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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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I ordered a Ipad the price was jaked up when received the shipping was high it didn't last 2 months didn't work right from the get go right.The PCH games I have been playing for about a year I keep getting ripped off tokens and games and have never won anything I BELIEVE ITS JUST A SCAM.
Lotto, scratch and spin are complete joke. Only one thing you can win is chance to win bigger price. I wasted 2 days on these games, and keep winning tokens and telling me now i am illegible to win big money. What a waste of time.
The lotto scratch games are a joke, you never win and they always just give you tokens, I don't want tokens, I want the money because I need money to pay my medical bills.
Aside from registering for the big prizes which everyone wants, this site offers other online games such as simulated bingo, arcade and casino themed games. The problem is the site often locks up and presents a "technical difficulties, try again later" window. When you try to leave the stuck page you get a warning that if you do it will forfeit the game currently in play. So, it's the player's fault that their site malfunctioned? Not very sporting of PHC.com. Also numerous pop-under ad windows will open while on the site and these seem to contribute to incidents of technical problems during game play. Expect to get around a half dozen emails per day regarding the games you use. If you offer up an email address to any PHC partners that address will be slammed with spam in the future. Try creating a free address somewhere just for this purpose in order to keep your regular address clear.
First they say you won---but need to complete some offers. Fine. EXCEPT then they splash up a HUGE screen preventing you from completing the required information. TOTAL SCAM. Probably time for a class action suit...
I did one of there scratch cards and they said i won 100 bucks i want to know if its a scam
I have won with pch and im waiting to win again to help my disabled family, son and mom and self,, i won a dollar 1n 2000 and was over whelmed and thought it was a joke but soon realised it was a first in a line of checks that pch sends out so im told im waiting we will see but het keeping the faith every one should play and never stop it increases the amounts you can win and your chances are better as well!
They say you could win but I never see it I have received final notice finish step and u won and nothing
DONT GIVE THEM YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS. I was dumb enough to enter my email address on one of the PCH giveaways - and since then I am bombarded with SPAM. In the 8 years I have had my gmail account, I have never had Spam in my InBox. Since giving PCH my email address, I get spam every day now.
DO NOT let them get their hands on your EMAIL address.
PCH has been around A very long time, if they were A scam they would not be operating for 50+ years? People do your research :) You may have very slim odds of winning but that don't mean no1 wins! I mean some people have been entering for 40 or more years, think about it, there is a lot of people entering and only 1 can win! But it can happen! And by the way I do not work for PCH :)
I don't know if the sweepstakes entries are legit or not. There is no way to tell. However, i can tell you that the merchandise they sell is of very poor quality. The good news is that if you send it back they give you a 100% refund, no questions asked. I have stopped ordering from them because not one item has ever been satisfactoty. An read the fine print about the shipping charges. They really get you there.
They overcharge on shipping if you buy anything other than magazines. I purchased a CD and they billed me $8 for shipping! It does not cost $8 to mail a CD. I was playing one of the contest games and it actually looked like I would win a large amount of money and suddenly... the page froze and could not be recovered.
Went to web site to enter sweepstakes and an online web site order # *******XX was processed in error totaling $14.96? When I received the e-mail order confirmation I contacted PCH at *******724 on 02/26/2013 to CANCEL the order and was told by ROBERT that the order had not yet shipped?
I was told to call back to assure that the order was in fact CANCELLED? On 02/27/2013 I telephoned to *******724 and was told by BRAD that the order
Shipped out on 02/19/2013 by tracking # 9102 9270 1035 7868 XX23 XX and that
NO BILL WAS DUE since the order was CANCELLED? I asked if I could refuse delivery of the shipment and was told by BRAD "no" just gift it away. Not sure I
Would ever order from PCH because I am put into an awkward position now to
Pay for a CANCELLED order that PCH shipped and was processed in error? It has been an issue to get the matter resolved to date as e-mails have been ignored? I never received an e-mail informing me that the order had shipped and when I spoke with ROBERT on 02/26/2013 he did not provide me with valid order status information? Be very careful when entering the PCH sweepstakes that no
Orders are processed in error!
If you sign up be prepared for a LOT of email SPAM. Try to 'unsubdscribe they say it takes 10 business days. Really? In the meantime they send you more and more 'offers' to be rich. Anyway to report these^&%^&s?
I just got an email from pch and it has a picture of a check saying ill will 5000 a week on the 28th of feb. Has anyone got that or is this just a scam cause pch has been sending me tons of emails but non saying they want my bank accounts or anything i just want to know if this is a scam or not cause i saw the commercial on tv and i entered in the begining of this month.
Every time you sign up on big five million play well i kept getting tthe same return and no way to complete the signup also a notice from google that the page was being directed in a manner so it could not be completed, very sorry way to do business.
Just saw someone trash publishers clearing house, WTF? Of course they are selling magazines and other merchandise, what do you think they are some billionaire who give out money for fun?
I have found them to be just what they say they are! I do not buy anything i do not want, however I do look at the stuff they have. I have found some real nice deals on things like you see on QVC and other TV offerings. As well the GAMES ARE FUN! If they send anything you do not like they unsubscribe faster than any I have seen and it is easy. I would say if anyone is unhappy with PCH it is their own fault for expecting too much. It is what it is and I LIKE IT!
They send you an email everyday expecting you to buy their cheap expensive junk or magazines. If you don't respond everyday, they tell you, you are not going to win, someone else will & you will forfeit everything.
Site doesn't function well - many times the game freezes & you lose everything. Happens a lot on the "10x tokens" games. I've played zillions of hours & never won anything. Nothing. Watched ******* ads. Msgames games are better done. PCH doesn't even let members communicate. It has this "level up" trick that makes you think you'll get something, but you get nothing. Very hard to reach them & get answers.
Hi everyone! Well, I love PCH. Even though it's kinda hard to win stuff because so many people enter, this website is LEGIT! I played a game called Quiz4Cash, I think it was like in early 2009 when they had the game (got cancelled since), it was a great game. I received 2 $200 checks from them. It was awesome, because I was unemployed at the time. I just wanted to let everyone know my experience with them as being legit when I played their games and DID receive money about a month after I claimed it on their site. I still play their sweepstakes games. Just wanted to say that they are the real deal.
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