Publishers Clearing House (PCH)

I'm sick and tired of filling out Surveys and not being compensated for my time. These unethical bastards work as follows. I spend 30 to 55 minutes filling out the survey, then being informed that the "survey is closed. We are no longer accepting surveys." So, what this boils down to is that I'm getting screwed. The bastard survey company is receiving free labor and absolutely wasting my time. And contacting Publishers Clearing House is another exercise in futility. They won't answer to any complaints, further proof that they are not an honest, forthright company, but a den of cheating, disreputable, lying, bastards.

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.

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!

I am a steady user daily going onto the pch app and web site and i love playing the games. I enter the sweeps and i like playing but now the intrusive ads are getting to me. Some ads let you skip after five seconds and i like that, what i dont like is some ads you dont have the option to skip. Sometimes you can refresh to get the ads you can skip. But other times whatever sweep your trying to enter goes away and takes you to another page. I am a person that doesnt like to be forced into watching or doing anything i dont like. Now before when i played the games there are ads that are on the bottom and you can X them out to get them out of the way. Now, whether i am on the app or website these ads are now poping up when i am trying to play majong and it is showing up on the game which then distracts me and then I lose my progress.
Now all these ads are personally annoying and some offensive. Lately there is one that pops up about sex postions or something like that.
So lets get to the ads, i dont want to watch an ad about health insurance ( I have my own, and if i didnt i would not be researching them from ads. Or ads about extravagant trips to exotic places, ( I dont want to watch them, Because I wont ever be able to go because I am low income and struggle to buy food. So i dont want to be reminded of that fact.) Or, Products that i cant afford to buy, why do i want to remind myself that i cant have that. And the one that bothers me the most is when it is showing cancer patients and showing something about medication or the trials or the experiencs of going through kemo or radiation treatments ( My mom had cancer, watched her go through both kemo and radiation, she past away after 6 year battle. I defiantly don't want to be reminded.
PCH go back to allowing people to skip ads if they want, or whoever wants to waste there time watching these useless ads by all means.
I just want to enjoy playing to take my mind off of real life and all that comes with it. Just want to play, but now I really dont because for a 60 second game i have to watch five mins of an ad. And honestly when I am forced to watch an ad i want to finish my game i will go to the rest room so i am not watching it anyway.
But now the ads are so long, and there are multiple ads for one game and intrusive to what your playing, it isnt fun anymore. Please just let people enjoy there games, and don't force a person to watch the whole ad, give the option to skip, and stop the extra ads that pop up on the bottom, and in front of the game.
This applies to both web site and app. None of these ads are worth watching, and even thought you need advertisers that's great but don't force it down my throat, give me the option to skip.
I used to to all the sweeps, all the scratch cards and the lotto and all the games, but now i pick a select few because there is not enough time in a day for me to do them all now, not like I use too.

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

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.

I use to have fun playing pch but not anymore. No one ever wins anything anymore and tokens are to hard to get. Bummer bye PCH

I have been presented with many great bargains on the PCH Plus app. They are too good to be true. The latest one was shown to me at least a dozen times and said I could get a deluxe box set of karl Lagerfeld colored pencils for $39.99 plus tax. A dozen times, I thought this is a rip off. There is no way the price is this low but, they finally wore me down. I figured if it was a rip off I could just contact PCH and they would fix it because these people were advertising on their app. NOPE. I waited 2 months for my pencils to arrive and then checked the URL they gave me during checkout which went to a no longer existing site. I contacted PCH through their laborious and deliberately complicated help site. 2 days later, the response was that there are many different types of advertisers on the app and the particular advertiser I responded to was the kind that they don't monitor or endorse. WHAT? This means that if you donate to a charity on their side, or subscribe to something or buy a product on their app, it may or may not be legit. You will know if it is legit when you do or don't receive something for what you paid. If you don't receive something for what you paid, it's not legit, so please don't bother PCH. Yes, they let them rip you off, but tough luck. Maybe next time you pay for something on the PCH app you will be lucky enough to get what you paid for. The lesson is that buying something on the PCH app is similar to entering a PCH contest, you may or you may not win.

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...

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

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.

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I really enjoy the new PCH app, very good graphics and easy to use, they have better games this time around.

