualify for this survey...why? Yes I tried both ways and it works if you answer the political part. This should be investigated! But why should they. It's not a real game anyway.
Reviewed July 1, 2023
For nearly 2 years I have been playing the back and forth emails from PCH always telling me I have one more thing to do to enter. They tell you that you can enter without a purchase but that is not what they push. I have never won and never will because apparently, you have to make a purchase. Don’t get hooked into the lies they tell you…all they want is you to buy from them... and they swindle you into purchasing with dangling the 7k a week for life crap. Don’t be sucked in to believing for a second that you could actually win. This is nothing more than a scam to build business.

Reviewed March 11, 2023
So we have been playing the PCH games sending back all correspondence they send and occasionally buying products. Last month I received a coupon with my envelope for $30 of "free" merchandise. It says I can select items from the included merchandise advertisements. So I did place an order, ordered slippers for my wife and 2 bathroom bath rugs. Well, when I received to merch it included a bill and no credit for the $30 coupon. I made sure I did everything right to include the coupon and everything needed with this order. So I called PCH and they said that I didn't include the coupon! I have the stub but not the coupon, so I KNOW I sent it. They will not honor this and said I will have to pay for the cheap merch they sent. I said I will only pay for the amount over $30, she said they will send the other amount to collections then.
The slippers are dollar store quality and the bath rugs won't lay flat, slip on floor and smell like chemicals. This cost almost $40, which I refuse to pay anything over $30!!! Also they "backordered" the bath rugs and sent in separate box. They are also charging for 2 S/H charges. This is total ** and a scam! I am done with shady, dishonest business. I am also filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Also I am NOT paying, if they wanna threaten me with sending the <$10 to collections, let them. They think they can scare people and bully them, not me. This is a dishonest business, beware and don't spend any of your hard earned money with them, disgusting...

Reviewed Feb. 3, 2023
I placed an order with a $30.00 coupon offered. What a scam, they send a FREE item of their choice and charged me shipping $6.99 for the $30.00 coupon FREE item. It cannot be more deceiving than that. I have no use for this item and the $30.00 coupon was actually not honored on my order, WHAT A SCAM.
Reviewed Sept. 15, 2022
You Can Win: 400,006,535 tokens spent, thousands of other entries, Winnings $10. I have purchased a few times, interesting products but tend to be low cost and cheaply made. Good website that loads quickly. Kind of fun at times bu

Reviewed Sept. 8, 2022
Play same games daily, once a month all my earned points are removed and my Elite VIP status is removed. When I contact PCH they give a boiler plate response to clear cookies or use different browser, but never address the issue! Been playing for 35 years, did win $100. but nothing else. So every month I contact PCH with no fix in sight, they open and close tickets when it doesn't go along with their boiler plated response. Sad, thought they legit!
Reviewed Sept. 5, 2022
I've been playing PCH a few years now. I have reached Red Diamond status and have put over 350 million in tokens for chances to win various prizes. I've played the slots many times it's fun and just a dream of winning. I know the odds are great and have never won a prize of any kind but I play every day before and after work sometimes in the hopes of winning someday!
Reviewed Aug. 28, 2022
They're full of crap! I entered it for years and nothing comes to my door. They're a scam and a pieces of crap. I don't believe in them and all they want you for some reason and possibly they want your information.
Reviewed May 27, 2022
9 Months entries 10 -12 hours per day. As of 05/27/2022 on my PCH account login Token Activity Current Balance: 252,815,640. PCH - PCH Rewards Welcome Tokens+30,000. I received only a $10.00 check for all these works I deserved justice and to get paid as a Citizen in this country nothing is for free and no one is above the law. They are acting just like Donald Trump's businesses no one can touch them because they all are over the word, "It is a Mafia Business".
Reviewed May 2, 2022
Been playing Publishers clearing house contests for over 40 years. Never WON anything ever. Ended up with magazine subscriptions and cheap products that they charge more than double for. Plus it takes a month to receive product on average. Also many items fell apart. Ordered some peanut brittle, You get a small tin can with about 5 oz's for $20.00. Same product at a local store for $5.00. Been playing the games and contests for years online. Racked up over 250 million tokens that were applied to cars and other items. 250 million and NEVER WON A SINGLE ITEM. Oh all that time earning tokens. You do not get them back once entered. They are also have 0 value and can not be cashed in.
On the entry pages, they post all this money you COULD win. $5000/$7000 a week for life. Then take you to the order page's, usually 6, you have to look at. Their statement at the end "an order would be appreciated." By the way their favorite word "COULD WIN". So if you have a lot of time on your hands and earning worthless tokens, watch countess ads, and never win anything, this is the place to be. Do not expect to win anything. Because you will NOT. This is the biggest waste of time anyone could ever do.
Reviewed March 9, 2022
They will send you emails to claim a prize number and all that does is redirect you to a website to buy life insurance or other products. All their emails are just fake links to trick you into signing up for services like insurance. If you enter once, just block their emails after.
Reviewed Feb. 6, 2022
After years of VIP playing status I closed this account because of Numerous spam emails, site pop-up sponsor redirects that Were Not selected. Final straw: phone virus alert after redirect to one of their sponsored sites that was not even selected. My Phone call to their customer service went to offshore call center. Also unsatisfied with quality of orders received. DONE.

