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Total Trivia, Inc.


Country United States
State Alabama
Website https://www.totaltrivia.com/

Total Trivia, Inc. Reviews

Most Useful Comment
  • May 8, 2018

I have been playing on this site for about 5 months. In the beginning it was fun testing your knowledge and strategy against other players to win prizes. You could win prizes, and you had the choice of either accepting the prize or exchanging them for coupons to continue playing. I had won quite a few prizes initially. Then beginning in January 2018 they started a rapid and massive coupon devaluation scheme. In December of 2017, $50 got you 5,000 coupons. Yesterday, $50 got you 60,000 coupons. On its face, this appears to be a change at the discretion of Total Trivia. But the devil is in the details. Total Trivia went on their own FB reviews page and said they would be evening the playing field. They meant that they were going to devalue the currency of existing players in order to draw in new players. This policy basically gave Total Trivia their own license to steal from their strong & existing players. I would have included the link to that FB Reviews page, but Total Trivia removed it do to overwhelming poor publicity.

In addition to the above, I have been harassed and intimidated by other players for simply winning or trying to win. I even received a personal threat to my Facebook account through FB messenger to myself and family telling me if I did not back off there would be consequences. How could this be allowed??? I had repeatedly contacted support over these issues only to receive the company line of "we will have compliance look into it". People were allowed to post my name and avatar as their own and nothing was done. This has gone on as most recently as today. I know of other people that were also threatened with bodily harm via instant upload avatars. I have proof of everything that has transpired in this site to back up everything I have stated here.

If you read the "positive" reviews on sites such as Trust Pilot, Google Play and Sitejabber read them with understanding and caution. Players were incentivized to leave reviews on each of these by giving them coupons to play for doing so just as I was in the beginning. So positive reviews are suspect at best. Of course someone will leave a positive review if someone is giving them something for free. PEOPLE read between the lines! If this wasn't bad enough if you do some research you will find that TT is owned by no other than William Wolfram of Finland who also by the way runs Deal Dash, who has class action lawsuits pending for its practices there.

Why am I mentioning this? Because the crap that they peddle on their site as "Luxury Brands" in their tournaments consists mainly of brands no one has ever heard of and appears most were created a few years back by none other than , you guessed it, William Wolfram. That is not disclosed anywhere on their TT site. The products are cheaply made and no where near the value they list on their site. Players Beware!!!! I feel this company practices fraudulent behavior and should not be allowed to continue duping people.

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Most Useful Comment
  • Apr 16, 2018

All of the comments in the following RIPPOFF REPORT are my personal opinions based on my experiences playing on Total Trivia (TT) over the last year. My user name on TT is “Rusty-Star”.

I wasted thousands of dollars and a year of my life playing on TT!! I wish I knew a year ago what I know now. People should DO THEIR HOMEWORK. That being said, positive reviews about TT are suspect because they are rewarding customers with as many as 11,000 free coupons to leave reviews on various sites! TT even disabled the REVIEWS section of their own Facebook page. Before its deletion, it was overflowing with negative comments that are no longer visible. Thank goodness that there are sites like this where one can read honest reviews for any company including TT and its sister site, DealDash. Here in the USA, we are so lucky to be protected by the FIRST AMENDMENT and can express our opinions FREELY!!

TT has allowed their site to be used by certain individuals as a medium to harass me and other players. For the past year, TT has allowed instant upload of avatars.An avatar is a user provided photo that a player displays next to their username on the site and is visible to EVERYONE who visits the site. I have screenshots of players using avatars to sexually harass and intimidate me and also screenshots of avatars that display racial and homophobic slurs, nudity, and other offensive gestures.

For my avatar on the site, I initially uploaded a personal photo which ended up being stolen from the site and used to DOX me...

(Doxing is defined on Google Dictionary as “search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent.)

Two different MEN stole my picture from the site, wrote messages directly addressed to ME (on MY photo) and then uploaded it to the TT site as THIER own avatar to make sure I saw it!!! Not only was it UPSETTING to see my photo abused in that way, it was UNNERVING to see my OWN photo staring back at me after it had been MISUSED and ABUSED by a MAN!! I contacted TT Compliance and spoke with Joshua who seemed to think I was over reacting and that it was no big deal??? This company knew I was being targeted and abused by MEN on their site, and they didn't give a crap!!.. I never expected to be sexually harassed in an online Trivia game!! ....#METOO

In one particularly disturbing incident, a player opened a new account and created a username called “fckrstyndgrnd” which is clearly intended acronym for “F*** RUSTY and DGRAND” (dgrand6470 is another successful player on TT)… I am aware that several other players who also saw the offensive user name reported it to TT Compliance and nothing happened, in fact, the same player went on to issue a death threat against Dgrand6470 using an instant upload avatar with a DEATH THREAT HANDWRITTEN in the avatar. This was reported to the Police and while I was not the target of the death threat, I am undoubtably the TARGET of a player who issued a death threat as evidenced in his username which targets myself and Dgrand6470. That alone is REALLY unnerving!! I assume the player was kicked off the site, but it is scary to think about that person is OUT THERE with ill intent, and we have no idea who they are or where he is!! SCARED!!

