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Ashley Madison

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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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Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If you want to get sent a bunch of scantilly clad photos from guys pretending to be girls, this is your site, for this they want the venmo/cash app sent. Don't they realize you can video chat pornstars for less and with better hacking protection.

Date of experience: November 9, 2023
Austria
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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I'll keep using my favorite AdultsFinder.club because their women are not scammers. My experience with Ashley Madison was a complete garbage - a dumb waste of time and money. All the "women" I exchanged messages with were either bots or typical scammers who asked me for money and tried to blackmail me.
All the supposedly local women turned out to live out of my country. Stay away from this scam!

Date of experience: November 6, 2023
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bull
November 6, 2023

Very expensive, and they send you fake messages to make you open them and charge you for it, some of the women on here are ridiculous. You are married, of course, and they want you to be like a full-time boyfriend, which is impossible. I spoke to one that one today mental connection before you have any physical contact date for a while and then maybe they have a list of qualifications, I can see that they want a certain guy, but it gets a little over the top with some of these women. It's like they're looking for another husband I was on it for about a month and only really connected with one woman and she was very reluctant (save your money.) I did meet a Asian girl on here that wanted me to go onto this Asian translating site that was almost as expensive as Ashley Madison ridiculous.

Date of experience: November 6, 2023
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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After you've been involved for a week or so you start to see a pattern. Woman message men for free but it comes to us as a collect message, when you click on it and spend your $ it ends up being a generic message that after you see 3-4 of them it's obviously a preset message that there is no way 4 different woman give you almost the exact message "thanks for your interest but I only respond to complete messages, tell something about yourself that would interest me" you mean she can't see my profile? 3 weeks in, $300 spent, 50+ message sent and I've received a message back from 1 lady. Do not throw away your $

Date of experience: October 19, 2023
New York
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Absolute scam
October 14, 2023

I am positive there is not one real woman on Ashley Madison. Not one! I live in NYC, with hundreds of profiles, and all of them are fake.

This is not a monthly service. You have to buy credits and spend those credits on each new woman you contact. Problem is they never write back. Ever. Send a free canned message to see if they're interested and some of them will respond with their own canned message. But then not write you back when you send a personal message. Essentially tricking you. Again. Every time.

By the way, near the end of my run, they started charging credits for those "free" canned messages too.

This site exists to get desperate men to throw away their money into a black hole. It's like the casino. No matter how long your losing streak, you're invested, maybe a little stubborn, and won't give up. So don't even start. Do not give them a penny. You want to meet women? Go to a bar.

Honestly. How are sites like this even legal?

Date of experience: October 13, 2023
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Worst dating site EVER. First, the cost! Way too high. Fools you with feeling that it will be different and exclusive. No … just ridiculous. You have to buy credits to communicate or "favorite". Every interaction of any kind deletes your credit balance. Fully 80% of women have no clear public picture, they hide a vanilla picture behind a private firewall which you guessed it, you have to spend credits to request to see. Half of those requests are denied, even when profile contacted you first, but of course your credits are gone and not returned. This site is billed as "Life Is Short, Have An Affair". None of that happening. Should be "Life Is Short, So We Will Rinse You Of Money".

If/When you finally get something beyond "Hi", you will be asked to move off the site to either your email, text, or some scam filled messaging site. You'll wait days for any message until you start getting bombarded with requests to communicate. As your credits dwindle, the messages get fewer and fewer until you almost run out, then you are bombarded again to get you to fling some more money down the toilet.

As with every dating site, the Chinese are posting all the Asian women fake profiles and you'll be led down a fun path that always ends in a request to invest in cryptocurrency.

I really can't describe what a rip-off this site is. STAY AWAY

Date of experience: October 10, 2023
Missouri
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scam
September 18, 2023

User beware, I gave this site a try, purchased credits and then suddenly I recieved a notice from PayPal stating I was being charged a monthly fee. I never gave authorization for monthly subscription. My experience, these sites are ALL scams. I did meet ladies and connected off site via txt only (suspicious) but I always felt as if they were being paid by AM to connect with men. Their phone number area code never matched from where they were calling and always lead to dead end. It's hard to explain but that was my experience.

