Iceland

Editorial review on the IceLotto platform :

Seule plateforme à avoir vendu des places pour le super tirage Powerball de 1,58 milliard de dollars jusqu’à 20h, IceLotto has a very large network of agents around the world, supportant ainsi un très grand nombre de prises de jeu.

Nous ne pouvons que vous conseiller de jouer online on IceLotto which is for us one of the best ticket purchase platforms in ligne.

The advantages of playing on Ice Lotto :

• Vous pourrez profiter des plus grosses loteries étrangères et des plus gros jackpots mondiaux, like Powerball and its record jackpot of 1,5 billion dollars.
• Vous pourrez jouer jusqu’à tard les jours de tirage. S’il s’agit d’un énorme tirage, however, it is preferable to take your gates in advance so as not to end up on the sidewalk.
• You benefit from a renowned and historic site. IceLotto is one of the pioneers in buying lottery tickets online.

The disadvantages of playing on Ice Lotto :

The prices of the grids are high compared to the real prices of the grids, comptez environ 5€ pour jouer au Powerball américain. Ceci est normal puisque de vraies personnes vont valider vos grilles à votre place.

Tip from the Tirage-Gagnant.com team : Si vous êtes en France, play Loto at the Euromillions from the FDJ.fr website. If you are in the United States, go to a point of sale to buy your Powerball grid 2$.

Le site IceLotto est disponible dans 6 langues (English, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, French and German), French translations may sometimes be risky, which in no way detracts from the seriousness of the site.

Overall opinion on IceLotto : Scam. 0/20

SUMMARY

What is missing- Icelotto is offering the desired features you’d want to have at your online lottery ricket carrier. They might be rough and in need for polish, but they’re there. The features missing are those who are nice to have. Shortage is at the basis of the study of economics as it is what forces use to make decisions and choices. Icelotto has a limited amount of resources – designers, developers, QA, etc. – and so it has to prioritize. Best would be to refine the current site and its functionality before going to developing new features. But once they do, these are some that are needed.

• Favourite numbers- Lottery players are highly superstitious and most would play the same lines over and over for years, and add to theme some randomly generated ones. There’s no way of setting liked numbers for future use.
• Repurchase – having the ability to repurchase an expired product from within the account details pages. There’s no need to have loyal players go through the purchase funnel for products they already bought in the past. It’s an issue of UX of the site.

icelotto of today is a trustworthy brand with a good customer support, variety of product types, useful features, and handy mobile application. There’s a dire need to polish the web experience, a relatively simple feat for tablets, but a complex one for mobile. icelotto stands with the top lottery brands, but needs to make an extra effort to really shine. Good luck with your next lottery line!

SECURITY

Under this section are the measurements Icelotto takes to keep the site secure, players data inaccessible to those of malicious intent, and servers stable. It’s of the utmost importance as you, an online lottery player, put your trust in the brand you buy lottery tickets from. This review aspect checks Icelotto is trustworthy.

SSL AND HTTPS CERTIFICATES

HTTPS stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, while SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. These two certificates are an assurance the site is secured and safe to browse, fill in personal details, and complete payment on. This is a server level protection. All data transferred between your computer and Icelotto’s servers is encrypted and unreadable to any other. This technology is widely used and for site’s dealing with users and processing of different payment methods, it is a must. An immediate visual identification signal is a padlock icon appears in the browser’s address bar. You can check yourslef the site’s certificate is by GeoTrust and a quick review shows it is installed correctly.

GOOGLE SAFEBROWSING

icelotto’s Google safebrowsing status is not dangerous. This means Google, that review billion of web pages each day to see if they’re dangerous for users to visit, consider icelotto to be safe.

ANTIVIRUS PROTECTION

As seen on other sites, icelotto are making use of a trust logo of McAfee’s SECURE services, but an inspection shows this is not the case . It doesn’t mean the site is not protected, but not making use of that antivirus service. Reviewed with both McAfee’s SiteAdvisor and Norton’s Safe Web there were no red flags raised, no threats detected, and no apparent security issues. Community rating on Safe Web is an impressive 5 out of 5.

