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KingPet

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KingPet is an online pet photo contest for dogs and cats, where owners can share their favorite pictures, collect votes, and compete for prizes in a fun and friendly community.

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Germany
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Great Fun!
August 22, 2020

Awesome exoerience! So many different animals from all over the world! Great prizes and overall great fun!

Date of experience: August 20, 2020
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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RIP OFF!
August 13, 2020

Buying votes is no way to win a contest! Neither is exchanged votes. You gotta be independently wealthy to win! Same dogs time after time!

Date of experience: August 13, 2020
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Amazing!
June 29, 2020

I actually received the money! It is really good and fun! I love seeing the other puppies! You can vote for free as well! It is legit

Date of experience: June 27, 2020
Michigan
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Thumbs Down
May 6, 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.

Date of experience: May 6, 2020
Delaware
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Cheaters
April 16, 2020

They allow cheating to drive up the Jack pot, and some contest can buy votes while others are not allowed. This contest needs to be shut down

Date of experience: April 16, 2020
GB
9 reviews
50 helpful votes
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My honest review
April 5, 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...

Date of experience: April 5, 2020
GB
1 review
21 helpful votes
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What a joke... makes it sound like you can vote for pets but it's really a contest of who can buy the most votes. Not a contest at all, total scam! Don't touch it with a barge pole-

Date of experience: March 16, 2020
GB
1 review
28 helpful votes
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Refusing to pay out winners and giving no good reason is wrong. Especially as people paid out good money to help them win. You should be investigated

Date of experience: March 3, 2020
New Jersey
5 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Same pets keep winning
November 6, 2019

They should have it so that the winner cannot enter for 6 months or whatever.

It seems RIGGED.

Not honest..

Date of experience: November 5, 2019
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fun
October 16, 2019

You can earn achievements that you can save up to use in a competition. Things like voting for others, voting 7 days in a row, lots of things. Some give you 1000 votes.
That seems to be how people get so many votes by saving up achievements.
Yes others will buy votes for themselves but that is their choice.
I've entered contests and strangers have bought votes for my dog.
Having big social media following can help with voting as followers can vote for you and upto 10 times a day.

Date of experience: October 14, 2019
Georgia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Confused
August 31, 2019

Why is there a fee to use more votes. Also, why are contestants allowed to vote for themselves? Votes should only come from other contestants.

Date of experience: August 29, 2019
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great app
August 26, 2019

Love this app enterd my cat ava in the contest would recommend this app it fun and i like it so please vote for my cat ave in the cat contest i like this i would give it a five star

Date of experience: August 24, 2019
South Carolina
1 review
9 helpful votes
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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?

Date of experience: May 15, 2019
Massachusetts
1 review
27 helpful votes
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Not fair
March 22, 2019

Not fair. People have to buy 10,000 votes to put their pet at the top, seriously? What's the matter you don't have enough confidence in your pets beauty that's real nice. You have to buy votes or trade votes with people? Can't this contest just be one on sheer honesty and your pets beauty?

Date of experience: March 22, 2019
Arizona
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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That pretty much says it all! What else is there to say. It's a waste of time and money! If you aren't rich, you aren't going to win!

Date of experience: January 29, 2019
Oregon
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Total Scam
January 6, 2019

Total Scam no prize money or refunds are given total bs!

Date of experience: January 5, 2019
Rhode Island
1 review
17 helpful votes
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DONT DO IT!
November 10, 2018

Such a scam! My dog was in 1st legitametly for a week... with people Honestly voting. Others told me dnt do it it's a scam. Well like others... 2 other dogs came ahead by 10 000 plus votes. Etc etc... thr best was
They dnt pay but take your info to pay u! Will someone shut them dwn? -100 stars. DONT DO IT

Date of experience: November 10, 2018
GB
1 review
21 helpful votes
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What a scam!
October 2, 2018

Lots of my friends & contacts agree it appears Kingpet aren't averse to animal exploitation being as those who give you business by BUYING blocks of votes obviously get to the top of the leader board! How unfair is that?! Winning only means people have parted with money, its nothing to do with an animal being "worthy"! Stupid waste of time, I shan't be voting and I'm not wasting my time anymore. Wish to comment/refute this suggestion Kingpet?

Date of experience: October 2, 2018
New Jersey
3 reviews
35 helpful votes
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Fixed, Fixed & FIXED!
August 2, 2018

Only way to win is to BRIBE other contestants by repeatedly voting for their pet over & over and "exchange votes". Contestants keep count by posting/commenting the number of the vote they "helped" or put in. (Example: person before you put in vote #70, you comment "71" under the pet you voted for's profile).
Only other way to win is by PURCHASING votes and side swiping the contestant in the lead, last second.
Also people get VERY mean and childish toward one another on there.

Date of experience: August 1, 2018
GB
1 review
11 helpful votes
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A total fix
July 9, 2018

My cat was 1st all the way through for a cat to come in with over 70,000 in votes at the last minute and another cat to come in at 50,000 votes which eventually pushed mine to 4th. Kingpet obviously fixes it who is going to buy more than treble the votes to win crazy

Date of experience: July 9, 2018

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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!


kingpet.com
San Francisco, CA, United States