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Ashley Madison Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of Ashley Madison is marred by significant customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to the prevalence of fake profiles and perceived scams. Many users express frustration over the high costs associated with the platform, which they feel exploit their desire for genuine connections. While some customers report occasional success in meeting partners, the overwhelming sentiment is negative, highlighting concerns about financial exploitation and inadequate customer support. Despite its established brand presence, the company struggles to address these critical issues, leading to a lack of trust and a recommendation to avoid the service.

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Horrible
January 28, 2021

After the site got hacked in 2016, it went to garbage. There are more bots now and it's like 7 credits to send one message and most users never respond.

Date of experience: January 27, 2021
Australia
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Stay away... scam
January 18, 2021

I joined and found that to meet anyone, you need a security pass... explained to me by a prospective partner who i believe was a website stooge. When you apply for a security pass, which costs $10, you have to complete a 3 stage verification process. At each stage you give your cc details, and are signed up to an affiliated site, plus 2 free sites which revert to full time membership. This happens 3 times with the promise of a refund at the end. Bullcrap... When I asked for a $65.36 refund for being signed up unknowingly, I argued for 3 days with about 12 email requests. Eventually I was told I would get a refund, but enter your card for a refund and you are signed up to more sites and your CC is rejected... bank error.
So I have filed for fraudulent activity and have had to cancel my CC... STAY AWAY THESE guys ARE SCAMMERS, DISHONEST and TRICKSTERS...

Date of experience: January 18, 2021
France
1 review
17 helpful votes
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If you want to keep your affair secret AdultsFun.club is a better option. It's safer because it's not so well-known and they control their platform: they ban dodgy users so scammers don't run rampant there like they do on AshleyMadison. AshleyMadison is full of scammers and it's very unsafe. You can have people stalking you, requesting money, exposing your correspondence, ruining your reputation. I learned my fair share of lessons: I was blackmailed and this scammer nearly ruined my family.
If you want an affair - AshleyMadison is the wrong place. It's a money scam!
AM managers are greedy. I think they are up to their necks in this scam, otherwise I don't know why they never ban profiles of blackmailers and money hungry scammers. All my reports were ignored. All scammers are still there "working" with their new victims preying on their money.

Date of experience: January 12, 2021
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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What a scam
December 18, 2020

What a joke this site is! They charge way too much for credits which you need to see, answer or send messages. When you send free winks you get these fake generic responses telling you to "please send a message and picture since I get too many winks to respond" The sad part is that I had clear public pictures on my profile so it was absolutely clear that these were simply scams getting you to use up your credits so you would have to by more. Besides this, the site is full of trolls looking for sugar daddy's and money or scammers from other sites trying to get you to join their dating/sex sites. If you are falling for this fake $#*! then you are a fool and you deserve what you get.

Date of experience: December 18, 2020
South Carolina
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Two Weeks and No Shipment
December 17, 2020

Two weeks later and I have not received my wife's Christmas gift. I needed yesterday as we are going out of town. They ship by DHL/USPS which is a known horrible shipping method. I think they ship that way to save $. 25 per shipment. All this at the expense of customer service.

Date of experience: December 16, 2020
New York
3 reviews
14 helpful votes
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I never seen such a scam in my life. I joined this is november and by december they were already trying to charge extra fees. Every so called person i contacted wound up being fake... yes thats correct... in 30 days i had no contact from any real women at all. NOT ONE. Never again. Dont waste your money. It seems bots and fake profiles as its the same deal on mingle as well.

Date of experience: December 14, 2020
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Fake
December 13, 2020

No real woman replied just fake woman or what ever they are tried to scam me by threatening to post my profile and pics on Facebook. This is bull $#*! all this online $#*! now

Date of experience: December 12, 2020
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Things don't look right.
December 8, 2020

I wrote a previous review where women who are not looking for Asian men but still sending me messages when my profile says I'm Asian. Now I have a guy who accidentally entered single female looking for males on his profile sending me messages. It looks like the website might be auto sending random matches. I did get a request from a young lady and both shared our photos but nothing since.