REPUTATION

Two other trust logos used at the sites footer has to do with the site’s online reputation. Webutation and Trustpilot both provide a platform for internet users to rate companies. While Webutation gives Icelotto an oddly perfect score of 100/100, TrustPilot considers only reviewers average score and gives a bad score of 2.7/10. These two are given a low value as has little to do with security, but users reviews were read and taken to consideration on other review aspects.

At the bottom of the site you’ll find several completely irrelevant trust logos and icons – iceSecure, ice+Responsible, guarantee 100% satisfaction, and Player Satisfaction score – they, of course, had no weight on score as they have no meaning or completely bias. This is even though this practice in not recommended. Only verified security services and audits take part. icelotto meets the security requirements and there’s no reason to worry about account details reaching wrong hands.

What is the IceLotto site ?

La plateforme IceLotto a été créée en 2003 et vous propose de jouer aux plus grosses loteries du monde avec le Powerball américain, the MegaMillions or the Spanish lotteries El Gordo and Primitiva or the Italian SuperEnalotto. In total, you will be able to play 11 lotteries around the world, from home.

How the Ice Lotto site works in France ?

As with all online lottery ticket sales sites, IceLotto vous permet très facilement d’acheter une ou plusieurs grilles pour n’importe quelle loterie, whether she is Canadian, English or American.

With a team of agents scattered around the world, your stake on the site automatically unlocks a physical sale in the country concerned and one of IceLotto's employees will take care of buying the corresponding lottery ticket for you, while scanning it in your player account.

If your ticket is a winner and, whatever the amount won, the sum is added to your player account up to 1000$ free of charge.

Earnings greater than 1000$ are taxed 5% par la plateforme IceLotto et si jamais vous décrochez un énorme jackpot, you will need to collect your earnings in the country concerned, comme le veut les lois en vigueur des loteries étrangères.

What country are the Ice Lotto agents located in ?

Ice Lotto is present in 5 pays physiquement pour jouer aux loteries à votre place. The teams are present in Spain, United Kingdom, in the USA, in Canada and Italy.

More lotteries should be available in the coming months, according to our sources at the platform.

Conditions and legality of the Ice Lotto site in France ?

De nombreux sites internet mettent en garde contre les plateformes de jeux d’argent et ils ont raison. IceLotto jouit d’une excellente réputation depuis 13 years now, especially in the United States and is gradually developing in Europe.

Grâce à une politique de confidentialités accrues et une assistance joignable facilement, IceLotto is one of the safest sites in the industry.

What guarantee do you have when playing on the IceLotto site? ?

You wonder what will happen to your game ticket if it ever turns out to be a winner ? Et bien sachez qu’après chaque achat d’un billet de loterie sur Ice Lotto, a scanned version is sent to you by email and it is always by email or phone that you will be informed in the event of a win. Les tickets sont placés après leur achat dans un coffre et ils vous sont entièrement attribués (through the 5% of taxes). Pour preuve, ce gain de 6,4 millions d’euros d’un joueur irakien qui avait joué en ligne.

FEATURES

Just as Lottoyard’s platform products are put to use on Icelotto, the features are to. Many of what the powerful platform offers comes into play on Icelotto’s site. Some nice to have but not so important features are missing, will probably show at some point in the near future.

MULTI DRAW

A mandatory feature for an online lottery ticket carrier service is the multi-draw. It is the option of completing an identical product purchase to multiple consecutive future draws. Goal is to allow a player to complete one payment transaction for multiple future draws, and save a hassle – user can buy the same line to his favorite lottery for the next 2/4/8/26/52 consecutive draws. A big plus is the discount of each multi draw tier. It’s the logical choice if you play the same same product.

