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PCH - Mindblown - Ed McMahon never worked for them or gave out GIANT checks!
Posted on 1/10/22 at 8:55 am
Posted on 1/10/22 at 8:55 am
this feels like the sears pension plan that sunk that company. how in the world can PCH still afford to run millionaire sweepstakes every single year? i couldn't tell you the last time i paid for a magazine.
even mcdonalds only runs promotions once every 4-5 years and i would think they're still doing a bang up job selling burgers.
Also this is going to blow your mind...Ed McMahon never worked for PCH
Forbes
even mcdonalds only runs promotions once every 4-5 years and i would think they're still doing a bang up job selling burgers.
Also this is going to blow your mind...Ed McMahon never worked for PCH
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Ed McMahon never worked for Publishers Clearing House. He was a spokesman for American Family Publishers. McMahon never left the studio to ambush families, and he never held a giant check.
Similarly, Publishers Clearing House never hired a celebrity to serve as a spokesperson, and it was the Prize Patrol, not McMahon, that showed up on doorsteps with a giant check.
quote:
Publishers Clearing House really didn’t make any real effort to correct this misconception. “It was kind of a blessing. It was free advertising since people thought McMahon was working for us,” says Sloane. “It certainly didn’t hurt us.” And as a result, the association between McMahon and Publishers Clearing House became an enduring myth. “It was the combination of the well-established company and the well-established spokesperson,” says Sloane.
Forbes
This post was edited on 1/10/22 at 10:49 am
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Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:06 am to CAD703X
I just saw a commercial for them the other day. Never looked in to what they are. Do they sell a product?
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:10 am to CAD703X
Man, that crap is such a scam preying on dumb poor people. I remember back in the 90's they got in trouble for the shite they would send in the mail. My mom got one one time that wanted her to draw a map of her house and the streets around it so the prize patrol van could find it to deliver the check. 
All that shite went straight to the trash.
All that shite went straight to the trash.
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:11 am to CAD703X
I don’t even know what they do
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:21 am to CAD703X
LINK
They are apparently real, but also they are more powerball winners than PCH winners. They are making money off of very poor people entering every day for 30 years. Or...something. That money doesnt make itself.
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PCH runs a variety of big creative presentation sweepstakes that give away millions of dollars every year. Those prizes are fairly awarded as advertised. But the PCH giveaways are so famous and so many people enter them that the odds of winning are exceptionally long—about 2.4 billion to one to win the SuperPrize.
Your odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are better. You're also significantly more likely to die in an asteroid strike,?? become a movie star,?? or be drafted by the NBA.
They are apparently real, but also they are more powerball winners than PCH winners. They are making money off of very poor people entering every day for 30 years. Or...something. That money doesnt make itself.
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:24 am to MightyYat
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Man, that crap is such a scam preying on dumb poor people. I remember back in the 90's they got in trouble for the shite they would send in the mail. My mom got one one time that wanted her to draw a map of her house and the streets around it so the prize patrol van could find it to deliver the check.
All that shite went straight to the trash.
My sister was convinced she was going to win the annuity or whatever they are giving away now. They've turned into a massive email spam operation.
I looked into it a few years ago and it seemed like they were sending shitloads of emails with contest entries, like billions, to people who signed up and the entries had to be validated on their website, so they got the ad clicks. But most of the entries went unvalidated so when they picked a winning entry, the odds were it was an unvalidated one so they didn't have to pay out. Maybe they've changed but that's what they were doing a few years ago.
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:26 am to Rhio
Also if you win anything it's paid out in a long annuity.
If you win $1m you'll bet like $20k a year for 50 years. Lol
If you win $1m you'll bet like $20k a year for 50 years. Lol
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:50 am to Rhio
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PCH runs a variety of big creative presentation sweepstakes that give away millions of dollars every year. Those prizes are fairly awarded as advertised. But the PCH giveaways are so famous and so many people enter them that the odds of winning are exceptionally long—about 2.4 billion to one to win the SuperPrize.
Your odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are better. You're also significantly more likely to die in an asteroid strike,?? become a movie star,?? or be drafted by the NBA.
They are apparently real, but also they are more powerball winners than PCH winners. They are making money off of very poor people entering every day for 30 years. Or...something. That money doesnt make itself.
well that makes sense. i just assumed they gave out millions every year but it sounds like its a never ending cycle of mail/email baiting.
This post was edited on 1/10/22 at 9:55 am
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:51 am to CAD703X
The commercials irrationally piss off my 95 year old Grandpa
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:53 am to CAD703X
Lol, the check amount is actually 10 billion
Posted on 1/10/22 at 9:56 am to CAD703X
It's paid our annually and not transferable.
Posted on 1/10/22 at 11:47 am to Tempratt
Does nobody even know who Ed McMahon is anymore or just nobody cares?
Posted on 1/10/22 at 11:52 am to CAD703X
You are correct, sir
Posted on 1/10/22 at 12:00 pm to John Coctostan
Posted on 1/10/22 at 12:04 pm to CAD703X
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Ed McMahon never worked for Publishers Clearing House. He was a spokesman for American Family Publishers. McMahon never left the studio to ambush families, and he never held a giant check.
Posted on 1/10/22 at 12:05 pm to CAD703X
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PCH - Mindblown - Ed McMahon never worked for them or gave out GIANT checks!
In other news, the Holy Roman Empire wasn't holy, Roman, nor an empire.
Posted on 1/10/22 at 12:08 pm to CAD703X
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Mindblown - Ed McMahon never worked for them or gave out GIANT checks!
...but he did do that for a different company with a similar name.
Posted on 1/10/22 at 12:13 pm to ducktale
quote:That's a bunch of clips from TV shows that got it wrong. That's not evidence.
A smattering of counter evidence. Watch it before the powers that be scrub it from existence.
Posted on 1/10/22 at 12:33 pm to Jake88
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That's a bunch of clips from TV shows that got it wrong
Yeah I mean if everyone in the world says it happened but one guy says it didn't, clearly the whole world is wrong, right?
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