Publishers Clearing House Reviews

I have been playing Publishers Clearing House for decades. Most recently, online. While I did make purchases earlier, I WONT EVER AGAIN. I know they say "purchase not required" but I felt SOMETHING was holding me back from even the tiniest prize. NOW, I have accumulated OVER >TWO HUNDRED MILLION TOKENS< and NOT WON the smallest prize NOR first CENT of money! Those who play regularly KNOW "Black Diamond" status (second highest!) is no small chore. I have "redeemed" ALL OF THOSE TOKENS and..nothing.

This is a 100% fraudulent organization that pushes everyone who enters its sweepstakes into buying its own products and services, most of which are not worthwhile or worth the price that they're selling for. I hate criminals like these people are.

On Feb 9th of 2021, I won $100 on the $10,000 power cash drop bonus game at 9:30 am. They sent me an email congratulating me. They said it will take 3 to 5 weeks to get paid. After contacting them they say they will "reissue" the check. Well, you can't reissue something that was never issued in the first place. So as requested, I sent them the screenshot of my winning. Which is stupid because they know I won.

I've been entering & playing the Publisher's Clearing House games for more than a few years (almost daily) & have even purchased items through their mail order services since 2013. As for the products received through mail order, the items received were (for the most part) very similar to what was advertised & I really have no complaints about them. Basically, ya get what ya pay for & as for pricing, the individual prices are comparable to what ya might find on Amazon or possibly at Walmart.

I am here to report a definite scam by Publishers Clearing House. I played the game Tri Peaks Rush and was number one leading the token board up until midnight when the game ended. My name was Kris H on the token board, at the top. I should have won the $100 promised, but they won’t recognize that I won at all. They say they have no record of me even playing under my email address, even though I played for 5 hours straight. I sent them a snapshot of the board showing I was number 1 right before the time was up to play the game. It still made no difference to them. They are a scam for sure. I am so disappointed as I have played for hours on end for over a year, and for them not to acknowledge that I won the $100 is beyond comprehensible. I will not play, ever again.

PCH isn't a scam but folks need to manage their expectations. The odds of winning even small prizes are in the millions, it's aspirational and not an effective way to make money. It is basically a lottery, but instead of buying tickets with money you buy them with your personal data and time watching ads. I feel that elderly folks in particular need to be very careful and read through what they're clicking on. No purchase is necessary, you just need to keep clicking "continue" at the bottom until you're entered. Spam email can be avoided by always unchecking the boxes that say "yes, sign me up for the mailing list" and also creating a separate email account just for giveaways just in case.

I registered for the sweepstakes. When I completed, they prompted me to complete the process. It then became obvious they wanted me to purchase something. No cost or obligation, remember? I stopped the process. Now they keep harassing me with these emails to complete so I can "win". Stay away!

The number associated with my current review is **. This is the number I was called from saying I won the sweepstakes!!! I keep calling this number and they kept telling me they would call me back. The last time I talked to him he wanted some kind of card from Dollar General in the amount of $500 dollars. When I refused he hung up!!!

I have been doing their sweepstakes for 10 years or so, I believe that people are using bots to submit entries, which has been brought up in chats, and makes this unfair for those of us who actually spend time on their website. Have not won anything even submitting millions of tokens. Who else is having this issue?

They said I ordered magazines from them. I don't get magazines. I never ordered anything from them. I never open mail from them so how could I owe them? I want them to stop harassing me or I will file a formal legal complaint. I am retired and on disability. Why would I waste money on magazines when I can look up anything on the internet?

I ordered a magazine subscription, which I paid for but never received. I just got off the phone with customer service because after over 40 minutes speaking to 3 different people in different departments, their end dropped the call. This happened two weeks ago. When tried to resolve it after 30+ minutes, they dropped the call that time too. This was my 6th call about this, and I just wanted my money back. This has been going on since September and they still owe me $20+ bucks. It is now January 22! I am finally going to let them keep my money not to have to deal with them ever again!

I won a tournament prize as the leader. The prize was 3 figures. They notified me via email. Their site clearly defines that these check go out 3-5 weeks later. I received it as stated. As for marketing, well it is marketing! We don’t go one day without being blasted with advertising until we sleep. PCH clearly states that ordering will increase your chances of winning. Meaning your orders have no bearing whatsoever on your chances of winning.

I ordered a gift for a friend in early November. It never arrived, but they asked for payment in an email from their site. A week ago the product arrived with no invoice. The outside of the package was labeled "your replacement order". That was the only package from them. Now, on a fixed income, I do not reply to much of their correspondence. I have not ordered from them for ten years. They forget who their loyal customers were. I called them last Friday and asked for a bill with an invoice to be sent to me in the mail. After some conversation, they acknowledged my request. Nothing has come in the mail from them yet. Now I will keep this present for a while in case I have to return it to them. They will not get another order from me.

After reaching Yellow Diamond level the Wheel spun & landed on $900.00 cash prize. Highlighted in yellow clear as day. Seconds later the box disappeared & it said I won 25k tokens. I called them & they said their info said 25k tokens not $ 900.00, sure. I know what the wheel stopped at, 900. They said they would look into it & over the next 2 days 2 different people called me back with the same nonsense about their software. They ask me if I took a screenshot, ha! In seconds the box disappears. Where's their screenshot of it landing on 25k tokens! It's a fact it landed on the $900.00. They are cheats & should not be allowed to cheat people like they do. Stay away & don't waste your time with these crooks .

I have sent two letters to PCH to remove me from their mailing list. The first was October 28, 2020 and November 4, 2020. I have the copies of each letter. I received another mailing from them yesterday on November 18. In each of the letters I asked them in a nice way but told them that I would notify Consumer Affairs and the BBB in their area to no avail. The last letter was addressed to them attention: Marketing Dept. I am requesting your help in this matter. Our customer ID with PCH is: available upon request.

I am complaining about Publishers Clearing House. I used many tokens to win giveaway #160208, $289.00 to spend on a new lawnmower. I was notified that I had won, the prize amount shown was correct, they said it would be deliver the next day by 8pm. I waited all day and it never came, I tried calling them several times, after waiting 15 to 30 minutes for a technical person, I told them the problem and even gave them my account # and giveaway number 16208. They gave me a number to the games department then I was back on the waiting list I had already been on, so I called back the next day and waited 15 minutes on hold, repeated the same problem to the person he put me on hold then hung up.

A few years ago I played around with the app of Publishers Clearing House playing the games and it would give free promotions to try a magazine for free! A magazine no a subscription of magazines! I drive a truck so last year while gone I was receiving these magazines in my mailbox three different kinds of magazines! So I tried to find a phone number and on a envelope I found they were trying to bill me but there's no number to call only a email to customer service! You send a email and they get back to you and this is how I had to communicate. I explained I did not order these and I wanted it stopped. Customer service said they would cancel this and take care of this. For about two months no magazines and then all of a sudden am getting them again. Am really tired of this and need new avenues to take!

PCH only wants you to buy stuff, you will NEVER win. It's ONE BIG SCAM! I've been doing this for over 10 years & all they want is for people to buy products just to help them out!!! You will NEVER win!!!

I cannot believe some of you people. You think you can sue them because you do not win? First no one forces you to play their games or enter the contest. Have you even looked at the odds? It is like 3 billion to one that you get chosen. They say in writing that to make a purchase will not improve your odds of winning. So if you buy anything that is on you. I play all the time, for fun! Sure if I could win would be great, but I do not get my hopes up. Get real people.

Publishers Clearing House is a scam. They send me bills for products that I have NOT ordered. These Devils will then ruin your credit over unpaid bills for junk you haven’t ordered. Call they be stopped!!!

I am going to be contacting an attorney due to the experience I have had with PCH and the $7000 a week for life. I entered the sweepstakes under the contest rules of “no purchase to win” and I have been contacted daily since with emails stating that I still need to finalize my entry by completing the last step. That last step is a purchase of junk merchandise. This is all very misleading and not what they have advertised to the public. All in all, it is fraud. I will get the advice of an attorney and see what happens. And going forward, I won’t ever deal with PCH again.

I have been a customer and sweepstakes player of PCH for 13 years now since 2007 and I am very disappointed and dissatisfied with their delivery services on getting your item or product to you after it's ordered. It has taken me almost two months to get products delivered to me. I know with covid it takes a little longer but pch has always been slower than most places I've ordered items from like up to three to four weeks more and their sweepstakes is a hassle to try to submit a entry. You have to scroll through several pages of items and products they market online to finally get to the submit button and I have entered numerous entries. I would say a good couple hundreds of thousands of entries since 2007 and never won a thing. I think it's just a way to keep you playing. You think a person would win something since that time.

This company is the definition of a scam artist in the purest sense because they have honed their craft. They push the limits of legality through deceptive and misleading emails that ultimately connive their way into convincing you to buy dollar store products at ridiculously inflated prices---they also convince you that purchase isn't necessary but keep buying to increase your chances of course. They prey on the elderly which is why I'm here. A family member nearly drained her savings for this company because they relentlessly bombard people with cleverly worded emails with "fun" illustrations that make it seem like they've already won something.

Only after relentless emails and promotions nonstop I ordered some flower bulbs. They took forever to arrive and did not bloom. I paid my bill by check and still got put in collections. I tried to pay online. That is impossible. There is no phone number to call. It is impossible to speak with somebody. Do not do business with Publishers Clearing House. They should be taken out of the marketplace.

This compaNY IS FAKE! I registered because they said for a raffle to win something and then once I am there they made me choose some product and I looked at it, some has price, some don't so I choose the one that don't have price just to be in raffle draw because you need to pick like 2 product for your entry. If I know that it was a tricky way of them getting your money I will never get the ugly country clock and a plastic plate for about more than 30 dollars each so I have bill for over 71 dollars just for the plastic plates and plastic clock.

Hands down this is the worst website I've ever had the displeasure of visiting. It's extremely slow and has severe lag. Even after turning off ad block it constantly tries disconnecting my internet. Awful.

