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Publishers Clearing House is a direct marketing company that markets magazine subscriptions and some merchandise, including kitchen gadgets, with sweepstakes and prize-based games. Its casino-style games include slots, keno, quizzes, scratch-offs, solitaire and others.

Pros
  • Daily sweepstakes
  • Friendly service
  • Free to enter
Cons
  • Marketing overload
  • Slim odds

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2025

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

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2025

    Don't trust PCH Games. AVOID Publishers Clearing House, everyone. They are infected with viruses and malware. 🙁 Their games are EXTREMELY crooked and rigged, and their, so-called phony sweepstakes odds are at best 1 in 2.4 billion! They should be forced out of business, and their executives locked up in jail! 🙁

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2025

    I've been a customer of PCH since I was a child... I've had and have accounts with pch. I had to prove I could win. I've been called by clients that told me they played token games and spent over 2 billion tokens trying to win in every type of offer available, and nothing. And that's per year. I wrote a program that generates tokens at a ridiculous rate. And another one to enter high end prize, and cash contests. Nothing. This is just fact. And it's totally sad the ftc, and the usag, and each state ag haven't shut these guys down ages ago. Plus their product are crap, all from foreign countries that aren't usa. If you see a usa label, that was made by china to put on their products. Now there are so many companies stealing money, and selling our info to other countries. It's insane, and should be illegal.

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    Reviewed Jan. 27, 2025

    This is about the third time I was listed as top token earner over the years that I didn't get paid for.. They are not posting daily winners. Anyone else have this issue? I am starting to question why I go through this every day. Doing the same thing every day and getting the same results is the definition of insanity.

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2025

    Been playing since age 13 and now 39 years old... Have only won 5 dollars since...2008... Odds are really bad hints why it's free, don't spend no money here because they say it's a none factor to win even though many people who have won before have won many more times than that one time.... Doesn't seem randomly drawn. I have also notice they don't timestamp or show a timestamp with date for spending tokens on entries. So I have entered 75K and 15K prize. 15K I checked to see how many entries I've done in Token Activity when logged in. It shows my tokens were spent but not on what in some inconstant way of showing it.

    I've done 600 entries at 5k tokens per entry for the 15K dollars to be rewarded after Jan 2 2025.... says on friday and the 75K dollars prize ended with no winners. I guess having spent 800 entries at 10K token per entry. It's not transparent nor a live drawing so who's to say it really legit. Getting the tokens come to a trickle when you have a lot of the from my account and if you enter in only one thing it doesn't seem to annotate a time of entry, date, and show the amount spent at that time within the Token Activity area. It's not showing my recent entries for the 15K dollars prize... It's just showing a dip in my tokens of 1 Million tokens gone on one page where 25K are left and not showing they were spent on entries for the 15K dollars prize. They making seem as if my tokens just vanished and not for what. The 15K dollar prize got like 6 hours before it closes so not sure why its not showing me getting 600 entries for it.

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    Reviewed Nov. 24, 2024

    PCH Rigs who if any win. I enter daily but in the last 12 months they started blocking your entries 7 days before it closes. They manipulate if anyone wins. Their history shows they don't. What a scam.

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    Reviewed Sept. 15, 2024

    I have been entering PCH contests for 23 years and have won three small cash prizes, so I know they are not a scam despite the claims on this website. However, PCH’s website is a piece of crap! I get links in the email that don’t work, and their customer service is less than supportive with “self-help” options. When you exhaust those options, they don’t have any other answers for you. They ask you to go through the steps even though you tell them you did those already! It’s like they are reading from a rehearsed script. The games page often freezes up, and the quizzes page is bombarded with advertisements that make the page bounce around.

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    Reviewed Aug. 30, 2024

    I'm just saying don't waste your money. They're going to keep milking you and you'll never win you'd be better off going to the casino. These people are liars. All they want is your money. Take my advice. I've been doing this since 2012. I've never won nothing but I want you to know you're not going to win nothing either. They just want your money then you're going to buy products that you really don't like so do yourself a big favor and put your money somewhere else. These people are liars and they're thieves

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    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2024

    Too many ads and ads that have three to five levels to watch before entering portals. Also, the Night Island gives tokens then takes them back. I should have at least 10 million more tokens but Night Island took all back from the beginning and all following days. NOTHING!!!

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    Reviewed July 5, 2024

    The PCH+ app is very quirky. It doesn't add weekly entries correctly. Sometimes it credits more but most times it's less. At least a couple of times a day, it will skip games within worlds or repeat the same game just played. When it gives a 'Submit Error', the app should credit the player the maximum number of tokens and weekly entries. Sometimes it repeats the game, but more times it just moves to the next game. I have hundreds of screenshots showing the mentioned errors. The issues need to be fixed ASAP. And should be completely tested before being rolled out to the public.

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    Reviewed June 30, 2024

    PCH is the worst scam ever under all tv and other platforms that advertise them. I was entering their contest for 25 years and never received anything from them. What they do they are sending 10 and more emails every day with promises that you are the one who will receive their prize but YOU NEVER WILL. All people who fail for this scam should delete PCH from platforms and write reviews everywhere to unmask their scamming.

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    Reviewed May 29, 2024

    I like PCH BUT THEIR SURVEY SITE IS CRAP AND YOU GET SCEWED OUT OF TOKENS IN 4 OUT OF 5 SURVEYS YOU TAKE. IT IS no wonder THEY have such A LOW RATING. I just finished 3 surveys especially J. D. Power and got screwed out of tokens.

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    Reviewed May 3, 2024

    Started to order some items, then changed my mind. Because I didn't remove the items completely they sent me the items anyway, even though I didn't complete the order. So I kept the items, two of them were not worth the money, but one was just bit overpriced. Paid the bill so they wouldn't make a bad report on my credit. Doubt I will ever order again.

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    Reviewed April 30, 2024

    I just want to know how I make my claim from the PCH lawsuit for millions of dollars. There no form for me to make my claim. I won $5 from PCH. I did not enter for $5. I would not waste time on such a little amount. I only enter for super prizes I don’t enter for $10,000 or $15,009 prizes because that won’t help me pay off my student loans. PCH can keep their $5 prize. They only need to bring me a super prize or don’t show up.

