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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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value
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returns
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quality
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Michigan
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Much like many of the other reviews here, don't waste your time playing ANY games because you WILL NOT WIN, i cant say for sure if the 10,000 a week for life is a scam though, so in my personal opinion i would probably continue to enter into that sweepstake at least(and ONLY that one...) but i'm now only playing the games to pass the time since they are fun at least (i seriously believe that the game is rigged...).

Now one thing that actually worked for me (in terms of making money) is a site called Cash Crate (found after giving up ever winning money on pch), you basically get paid to complete surveys and offers (the surveys are the most reliable especially since you do not have to give out your actual information and they will not bonbard you with emails like pch does.

The only email you will receive is is a confirmation that your Check has been shipped out to you(Yes they will send you a Check each month when you reach the minimum payout its legit i have actually gotten 2 checks from them it wasnt much(because im lazy and dont spend too much time on it i admit it, but at least i know it works))

So if your curious about what Cash Crate is then check out this full Link below

http://www.cashcrate.com/*******

Date of experience: August 27, 2014
Ohio
1 review
9 helpful votes
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This is probably a Chinese scam! Everything they have is made (cheaply) in China
The BBB should investigate this they hound you with postal and Email urging you to buy products and in the end (three days before so called prize drawing) you HAVE to make a purchase or you are disqualified!

Date of experience: August 20, 2014
California
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Don't waste your time
August 18, 2014

Don't waste your time. Should be shut down. They send e-mail all time, about winning, but nobody does or they did not register their numbers. Can I fill a complaint to get Pch removed from everything. A SCAM

Date of experience: August 15, 2014
Washington
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Its a bunch of crap all they do is waist your time and there timing sucks my stepson just pased away and all I keep getting is pch email's Steven vanderwall Modesto ca

Date of experience: August 6, 2014
Illinois
1 review
14 helpful votes
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PCH games are a joke
August 4, 2014

PCH games are a joke. I don't really think they give money to anyone! I play the blackjack game online. When it comes to picking cards of 21 to win the $1000. 00 or the $25,000 it is fixed. It doesn't matter which cards you pick, it is set for the last card to come up is always the 10 card so you ALWAYS go over 21 and have NO CHANCE OF WINNING THE $25,000. I also do not believe anyone wins the BINGO games either or the big prizes of so much a week for life. PCH IS A BIG JOKE!

Date of experience: August 4, 2014
Massachusetts
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Well yea, kind of, but I found out that Danielle Lam is married. Well just in case, if I won $5000 a week for life, tell her,"TOO BAD! YOU ARE TOO LATE!

Date of experience: July 29, 2014
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Play the Games on PHC sweepstakes Website but don't order anything. Then you will be having fun and not wasting money. Then you can win stuff and not lose any money. It would be a win win if you do it that way. The Website says you don't have to order anything to win. It's not a scam. http://www.pch.com.

Date of experience: July 23, 2014
Massachusetts
1 review
3 helpful votes
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About the popup barrels, it the one ad that said,"buy one and you get one FREE", do you staffs from PCH remembered that? I know I did hit the order box on the screen. I wonder why it didn't go thru.? If I didn't get any answer about the popup barrels, I may give you ONE STAR rating! If I still don't hear anything about the popup barrels, I may want to drop this service and you can't force me to stay on this service.If I get a rep. To call me to stay on this service to play these games and buy more stuffs, don't try to be like the guy at COMCAST who trying to get his customer BACK! Now do you understand that?

Date of experience: July 16, 2014
California
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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It seems to me the daily emails I've been getting since I first entered the $5,000/week Sweepstakes, are basically "gimmicks" to get you to keep visiting their site. The emails are worded deceivingly to get you to think you need to re-enter the Sweepstakes or make you afraid (fear) that you are forfeiting your entry by not clicking the "respond button" in the email. Apparently getting millions of people to click on the their site daily makes them a ton of money through the advertisements that appear. But it's basically wasting a ton of your time!

Date of experience: July 13, 2014
Massachusetts
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I didn't get the pop up barrels from PCH, buy one and get one free. I never got that. Can you tell me why? I really need that, because I got four big trees, a tree at each corner of the house. I like these barrels, because it will be easy for me to rake the leaves on the hill in front of my house and be able to carry its up the LONG STEPS! It lighter for me to carry the pop up barrels with leaves up the long stairs.It will be better for me, because I got a blood clots on my right leg.

Date of experience: July 8, 2014
Massachusetts
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Beware that if you pay on-line it pays the whole amount you owe. I did not no this and they would not fix the problem. Plus for each item that is late they charge you $5.00. They get you the way the payment system is set up. I will never purchase a thing from them again. Most of the products are cheap and flimsy.

Date of experience: July 2, 2014
Florida
1 review
8 helpful votes
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DONT ORDER
July 1, 2014

DONT ORDER. THEY WILL SEND YOU A FREE GIFT YOU DONT WANT AND CHARGE YOU $4.99. HENCE IT IS NOT FREE. PLUS THEIR MERCH. IS VERY CHEAPLY MADE. I BEEN ENTERING FOR 33 YRS. WON NOTHING

Date of experience: July 1, 2014
Nevada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I've been playing for about 4-5 weeks and up to 7 hours per day and haven't won ANYTHING. Some games froze up and the message came up "having tech problems" and to try again later. I'm not sure if I can save some tokens for the next contest. Does anyone have an answer to that? Actually I need to win cash as I'm going to school to get money to live on since I can't find a job, plus I have 3 teeth that the crowns came off of. I owe so much in student loans and I'm 68 years old!

Date of experience: June 20, 2014
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I always receive emails from pch sweepstakes and for the last to weeks when I click to confirm it says that it's envalid or a code pops up saying the url is wrong or to large does anyone else have this problem!

Date of experience: June 16, 2014
Idaho
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Other then the 3 emails a day that get old, that isn't the issue. I started getting phone calls from people claiming I was eligible for government loans, people with strong non American accents. They called everyday for 2 months straight
I Google the numbers, turns out they were scams trying to get your banking information. More then one person making complaints about those numbers made reference to all this starting after registering for PCH, and even stating the people admitted that's where they got their personal information from... like full names and addresses and phone numbers. Since that was the only website in recent history I've signed up on it had to be by default PCH. Beware, they are either selling your personal information or have bad security, either way their association with these scammers is disturbing to say the least. The scammers also claim to be from the IRS, they tried that on me as well, saying I owed back taxes I needed to pay immediately. Somehow PCH is linked whether by fault or not, don't give them any information!

Date of experience: June 4, 2014
Wisconsin
1 review
14 helpful votes
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I have been playing instant Bingo for over a year now. I sometimes get all the numbers, but I never, ever have gotten the letter "O". Has anybody else experienced the same problem. I am convinced the "O" does not exist.

Date of experience: May 31, 2014
Massachusetts
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I like playing some of the games. I was wondering if anyone has gotten the letter "o" in the instant bingo game. I have gotten every letter but the letter "o" every time I play

Date of experience: May 27, 2014
Pennsylvania
1 review
3 helpful votes
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To whome it concerns I ordered a lap top computer and I didn't get any response back Can you help me to get this if possible its paid for too thank you Joe

Date of experience: April 13, 2014
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Publisher Clearing House Is awesome. Search and Win...

Date of experience: February 20, 2014
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