I ordered two items, one item started at $17.95 and ended with me owing $33. Same with another item that started at $9.95 and now I owe $22. These are items that I had been able to purchase anywhere without them tacking on all the extra money. I was also charged for two of one item, they did remove the second item but made sure to tell me that never mess up basically and I need to pay attention, somewhat bittersweet result. Do not order from them, the prices are outrageous, by the end you will have doubled your bill. Shipping is outrageous as well. I knew better. Very bad move on my part!

HaHa.. I think that PCH is nothing but a big joke and a scam. and the emails are nothing but a big lie. I got an email said that they was giving out 1 million on May 30 and 500 hundred on May 30 but they did not give anything out on May 30. It was given out on May 27 and the emails said it was guaranteed to be reward but nothing like always.. PCH is nothing but a money market and scammers and IF you go to Googles look up PCH they come up as a scam.

Their sweepstakes maybe real, but please! If you're smart don't order any merchandise. They misquote prices and and send you Dollar Store merchandise at exorbitant prices. Those ads they send w/ sweepstakes said $2 a month for 5 months for plastic measuring cups. Now trying to charge me $20 and measurements washed off 1st time. Now I have cups. Coloring books 5 5X6 and 6 regular colored pencils? Supposed to be $10? $22! Paper so thin you only get 1/2 the pics. Colors leak through if you use markers cause pencils don't color well. They are shysters in retail department. 2 cheap thin paperbacks w/ jokes on aging (terrible self-published jokes) $19! Read both in an hour. I would NEVER have ordered this junk for these prices. Inserts had reasonable prices. This is surely how they make the $$ to fund their sweepstakes. You didn't see Ed McMahon advertising this junk. Not sure what to do.

I have been with PCH for many years, even before you started the sales online. Your customer service people are terrible! The token system is a joke. I have play a lot of games and where do all my tokens go? I should be in a hundred with the tokens. I do not understand the mystery gift at all. I suppose to have won that many times. I have bought a lot of things on the internet. Last summer you had a special and you already had my card and claim I did not paid it was your offer to make it monthly. I call customer service and they were horrible and so unkind, who are these people? I got the supervisor, he was not not nice either, but he gave me twenty dollars off. Sometimes I wonder if those people you claim have, really winners? You also double the prize and we complete that and seen like it is a joke too. I would love to get some feedback from you people. I love what I have bought but you push it too much and it appears like if we don't buy we will not win. I am sick of the house thing too!

PCH needs to let people know POSITIVELY that entries are VALID. All else should be clearly identified as extra bonus opportunities ABOVE AND BEYOND THE MAIN ENTRY. I cannot understand how PCH has an "A+ Rating with The Better Business Bureau". The tactics PCH uses have made me highly skeptical of the BBB's reliability. Thankfully, ConsumerAffairs has made it possible to air the dirty laundry of both enterprises.

They say there's no purchase necessary to enter but would not finalize until I did. Or to be more accurate, they kept prompting "next step", which were page after page after page of advertisements. I finally decided to order something if there was anything I could actually use. Even after that, I couldn't finalize - more ads showed up. My husband had tried this also and had the same experiences. I saw other reviews from people who said they had won but who had spent a great deal of time doing it, one person said they had won something twice, once $5 and once $10! The odds of winning are very high, I can accept that. The pressure to buy, I can't. The amount of time spent is extreme. I would not recommend anyone bother unless they have nothing better to do with their life.

PCH advertises no purchase necessary to win.... What a joke! I gave it a try and since entering their 5,000.00 a week for life sweepstakes I have been bombarded with daily emails wanting to know why I haven't made a purchase, and even though I have completed the entry process, they constantly email me saying I need to complete "one more step". That step, of course, leads me back to the order form, where the hard sell continues and they continue to insinuate that my entry will not be valid without an order. I believe this is fraud.

I entered the advertised sweepstakes and have been bombarded with upsell offers, and worse, recurring incendiary and intimidating email follow-ups saying such things as my entry will be voided, or incomplete unless I buy more useless, overstock merchandise, most made in China btw.. PCH should be reprimanded for inappropriate and misleading advertising campaign... It's all a rip-off.

I am very close to a billion tokens. Though, I've never won a dime. I don't rely on PCH, as I find this gaming to be immoral at every level. However, I do trust God and the Universe to supply my every need. I call and play every day. What I don't appreciate is the mind games, ie: You could soon be very blessed, Retirement may be earlier than you think, Waiting on your response, From the desk of Executive with a name provided etc. I find it to be exceptionally disheartening to day the least. Never ever should this be deemed to be legitimate or acceptable. People's emotions are really high with the prospect of winning, very sad that they aren't taking any of this serious. Notifications such as the ones I've shared has people's emotions extremely high.

Publishers Clearing House is nothing but a scam. I have played the games the scratch offs and have entered most of the sweepstakes multiple times and use my tokens on a Amazon Fire stick almost 6 million of them and still haven't won a penny in prizes and sweepstakes. The only then I have gotten from these games and sweepstakes are sent to surveys and different sites to sell something to do someone that has no money that lives on Section 8 that has multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.

This is a scam, but should know better, if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is too good. They should make it clear before you start what you have to do, not wait until you already entered part of your personal information. This process does not keep your customer as a priority, makes them feel like a token.

You have to go through several ads. You will eventually get to a point that you have to "apply for auto insurance" or you can't go any farther. Shame on you Publishers Clearing House.. Do better at monitoring your site because it seems like a scam.

You people should be ashamed of yourself, my father is 87 years old and is fighting for his every breath he takes and y'all just keep taking his money and telling him he can this and that. All he wants to do is be able to pay for all the medical bills and maybe leave his grandchildren something when he goes. I hope y'all can live with knowing this.

I've been playing since February of 2014, sometimes for over 24 hours and ALL I've won is a $20 check in August of this year and I'm still waiting on the $5 I was to have received over a week ago. I think pch.com is a scam and rip off of time and energy! They don't maintain their site very well and I've been hacked five times because of pch.com! Their commercials SUCK too! I've been telling them NO pharmaceutical or cancer commercials and now their college commercials! I'm fricking retired! I don't take pharmaceuticals and I don't need cancer pushed on me! I'm really sick of pch.com not complying with my wishes so I don't play near as much. I think it's a scam!

Publishers Clearing House is making tons of money by having non-stop ads pop up slowing the games down and you think someone may win something every now and then. Pay close attention to the daily game winners and you'll see at least 12 of the same names that win every day, which I'm sure PCH makes up. Prove me wrong!

PCH itself is not technically a scam, but they are advertising scams on their website. After you go to enter their latest big drawing, you are bombarded with page after page of “survey questions” that aren’t questions at all but gateways to scam upon scam upon scam that could very easily fool the less internet-savvy among us. You are not going to make hundreds of dollars per day by working from home, you have not won a $1000 Walmart gift card, and this new trick will not make you lose 40 pounds while you sleep. It is absolutely despicable that PCH would promote this garbage on their own website. This combined with their questionable business practices is screaming STAY AWAY!!!

Publishers Clearing House is a scam. They send you bills for products not ordered or received and bill you. When you enter the sweepstakes, you are actually entering an order and giving them the right to bill you. They will then ruin your credit over unpaid bills for junk you haven’t ordered. One of the oldest scams in America. They love to prey upon elderly people through mass mailings!!! Call your public service commissioner and get this company stopped!!!!! I have called and told them to stop sending mail, opted out under federal privacy but it is still being sent. Let’s team up and form a class action lawsuit for privacy violation laws.

They advertise “no purchase required” and then you have to spend HOURS every day telling them that you don’t want their junk. Beyond frustrating! I haven’t got enough time for this ridiculous company.

PCH scammers have called me to say I have won 2.5 million and a new car. Currently they have become more realistic by giving you their phone number so you can call them anytime. The caller then asks you questions and gives you his ID number and gives you a combination number saying do not allow anyone to have the combination number as you will need it when they come to your house with a briefcase full of money, a giant cardboard check and your new car. The caller says he will call you back in the morning which he does to string you along making it more realistic. He tells you they are on their way to your house and will call you back in about 15 minutes.

I have been a PCH member/user for over 30 years, but lately the way they treat their loyal customers is beneath contempt! 1) You send payments in on time each month and apparently they don't enter that information into whatever databases they have! Resulting in sending your account to a collection agency! I have check carbons that are clear proof I paid these liars, for each payment too! Oh yeah, as to their so called "deals" regarding items they offer... they are all made in China! And are mostly junk, not worth any money! 2) Their customer service is a joke! 3) As I said, I have been a member and used PCH for over 30 years, no more! I am done with these liars! They only want your money but you never win a damn thing from them!

They get a kick out of people "trying to win" knowing darn well they full of balonga! I was looking at one of their products but never ordered it but next thing I knew it came to my mailbox,,, I hope this review can save someone from wasting their time and another thing,, They will give your phone number to other companies that will call your phone all day worrying the heck out of you. PCH? No thanks....

I Did not Get The Knife even though I paid for it. When the Knife was delivered I did not get the package, I live in an apt complex. I am not going to order anything from PCH again because of this issue.

They're are telling me I won 2.5 million but I have to deposit a check they sent me for 6835.00. What scam is this going on now. As soon as I deposit the check call them back and they will bring my winnings to me.

I entered the $2,500 a week contest, and now I get daily emails asking me to finish a "Critical Step" to complete my entry. However when I "Click Here" the "Critical Step" is placing an order, which implies to me that you have to buy something in order for the entry to be accepted. I don't read magazines, and being pushy wouldn't get me to subscribe from PCH if I did.

I have done just about everything I have been asked to enter play etc, however, have not purchased anything. I even was asked what I would do w/ the winnings.... I stated helping my mother out of a nursing home, helping others, the list goes on. I would suggest not messing with PCH... Plus you can get viruses on your PC.

I have read SO many bad reviews and it was upsetting. PCH is real. I have won real money from them (nothing big yet, but I am sure I will soon). :) They post their odds online. You just have to play (A LOT). I have over 495 MILLION tokens and will have over a BILLION by the end of 2020. I AM IN IT TO WIN IT. When I have called customer service, they were nice and informative. I only gave them 4 out of 5 stars because, I have ordered 2 products from them that did not work or were broken.