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    Reviewed April 20, 2024

    After reading the bad reviews I wanted to write my opinion about PCH. PCH is not a scam, but their odds are much higher than the PowerBall Jackpot. However, you don't have to pay to enter their contests, lottery, or slots. PCH are able to gave those high prizes by allowing the advertising on their apps and sites. I agree it is way too many ads and it is annoying (for that I put 4 stars), but you are entering for free and as many times as you wish. Just imaging spending money on buying 90 PowerBall tickets every day to win their jackpot, instead.

    I also believe attitude is counts towards your experience with PCH. You have to do it for fun and not look at it as a source of the income. Also I recommend to include your family playing different parts of PCH games. For example my husband likes PCH Lotto and Slots, I like to play PCH+ and PCH games. Play for fun and I honestly hope everyone will win some prizes! Good luck to all! P.S. Be aware of scammers who will send you fake letters or emails claiming that you won PCH sweepstakes.

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    Online & App

    Reviewed April 17, 2024

    One tablet last less than 24 hours. I used all in less than 10 days and did not clean my toilet at all. Money wasted and money is tight nowadays. The blue stuff stuck more to the bottom of the tank than did any cleaning.

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    Contract & TermsPricePunctuality & Speed

    Reviewed April 2, 2024

    The Piñata hit game has frozen for 23 hours, costing me 160,000 points which are meaningless anyway. No one there seems to monitor for glitches. Any fixes are opaque. There should be a banner statement of admission of problem and that it is being addressed, and when one is corrected. I recall when the website displayed a digital clock, it became eight minutes slow. This error was UNCORRECTED FOR MONTHS. All the games should be checked for correct function and fixed promptly.

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    Reviewed March 29, 2024

    I have been on pch.com for years. My all time token count is 14,006,405,827. My available tokens are 3,753,215,447. I have scored around 40,000,000 tokens in a single day and I am not a robot. I have never won a daily token count. I have received a few small checks for what I don't know. 5.00 to 20.00 about 2 or 3 times a year. I have purchased a couple of things but it's not worth the money. I gave it 2 stars because I didn't want people to think I was totally stupid. I was told by Pch support not to spend too many tokens at a time. It won't make any difference. The odds are not in your favor. I say Don't waste your time with this site.!!!

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    Customer ServiceStaff

    Reviewed March 24, 2024

    To whoever reads this my name's Luke **. I am VIP Elite on Publishers Clearing House for long time. I play the lotto. I match all eight balls but did not win but the video on Youtube stating if you match your winning number you're a winner but they aren't honoring that. I called PCH. Tech told them I match my winning numbers. They told me I'm not in their system. I gave them my address and name. I'm not in their system. Something fishy about them. Beware of them. Their scandalist customer service suck. These guys need to be investigated. I need help about this because tech and customer service isn't any help. I also tried going up the chain of command but nothing.

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    Reviewed March 19, 2024

    I've been entering PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE since 2002, 22 years, I'm a VIP red diamond elite 5 × over. I have nearly an overall total of 2 Billion coins. I've enter multi millions in the redeem tokens almost everyday and can't even win a money gift card, I play the apps to get the tokens all day, I've done a boatload of surveys to no avail. I've mentioned this to them. From what they say everyone has the same chance of winning by entering. That means I could put a million in entries and a person putting 1 entry in can win it over me 1 to a million!! That's some BOLOGNA! I've been entering years longer than the two prize patrol were even prize patrol members too. It Tuesday March 19th 2024. I'm really thinking this is a Scam in some sort of way,

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    Honesty & Transparency

    Reviewed Nov. 25, 2023

    Been foolishly playing and entering for decades. Recently, one survey required for an entry seemed normal, until they wanted complete demographic information, including exact date of birth. I would have given a false date, but then just exited. That's phishing and dishonest, as far as I am concerned.

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    Reviewed Nov. 11, 2023

    So, I have played Publishers Clearing House for years, since 2016. Never won a single penny and never will. This is a waste of time and frankly they should be ashamed. I will never mess with this again. You can spend all day playing their games and so on and it will be for naught. They also push that you make a purchase. They claim that making that purchase does not affect if you win or not. But I can tell you the emails they send are all about buying their products. This is a long time running marketing scheme and not even a very good one. Don't waste your time on this bull, I know I won't.

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    Reviewed Oct. 25, 2023

    I've been playing PCH well before the 90s, I've bought numerous magazines and have submitted millions upon millions of tokens, and have never won a single penny. BE AWARE! Just in the past years (you can guess the years, ha) The PCH surveys you get to gain more tokens is a scam. Why would every single survey need to know your political affiliation? Does 1 party buy more than the other party? Maybe it's to get a count so they know who you're voting for. As I've always known that it's not anyone's business what political party you're on. It's also funny that you can prefer not to answer on race, color, religion or what you identify as, but you can't when asked your political party. At the end of the surveys, if you don't answer the political question then it says you did not qualify for this survey...why? Yes I tried both ways and it works if you answer the political part. This should be investigated! But why should they. It's not a real game anyway.

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    Reviewed July 1, 2023

    For nearly 2 years I have been playing the back and forth emails from PCH always telling me I have one more thing to do to enter. They tell you that you can enter without a purchase but that is not what they push. I have never won and never will because apparently, you have to make a purchase. Don’t get hooked into the lies they tell you…all they want is you to buy from them... and they swindle you into purchasing with dangling the 7k a week for life crap. Don’t be sucked in to believing for a second that you could actually win. This is nothing more than a scam to build business.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2023

    So we have been playing the PCH games sending back all correspondence they send and occasionally buying products. Last month I received a coupon with my envelope for $30 of "free" merchandise. It says I can select items from the included merchandise advertisements. So I did place an order, ordered slippers for my wife and 2 bathroom bath rugs. Well, when I received to merch it included a bill and no credit for the $30 coupon. I made sure I did everything right to include the coupon and everything needed with this order. So I called PCH and they said that I didn't include the coupon! I have the stub but not the coupon, so I KNOW I sent it. They will not honor this and said I will have to pay for the cheap merch they sent. I said I will only pay for the amount over $30, she said they will send the other amount to collections then.

    The slippers are dollar store quality and the bath rugs won't lay flat, slip on floor and smell like chemicals. This cost almost $40, which I refuse to pay anything over $30!!! Also they "backordered" the bath rugs and sent in separate box. They are also charging for 2 S/H charges. This is total ** and a scam! I am done with shady, dishonest business. I am also filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. Also I am NOT paying, if they wanna threaten me with sending the <$10 to collections, let them. They think they can scare people and bully them, not me. This is a dishonest business, beware and don't spend any of your hard earned money with them, disgusting...

