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| May hope rise in you, like the sun on this beautiful January day. |
I am starting to agree with Amy. Although I do win at least one dollar, two dollars, even up to twelve dollars on the scratch-offs often, I am not landing any sweepstakes wins. I get emails from them every day, alerting me to all the winnings that are imminent if I just do X, Y and Z.
Publisher's Clearing House is the WORST! Every single day I get multiple emails from them, asking me to use their search engine to be entered into some new, awesome, huge sweepstakes. One day it was because my initials we MB, and someone with those initials was going to win big. Today I received this exciting news:
They lay it on pretty thick; a FORTUNE, CASH ON THE SPOT, IMPERATIVE. I feel swindled and lied to, their graphics alone tell me that nobody is winning anything. And I didn't even give them any money or buy any of the damn magazine subscriptions they inundate you with when you enter, and still I feel like they got the best of me. Like I am a rat on the wheel of their money making scheme.Dear Melissa Baumgart,When you search today, you will be assigned a SuperPrize® Number in the winner selection range!Only a SuperPrize Number in the winner selection range can win a life-changing Publishers Clearing House fortune, awarded by the Prize Patrol on February 29th!Search now to enter and ensure conveyance of a SuperPrize Number in the winner selection range to YOU, Melissa Baumgart.Plus, when you search you could even win a PCHSearch&Win instant cash prize. Melissa, your prompt action could win you cash on the spot!Time is of the essence because Publishers Clearing House will soon be taking a "Special Early Look" for a SuperPrize winner from Giveaway No. 1830. You could Win $1 Million Every Year For Life in just weeks, but in order to be in the running, it's imperative that you enter. Waste no time, search now.Good luck!
I can't help but think I have better things to spend my time on than clicking to win, filling out long surveys for a chance to win $1,000 or more (or less), and searching endlessly online for more things to win. I really had high hopes for this month, and I am reminded again of my idealistic nature. I always assume that I will win, that I will succeed and prevail. So far, that is rarely true (poker, bowling, trapeze). In the end, I am thankful that I still maintain a positive and hopeful outlook every month.
And 'til the end of January, I will also maintain my sweepstakes entering. You never know, right? (here I go again.) They have to show up at someone's door! When I am not wasting my time filling out entries, you better believe I'll be in front of the mirror freshening up for my big TV debut. Good thing I have been flossing, so when I smile from ear to ear with my huge check in my hand, I won't have spinach from my smoothie all stuck in my teeth.
-Melissa
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Eek! That does not sound like fun. I don't like entering drawings and such that require that I DO a bunch of stuff. Drives me crazy...
Have you guys tried Swagbucks? I use their toolbar for normal, everyday searching and win points once every day or two. Those points add up and I buy Amazon gift cards with them. I average one $5 gift card every month for doing nothing but using their search engine. I've opted out of most of their emails so I receive one newsletter a week. That's it.
Good luck sticking it out the rest of the month!
Cassandra,
I'll look into Swagbucks. Thanks! Sounds simple and effortless.
-Melissa
Melissa,
I came across your blog in a search result on Google. I see that your post is from the beginning of the year, I was just curious if you are you still entering? I voted for the PCH Giveback for St. Jude's and I have been entering since. I have been getting annoyed at their messaging. I am realistic about the odds but I feel similar to you about their messaging tactics. Why should you have to click through products and ads to enter a sweepstake? Why don't they guarantee the prize they advertise? I also haven't purchased anything from them. I've always been hesitant of them because of their reputation but I figure, it wouldn't hurt to enter since it is free and I actually also did win twice on PCH slots($5 twice) since entering. I feel though like why am I doing this? Actually, I just unfriended them, I became a PCH superfan. I wasn't sure I wanted associated on my facebook page originally but thought well what if I won, I could double my prize and I end up feeling somehow pathetic for entering?!?! It's weird. I'm not throwing away money like on the lottery(poor man's tax), and yet somehow the whole process makes me feel cheap and like a loser. I am also college educated. It's hard to describe it but you have summed up how I feel. Also, I too was thinking well maybe I should just keep entering until the next draw date, just in case. Then I am like OMG what am I thinking?? I think I am just going to stop entering. Wondering if you did or not? Hopefully you see this and update. Sorry for going on and on...L
OK PCH I'm going to give it a try, I'm going to do my Best! I'm soooo really looking forward to becoming your Winner on Feb. 28th 2014, this would be a GREAT HONOR!!!!!!!!! Wish me luck.... $1,000,000.00 A Year "Forever", oh yes....
I am beginning to feel the same way. Every day dozen emails with instructions. I am sure someone wins but its not me and probably won't be. I believe, but this is getting to be bore some. I have bought a few items, not magazines I have enough of them coming in my home. AT NO COST. I am about to give up. Good luck to the person or persons that do win.
PCH would u be so kind and Activate-register 1830/3080 Win $5/k A Week, " Forever" Prize on February 28, 2013, pls pls Activate, thnx Pauline....
I just hope i get luckly
PCH i want to Win $5,000.00 A Week "Forever" on Aug. 29th gwy no. 3080.... Make me ur New Winner!!!!!!!!
How come poor people like me never win?
Please let me win so I can get a lawyerfor my son.
I wish I could win so my husband csn retire. Hes worked so hard through the years.
I would love to winn the lotery
I have finually learned how to scearch now I pray I win.
Im having a hard time noing if im entered in thre sweeps.
I do believe that they have a winner sometimes, but in all reality who are they kidding they want you to subscribe to so much or subscribe with one of the millions of offers in order to win. I think its just a bunch of BS and they have nothing better to do than to get peoples hopes up high with all the damn emails, the games, scratch offs and more fuckery. I played one game and reached 1,000 points like it said to do to win $250,but after I reached the goal there was no $250 coming to me and the points wouldn't let me go over 1,00.
I have entered, and I was told my entry is confirmed, but then every day I am getting e-mails that tell me to do this and do that or you will lose your chance to win $7000 a week for life. What? This is very deceptive! I always had hoped they were on the up and up. It doesn't appear to be true :(
PCH i want to be on the winner selection range list to win the 7,000.00 aweek for life from gwy no 4900 on April 30th
Wow someone posted that they really won a few dollars. Really Someone actually won some cash? I am in awe. You know at this point in this game i would be grateful for a few dollars, might keep me going... ha ha ha
The emails that stated I'd be assigned a number in the winning range made me realize that PCH probably also assigns numbers in the GUARANTEED LOSING RANGE MOST OF THE TIME 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 PERCENT OF THE TIME UNTIL THEY DECIDE TO LET SOMEONE WIN SO THEY CAN ENTICE MORE PEOPLE TO JOIN UP ON THEIR SUCKER LIST!
Yes I want to be the next pch winner for the forever prize Feb 26 5,000 a week for life pch gwy no. 4900 thanks God bless
Yes I want to be the next pch winner for the forever prize Feb 26 5,000 a week for life pch gwy no. 4900 thanks God bless
Hi there all i want to win i want to help my family. I would like to win something. But i dont have computer just a little phone doiing all i can. I want to complete compliance..6900 help 7000 a week for life. I am in it please help me. Faith
Hi there all i want to win i want to help my family. I would like to win something. But i dont have computer just a little phone doiing all i can. I want to complete compliance..6900 help 7000 a week for life. I am in it please help me. Faith
Douglas Rogers October 3rd I would love to win the $7,000 to $5,000 for Life price on October 21st it would change my family and my life I have always dreamed of opportunity to be rich I guess everyone have thank you for the chance and hoping that I am the winner on October 21st
I'm here I high hope to become the next big PCH winner of 5k or 7k AWFL I AM counting down the days to October 21st for the special early look hoping to here a "knock knock" on my door. Good Luck to everyone participating in the Sweepstakes.
I'm here I high hope to become the next big PCH winner of 5k or 7k AWFL I AM counting down the days to October 21st for the special early look hoping to here a "knock knock" on my door. Good Luck to everyone participating in the Sweepstakes.
I'm sure all of you have noticed that in at least the past three years NOBODY wins the "forever" prize on PCH's "special early looks." This is just a scam to keep the promotion going for a year until they HAVE to give the "mega prize" away. And have you read their "Winner's Circle: blog? My god, how can some of these people be so naïve, stupid, idiotic? Telling their sob stories and thinking PCH gives a you-know-what about them! P.T. Barnum was right--there IS "a sucker born every minute!"
Douglas Rogers I hope to be publishing clearing house next winner on December 23rd I'm hoping and praying that this be true thank you for the opportunity Publishing Clearing House.
I Agree
Yea we all get the same shit. Day after day after day. Yea, I'm sure they'll get to someone's door. I'm pretty sure it won't be my door. The only way to win here is to not play. You actually have better odds playing the power ball loto. Really. At least the Powerball people or site dont nag you or threaten you with a chance of denial. You know, if you dont keep pulling that rope for me I might never get to your door. How about an honest contest. Where you enter once and dont have to wade through the bargain bin garbage. The only way to send the folks at PCH a winning message is to not play.
I have not seen one winner in Northern Ca.
Especially Roseville. I think PCH is a scam. Now they have Steve Harvey pushing this on TV.
I have not seen one winner in Northern Ca.
Especially Roseville. I think PCH is a scam. Now they have Steve Harvey pushing this on TV.
Adding Steve Harvey to this sham is so silly. He fits right in to the game. He is not someone who is trustworthy to the public. What a crock of poop!
Gotta call BS on the initial comment from Melissa. Sounds completely made up. You Can not win $1 or $2, $12 on their scratch offs. Especially not often. Been playing the PCH crap for over 40 years. That's well before they were on line. I won $10 about 4 years ago. No explanation for it either. No certificate accompanied the check, like it shows happening on the winners' page on the site. I suspect that they lost yet another class action and had to have winners, so they just mailed out a bunch of false winner claims. Because when I got that I was reading messages on blogs like this, and discovered that a lot of people right around the same time had received the same amount, and with the same circumstances. PCH is just a huge time vampire.
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