Interesting that PCH claims that no purchase is ever necessary to enter one of their contests, because just this morning I received an email from them which plainly indicates that it is mandatory to purchase one of the items or subscriptions listed in the email to complete an entry. "WE SEE YOU'VE NEVER ORDERED BEFORE... WILL YOU SAY "YES" TO YOUR FIRST ORDER TODAY?" If you do not order an item, this is the message that pops up when hitting the confirm entry button: "CART EMPTY. This is disappointing, **... We've worked hard to bring you some of our best values in this notice! Are You Sure You Don't Want To Place Your First Order Here? An order here gets you access to more Private Sales and lets us bring you more great deals on items we think you love! Please go back and give one of our incredible, money-saving offers a try today!"

I have been the top token earner on the KENO contest held every day several times. The first time I ever went the entire 24 hours I had the lead up until the last 20 minutes. I got beat by 300 tokens, 2,407,300 to 2,407,000. Very frustrating! But since then I have won $400 three times, $500 twice and $10 because I hit a cash prize instead of tokens. That is very rare. But PCH is legit and they do pay off. There are no fake IDs there to miraculously stop you from winning.

I have been playing all aspects of the Apple iPhone app for several years. Now Apple/PCH has discontinued the app which provided much higher tokens. PCH pushed people to get the app and now they can’t give an adequate explanation for why they don’t offer it. PCH reps tell you go to the online website to play. When you go to the website you earn 10x less tokens than you did with the app. Don’t buy an Apple phone if you are a PCH player. There apparently is an Android app. Rip off by PCH. I feel Publisher Clearing House has misrepresented themselves.

I in good faith made 8 orders with PCH. All total $103.00. I get a bill telling me I owe 210.00. When I call customer service it was a waste of time. The boy was very rude in a language I barely understood. Now to be brutally honest I did not realize I am behind on my bill. As embarrassed as I am about that I only add that to try and show how honest with my review I am being. If they allow it to be published. Consumer beware.

I have many examples that I could give, but I'll only give a few for why I believe it's a waste of time and effort to try to win anything at the PCH sites. In PCH Games I've played the "flip'n win" game hundreds of times but have never won cash, only tokens. I purposely have picked the same middle 3rd position card (of the 5 cards lined up face down) every time and only token wins have come up. Yet, in every other position cash-awarded cards (ace, king, queen, jack or ten) have come up. It is against the odds that a cash-awarded card would NEVER have shown up in the middle 3rd position. Therefore, I believe it's fixed. If I were to pick a different position (1st, 2nd, 4th or 5th), I believe only token cards would show up and only then would a cash-awarded card show up in the middle position.

PCH was very helpful to me. It was too late to recoup what was already spent, but they are letting me return the items that hadn't been paid for yet. Very good customer service and nice people to work with. People with a heart...very unusual these days.

I have been with Publishers Clearing House since 2017. I have ordered merchandise and I like the return policy, the hook is when they charge you for shipping and handling and $4.50 late fee. I returned some items because I was not satisfied with the merchandise and any credit from them was added to other orders separated per credit, and then charged the late fee and keeping the money that was supposed to go on the last older order like they promote.

PCH sweepstakes. In order to submit your entry you are prompted to enter personal information. I get that, and the “no purchase necessary" routine but I am now besieged with phone calls on numerous products and when you request your number be removed they hang up and another sequence of numbers ends up on your phone. The real problem is that the area code is in my region and waiting for a return call from my doctor's office when these calls come forces me to answer and the process never ends just like my chances of winning anything. This is why I hesitated entering the PCH contest and YES, I read the rules and the fine print. Good luck to those of you that play their game.

They just want you to buy crap and more crap. And they flood your email with more crap on an almost hourly basis. I am just tired in trying to play their stupid games. I am just gonna block them and then return the crappy things that bought.

I'm an active sweepstaker. I enter on lots of sites other than PCH. I'm aware of reading rules, gimmicky advertising, spam, and the fact that a purchase will NEVER increase your odds of winning. I love PCH. If you play often you increase your odds. I play on the website, mobile site, PCH app, PCH Lotto App, and participate on Inside PCH live show on their Facebook page. Yes I give up a lot of time but this is my hobby and favorite thing to do. I've won lots of prizes on other sites over the years from small to large like trips. I started PCH spring of 2018. I claimed $2460 in winnings to the IRS. Those winnings came from Inside PCH, being top token earner, searching on their search engine and on a spin after moving up a level.

I would advise that you NEVER open ANY Emails from these jagoffs. I did, sadly and as a result I was BOMBARDED with annoying SCAM, FAKE "Award" notices and at the end of the day, billed $30 for something I did not actually order but, rather only looked at!! I paid it because, they sent the mop but, I NEVER ORDERED IT and I just don't have the time to be going back and forth with them over $30. But they're AWFUL people and crooks and other bad thing you can think of.

I've been reading some of the reviews and wanted to say that you DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE ANYTHING to better your chances of winning. PCH states on its home page that ordering a product will not increase your chances to win. They list the ads in order to be a free to play website. It is not fake. I won twice. Even though I only won $5 and $10 Amazon cards, I did win something for my time. PCH IS FREE TO PLAY and that's good enough for me. All that they require is your time.

Been with PCH since 1989. I used to place many orders thinking in my silly mind that one day I will be a lucky winner. Well we are now in the year 2019, yes 30 years since and never won a single thing from them. It doesn't pay to be a loyal customer. Honestly I gave up after many years of participating and being loyal. It became a disappointed to see others who been with PCH less than me win. I no longer read nor order anything I get in mail from this company, all goes to the trash. I lost so much money to wish I now highly regret. People seem to forget this is a one in a million winner chosen winner. What I find most amazing is how they write almost making it look or sound like you're the next winner up. Waste of time, no more for me.

I ordered the lighted magnifier at $14.95 as a buy 1 get 1 free offer. Then they charge me $10.99 shipping??? I then did an eBay search only to find I could buy the same item for $5 & free shipping. Dumb dumb dumb but lesson learnt. Also have seen them advertise a Best of Billy Joel CD for $10 & I would suspect it would also be $10.99 for shipping so $20.99 total excluding PA sales tax but I can buy the same CD at Walmart for $8 excluding tax???? Buyer beware indeed!

I am just clearing the air, I wonder if Publisher clearing house is for real. Seems like no matter whether you order or not you do not win. I keep getting these correspondents where they are on their way to my hometown and never show up. No matter if they say you are a winner or not you are not. I know of no one that has ever won. Yrs and Yrs upon Yrs and never have won not even a penny. So my question is are they for real or not. Just once I would like to feel they told the truth and would win something cash would be nice. I just quit ordering because it did me no good.

PCH will not seem to let me enter their sweepstakes. Every time I submit an entry they come back with a email saying my entry was not processed and force me to go through pages of products. If I don't order the harassment continues. I have made at least 20 attempts and still get messages saying my entry failed. Their claim of No Purchase Necessary is a Scam. Even after buying one of their products I still get harassed to buy more in order to enter the contest.

I placed my first ever entry for the 08/31/2019 sweepstake for $5,000.00 for life and what a "major mistake" it was. I had to shut down my e-mail account because I was bombarded with e-mails pushing me into placing an order, playing their useless games and selecting tokens for product I did not need or want. I placed the order thinking it would get PCH.com off my back but to no avail. The LIE about not ordering or ordering is just that a "BIG FAT LIE" and to date I NEVER received an order number or customer ID so I could pay for the purchase online. "Thank G_ D" I had the smarts to complete at least six (6) online website contact forms for customer service informing PCH.com to CLOSE down my account as the e-mail address was shut down, CANCEL the pending order and REMOVE all contact information from the PCH.com website ASAP. I let PCH.com know in writing that the order was only placed to get them off my back but to no avail.

Publishers Clearing House is a total scam perpetrated on the elderly (such as myself). They make entering in their "$7,000.00 per week sweepstakes" sooo confusing... They intentionally make you feel that purchasing anything from "PCH" will improve your chances of winning. Their tactics are 100% misleading and all of their products are junk. Save your money and buy a state lottery ticket. (Better odds).

We have been playing their games over the past few years (and dreaming of the "big win") and have also placed an order from time to time for some of their products, which have been of good quality, but in the past two months PCH has started sending us items we never ordered. It's getting to be a pain returning these items. I just wonder how many other unsuspecting people they're doing this to as well and who are probably sending PCH their hard earned money for this stuff when they get the bill thinking that's what they have to do. I'm really surprised they've stooped to this level to increase their sales. Needless to say, we're not going to participate in any of their online or mail-in submissions anymore. (July 9, 2019)

Don’t waste your time with PCH. No matter how much effort and countless hours, you’ll never win. The token leaderboard is fake as no one can reach up to 300,000 or more tokens in a day...no matter how many devices you have. PCH does everything they can to fail you. Those commercials are FAKE with paid actors/actresses who pretend to win.

I have been trying to win PCH for the third time now. I am up to 7,463,250 tokens and my level status is Sapphire Blue. I entered this time because I wanted money for college and for my family. But, I am worried though that I might just be wasting time and that it is a scam, my aunt and grandmother have both seen the commercial that use to come on TV and stated they've been out for years scamming people and tricking them into buying their products, mainly magazines.

Says no purchase necessary! It's a scam to buy their cheap crap! Item I ordered didn't even work! They never contacted me to make things right. They just wanted payment and for me to buy something else to continue to have a so-called chance to win, it's a big scam! Run away fast!!

It makes zero sense that a company would give away money for free as part of their main financial and marketing strategy. Even the lotto charges money for scratch tickets. All these people who got involved amaze me.

I get their offers through the mail, rather than online. People should bear in mind, before getting involved, that this is not a one-time entry. Once you enter, you will continually get envelopes with a lot of advertising material, as well as a form to send back for the entry. They have stickers in various places in the bundle you receive so it's a matter of finding them, stick them on the entry form, and returning by mail. They provide an envelope but you provide the postage. Since these bundles come every 2-3 weeks, if you faithfully return them, it will cost you a lot in postage.