Reviewed Dec. 30, 2021
Been a customer for about 11 years. Haven't won anything yet. I haven't seen no discount for the customers that spends so much time on the phone trying to win the product, I stop playing because I think it's a scam.
Reviewed Nov. 10, 2021
So I've only been on PCH about 6 months and haven't won anything. I don't mind the email reminders to go online and finish lotto, sweeps, scratch-offs etc. I've placed a few orders because the markdowns were so low, however, their S&H prices are absolutely outrageous. Nowadays when I go online to play I'm very, very careful that my "cart is empty" before I hit the Continue button. You can image my surprise when I get a random email the other day stating they are processing my order. What just happened? Where did this come from? I emailed support with my customer number and order number and although they weren't able to cancel the order due to "automated order processing" they did say I wouldn't be billed. They need a way for customers to log in and cancel their own orders just like almost EVERY OTHER SITE out there. If this happens again I'm most definitely closing my account.
Reviewed Nov. 8, 2021
I started with PCH about a year ago with low expectations. I wasn't disappointed. Along my PCH journey I was dumb enough to make 4 purchases (they repeatedly make you feel guilty if you don't). I kept it to low dollar items. The quality of the merchandise is so-so. I believe they make a good deal of money just on their shipping charges. I compared the items to what I would experience using Amazon Prime. Prime was not only cheaper on the item, shipping was free and I would have had the merchandise within a week.
PCH took almost a month with each item I bought. So, I'll likely reach Red Diamond status in a week or so, and I'm ashamed to say that with all of the inane ads I've been exposed to and all of buying pleas I've sailed through, I've not won one cent and believe that I ever will. PCH makes for a great time-wasting buddy that will keep you out of trouble (unless you gamble on games). Have you ever met anyone who has won anything on PCH? I didn't think so!!!!
Reviewed Sept. 14, 2021
Since playing the PCH games for a good while now, I have fun. I win tokens, I get to exchange those token for prizes, I’ve won several times, the checks are real. I’m kinda old school and the new games are not really my style. But, pch games are very cool to me. I like to gamble and that’s what pch games does for me. I’m like everyone else, I want to try to win big! But, if I don’t play the games I won’t get an entry to win. You never know what can happen? Who knows, it’s like the song says; “miracles can happen and it can happen to me.” That’s why I like playing the pch games….
Reviewed Sept. 13, 2021
For years I've entered the PCH sweepstakes and they always say you needn't buy anything in order to win. This year I tried once again and was advised via letter that I would receive my final documents for entry within two of receipt of said letter. The documents didn't arrive for another TEN days; this was AFTER the drawings were held. I felt compelled to write this review because this sort of behavior has been going on for years and someone has to say something. SHAME ON THEM!
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