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    Sales & MarketingPrice

    Reviewed Feb. 3, 2023

    I placed an order with a $30.00 coupon offered. What a scam, they send a FREE item of their choice and charged me shipping $6.99 for the $30.00 coupon FREE item. It cannot be more deceiving than that. I have no use for this item and the $30.00 coupon was actually not honored on my order, WHAT A SCAM.

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    Reviewed Sept. 15, 2022

    You Can Win: 400,006,535 tokens spent, thousands of other entries, Winnings $10. I have purchased a few times, interesting products but tend to be low cost and cheaply made. Good website that loads quickly. Kind of fun at times bu

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    Reviewed Sept. 8, 2022

    Play same games daily, once a month all my earned points are removed and my Elite VIP status is removed. When I contact PCH they give a boiler plate response to clear cookies or use different browser, but never address the issue! Been playing for 35 years, did win $100. but nothing else. So every month I contact PCH with no fix in sight, they open and close tickets when it doesn't go along with their boiler plated response. Sad, thought they legit!

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    Reviewed Sept. 5, 2022

    I've been playing PCH a few years now. I have reached Red Diamond status and have put over 350 million in tokens for chances to win various prizes. I've played the slots many times it's fun and just a dream of winning. I know the odds are great and have never won a prize of any kind but I play every day before and after work sometimes in the hopes of winning someday!

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    Reviewed Aug. 28, 2022

    They're full of crap! I entered it for years and nothing comes to my door. They're a scam and a pieces of crap. I don't believe in them and all they want you for some reason and possibly they want your information.

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    Reviewed May 27, 2022

    9 Months entries 10 -12 hours per day. As of 05/27/2022 on my PCH account login Token Activity Current Balance: 252,815,640. PCH - PCH Rewards Welcome Tokens+30,000. I received only a $10.00 check for all these works I deserved justice and to get paid as a Citizen in this country nothing is for free and no one is above the law. They are acting just like Donald Trump's businesses no one can touch them because they all are over the word, "It is a Mafia Business".

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    Reviewed May 2, 2022

    Been playing Publishers clearing house contests for over 40 years. Never WON anything ever. Ended up with magazine subscriptions and cheap products that they charge more than double for. Plus it takes a month to receive product on average. Also many items fell apart. Ordered some peanut brittle, You get a small tin can with about 5 oz's for $20.00. Same product at a local store for $5.00. Been playing the games and contests for years online. Racked up over 250 million tokens that were applied to cars and other items. 250 million and NEVER WON A SINGLE ITEM. Oh all that time earning tokens. You do not get them back once entered. They are also have 0 value and can not be cashed in.

    On the entry pages, they post all this money you COULD win. $5000/$7000 a week for life. Then take you to the order page's, usually 6, you have to look at. Their statement at the end "an order would be appreciated." By the way their favorite word "COULD WIN". So if you have a lot of time on your hands and earning worthless tokens, watch countess ads, and never win anything, this is the place to be. Do not expect to win anything. Because you will NOT. This is the biggest waste of time anyone could ever do.

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    Reviewed March 9, 2022

    They will send you emails to claim a prize number and all that does is redirect you to a website to buy life insurance or other products. All their emails are just fake links to trick you into signing up for services like insurance. If you enter once, just block their emails after.

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    Reviewed Feb. 6, 2022

    After years of VIP playing status I closed this account because of Numerous spam emails, site pop-up sponsor redirects that Were Not selected. Final straw: phone virus alert after redirect to one of their sponsored sites that was not even selected. My Phone call to their customer service went to offshore call center. Also unsatisfied with quality of orders received. DONE.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2021

    Been a customer for about 11 years. Haven't won anything yet. I haven't seen no discount for the customers that spends so much time on the phone trying to win the product, I stop playing because I think it's a scam.

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    Reviewed Nov. 10, 2021

    So I've only been on PCH about 6 months and haven't won anything. I don't mind the email reminders to go online and finish lotto, sweeps, scratch-offs etc. I've placed a few orders because the markdowns were so low, however, their S&H prices are absolutely outrageous. Nowadays when I go online to play I'm very, very careful that my "cart is empty" before I hit the Continue button. You can image my surprise when I get a random email the other day stating they are processing my order. What just happened? Where did this come from? I emailed support with my customer number and order number and although they weren't able to cancel the order due to "automated order processing" they did say I wouldn't be billed. They need a way for customers to log in and cancel their own orders just like almost EVERY OTHER SITE out there. If this happens again I'm most definitely closing my account.

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    Reviewed Nov. 8, 2021

    I started with PCH about a year ago with low expectations. I wasn't disappointed. Along my PCH journey I was dumb enough to make 4 purchases (they repeatedly make you feel guilty if you don't). I kept it to low dollar items. The quality of the merchandise is so-so. I believe they make a good deal of money just on their shipping charges. I compared the items to what I would experience using Amazon Prime. Prime was not only cheaper on the item, shipping was free and I would have had the merchandise within a week.

    PCH took almost a month with each item I bought. So, I'll likely reach Red Diamond status in a week or so, and I'm ashamed to say that with all of the inane ads I've been exposed to and all of buying pleas I've sailed through, I've not won one cent and believe that I ever will. PCH makes for a great time-wasting buddy that will keep you out of trouble (unless you gamble on games). Have you ever met anyone who has won anything on PCH? I didn't think so!!!!

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    Reviewed Sept. 14, 2021

    Since playing the PCH games for a good while now, I have fun. I win tokens, I get to exchange those token for prizes, I’ve won several times, the checks are real. I’m kinda old school and the new games are not really my style. But, pch games are very cool to me. I like to gamble and that’s what pch games does for me. I’m like everyone else, I want to try to win big! But, if I don’t play the games I won’t get an entry to win. You never know what can happen? Who knows, it’s like the song says; “miracles can happen and it can happen to me.” That’s why I like playing the pch games….

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    Reviewed Sept. 13, 2021

    For years I've entered the PCH sweepstakes and they always say you needn't buy anything in order to win. This year I tried once again and was advised via letter that I would receive my final documents for entry within two of receipt of said letter. The documents didn't arrive for another TEN days; this was AFTER the drawings were held. I felt compelled to write this review because this sort of behavior has been going on for years and someone has to say something. SHAME ON THEM!

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    Reviewed Sept. 6, 2021

    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.

