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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.

service
81
value
80
shipping
72
returns
60
quality
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Oklahoma
1 review
9 helpful votes
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PCH: discouraged customer
February 18, 2016

I have been with PCH many years, I had never had any problems until now! They claim I stopped making my payments since May of 2015 which is not true I was making payments on what I owe monthly! They told me mail in a copy of my money order receipts! I did but yet they say I still owe them. Get this the billing with them keeps raising & lowering! Doesn't make sense right? I am really upset with how they are treating me now! I am very discouraged with them now! & I don't plan on ordering from them again! But them claiming I owe them I couldn't anyway! I think someone there is lieing & is stealing from the company not the customers fault!

Date of experience: February 18, 2016
Ohio
4 reviews
15 helpful votes
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Not sure what to think
February 9, 2016

Do people still actually win this sweepstakes? I keep signing up and find myself on other sites for coupons and what not. And I haven't heard of any actual winners lately so I don't really know what to think of them anymore these days.

Date of experience: February 9, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Dear E-mail User
This is to inform you that you have won prize money of One Million United States Dollars
($1,000,000.00 USD) for the month of February 2016 Lottery promotion which is organized
By PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE In conjunction with the MICROSOFT WINDOWS.
This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft
Windows. Hence we do believe with your winnings prize it will give you and many other
People the opportunity to get their lives to a stage where they had always wanted. Note
That we collect all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the
Millions that subscribed to Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo/Aol and various Microsoft window
Users, we only select FOUR people every year as our winners beneficiaries email
Addresses were selected randomly from over 100,000 internet websites or a shop's cash
Invoice around your area in which you might have purchased something from.
We congratulate you for being one of the FOUR persons selected you are to contact the
Events manager for claim these are your identification Numbers

Date of experience: February 2, 2016
California
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Love PCH everyone stop being so negative gosh people if you don't like it, ummmm you know what to do! I luv PCH!

Date of experience: February 1, 2016
California
1 review
15 helpful votes
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For anyone simple-minded enough to believe they might win something via PCH, let alone get an order they may have placed... good luck! The "systematic flood of emails with offers, games multiple times each day" are only a tease to get you to their end-game--magazine over-priced magazine subscriptions and third rate products from China made for them or their nefarious suppliers. Do yourself and your mailbox a favor and avoid, delete any email from them. You have a better chance of being hit by an asteriod, winning the Jackpot in a lottery is even far better odds than this hyper-fear-based mongering by the "Lords of PCH"

Date of experience: January 31, 2016
Michigan
3 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Loosing Faith
January 27, 2016

I have been a loyal player, play every day. One day I opened the Pro Gamer Prize Vault, it said I won a $10 gift card from Amazon.com I thought hey, that's at least something. Guess what, the site ran into technical difficulties and awarded me 1000 tokens instead. Yippee! Lol Wish I could win all the money I spent trying to win. Boy was that stupid!

Date of experience: January 27, 2016
Alabama
3 reviews
22 helpful votes
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Never met a PCH winner.
January 25, 2016

I've been entering PCH sweepstakes for many years and never won_anything, not even a $10 daily prize giveaway.
I don't believe anyone wins and the only way I could be convinced is if a winner came to my home and was able to prove they won.
I don't know why i still bother considering the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.

Date of experience: January 24, 2016
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I had download the pch play & win & also the pch cash casino. And when I had tried to sign in. It said, (Sorry something went wrong. An error secured initializing the store purchase will be available until you have restarted the app. What does this mean? Pleze help so I can start playing. Thx!

Date of experience: January 23, 2016
Idaho
1 review
4 helpful votes
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[email protected]
January 17, 2016

I search sometimes, but today I searched alot of. Pch stuff for prizes and cash.and was told I could get disqualified. This really shocked me. I wasn't doing anything wrong. I know alot of people do the same. I hope I have won, but do nt know... I love all the games and order alot... brenda rhodes

Date of experience: January 16, 2016
Alaska
1 review
30 helpful votes
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Scam
January 16, 2016

I won 100k on the scratch off the screen lit up saying Congratulations send confirmation to this, i sent it but never heard a word back

Date of experience: January 15, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Stay far away from PCH
January 12, 2016

I placed a six-month subscription order for Sports Illustrated on 11-9-15. It is now 1-12-16 and I have still not received my first issue.

