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Publishers Clearing House (PCH)

pch.com
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam
January 30, 2025

I downloaded the app today and played a couple of games. Said I won seven dollars and then my Apple app pops up in the seven dollars said deposit seven dollars. Well I checked my bank app to see if it actually deposited seven dollars and instead it withdrew seven dollars Calling my bank right now to report this as soon as it clears. People do not use this it is a scam. I don't care what anybody else says. It is a complete scam.

Date of experience: January 30, 2025
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible waste of time
September 28, 2024

I have been playing for 5+ years in hopes of winning something. In fact have spent over 3 billion tokens in trying to win a stupid 50 dollar amazon gift card, but nothing. Complaining does not good to customer service, the overseas people could care less, their other part time job is doing fraud virus calls. I hope they go out of business. I am not playing anymore as of today...goodbye scammers!

Date of experience: September 28, 2024
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No one ever win black and young someone who could really make a difference with the founding like build safe havens for homeless in my home town or make a way for battered woman if I had a chance at pch I'd make it actually worth given the prize to a young driven to change our world and less fortunate world sum our system yet failing to accomplish after all their rules and restrictions to resources no homeless want to even get the help of the broken system if it ain't rules it's limits and hold backs

Date of experience: August 30, 2023
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Not true!
September 16, 2023

I revive emails saying instant wins, all it does direct me to real state to buy homes I wish for & I can't afford, to change auto insurance I am not interested in. Not true, no one wins. Of course this is a negative review I bet won't get posted

Date of experience: September 16, 2023
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fake...I feel so bad for dad. He has been playing for 23 years and only one 5 bucks. He keeps I'll keep trying, I'll probably be in my grave playing, he says. Lol...I'll try to convince to leave it alone and to stop wasting his time...

Date of experience: August 31, 2023
Washington
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Review
February 23, 2024

I been with pch for a while and claiming my stuff until i had a question i called customer service got hung up on. Then called again the lady side step my question im dislike customer service not very friendly i m trying to figure out about the lotto i hit all the numbers but they wont tell me nothing there there starting be scandlist

Date of experience: February 23, 2024
Ohio
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Ruined my mom's life!
December 1, 2023

My mom is elderly and has been playing for 5 years now, she has a spare bedroom with all the stuff she has bought covering the whole bed. She keeps saying they'll be here any day now and she's on her phone constantly playing all the games. She just lost her house because she was expecting pch to come any day, she was behind on her property tax and had such faith in pch... it was ridiculous! Well they never came and her house I grew up in is gone.
It should be against the law to do this to people.

Date of experience: December 1, 2023
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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So this is simply a narrative about something that occurred to me. I got a strange call from some unknown person claiming to be from PCH and asking why I hadn't responded to the PCH notification that had been mailed to me. "What was the address to which the notification was sent?" I inquired. He began to mention some numbers but asked me to wait as he looked up my phone number to identify the address linked with it. He returns after a minute or two and says he has no idea. "Then you're simply a horrible scammer," I said. How are you going to contact me if you don't even know what my name is or my address? He hung up, unsure of how to answer.

Date of experience: June 1, 2023
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Is PCH honest?
August 29, 2023

I once loved PCH. I got great deals on things. Now all that has changed. I got charged for things I didn't order. I received things I didn't order. I offered to return them if they would pay the postage. No response. Now they have collectors pestering me. I have concluded that PCH is not very honest.

Date of experience: August 29, 2023
California
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Since years being with never won a penny, first year was buying some low quality junk paying at least 4-5 times more than could buy on eBay or 99 Cents Only Stores, than i stop to buy, but still responding to winning offers... very disappointed and tired to get mail every day... no winning at all - will unsubscribe

Date of experience: July 1, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Winnings
April 12, 2023

My name is Joanna Mita. I was told by Danielle Lam threw Facebook, followed me on Instagram claim I won money, and prize. Danielle Lam told me she is with holding my money and prize that I won. Danielle Lam said I have to pay a fee, and go get a Walmart gift card. Danielle Lam told me until I pay her the fee, Walmart gift card. She will come to my door step with my winnings. This is illegal and Fraud. I'm going to Sue Danielle Lam, and report PCH to the Better Business Bureau. For PCH to go out of Business. It's false advertising that we don't have to pay for our money, prizes.

