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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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Switzerland
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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It's a fraud! Stay away!
January 30, 2016

Stay away from this site, it's a scam!
Their idea is simple, soon as you tempted to sign up for free account you are getting loads of messages and "matches" from lots of users with lovely photos.
Sure enough you can't replay them unless you pay premium subscription.
*** This is the trap! ***
Non of these profiles is real, neither are the photos... Searching Google for this photos will show you the same photos in large number of websites (in many cases).
Sure enough, now you would like to give it a go, but don't be surprise, not a single 'members' that sent you a message prior to your payment will reply!
After you been fooled and paid your $$ it's over.!

Date of experience: January 30, 2016
Germany
24 reviews
212 helpful votes
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I have been using AshleyMadison.com for six months (back in 2014 before I discovered a different site) and I really loved it. I admit that you will find fake female profiles, just like on any other dating site. But AshleyMAdison.com is a solid site. I am surprised to read so many negative reviews. Only reason why I stopped using it is because I found a different affair website much better.

Date of experience: January 30, 2016
Sweden
9 reviews
118 helpful votes
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Great brand, but...
January 30, 2016

After what happened in 2015 affairs sites have changed. I tried some of the other sites while ago and it just didnt feel secure enough for me. I decided to follow some recommendations here and gave NoStringsAffairs.com a try since then as its clear from their messaging that they put data security first. So far so good, but still can't trust this kind of sites :(

Date of experience: January 29, 2016
Virginia
3 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Rubbish
January 29, 2016

Not happy and would like my money back and delete account

Date of experience: January 29, 2016
Illinois
5 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Billing
January 29, 2016

Several months after I stopped my enrollment in Ashley Madison, they started debt itinerary my account again. Watch your account these people are villains.

Date of experience: January 29, 2016
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Basically the site is just full of fake profiles designed to try and make you spend your credits as fast as possible. The people who look like they're real NEVER EVER respond to messages.

Absolutely DREADFUL - this kind of practise should be illegal - and actually probably is!

Date of experience: January 29, 2016
France
5 reviews
21 helpful votes
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After much deliberation I decided to try AshleyMadison.com again. Being one of those who had their details posted online, this took a lot of thought but in the end, I think enough time has passed and in theory, theyll now be more secure than ever (its like how after a plane crash the airline with the problems is the safest to travel on). Anyway, my wife doesnt follow the news much and doesnt seem to suspect im up to anything so its not like what happened really screwed my life up in any way. Ive been using NoStringsAffair.com since the AM issues and its going so well that I figure, why not get back to AM and double my chances. These two together, if AM keeps working as hard to win me back, could be an epic combination. The women on both are mostly real and understand the need for discretion in fact in a lot of cases they are more paranoid than I am about meeting up! So overall im glad I came back to the site for another go, if theyre smart theyll find a way to turn a negative into a positive. If not, ill stick with NoStringsAffair and porn!

Date of experience: January 27, 2016
India
5 reviews
30 helpful votes
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AshleyMadison is by far the largest affair website and in my opinion it is the second best affair website after Saphrina. If you are patient and creative you will connect with men and women from almost every part in the world. Yes, you will find fake profiles and yes, it is not easy, especially for men. But it does work!

Date of experience: January 27, 2016
Germany
10 reviews
196 helpful votes
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One of the better hook up sites!
Not as good as nostringsaffair.com but sure one of the better affair sites! Really a legit site!

Date of experience: January 22, 2016
Nevada
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Follow some rules!
January 21, 2016

I joined Ashley Madison in 2013 and back in the days it was simply a perfect affair dating site. Today you have great alternatives (Saphrina, for example). Plus another problem is the recent hack. People are confused and unsure. Here is what to do: If you decide to use a cheater website follow some rules: Create a second mail address, if you decide to upgrade your account make sure your husband/wife does not see any of the payment details, never post any pictures of your face. Use different sites: Ashley Madison, Saphrina, and all so on. Make sure you feel comfortable on the affair website! Follow those rules and you should be fine!

Date of experience: January 21, 2016
Canada
4 reviews
38 helpful votes
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Don't waste your time or your money on this site! Stay away!

Date of experience: January 20, 2016
Nevada
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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YEAH :)
January 20, 2016

I wonder why anyone would not like AshleyMadison.com? Yep, I agree with most reviewers: It is expensive. Sure, Saphrina will cost you less. Sure, I agree. But on the other hand Saphrina is not popular in every country of the world, as far as I know only in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. So if you are from another country, like a country ib South America, you really want to use AshleyMadison.com and it works pretty good. Coem on, people! AshleyMadison may not be the number one anymore, but its still a cool cheater site!

