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AdultFriendFinder Reviews Summary

The company faces significant challenges regarding its reputation and customer service, with numerous reviews highlighting persistent technical issues and a prevalence of fake profiles, which contribute to a general sentiment of distrust among users. Customers frequently express frustration over the site's billing practices, including unexpected charges and convoluted cancellation processes. While a small number of users report positive experiences, the overwhelming feedback suggests that the platform is plagued by scams and inadequate support, leading to a negative perception of its reliability and overall value. The trend indicates a pressing need for improvements in user verification and customer service responsiveness.

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Spain
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Poor service! When I registered on Seek4Match
I started enoying the benefits of having a hot sugarbaby - that's a real thing with a slew of model-looking hotties who are genuine. The most difficult thing was just chosing my sugar baby among plenty of my stunning matches who were all ready for action.
The majority of AdultFriendFinder women aren't blessed with good looks, but they are pretentious and self-absorbed. My time with them was quite boring and quite pricey (they want too much money for that kind of poor service).The most complicated thing is to cancel your subscription, it is convoluted, they deliberately make it this way.

Date of experience: June 17, 2024
Massachusetts
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Scam
May 11, 2024

Adult friendfinder is one of the biggest scams as far as dating sites out there.they charge you 35.00 for a gol d membership then you have to pay another 15.00 to be able to send winks,then another 15.oo to view photos.out of 30 women I talked with only 1 turned out to be legit.the rest want to continue talking but on a different platform such as signal,Google chat.whats app and adult friendfinder doesn't nothing to verify the member in the first place.i don't know how in the world its rated number 1 for best dating sites,it should be #1for best rip off sites I even think their in with the women to scam.my advice stay the $#*! away!

Date of experience: May 11, 2024
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I have frequented this site over the past 10 years as both a standard member (nonpaying) and occasionally as a paying gold member. So far I have encountered no one I would seriously consider meeting up with from the site. Do not give these folks your credit card number unless you plan on being a member for life, they will just keep charging /re-upping your membership indefinitely. There is an option to use gift card payments which is the only safe way to become a paying member. Even then you may not get the specific membership you requested/payed for. Ie I paid approximately $100 for 3 months gold membership with an add-on of 3 months of standard members being able to contact me. They gave me a 4.5 month membership without the add-on and refused to correct the problem. The site has some legitimate members actually looking to hook-up and an abundance of scammers, attention seekers, liars and phishers so keep you info close and use an anonymous e-mail address for any contacts. AdultFriendFinder and it's affiliates like Outpersonals, Alt.com, Big church and many others are just copies of this site. Enter these sites at your own risk and buyer beware.

Date of experience: May 10, 2024
California
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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My membership with HEATED affairs as subsidiary of AFF expired and so I clicked on "renew membership". I got a confirmation number HOWEVER; I was now however, no longer able to see others, pictures, users names or any user information. I could not read their messages, flirt like or request friendships or even send messages to other members. When I selected "renew" there was no indications that any policies had changed. I contacted 6 customer service representatives immediately. I was polite and tried hard to clear up the issue. Three of the CS agents simply hung up on me. Three other CS agents said I needed to upgrade further in the amount of $14.99 per month to interact with others When I asked to speak to a customer service supervisor ALL said none were available nor would be for hours. Two of these agents then hung up on me. I would HIGHLY recommend anyone considering using AFF or its other companies to NOT ***UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES *** do any business with them and certainly do not renew if you have memberships currently. This is plain and simple bait and switch in my opinion A big company gone very corrupt!

Date of experience: May 7, 2024
Sweden
1 review
4 helpful votes
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AdultFriendFinder has become too hysterical and too political. Nevertheless they are pretty loyal to scammers, they allow them to do anything they want. If you decide to use AdultFriendFinder, please be very cautious with overcharges and automatic renewals - it's their favorite trick to get your money!

Date of experience: May 4, 2024
Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Joined AFF to see what this online internet dating process was all about. My intention was to eventually become a Gold Member, on a limited basis. Say for one month, just to see how it stacked up to the free membership. I even confirmed my identity to AFF. The vast majority of members, whether having a standard free account, or the Gold paid account, do not reveal who they are.

This entire process morphed into an intriguing life diversion for 29 days running. I had some fun and got to see how other AFF members interacted with folks like me, when it came to the topics of love, romance and sex. I gave myself 30 days to evaluate everything, from the website functionality, to the actual female posters themselves and everything in between. Had to see if this was a safe and secure website for serious minded people. Within the first week, as I began surfing around the website, it became obvious. AFF was mainly all about hookups for sex, but very little to do with love or romance. Okay, fine, AFF is not for everyone. If you're into sexual relations with multiple partners of both sexes, AFF is definitely for you. If you just want to meet someone, or maybe have a date and wind up in the sack together, AFF might be the place for you. Just understand. AFF is funded and supported primarily by Gold Members. A majority who consider sex, as a way of life, instead of, part of life. Frankly, there is no definitive way to conclude anything. Its a total crap shoot!

