What will become of Publishers Clearing House? A Disabled Veteran Was Getting Publishers Clearing House Prize Money. Then the Company Went Bust.
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thought this was a come-on...they filed April 9th of this year.
aug 17, 2025, 3:41 am • 0 0 • view
Another buggy whip industry bites the dust.
aug 17, 2025, 3:16 am • 4 0 • view
Should have budgeted better.
aug 17, 2025, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Nobody’s buying magazine subscriptions anymore
aug 17, 2025, 2:13 am • 6 0 • view
There was that big house they always showed - built with a magazine money I believe - can they sell that?
aug 16, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 1 • view
I was Just on their site yesterday all is well.
aug 17, 2025, 11:25 am • 0 0 • view
This couple did receive $750,000 over the past 4 years. There should be something left of that to give them a great step forward, unlike all the fired PCH employees who just have to move on. Having trouble working up a ton of sympathy for the prize winners.
aug 17, 2025, 2:01 am • 17 0 • view
They shoulda called JG Wentworth & Associates. Just sayin.
aug 17, 2025, 3:15 am • 18 0 • view
ooh! good point!
aug 17, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
How do you know their situation? How would you like it if you were promised something and the corporation decided to not pay?
aug 17, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I have no idea what the title means.
aug 16, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Publishers Clearing House sold magazine subscriptions. They also ran a sweepstakes with large prizes awarded as annuities over many years. They went bankrupt, and the couple above, who won 4 years ago, probably won't get the rest of their prize money.
aug 17, 2025, 3:30 am • 3 0 • view
It used to be different. It was legit for a very long time. Then people started phone scamming, telling old people they were PCH and stealing all of their money, and PCH did/said nothing.
aug 17, 2025, 4:32 am • 5 0 • view
Back when they still sent out mailers on a regular basis, they were kinda legit. At least all you had to do was put a form in an envelope and mail it back. That said, there were rumors that if you didn't order a magazine your entry went in the magic circular file. 1/
aug 17, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
But when they went to computers instead it got so much worse. My mom asked me to fill it out once. It was sheer torture. It took like 20 minutes to get the damn thing submitted, constant ads, and half the screens felt like "this site gave my computer cancer" variety. 2/
aug 17, 2025, 6:20 am • 1 0 • view
And as others have noted, not doing anything about the scans sure AF didn't help them, either. 3/3
aug 17, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
I was a kid then and had the time to actually read those mailers. Unless you bought magazines, you were not entered. To enter without buying magazines, you had to get a postcard with all the right stickers from the mailer JUST RIGHT and send that in.
aug 17, 2025, 3:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Ah I see. That sucks 😞
aug 17, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view
I had no idea 🤷♀️ so very sad for these folks.
aug 17, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Jail the directors. It would change the world if directors of such entities had to at their debts and then were jailed. I’ll give free expert testimony.
aug 17, 2025, 7:39 am • 1 0 • view
had to at their debts
aug 18, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
Class action lawsuits let corporations literally get away with murder by paying the lawyers far more than the victims. If you held the executive who made the decisions to kill for profit criminality accountable, yep, this bullshit would stop.
aug 17, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
The got a 6 figure check for four years and it's all gone? WTF?
aug 17, 2025, 8:42 am • 10 0 • view
Nobody said that. They could have taken on a mortgage with 15 or 30 years of payments that rely on future payouts, a totally reasonable financial plan considering they had a contract. They might have to declare bankruptcy themselves to get out of this and end up worse than before they won.
aug 17, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously, have compassion. They’re not the bad guys, the corporation that reneged on its contract are the bad guys here.
aug 17, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
My son cant save money either, he lives like he's rich until the money runs out and he's begging for more.
aug 18, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re not listening
aug 18, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Thers something I've heard on more than one occasion, and maybe you have too: "A fool and his money are soon parted"
aug 18, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I know, right?
aug 17, 2025, 11:46 am • 1 0 • view
When a ponzi scheme ends.
aug 17, 2025, 10:56 am • 3 0 • view
'PCH'calls here twice a month and more. Seems we have had yuuge prize winnings waiting to be releaed to us- for the past 5+ years. Cars and Millions, if only I let their belligerent 'representative explain why we need to send a release form and processing fee. PCH died when they quit fighting scams.
aug 17, 2025, 3:08 am • 3 0 • view
Don’t rely on game schemes and gambling. Problem solved.
aug 17, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
And someone is supposed to feel sorry for them?
aug 17, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
any winners who got hundreds of thousands should be greatful, and yes, it sucks they didn't get the rest of what they were promised, but many of us aren't so lucky to have gotten 750K like they did, and think of the poor winners this last year or such, that got no checks despite thinking they were!
aug 17, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
This couple should be the first to be paid from their assets.
aug 17, 2025, 12:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Sucks but it's prize money, not income, "The prize payments... had given them the wherewithal to afford trips... a European anniversary getaway, a Christmas rail journey to Canada... and a concert in Las Vegas with their daughter. Losing the income so abruptly has forced them to scramble."- Very sad
aug 16, 2025, 2:24 pm • 13 1 • view
Oh no they can’t afford vacations and concerts. Let me get out my…damn all out of tiny violins again.
aug 16, 2025, 5:41 pm • 16 0 • view
What we have here is an ordinary hard-working American couple who happened to get lucky and win a sweepstakes, then got screwed by a corporation. With a contract promising certain regular payments they budgeted accordingly and now the contact isn’t being honored. People should have compassion.
aug 17, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
They probably won’t end up destitute but there’s a good chance they have a large mortgage with payments that depend on what they were promised. To get out of their obligations they will also have to declare bankruptcy. Their credit will be ruined, and they’ll likely end up poorer than they began.
aug 17, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
These people did nothing wrong and if you’re resentful of them because they were temporarily kinda rich (without exploiting workers) then the corporate class in this country are laughing at you for essentially turning on your own when a corporation screwed them.
aug 17, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view