I bought many items from PCH and spent many hours playing the games. I paid for items when I received them and without any explanation was removed from the list of PCH and being able to play any of the games. I have called and written letters to the head of PCH and have not had any answers at all. I am very disappointed in this and would like an explanation. I do not understand what I have done wrong. I have spent several hundred dollars. I just would like someone to respond to me. Helaine **

Member since 2012 and won $10 and first ever review. My token balance will be 600 million this month but I took long breaks. I tell myself I'm gonna play every day and see how long I can keep it up. It takes me easily 8 hours to get through the mobile, app, pc, and email and I love the thought of winning but gets very tiring and my disabilities mess me over but I have nothing else to do so why not. For hereon out this is my promise that I am going to make it my routine.

I think it's really shady that this company uses ads that are encrypted with viruses. Not only that, but their target demographic is elderly people which is even more shady. My mom has gotten three viruses trying to enter Publisher's Clearing House. I think it's disgusting that this company is knowingly taking advantage of people who may not be very tech savvy. Shame on them.

I've been entering the Publishers Clearing House online since 2007 by mail since 1989 and I have never won one cent. In their entries they say "A Guaranteed Winner In Your Town" but that's not true as I live in a small town of 400 residents where all of us are friends and talk with each other and if someone won the Publishers Clearing House we would throw them a party as all we have to do here is watch weeds grow or birds digging worms and according to our residents not one person ever won in the history of the Publishers Clearing House.

First of all let me say I do enjoy playing the games even though they do act up sometime. This note is for you Publishers Clearing House. Take a look at my order history. I have ordered a lot. And everything either work for a week or don't work at all. I play the games. And some games seem rig. I pray I'm wrong. And as far as winning anything. I know the risk and chances. All I ask is please be legit on your end. Thank you. Have a blessed day.

My issue is I would depress the button to submit my entry and it would just freeze and no entry was ever registered. Very poor customer service thru tech. department and my situation has gotten worse not better.

I am receiving e-mails and calls regarding a book that I did not order. I received a package and thought it was a small prize for something I entered. I have never ordered anything from this company. I entered the sweepstakes and played the games for a "chance" to win but never ordered a thing. Now I am receiving invoices with late payments. I am trying to reach customer service but can't find an e-mail, there is no button on the account page for disputes. This is a major scam and a total waste of my time!!!!

I changed my mind not to order by not filling in the payments type, in other words the ordering was not completed. After reading all the reviews I decided to unsubscribe, I received the order today with a bill saying payment is due. ??? what kind of business is this?? Called customers service and was told they receive calls like this a lot...so why wasting your time and other's? She said I can go ahead to send it back with the return label behind the bill and she'll take me off the mailing lists. It has been a week since I unsubscribed and still get mails from them. I'm glad I changed my mind not to be in this fishing bait. I hope this is the end of the story, if not then I'll be back to write another review.

Irrelevant products. I'm not holding my breath to win even $10 on their website. I did win $25 by check from them back in the 90's (which probably didn't even cover the postage for all the entries I mailed in). What bugs me most is the longest ads are the most irrelevant to the average person willing to spend time to play their games. Main offender- SK-II. I'm willing to bet less than 5% of the people who play PCH games and enter online can even afford that product, but they beat us to death with these long-winded ads. I might stop just for that reason. If I could afford that product, I wouldn't even waste my time on that site.

In 2007 my name was used on Publishers Clearing House website. This was an early bird sneak peek. I was using search engine blingo. The company used my first and last name on their website. There were other winners named Emmanuel etc. This was the 1170 super prize. I called the company and they lied and said I didn't win. A few years later my identity ended up on the California lottery website website page under winning numbers page. When I called the California lottery I spoke with Catherine and she said did I ever win anything because they only use winners that have won.

The last couple of items which I received were not satisfactory so I stopped buying. However, since I no longer buy, I no longer receive entry forms. You might not have to purchase to win, but you do have to purchase to receive entries. So, if you don't get entries, then you can't enter. If you don't enter, you can't win - very interesting.

I purchased a small $34.26 item a couple months ago. When I received the bill I promptly wrote a check for the full amount and mailed it in the provided envelope. This was on March 15, 2019. I then got another bill on April 22 stating it was past due and needed to pay it to avoid an extra charge of $4.50. I checked my bank and the check had not been cashed, so I wrote another check and included a note about the previous check. This time I copied the check, my note and the addressed envelope. I took it into the post office rather than using a post office box. Coincidentally I mailed a couple other bills outer state. This was on April 23.

I am "expert in certain word games--worked at mental hospital==played one word game on computer break allowed fwd and back except sick sex words like yaws =rn 30 years was sway backwards --noticed many words did that--1st day playing 60 sec word on home pc for PCH did same and hate words=I wrote down+word yew (a tree not allowed etc=wrote those down 3 days later allowed many good words had not allowed but still took ** etc= and freezes oddly. Taking up to 5 seconds per letter on 10x day and freezes altogether too and when unfreezes goes from 60 sec to 48, 42-when havent been able to play-oh btw-it's showed up at my desk after 1st day play -I asked re game-git smile they're meant for patients= I never played it again!! But occurred in court could set people up=what bs!!

I think it is fair to say that we all would like to keep some sort of hope that we can be the next winner???? From PCH pay out of some sort. How it would just help out in so many ways but aside from the huge far fetched dream the real question is the PCH for real or is it just fake with paid actors claiming to win? Well I do have some real evidence from first hand experience myself with this PCH monster company that I have been contemplating that very question for the past few years until I myself was contacted by this PCH themselves more than once by email notifying me that I was a winner.

I was reading the Facts and Rules for a Giveaway (Ford Escort). On the page that you enter your tokens for a chance to win. The giveaway # was 11749 but on the Facts and Rules page the giveaway # was 13652. Also they state that it is only for US residents. They say the odds of winning are 1 in 1,600,000,000 but there are only about 400 million people that reside in the United States so how can their statements be true unless I have some of my facts wrong but I don't think I do. They don't have to give anything away but stop misleading everyone.

Sales sent two pair of shoes when mom ordered one. Then they sent two die cast car twin packs instead of one. She paid for one and they are billing her for the second. She will not pay. She paid for both pair of shoes because she is 85 and felt she had to or she'd be arrested for cryin' out loud. They are threatening to charge her for non-payment of the second set of die cast cars she NEVER ordered. She feels she has to buy to win or they throw your envelope away if the box is checked "no order". They should be shut down by Consumer Affairs for taking advantage of the elderly. No matter how many times we call they are always busy. It is a very frustrating experience trying to straighten things out. I TOLD HER STOP BUYING and STOP SENDING THEIR CRAP IN. They make you jump hoops like a monkey. At least a monkey gets peanuts for doing so.

You order, put in mail, about 3 weeks-4 weeks later you receive your item - write a check. Then you receive a statement saying balance is due because you failed to make payments. I had this happen claiming the post office claimed to have delivered pkgs within 2-4 days of me mailing an order in. People this has to be a scam - they claim because I waited so long to make a payment (same day as item received!) All balances are due and payable. Beware.

I don’t believe their statements that say if you don’t order you can still be a winner. I have been playing PCH Sweepstakes for about 10 years now and can’t afford to order anything, nor have I won a damn thing. So I think they only pick the people who place orders to be in the winner pool. I’m beginning to think this is nothing but a scam!!!!

I've been a member since 2015 and have won 10.00 dollars. Awarded in a check by mail. I was warned by all the warnings about the odds of winning a grand prize. So I'm not expecting anything less than if I was playing the lotto. We play for the dreams, for the hopes, for the chances to change our lives and the people we hold dear. But it's still never promised to us. I'm shocked and blessed that I won 10.00 dollars on playing games and watching ads, without me spending any money. And I do not expect much more.

The games are standard, but it takes forever to load compared to any other site. I'm stuck watching full minute commercials that don't pertain to me, and it's the same one over and over... and over again. The extreme low chance of winning anything doesn't make it worth the time and frustration.

Be VERY cautious about making purchases from PCH. Their prices are vastly inflated when compared to what comparable and identical items sell for when purchased from other sources such as Amazon or Walmart. It is not uncommon for PCH to show an initial price which is 10-25% higher than other sources AND then they add bogus shipping charges plus, in some cases, a "heavy item" fee so their final price is 30-50% more than what a customer can find online elsewhere.

My favorite token game is not working correctly. It is only giving 100 tokens per game. It should be 10 x the points score. No one will help. ___ "How Wonderful! Your Score: 140. 10xTokens Earned: 100. Play Again."

I have been buying for a couple months. Everything I bought either didn't work or was trash. If you have to return anything, that's wrong, they don't refund shipping. They make money from shipping. So, anything I bought I could have bought at the Dollar Store and been happier. I will never buy from them again. You have to pay to return, so what's the bother. It doesn't to return anything to them.

Ok. Here's the deal. You will not win playing games or entering sweepstakes on pch.com. It was not designed for that. It was designed to give you the false hope of winning to keep you playing the games on their site as long as they possibly can. The webmaster can then look at the logs to get statistics to put infront of advertisers to get them to buy commercial time and if you've ever been to pch.com you know it's all about advertisement. Every page is absolutely covered in animated advertisement and you get advertisement videos between games and in the case of the slots you will get an advertisement between every spin.

So, I'm one of those PCH Presidential Preferred Top Customers, and I get multiple entries, from 3-10 entries per entry site. Today SIX entry screens froze during my attempts at entering. I have cleared my browsing histories and cookies, but it does not help at all. This really pisses me off. That put me at losing out on about 20 entry numbers. What if one of them was a winner? It isn't my computer doing this, it's PCH's computer messing up. I've been entering since 1972, with nothing to show for it. That's 47 years of HOPING I might win. What kind of fool am I?