Date of experience: December 8, 2020
New Jersey
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Scammed
December 6, 2020

So in my drunken stupor I signed up to Ashley Madison. I did not pay for the site. All of a sudden I got about 25 emails from women wanting to talk to me. So I decided to sign up spend $70 And you buy 100 credits which allowed me to send three emails. I'm out of credits and I deleted my account. Because the women that wanted to talk to me weren't there when I try to reach out to them. So Ashley Madison pumps fake profiles to your non-purchased account to try to get you to sign up. Very disappointed. Learn my lesson once again

Date of experience: December 5, 2020
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Money making sight
December 3, 2020

It's all business. Meeting and $#*!ing people is not easy as girls and women are very complicated. They don't share or explore their privacy.
On top of that the sight is full of scam and computer generated.
Be careful when you spend money and time. Specially spending secretly.

Date of experience: December 2, 2020
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Paying to chat with Bots
December 1, 2020

What a waste of money! More fakes than real people. Save your money and join a free dating site that will actually get you to talk to a real person.Ive attached a picture of a convo i had with a Supposed WHITE WOMAN OF 26 YEARS... her english is that of someone from indian lol SAVE YOUR MONEY!

Date of experience: December 1, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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There are most of fake profile on this site, I think the are made by these guys to take the money as per email writing.
They don't want to force the other profile to reply when writer use his credit to write them. Many times as soon as you write female block you so you can't keep accounting for your lost credit.

Very bad marketing practice, Don't waste you money here, This site is very dishonest. I join it by thinking that since it es so expensive, may be here better luck to find some one genuine. But actually i was wrong and the site is rip off.

No No No Don't join as a paid member here. NO for giving them your money.

Date of experience: November 26, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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You can hook up on AM
November 26, 2020

First there are issues with AM, fake accounts, bots, etc. However, there are definitely real girls amd and guys looking to hook up in some form or another. Pay attention, develop a strategy, dont be a sucker. Conserve your credits, use them wisely. Ive been active less than a year and have been very successful.

Date of experience: November 24, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Poor privacy
November 18, 2020

Here it is a perspective of a woman. Same men over and over. Absolutely downplaying their age. Sending naked pictures when clearly stated please do not. Search features of AM are very basic, poor privacy options, and flexibility. No matching. Terrible customer service. This is a not good site.

Date of experience: November 17, 2020
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Don't believe the hype! This is not the place! Too many fake profiles - you end up spending money on credits to communicate just to find out a little later these are just fake profiles - catphishers that want you to sign up with a social networking site so you can communicate in secret with your newfound ladies, or Ashley Madison employes that want you to burn your credits? These girls will chat with you, but obviously have never taken the time to read your profile. And they will not share much about themselves, neither in their profile nor in their answers. Shame Shame Shame on you Ashley Madison!

Date of experience: November 17, 2020
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scam
November 17, 2020

First of they want you to but credits to send message once you end up as sucker paying for it they somehow up sale you at the check out in a sneaky way,
So there's that and after you did and you get some interest and excitement,
All the "girls" want you to go to a verification link and put in your details and credit info. (they claim it's a security screening)
It's BS and if you give your card information they will try to charge you fraudulent charges right away,
In my opinion stay away,
There are good dating apps where you can meet people without paying or if you want more exposure etc...
You can choose to pay.

Date of experience: November 16, 2020
Canada
2 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Not bad I guess
November 11, 2020

Not bad I guess. It OK but 2 b sure use it with nostringsaffair.com 2 boost ur odds of sex. Check it out!

Date of experience: November 9, 2020
California
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Ashley Madison Disaster
October 26, 2020

I signed up for this site believing it was a elite sight. I was immediately greeted by much younger women all claiming to be temporarily working in my town. In short order I realized it was a scam and deleted them and reported the profiles. They just kept coming. Likewise, my credits disappeared much faster than the advertised rate. I'm currently trying to undo the harm and clean out my inbox. Unbelievable that they continue to do this so blatantly..

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
New York
2 reviews
22 helpful votes
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Complete scam
October 24, 2020

I made the mistake of joining Ashley Madison after seeing a positive reviews. Those reviews were B. S.
I have been contacted by 2 types of profiles on AM. I is the fake profile designed to get you to send messages at about 10$ a message. The other is somebody who will either ask you to pay to join another site for verification purposes, or try to get you to video chat with them on another app so they can try to extort you. I went along with these users to see where it would go.

Date of experience: October 24, 2020
Missouri
1 review
6 helpful votes
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First off after you've connected with another profile your chats are supposed to be free. ( wrong!)... Second, I messaged this profile and she messaged be back to correct my F%$KING english with just a single word and the word wasn't wrong, just an alternate word... All replies are 100% Bots!... You can obviously tell!... Buyer beware!... They got my money, don't let em steal yours!

Date of experience: October 22, 2020

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