I called Customer Service but their response was very poor and unsatisfactory. I won't be getting my first issue for another 4-6 weeks!

The least they could have done is extend my subscription by a couple of weeks out of common courtesy. PCH really dropped the ball on this one and I will never order anything from them again.

Nor should you.

Date of experience: January 12, 2016
Texas
1 review
28 helpful votes
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I have just been reading about lawsuits involving PCH. Now I understand.
I have been a loyal player since 1995, and haven't won so much as a postage stamp.
Then they have these stupid games, that give you tokens. Lord, what a waste of time. I have decided to pull the plug on this travisty of peoples faith in this company.
Goodbye PCH. Your a fake. Read all the lawsuit information online. You will stop playing also. The merchandise is sub standard, and always the same stuff.
I'm done

Date of experience: January 8, 2016
Virginia
1 review
25 helpful votes
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Bull
January 5, 2016

Does anyone know who Richard lustig is he was supposed to have won over 8hundred thousand dollars in 2002. I wonder

Date of experience: January 5, 2016
Arkansas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I recently purchased a Christmas cyclamen (magenta) and it died. It didn't look too good condition when it arrived but I thought I could get it to grow, but no luck. Will you please send me another or refund prise of cyclamen. Number on inclosed instruction paper is 009q29. Thank you maedell fitzgerald, p, o, box 363sunray, texas *******

Date of experience: January 4, 2016
Florida
1 review
20 helpful votes
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Why do they tell you your order cart is empty and never tell you that your winning cart is empty. At times I feel their System is not for real. Can a person been playing and entering all their games for over 3 years and never win a 5c. Yet in none of their games. So you can see it not a real deal.

Date of experience: December 28, 2015
California
1 review
29 helpful votes
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Play and Win App
December 27, 2015

The Play and Win App has the same person winning the Token Leaderboard on an almost daily basis. If it is not him, then it is someone else from the same town and state. It is rare that anyone else wins the Token Leaderboard. Other people have noticed and made inquiry into how the same person can win over and over again? PCH just says it is random. But I want to know how does the same person keep winning if it is just random?

Date of experience: December 26, 2015
Florida
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Pch
December 21, 2015

Ok this may have been long ago but I got the message today remember in the comments on the Google play app you told me to go *******@app *******@pchmail.com I was a winner of the 100$ amazon gift card but I fegard out what was wrong I was not signed into a pch account so can you plz give me the money so I can buy something for Christmas

Date of experience: December 21, 2015
Tennessee
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Brain Games books
December 9, 2015

I got what I thought were going to be normal size puzzle books. They're smaller and a LOT thinner! 32 pages each, which means about 28 pages of puzzles, ONE each page.
If I'd known I'd never have ordered them.
And they cost $16, and the shipping is $7, for a total of $23. Now I have to drag them to the PO and find out how much it will cost to ship them back. I hope less than $7.
I hardly ever order the junk from PCH, but I thought this would be worth it, since I love puzzle books. WRONG!
Update: six dollars and something to send them back. Sux.

Date of experience: December 9, 2015
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I would love to win I would do a lot of things. I'm on cloud 9

Date of experience: November 30, 2015
Georgia
9 reviews
17 helpful votes
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I wonder in the past seven years PCH has defraud people by telling them to just place an order. That they will winin what ever sweepstakes. And the Items you do buy seem to have a lot of them tat don't work as the say. That misrepresenting said product. But PCH got at covered in the extra fine print. Just thing how may folks would have the life style those at PCH. Carry and they don't have to buy a thing to win.

Date of experience: November 30, 2015