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Publishers Clearing House (PCH) Reviews Summary

Publishers Clearing House (PCH) has a rating of 1.7 stars from 607 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.

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returns
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quality
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California
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Like others, I have spent millions of tokens all in one contest and yet still won nothing

Date of experience: April 28, 2016
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Say I use my tokens every few days or so for a certain prize and I continue to use my tokens for the same prize every few days. Do my tokens continue to be held in my used account for that prize or does PCH treat each "buy" as a totally separate entry.

Date of experience: April 10, 2016
Colorado
3 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Texas winners
April 10, 2016

Have you noticed that more then half the winners seem to be from texas? I'd like to know why.

Date of experience: April 10, 2016
Georgia
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Confused
April 6, 2016

I have been using the pch lotto app for some time now and i've got my numbers to match twice but nothing happened it says win real money but i have yet experienced a win even after matching all my numbers can some one please explain this to me

Date of experience: April 6, 2016
North Carolina
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Even if you are born on this date, live in this city and have these initials, you can't win. PCH never publishes the winner in the city, birthdate, or the person with the initials. I wonder if there is anyone with the initials XYZ, that has received the email, and has won. The odds would be astromical for them not to win.

Date of experience: April 6, 2016
Florida
1 review
16 helpful votes
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I HATE PCH!
April 2, 2016

These folks are total jerks, constantly spamming you with nonsense. Do yourself a favor, and assign their emails to SPAM. Even then you will still get your email bombed with their garbage.

Every single day there is, "one last step to win." Yeah, like forever, and they want you to scroll through 4 pages of crappy products before you can submit an entry. Even then you will get, "an order would be appreciated." Well, I'll place an order when that multi-million dollar winnings is mine, but in the meantime, I don't think so.

Date of experience: April 2, 2016
New York
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Building Sand Castles
March 30, 2016

I have been entering PCH since the early 1970's as a 20+ year old. I recently concluded, I am building castles in the sand that wash away with the tide as I am now 66+ years old and never won so much as a dollar. My last token totals were in the millions. I have stopped playing.

Time to construct on a solid foundation,

Date of experience: March 30, 2016
Canada
5 reviews
25 helpful votes
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Uh 10 years
March 26, 2016

10 years and absolutely nothing. What a waste of time..

Date of experience: March 26, 2016
Terri E.
California
2 reviews
23 helpful votes
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I've been playing for 41 years and haven't won a thing. Rip off? I'm beginning to think so, since I see a 21 yr. old and 26 yr. old winning big prizes and others winning on their first try. What a bunch of BS.

Date of experience: March 25, 2016
California
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I am stefon mitchell i win but i did not get it this is my long in *******@yahoo pass word stefon ok thinks

Date of experience: March 23, 2016
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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At this point winning isn't a want its a must... I'm a 30 YO Man in a wheelchair since birth living in an old folks home my second one im tired of low-income housing getting bedbug bites, druggies all through the buildings, couch surfing, rescue missions & i've even been on the streets homeless and thats not easy for anyone and im stuck in this dang wheelchair how hard do you think that is? Pretty dang hard so yeah im not a greedy person i just want to be safe and not have to worry about money or my living situation and SSDI doesn't cut it!

Date of experience: March 19, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I want to win
March 19, 2016

I have been playing Pch for over 20 years and have not won anything. When I look up winners they are in California or Florida never see mass winners.

Date of experience: March 18, 2016
Louisiana
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I have been playing since I was young. I'm 44 now. No I haven't won anything but I play daily. I read many reviews that say their fake. I still find that hard to believe. I love playing PCH games and doing the searches. I also think maybe it's not my time to win yet. But pray one day they will be at my door. Good Luck All. STAY IN IT TO WIN IT

Date of experience: March 14, 2016
Mississippi
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Intentionally misleading. Responded to a $30 off your order email and that was just a come on. Nothing was deducted, and the products were way overpriced to begin with.

Date of experience: March 10, 2016
Texas
2 reviews
17 helpful votes
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PCH ADVOCATES
March 8, 2016

I too have lauded PCH for decades. And, I too used to send in the paper versions for decades and then switched to the online version.
And, yet in the 35 years that I have dealt with PCH I haven't won a single penny or a single prize. NOTHING. Maybe, I am just that unlucky.
Plus, 50% of everything that I purchased was considered junk. It either didn't work upon arrival, or it broke within a week of arrival. Then I had to pay postage to send it back.
This is why I am now cynical about the reality of PCH. I have a better chance of getting hit by lightening.
Yes, the games were fun... until they got monotonous and started sending you to yet another stream of pages of items to purchasex then another, and another, and another,...
Enough said.

Date of experience: March 8, 2016
Illinois
9 reviews
47 helpful votes
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If you play all the games in PCH, you probably will earn an average of 100K to 200K tokens daily even though they do not tally accurately. I redeemed over 150 million tokens for the PCH REWARD sweepstake gift cards and won nothing. These are not even big prizes about $50 to $250 gift cards. I even bought twice from the website and it did not help. I don't really know if the names of the daily winners really exist. Somehow, none of them have FB lol. That is a big red flag in my opinion. However, the most you will win on the pch website is about $10 just to keep it legit. I am sorry but based on my own experience, i cannot recommend the site at all.

Date of experience: March 7, 2016
Georgia
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Pch is nothing more than a scam! First of all, what company is able to afford to pay you 7,0000 a week, or what ever the new amount is! I have played and played, and entered, and entered. They make so called promises, such as, "you are the next big winner! " yeah right.

Date of experience: March 6, 2016
Florida
1 review
21 helpful votes
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I've played PCH games even before the internet. Actually when they first begun, mailing their games etc. to our homes. Which are more years then I care to admit. Never won a dime, nothing. The paper clutter was overwhelming. It became 'junk mail'. I swore I wouldn't do I again. But, I got caught up in it again online because of games. Now@ 7 figure tokens. I'm noticing the slower pace in the amount of winning tokens per game. I guestion why that seem to happen soon as I reached that 7 figure. I really wonder how long it took others to reach a 9 figure sum. I shrudder to think the hours it took! And not win a dime! Maybe $10.00 for all those times spent. Frustrating.

Date of experience: February 23, 2016
Texas
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Scam
February 22, 2016

They make u believe your gonna win and their instant games always mess up and say error they never let me win i place 200 and 300 token on prizes never win its all q host

Date of experience: February 22, 2016
Georgia
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Have been playing for years now. Have never won a single thing. My email keeps being plagued with "last chance to enter" or some encouraging email that I could very well possibly be the next winner. I supposedly ordered something from them and I've had to call back numerous times to cancel the order. Never mind the fact that the call center was in India. They also encourage you to play their games for chances of prizes and all i get is tokens and ive never actually seen or heard anybody win from them. I cant give merit to them being a hoax and scam but if this country can have rigged voting and crimminal money printing then i certainly wouldnt be suprised this pch operation is just smoke and mirrors.

Date of experience: February 21, 2016