For months harassment issues continued for no other apparent reason other than I was a very successful player on the Total Trivia site!! TT ignored my pleas for help and in some cases, they incited anger against myself and other successful players through their responses to customers in emails and in their responses on their own FaceBook Review page which has since been disabled.

TT’s Terms of Service (TOS) page currently has 8,383 words. Each player is responsible for reading the TOS before playing on the site. Based on scientific data the average person reads 250-300 words per minute. Therefore, the average person would take more than 30 minutes to read the TOS in its entirety. This company has changed their TOS SEVERAL times in the past several months without always sending notification to customers. Even then, TT expects their customers to read the TOS in its entirety EVERY TIME they make a change, even if its a MINOR one. Never do they send a summary of just the changes. Of special note is their RETURN POLICY. Their TOS state the following:

"Total Trivia will refund the purchase price of the product but will not refund any Discount Coupons used in winning or consumed during the Tournament. Only the checkout price will be refunded. Total Trivia will not refund the Discount Coupons which a user has used to enter the Tournament. The user is responsible for the full shipping costs back to Total Trivia’s distribution center or office location...."

Anybody who gives any thought to their Return Policy will quickly realize it makes no sense. All wins on TT are FREE and Discount Coupons are not considered part of the purchase price, so based on the Return Policy as posted on TT's site, when you ship an item back to them you will get ZERO DOLLARS refunded!! TT gets the item back and KEEPS ALL the money spent by the customer on discount coupons to win the item. DOES THIS MAKE SENSE TO ANYONE other than them???

After winning a few of the luxury “brand name” products that TT offers consumers it became clear to me that these are not true luxury brands at all; They are cheap, generic brands that are only sell through TT and its affiliates such as DealDash ( also can be found on eBay by TT players reselling merchandise they won) . TT represents its products as top-of-the-line, luxury brands that ordinarily command price tags in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars per item. A cursory look at some prominent online sites will quickly show a tremendous disparity between the retail values and the prices for which these items are being offered for sale.

I wondered who are these LUXURY BRANDS that I had never heard of before?? Based on google searches it appears that most of TT’s tournament merchandise consists of brand names created only within the last few years by TT’s founder and controlling owner: William Wolfram of Finland.

I experienced numerous errors in their APP that affected tournament outcomes causing ME to lose large amounts of money!! I reported these issues to their customer service, only to often have them insinuate that I was LYING about the errors EVEN when I had taken screenshots as PROOF that it happened!!

When I signed up for this site approximately a year ago, I paid $50 for 1000 coupons. Since that time, they have DEVALUED my purchases NUMEROUS TIMES by offering more and more coupons for the same money. A few days ago I noticed that $50 fetched 65,000 coupons. How does a customer who paid $50 for 1000 coupons compete with the customer who paid $50 for 65,000 coupons? THEY CAN'T!.... If you buy coupons today at the 65x bonus rate, you had better be prepared for 100x coupons tomorrow...... Edit

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  • May 14, 2018

I'd like to hire an attorney. I don't want to specify the actions of Total Trivia but I do want to file a lawsuit.

  • Apr 26, 2018

The app makes money by people competing with eachother - to be competative you have to invest often $20-$30. You need 'cupons' to play.

and it costs $10 for every 10,000 cupons.

They invent prices for their priizes which are unrealistic, to pretend they are high end. So people end up competing quite a bit, not knowing the items they will get are worth 1/10 of what the app claims. (I had some items appraised). The reviews for the items are often shill and fake - In fact, fakespot.com found %40 unreliable reviews for the 'great' Kamikoto knifes that Total Trivia Raves about. and it found that amazon deleted over 100 reviews for them.

Non of the companies that have prizes on the app have a physical address. Whats more - I have found claims that all these companies are actually tied to one company.

Now the most rediculous thing: I have reasons to believe the app actually has fake players or bots meant to drive up the competition if an item did not get enough money thrown into it.

I have taken screen shots of two players that always seem to appear when a 'high end' product does not have much competition. They drive up the competition, and if the competition reaches a point where enough money was thrown in, the 'fake players' suddenly give up, even if they can easily catch up.

****ONe particularly interesting case was as such: I was playing for a $50 amazon gift card. I had already won enough "Discount cUpons" to try to compete for it.

I spent $35 worth of of those cupons and reached about 40,000 points. Then I noticed two players just shot up into 57000 points. It is inevitable that these people spent more than $70 worth of 'discount cupons' to try to win a $50 gift card. Even if they got every single answer correctly. you have to be completely lacking in logic to do that.... unless you're not even real.

And this is not the first time I have seen this.

**** Get your money back ASAP - call your bank and revoke authorization on all payments to Total Trivia. I got all my money back from these scammers. - they dont have any credible argument to fight against your revoking. ****

Due to the fact that I cant prove that the players in the screenshots I took are fake, I will not be uploading them. But I wonder if anyone else suspects this.

