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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com phony tokem payments in lew of cash waste of time.

PCH has all these wonderful scratch games and what not. What use is there to collect thousands of tokens other than proof of wasted time. Nothing use full to gain. Issuing Tokens appear to be another form of payment that has absolute no value to participants.
Way to go proving another scam in care of PCH.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com merchandise stinks

I did order from PCH. I ordered a dog pillow. Well within a week it split all the way down the seam and the pillow inside and all the stuffing fell out! Second I ordered a package of fuzzy socks. When I washed them by hand in cold water, they shrunk! Don't know what country made these items but they are a disaster! I'm so angry that they can forget getting money. I will not even pay to have them returned, not with my money. Shame on this company with so many followers to scam us with these third rate products. These items are cheaper in the store and easier to return. Sorry PCH, you dropped the ball on these products.

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Vero Beach, US
Jul 28, 2014 7:06 pm EDT

I love playing the video poker game and in math almost 1, 000, 000 chips. I played it daily
I went in and cashed in my chips and entered to win items. What's I did that I have not been able to log back on the video poker. I think I was messing so many chips they just blocked me out
If that is the case then it is a scam. Can play as long as you don't win

I play daily and always pick the same card in all of the choices and I never get the Jack
If there is one then for two months it is not been in this one of three places. Art to believe

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Deborah Likins
Clarksville, US
Jun 28, 2014 2:10 pm EDT

Can't redeem tokens and when I log on to the website is tells me a bad request. Have not been able to play my games they send me at my email. Does pch have a problem with their website

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greneyez
Valley Center, US
Mar 19, 2014 1:26 pm EDT

help if u can can't redeem tokens or play games.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com program jams all the time

Since the addition of the "rolling discount dollar amount" on the One Million Dollars for life entry, the entry jams at this point, and I can go no farther to enter in this sweepstakes (even after refreshing). I cannot reach their technical department through their site, so I am hoping to bring this to their attention, so they can correct the issue, so I (and possibly others), can continue to enter this sweepstakes!
Thank you,
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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com rigged games and tons of spam

I wish to add to the list of comments about publishers clearing house games and prize drawings. They spam me with emails constantly. I try to go on the site a bit daily to play some of the games and such, but then after about two weeks or so, they started spamming me with almost threats. The one today was the worse. The email line was a statement of alert and they actually had a small graph comparing how long I was on last week compared to this week. This is barely hump day and not a full week. They said what is wrong that I am not ":searching": as much as last week. They actually made me feel like a child that failed to turn in their homework. And what is all this searching to win. They really can not explain it. I just played some of the lotto games and I never know what numbers are actually drawn as winning. They also rig them. On the lottos there are five cards that come off the spinner and go down to the bottom of the page. I should say five spaces. You are only given three spins so you never get to be able to fill up the cards to win a prize. Then they give these virtual diamonds to be used in later games in the casino area. The number of gems you get are the number of spins in the cassino game. There is all sorts of money prizes on the wheelwith these black wedges with a number on it that tells you how many moves your little game piece moves through the cassino room for advancing for prizes., but it is rigged to only stop on only on the numbers and never the money amounts. It is my understanding that all games have to have winners and winners must be listed. They may announce the prize drawing people, but they never announce who actually wins on those daily games or not. We are made to sift through page after page of spam with tricky questions where you think you are just getting coupons for free tide or coke or something, but you get spammed with emails from pch even more. I got them to stop sending to my home mail box and thought on line would be better since they are not banging on me to buy junk with all these stupid stamps to put on cards that don't stick and fall off and get lost. It is almost as bad online. I just am getting tired of the spam just to play something I am just wasting my time on when I can have real fun on pogo or gsn.

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Donalsonville, US
Mar 23, 2014 7:11 am EDT
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If the spinner on the casino game ever stops on a money amount, it immediately shifts to a number.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com - games are rigged

Publishers clearing house is a complete scam!! Everything about it is a scam scam scam!! All of the games they have for you to play on the website are rigged. You never actually win any type of money. I played one of the games that said if I had 3 matches I would win 10, 000 dollars, I eventually matched 3 things and instead of winning 10, 000 dollars I wa...

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com cheated me out of tokens

I play the slots, games, and lotto on PCH sweeps on-line almost everyday. Today [protected]) pch cheated me out of 500 tokens. Every token i won i saw and added up. At the end the total was not what i had won. I had 2, 100 tokens and it showed i had 1, 600. I am tired of pch scamming the people. If they are legit they need to make it right. To top that off during the casino game after all the diamond games, the scratch off card is always "you are not a winner" no matter how low the amount of money is. PCH needs to show some form of winning even if it is not much just to show they are legit, if they really are. Enough is enough. I have played pch sweeps by mail since 1989 and never even won $5 dollars. I at least want my darn TOKENS due me!

