• KingPet

KingPet

Overview

KingPet has a rating of 2.88 stars from 85 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about KingPet most frequently mention total scam problems. KingPet ranks 42nd among Dogs sites.

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    19
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    17
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    10
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    12
  • Quality
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Top Positive Review

“I really like Kingpet because it had games to play and was very entertaining.”

Adam B.
3/30/23

I like Kingpet because it has entertaining games to play such as the Kingpet mini game. I also liked seeing all of the other cute dogs and voting for them. However, I had to give this review a 4 out of 5 because you can pay money for your dog to have votes. I do not think this is very fair but the app is still adicting and fun.

Top Critical Review

“I Want the Money that I Won”

Karen G.
2/14/24

My cat was the winner of a KingPet contest last year. My winnings were $3,429. I submitted everything they asked for to claim my winnings. They sent me a message that I didn't qualify for any winnings. No explanation as to why. No way to contact anyone for an explanation. Just a computer generated message, saying basically, you're not getting anything, go away.

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Thumbnail of user kareng3084
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 14th, 2024

My cat was the winner of a KingPet contest last year. My winnings were $3,429. I submitted everything they asked for to claim my winnings. They sent me a message that I didn't qualify for any winnings. No explanation as to why. No way to contact anyone for an explanation. Just a computer generated message, saying basically, you're not getting anything, go away.

Thumbnail of user stoneygreen
1 review
4 helpful votes
December 27th, 2023

I had my yorkie in this contest
You have to pay pretty much to win. I invest several hundred dollars and was in top 5 when the kicked us off the contest. They took my money and then through us out
And gave absolutely no reason for doing so!

Don't put your money into this they will steal it!

Tip for consumers:
Screw these con artist
Bunch of scanners

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Thumbnail of user an87
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
April 11th, 2023
Verified purchase

Fun contest, but cash prize only goes to Regional winner. We were 2nd in our state and received 800 votes, however in the beginning we were under the impression the 1st-10th place state winners won a cash prize because of how the prize grid was laid out.

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Thumbnail of user veltyedwina
1 review
2 helpful votes
November 30th, 2023

Ce site pratique l abus de pouvoir, il se prevaut d etre gratuit, tres vite il vous accuse de faux comptes sans preuves, leur service client est incompétent,, vous rendent invisible dans vos commentaires, reduisent sans explications un concours de base de 21 jours a 6 jours pour booster les achats de votes bref sous prétexte d un concours qu il manipule de a a z, ne font rien contre les joueurs qui vous arnaquent et rsstent presents sur leur site,, n y perdez pas de temps, ni d argent! Dommage pour plusieurs participants qui sont honnêtes et de bonne foi et qui se font littéralement arnaquer...

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Thumbnail of user debbiem1726
4 reviews
10 helpful votes
November 12th, 2023
• Updated review

The closer you get to the end of the contest, the harder to win. You MUST purchase votes! People who cannot afford it will not win. These people use that money to support their stupid contests. You can literally see the massive jumps in some people's votes overnight. That's not from honest voting, it's from $$$$$$$
Not wasting my time again with this shady company!

I'm not sure this is very legit
November 4th, 2023
• Previous review

How is it someone can just buy votes for their pet and take the win? Many people cannot afford to do that. Maybe prefer to win by their pet getting legitimate votes!
Not fair at all.

Thumbnail of user elizabethl618
1 review
10 helpful votes
March 1st, 2023

I entered the contest that just ended on 2/28/2023 and after being stupid enough to purchase votes, my dog got 1st in my state yet, there was no actual REAL money won; instead, I got 1,000 free votes for the next contest. This is a joke and obviously a scam. I had read that people's dogs won first or second in their state, winning almost $200 and yet I was dumb enough to spend more money that was basically just thrown away. It gives you false hope and excitement listing you're first through third in your state (Region) because you don't win any money. What a joke! I feel So stupid for paying as much money as I did, be smart and don't learn the hard way that I did, You all are SCAMMERS!

Thumbnail of user bertw44
1 review
8 helpful votes
April 13th, 2022

It's pay-to-win, whoever pays KingPet wins. Just that simple. Also there is zero information on how to collect your winnings if you do "win". The money all just goes to KingPet, it's such a blatantly obvious scam I'm amazed they're still around but I guess there's a sucker born every minute.