SUBSCRIPTION

Next multi draw tier is a theoretical infinite number of draws, when completing a subscription purchase Icelotto will re-charge you every 2 or 4 weeks for the product. You’ll never miss a draw. It will continue to charge you until asked not to. It is advised to skip this attractive offer, forfeit its generous discount and stick to a limited number of multi draws.

QUICK PICK

Let Lottoyard’s random number generator automatically pick numbers for a lottery line for you with one click. Also one of the mandatory features as it is something players grew accustomed to from completing a purchase at the kiosk. Filling more than one or two lines could be tiring. There’s also the option of a Quick Pick 5 and 10 lines. Note, clicking 5 or 10 would reset and already picked lines and not fill in the missing lines to 5 or 10.

BUY QUICK PICKS

Proceed to checkout with a pre-picked lines with one button. While the features is welcomed, there is an issue of inconsistency in the language on the site and it’s hard to tell if a click would lead to a product page or straight to checkout.

WINNING NUMBERS

Other than the standard lottery results feed, there’s the option of querying for past winning number. While limited – can only check winning numbers of last 10 draws – it should answer most players’ need. Most would check if they won in the account section. There are brands who got this feature much better.

CART

Lottoyard’s most attractive unique selling proposition to its licensees is it’s cart feature. This is a key feature allowing users to complete multiple products purchased in one transaction. Icelotto wrapped this feature nicely with a couple of additions – the ability to edit pretty much any product setting from within the checkout page leaving no reason for a player to go back to a previous page, an option of adding leading products to the cart with one click and without leaving the checkout page.

icelotto got the key features right, there’s room for improvement, but there always is. Cart is a big step for competitors to gap. There’s a constant stream of updates to the site, and tracking how well icelotto perform on these same features in the following months would be interesting.

Can residents of the CIS countries play foreign lotteries

Probably, it was worth writing about it above. Let's figure it out, can non-residents of the USA and European countries play their lotteries. In fact, such well-known lotteries as Mega Million and Power Ball allow foreign citizens to play the lottery and of course they can also take the winnings. That is, you can play. But there is one small, but, these lotteries do not sell tickets on the Internet. And this is not because, that they want to infringe on the rights of foreign citizens. This is due to the fact, that the world's lotteries do not want to break the law and risk their reputation. I.e, to play for high stakes you need to contact an intermediary, который купить вам билет в официальной точке продажи.

Based on this, it turns out, what for, to start playing with US and European lotteries, you need to contact an intermediary. And here is a completely different song. Mediators, such as IceLotto, may not play fair at all. Nobody will give you a guarantee, that the agent actually buy a ticket through his people. A scan copy, this is a simple fake. The player thinks, that he was lucky, but all he gets as a result is a minus on his card. Think for yourself, who wants to give you money, if your ticket won a million? Obviously, that there are no such people. And that, this provided, if a ticket is bought. As practice shows, and reviews, written above, after registration, ваша карта становится общедоступной.

Are there real intermediaries, which will help gamblers to participate in a foreign lottery? Скорее всего нет.

SUPPORT

Only comes into play when things go wrong or unclear, many consider this as a nice to have element thinking nothing could go wrong with something simple as completing a lottery line purchase. This review gives it the proper attention, and score it accordingly. You’d want your lottery carrier to be responsive at as many days of the week and hours of the day as possible. Also, the number of contact options is of great importance, the closer you get to the person dealing with your issue, the better.

LIVE CHAT

There is a real time chat, but it’s unclear what it’s working hours and days are. It’s not mentioned anywhere. Icelotto use https://www.zopim.com/ for the service. It would have been helpful to have an icon indicating there is a chat service, even when it’s unavailable. Just to know when to check back. Offering a service as an option is not a guarantee for scoring high in this review, it has to be friendly and communicated. There’s no chat on mobile devices.

PHONE

Icelotto takes calls on a UK number, company is based at Cyprus. They advertise the phone number on the contact us page +44 8081 890 001 and are available Sunday to Friday, 10am to 7pm GMT. This is a reassuring sign as not a common practice Icelotto’s competitors use.