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Ginavon
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Jul 19, 2017 12:19 pm EDT

Ordered 3 butterfly bush plants got two customer support said the 3 red plant would be backordered...plants are not like jeweler they have seasons in which they can be planted! I must say however that the 2 plants I did receive were in really good shape and are growing very nicely...now I get the bill for three plants and a late fee if I d not pay on time? How about a late fee or discount for the missing plant?

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ALICE FORD
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Jan 20, 2014 4:18 pm EST

received my order item #54585v order#[protected] opened package, opened jewelry box and nothing was in it.

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Earle James26
Frankston, US
Oct 07, 2013 8:31 pm EDT

The best way to deal with pch is to not care. Sad but true. I feel your pain.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com pch.com, pch game

you need to make your scratch games on pch.com work properly. also need to remove the winner you have on the bottom, you show the same winner for two months. it okay to show them onces not for months. Need to shorten your ads they are too long its a computer not TV, and your animals ads suck I just don't care for them. Put those ads for the animal lovers but not me!

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A. Jones
Victorville, US
Apr 11, 2014 7:58 am EDT

I'm Arlene Wood, I have played all your games faithfully every day for years. Today I received a message that if I don't play I can't win. Sounds like according to you, I have not been entering. ThThaThatThat's wrong. I hhave.
TThe mmessmess upups are your system, not mme.

Kuulei51@yahoo.com

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Bolingbrook, US
Aug 25, 2013 5:41 pm EDT
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I understand that pch.com and their numerous sites are sweepstakes, like lotteries, you have to play & play until you win (not likely) or you simply quit from sheer frustration. What is almost cruel is the number of ways they suck you in for never-ending "chances" to win. There is a nauseating number of sweepstakes, each with their own game # and ending dates that flood your inbox daily. I signed up for 1 sweepstakes and in the swamp of emails I get daily, I'd gotten lost and confused and found myself on so many different pch game/sweepstakes lists unrelated to the initial one, and I realize that the end dates get further and further out so that I'm playing for forever. They tell you that your chances of winning anything are NOT increased if you buy the products they sell, but that can't be true. Somehow, someway the people who DO buy and give them money have to be seperated out from the ones that don't buy but still play to win. If you don't like being toyed with, stay away from PCH. I've got to quit.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com can't activate entry for contest

The form comes up daily to submit for the entry to Publishers Clearing House Contest for $1Million Dollars for life
but the last confirmations didn't go through which means that I filled out the form for nothing and it doesn't count. Today it happened several times. I got an email from PCH to tel lme that I didn' sign the daily document and enter it as I always do. Now I wonder how many did go through. PCH appears to be a reliable company, just needs a technical tune up.
Also I scored the highest on the Gold Rush slots, but once again, I could not log in to register my 25, 500 points for today.
As I was looking for a complaint email address, I noticed others are having the same problem. Perhaps PCH is having technical
difficulties, but after all these weeks that I loyally filled out the forms, I don't want to lose because it didn't register before I wrote this complaint. Appreciate your help. If it is a technical problem, they will know by my complaint.
I couldn't find Contests in your catagories, that is why I chose gambling games. Thought it is a gamble to enter a contest.
Many thanks for your assistance.
JP Lengel

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Feb 28, 2014 7:45 pm EST
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hello pch and yes i would like to activate my entry for 1million and plus 7, 000.00 a week for life and yes i hope you come knock on my door mike walczak

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Luann Reniska
Waco, US
Mar 30, 2013 8:50 pm EDT

I have found a good many of the links PCH has listed are dead. I posted 5 of them on the following site http://www.ilovegiveaways.com/pch-1million-every-year-life-sweeps I have also found that if you go through there links on the lotto not all the lotto where you pick your numbers but the one where it looks like lottery tickets yet you pick the numbers then you can't get to the lotto where you pick all your numbers ( the one with a blue background ). you loose out on it. Thought i'd pass the info on to ya, Luann

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Luffy Black
Fort Wroth, US
Mar 29, 2013 3:01 am EDT

I am having the same problem, I must have entered a thousand times, but I keep recieving emails telling me I didn't enter.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com deception

You can't find the web site to enter there contest. If you do win, the Federal and State tax takes most of your
prize money leaving you with ten to twenty thousand dollars. Five thousand a week for life sounds real good until you work the math. For those of you out in computer land who can't fine the web site, go to abuse [protected]@anatabloctrial.com and stop the messages.

