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I am very turned off with Publishers Clearing House because I ordered a special adhesive that is to be used to seal rips, tears, hems, etc in fabrics and while waiting for this order they sent me a free gift.

Free gift my ###. I never asked for this supposedly free gift which they felt they should charge me $4.99 for shipping it to me.

The box when I got it in the mail was not marked as having this free gift in it so I opened it thinking that it was this special adhesive. In the box the note said my adhesive was backordered but they were happy to send me this free gift with the condition that I send them the $4.99 in shipping charges for it.

I will no longer buy anything from them when they send me the contest envelopes because they only want me to buy products from them at outrages amounts of money. They list their products at a certain amount which seems reasonable until you check closer and find out that it's several more additional payments of that amount.

I am also tired of paying high shipping and handling charges sometimes more than the cost of the item I am buying.

From now on their mail will go in the garbage.

Thanks for letting me inform others of this scam.

Location: Chicago, Illinois

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Cira Qhb

No one is saying what the $30 gift is!

Guest

This happened to us. We ordered rugs that we have to return because they have no rubber backing and they are dangerously slippery in the bathroom.

They sent a FREE gift and charged shipping charges. The free gift is something you would give a 12-year old. It is stupid an useless to us, and we have to pay shipping? I would think this is illegal to send us something we DID NOT ORDER and charge us.

I am returning everything and telling them to cancel all charges. We have not paid them yet, thankfully.

I will never order from them again. I have been thinking of calling the consumer affairs government office because they are doing this to everyone.

Janaria Qbk

got a free gift from PCH shop don,t see anything want order in past got,never got I ordered blue tin set cowboy cups I have the coffee pot no cups,got $30.00 shop info Jeff Schwersinske 12250 w north ave Milwaukee Wi 53226

Guest

I was dumbfounded when I got my order from PCH! What was supposed to be a $25 order including s&h was over $35 because they included a surprise gift (worth maybe $1.75) for which they charged an addition $5.49 for shipping and handling!

They had also increased the price of the original item by five dollars! I would have sent it back but I faced a dilemma of paying $11 for nothing or biting the bullet and keeping the junk I ordered!

Guest

The same happened to me. Promised to refund.

Still waiting!!!!! Cannot trust PCH!!!!

Duan Tco

All PCH is just a bunch of *** I have the app and I've played all their games and watched a million AD's!! I have also redeemed my tokens in exchange for entries in their drawings!

I've won NOTHING! I HAD OVER 24,000 ENTRIES in one drawing but haven't won a thing except unwanted SPAM EMAIL, PHONE CALLS, AND TONS OF AGGRAVATING NOTIFICATIONS ON MY CELL PHONE! So PCH gets paid for every ad we watch but I sure as *** haven't got anything but a hard time from them!

I don't know anyone that has won from Publisher's Clearing House!!!!!!! They claim to have winners every 5 minutes but that's *** !!

Anonymous
reply icon Replying to comment of Duan Tco

Yeah, BrainyLlama209, and so is me too when I've won NOTHING back on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 because, instead, I got scammed and ripped off.

Guest

Same for us here in state of Georgie July 2019. "free gift" was cheap Chinese made kitchen stuff.

Wrote note back telling PCH that we were not going to pay the tax and shipping cost for "Free" gift. If they want it back they could send us postage for return of gift PLUS extra funds for the aggregation we went thru.

Wonder how many people have just paid for it. It's a scam and they have lost another customer.

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1710907

If you have to pay anything for postage and handling on it, then it's not free. You are paying for it, and you are paying way more for it than it is worth. They should send that stuff for free to all of the vip elite players who waste so much time playing their games and entering their sweepstakes everyday.

Duan Tco
reply icon Replying to comment of Guest-1711249

Exactly! I swear I've wasted so much of my time on watching ads all for nothing! I don't know anyone who has one a damn thing from them!

Anonymous
reply icon Replying to comment of Duan Tco

Yeah, and so is me too.

Guest

What the frick is the free gift!

Guest

u never said what the mystery gift was

Guest

Please tell me. What was the free gift?zoeycoen@***.com

Jadon Sqr

The same happened to me. Its not a free gift when you have to pay for the shipping.

I will not longer deal with Publishers Clearing House on ANY level! Trash

Marrie Vsy

I just received free gift in same package as something I did actually order, and was charged 2 separate S&H charges. the free Gift wasn't worth half of S&H, though it was a mystery gift valued at $30.00. Lucky Me $11.00 in S&H

Guest
reply icon Replying to comment of Marrie Vsy

Me, too. Do I have to pay the extra since I did not ask for it?

Guest

I order a stuffy could have got local for $10 I paid $17+ with the promise of 25 dollar gift,I got product no mention of the gift I did click on to receive it.

Guest

I had the same thing happen. When I ordered pens around $11.

They added the free gift. Total came to over $22.

Rip - offs. Guess I'll throw their stuff away too in the future.

Guest

*** pch

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