Tip for consumers:
Use your free vote but don't give them any money. Be aware that whoever pays the most for votes will win, so it's pointless to even vote.

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This site is a voting site. For free you get one vote. If you pay you get more votes the more you pay. It's absolutely paying KingPet to increase votes, there is no real return - if you "win" a contest by spending $5000 you only get like $200. It's a total scam. Little information on the site as to how to collect, no oversight to prevent vote trading which is rampant. Just a flat out scam.

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Thumbnail of user lindae1281
1 review
2 helpful votes
April 7th, 2022

Initially, it was fun to unlock achievements, see the other pets pics and meet other pet owners. Once you realize the only way to actually rack up votes (you can only vote for your own pet 10 times in 24 hours) is to "exchange" votes with hardcore players in the other contests (there is a huge worldwide network of contests for pets, babies and children), it becomes so stressful and a full time job! I spent literally 32 1/2 hours on it last week! Many players say they want to exchange, then don't after they already have your votes. All this to win $50 or $100? Not worth it AT ALL!

Tip for consumers:
Unless you have a huge support system who can vote everyday, work tirelessly and drum up votes for you, you will never win anything on this site.

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Thumbnail of user ladyr27
1 review
6 helpful votes
April 11th, 2023

You people need to be shut down for the way you conduct business. Dishonest Thieves!
My pup supposedly won $50 from the contest but they want access to your PayPal granted to them firsts while you submit two forms of documentation to them.
Simply BS, we didn't need to submit or grant access for votes. Smh ‍
I hate thievery!

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Thumbnail of user adamb1819
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 30th, 2023

I like Kingpet because it has entertaining games to play such as the Kingpet mini game. I also liked seeing all of the other cute dogs and voting for them. However, I had to give this review a 4 out of 5 because you can pay money for your dog to have votes. I do not think this is very fair but the app is still adicting and fun.

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Thumbnail of user dn165
1 review
7 helpful votes
November 17th, 2022

After developing relationships & trustworthy trades, they have started messing with people's accounts. They constantly lock them & don't allow you to place free votes. Don't kid yourself, they just want your money. As soon as you get ahead, they lock you out. No customer service to contact to help you. Invade your privacy asking fir documents they should not need for a "fun" little contest.

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Thumbnail of user crystall548
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 12th, 2023

I entered my baby Bear in there contest and it gave me a chance to see all the different colors and breeds around the world.

Tip for consumers:
You won’t be disappointed in any way.

Thumbnail of user jane222
1 review
1 helpful vote
October 9th, 2023
Verified purchase

Do you guys not look over your own website and the contestants aka the dogs and cats profiles in your own contest? Y'all need quality control employees to look ever the cats/dogs that win the contest over and over again. It's always the same winners and if you look at their profiles it's riddled with people that are exchanging votes which wouldn't be annoying if it weren't for the fact that there are people with an obnoxious amount of multiple profiles and they don't even hide it! Because when they leave votes they reply to their own comments from their other accounts to let the contestant know the fulfilled X amount of votes… It's right there out in the open that these people are cheating and they're basically mocking you and your terms and conditions which you guys clearly don't care about as long as these people are spending money on your site… They are mocking all other participants trying to play fair by making it known for everyone to see that they are creating a bunch of bogus accounts to get votes… That's not okay. Also if someone wins a contest they shouldn't be allowed to participate in the next round… at least to give everyone a fair chance of winning. I do find looking at all the adorable pets a ton of fun and it's a good way to pass the time but held very unfair in many ways. Also find it strange that everytime my pets would rank up in my state a new cat comes out of nowhere and out ranks them just one spot ahead but with enough votes to make it hard to catch up without buying votes… and if you do catch up and pass them by getting enough people to vote, when you come back a couple hours later BOOM there's either a new cat or the cat that you just passed up magically got exactly 1000 more votes… It's also crazy to me that when I logged into my account when I was in incognito mode on chrome it wouldn't let me vote due to risk of ip/bot voter fraud yet you have people with 10+ profiles with exact same name, same pets listed with same pictures blantintlt cheating and their votes aren't blocked? And i wasn't tryna cheat i just wanted some privacy on my browser which incognito mode doesn't hide a users ip address btw yet that wasn't allowed…

Anywho… go vote for my sphynx twins Charlie & Luna. They're the only kids I'll ever need. Maybe I can win this contest for once so I can use the money on their vet bills. No fake crazy sad sob story here like other users use to phish for votes. Yearly vet check up bills are just hella expensive yo…. LOL
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Thumbnail of user sarat250
1 review
6 helpful votes
February 9th, 2021

Total scam we entered king pet and found out after the contest started that it was a total scam my kids were exited at first but then got really disappointed because our cat was in 365 place. And you can vote for yourself so that's how people earn first place and if you want lots of votes you have to pay.don't take the chance!

