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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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New York
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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AshleyMadison.com is one of the very best sites you will find. But it has some issues: To be honest, it is really a very slow and of course expensive process to hook up. As I experienced you will achieve faster results on some other sites, like Saphrina.com and some AFF sites.

After all, I have been lucky on Ashley Madison as well! But again: It takes patience and some cash.

Date of experience: January 5, 2016
NL
2 reviews
86 helpful votes
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Too suspicious
January 4, 2016

I created a blank profile and I received 12 messages which I could not read without paying. 12 messages?! No, thanks, I don't by it!
I'll give a try to nostringsaffair.com and other sites recommended here and then leave my reviews

UPD: as it's been planned, I created my profile on nostringsaffair.com to check if it is any better then AM and it surely IS! Check out my review on http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.nostringsaffair.com#20

Date of experience: January 4, 2016
NL
16 reviews
231 helpful votes
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Tried few affair sites and here's what I figured out: AM looks great site before you pay, then you will get conversations with someone, but who knows who they are. After a while when your nearly out of credits they just stop replying. Also the ones whose profile you have checked out, just happen to be the ones allways on line, funny how they never reply though. I didn't want to keep paying, so I left the site.

Date of experience: January 4, 2016
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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This site has many fake profiles and is aimed simply to extort money from its paid subscribers

Date of experience: January 2, 2016
Delaware
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Wasn't lucky
December 30, 2015

Many fake profiles on this site. Wasn't able to meet with one single woman but I chatted with a few! Maybe it was me that I wasn't lucky! Don't know if there are A N Y good sites out there where you will actually DATE REAL women. Maybe I will try this new site Candilyn.com but for now I am pretty frustrated about what is going on many sites.

Date of experience: December 30, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I've tried almost all affair websites and AM is one of the best I found so far. It may not be as good as Saphrina because you will find more fake profiles on AM and it is still more expensive. But after all AM has REAL members on their site! Don't pay attention to all the haters who claim that AM is a fake website

Date of experience: December 29, 2015
District of Columbia
47 reviews
536 helpful votes
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Love it!
December 28, 2015

AM is full of fake profiles, as much as any other dating site is (ok maybe a little bit more due to its popularity), but if you're not stupid, you can easily recognize and ignore them.
I travel a lot and AM and nostringsaffar.com are the sites I use for my discreet adventures (using both of them just doubles up my chances and also there could be lack of members on AM in some areas, while there's enough of them on nostringsaffair and vice versa).

Date of experience: December 28, 2015
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scam
December 28, 2015

Jioned am and almost instantly contacted by strippers wanting you to go to another site and join and watch them, was recently supprised to be contact by a 26 year old female working in Nigeria as a nurse with the UN, pictures and all turned out to be a Nigerian scam for money. This site is a place for strippers to pick up new clients and now Nigerian scammers to target people, girls uou may see a photo but you don't have any idea if its him or a nigerian targeting you

Date of experience: December 27, 2015
GB
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Scam
December 27, 2015

Ashley Madison is a complete utter total scam. I have been a subscriber and lost GBP 65.00
The people running it should be in prison. You have been warned.
Become a member by all means but don't give them your bank card details and see what happens.

Date of experience: December 27, 2015
Germany
2 reviews
34 helpful votes
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Expensive credits
December 24, 2015

Maybe the largest site for extramarital affairs, but maybe not the best site. I prefer Saphrina.com because you don't have to buy expensive credits. But it is mostly no scam!

Date of experience: December 24, 2015
Texas
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
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I have tested AshleyMadison for a period of 6 months. But that was some time ago in 2014. Right now I agree with some guys: Saphrina and maybe some other smaller sites will do a better job for now. It is absolutely not easy to hook up with people on AshleyMadison. Unfortunately, you will find plenty of fake profiles as well as you will still find many real profiles as well. As mentioned: It is not easy to hook up-especially if you are a man-but it is possible. The main problem I see is that it is kind of expensive. The so called credits are used before you even go on a date and that will be the biggest disadvantage using this site compared to other sites.

Date of experience: December 24, 2015
NL
10 reviews
210 helpful votes
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One of the best sites
December 21, 2015

I still use it on regular basis, but to double up your chances, try nostringsaffair ;)

Date of experience: December 21, 2015
NL
5 reviews
111 helpful votes
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Ok
December 22, 2015

Can't agree that online dating is dead. There's still a lot of sites providing a great service and ashleymadison is one of the best in its field. I think they need to pay more attention to the quality of the database though. But it's not difficult to distinguish fake members from real ones.
If spending hours on separating wheat from the chaff is too much for you, try other smaller sites, which are cheaper but can still provide great results: nostringsaffair.com or saphrina.com

Date of experience: December 21, 2015
France
3 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Nothing special...
December 21, 2015

Not sure if online dating still exists,,,,, i think it got destroyed by scammers

Date of experience: December 21, 2015
Germany
2 reviews
31 helpful votes
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I used AshleyMadison in 2013 and I really liked it back in the days. Yes, I agree with many other reviewers that Saphrina is the new "site to use" in 2015 because you will most likely find more real profiles. But AshleyMadison is one of the better affair dating sites because 90% of all the other sites are pure scam. Do not pay attention to all the negative reviews.

Date of experience: December 20, 2015
NL
12 reviews
213 helpful votes
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AM is a leader in affair niche, but it is not the same site it used to be back in the day. Agree with other guys here - nostringsaffair.com is probably the best alternative if you're looking for one.

Date of experience: December 18, 2015
China
2 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Don't bother
December 17, 2015

Don't buy into these fake reviews, I did and all I did was waste my time. Total let down. Don't bother.

Date of experience: December 17, 2015
Finland
2 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Stop complaining!
December 12, 2015

Many - mostly male - users complaining about AshleyMadison.com... well, why don´t you all use alternative affair websites... instead you all complain about expensive credits and hacker problems.

AshleyMadison.com is not as bad as most poeple try to tell you. Maybe there are better websites. It is all about try and error.

Date of experience: December 12, 2015
NL
4 reviews
103 helpful votes
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Seriously. Of course AM has lots of disadvantages, but we don't live in an ideal world and AM being a pioneer in extramarital affairs is even more than just OK.
Given I travel a lot for work, Ive used AM, VM and nostringsaffair.com a lot to find affairs with no strings attached while on the road. All of these sites work quite good for me. I see people complaining on lack of real members... guys, there's plenty of real women on affair sites. And given that majority of such sites are men, I personally think that fake profiles aspect is sort of natural selection :) So only smart ones will be able to get in touch with me

Date of experience: December 11, 2015
NL
11 reviews
100 helpful votes
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Fake 100% fake
December 10, 2015

If your looking for a porn star they are all her, but no real women

Date of experience: December 10, 2015

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