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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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The site can be boon for some bur it can be bane for some!
I had always been suspicious of my husband who would never answer direct questions about other women. He told me repeatedly that I was paranoid and that he'd never crossed the line. I tried to believe him but kept having recurring dreams where I'd catch him in the act and my dream self would slap him in the face.
After hours of trying to convince myself not to break into his e-mail, I caved in. His user name and password were saved on our computer, daring me to know what was going on. When I got into his inbox I felt like a bank robber, violating every rule of common decency.
I discovered multiple e-mail trails between my husband and women from affair dating sites (the ones he's been using were ashleymadison.com and nostringsaffairs.com). He had invited one of them to go out hours after he told me that doesn't cheat on me. They had been flirtatious for a month.
My world fell apart. I was utterly distraught. He was my world – my friend, my only lover – and he has completely betrayed and hurt me to a degree beyond my comprehension.
You people cheating behind your spouse's back are noting more than sinners that will burn in Hell for turing their back on God and The Bible!
Stay away of these sites!
I joined AM after seeing an online advert claiming that there were women in my area looking for an affair. I joined and everything looked good n positive so I paid. Ive not had many replies yet and the only woman who seems interested in meeting up is over 60km away. Im trying Nostringsaffair.com to and having a bit more luck thank god, as I wouldnt be happy if I was getting nowhere for two subscriptions! If things dont improve on AM ill probably call it quits but hopefully things improve soon, trying to give it the benefit of the doubt as its a nice site.
I agree with Justin T: Some smaller sites, like Saphrina, (maybe NoStrngsAffairs - even though I have not tried them yet) may be much better than AM. Controversial sites like AM polarize, especially with their provocative spots.
After all, AM is one of the best sites still. Be aware that it may be more expensive. On the other hand they offer a large member base but with a bad male-female-ratio).
Some AFF sites may work as well, but you will also find many fake profiles on there.
My opinion: I was most "happy" on Saphrina, but I did not feel uncomfortable on AM. AFF worked as well, but thta was a while ago.
Ashley Madison is the world's best known extra-marital affairs website. Most of its users are from Canada, USA and UK.
Sadly though it has recently been revealed that the site was hacked and millions of its members' details released publicly. Those members are rightly now concerned about their privacy.
To be honest, I always had an inclination that this may happen one day. I never really felt entirely safe using such a huge, popular site.
I personally prefer using smaller sites to find someone to have a discrete affair with. I just have a feeling that this kind of site is not such a significant target for hackers, willing to disclose someone's personal details. I tried quite a few of them and the one I really like was NoStringsAffair.com. There are plenty of members in my area and I had sex with a gorgeous woman I met on the site already! We have had our first date in a restaurant to get to know each other a little bit, but when we met up the second time we booked a room in a hotel and had the most amazing night;)
The great thing about NoStringsAffair.com is the 'no strings' aspect. We continued to have an affair and both of us were cool about it staying that way. We would just meet up and have sex together and no obligation to turn it into a serious relationship. Would recommend it.
Good site if you want your credit cards emptying guys and beware full of scammers
Not sure if you heard but someone hacked them and displayed everyones info public. Would go with much more secure site such as XratedSingles.com
LOL... I am one of those women who "don't exist":)
I agree with many reviewers that sites like Saphrina may be better for men, because they are not as expensive as AM.
But for women AM is simply the best site. Women use AM for free and there are many men to chose from. Maybe too many because it gets very annoying to receive like 200 messages a day.
After all, I agree that AM may not be a perfect solution for men but for women it sure is!
I have been on the site a short time. So far, nothing but disappointment. First girl I contacted on profile said she lived in same city as me. Wrong, she lives in Rusdia, scammer alert!
Second girl was interested in me to promote a cam site and third girl said she wants 500 dollars to meet for sex. Expensive to start as well, expect to pay almost 70 bucks to get credits and fee, will use my credits, move on and keep searching for legit site!
Hey. Ashleymadison is still one of the better sites. I hooked up some nice looking ladies there. It is maybe a bit expensive, but well.
But on the other hand - the real hot dates i found at datingme.org - maybe you just try both. I guess you will really find someone you are looking for.
Greetings,
Marcel
Don't send Wink, the women got them in another Inbox that they don't even go to... because it's like a Trash Can... Even the message system will get you pay so much that after a few days you won't have any credits and i will have cost you a lot...
Waste of money and time.
Also many scam, spam and also sugar baby that want to get your $$$ and prostitute that after a few messages will told you to pay $$ to meet and $#*! them...
Also if your a member never ever drop your credit below 5... if you go to 0 you won't be enable to read your old message and navigate properly in the site...
That's Bull $#*!
I've created a Women profile to understand why women never answer...! Go for it you will understand quickly...
After you joined the site as new user without any credit, you will got a lot of collect message required credit to read. But after you bought some credits, no chicks will send you any wink or message.
Even you use credit to message someone, they will ask you to chat on another website that required to buy credit, or register some kind of hookup ID which is require input your credit card information but the site is not SSL encrypted.
Fake fembot all over on the site.
I got 2 fembot asking to pay to another friend site for chat, another 2 asking me to register "SSID" or some kind of passes.
Here is one of the sample I received:
>>>>>>>
HERE'S HOW TO GET PASSES. JUST FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION CAREFULLY.
Click this http :// <
Create account,
Verify your account/upgrade. On the UPGRADE/VERIFICATION page choose 1 MONTH ONLY
SKIP MEMBERSHIP(Important to skip the payment)
After clicking " Order Now/Submit " you will see a button " SKIPMEMBERSHIP/VERIFY ONLY " on the next page, click on that button so that you will be excluded from the payment, that would tell the system you are only there for the PASSES so all your details will be deleted on the site.