Ok my PCH story short version that girl that says you don't pay anything well she ask for me to spend money 300 dollars on a gift card so she can activated my prize
So spend money on something they say doesn't go to them but you send it to them

Ok now when you getting closer to getting your prize they want your information that's do one but i had a problem with that for one she wanted me to send a picture of my ssn card
Ya over the phone so i had a problem with that so you no what she did she sent me a picture of someone ssn card and i told her now that why i don't want to do that that is all they need to take e from you
So she got upset that wouldn't do that
I asked her to send me proof of who she is so maybe i would do that for her
So she sends me a picture of her she says i just did this in my office so i was ok then i got to thinking wait i seen that be so i looked back at pictures she. Sent me days ago geuss what there it was sane picture so she lied to me and when i called her out on that she got up
Then she said if i won't give that card to her she giving my prize to someone else and she quit me and block me from her

So watch out don't believe
They just got sued for doing this to people

This month they have changed the number of times you can apply to win a million/dollarized prize on their home page which was replete with games. Same with the 7 million or five million. Or any prizes amount they offer. Previously these amounts were able to be won in a variety of games they offer but Each game could only be played once. Now you play once for any amount and you're totally waiting your time playing for that amount anywhere else except in search, lotto, or two games they offer on line, oh and also in surveys, which I refuse to play. Have a ton of marketers know you most intimate info? No way!
They are reducing the number of chances you have to win and killing the number of times the people who advertise with them get to have you see their ads or merchandise.
They are now increasing the interval time in their on-line games with more ad time there instead.
Both make anyone not want to play any of their games. Its very defeating.
I have been a customer for 40 plus years. I only buy occasionally and it it only something I need. They say I've been a customer since 2004-5 but I started in the 80s (all games were played by mail) when they did not have computerized history.
I did enjoy playing their online games but now they take twice as long to earn the same number of chances to win as before. I am not undergoing misconceptions that winning is nearly impossible. If you look at what a millionaire is; it's kinda deceiving. They take a million and divide it over 25 years into $29.000.00 a year increments. Considering the taxes on this,...you stand a chance to really to win only $14,000.00 a year.
Not a million. And you have to live 25 years. With the dollar worth 10 cents on what it was in 1970, you get my drift.
Recently they have allowed their largest "super prize" to be given to a successor when you pass. That is an awesome offer. But it has only been recent and on a few games. Haven't seen it much this year.
All the amounts under a million-$900,800,700,600,$500,000 are similiarly broken down over 25-20 years.
Thus you really will only garner $12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7000.00 a year
Where you can will the entire amount is under 475K. There are prizes of $450,400,300,200,100,75,000.00, 50, 40, 30 15, 10, 6-5-and so on.
But pay close attention to the rules because they are generally two years from today.
The odds are in the "BILLIONS" to win a prize. The only prize being won is reduced further if it's offered (ea. Attempt is offered a billion plus times.) You have to hit the exact one. So we're really talking near impossible. It may be offered and the offer is not taken.
Your best odds are really long, as long as winning the lotto and thats the guess the exact 5-6-7 numbers in their "lotto games". I have seen only one be won in last 5 years, and it was for $4000,000.00 oh and a couple of million games.
It is a free chance unlike the store where you truly throw your money away trying to win the same.
Thus this is their best game to play.
To win a vehicle (valued at highest retail price) the odds are also incredibly long but the chances are free unlike games of choice that cost dollars.
So my advice is playing games for free (which now demand you spend more time watching ads) is truly the best attempt to win.
They have been much better at letting you know the cost of what you are buying,, showing you the mailing fee plus your item. The mailing fee, which is on an arbitrary system based on valuation rather than the actual mailing cost. So an item for $15.00. The mail fee is $7,00 thus making the total nearer $22.00
The item going for $20.00 has a higher mailing fee even though it does not weigh any more and might even be smaller.
So Caveat Emperor
I do enjoy playing the games personally because they are free. Free gambling is the best kind.
Your time is the cost. What is your time worth? Playing all their games on a laptop and a cell phone to reduce the total time invested leaves you at approximately 5 hours daily. On one devise approximately 6-7 hours. You really must justify this. I figure hundreds of chances on their games beat once or twice all dy long. But still, you must divide 5000 chances into odds of billions
I do play as I am retired and remember my Mom playing on her extremely limited income (SS) and wishing to heaven she'd win. I wanted to help her so very bad.
Those days in the 60-80s were amplified with deception marketing practices where the person buying items was often led to believe they were on the cusp of winning. Or had won.Period.
After multiple lawsuits PCH made the changes to spell out everywhere "that you had not yet won, but you might." Now a days,. It's strictly "you have not won, and buying won't enhance your chances" which is what they should have done all those years ago. My Mom really thought and believed she had won.
One of the main reasons I play is to make her dream come true. Sure I could use the money, who cannot?
But I have a deep desire to make her dream come true.
I know the odds, I know the costs, now you do too

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.

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.