The key factor of Gold Membership is the ability to send unlimited messages to posters who you took a fancy to and would like to chat with. Along with the ability to view all member profile pages and photos, with unlimited hotlisting, flirts and friend designation of members. Since I could only send messages and not receive messages, I was at a big disadvantage, but one that I was willing to put up with until my evaluation period ended.

Then out of the blue, AFF dropped the bomb. With one day left in my 30 day evaluation period, AFF decided it was time for me to pay for a Gold Membership, or hit the road. Believe it, or not. LOL As a free member, if you can't view the women who viewed your profile, and if you can't be able to view the profiles you found and liked while surfing around. There is no good reason to stay a free member. Forcing people into paying for a Gold Membership this way, is unethical, if not illegal. According to a tech support rep I spoke with, concerning AFF freezing my account. Seems AFF is in the process of new membership drive that had an adverse effect on the free memberships. The tech support rep said, AFF wanted a push free members to sign up for Gold Membership, and in the process, weed-out the bogus accounts. Sounds like a terrible idea and a fraudulent method to boot. In the end, maybe this is the best thing that could have happened. AFF is thankfully, off my radar.

Date of experience: April 28, 2024
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Originally started by a crossdresser, Andrew. You can imagine the deception was baked in. He sold way back and it has gotten somewhat worse. It's more broken and JANKY after they invited Andrew back to improve the site. He is an incompetent programmer. I have purchased about 1 year of membership over the last 15 yrs. I joined and quit multiple times. It's a great place for men who call themselves straight but like to post and view pictures of other mens' penis. About the time of the pandemic it became almost 100% fake on the women's side and that continues. Their support is all offshore, so the employees might be making some extra cash by creating scam profiles. I emailed 800 people last summer, and got back about 500 emails that were clearly pasted or robot responses. They did not correspond to what I wrote. I think 1 or 2 of them was appeared to be written by someone who understood what I wrote. I also got back 2 that were Tagalog for F U. My copy and paste email was implying they did sexual things with their pets. The scam seems like something a 13 yr old child would write. But men do fall for it and there is always guys like the one pictured. He paid extra for that VIP status (yet knows most here are fake) and it's clearly not going to help him meet anyone. Perhaps he too enjoys men admiring his penis. A lot of delusion here. There will be 1 in 500 women, who are real, they also appear to be 400plus lbs and it on here for compliments. These men are very very complimentary to anything they think is a sexual option. Also, the more tasteless the womans' pics the most likely it's legit. See 20 shots taken 2 inches from a vagina,see methed out skanks, and poor picture quality. That's an AFF winner. The site is also very JANKY and they have no interest in fixing it. The messenger is inoperative, Other ongoing bugs: you get a notice on emails in DEC but it was sent in April. There are profiles that show they were online a month ago, but they added friends yesterday, etc. These have been reported and never fixed. They let the idiot Andrew make some changes and he broke about 100 things that worked to add 10 new features.

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Date of experience: March 30, 2024
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Save Your money
March 20, 2024

AFF has quite the scam going on the site. A good majority of the profiles are fake. I counted 8 different profiles with the same chick in the photos, in 6 different cities. And when i signed up, it was supposed to be a month, and they digged me for 3 months. Putiing this out in every review i can find.

Date of experience: March 20, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This website is full of FAKES who have no intention of ever meeting ANYBODY!

AFF USED to be a good website- but it has turned into a waste of time- if not an outright SCAM- like an awful lot of other websites...

Date of experience: March 18, 2024
Texas
4 reviews
13 helpful votes
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95% of female profiles are fakes and scammers. A lot of these are Chinese or African people either trying to get you to send money or doing phishing scams. The few real people are mostly very unattractive.

Date of experience: March 18, 2024
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scammers
March 14, 2024

Chatted with 5 different females. 4 out of the 5 lied of their locations and used every excuse to try to scam money for different reasons and wanting amazon gift cards or other type of cards
And phone numbers they would text from were all false numbers

Date of experience: March 14, 2024
Ohio
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Not worth it...at all
March 13, 2024

It's frustrating. It lacks a lot to be desired.
I will never use it again. My experience overall bad.