    FIRST, to offer "Games" with ODDS HIGHER THAN the COMBINED POPULATIONS OF INDIA AND CHINA to ONE should be banned! It is a SCAM because I'm surmising they get "pay per click" funding and YOU MAKE THEM THE MONEY while NO REALISTIC Winning odds! Curious, I began to research "Winners" this I found: Here are ALL the OVER One Million dollar winners I could find - HAGMAN - 1MM; JONKER -1MM; MARSHALL -1MM; FEDER - 1MM; and FELDMAN{!} 2.5 MM! Check your Hollywood-similar name rosters and SEE if you can draw a conclusion!

    Yes, others "win" smaller but NOT at this ratio! Check out the names of PCH hierarchy too. The Federal Trade Commission should investigate this, but, my guess, is they would be paid off too. Like so many of YOU, I am just an ordinary citizen and Disabled Veteran. Except for Lotteries and Sweepstakes, there is NO other path to wealth for Us. Jackpots are everyone's goal BUT NOT a SINGLE CENT with all that entry tells me something IS WRONG! There is ZERO TRANSPARENCY.

    I have contacted PCH numerous times about Winning/Winners. HOW many times has someone played to Win? HAVE they won smaller prizes before? How many entries did they submit when they won a jackpot? DO long term players get beat out by new players when TV ads appear just days before final entry? ZERO RESPONSE! I NEVER ask for personal data either JUST FACTS! SO, continue to play if you wish but I think I'm done and going back to Mega Millions and Powerball where odds are ONLY 300 MM to 1!! I hope this saves some of you more grief and clarifies what I have been through!

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    Reviewed July 15, 2021

    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.

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    Reviewed June 27, 2021

    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.

    They are scam artists and complete frauds. Stay away. They think they can get away with it. Because they do everyday. What they don't know is that my son works for a high profile law firm as an attorney. You would think they would be smart enough to know they have lost lawsuits before. Well, they messed with the wrong person. If I don't get my $100 soon, which I won fair and square, they will be sued again and have zero chance of winning. But hey, if they are dumb enough to not pay the $100 and want to lose much more in a lawsuit, I'm all in for that. Don't deal with these scam artists.

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    Reviewed June 14, 2021

    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.

    However, when you add in the shipping, the pricing/costs of most products can be better through Amazon and/or Walmart. I will say, however, that the quality of the products are good & I've been quite satisfied with the products I've chosen. As for the sweepstakes, I truly believe the sweeps are for real & that REAL people win. Odds of winning are (literally) astronomical, on paper it's easier to win the lottery, however Publisher's Clearing House does not require any investment & therefore more entrants are procured. As for customer service, I'll say the customer service has been top notch. From personal experience, I have returned products that didn't live up to expectations & have received full refunds.

    I have even accidentally ordered a product, called customer service immediately & later found the order to have been reversed, with no charges to my debit card incurred. While I realize that others have posted negative reviews related to their own experiences with customer service, I'm a bit confused when reading about their experience as mine has been very pleasing. Maybe it's because I don't expect more than I should from a mail order type business, or maybe it's just dumb luck (I don't really think this is the case) but I definitely disagree with those reviews. Also, I've won $10 on 2 occasions & believe (in my heart of hearts) that the big win ($1k /day for life) is absolutely real & I remain hopeful that one of these jackpots have MY NAME on it. That said, I will continue to enter the sweeps nearly every day until I do win & after I HAVE WON, I'll continue ordering products through their mail order offerings for the rest of MY life!

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    Reviewed May 23, 2021

    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.

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    Reviewed May 18, 2021

    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.

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    Reviewed April 7, 2021

    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!

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    Reviewed March 5, 2021

    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!!!

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2021

    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?

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    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2021

    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?

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    Reviewed Jan. 22, 2021

    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!

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    Reviewed Jan. 14, 2021

    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.

    Using tokens to enter giveaways is like buying raffle tickets. Based on statistics of the number of total entries. There are many ways to earn tokens or cash like in tournaments like I did. Leaderboards based on your level and status, payout in the hundreds if you win. Other top scorers win large sums of tokens. Read everything on all their apps to learn how to make tokens, disclosures and sweepstakes rules. It seems to be transparent.

    Now comes the bad part. Their site constantly freezes up during gameplay and in between games. I have followed their recommendations on their site, updated my phone, had excellent internet signal and even played in the wee hours of 12 AM to 5 AM to make sure it wasn’t internet jam. However living in a rural area, not many people using their internet at those hours. No matter the time it continues to freeze after a few games in all apps and site. This is quite annoying and I spend more time reloading the game than playing most times. I have even lost big token wins due to the freezing and incapability of the site’s server. Several times I received technical difficulty messages. Unfortunately, this is a flaw of all video games.

    I did question a $40 cash win I thought I should have been notified about. I emailed them with specific details and asked them to look into it. They responded back via email within 3 days. After their response I played my Elite Scratch Card to find it was the same game as the one described. This being the 2nd time seeing this card. It had to be the blurry eyes at 4 AM because I won the the exact prize but now I could see and it was an entry for the $40K prize. So as of now, no complaints against customer service. MOST IMPORTANTLY! There are fake websites out there posing as PCH. Make sure you’re on the official site before posting any negative reviews. I am not in any way affiliated with PCH in the past or present. This is an honest review from a PCH player.

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    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2020

    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 .

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    Reviewed Nov. 19, 2020

    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.

    Jan

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed Oct. 24, 2020

    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!

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    Reviewed Sept. 12, 2020

    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!!!

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    Reviewed Sept. 2, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed Aug. 5, 2020

    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!!!

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    Reviewed Aug. 2, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed July 20, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed July 2, 2020

    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.

    People that defend them by saying they are a legitimate company have been sucked into this carefully laid trap that winning millions is one click (and purchase) away. They even set the hook by letting people win a very small cash prize initially to keep them coming back and buying. Their email promotions are downright disgusting because they clearly have a legal team that has advised them how to word things to be as deceptive as possible yet still be "legal". Yes, this company is "real" but so were snake oil salesmen. Scams come in all forms.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2020

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    Date:06-10-2020

    Called today to ascertain where it is-per tracking number is waiting to go to USPS. As usual have paid high shipping costs to still be waiting. CS person, Ann, hung up on me when discussing situation. I have only used mailed products during pandemic, all come soon except PCH which has always been about a month to 1.5 months while they say should arrive in 2 wks. PCH tried to use excuse of pandemic however, everyone else seems to be able to get products to people much quicker. After ordering several products, they want your money immediately and too long to ship, product quality is usually disappointing. DO NOT RECOMMEND EVER ORDERING FROM THIS COMPANY ESPECIALLY IF A CS SUPERVISOR HANGS UP ON CALLER WHO IS DISSATISFIED AND TRYING TO FIND SOLUTION.

