Publishers Clearing House Reviews

The Original PCH is gone, it is a pay to win now.... Even the apps for the Iphone, and Androids are dead as of writing this.... It's sad to see it go.

No more free games or sweepstakes! They are now charging a membership fee in order to play, all while still saying, no purchase necessary to win - that's a lie!

This really sucks. None of the apps will work. PCH has wipe out all links to their games and sweepstakes. Now they want you to pay a membership monthly fee in order to play. I believe that this is illegal and unethical. If you want to enter, you have to send a written entry form that is never guaranteed that PCH will honor it. I have been playing PCH for over 20 years and never won anything except a couple of $10 because I hit my milestone. It saddens me to learn that PCH is another scam company who tries to make it legit by making you pay to play. I really hope that PCH goes down in history as another historic scam for them to take your hard earned money money to make them richer. I watch my dad play for years hoping to win but never did. I thought PCH was different but they are the same as the other. PCH needs to be investigated and shut down permanently.

PCH is now exclusive pay for play and no free entries. Lots of significant changes the past month or two with many sweepstakes suddenly ended with no winners. Me and my wife had almost 6 trillion tokens combined and they disappeared. Big disappointment! lots of time and effort wasted. We are history.

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. PCH no longer seems to sell magazines, their main objective is to sell monthly membership subscriptions and a small selection of merchandise.

I have been playing PCH nightly since 2018. I have 7.376.535 178 tokens. I started playing PCH in 2017 and have been a VIP Player for OVER 5 years, "it took a lot of playing games and gaining tokens to climb up the ladder to get to VIP Elite status! I did win a few checks along the way, $5 to $10 bucks a few times, even won a $100.00 a couple of times!

The sweepstakes are becoming a pay- in only proposition, now that tokens are being removed from the repertoire. They say they are "making it easier to win", "streamlining".. for a "better" experience. Even a fool can see that these are dishonest statements. Like others posting comments, I have over 2 billion tokens, all for naught now that they are changing the rules midstream. I realize that the way we live changes over time, and paper magazines are/have become obsolete, probably affecting company profits and thus- what they can afford to award, and they likely just don't have funds. They may be nearing the end of their existence, bankruptcy around the corner. We could understand that. It doesn't excuse the lies to us.

Not only a rip-off, but probably illegal with what they are trying to do. Buying a membership monthly to try to win something you will never win & pay month after month wasting your good earned money for what? nothing... Your money spent if, that's what you are going to do is better spent with a lottery or legal gambling out-fit. Heck, sounds like a good deal for them: sell a-bunch of memberships and use that money to buy some presents to give to a few and keep all that money to ourselves. I bet-cha I know what type of people are behind this scheme. Good-Luck people because you are going to need it, or.... do what they hope and have a-bunch of elderly people not having the since to know what they are doing waste their family (and), their kids future inheritance money on this scheme. I too am disappointed with spending years to acquire almost 2-billion tokens for what??? nothing...wasted, wasted time.

What a rip off, want you to pay a monthly fee to enter their contest. I've played for 40 years, never won anything, not even $5 ... now you want people to pay a monthly fee to get entered to win more often. And prob won't win anyhow...Total scam.

This is obviously a scam now. I played for years accumulating nearly 2 billion tokens. Now they're just removing those I have saved up. All that time wasted!! These people are now charging just for a chance to win. Buy into their packages and you will get chances to win prizes. Play the lotteries instead. At least you do have a chance to win without spending thousands of hours playing. On the old PCH I won a $10, 2 Insta pots, and $1000.00. To throw my tokens away on something I will never win under this new regime, is unethical. DO NOT BUY INTO their scam. So sorry to have to say this.

I’ve been playing Publishers Clearing House for 30 years. It takes approximately 2 to 3 hours a day to enter the sweepstakes because they require you to listen to all of the commercials first so you do that and you’re told that you keep playing and you’re bound to win eventually the mega prize. I have an accumulated 2 1/2 billion exclusive tokens, and now Publishers Clearing House or the new company ARB that bought them is taking all of the tokens away and they say if you don’t use them for entries, which would take you at least five years to enter with your tokens, they will turn them over into entries. They don’t tell you what entries they will be. Probably entries for winning doilies so it was just a big scam and no one is doing anything about it.