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giovengo ,donna
Guys Mills, US
Sep 12, 2013 12:15 am EDT

on 9/12/2013 was 10x tokens it only gave up 2x"s 500 tokens I have never missed A 10x"s tokens day I don"t think that is fare

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jazzyjoslynn
Troy, US
Aug 31, 2013 8:14 am EDT

Beware! PCH Is just as bad as the rest of them, They tell every one that some one will win in your Area with your initials . That is deception. I don't care how you sugar coat it. It is deceitful . Then I receive a letter telling me I am a second chance winner of

one of the prizes, BUT and I say But you receive a Coupon for the item or items that you were told that you won in the second chance drawing, But you have to pay for them and they tell you that you are getting a discount. What the hell do they think we are stupid.

I can go to Wal Mart and buy the same crap cheaper than the discount coupons they are giving you. What a joke PCH. People are Not winning nothing when you have to pay for it

and that is Called DECEPTION. PCH you are lying to all these people and misleading them to believe they are going to win, When what you are really trying to do is Sell your over priced crap, that they don't want or need. But some of the old people don't know any better. Because they think they will have a better chance at winning if they place an order with you. I know because you Scammed my poor grandmother to death. She went to her grave believing she was going to win that Million Dollars. How do I know this ? because every time I walked in her home she would tell me, Bonnie I got a letter from PCH telling me I have won . and when my poor grandmother died and I had to clean out her house. it was full of Cheap jewelry from PCH along with all the other crap you sell to the old people. You should be a shamed of your self. You don't care as long as you get that order from them.

And you have the nerve to say, Wont you please order something. or you say an order would be appreciated at this time.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com lost $1,000,000 giveaway they said in email I won

I am giving you a complaint that they were doing false statements on the internet in an attempt to have me make some order to ask for my dissabillity SSI momthly ammount to live a meek living!

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Dec 29, 2012 8:48 pm EST
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I expected to see some improvements in my love life after I contacted lanalutaspell@gmail.com and asked him to send out a spell to the Universe for me, but I didn’t expect a life-changing experience, that’s for sure! Still, though, that’s what I got! I’m not only in love, I’m going to be moving to my soon-to-be-fiance’s state next month! We probably would never even have met if it weren’t for Prophet Chrisand his wonderful powers of peace and love. I wish you all the peace and love you sent me, Prophet Chris.

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Dec 17, 2012 10:43 pm EST
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Hello

Send your Full Name, Address, Telephone Number and Winning Message you recieved to the surveillance unit on:

surveillance.teamunit@gmail.com

so as to enable them ascertain if you really won the Lottery and give you true information
on how your winnings can be Collected.
You Will also be Informed if the Winning Message you Recieved is a Fraud Notification

Congratulations
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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com scams

I believe that they scam people because they keep sending me the same email. That if i dont entry to win the $5, 000 dollars a week sweepstake by the offical deadline i would loss my entry number that is unsigned to my name. And i enter so many times to this email and havent win anything yet. This been going on for years. Im just saying if this isnt real they shouldnt get people hopes up. Because some of us could really use a blessing like that. Because it could be hard living in this world today. Everything is so high. Exspecially the cost of housing.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com - didn't order or receive items

earlier this summer my house had burnt down and we had to move to another place for a few months while the renovated my home. During this time I received a bill from publishers clearing house or PCH saying I orders a few items from them and I owed them about $37 bucks and I was like, wait...I didn't order anything from them and if I HAD I would have paid...

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com 1st place in jewel matching contest

Publishers clearing house keeps sending me bills which I should pay its only $14.95 but I have 2 complaints #1 PCH says no purchase necesary to enter their contests but before completing regestration they send you to a page where you have to buy in order to enter. #2 they had this jewel matching contest last year my girl and I took turns playing and we held first place in speed and high score all the way till the contest ended the prize was $1000 dollars and they gave it to sombody else also I took that day off work Hell yeah lose $60 to win $1000 but PCH never gave us our. Money so the way I figure it is I lost $1060 dollars and they're sending me audit reports for $14.95 I'm not paying anything until they give me my $1000 and stop lying to people about NO PURCHASE NESESSARY to enter but you HAVE TO buy something

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Michelle Cisneros
Hemet, US
Dec 09, 2014 12:08 pm EST

These scammers need to be stopped. . . Elderly are lonely and dont understand all these fake formal type letters. . . ! Its soooo awful. . . They put in the fine print to send in $$$ to receive vouchets for ### merchandise. . . ! Please people lets put these scammers out of business. . . N stop them from hurting innocent people!