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    Reviewed June 29, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed June 22, 2020

    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.

    I just know it after weeks they send me bill that I need to pay I was shocked. I don't know that it was this amount they don't showed the price when I pick it just to have entry. And I just ignore it because I was upset. I shouldn't believe this scam. They report me to credit union because I don't pay them. If I knew that it was this price I don't think I will do it. THIS IS TOTALLY A SCAM. NEVER EVER TRUST THIS COMPANY! They are sneaky and will trick you just to get money from you by using this kind of scam sweepstakes. If I can give zero I would. This time now I suffer for pandemic and they scamming people.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed June 4, 2020

    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!

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    Reviewed May 31, 2020

    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.

    I think they should be sued and where I played for over a 1 year nonstop but the past 4 months my health has got worse and my legs are weak... and it's worse than a job. It's a 7 days a week job and they want you to buy stuff and when you log into the website they make money from it... And when you order stuff it takes a long time and its cheap made but not cheap when you have to pay for it. I think are nothing but actors and when you call them you cannot understand what they say and they cannot understand you...

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    Reviewed April 19, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed April 16, 2020

    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!

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    Reviewed April 9, 2020

    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.

    I ordered ONCE from PCH. Merchandise was shoddy, & overpriced; shipping, handling etc., greatly inflated. AND, they were made in China, from materials that might not pass safety standards in the USA. There was a time when the PCH contests were respectable, fun, & sent by snail mail. Once your entry hit the mailbox, you knew you were in the running. Now they use nasty tactics of trickery, bribery, fear-mongering, and not-so-subtle bullying. One must scroll past tons of gimcracks & geegaws. Then, when you're SURE you entered correctly, you're bombarded with email after email of dire warnings that you missed a critical step! To try to correct the "omission", you're forced to scroll past the same dreadfully expensive cheap merchandise, only to get more emails that you somehow "goofed" again! ENOUGH!

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    Reviewed March 7, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 8, 2020

    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.

    Restructuring of their practices should be carefully considered and revised. I play all the Sweepstakes and enter in every way possible, inclusive to the sweepstakes, I play Mahjongg ever single day keeping my own scores and I have never been on the list... And this is factually accurate that I score the highest every day. I should be in the Guinness book for breaking records. Hence, whoever is claiming to read these reviews are fake and lie too. Lastly, who are these individuals winning every 5 minutes???? I couldn't work for a company such as this with no laurels or integrity.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2020

    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.

    I was hoping to at least win something as many times have I played these games and as many tokens I have won. But from what I've seen on television and on the posts on the PCH website the only people who do when are the ones that are already financially privileged and have homes of their own and the ones that can look pretty on television and living with good health and don't have a care in the world so I'm assuming that's the only kind of people that are able to win anything off this bogus sweepstakes.

    Publishers Clearing House should be ashamed of themselves for not allowing someone that has nothing to experience what it's like to have something in their life but I guess that's the direction this country is going under President Trump and take care of the rich and privileged and leave the common people and the sick and disabled in the gutter. This country it's supposed to be about equal opportunity but somewhere down the line those values have been forgotten.

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    Reviewed Jan. 5, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2020

    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.

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    Reviewed Dec. 31, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Dec. 25, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2019

    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!

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    John **

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2019

    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!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 24, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2019

    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.

    Next call comes from a different guy asking if you are able to pay tax on the car today. He says, "I will explain how you're going to pay your tax" which is when you're supposed to either wire them the customs tax money or go to your bank and do something. They wanted me to pay 1,500.00. This is where I said in no way would I ever pay for anything I have won and ended their scam calls. I know 2 people in my little town who have lost their money due to falling for this same scam regarding winning the PCH sweepstakes.

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    Reviewed Nov. 19, 2019

    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!

    There's been others who have used PCH as members longer than I have and also have NEVER won anything! They may be legitimate but how they go about luring folks into their BS... they may as well be a freaking scam like so many out there! Stay clear away from PCH and ignore their slick commercials, no one wins but PCH otherwise!

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    Reviewed Nov. 17, 2019

    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....

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    Reviewed Nov. 16, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 15, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 12, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 10, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 9, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 7, 2019

    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!"

    A 'GO BACK' button then appears at the bottom of this announcement, and you cannot proceed to any further steps without placing an order for merchandise. I thought this was illegal? And certainly seems to go against PCH's claim that it's not required to spend money to enter any of their drawings. And yes, this is an actual PCH mailing, not a spoof.

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Oct. 26, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Oct. 7, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Sept. 23, 2019

    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.

    As another reviewer, Charles of Ridgeville, SC, stated, "Good examples are the horse race & the car race - never finished higher than 4th place no matter what horse, or what car I choose." I've also experienced the same numerous times playing those two games. Again, they're obviously fixed. Heaven forbid that they would ever make the games fair where you could win based upon actual odds.

    I played PCHkeno for 24-hours straight and nearly was the top finisher (2nd place). I had been in the top position many times during the 24-hour period and was in the top position going into the final hour. Then, miraculously another player comes from behind and advances with astronomical amounts to beat me by 3800 points (which is a very small amount in PCHkeno; my ending score was 2,093,025). How do I know that these other "players" or "IDs" are real? I believe they are not and most likely bot IDs where a program makes adjustments to the bot totals to overcome real players' scores when needed. I don't believe it is worthwhile to spend time playing these games when everything is fixed and not left to probability.

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    After a positive interaction with Publishers Clearing House, William increased their star rating on Oct. 9, 2019.

    Updated review: Oct. 9, 2019

    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.

    Original Review: Sept. 19, 2019

    I just found out that my wife has spent $873.00 on the PCH scam. She has Moyamoya and the effects are much like Alzheimer's. I could declare her incompetent, but I can't afford a lawyer. We're both on Social Security. I have taken her access to the Internet away, which breaks my heart because she enjoys it so much. Her only entertainment is her iPad and the TV. I have written to PCH to let them know we won't be paying for anymore products they send. I hope they don't sue me.

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    Reviewed Sept. 9, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Sept. 4, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2019

    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.