  • Jan 20, 2018

I am very upset with the fact that this company gets away with ripping people off! I paid at least $100 or more for tickets to see if what I had noticed going on with this app and its "favoritism" and its " Paid off players/ reviewers " was in my imagination or actually true. Before I continue on Id like to make note that this company is also owned by DealDash who has had lawsuits against them (links below) as well as the company's listed address has no location to be found on Google Maps. https://goo.gl/p9UGJi https://goo.gl/LtHoV3 https://goo.gl/ykr3EE in- fact when you search that address on Google it brings you to the deal dash "so claimed" address. Oddly enough when you look at Maps that address is listed a hospice hospital!!

I also noticed that when you go to totaltrivia.com you can find a careers hyperlink which brings you to job openings and every opening for a job is listed as being in Hong Kong and numerous other countries not belonging to the United States.

Onto to the scam... I have screenshots of everything I'm talking about during this game and I've revealed the truth by studying and organizing multiple screenshots from the beginning of the tournament to the end of the tournament.

What I've revealed? Well down to the very fact that the players under the same username happen to change their pictures quite often so that others won't catch a long, I've also come to find that these same players are under multiple (and i mean multiple) tournaments and they so happen to win them all too! or maybe this is just a game for the rich? I doubt it because a simple human being could do the math based on what your outrageously charged per ticket (boosters not included) and see that these same winning players put out way more then they could ever win back in prizes.

if that doesn't explain it enough then I will tell you this...the screenshots show how rigged this game Is because I sat there and watched and took screenshots of the very few last minutes- to seconds and each time an average player (desperately seeking to win like myself) gets ahead, in the last seconds that paid off player jumps back to first place in nano seconds!!! as for the last game that I just played-- were I tested my theory out, I think what I found was interesting: it was only him and I going back and forth for quite a few rounds, I knew the 3rd player was no longer chiming in so it was just time for me to throw in the towel and test what I "knew" would happen the last rounds.

In those last 4 rounds (him in lead, then myself, then him, then winner) so I looked at the timer on the clock, started each round of the game at the same time, turned on my 3 times booster, took the lead, other player takes it back instantly, timer resets, I do it again (with a few seconds less on the clock this time to ensure my booster and what little time I left would ensure my win. Not!!! guess what happened? I lost just because there was only 4 seconds remaining so not enough time for me to play again which I found completely odd. Why? Because I know that myself and this other player were only at most a thousand points ahead or behind each other at the end battle so you're going to say that my booster (yes i got all of the answers correct) wasn't enough to put me ahead and restart the clock?

I guess you scammers have to end it sometime so that people don't feel like they just lost a ton of money and still continue playing (in other words spending more money) Do the world a favor and rename the app "Battle of The Riches." So that middle class people aren't blowing money they don't have out of excitement of winning a product that they could never afford to purchase!! I mean come on, the fact that those people are winning multiple rounds means that they're dishing out hundreds upon thousands of dollars so why don't they just go out and buy the item itself? What a joke, this app needs some serious rules implemented limiting the number of times you can enter into a contest in a single week and or if they have already won that item they shouldn't be allowed to win it again.

I mean it's only fair that that's the case or that it is stated "clear as day" that you will not have an option to win anything because those who have the most money will always win!! Stop taking our lower income people's money (I'm certain those rich folks who always win) spend enough cash to cover your entire profit margin for a whole year in less then 2 months time Simply state " UNLESS IF YOU HAVE 100'S OF DOLLARS TO BLOW YOU WONT WIN A THING" somewhere in the app description please! I'd like a REFUND immediately on both my boy friends and my account seeing that I had him log in as a new user with my referral code and purchase something $5 or more for which i was never rewarded 5,000 tickets. Wise up people dont waste your time or money. Its rigged

  • Sep 4, 2017

This Website Is A Pure Rip-Off!! As Usual when I would be trying to take the lead in a tournament I would purchase discount coupons during the game to higher my score and win the item for free I finally won the following items from the first prize I won to the last prize I won: - Ashlyn Avenue Abigail at the winter dance pendant 2CT - $20 Swap Online Consignment Gift Card - Bolvaint Paris Men's Fragrance Læf Parfum - 1000 discount coupons - Bolvaint Paris René Noir Motif Bag - Versace Star Spangled Beanie I Was VERY happy but today when I went to my account there was a notice that blocked me from going to the home screen and it said at the very top of the screen that they attempted to charge $250 dollars to my credit card and it failed to do so and I had to update a payment method. It showed all the discount coupons I have bought. It started to get quite fishy with me so I decided to get ahold of them and I told them I have a child to feed and that they do not take money off of my credit card without my Concent. They Have Not answered yet. This Is A Scam and my card is in danger.

  • Sep 4, 2017

After playing for about a day and spending about $50 to $100 on the game I decided to delete the app off my phone then before I knew it I looked on my bank account and there were 4 charges from them of well over $200 along with another $25 charge. I sent them a message through their contact section but still no response.

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