Date of experience: September 18, 2023
South Africa
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Suspended for no reason
September 14, 2023

I started an account less than 24 hours ago and I'm already suspended. I tried to appeal and I'll wait to see what comes of it. I'm an actual female (24) and I was in the middle of a conversation with a lovely gentleman when I got kicked out

Date of experience: September 14, 2023
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Stole my monies kept wanting me to buy credits to message spent over $200 and nothing except scammers wanting google meet and chat to steal even more

Date of experience: September 8, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Complete scam!
September 7, 2023

None of the profiles are real. My guess is AM creates fake profiles to scam you on buying credits. Don't waste your time or money. I found that AFF is the same scam.

Date of experience: September 7, 2023
Nevada
13 reviews
35 helpful votes
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Do not waste a penny on this site. I did not purchase. When i register for a site like this and i am flooded with young girls inquiries, i know they are fake. You can put the worst photo ever taken yet loads of beautiful girls want to chat. They are auto generated, don't be a sucker. It's easy to see how fake these sites are for free. I write this hoping to save people who do not know better money and anguish. You can see the screenshot. She is dying to meet a 70 year old man with a terrible profile photo?

Date of experience: September 6, 2023
Maryland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This site is not to be trusted.it's full of fake female accounts,bots and,fake messages.this is one of the reasons they use credit cards and PayPal to fruad people so,costumers will have hard time to get their money back …they tell u someone or 2- 3 females sent u message but,when u pay and,open ur messages…they're all the same …plz brothers…don't trust and,don't subscribe to this fake fruad accounts

Date of experience: August 28, 2023
Kentucky
3 reviews
13 helpful votes
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No More!
August 18, 2023

When it started it may have been good, but no longer. If any of the women are real they treat it like a regular dating site. My experience is there are none, which cannot be confirmed by AshleyMadison CS, as they will neither confirm nor deny. Every 'woman' I conversed with in my most recent use of the site was fake. AM CS does reimburse credits if a profile is fake and you spent credits to contact. You need to be diligent on taking screen shots and reporting directly. Its still just a big waste of time and money. Just find a local asian massage parlor… cheaper in the long run of paying for female companions. From wife to escort, you're gonna pay.

Date of experience: August 18, 2023
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Worst Site Ever
August 16, 2023

I joined less than one week ago. Every day there was a problem with my acct. Suspended for no reasons. This happened every damn day. My account was never valid for a straight 24 hours, more likely for about 5-6 hours a day. I kept emailing and finally they banned me forever! LOL. WHAT A JOKE. I think they do this to keep the number of women low and the men have to keep paying. It's a scam for sure.

Date of experience: August 16, 2023
Idaho
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Fake, scam, money pit
August 3, 2023

You have to pay just to see people's pictures, then pay to talk to them. Then most profiles are not real. They are scams looking to take even more money. So you pay all this money and find out it was a waste of time and you don't get those credits back. The whole website is a joke.

Date of experience: August 3, 2023
Florida
9 reviews
13 helpful votes
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SCAM!
July 31, 2023

What a scam! I thought I would try this because it is one of the few site's I have not tried yet and it was rated #1. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you about my experience on the dating site because as soon as I created my account, my account got SUSPENDED! I don't know why it was automatically suspended, I didn't even get a chance to browse anyone's profile since I didn't even get pass the "Make an Account" page! I'm a 30 year old woman and now I am a very confused 30 year old woman. I am just going back to another site I used before. NEVER USE THIS SITE! Luckily I did not pay for a subscription...

Date of experience: July 31, 2023
Colorado
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I payed $100 for 200 credits. It was used up in less then a day. I received notification of messages but they were only telling me people didn't respond to winks so I was charged for those as well.I also received five Google messages from woman just asking for money for groceries. It's a scam! Worst site I've been on.

Date of experience: July 28, 2023
Ohio
1 review
3 helpful votes
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They suspend/block your account for no reason, the site's goal is to make men pay more money, every time this happens guys need to pay more credits to initiate contact again. It's simply their tactic for profit, they don't care if you are in the middle of a good conversation and have not violated any terms, they enjoy suspending your account multiple times to make money.

Date of experience: July 21, 2023
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I paid almost 100.00 for the credits, sent a few messages, and a wink. Ran out of credits quickly. Will NOT be using this site again due to the selection of women over 50 and cost.

Date of experience: July 19, 2023
New York
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Don't waste your money talking to bots
July 15, 2023

I signed up looking for fun, like everyone else. I quickly discovered that you have to pay for every message you send and there are a ton of fake profiles. Don't waste your money here.

Date of experience: July 15, 2023

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