    THIS year...I've won $1559 so far on Inside PCH -- I was the 10th caller, top token earner and a surprise $10 for who knows what. Yes I put in a lot of time, energy, internet data, spam (I have a dedicated account just for sweepstakes spam and I enter every spam email I get from PCH to generate more entry numbers). That's the game. Increase your odds or maybe just get lucky. I increase my odds. I've been in some of their YouTube videos as a winner. I'm not paid to talk nicely about them but I can't ever get upset when these wins pay for my kids sports and school expenses. Of course a job would pay more for the time I spend on PCH but like I said, this is a hobby and as a stay at home mom it's the most convenient way to contribute to my family while multitasking and have fun and try for the big ones.

    I've learned some tips to be more efficient. I use my keyboard home and end page buttons to skip over order pages. I accidentally ordered once. I called customer service and had it cancelled with no problems. If I'm going for top token earner, I make sure not to miss any bonus plays. I do the Sweepstakes and Instant Win tabs first on the site and do the bonus play after every 5 games. I'm in 2nd place today but I've won twice before so it's possible just time consuming. Sorry for the long post, I can go on forever with tips and my experience. Overall, yes the marketing and spam suck, but the wins are possible if you put in the work or get lucky. I stay positive and persistent because even the losing entries are important. They make it possible for someone else to win because they generate an entry number. I love to see people win even if not me because I know my time will come. Good luck all--$5000 a week for life awarded soon.

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    Reviewed Aug. 24, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Aug. 9, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed July 31, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed July 27, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed July 23, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed July 22, 2019

    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.

    That I was being bombarded with numerous e-mails asking me to complete my entry and guess what-there was no way I could ever complete the entry as even after placing an order for merchandise I did not need or want I found out my entry never made it into the sweepstake contest yet?! I informed PCH.com in writing that if the order was shipped I would REFUSE the delivery and RETURN TO SHIPPER and so mark the delivery to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding!!!!

    I remember my grandparents ordering numerous magazines and merchandise because they thought they would WIN because they did not understand what a RIP OFF/SCAM getting involved with PCH.com really was. They were foreign and did not understand-of course, they NEVER won either. Save yourself the aggravation and stress because PCH.com must think the consumer is not smart enough to realize what a waste of time and effort these bogus entries really are!!!! I am very surprised to see Steve HARVEY doing PCH.com commercials-AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!

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    Reviewed July 12, 2019

    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).

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    Reviewed July 9, 2019

    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)

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    Reviewed July 1, 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.

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    Reviewed June 25, 2019

    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.

    They don't really give out money like they promise, you can even see the fine print down the bottom in small letters, they are using and paying men and women to say they have won to promote for business and get money from people. At first I didn't believe them. I thought you actually won but after reading the other reviews on this site and how PCH really are I am extremely disappointed and sad about how these people like me go on their website and they get nothing at all. So now I am quitting for good, I don't think I would have won anyway.

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    Reviewed June 24, 2019

    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!!

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    Reviewed June 24, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed June 21, 2019

    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 used to look at the stuff they were advertising because they often have neat little gadgets, especially for the kitchen. I've ordered a few but the price is too high, and the shipping even higher. The items do not always work. Some of these items can be found in your local Dollar Tree or Christmas Tree Shops. Between having to send in my forms too often, and ridiculously priced gadgets, I decided not to continue this. Maybe they have real winners, maybe they don't. I'd love to see someone who was a BIG winner, post their story here. For me, I'd rather buy lottery tickets in my state's lottery.

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    Reviewed June 17, 2019

    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 **

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    Reviewed June 13, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed June 13, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed June 4, 2019

    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.

    Everyone in our town believe it is a scam and toss the snail mail entries in the trash versus entering. I've wasted too many years entering the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes expecting to win to get ahead financially with being disabled and barely able to exist on Social security Disability and Public Assistance which I am always in debt only to like so many contestants be disappointed having not won. I firmly believe that the Publishers Clearing House Contests are a SCAM to give false hope of winning to their contestants as their "Bread and Butter" comes from orders placed and Advertisers who's advertising you view. The only way to shut down Scams like this is to avoid the Publishers Clearing House all together in every way possible.

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    Reviewed May 27, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed May 26, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed May 26, 2019

    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!!!!

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    Reviewed May 23, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed May 19, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed May 18, 2019

    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.

    Since then I've been trying to get through to PCH and all I get is the runaround. I feel because I'm black they used my information any way they wanted without giving me my prize. Shutter stock, Avalon modeling agency used my likeness and picture for advertising without my permission. All I asked was to be treated fair. I've been robbed 3 times. Stitches in my eyebrows cut with a dull edged knife on my hand, hospital bills etc, even time I was robbed I had no money. Just food stamps. Even had to move out of state because people thought I was a millionaire. It's unfair. It's as putting a gun to someone's hands and pulling the trigger. Still haven't received my 5000 a week for life prize.

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    Reviewed May 17, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed May 8, 2019

    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.

    Today I received an email advising me to pay online or get the $4.50 worth of charges. I don't like giving my account information online to them. I called and got stuck in a loop all trying to get me to pay online through an automated program. After several choices and getting nowhere, I called their fraud department to talk to a human. It turns out she really is with customer service. They are still claiming they don't have my blasted check.

    What is frustrating is something similar happened to me with Publishers Clearing House several years ago. That time I paid the bill and the check was lost. The second notice had a finance charge added on it. I paid it because I never could get a live person and it was only $15. I wanted it paid, I was in the process of buying another house and didn't want anything left hanging. That check with extra fees was cashed. It feels like a scam to get consumers to pay bogus finance fees. None of these checks are as much as a stop payment will be. Lesson learned, never be from Publishers Clearing House again. Meanwhile, I am not sure who I should report this to. Thank you, Barbara **.

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    Reviewed May 4, 2019

    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!!

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    Reviewed May 3, 2019

    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.

    Now this was not those fake emails that we all get from time to time saying we won and we need to pay to get the money some transferred to our bank account. Which is so stupid because if we someone really won and it was for real they would be able to take whatever taxes or fines straight from the winnings and would not need you to pay anything from your pocket whatsoever. So if you ever are asked to pay out of your pocket it is fake. Sorry backed to my real email from PCH. They sent me a message saying my name in huge capital letters. GERALD ** from SUNNYVALE CALIFORNIA just won $10,000. So I said to myself, “Oh my God. This is a joke. Did I really win?” I asked myself. Then I seen I was sent another email immediately after again from PCH apologizing for a mistake that they made and were looking into it so that it never happens again.