Date of experience: January 19, 2016
NL
10 reviews
125 helpful votes
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Great site for women
January 19, 2016

Open relationships can be a bit taboo for many, but it works perfectly for me and my wife. And we're happy with our lives, having been married for 12 years and counting.
Both of us act like we're having an affair to the person we're sleeping with, but we always let each other know the truth about what's going on.
We're using several sites, but ashleymadison and nostringsaffair.com are the ones we use most.
My wife is more lucky with AM (probably because there are many more men than real women), while I'm happy with nostringsaffair.
If you're having tough times in your marriage, but still want to save it, then maybe an open relationship is the solution. But of course, what works for some people doesn't necessarily work for others.

Date of experience: January 19, 2016
NL
4 reviews
131 helpful votes
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Good feelings
January 18, 2016

I'm using two affair websites (AM and nostringsaffair) in parralel for about 2 weeks by now and had only 2 dates but still do not get laid
My opinion on both sites: Positive
There are a lot of ways of communication
A lot of woman contact you
Easy in use.
Let's see which of the sites will get me laid faster! ;)

Date of experience: January 17, 2016
Bulgaria
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Do NOT use this site. As confirmed by media investigating this, 99% of the female profiles are fake. They are also going to send you a lot of messages in order to deplete your account. Seekingarrangement.com (I have no association/interest in them) is actually full of real women, I was shocked. It's amazing that, at the end of the day, women are overwhelmingly OK with selling themselves for sex. I mean, college girls from conservative families are on there making dates for a few hundred.

Date of experience: January 17, 2016
Saudi Arabia
2 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Well...
January 17, 2016

Compared to some smaller sites like saphrina it is not really easy to connect with other members. But it is also not impossible... just my sharing my experiences

Date of experience: January 17, 2016
NL
7 reviews
95 helpful votes
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Sausage fest :D
January 12, 2016

I've been on the site for a couple of weeks. While I would agree that there aren't a lot of quality local prospects, they do exist. The other problem is that (like everywhere else in the world) there are SO MANY men, that it is difficult to really connect with a quality woman.

I decided to follow the advices below and created profiles on two other sites a while ago: nostringsaffair.com and saphrina.com.
There's a lot of women on these sites I must say. Some of them are obviously fakes, but here are few simple rules for you to avoid scams:
- Never under any circumstances send any money abroad
- Real women won't ask you to follow her to another site
- It's unlikely that 'nines' and 'tens' will join an affair site. I don't deny it is possible, but I personally don't think they would, so be careful with hot looking ladies.

Follow those common sense rules and you'll be able to focus on the REAL girls!

Date of experience: January 12, 2016
NL
10 reviews
296 helpful votes
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Not much luck yet
January 7, 2016

Joined AshleyMadison last month and nothing special to report yet. Will keep trying as I had a similar thing on Nostringsaffair.com and then all of a sudden got lucky twice in a week with a couple of very nice married women. Hopefully patience will pay off here too, if not ill be cancelling.

Date of experience: January 7, 2016
California
11 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Nothing but scams
January 6, 2016

I haven't been on this site that long, but so far, every connection has been a scam. Referring you to sign up for other websites, webcam girls, or romance scams, I have had them all in under a month! - I will definitely not be adding credits to my account. Glad I only took the Intro credits.

Date of experience: January 5, 2016
Texas
3 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Here is my review...
January 6, 2016

Hi guys,

Today I want to share my AM experiences with you...

AM is short form for AshleyMadison.com and it the largest and best known cheater site. U find literally MILLIONS of women but mostly men ion AM. And people come from all over the planet. Especially many people from Brazil, Canada and Japan.

CONS: It ain't easy to meet women on AM! Most members - maybe 80% and more - are GUYS and those few women receive bunch of messages. They ain't reply on every message! Looking for a better guys-girls-ratiovisit the site called Saphrina, as I also used it with even better results. But u all keep in mind: The guys-girls-ratio is also far away from being 50/50. Another big con is that AM is expensive. Those credits are gone easily once u start chatting. Again, other websites ain't as expensive.

Conclusion: There are problems you may face using AM but I managed to have an affair on this site. I liked other sites more but I was also lucky on AM.

Date of experience: January 5, 2016

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