Thanks for your understanding. Looking forward to see you.:*
I am sure after the "hack" everyone who used other affair sites is pretty happy. And even before I believe that "credits" are more expensive anyway. A few messages and they are gone. But in my opinion AshleyMadison.com is still one of the better sites. All the negative reviews are basically not fair. This site is worth MUCH MORE than a one star rating!
I am a married man looking for some excitement. I decided to create a profile using true facts about myself, nothing dirty Nd no dirty pictures. After hearing about the hack of AM information last August I decided to pay for credots on the site by exchanging a major retailers gift card. This method of payment buys you less credits then if you used your personal credit card but there is no personal information stored in AM data base. Most of the profiles are not real, the replies that you do get only want you to use your credits then you never hear back from the person. I only spent $100 which got me 230 credits but my advise to all the married guys looking to fool around is to save your money, AM is a scam.
I used this site a few years ago and the ratio of men: women was something like 20:1, but since the site was hacked it appears that the ratio is now closer to 50:1. What is worse, the women who are using the site now seem to mostly have been attracted by media reports and want to just chat and look at photos of men without actually meeting. That is, of course, unless they happen to find someone unbelievably good looking on there, in which case they might be tempted. But generally there just don't seem to be enough genuine women on there any more to make the site worth joining. The two genuine women with whom I spoke most recently on the site complained that they log on and they are receiving 50+ messages per day, an impossible number to read, and so they tend to delete most or all and only read a couple. Pretty poor odds for the guys... UPDATE: Well after perservering and chatting with more women I have been on a couple of dates and discovered that there are even more men on the site than I previously thought, so it might be closer to 100:1 men: women! It seems that there simply aren't enough women to go around. One lady that I met for a coffee (she had been on the site for less than 24 hours) had already lined up another five dates for the week and her inbox was completely overflowing with messages. A great site for women but pretty rubbish for men. Oh, and quite a lot of the women seem to want payment in either cash or gifts! Most recently I chatted with a local lady who will have sex in exchange for a new pair of shoes. The more expensive the shoes, the more of her she will, er, open up for you...
Their terms and conditions state that they create fake profiles for users to talk to. Girls msg you asking you to msg them (which cost money) once you do they do not reply
As a previous ex owner of a large dating site I went on this to compare. It is clearly obvious that the owners of the site are undertaking fraudulent activities to gain money from members. They post fake profiles and send fake messages so that users use up their credits For which they are being changed.
Stay Well clear
You don't hear much about AM anymore after the hack. Just hope that other (good) affair sites like Saphrina, VM, and so on learned their lesson and invest some extra $ on security. It is a shame that basically good sites (don't care what all the other unsatisfied men review) struggles d/t soem criminals taking down the site.
Unless AM recovers I would use the alternative affair websites (saphrina, vm, maybe some aff sites as well) but I seriously hope that AM will have a "comeback" soon. After all it is a great site!
I'm being told that I have to pay 5000 us to stop someone from sharing my details... you are an have caused me stress... I'm going to sue you... or else close your site down... you are $#*!ers
Why do you not interview women before placing theme on your site.
I Had a 9 month "relationship" with a woman on Anastasia Date that presumably was searching for her ' soul mate". Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Yulia Babaytseva # ******* is indeed a beautiful woman who lures men to Karkov, Ukraine in hopes of their having a romantic interlude with the woman of their dreams and may have the intent of marrying. Unfortunately, Yulia forgets to tell them she is a *** and that will never happen. She talks men out of getting a hotel and has them use a chosen apartment she has set up for them where they can be alone. But she is never alone with you.
Constantly at her side is an interpreter ( even though you may speak intermediate Russian as I do) or her realtor.The apartment is 4 stories up in an old building with no elevator and she charges you probably nine times the going rate. She makes her money off the unfortunate men by skimming off the apartment, taxis ( she never uses her car) restaurants (she has a deal with) and gets a cut off the interpreter. She refuses to be touched, even hold hands, and is constantly wrapped up like a mummy.
Beware of this woman. You easily catch her in lies and you fly back out of town like I did after only the second day.
Answer: Guys, it should not be so complicated to reach out to a girl for a hook up! You can find thousands of them on https://j4l.com/402007 They will contact you themselves, you don't have to put in any efforts if you want to have some fun time online. Or you just need to travel to them but it will be very rewarding, exciting and, what's essential, safe and SECRET experience!
Answer: Cops won't entrap you on AshleyMadison, they don't care. But you wife probably does. Often, she is worse than cops! Lol It's impossible to stay anonymous on AM - it's a well-known site. If you want to keep your affair secret, look for a safer platform, e.g. http://J4Love.net I had two affairs through their service. It was safe, private, unknown to the world and tremendously hot!
Answer: Kind of expensive because they charge by credits. There are cheaper solutions (vm, saphrina, some aff sites)...
Answer: Well, basically you purchase credits and you spend them every time you message someone...
Answer: This site is free for women, which i believe is a big problem. That is why many "professionals" join and try to make you join other sites, cam sites, etc. On sites like vm, saphrina, etc women usually pay as well which is good for the quality of the female profiles. But i guess if you are a woman you should rather join AM.
Answer: The question shouldn't be is it real, but is it worth it. If even one man/woman managed to have an actual affair through Ashley Madison, you could say that it's real. If for every 1 real affair/hookup there are 100's or 1000's of fake users to slog through all the while you're giving them your hard earned money... does that sound like it's worth it?
Answer: If it walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck what is it? Going to church has gotten people laid more than Ashley Madison.
Answer: Bill, this website is not owned by Ashley Madison. If you need to contact them you can call their toll free number 1-866-742-2218. Good luck!
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