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Lois Young
Henrico, US
May 16, 2012 2:57 am EDT

You emailed me that you were sending me some magazine I DID NOT ORDER. I WANT THE ORDER CANCELLED IMMEDIATELY. I HAVEN'T ORDERED ANYTHING FROM FROM PCH.

LOIS YOUNG
7813 CAMOLIN COURT
HENRICO, VA 23228

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com poor website/no customer e-mail

The new regime of "instant-win" games produced by PCH.COM more often than not does not work and website access is extremely slow. Furthermore, because there are some participants who have very high token balances so early in the launch of these new games, I assume PCH.COM provides selected participants preferential access. Also, I question why PCH.COM requires a complete date of birth to respond to certain items on their suite of websites, and how secure is their website account information? I won't ever purchase any merchandise or services from PCH.COM, and I suggest most other users do likewise. The bottom line is PCH.COM is a marketing company covered with a thin veneer promoting a small chance to win a prize.

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L. Pagano
Saint Anne, US
Sep 02, 2012 1:49 pm EDT

I agree with the comment about how is it that some people get such high token levels on games that have just started? I also have the trouble, and it occurs more often when playing the 10x games, that I play the game and instead of getting a token reward I receive a black screen, which requires me to leave the site and lose any tokens that I have won. I also have the same trouble with the sweepstakes page-http://new.pch.com/instantwin which allowed me to get to the last sweepstakes entry before "unlocking" the big money prize. I think it was either 10 million or 10 thousand dollars, I'm not sure because I was going through the steps to unlock the chance and didn't realize I had to remember the amount for a complaint. I thought I would finish the last step and the prize would be unlocked not that I would finish the last step and my computer would freeze! I hope this can be fixed quickly and wish there was some way to reward/reinstate all the lost tokens.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com - fixed online games

Publishers Clearing House has a slot machine game in which by play you will earn diamonds to use later on a roulette game to win money on the wheel or a chance later to win money in a drawing. My complaint is these games are fixed (rigged) as to never have a winner.At the end after you have earned your diamonds to use as coins to play roulette .the game ha...

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com autoforwarding

Unable to login to PCHGames. PCH continually says I am on a mobile device and forwards me to search. I am on an Ubuntu Desktop machine. Firefox, Opera, and Chromium all did the same thing and would not let me stay on the Games site. I switched to the Linux machine because of all the problems the windows machine had with PCHGames, (slow running, requires Firefox update). Their web programmers truly, TRULY, SUCK.

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com billing for items that I never received or ordered

I went on the Publishers Clearing House Website after seeing a commercial on television in April 2012. I decided to test my luck and enter into the PCH sweepstakes contest on or around 4/10/12. I didn’t sign up for any of their magazine advertisements or anything offered for sale (since the site clearly stated that purchasing merchandise wouldn’t increase my chances of winning). On 4/21/2012 I received a fraudulent bill statement from PCH stating that I ordered a Wireless Digital Door Bell for 19.96 on 3/25/12. The Delivery charges were supposedly 7.99 and the total balance past due is now $27.95, however I never ordered a doorbell and I didn’t enter the contest until 4/2012!

I stay in a high rise apartment unit with 24/hr security. The tenants are notified over the phone so there is no need for a doorbell. All guests and packages are authorized and documented through our 24/hr security staff. All packages must be signed and authorized through security and management before the tenants’ can even pick up a package. The Main office has no records of a package ever being delivered from or sent back to PCH. There are no records of a package ever being delivered to this address.

PCH also forwarded my phone number to numerous marketing agencies and I had no knowledge of this.

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Ingrid Renee Carter
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Jan 03, 2016 1:21 am EST

I never ordered any magazines during this last give away for 2015. I am currently being billed for a Vegetarian magazine as well as the Star magazine in the amounts of $14.95 and $44.00 respectively. Not only were they never ordered, they never delivered them either. I Pay MY DEBTS. This practice of false billing is a rip off . How do I remedy this situation and avoid this obvious stain on my credit?