    Explaining that name was accidentally copied in to the real winners spot and that I did not win. And they left a name and number if I wanted to contact them if I had any questions. I was upset and left questioning is this real or fake. That is where I am still in search of finding the truth. But I have can confirm they do have some real winners because I have been contacted by PCH four different times by email saying I won $100 because I was the top score of the blackjack contests they have every day at midnight 12:00a.m.

    I did receive a real check for $100 four different times from PCH so they do have real winners but my only question is do they have big huge winners too? That does not have my full confidence because I have not seen the proof for any million dollar winners. I only can speak for a $100???? Which I can say is real. But not the 10,000 winner sweepstakes that I believe is fake.

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    Reviewed May 1, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed April 28, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed April 27, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed April 26, 2019

    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!!!!

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    Reviewed April 25, 2019

    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 odds are against you for any winnings and they have the warnings everywhere. So to get upset or pissed off because you don't win is pointless. As for the ads, how do you think they make the money to pay the winners and as for the freezing problems it is their software or hardware trying to keep up with so many people trying to win a grand prize to support their dreams. But in the end I do believe they have many winners and people's lives changed forever.

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    Reviewed April 24, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed April 21, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed April 20, 2019

    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."

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    Reviewed April 17, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed April 16, 2019

    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.

    Pch.com more than likely pulls in hundreds of millions of dollars a year from this set up. Do people really win? I don't know. You don't know. All we know is that they say they pay out and there is a banner at the bottom of the page claiming that this person or that person won a 6, 10, or 20 dollar gift card the last hour. It can take you 12 hours or more some days to play all the games due to the repeated advertisements between games and what sucks even more is there is no variety in the advertisement, I want to find the people in the Skin Chat video and punch all of them in the mouth since their commercial is played over and over and over and over again.

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    Reviewed April 14, 2019

    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?

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    Reviewed April 9, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed April 9, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed April 7, 2019

    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 **.)

    It's the fact that once you sign up with this company you're bombarded NONSTOP with spam emails. Their website is literally nothing but spam, you can't enter/do anything without being forced to go through endless pages of spam article links, spam ads all over their site and don't get me started on the hellish spam emails I get nonstop from them. They're making millions if not billions off of us and in return we don't get jack except a never ending supply of spam and lies.

    I've been on PCH for years now so trust me when I say I have a pretty good knowledge of how their site looks, how it operates and things like that. The fact that their whole site revolves around spam, the fact that once you sign up with them and enter your first "sweepstakes" you're bombarded day in and day out with spam emails and the fact that all these supposed "winners" of their contests they show on their website make no sense and sound made up. (Someone with the name Tamar? Someone with some made up stereotypical Indian name living in the deep south? Multiple winners with the same name and same first letter of their last name being drawn at the same time or within a couple of days of each other?)

    And the fact that they give out the location of each of these supposed winners (like come on now, would any real person in their right mind who just won thousands - millions of dollars want their name and location posted for the entire world to see? Not unless someone wanted to be robbed or harassed for money I honestly cannot see a real person being okay with that, now a made up person I'm sure would be cool with it.) PCH screams scam.

    I've stupidly used PCH for years, put in countless time earning tokens, entering their contests and sweepstakes and have never won a single thing. I'm one of the people who does these kinds of things because I need money and needing money to survive can really make you desperate and make you do stupid things which is why I've been using their site for so long. Deep down I always knew something was off about their site but the fact that I desperately need money made me ignore it.

    What made me snap so to speak was something that's been going on the past couple of days with their Prize Grab "instant win" game, I've played it easily thousands of times and always got tokens, yesterday and the day before yesterday I'm playing and for the first time it grabbed a money bag but guess what? I didn't win jack, it grabbed the money bag and just as it was about to hit the top to show my reward it dropped and said "Woo Whoo you won 50 tokens."

    (I know I'm not the only one who gets annoyed ** with those cheesy ** congratulation messages you get... I'm winning nothing but tokens from a online website something that's literally meaningless and not money - something I desperately need so don't ** congratulate me, congratulate me when I win money... which let's admit it you have a better chance of Jesus Christ coming down from the sky then you do of winning these scam artists contests.) That happened twice, yesterday and the day before yesterday but today it went back to grabbing tokens. Once again they just scream scam, even when you do what you need to win you still don't win...

    It's my honest belief that only older people and/or rich people win lotteries and things like that, people who actually need money for survival never win. Not too long ago there was a lotto that hit a billion dollars and what age do you think the person was who won it? 90 years old. Don't believe me? Go do your research and you'll see how many older and/or well off people win things. It's such a painful feeling when you put so much time, effort, money and hope into something only for it to be dashed then you get that why bother feeling and want to give up, but at least with lottery tickets and things like that there's no shady BS going on, you either win or you don't but with PCH you never win, no one does except for PCH.

    They make millions and billions of dollars off of all that spam they cram down our throats, they take advantage of people who desperately need money people who spend hours of their time a day trying to win. PCH's website even looks like a spam site. I honestly have no idea how or why this "company" is even allowed to continue. They need to be shut down, preying on people who desperately need money for their survival, preying on hopes and dreams is the lowest form of scammer.

    I and anyone else who have been preyed upon for years by the living definition of a scam that is PCH need to start a petition to get PCH shut down, people managed to get their "having to buy our junk to enter" tactic they used to do shut down, there's endless evidence of PCH's scamming out there, 99.9% of their reviews are bad, so I know getting them shut down is very possible. Hopefully everyone will start coming to their senses like I did to get this monster shut down.

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    Reviewed April 6, 2019

    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.

    Also when it shows that the entry has been confirmed it only shows 150 token points. That is one of the biggest, sorriest excuse for points. Also every time I redeem my tokens, I don't see a thing from it. Beginning to think that they are very much a scammer. You enter and enter all the time, but what do you get. If I was to win the $7000.00 weekly for life it would really and truly be a miracle. They have sent me names of people that was suppose to have won in my state, but I have not found a single one of them.

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    Reviewed April 4, 2019

    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.

    Our agreement with your State required that your name be removed from our mailing list based upon the information provided in the survey. As a result we are required to reject any current or future PCH orders under your name. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused and we thank you for your past patronage with our company." I should have been given the opportunity to enter the sweepstakes, even though I have never one ONE thing. This is a big rip off.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2019

    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 spent all of my free-time making daily visits to play everything available (while also not winning any of their 'instant wins'). I finally thought I'd saved up enough and for a month I've used my nearly 70-million tokens on their rewards. I've put in thousands of entries on single items on a weekly basis. This week I finally used every single token I had collected and I wasn't even able to win her a $20 McDonald's gift card. I haven't sat down and calculated the odds of this but I'm rather positive that it's close to nearly impossible and I'm done with them.

