Is Kingboost legit? Or is it a scam?

Getting scammed might be one of the worst things to happen to you. Imagine paying for a service and expecting it to improve your gaming progress and then... getting nothing in return. At best. Or losing even what you've already had. Unfortunately, industry of game boosting, just like any other, has shady people looking to make easy money and disappear.

Even more unpleasant is the fact that sometimes boosting shops that look decent at the first glance with fancy websites and active customer service can participate in such practices too. Today we'll tell you about the unfortunate case of Kingboost, a boosting store that we'd advise you to avoid.

Writing critical things about competition is never simple. When you do it for no reason, it backfires and you suffer more than you benefit. But this case is different. For some reason recently there has been a spike in new stories from both boosters and customers about being scammed by Kingboost.

Well, Kingboost's reputation has never been perfect in the first place. Most businesses in the industry wouldn't call them a particularly trustworthy enterprise. And this new wave of reports might be yet another evidence of that. Take a look at several examples of what people have written about Kingboost. For example, here's an article by another boosting shop:

And here's what professional players (boosters) write about Kingboost on forums (3 images, you can swipe the gallery to the right):

We've decided to take a look at their online presence and were rather astonished to discover so many red flags that new customers seem to ignore. In this article we've collected our findings for you to be aware of them too. We believe that something is horribly wrong in the way that this shop does business and we want to help as many people as possible to avoid repeating mistakes of others.

While negative reviews are not something extraordinary for a boosting shop, a big number of them is certainly telling. Kingboost has nearly 1000 of them on Trustpilot and new ones appear almost daily. And if you take a look at their Reviews.io page, you'll find that it's even worse. What does it show? It's already safe to assume that many people are unhappy about their experience with Kingboost.

But what exactly are negative reviews? An angry customer goes out of their way to find a review website and compose an often long and detailed account of their experience explaining what made them pissed. Critical reviews frequently contain lots of words and information since their authors find it important to share their story in full. And surely, that's a very good feature of human nature.

If a bad situation happens once and one disgruntled customer writes something somewhere, it's surely not good but not the end of the world either. A responsible company would respond to their message, find a way to get in touch with them, and investigate the case. The investigation will show the company what exactly went wrong. If they are not absolute idiots, they'll try finding a way to prevent such things in future and make up for their mistakes with the customer. And that will strongly decrease the chance of such reviews appearing again.

But what do we see on Kingboost's Trustpilot profile? It gets negative posts daily, some of them look just like we've described above – walls of texts telling the sad stories of their authors. Do Kingboost even think of changing something in their approach to not have more such reviews? We'd say that this doesn't seem to be the case. It's more like... they don't care?

Some paragraphs ago we told you that Kingboost don't care about their negative reviews. Well, let's make it a bit more precise: they don't care enough and they certainly don't care about them the right way. What do we mean by that? Take a look at the Review section on their website:

It's full of positive reviews. Of course, no one is loony enough to show all the hatred and anger that so many people have against them. That's understandable. But now look at the button "Visit Trustpilot" and pay attention to the URL that it takes you to:

At the end of it you can see these parameters: ?stars=4&stars=5. What it means is that the page that this button takes you to, filters the reviews to make only 4- and 5-star ones visible. We'd not be so astonished with it if their profile didn't have so many low-grade reviews. But it does and new ones appear quite often, to put it mildly. This way Kingboost hide a very important chunk of information about their customer service quality. Does it look like a fair play on their side?

If you've had any negative experience with Kingboost – whether you're an employee or a customer – feel free to tell us your story. We won't share it without your permission – but if you so choose, we can add information about your case to this article. Feel free to get in touch with us in any way you see fit:

Here are some links for further research, if you need more proofs: