Publishers Clearing House / PCH.com review: matched and did not win! 106

OH COME ON GUYS! ARE YOU THAT STUPID? I PLAY PCH AND HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM. ITS CALLED READING AND UNDERSTANDING YOUR TRUE ODDS. WHEN YOU GET NOTICES FROM PCH THEY ARE MEANT TO LOOK LIKE YOU WON SO THAT YOU PAY ATTENTION, IF YOU DON'T ACTUALLY READ EVERYTHING WELL, THEY END UP GETTING SLANDERED BY IDIOTS LIKE THIS LADY. PCH IS NOT ANY KIND OF SCAM, TO BE A SCAM YOU WOULD HAVE TO BUY SOMETHING, BUT THE GREAT THING ABOUT PCH IS THAT ITS ALWAYS AN OPTION. DO SOME MORE READING, MAYBE EVEN ACTUALLY VISIT THEIR WEB FORUMS BEFORE YOU START SLANDERING THEIR NAME ONLINE BECAUSE YOUR PICTURES DIDN'T MATCH, PLEASE HOW PATHETIC

I won this but website froze. Sent this pic off with letter complaint off to PCH. Nothing.

You Know you are ight to an extent, remember this contest includes Canada and the UK and good old USA, but it cant hurt to enter, stranger things have happened, as they say "Gotta be in it to win it" its funny look on side and see all the different areas/subjects that all of us can complain/write about, but we all one way or another are HOKED on PCH...lol the big drawing is FEb 28th, so i feel that after that big win for someone things will calm down on this subject and get to serious complaints that effect our lives, we are what you call hooked...lol, try and think positive as I said you never know, I truley truley pray whoever wins really needs help badly, the economy is so bad we all are hurting, especially medically, god will ing the winner will be a needy family, it scares me the old saying...Money goes to money!I am happy if the so called right person(s) won, we all have problems, mine... no money in this world could help me in what i want/wish for/need, so i have already lost don't need the drawing.so it does not phase me nor bother me.
Good luck to all and please if anyone wins here please put in big big letters and tell us your story (except for PoolPol...lol) it would be nice to hear. so everyone try and watch on Feb 28, 2011
you never know.

PS anyone know why some of our words are gobbly [censored]?

I think the whole pch thing is BS. You waste all your time searching or doing the scratch or filling out the hard copy. You be better off just stop playing.

Sent Pch this page.they have real names from sign on sites.like here! poolpool>>> grow up
Liar... Liar.. Your pants are on fire, Its a shame because u get to believe your own lies, but if it works for you... go for it!
I think we all are tired of hearing same old [censor]! its a shame we can't block certain comments by indaviduals ooops my bad edumacation again...ooopsy, no more taking up space here, when
this site is for complaints...not for winners. go to winners complaint site! getting bored!

its not a matter of [censor]ing, this is a place to comment, most know chances are slim, but it gives people to open up, meet others, not just [censor]ing, i really feel this site is not for you w/ your high and mighty attitude and know it all, you are here commenting as all of us why? w/ your intelligence you should be teaching us who have no education on another site... help someone don't put them down. thats how I was raised.

Ah hello, sorry if we are not teachers, did you ever think about being disabled as me? or fingers hitting wrong keys due to artheritis as me can't feel? or some came from another country? or english is not a person main ..lets see langwich? don't ever put people down especially when u don't know them, and thats not a reason either, and remember "KARMA" sorry we all don't have the so called education as you, because a lot have to leave school to support families especially now a days, very cruel of you.

A lot of you weirdos need a reality check. PCH is free, and odds are you will never ever win. If you want to spend 10 minutes a day entering their different sweeps on the HOPES that you'll win, then do so, because you "gotta be in it to win it." But stop [censor]ing and moaning about your wasted time when you don't. More than likely...YOU NEVER WILL.

And learn to spell.

Hey all yesterday was the million dollar prize.. who won? not me for sure, no knock on my door, no flowers even though PCH says what flower store they will buy them IF I WIN, , ah the BIG word IF.. If the Queen had balls " She would be King"!

no computer virus.. computer runs great.. but I also realize that the poolpool comment is
from a person who is more likely a jokester. Go head and
cash that check! I'm sure people do win.. haven't found any articles on winners from
the spin and win game. Just seems a bit bogus. I've had the wheel land on the $500
and then jump to tokens.. this particular instance it landed and stayed there for about 3 to 4 seconds
before the congratulations page came up .. with the wrong prize acknowledgement.

Either way posting here doesn't resolve much if anything.. reporting to the Attorney General
might actually make a difference.

