Some of you may have heard of Stargate IPTV. For whatever reason after running a good service for quite awhile, the guys that originated Stargate sold their business. The folks that bought Stargate did something that is just incredibility low and sneaky I felt that I had to let others know. I went back in forth in my mind should I post this or not. I decided that I should post, so that others will know to stay clear and not deal with these new owners.

When Stargate first started they sold some limited amount of subs they called lifetime accounts. Well anyone that has a IPTV sub would think yea right, lifetime sub, this has got to be a scam. Well I thought the same this has got to be a scam or it will have very short life. I thought about it, and decided I would take the gamble and get a lifetime account. Guess what? This account was a great account, good quality streams, good EPG and it was very stable. I had this account for a long time, of course there was an issue once in awhile but the guys at Stargate always resolved it quickly.

As I mentioned earlier the owners of Stargate sold their business. A few weeks after purchasing Stargate the new owners renamed the service to KingStreamz. My account was still running strong and I thought this is good.

Another month or so goes by, and I tried to select something to watch and my sub will not load on my player. I checked the chat on the KingStreamz group chat page, and seen a post that said "All users with lifetime accounts please contact us to sort your account. I posted that I needed my account sorted, and was I contacted by one of the admins of KingStreamz.

What the owners of KingStreamz did was they canceled all lifetime accounts. That in its self is to be expected, I guess. But how they did this was wrong and sneaky. There was not any notice, or warning indicating the lifetime accounts would be canceled in a certain amount of time. No, these guys just shut it off without any notification. The admin that contacted me, said they would open my account again if I purchased a sub from them. The price for this sub was nearly three times more than other similar subs available elsewhere.

Sorry for the long post, I really just want others to know it is in your best interest to stay clear of KingStreamz. From my perspective they have zero credibility, and certainly cannot be trusted. If they will do something like this now, they will certainly do something like this again. A simple notification indicating these accounts will be turned off, in X amount of days., might have sat better with me. But to be sneaky and turn off my sub, and then indicate contact us to sort your account. To me this is like purchasing a gift card at a your local record store. The local record store sells the business. A couple months after the record store has been owned by the new owners, you try to purchase a record with your gift card you purchased earlier. The clerk at the register tells you the card doesn't work, and comeback later when one of the new owners is here. You come back later, and the new owner tells you "oh, we canceled all the gift cards sold before we bought the record store - but I can sell you another one".