Thumbnail of user preciouss31
1 review
5 helpful votes
December 27th, 2022
Verified purchase

I was scrolling past social media one day and came across kingpet to enter my cat in a contest, I was so excited to enter in since I've never done anything like this before. Little did I know, I started to wonder why my cat hasn't been racking up votes like the top competitors have and realized that a big majority of them exchange votes with other players, buy their own votes, win votes through achievements, and vote for their own pet. This thing became addicting and I would check on it every other day to every day. Placing in votes whenever I could. At first it started off small with me donating my own money to get votes and then i started making bigger purchases. I bought more votes than the amount I could actually won. At the fifth day before the contest was over I stopped buying votes because I knew buying more would defeat the purpose of winning money when the amount spent would be nearly the same as the amount won. For the record, buying votes is expensive and it's a total gamble. This game is basically a game of who has the deepest pockets. A couple hours before the game ends, and multiple other competitors are fighting over first place and the temporary first place winner is constantly being replaced by someone else. I could've just bought something else more useful to me with the money I spent or saved it but I learned the hard way that nothing in life is free. If it were an honest game and no one can buy votes, exchange, and vote for your own pet it probably would've gotten a better review. The whole website is super enticing for someone who doesn't know any better. There's a big trend of competitors with a major sob story so don't fall for it. The money even takes 15 days to process once they have the documents they need: ID and proof of residence plus PayPal account

Tip for consumers:
It’s a scam

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Thumbnail of user angelae995
1 review
5 helpful votes
December 10th, 2022

As shown on the site I should have won a cash prize. After winners were announced I waited to be contacted, only to receive a notification that I was awarded votes for the next contest. Many friends paid for votes to get me to the goal and this company is saying this is how their policy works and I will not receive prize money nor a refund. False advertisement. Do Not Pay for votes.

Tip for consumers:
Do Not Buy votes to win cash.

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Thumbnail of user jorginen
1 review
3 helpful votes
February 10th, 2023

Having to buy votes to keep your pet in the competition is a joke, and if you win money
You are more than likely to have paid more money out for the votes than what you actually win. Then you have to show three forms of ID just to get your money.that's ridiculous.

Tip for consumers:
Scam

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Thumbnail of user leroyh113
1 review
4 helpful votes
September 11th, 2022

Apply votes towards end of contest so your dog doesn't win. Changes prizes throughout. Rip off do not trust

Tip for consumers:
Do not use it'd a scam

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Thumbnail of user jodyl140
1 review
5 helpful votes
September 17th, 2022

I have investigated this website as part of my job and company funds. This business needs shut down! The "winners" are consistently the SAME accounts and unless you spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars, there's no way to get more votes than these accounts. A few of these account owners seem to be related to or connected to the owners of the company, Playground.

Furthermore, when you start getting enough votes to get close to having more than the regular winning accounts, the website either won't let you login or they start cheating you out of votes, even the ones that you purchase!

Don't waste your time or money! I am unable to login now. I get a response saying "too many login requests, try again in a few minutes". It's been 3 days. The contest I'm in ends in 3 days. I suspect I'll get access after it ends so there's no way for me to win this current contest.

Tip for consumers:
DON'T GET SCAMMED ON THIS SITE!

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Thumbnail of user deboraha442
1 review
10 helpful votes
September 3rd, 2020

So I've had my Dog in the Dog Padgent for at least the last 4 to 5 Padgent and in the state part the same person has won for the last 4 of them. So I the support system about this and they said has of last year that put a limit on the world competition bit not the State on. Well to me that's very unfair so after this competition is over I'm done I'm deleteing my account with them. It just doesn't seem right to me for them to let them same person win this will be the 5 or 6 time now. Just doesn't seem right to me.