I have used the playing of game to relieve the stress of all the emails I take care of. All was good til they did not like my Adblock. I do not work so the ads are useless on me. Another I know has Adblock and they are not bothered by them, I told them I maybe had been next to win and they wanted to thwart me. Not a good thing at all. I have gone to the tablet to continue to do PCH entries. The tablet is bounced out all the time and I need to re-enter and their system says I already collected whatever I entered in the first place. I agree PCH is no longer the place to be. Just takes time a lot of us don't have to entertain the possibility of a win. It plain sucks.

I have been an avid consistent contest member with PCH since 2002. I only continue to enter the Sweepstakes, reason to continue the legacy my mom entering since when Art Linkletter was hosting PCH, god bless my mom's soul. She has been without us for 14 years now. Still no results at winning a single thing. I am starting to agree with all of the reviews of PCH being a non-Legit Company. What is up with the winners? PCH do show who have won only been members for a short-term.

This "company" is a SCAM. There's no if, ands or butts about it. I know there's a lot of idiotic people on here who for some reason come flying to the defense of this scamming ** company with the typical "Only people who don't win anything talk bad about PCH." Well duh. No **, that's kinda what happens when a company claims to have sweepstakes and gives away money when in fact it's all fake and one big scam to get views on the spam so they can get money. It's not just about not winning, that I could deal with. (Although let's admit it. Spending years and countless time on PCH and never winning anything is annoying **.)

I have been entering Publishers Clearing House for many years. Playing their games for tokens and to enter their deals like $7000.00 a week for life. I have been cheated time and time again, out of tokens. For instance when you first enter the $7000.00 a week for life contest, it shows that you have won 10.000 tokens for the token board. But then when it puts the number of tokens on the token board, it only shows 1000 points. Then as you play more games during that time, you lose more tokens due to the fact you can't get the games to play. This all comes up empty, showing you have played the games and you have not even seen some of the games.

After 26 years of entering PCH contests and ordering things, I received a phone call asking me my opinion. After that call, all entries stopped; without any notification. When I asked about this, this is the response I received: "Under an agreement between Publishers Clearing House and your State Attorney General, PCH is required to interview customers whose purchase activity with our company meets a certain criteria. Your account was identified as having met the criteria outlined in the agreement. You may recall completing a telephone or written survey where we asked you a number of questions about entering our sweepstakes and buying products.

My mother has played their sweepstakes for almost 20-years and I grew up watching her return notice after notice multiple times every week. She has won nothing in all that time, not even one of their basic $100 winnings. She's getting older and has felt so horrible about wasting her time and "all those stamps" that I started playing the games under her name hoping to win her even a gift card.

I know that PCH Is a legit company and I play every single day. Just because you have not won yet, doesn't mean you won't. If you don't play, there is a 100% chance you will not. I am finally a PCH VIP ELITE with coming up on 1 billion on my token history. It has taken me just over a year to reach my all time token history. I have won twice and a very active player who is dedicated to PCH. No, you do not have to purchase a thing to win.

Played one of the games that was a tournament. Once I started getting high scores PCH wiped out my scores and said I violated against their rules!!!! So I will never play another game as you can't be getting good scores, if you do you are automatically cheating!!! I never have won anything and obviously never will. Going to block PCH, don't send me your trashy e-mails either!

I entered the sweepstakes because it says "No Purchase Necessary" in the Official Rules, however, I got to the end of the survey and it forced me to choose a product to purchase! I ended the survey at that point and tried to cancel, but I was inundated with phone calls by telemarketers and others trying to sell me products. This happened within minutes after entering my info in the survey. I also received emails from PCH saying I need to finish my entry even after canceling it! This is a total scam!

PCH runs its sites with add Ins that tell you if you sign up for something you will get a gift card for a $1000. I signed up for Apple Music but never received the card. Call PCH and they stated that it was an outside group. I believe they should be responsible for who they allow to use their site.

I reviewed several items, I clicked one item I was considering but backed out of it before giving my method of payment. PCH sent it to me anyway, charging it to my credit card. THAT's FRAUD! The item is almost twice what I would have paid at the grocery store. I tried contacting PCH without success. I finally sent the voucher back with a note, but they haven't responded. I will NEVER play their games again. Most of their merchandise is low quality junk anyway. Why don't they spread the wealth anyway, instead of giving it all to one person? I later bought a paperback book "Wagging Tails in Heaven" because I recently lost my dog. When I received it, It's going to cost me $18.94 including S/H & tax. Target & WalMart have it for $9.70. They're ripping you off, America. It's time to wake up!

I'm so unsatisfied with PCH products due to arriving cheaply made. The mosquito light bulb lasted two weeks, my outdoor ornament lights half never worked then I've had missing items, I'm unsatisfied and not going to pay for cheap merchandise. I make 10 dollars an hour. Work hard and will not pay for these products. Makes me mad because I never took the time earlier to write review. But I'm mad.

I've been entering Publishers Clearing House since 2011 and I haven't won nothing. I'm thinking about not playing the games and entering every day because all I see is people that do win lives in nice houses and already have money. Publishers Clearing House doesn't pick people that lives on monthly disability check and lives in house trailers. I'm wondering if it's all staged. Well that's all I have to say.

I entered the $7,000.00 A Week For Life Sweepstakes in the beginning of March 2019 (Sweepstake Upcoming ~ April 2019). Five times I've proceeded to act according to their instructions stating to finalize my entry. Each day thereafter they are sending me numerous emails saying my entry is incomplete. I understand purchasing an item is not necessary. It makes me feel these sweepstakes may not be legit. How many times must one finalize a sweepstake with PCH? The same instances have happened in the past over the years. Also, I've gained many coins playing their games but was unable to redeem. Is there a party regulating PCH? Thank you.

I just want to say I've read a lot of your reviews and I can understand people being upset over money they've spent and lost throughout the years, but on that note in Publishers Clearing House's defense if you're one of those people like me who actually takes the time to read the small print before just sending off my hard earned money to everything. They clearly state buying things from them does not increase your odds of winning. Your odds are just the same as someone like me who never purchases anything. I just submit for my chance to win, take a few surveys and go on about my day. I know the odds of me winning will probably never happen, but it's worth a shot to try. If you are tired of wasting your money then stop sending it. You're not doing yourself any good. Hope this helps someone out there.

PCH never used to be like this. Years ago I could enter without buying something. Now they SAY you can still win but you can't enter the contest without making a purchase. So I made a purchase thinking, okay I'm entered. NOT SO! I received email after email telling me I had 1 more step to only find I'm taken to a bunch of magazine subscriptions and I HAVE to pick one to be entered in the sweepstakes. I thought I'd give it one last chance and pick a subscription. STILL NO GOOD! They kept blowing up my inbox wanting me to buy junk that I don't need.

Their games freeze stop working. It is really hard to contact them. When I try sign in it take me to an old email. The only way to contact them is by phone. Why is it so hard to contact them? Do they give away all that money? Do you really win all those prizes? Why is not in my state tv show.

I signed up for the "Win the 7,000 a week for life" contest. I kept getting emails that my entry was incomplete. I would click the button presented in the email, thinking this would take to where I needed to finish my entry, but it just was pages of stuff they were trying to sell. The drawing was yesterday and today I got an email saying to make sure I completed my registration for the next drawing in April because the one for 02/26/19 was not received and incomplete. So many emails trying to get me to order by threatening that my registration was incomplete. What a waste of time.

This week of February 18th to the 25th PCH has gotten EXTREMELY UNETHICAL by not allowing clients to get through the game cycle and thus compete for the big prizes. These SK-II ads are 48 seconds and are played in between each game. Considering there are 100's of games to complete before an entry is considered valid... the time it now takes went from 1 hour or 1.5 hours to over 4 hours with a VERY fast internet connection and computer. They suck... They've started this last week by having some pop up that read "I agree PCH uses ads"... Well same manipulative/coercive programming was involved... A person could not advance on any game/search/ whatever unless you clicked "I agree". There was no button for disagree or even opt out.

I have been playing for 4 years everyday and have over 120 million tokens and all I have won and in all this time is $35. I have ordered 2 products and didn’t get my savings so they charged me full price plus I had to pay all at once or I would have been charged late fees. My second order took 4 months to receive. I am not very happy and will never order anything again.

My problem is not that I haven’t won anything with token. With so many people involved, one’s chances of winning anything is slim. My problem is with the changes PCH has made in the past 4 or 5 months and, starting within the past month, terribly disappointed and frustrated with the company. I have ordered items from their long lists over the past year. I think my first buy were bath mats that I really like. Gold Coast microfiber bath mats. The tag on the mats state they were made in China, how to wash them, do not put in dryer, etc…but there’s a warning too: FLAMMABLE: (FAILED U.S. DEPT. OF COMMERCE STD., FF2-70) SHOULD NOT BE USED NEAR SOURCE OF IGNITION. No one smokes in my house, but there may be a problem for those who like to um…sit and smoke a cigarette.

Been playing the entries on the app. It is glitchy and makes you watch these ads then says error and does not give you the tokens. This is a rip off. Don’t waste your time. It’s a scam. Going to report to Calif Attorney General. This is an absolute rip off.

I went to PCH.com website to enter the "free" $2500 per week sweepstakes today. Should be a quick and easy process. But it takes you through all kinds of items that it wants you to purchase (although it doesn't affect your ability to win or lose). I went through 6 or 7 different screens of products, each page reminding me that my entry isn't complete until I "activate" my shopping account. PCH used to be a really fun thing for people to enter back when I was a kid, but anymore, it's just a big scam to get people to buy junk that they don't need. Even the "FREE" item you get from them requires that you pay shipping. I will NOT be trying to enter their sweepstakes again. I don't like strongarm shopping sites. If I want to buy junk online, I can find sites to do that. If I want to enter a sweepstakes, that's ALL I want to do on that site. Shame on PCH.

I ordered one of their knife sharpeners second week in Nov. for delivery in Dec in time for Christmas. Finally in third week in Feb, I called and complained and they said it would take 2 - 4 weeks for delivery. Also, years ago I ordered a piece of jewelry. Cut and attractive but when it got wet, it tarnished and the "silver" finish disappeared to be replaced by some kind of gray powder. These people are a scam. Never again will I order anything they offer. It is all crap!