Date of experience: April 12, 2023
Illinois
1 review
33 helpful votes
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This sweepstakes company had led my father (elderly) for 16 years and he never received a dime or a show after multiple times telling him what days they are showing up with the "Prize Patrol". He even bought multiple products from them just to see if making purchases would help his chances. At this point we are looking to join a class action lawsuit against them.

Date of experience: October 31, 2021
Washington
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Crappy Merchandise
February 20, 2022

Most everything Publisher's Clearing House pushes is junk. They also overcharge for delivery, which is done by a bulk rate company. I've received beaten up and broken items that were too cheap to even ask for a replacement. They flood my mailbox with large packs of offers with my name and address in multiple places throughout.

Date of experience: February 20, 2022
Kentucky
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Items are cheaply made and over priced. Order something they say it's out of stock then out of the blue months later without checking to see if you still wanted it they send it to you anyway. Hard to come up with the money to send something back when you're on SS in the midst of inflation. Don't plan on ever winning anything from them. I spent 8 years making hundreds of entries buying many numerous item from them and have never received a cent from them. Do yourself a favor don't waste any more of your time or money. You would do better to give it to charity.

Date of experience: March 5, 2022
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Crappy merchandise
April 2, 2022

Returning EVERYTHING I have received except for 2 items which yes we're things that can't be made cheap. But 2 items out of many are not good. Everything else is going back and better be taken of of balance owed. I ordered a roll of pennies that were all supposed to be 1902 through 1940's uncirculated. What I got was a roll that every penny is 1970's. I also ordered 2 bank notes $ 1.00 I received 2 1 dollar bills that look like they were taken out of someone's pocket. Not even getting into the other items all I'm going to say is complete junk. STAY AWAY it all sounds good and might look like items are genuine but farthest from that

Date of experience: April 2, 2022
Michigan
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Don't feel bad everyone
September 6, 2018

Don't feel bad everyone. I've been licking the stickers since 1973 and have entered daily for 4 years and have never won anything either. Some say its a hoax but how do you know? I will continue to enter daily what's it going to hurt there's worse things in life.

Date of experience: September 6, 2018
Connecticut
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Other reviews mentioned glitches and errors, which do happen frequently on their games.
I did an experiment and in the clown game, I always picked # 5, every time, for at least 3 months. IT NEVER WON, That led me to believe, they are programmed to never win. And yes, the same goes for their scratch cards.
I did receive a $10.00 check. Probably on one of their spin wheels. These small amounts keep things legal, but I don't see their million dollar winners, in the paper or on T. V. "All in all" if you can get past the annoyingly, to many video commercials, which seem to be getting more and more present, in-between each scratch-off. It's up to each of us, to decide if it is worth it.

Date of experience: September 9, 2016
Nebraska
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Pays to get played!
April 30, 2018

IF the app loads it usually kicks me off or locks up. Tired of wasting time trying to win. Would rather read a good book... have entered so many times and cant even win $10.1 a year has the same result.

Date of experience: April 30, 2018
Washington
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Cheap overpriced goods with dozens of repeated offers and getting same almost daily implying that purchase is not necessary to enter sweepstakes... big "come on" and a waste of time. Should contact to have my address removed from their system.

Date of experience: July 28, 2017
District of Columbia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I started a petition against them, sometimes we say to ourselves "Oh, it's no need, they've been around for YEARS, change will never occur". You'll never know until you try, and that's what I'm journeying towards, starting today I hope to see them go down.

https://www.change.org/petitions/publisher-s-clearinghouse-shut-down-their-business

Date of experience: January 9, 2014

Overview

Publishers Clearing House (PCH) has a rating of 1.5 stars from 608 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Publishers Clearing House (PCH) most frequently mention clearing house, customer service and gift card. Publishers Clearing House (PCH) ranks 12th among Sweepstakes sites.

service
80
value
79
shipping
72
returns
60
quality
81