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Thumbnail of user janicej148
1 review
11 helpful votes
May 6th, 2020

I understand the premise of this site and think the pets are adorable. I have not entered any pets into this. I find the whole idea of buying votes terrible and ridiculous. I don't understand the trading votes either. I just feel this is a very unfair contest. Someone who just won the dog photo, was bragging that she spent 5000. 00 to win 2000. 00 I'm just letting other people know this.

Thumbnail of user morgana49
1 review
9 helpful votes
May 15th, 2019

I seriously just want to have fun & show off our adorable Ragdoll/ Siamese purring snuggle kitten, Pangur Bán. #mc_comickitty
This is about having fun playing a game & checking out the pictures & stories of other adorable pets.
There should not be a charge to get more votes. Why do you offer that option?

Thumbnail of user lindaz268
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 18th, 2020

I enjoy sharing my cat and grand dog with others and trying to win! It is a cute site for animal lovers!

Thumbnail of user michelleq144
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
March 22nd, 2021

This company has committed fraud on 4 of my credit cards, I have not a problem paying for what I purchased but not for fraudulent activity after the contest is done. I'm disabled and going to the State Attorney General and the BBB to get them investigated for fraud. Don't give any credit information to them, they even got to cards that I have never used. Be careful please.

Tip for consumers:
Stay away from the company that stealing your money

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Thumbnail of user rozinab
10 reviews
50 helpful votes
April 5th, 2020

So i saw kingpet on an ad on Facebook once, i entered my two cats that had no votes at the start to end. I entered them again and it was fun unlocking achievements to use as votes for them, i still didn't win anything they ranked around 600 etc.

I entered them again and i shared the link on social media and to my family and friends, i told them to keep voting 10 times a day. My brother bought votes for my kitten and she ended up in 1st place.
Everything went down hill after that. The second place person bought votes and became 1st again. They were trying to get money for their poorly pet but they were using their own money to buy votes so it made no sense, plus i dont like people trying to get sympathy votes there is a vast amount of people with luxury cats that they apparently found and was about to die etc all for votes basically. I then bought votes and we both ended up in this rage to win, i bought votes they bought votes and it continued to the last minute of the competition till they gave up. I just wanted to be 1st for once as the 2nd place person had already won 1st place with their other cat. It was unfair. I must have spent a good £500 or more and they must have too. So we both lost out on winning money. My kitten won 1st place and id say i got some of my money back from the winnings. A refund is how i look at it. The rules with kingpet is that if you win 1st place you cannot enter again until 60 days have passed. I think it should be a year! Otherwise you can keep entering and the cycle of buying votes to be 1st place continues. Sounds like gambling right? Well thats because it is, it is not a friendly competition if you are competing with people by buying votes.

King pet also known as Playground Inc has a capital of $210.000. Then again thats how they make money, when you buy votes, they own various websites from baby pagents to beauty pagents and pet pagents etc. What a good business. I applaud the couple who came up with this business to be honest.

So anyway, my kitten won and i was short on my winnings to which i sent 11 emails to them until they understood they underpaid me, that's now sorted.

If you win they require ID such as a passport, i can see why, its so that you dont enter within 60 days again under a different user and a different pet etc, if you do and win again, you give your ID again and they will see you already won. So you dont win the money again.

If you enter your pet its a good publicity thing, problem is you need to be in the top 20 to get your pets image used on their social media pages.

You can enter your pet without purchasing votes, though unless you are a celebrity or have a fan base i dont see anyone else voting for you without the need to buy votes to remain 1st place.

Theres also alot of exchange votes with other competitors when they have exhausted their daily limit on their own pet.

Overall its good fun until you buy votes and your gambling phase starts.

Its nice to see other people's pets and i have voted for some of them in the new competition, its nice to see the range of pets to which my husband and i have seen a few breeds we didn't know about and now want one haha i dont think we would be buying anytime soon, i could have used that money to buy another pet but i gambled it, oh well.

Good luck to those who have or want to enter.

I now have a beautiful certificate that i will frame and a loss of £100 or more. It was fun though im done and wont be entering again, this is the appropriate thing to do that some people don't understand, it's to give others a chance to win, even if they make a loss but end up 1st place. Its nice to have a certificate at the end of it...

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KingPet is a Free Photo Competition for dogs, cats and all sorts of other animals! Participate and vote to win up many gifts each month!

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