I enter PCH contests online because they're free. Almost 40 years ago, I won $100 from them. They award "tokens" for entry attempts. I built up enough tokens to get bumped up one "level" to another. A screen popped up congratulating me, and giving me a "spin" on a "prize wheel" for this achievement. I clicked to "spin" the "wheel", AND IT STOPPED ON "You WON $700." There was a ding-ding-ding noise, and then that screen was replaced just a second later with another that said "Congratulations! You won 25000 tokens." Wha-a-a-t??? What happened to the $700??? Well, I have been entering their contests for over 40 years. When the last one is over - Feb 2019, I am going to "spend" all my "tokens" on the least popular prize, and then delete my account. I am done with them.

I made the mistake of entering Publishers Clearing House online, and ended up playing stupid games for tokens. Never won any money and received 50 e-mails a day. Some appeared to be strong armed, and I stopped and unsubscribed. I have never met anyone that has won, and I had to go through pages of junk. I just got tired of it, and read the reviews here. It is so liberating not to have these e-mail clogging up my inbox. No one should play, as there is a 2.4 billion chance per one that you'll win. Scam Alert.

So I purchase three items from PCH, because they say the small payment you will make every month, well I received my items just what I asked for, but when I went to try to pay for each of these items online, they put the FULL BALANCE up instead of breaking it down by installment. So I just wanted to WARN anyone who is thinking of paying ONLINE for each item installments you can’t. It asking for the whole BIG lump sum. So what I learned is you have to pay those little installments over the phone. So just be AWARE of that.

Was entering contest in February and forced to review catalog every other line. They kept thanking me for order and when I logged out I received immediate order for Shammies. Called customer service immediately. Rep claimed they had no record of me. She conferred with supervisor who said to wait for order confirmation email. Got that 2 days later and filled out online form to cancel order. Filled that out 3 times and would not accept it. Have tried to call customer service many times. Am always put on hold. This company is 99% unreputable. Would never recommend them and I had ordered from them for over 30 years.

315-745-3378 Is another phone number that keeps contacting me in re “5.5 million dollars & a car PRIZES.” Scammers seem 2 share people’s information. And, how do they target people? It is quite upsetting. Do NOT PLAY INTERNET GAMES!

IDENTIFY THEFT. Dont give PCH your credit card info. I bought a magazine for 1$. PCH tried to bill me for over 400$! Dont trust them! Dont buy from them! Luckily my bank caught it but now I have to change my bills online and get a new card due to my old card now being stolen!!!

I placed an order on 1/29 for $23.53. Two days later Chase notifies me of a charge for $22.45 from PCH. I called PCH customer service and they tell me the second charge was for the order I placed on 1/29. What? I was already charged for that order! So I canceled the order and now have to get a new credit card. Beware! I'll never order from these ppl again.

I was never awarded my tokens for the last two days on two different daily bonuses (45,000 each). I called on the first one, and was told that first thing on Monday morning (happened on a Weekend) that he would take care of the first 45,000. I played for a hour after talking with him, and the second one (in Lotto) happened. The call system was shut off for the weekend, so I went to the ASK site and wrote what happened. This is Tuesday, haven't heard from my call or email, no points added, survey already sent and filled out (bet you can't tell what I rated you) and now my Lotto is completely down. I called back, was told the reason my first call wasn't dealt with is that YOUR system has been down and that the Lotto/Keno site is because of conflicts in third party sponsor site incompatibility. Since the complete Lotto/Keno down has happened before to me last year and took you over 3 months to fix and bring up again, I am pretty ticked.

To all participants in PCH games: get in your head that all “entries” go directly into a trash can. Winners listed are bogus, award dates are years in advance (read the game rules small print). No one wins cars.

I put an item in the shopping cart and went on to try to "complete" the sweepstakes entry. I did not complete the entry due to having to go through a myriad of pages trying to sell me everything under the sun, nor did I "check out" to complete the purchase. The item was sent to me anyway. I assume they will bill me for it whether I send it back or not. They send you one more last final entry, over and over. I do not want anything more to do with Publisher's Clearing House. It's all a scam.

I received an advertisement from Publishers Clearing House and looked at the items they offered for sale. I decided to give it a try and purchased the "Security Lights" since you did not have to send any money now and could make 5 partial payments until paid for. The price was 19.95 plus shipping, handling, processing and tax for a total of 28.96. I divided that price into 5 installment payments and have sent 2 payments thus far. Both on time. Now I am getting a ton of emails and letters in the mail stating, "Total Amount Due 17.36. Payment Due Upon Receipt."

This company is a joke. They get your hopes up by saying you could win $5,000 for life, and when you sign up, here comes the barrage of offers and prizes you don't need to buy. I went through 4 pages of trying to get out of buying something. Finally it comes to a video it says you need to watch while it processes your entry. The video doesn't play and when it says it's done processing, it doesn't do anything. I had to refresh the page just for the same thing to happen 3 times. Don't waste your time or money on this scam.

I am almost 60 years old and have always dreamed of winning at PCH. I started entering their contests decades ago via snail mail in my 20's always buying magazines from them since I had a chance to win big money. I have spent many hours filling out all of the paper forms and contests and much on magazines, postage and dreams. I never won anything. Now comes the age of computers. For the past couple of years I did buy some of their items. One was supposed to be a wooden shoe holder, but when I got the box it was so light that I wondered if there was anything in the box, showed it to the postal clerk and decided to return it unopened. I did get a few items, an example would be the Bell and Howell lantern that met my expectations for quality, but I spent more on it than if I would have gone to Amazon or Walmart online.

I enjoy playing PCH. But I found that the end dates changed on two online sweepstakes. The dream house and the million dollar plus bonus. I have a copy of the sweepstakes facts that say the end dates were 12/31/18. Now they are 12/31/19. When I called and emailed, I was given vague answers. I was under the assumption that end dates cannot change. Is this common practice with PCH?

I am not sure the Publishers Clearing House "no purchase necessary to enter" is really free? I hope it is. I was prompted by several emails and have still not received a entry confirmation number. They keep saying you are almost done, prompting buy one more thing??? There was no option "click here" to enter free listed anyplace on their site. I seldom buy online and I rarely play games. I only wanted to try a free entry. I ended up ordering the least expensive item to continue with the entry process. I am not giving a bad review, only questioning the "free to enter" wording.

I started to fill out their form as many have mentioned thinking that it's 'free', well, it isn't as the site has some circular logic that prevents you from 'canceling' out of the program, after seeing that it forces you albeit surreptitiously to buy something anything before it let you go, I went back to the form and deleted my information - or so I thought despite this and my never completing their program have received a light bulb for $14.95 a with shipping of $5.99 and $1.83!!! This is beyond ridiculous, and highly unethical. As many have pointed out.

This entire thing is a scam. You enter follow all steps and then a final page as no options other than entering a game etc. You then wonder where you go as no other buttons exist to finalize? You check out and the next day you get another email telling you're not finished, on and on and on... all while saying no purchase necessary. No credibility at all, this has become a behavioral reinforcement scam to keep you performing over and over in the hopes you will give in and take in offer.

I am amazed that Publisher's Clearing House is permitted to continue to operate the way it does. I decided to enter...why not, I thought. Well, instead of magazines (I remember the old days)...they are offering a huge assortment of items, all of which you pay for in installments plus shipping. That is not the problem. I have followed all the directions, and every day I receive a message telling me that my entry is not complete (even though the previous day indicated that it had been submitted) and pleading with me to look one more time at the huge selection of items for sale. I have continued to do this to see if it ever ends, and so far it has not. (This began on January 1, 2019. Today is the 13th and I have received 27 email messages from PC). I I am not sure I will ever receive an actual number, and I am warning you...do not waste your time!

My 88 year old mother has thought for years she is going to win! She has spent thousands and thousands of dollars on the junk they sell. I told her many times not to waste her money on such junk...and just go to the Dollar store and buy the same type stuff. She said she had stopped, but I just intercepted a bill from PCH for over a thousand dollars! It's ridiculous! I'm not making this up! I can't believe it! But my Mother does!

They don’t deserve one star. I have purchased several items but they keep nagging with chronic emails with a slight threat...even though they say “purchase not necessary.” They use terminology that urges you to buy for a higher rating... Would lead you to think your chances are better if you buy one more item...over and over again. And the date for winning seems to be pushed up all the time. So done with this. It would be great to win but chances are highly unlikely.

Years ago I got so stressed with the numerous mailings from PCH that I wrote and asked them to discontinue spending mail to me. After doing some research, I realized that there was not any chance of me winning and even less than some because I am **. I checked the winners' zip codes against the demographics and it did not surprise me that next to no ** lived in the winning zip codes. The $5,000 a week winner was from Moro, Illinois where the population is 99.6% **. It is a shame that this company sends a mountain of mail to me knowing I would never, ever win. So, my request to PCH is to send your mail to those zip codes that you seek your winners.

I figured out I've been spending AT LEAST $10 a month postage on PCH entries - each entry telling me I need to make ONE MORE entry before I'll be in the latest drawing, and I'll be BETTER OFF buying $10 worth of LOTTO tickets monthly, which is EXACTLY what I'm going to do INSTEAD from now ON!

My mother-in-law died and I had to cancel all the nonsense she got herself involved with concerning PCH. Being of sound mind and ability, I can't begin to tell you how difficult it was. They kept sending packages even though I returned them without opening them and told them to close her account. They kept charging her for the packages I returned. I called them to stop sending those large packages of junk to her house. I had to call them three times to actually get them to stop. I have been on the phone numerous times to cancel the TV guide subscription which should be a HUGE refund.

I have entered for years, & never won a damn thing! No one I know has, either! They are fake, & want you to jump through their stupid hoops! They must know that I'm desperate for money???! Fake creeps! Shut them down! They deserve to be in prison!!

I got a package today of products that they offer. I didn't order it and I will not pay for what I didn't order. My husband said he didn't order them either. This is the second time this has happened. I hate it and will not enter their stupid contests ever again. I am miffed and will book no guff from them. I wonder how many other people are scammed by them like this. The package this time was 3 light bulbs and the full price for three bulbs is some 18.00. I can get these very bulbs for 4 dollars at my local Dollar General or Family Dollar store. I am a frugal person and would never order lame bulbs like this. In fact I have better ones I bought at the Family Dollar and they are LED. Much better of a energy saving light bulb. They send you merchandise and think they can make you pay for it. Even though you didn't order it.