Yes, Something is not right and quite deceitful. Tonight I entered one of their time-limited entries.. I always do them just in case I could win.. and at the end of it all, I was taken to the pch games website.. wherein you log in and can do a once a day spin and win entry. I spun and it landed on $500 cash. It stopped there, too. ... previously when this occurred it jumped to a tokens winning.. but this time it literaly stopped. I even counted 4 seconds after it stopped. Expecting to see the Congratulations you've won $500, instead it said Congratulations, you've won 50 tokens! This is beyond not fair. I was literally ignored and discounted by their refusal to acknowledge that I did land on $500 cash and it staying there! I am seriously cheated by this as I did truly win this amount.. and they refused to acknowlege it and passed it off to result in tokens? albeit 50 tokens.. gee.. this is not right, it's shameful and quite deceitful. I thereafter wrote them complaining about what had just happened.. and then researched to find the entries on who else was screwed over.. not that posting here will give any restitution or relief.. I do not feel this will make a bit of difference. But got to thinking that if enough people filed complaints they might just be held liable. This is an out and out scam job.

RE...i will update this thread upon my check receipt poolpool

Ahhh... PoolPool did you get your check? let us see your reciept...lol
maybe someone out there won? be nice to see/hear from a winner. agin billions of people not even counting uS of A ?

It is a scam. How can so many millions of people play and never win anything at all. Myself included. Yes, this is why we play because we want something for free, that's the point. We want to win and what's wrong with that. Isn't this why they advertise? So that the poor schmucks like you and me play and hope to win. And of coourse, they want us to buy some stuff but most of us don't. So yes, it is a scam. I have never heard of anyone winning this thing. They do post pictures of winners but who are these people and are they for real?

Marie

check this site everyone... very infomative, read all...

http://help.pch.com/consumer/fraud-protection

bad part is... we still continue... to play continue...continue...

Oh... Pool...Pool...lol Ur A Corker!

with scratch off its usually 3, but if not and u are positive, PCH and every other domain can very easily chech by your email address they can check the game you played and if u were a winner, contact pch and they will tell u, if u were a winner, its very very easy for PCH and any other game site/domain to check, and actually chk what u played what time and if you did win. I suggest everyone who has written the same that they won and was so called scam, just everytime u play use your PRINT SCREEN it will take a pic of your game/ desktop etc. send to PCH...very simple, a lot of people have been telling everyone Use PRINT SCREEN, simple as pie.

u go PoolPool, at least you understand, realistic...and READ the rules know the odds, as u basically said.. you never know, "Can't win it" Unless in it" it just gets to mme w/ al sob stories thinking it will help, or someone who wrote that they will donate...lol money does funny things to people, if they want a sob story i have one about me, its pityful, but i am me, and not a pity me person, i am stubborn, thick headed and will not give in nor stop, when I stop... I stop! below is a site i put on here periodically, no one hardly checked it out, it will explain everything about PCH and diff. scams etc... good site, but people see what they want to see, people believe what they want to believe, even when the proof is in our face, so thats why this site is good. but of course some will still still say PCH is a scam...lol.
http://help.pch.com/consumer/fraud-protection

msloco

I've send in PCH mailings along with computer emails for more years than I care to admit to...Well, the time has reached the point and I swear to God Almighty that if Feb. 28, 2011 comes and goes and I haven't heard from PCH, it will be felt on the richter scale when PCH is dropped from my life...

IronHorse

i have never won any thing at all period since i've been playing, i would like to win some times

U may have to turn off your antivirus or something simply it's legitate, if you purchased from there site or off facebook, I didn't have any problems

i play over and over again and i never win so i just do not sign in sometimes. i have never one

THIS IS A SCAM PEOPLE ! THE SAME THING HAS HAPPENED TO ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN ! WE ARE FOOLS NOT TO TAKE THE LAW INTO OUR HANDS AND SUE THE HELL OUT OF THEM...PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT BUY ANYTHING ! YOU'D ONLY BE PUTTING LOBSTER ON THEIR TABLE AND I'D RATHER SEE IT ON YOURS ! ANY GOOD ATTORNEYS OUT THERE ? I WANT TO PERSUE A LAW SUIT AGAINST THEM IMMEDIATELY ! IT CAN BE DONE, BELIEVE ME !

Here is a site that will answer everyones Q&A read through..re fraud..

http://info.pch.com/sweepstakes

About time someone said it.. U hit the nail right on the head, as I said if it's meant to be.. it will be, I think that people (here) think by writng the poor me comments on PCH..., that PCH will see and pick them, it funny the way people react/think when it comes to $$$$$ it's really a shame, but again, you have to be in it to win it. billions of people enter.