Date of experience: March 12, 2024
Colorado
3 reviews
25 helpful votes
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AdultFriendFinder it's like taking all the scammers and frauds on earth and putting them in this website. From the day I started on this app I was literally reporting over 20 scammers per day to AdultFriendFinder and their response to me in their email replies were we don't have anything to do with scammers. We don't pay them and we can't stop them. Now had I seen this in an advertisement before I spent money on this $#*! hole site I never would have joined. Like all dating sites you have to expect some ratio of scammers. AFF brings that ratio in my view in my calculations eight out of 10 members on these sites or scammers. The entire messaging protocol for lease scammers is once they receive your message. The first thing they want to do is go to Google chat or Skype get your email or get your cell phone so you can talk in private. Once you tell them no they're gone deactivated account then you have the profiles and the pictures that don't match a profile will say I'm 50 years old and the picture will show a female not even 18. There are also profiles that grammatically embarrass the instructor whoever taught an English class in school, so you know that these profiles are written by foreigners who don't understand the English language grammar. Then there are really stupid scammers who put their screen name up and use the 900 number nine 9909 after their name. This is an indication that this scammer is coming from North Africa, because that is there I don't wanna say ZIP Code, but it is their location code of where they're scamming from. Then of course you have some of the scammers who for instance a female profile will say my name is SophiaJason22, or SuzetteJohn3452, AshleySam7400… these can be prostitutes or scammers who are actually in groups, and this is how they make their money online there are associated with some representation, so they put that in the screen name. People stay away from AFF. It is a cesspool. If you want nasty pictures if you want liars cheats scammers prostitutes, children acting as adults. This is the so-called dating site for you, but if you're a decent human being, I would stay the hell away from this site.

Date of experience: March 8, 2024
LA
4 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Not for youngsters
March 7, 2024

Youngsters, pass it by, it's not for y'all :)
Jokes aside this is a great service uniting lone hearts around the globe =)
I used it regularly and have no complaints at all. It was interesting for me how things are done here, but now, after testing the waters, I am like a fish in it. A couple of simple steps and you aren't alone anymore, and next day, and the following too. Ha, thank you guys for creating this dating service, for me it's of utmost importance having a such one under the belt.

Date of experience: March 7, 2024
California
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Oh and of course any and every fetish or kink you could possibly imagine and more. There are sexy people everywhere you look. Some more willing to show you everything your heart desires. Then there are some that just aren't real people at all. One of the reasons it doesn't get that 5th star. I love it none the less.

Date of experience: March 4, 2024
Maryland
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Fraud by Owners
March 2, 2024

While there are real people on the site, the operators engage in fraud every day, First, no natter how many times you put auto-renew on OFF, the system will auto renew. Forget trying to make picture private because the function doesn't work. In fact, the site is so poorly designed that I wish you the best of luck on figuring out how to make pics private. I've been on this site for years, on and off, and have finally reached the off side on a permanent basis. Nothing has changed over the years. The people who run it should probably have been prosecuted or fined into oblivion years ago for their fraudulent practices.

Date of experience: March 2, 2024
Mexico
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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This adds are fake made by the same people that run this site. They pretend to be real people but you soon find out that is just scammers sitting in the Phillipines...you will never meet anyone no matter what you do.its sad that sites have to do this for money...also your credit card information is at risk. Shortly after we signed up we started to get fraud churches in our card. DO NOT UAE THIS SITE IF YOU WANT TO MEET REAL PEOPLE.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Not that that satisfied
February 23, 2024

It seems like when you send a message you don't get many responses. I don't see myself as a homely person. I used to do body building. So apparently if you don't spend a $#*! load of money, you don't get any responses. I understand you get what you paid for but you should get something from this. All I can say is i'm going to try another site.

Date of experience: February 22, 2024
Tennessee
1 review
6 helpful votes
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A Mess
January 3, 2024

I'm a woman, I was on AFF for about 4 days. The gender balance must be skewed because I got like 300 messages in that time. I couldn't reply to all of them. Many guys started off mean because they thought I was a fake profile. Many guys messaged aggressively over and over again. Then suddenly my account got reported and deleted. I think it was someone in my inbox I hadn't replied to. Thought it was a fluke so made a new profile and started building connections again, and within 2 days someone reported me and got my account deleted. All the men complain about bots… but report and ban real women for not responding fast enough. I never did anything against community guidelines and all my interactions were polite and flirtatious. The company refused to look into the reason I was flagged. If you're a dude you should know that some losers on the site make it their personal mission to ban real women.

Date of experience: January 3, 2024
Minnesota
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Rip off
November 21, 2023

I bought a 3 month membership. I was not happy with it, I got to chat with a few people, which was fun. I found no one I wanted to meet, or to have cyber with.

With about three weeks left on my membership, I wrote on my profile, I was no longer willing to pay for the membership.

Somehow,,,, it was changed to " I am willing to pay for sex" Crooked Moderators? Who knows.

I was send a notice to change my profile. I was working at the time it came
I received a notice I was banned for soliciting an hour later.

I was still working. I tried to call customer support and they told me my profile said "I was willing to pay for sex"

There is no appeal, I asked if I could see what it said on my profile and was told I would need a court order to see it.

It's no big deal, as I spent my time avoiding the bots and scammers when I was there.

It might be an alright site for a young person, I am older, I did talk to some nice people. However, most the sex stuff seemed to be gay orientated, not my cup of tea.

As you can see by the letters they can't even keep straight what they claim I did

Date of experience: November 21, 2023