PCH is constantly bombarding me with opportunities to enter and win whatever their current millionaire scheme is. They claim their “no purchase” necessary to enter any given contest and yet when you attempt to do that, they continually bombard you with requests to please purchase something and reconsider all they have to offer with these products. And their continual email gets worse with each mailing stating you going to lose this wonderful opportunity to maybe win this contest if you ignore their emailings and don’t purchase something. It’s Bait and Switch plain and simple and they need to be put out of business by the regulators who oversee this stuff because you CANNOT enter to win ANY CONTEST WITHOUT making a purchase or subscribing to a magazine. They already were exposed for tossing out people’s entries a few years ago. Somebody please do something!!! It needs to Stop!!!

Awful site. They lure you in saying things like "search and win" or "instant win games". The only thing you do is bank tokens. All the emails they send about gaining more entries are cleverly disguised adware. You can search to win but once you search it gives you 250 tokens and doesn't even show you your supposed "entry". Instead you'll be shown a Google search result and a tiny picture saying something like "double entries".

So I had accumulated around 50 million tokens. It took me almost 5 years of playing all their games and I figured if I redeemed 50 million tokens all at once I would surely win. After all it took me 5 years of saving them. Surely no one else was going to spend that much in one shot right? Lo and behold I didn't win. Almost 20,000 entries on 1 gift card and I didn't win. I'm sorry but that's bs. It's rigged for sure.

I called day after I ordered something. I talked to a nice clerk. I gave her the two order numbers and my account number. I told her I wanted to cancel the two orders. She said the orders were cancelled. However, a week later I got 3 tins of cookies that were all damaged in into little pieces. Saw the same three tins at a Dollar Store for $1.00 each. I paid $17.20 for the cookies. I got an electric can opener that cost $30.44. Could have a working can opener for $14.00 at Walmart. To boot, the can opener doesn't work. I learned a valuable lesson. Don't order anything from these people. Their items are a big gip. Wish I had read these reviews before I ordered. They flood my email every day, although I have requested to unsubscribe.

I only started entering in the last few months. It is a tremendous amount of work and seems to have no real value. Just tokens, tokens, tokens... Out of pure curiosity I searched and searched for real winners online and can only find testimonials on the PCH blog... Feel like they are paying actors to accept the prize and it's not actually real. You would think with technology today we would be able to find true winners and their testimonials somewhere other than the PCH blog. I mean look at Facebook, you know when someone is at the convenience store buying a soda...

I started playing this because I wanted to reach out until the last stone. After a few months playing I received an order on the mail. I never ordered anything and I am very disappointed with them. I don't want you to sent me anything. Now, I'll have to sent it back and pay for something I never ordered. Don't play this games anymore, it's a scam. Deleting this app from my phone and blocking it from my email.

All of the people that have wrote in before me have said what I have said for years, it’s not right. They can tell you that you are the next big winner and send letters with your address and to make sure you put on a good show for them when they show up! If you are not home they will find me! I am 83 years old, I have been buying in to this crap for 60 years! So why has someone not done something about it, all the money people have spent that they can not afford is just not right, do something please!

I have participated in PCH mailings (snail mail and emails) for more than a decade. I have bought some things over time, but have not purchased anything for awhile. I started receiving People magazine although I never ordered it – something I believe PCH sent me since they have my address, enter me in numerous game. I have never won a dime with PCH.

My mother of 85 years old spent her entire life trying. Then I'm doing the same thing, cash in tokens nothing, enter every day on everything and nothing, just a rip off to get us to order. This is ridiculous and it's time I block this account and delete the app off my phone. I can't let my hopes of this to overcome my sanity. The only people winning are the ones we order crap from. So like everything else put there it's a ripoff.

I received an unsolicited call from PCH today. The guy introduced himself and asked if I was having a good day. I responded with, "I'm having a great day and I hope that you have a great day." As I'm about to hit the end call button, I hear a **-you. I guess PCH has a new approach to dealing with customers.

I placed an order this year, I thought the shipping and handling was a bit pricey. A customer service representative spoke to me like I was literally beneath her. She was the fifth person this year, who spoke with racial undertones. My account has been altered. Everyone says they don't see a change, but I did. They stick up for each other, they placed me on hold, and come back saying the exact same thing. They don't care. No one believes, this would happen at a establishment like this. This is not written out of anger, this is the God's honest truth.

I bought a DVD from PCH they charge high prices and real high shipping. I ordered a John Wayne DVD and they sent Red Skelton. I sent the bill back and told them and a copy of the bill that Had John Wayne on it. They sent a letter back and said, "We will send you another Red Skelton DVD." WHAT? Nobody probably ever WINS and what you see on TV are just paid people. I am through with these crooks and thieves. They say you can pay in payments but they sent me a letter and said they would charge me a late charge of $4.50.

Beware of PCH's promise to send you money when you win a simple scratch off for $5,000.00 or any contest you venture into. The headlines saying they have winners is bogus. After signing the entry as directed, placing in the proper envelope, mailing the entry before the due date to the correct address with my return address. I received no money after many searches for 7 years, calls and emails, they denied my claim and I told them they were frauds. Never send me mail again or email but they are relentless.

I entered my mother in for the "$2,000 a week for life" contest on PCH.com. A few weeks later, my mother starts getting phone calls and mail stating that she has won. My mother is elderly and believes every word of it. She first paid a "search fee" via mail. Then she was being hit up for "taxes" on the millions, the scammers want $1,200 paid to them upfront. I tell her and tell her it is a scam, but because she was entered in the PCH contest, she thinks it is real. This terrible company should be ASHAMED that they are scamming elderly people. They can try to pretend they are not in on the scams, but my mother does not get online and I am the one who entered her personal info in the "legitimate" site at PCH.com just prior to this mess starting. Nobody had my mother's private information except PCH. I think they may be selling information or have a side "business" of hustling elderly people out of their money.

I always get Publishers Clearing House info just to review. Well, this morning I actually selected a couple items and continued thru the process of submitted my entry and all of a sudden I had purchased the items without knowing how much shipping was or taxes. I tried calling, no one picks up on Sunday's, I tried to cancel online but requires that I have an account number which I do not get till my order comes. They say it's on all communications I get, not true. They also say they expedite orders... so by tomorrow not sure I will be able to cancel.

After 20 yrs. entering PCH and buying products I've had it. If anyone wins it is few and far between. Is there any way we can get together and sue this company for all the postage and time and effort we have put on to get nothing in return? Isn't this false advertising? I am so disappointed. Sometimes sending off 15 envelops where they each have a different address. Not anymore. I've had it with these phony people.

I have been mailing and playing more and more PCH games. I used to order for years but the items are very cheap for the money. They hook you in with the tokens to win a gift card. I tried for 5 years playing games and sending in my emails that would urgently say you better put in your entry or you may lose the big prize. We have less odds at PCH than at regular lotto scratch off or numbers. I have won 50 times 2 dollar, 15 4 dollar and 10,000 winning. PCH is a scam. Thank you for taking up hours of our lives just to play your scam apps. Unacceptable.

Hey. Mister ** called me and several other men saying that I won 7.5 million and a BMW but in order to claim this money I had to buy a money order or wire money from Walmart or go to my bank and get a receipt which costs 60 bucks or 70 bucks. I immediately thought it had to have been a scam so I just talked to the people like they thought they was getting me. One of the guys said, "You never have to pay money out to Publishers Clearing House" and then later on in the conversation he said that I had to pay the money to get the receipt for the claim.

I have been playing PCH online token games since August 2011. I won about $90 from 2011 to 2013. I only ever won on their Facebook pages. They no longer have any significant presence on Facebook and haven't since 2016. I can't prove it but I think Facebook diminished their presence. I'm currently running two web accounts. I only play games that pay out $100,000.00 or more. I use an ad blocker to kill their commercials and website posting ads. The practical upshot is it saves my bandwidth from unnecessary garbage downloaded and really saves time on hitting their games and then getting out.

I had a friend who passed away. Played PCH token game for years. He had 396 Million before he died. We used his tokens like he requested. All of them on gift cards. Did not win a thing. This is a SCAM!

I have been playing for about 12 yrs. haven't won a damn thing. I have tried to find out about big winners. Can't find out about the so called big prize. I don't think there is a big one. They just lead people on to buy their cheap ** products. They tell you no numbers match you could still win then all of a sudden it has expired **. I think it's all a BIG SCAM!!!

PCH is not allowed to run a scam of this magnitude. I have the same frustrations as most of you. I do believe there are loopholes that they use to avoid awarding prizes from their online games! I mean to play a game & then see the object you are tossing, throwing suddenly take a turn when it gets close to the goal-that's rigging! You don't have to order anything to win, that's actually against the law. So to you who are frustrated from ordering items, that isn't going to help you win. With this many complaints they should be thoroughly investigated or have the decency to respond themselves!

This so-called website is nothing more than a ploy to pawn off cheaply made and inferior merchandise at inflated prices; at even higher shipping costs. The games are, as I see them, programmed (rigged) by either very sophisticated software designed to award certain points at given times and virtually never give the player a chance at winning any actual money. There are times when a player even loses points because of their so-called "technical difficulties." That is pure hogwash. PCH management reminds me of carnival hawkers selling snake oil to unsuspecting people looking for a cure. In this case, they falsely raise hopes of the vast majority of their players with their silly games. The use of advertising is relentless, redundant and extremely repetitive creating, for me at least, a very negative attitude toward the advertiser.

I have been playing on the PCH website for a few years, racking up 26,000,000 tokens. I have turned the tokens in towards all kinds of merchandise from a $25 Amazon card to a Ford truck. All I have ever won was a lousy $10.00 check! They have sent me items I didn't order that I had to pay to ship back and all their anti-wrinkle creams make my face break out. Their merchandise is cheap and can be bought at Walmart for a lot less money. They prey on people's hopes and dash them at every turn. I get about ten emails a day from them saying I am so close to winning! Yeah, right.