    In reality those games are mainly there to generate ad revenue (and seeing as how there is at least one ad popping up every single time you do anything - that's a LOT of money) and to get people to buy their overpriced catalog items (which she has also done). They feed off the desperation of people like my mom who see winning as their only means to financial stability. Rather than doing something rational and making up a dozen smaller but equally meaningful prizes they dump the winnings on one major winner, in what is a brilliant move to make people more competitive. Save yourself the headache and don't even get started.

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    Reviewed April 2, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed March 30, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed March 29, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed March 23, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed March 18, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed March 16, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed March 12, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed March 11, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed March 4, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed March 4, 2019

    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.

    I feel that it's so dishonest and dirty for them to be stringing people along and preying on us by taking what little money some of us have while we dream of maybe hitting it big even though we know how very slim the odds are. EXTREMELY slim. Getting struck by a meteorite would be more likely to happen. It used to be fun to enter the sweepstakes and dream. Don't bother even trying now. They took that away.

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    Reviewed Feb. 28, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 24, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2019

    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.

    More recently is the problem with advertising. It’s why I’m ready to quit PCH. To be fair, I understand that it’s the advertising that helps pay the winners of the big monetary prizes. Yes, what the players buy too. I have ad blocking software on my computer. It seems to have stopped working on PCH games. It used to be that I would have to pause the ad blocking on certain games and I didn’t mind. Most of the ads were short. Several months ago, I was unable to get onto certain games if the ad blocking software was in use. Now, even with the blocking ON, the video ads are there. It takes time (5 to 15 second) for the ad to ‘load’ before the game or card. The ad itself can be anywhere from 14 to 60 seconds.

    Then, it takes time for the game itself to load. If you’re playing KENO, a timed game of 5 sets of 4 cards each, you lose time - anywhere from 30 to 75 seconds for each ad. And now, you don’t get to play those last 2,3, or 4 cards. The ads are distracting…and other favored statements. Today, I saw the same 2 ads. One was 35 to 40 seconds and the other was 55 to 75 seconds. The timing includes the ad ‘load’, video ad, and game setup. I tried playing several different games. The same 2 ads were there. I’m never going to win anything. I did enjoy some of the games that required a quick eye and click on the mouse. Today I got distracted and frustrated with the same long ads. It’s time to stop. I have other things I could do – and should be doing – with my time.

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    Reviewed Feb. 23, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 22, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 21, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed Feb. 18, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 17, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 16, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 10, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Feb. 3, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed Feb. 1, 2019

    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!!!

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    Reviewed Jan. 31, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 23, 2019

    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."

    If you go to the payment option on the PCH Website, it will not let you make a partial payment. You have to pay the full amount due. Needless to say, I will continue to make partial payments until item is paid off and then I will never make another purchase from PCH. Nor am I interested in entering their sweepstakes scams. Every time, you enter, they tell you it has been narrowed down that someone in your area (zip code) will definitely be selected and they have mapped out directions to your location. Then for some reason, the sweepstakes is extended or they were not able to contact the winner. Hmmmmm.

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    Reviewed Jan. 21, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2019

    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?

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    Reviewed Jan. 17, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2019

    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.

    However, as this is a convenient conduit to vent frustration the question remains - what is the Consumer Affairs site/organization doing to stop this??? It seems ludicrous that with so many complaints nothing is ever done. The only way to get them off your back is to pay, so they win, but why isn't something done? I recommend people write the attorney general's office of their state complaining for some action to be taken, the consumer protection and various organizations seem incapable or unwilling to do so.

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    Reviewed Jan. 15, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 13, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed Jan. 10, 2019

    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!

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    Reviewed Jan. 4, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Jan. 2, 2019

    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.

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    Reviewed Dec. 29, 2018

    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!

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    Reviewed Dec. 28, 2018

    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.

    They kept hanging up on me and once you hit "3" to cancel an order, the automation sends you in a loop "I'm sorry, I didn't understand that entry". I feel bad for the poor elderly who have to deal with this and can't stop it. And I bet PCH takes them to court if they don't pay for the ** they send to them monthly. IT IS OUT OF HAND! SHUT THEM DOWN! Once I told them all our conversations were being recorded, they assured a refund within two weeks. Go figure.

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    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2018

    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!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2018

    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!!!

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2018

    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".

    Once clicked you will be greeted by a never-ending list of garbage to buy online. Yeah. That's what I want to do. I want to spend MORE money online in a day than a gambling addict spends on scratchers in a month. All to enter a contest I'm fairly certain no one has ever actually won. Google it. Just look for 1 PCH winner who isn't a fake online personality or paid actor and you'll get zero results. Winners don't exist. The contest is fake. The entries are fake. The winners are fake. The only thing that's real are the dirty lies and the sponsors trying to sell you useless junk.

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    Reviewed Dec. 4, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 14, 2018

    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...

    Why can't anyone find a PCH winner testimonial? Seems just too good to be true that someone actually wins to me. I could be totally wrong, just unable to find solid proof. I feel bad for those that have been entering for years and years! I will say you are committed and commitment is a great thing. If you are still entering I wish you the best of luck! I don't think I am going to continue, it just takes up so much time and from what I can see no one actually wins.

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    Reviewed Nov. 14, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Nov. 4, 2018

    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!

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    Reviewed Oct. 31, 2018

    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.

    I believe that the Tokens is a scam. If it is not why do I not have my prize nor all of my over 5,000,000 tokens? My PCH Tokens account reflected 5,380,600. I looked on the site this week (October 30, 2018) and saw that there were $25 cash gift cards for 500 tokens each, so I put in 9999 tokens. There was no mention initially that it was a game. I assumed that I’d get $25 cards for my tokens. I later learned about some mention that these were not applied to my tokens, but this is not true because I now have 372,450 tokens left as of today. PCH decided not to honor their own game yet took my tokens. I did not put in tokens for any other cards. I am asking that PCH rewards honor their $25 cash gift cards with the 9,999 tokens I played.

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    Reviewed Oct. 26, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Oct. 25, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Oct. 22, 2018

    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.

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    Reviewed Oct. 11, 2018

    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.

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