This is really sickening, listen to us all, seriously think about the true odds, also if it really has anything illegal i have no doubt they would be caught, A big company like that has to abide by the laws, I do believe the state(s) do check them, due to the fact there are so so many people, that question/ have complaints, although i have not once heard of anyone trying to contact BBB or a attorney etc. to make sure things are legit, it is really a sin what a contest/company can do to our minds, listen to us all, all because we have not won anything, when the odds are Billions if not trillions to one.
if its meant to be... it will be, I can also bet all these pesimistic people, feelthat complaining online will help, in fact i believe the opposite, we all sound like children, I am no better, believe me! stranger things have happened, I have found so many contests that are really no good/legit, lets complain and report them as I have.we make the choice to enter, to buy, "JUST SAY NO" but it is in a way addicting...lol.

I have been playing pch lotto and scratch off since March missing only five days.Lately my scratch off tickets have been frozen and when I closed the box, I was told that I've played for that day. I called the office and informed them about the problem and was told that they was checking into the problem, since then I've missed the next three days (12/24-12/27) and the e-mail they had said, they was going to send me never show up . I would say that I'm mad at P C H, but they didn't do anything wrong . I PUT MY FAITH IN MEN, AND NOT IN THE ONLY ONE THAT COUNT . JESUS P/S HE NEVER LIE TO ME AND BY PLAYING WITH HIM (CHRIST) I'M ALREADY A WINNER, AMEN.

I agree with you all just order there junk and dont pay them then they will be paying money out weather they like it or not lol if everyone did that they would go under

as soon as i paid them what i owe i wont be buying anything esle from them that is fior sure

i hasnt won anything at all from pch .so they is a bunch of scam and fake and rip peoples off

pch is fake and a scam .they will rip you off on thier things to .they will say that you hasnt paid for things and you have .i have got my recepits showning that i have paid for them

pch is a scam and fake they will rip you off on thier things to .after you paid for things they say that you didnt paid for it .but i have got all of my money orders recepits showning that i paid

I play the scratch off every day and never get anything i think its a scam . because i never hear of anybody winning this. I dont know why people leed people on like that you play somethig and in hopes to win and you get nothing...

I did a search and was told I was a winner
A page opened with some gold coins
and then it froze
I waited and waited until I had to close the page

so, if I was a winner I magine PCH has my e mail right?

Why have they not sent me an e mail?

grrrrrr

I did a search and it told me I was a winner, some coins appeared and then the page froze.
I had to click off and lost the page.

grrrrrrr

Dude, I played search and win (search.pch.com I think the URL is) and won 50 bucks my first week. But it's all random. They admit their odds are several hundred BILLION to 1 of winning for most of their contests. Yes, they try to get you excited by telling you "you're in the final entry, " which is manipulative. BUT, they never tell you that you and several hundred thousand other people are in the final entry! Of course, if they did, you wouldn't stay around to watch the advertising that pays their salaries, so . . .

I also won a free movie ticket the other week (again, search.pch.com) but they haven't processed it yet.

Anyway, if you're talking about the scratch off, is this one where you had to match all three, or just two, as the complain implies? I know for many of their scratch offs, you have to match all three.

As for Dave, is is possible for you to dig up some articles for us? I'm not saying you're lying or are wrong, but I just don't trust everything I read online.

Also - most computers allow you to do screenshots! You can take a screenshot of the winning entry in case your computer crashes. On mac it's like command, shift, 3 all pressed at the same time.

If you know how to Print Screen, you can "print Screen ( then paste, in a blank email/or Microsft word OR any graphic programs, SAVE IT ASAP and save as draft ETC...then u have a copy of winning pix and send to PCH, and see what they say then, MAKE SURE U, KEEP THE COPY. I never won anything at all either, but after reading all this, i will know to hit Print screen on my key board, i imagine they have to pay, you will have proof then, *Don't E-mail first*, you will get run a round
send directly to PCH company certified /signiture requested any of them, then e mail, after a few days.. PCH and tell them you notified PCH by certified mail, due to PCH track record, blah.. blah...blah once the winning matches disappear then you have no proof, also send the whole print screen which will show the whole page. do not cut out ANYTHING. just an idea!
Let me know if it works!

Most games on the internet want 2 things from you -- Your Time and Your Money

There are no guarantees that you will win anything -- Much like a shell game

The more Popular a site is the higher the odds are of you winning anything

They are Advertising tools and Much Like a Casino They Don't Want You To Win !

yep i been playing i even order and never win i thake is fake to if not like them to prove it to me

I also won twice and when I e-mailed pch they told me I was not a winner even though I printed out the winning window and claim number. first time I participated in this and I feel it is the mother of all scams!