My dad used to play PCH when I was a small child, but stopped after my mother would complain that he was buying too much stuff and would never win anything. He turned his attention to the regular lottery and won a couple decent size prizes. In 2013, I was laid off from work and while applying to jobs, I started playing PCH. When the app was introduced, I started playing that and Lotto. The games were fun and I didn’t have to pay to enter. I’d win $5 to $20 dollars here and there, but never anything substantial. When I think I was done, I would hear my dad say “you never know, you could win”. So, I kept playing. (He passed in 2018). When PCH filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, I thought I might have a chance to win because some people might be turned off and just stop playing; there would be less entrants/entries. But I think the day has come for me to delete everything.

I have been entering PCH sweepstakes regularly since 1969 and have purchased several products from them without any complaints. Over the years, I have won small prizes, but no large prizes. When PCH was partially bought out by, what I understand to be, a private equity firm, I was naively hoping the end result would be more entrants winning large prizes. Sadly, that does not appear to be the case. It now appears, at least on the surface, that entrants must now purchase a membership in order to enter to win one of the large prizes using the app. At least that has been my experience beginning sometime this week.

As of April 11, 2026, I was shocked to see that Publishers Clearing House is now selling reward Packs to enter any sweepstakes that is above $10,000. These Reward Packs cost, $20.00, $50.00, $120.00 and $300.00. And this is just, of course, for "A CHANCE TO WIN" which is usually like a 1 in 4 million odds chance! If you don't pay, you can't enter! Since when is paying to enter a sweepstakes a real sweepstakes? Sounds more like a scam and I am reporting this to the Florida Attorney General's office.

After many years dealing with Publishers Clearing house and a Black Diamond status, I finally received a phone call that I took while I driving to work. It claimed that I won 8.8 million and I would receive 7,000.00 a week for life and a Mercedes. It gave a number to call and a claim number that I was unable to write while pulling in a parking garage in Albany NY headed into work. I called back the original number and pressed 3 for prize sweepstakes calls or winners. I left 2 messages for a return call with my number. Where is my prize money that they said I won from Publishers Clearing House? They said I won it so I want it!!!! It came from 1 *888*397*9889 extension 3 is what they said to select. They need to be honest and pay me what they said I won!!!!

I am so teed off in in a way I wouldn't know how to act. I use to like Publishers Clearing House when I first started 10 years ago. But now I am having second thoughts about them. It is not worth it anymore. All I have gotten from them is two 5 dollar checks. And that is it. I am telling all the good people out there that have been playing pch. You would probably be better off playing. The Virginia lottery scratch offs. Or the other Virginia lottery games. That is my opinion. They keep screwing with my games. I will just report them to the Better Business Bureau. I have said my peace for a while..

Under the old management I used to win a few times a year. $5 here and $10 there but under the new management I haven't won a thing even though I enter as often, being hundreds of times a day. Some of the ads are shady and some are horrifically long.

They don't deserve even 1 star with this new owner. I would give them ---0. If you're have no money, you're never won anything. They offer a monthly membership and they telling you that only way to have some chance to win a prize. That membership prizes require next to no purchase necessary.

I have noticed since ownership has changed, less large winners. No winners over $10,000 and an average of 5 winners per month for the last few months. If they are randomly picking numbers how come they only have 5 per month. It use to be fun seeing people winning to keep you to continue, but if this is how it going to be, time to quit, not worth the time.

I have played PCH almost every day for 30 years. I always thought if I keep playing I would win something. Now PCH has added memberships. It was already hard to win a prize, time consuming, frustrating. Now the added memberships just erase any hopes of winning. No more, 30 years wasted on PCH.

I started to play their games when I retired 25 years ago, to keep my mind active. The “new” PCH is so irritating. The ads are overwhelming and to play a game, you must “buy” a game. I am fed up with the hoops you have to jump, the numerous ads, the irritating music played while you wait and wait EVERY time to play a game, the numerous emails and messages received daily (which is overloading my iPad), I just cannot tolerate the aggravation of PCH any longer. So good bye and good riddance. Maybe I will buy puzzles to keep my mind active… Anything will be better than to endure PCH!! Also sold my info and get hundreds of irritating ads daily.

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.