I've been playing the online games for 2-3 years now. My token count is 90,000,000. Never won a dime, but $10.00. What a damn JOKE. PCH should be ashamed, what a SCAM. Read all the other reviews, looks like everyone fell into their devious traps. These games are rigged for no wins just TOKENS. Lol, PCH is a fond memory for me. I no longer receive their crazy emails or play any more games. Got better things to do with my precious time...

WOW: 30 million tokens, WINS (0). PCH goes up to 300 Million... can you imagine the time spend. For those at that level, you deserve to WIN but not from an addiction standpoint but from it being a hobby and fun. Good Luck to ALL.

It is ironic that I have been submitting entries since 1979. Since Ed McMahon, before he starred in Star Search, I was a fan of the postcards and PCH mailings. My father had seen that I was responding and told me that I had to be 18 years old in order to win. I told him one day I will be, until then I was going to continue to submit my entries in hopes they would recognize my name. Now it is 47 years later, I've earned over 1,000,000,000.00 tokens during my participation, to have had them taken mysteriously. I went from the platinum, down to a blue stone, yes this is a gimmick. PCH something has to give.

Been playing PCH 4 years, they were formed in 1954 but didn't pay any money for 17 years. They average paying 2 million per year, so figure the millions playing versus millions they promise, don't add up. A good example is the Ford truck, ever hear or see it posted won, the houses you are suppose to win, have you saw or heard anyone posted on PCH website that won? They announced in a small town 30 miles from my home, I worked for a utility company, PCH showed a winner of 1,000,000 dollars, even announced the florist they bought her flowers from, I went to florist shop, owner said he knew nothing about PCH and they hadn't been in his shop. I searched our utility records for someone by the name posted, never found anyone by that name.

NEVER won a THIN DIME! EVER! I started out as a teenager, filling out my Mom's entries. I had it down to a fine art, and could do it in less than a minute! It was the same every time. NOW, I get at least TWO emails per day, and do my searches, and quickly scroll down to fill it out in less than a minute. It too, is always the same. I scroll down so fast, I only see a blur of the products. Lol. I also use the tokens and have used MILLIONS on one thing, a Canon camera I want. To date, NEVER won a SINGLE thing. I hate it!

PCH requires you to do too much clicking on their gameplay, such as click on "play now" then 'reveal now" or clicking on "begin" then "reveal" and "continue" after each game. And they want you to do this for each and every game you play. It's a scam because a person won't spend 18 hours a day on their site and then make you look through the products they want you to buy. It's just a ploy to get your money.

I play PCH all the time online, and I won four times, small amounts, not any major sweepstakes yet, but I wish, first time I won $50, then $20, then $250 then $10. And if you got asked to send money in order to receive a cash winning, then it wasnt PCH, your contents got into the wrong hands somewhere and some con artist is trying to rip you off. So take the word from someone who has took those PCH checks to Walmart and got them cashed, PCH is real.

Back in April of 2018 they sent me a email claiming I won the big prize only to see it was announced to someone else in Florida. They denied the email came from them even though it was sent from their website. I had an account with their webpage and I know now they are fake. A fraud who lied to me. I think the commercials we see on tv are paid actors pretending to win. I want nothing to do with that phony company ever again. They should be sued for phony advertising and sent to prison!

They keep sent me messages saying I'm going to be forfeited cuz I'm not trying and I've mailed in from the start to enter and every single time I try to play it cuts it off. I mean each time and just did while ago and said having technical problems. I'd have to try again. Not once have been able to play and even got the PCH app and it wouldn't ever work either. Thank you.

I have been playing their games for years, winning tokens. I have "redeemed" millions of tokens for gift cards, but won nothing. They bombard me with e-mail every day. I have stopped reading through those that show an ad, followed by another ad from which you can get a $30 "mystery gift" free, and pay only the shipping for that "gift". I never want those mystery gifts. They are puzzle magazines, very small, and not worth more than a dollar a piece. I hate word search puzzles. In these ads, you are reminded of the mystery gift offer, which means you have to click "no" twice - once to place no order, and again to decline the lousy mystery gift.

Seems to be no one to report a scam too. Suppose no one cares, that's why it keeps happening. Keep getting a scam call about Publishers Clearing House second place winner. The scammer's phone number is **. Robert **. Wants me to pay 1% of winning at a Walmart store. Then I will get a check. Never entered so I could not possibly win. Also I will not pay one cent to such a scam. If nothing else, tell other people about the scam. Thank you.

I have been entering the sweeps and trying to buy things with tokens for 6 years and nothing. If you go to the small print Official Rules, it contradicts itself... First it says: A limit of one online entry per day is allowed per individual and per email address for each separate online promotion unless otherwise specified. Then in the next paragraph it says: You may submit as many entries as you would like for this promotional Giveaway.

This is sort of a question about PCH but also a review... I've been on their website for a while and I had millions of tokens and decided, 'Might as well spend them on something'. So I literally wasted tons of tokens and entered for gift cards about 200 times each and I haven't won once... I'm seriously considering this is rigged. Am I right? Or am I wrong? I was wondering if anyone actually got anything from them... I do get the catalog though and mail from them and once they asked me for my security number and maybe it was someone else spamming me. But I really wish PCH was the real deal.

I happened to see a CD for the Drifters and the Platters with all of their greatest hits in PCH catalog pages so I ordered it. It arrived in a nice cover that says "The Drifters" on one side of the front cover and the "Platters" on the other side. I was all ready to send them a check when I decided to play one CD to make sure it was "really" them. When I opened the cover I saw 2 CDs that were blank except for the name of the group and a logo for "Direct Source" which apparently burns CDs for PCH. When I played it I knew immediately it WAS NOT the original group. Looking at the little window when the CD opens it said sung by Georges ** and Jimmy ** whoever they are!!

PCH is deceptive. You never win nothing but tokens. They send you tons of email everyday stating "Don't forfeit your prize of cash" whatever the amount is. So you have to click on it to enter. By then they are getting you to play all these games for cash but NONE of the games are cash prizes. ALL Of them are only tokens. Then you have to enter tokens for a chance to win a gift card. Variable gift cards with so many tokens you have to enter. You can enter all your tokens and never win. It is rigged.

PCH E-mails are disruptive and annoying, every day and almost every minute of every day there is some form of e-mail sent stating "YOU MUST DO THIS!", "DO THIS NOW!", "Immediate attention required!" or "Immediate action needed now!" or YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED for "x" prize mentioned in the e-mail. And no matter how many times you click on the offending action they want you to do, you then have to go through so many hoops. It's just not worth it, you end up wasting nothing but time you could be using for other activities, like cleaning your house, going out to lunch or a movie with family or friends, going to a mall, anything, but wasting time on game that you will never win!

I purchased an amethyst ring from them with the option of making monthly payments. I sent in my first payment way before the due date, and the next thing I knew, I was getting NASTY emails from them, saying my account was delinquent and I had better pay up!!! (My bank records proved they had received and cashed my check!) I quickly paid it off with my debit card and then they began to pressure me to buy more merchandise. NO WAY! I have unsubscribed unsuccessfully, so now I have marked them as spam. I am quite certain the whole thing is a joke and they are a disreputable company.

I wanted to alert other consumers and their families, especially for the elderly. This company will sent notices to entice purchasing under the guise of winning something. They will ship multiple substandard quality and over priced products for months and months. By the time a person realizes they have won nothing and now have a huge bill. Followed by a rude exchange with a supervisor. Shame on you PCH!

I have been on their mailing list now for thirty years. And bought all kinds of trash from them and never won A thing. There was A time I'm sure they sold my DNA to boulder county during the JonBenet Ramsey investigations.

I have 25 million tokens and not one win. You have better odds in some PCH prize categories with the Lottery. PCH is kind of fun and the site is professional. You just cannot get excited about winning. If you are looking to win as a means of income, etc. PCH is not the way to do it. Your time can be better spent in other potential areas.

Publishers Clearing House is just that... a clearing house for magazines and goods. Their primary objective is to sell stuff. If you go in knowing that, you will understand how they operate. Winning money is a come-on to generating sales. Keeping you coming back via hyped-up emails is their MO. If you think you might get lucky and actually win money well, let me advise you that you will probably do better by buying scratch-off tickets. I actually won a total of $350 from scratch-off tickets. As for pch.com, I received a check for $10 in the mail which covered the cost of a magazine I ordered.

I have been ordering PCH merchandise for about 3 years. I have found some things are cheap and break. However PCH has been great about refunding or replacing, if I call about something broken. Recently my friend broke his sunglasses he received from PCH. I called PCH and they replaced them for free! I like PCH. You just have to be selective on what you order!

I have been told that I have to buy things to be eligible to win in their current contest. I purchased goods 3 separate times. Now I am being told I have to buy again or I will be disqualified and unable to win in the current contest. I am not going to buy again! I have spent over $100. On goods. I think I should be qualified to win. What a scam!!! You see all of their wonderful T.V. commercials and believe they are a reputable company. They are not! What is happening in our country? Does everyone lie all of the time???

I have bought and played regularly games and sweepstakes for over 2 years, all I've won is a $10 gift cert, it's not the winning, it's the programming behind all of pch.com's stuff. Example if you land on $100 or ? You see it quickly jump to you won only tokens, no cash. It also trips you up constantly, trying to get you to buy or loose time. I recommend NYS to take a hidden sample look at the programming behind the whole deal. I know from using computers, you can set them up to make sure no one MUCH wins in NY, the sad part is I like the games, but knowing that it's not real hurts, help us consumers.

I have been playing for a little over ten years. And boy do they make you believe you are the next big winner. But I've finally caught on and noticed that we don't ever win. It's just like all the fake apps on marketplace. They get paid to keep our minds busy. Another brainwashed American citizen I have let myself become with dreams of the all American dream. I've become a slave to PCH... smh. Makes me wonder if they care about the hopes and dreams they are crushing.