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Rosie- S
Chicago, US
Apr 13, 2014 11:50 am EDT
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I never order anything from publisher clearing house. Each time I received an email requesting payment... I responded never ordered nor received. About two weeks later two small packages were deliver to my door by my mail man. I declined receipt and he wrote won't accept order, return to vendor. Now I receive a collection notice, I call the number, emailed and called several times... All recordings. Cld not leave message. Now I write on letter of collection I didn't order or receive anything... No response. Now I am getting automated phone calls several times a day for collection of debt of 26.78 . What the hell ... How do we remedy this. Principle...

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com scam alert

This morning I finally answered a phone call from [protected]. This was not the first call I had received from this number but was the first I had answered. The call originated in Jamaica and was from a man who gave his name as Michael Watson. Mr Watson first said he was calling from the Publishers Clearing House to inform me that I had won a sweepstakes for $2, 500, 000 and a new Mercedes. He sent an email to one of my business emails and asked that I call him when I got it. Later in the day I called him back and told him nothing about it looked right to me and please don’t bother me again with his calls.

Throughout the day I have had no fewer than 8 phone calls from this man wanting to know what the problem was. Why didn’t I want my $2, 500, 000 prize. I then explained to him that I wasn’t sending anyone $500. If I had, in fact, won a prize I shouldn’t have to pay for it.

Mr. Watson told me that the $500 was so that it would be tax free! Once again I told him I wasn’t paying $500 for a prize and not to call me again. At this point he asked if I wanted to talk to his general manager. I didn’t really understand the name of the general manager (these men are both very hard to understand and speak with a very heavy accent). The second Mr. Watson also told me to go to CVS or Walgreens and purchase green money back card, to be sure and get a 14 digit card rather than the 16 digit one because it wouldn’t work in their system and call him back immediately so I could have my prizes delivered.

When I questioned him about what bank the prize check was to be paid on he said the Bank of America, my earlier email showed a check from the Bank of Wachovia which has been out of business since 12/31/08. He informed me that the Bank of Wachovia is a branch of the Bank of America-which it isn’t, they were bought out by Wells Fargo, and that my prize check could easily be transferred to my personal bank.

I haven’t and don’t intend to have any more dealings with these men and I hope by taking the time to make this posting it will help some others keep from making a very costly mistake. Please be forewarned–they are very persistent!

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Jun 02, 2012 9:34 pm EDT

i recieved several of these calls as well. when i told him no and it was a scam he started cursing at me and asking what my problem was and why i didnt want my mercedes i again said dont call my phone this is a scam. I hung up later in the day got another call from the same guy SCAM

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Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com don't expect help from pch.com

I changed some information in my PCHgames account and clicked "save" and then was deactivated. For 2 days now, I can't seem to get anyone from this company to help me get re-activated. I refuse to re-sign up and start all over, when I can just go to Pogo.com or something and play games there for free or maybe even pay to get rid of advertisements. I even went to FB PCH and someone in one of those accounts just referred me to the questions' page for PCHgames, which didn't help at all, I still cant' get into my game account or play games, can still play free games but just don't get any credit for it which defeats the purpose of even playing at all. I've heard a lot of good things from this company but they really suck at customer service unless you buy a lot of stuff from them or something. I refuse to play or buy anything from them unless they resolve the game issue. After submitting a question to the company to get ahold of them, I was told I would hear a reply in 2 days, well I'm still waiting.

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Marsha Stapleton
Sioux Falls, US
Feb 15, 2013 11:18 am EST

The pchgames.com website did "updates" on 2/15/13, & now I am unable to log in to the site. This is not something that has occurred before in the year that I have been participating on pchgames, & I do not know how to correct the problem myself. Thank you!

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Fontana, US
Mar 05, 2013 3:45 pm EST
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I was looking for help from the customer service a couple months ago. Alas, still no word or help for that matter.

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I am trying to redeem my tokens and i cant.i tryid many tymes, Please help me to fix this problem.Thank you.

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Apr 25, 2012 7:58 am EDT

I changed some information in my PCHgames account and clicked "save" and then was deactivated. For 2 days now, I can't seem to get anyone from this company to help me get re-activated. I refuse to re-sign up and start all over, when I can just go to Pogo.com or something and play games there for free or maybe even pay to get rid of advertisements. I even went to FB PCH and someone in one of those accounts just referred me to the questions' page for PCHgames, which didn't help at all, I still cant' get into my game account or play games, can still play free games but just don't get any credit for it which defeats the purpose of even playing at all. I've heard a lot of good things from this company but they really suck at customer service unless you buy a lot of stuff from them or something. I refuse to play or buy anything from them unless they resolve the game issue. After submitting a question to the company to get ahold of them, I was told I would hear a reply in 2 days, well I'm still waiting.

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