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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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Massachusetts
1 review
26 helpful votes
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This site is a scam, don't ever give them your credit card number. When you sign up, the "fine print" authorizes them to make charges to your credit card, they will even charge $19.99 to delete your account.

Date of experience: May 18, 2015
California
1 review
18 helpful votes
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This is my second review of a m. I'm finding that they, Am, re-write your ad if they see it takes away from them lining their pockets/ making money, I've written many ads asking woman to email if they see or read something they like. Am changed my ad or deleted some of my verbiage in order for the conversation to go back and forth on their site and use all my credits/money. I also found that any positive feedback is from a staff member from am

Date of experience: May 17, 2015
Colorado
1 review
17 helpful votes
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I posted here earlier, but one point needs to be reiterated: Nearly every positive review of Ashley Madison is almost surely a fraud. There are in fact quite a few sites with a long string of glowing reviews. At married-dating-guide.com, for one, there are currently 75 of them. You might wonder if so many reviews could all be fakes. Well, yes, they all could be. And are. It is easier than you might imagine for Ashley Madison to have the women whose fake profiles appear on the site spend an hour or two putting positive Ashley Madison reviews every place such reviews can be found using Google search. As for 35 million subscribers, this only attests to the huge number of men who have been scammed. My guess is that 35 million figure has experienced drop-offs of 34.99 million. Face it, guys: We are all suckers for any piece of $#*! that comes along. We want to believe in the worst way that some of these Ashley girls are for real. I wrote a dozen letters to one of them myself before I could admit that I was in denial. But I was. And no quantity of positive Ashley Madison reviews can refute the fraud that I observed for myself.

Date of experience: May 13, 2015
Massachusetts
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Fake profiles, fake wink messages, fake, Fake FAKE! It's all bull$#*!! Save your money and go out, have a few drinks, you will have better luck out in the real world, this site is PHONEY BALONEY! RUN from this scheister set up!

Date of experience: May 10, 2015
New Zealand
1 review
22 helpful votes
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"A fool and his money soon part ways", "If it seems too good to be true it probably is", etc etc. Save your money for a prostitute.

Date of experience: May 7, 2015
GB
2 reviews
19 helpful votes
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BLACK MAIL!
" Hacked " my A*$€. I am now receiving blackmail threats from "secret" *******@takalarvn.com email address threatening to ruin my life.
Do not under any circumstances give these t@$$€\s any or more money. They will just keep bleeding you dry. Starve them out. Contact your bank to cancel your continuous payments to Ashleymadison and get a refund. Contacting your bank takes 5 mins if the payments restart cancel again and again. Mine stopped after 3rd time. And the best bit AM get fined every time for restarting the payments.
I wonder if all the people who cancelled their continuous payments were the ones who got hacked? Or may be scammed in a different way.

At the very best you now know the security is not trust worthy.

They will ruin your life regardless so we may as well deprive them of there cash.
All you naughty people keep it in your trousers and have a good, easy but slightly boring but MUCH easier life.

Date of experience: May 6, 2015
Missouri
1 review
22 helpful votes
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Deceitful
May 6, 2015

This site is soooo disrespectful and for unfaithful men that can't be committed to one person. Sick and demented. HORRIBLE WEBSITE.

Date of experience: May 5, 2015
Ohio
3 reviews
37 helpful votes
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Don't buy into the hype of attractive attached career women or housewives looking for alternatives. More like 99% Nigeria scammers trying to milk you out of your credits with phony profiles. The 1% that are real are short and huge BBWs that are desperate and can't find a boyfriend.

Save your money guys. Seriously don't throw away $50.00 like I did or even more up to $250.00.

Date of experience: May 5, 2015
GB
1 review
29 helpful votes
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For all the reasons the men probably hate it, if you are an attractive attached woman it's fantastic. For men who think no one is real, it's because the reality is the real women just don't fancy you. Get over it. Why would an attractive 30 something old woman want to have an affair with an overweight, 50 something balding man? So yes, I was contacted by lots of unattractive, boring men but I also met one of the most beautiful, successful and intelligent lovers I have ever had. Go in ready to filter out all the noise and you will be rewarded.

Date of experience: May 4, 2015
Washington
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Wish I could get my time and money back. Hell, I'd be happy to get the time back.
The $ is tuition for what I learned about Ashley Madison.
It won't even accept a review with no stars.
I was required to give One, just to get this rating included.

Date of experience: May 3, 2015
Texas
3 reviews
23 helpful votes
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Hey,
I have seen worse sites in my life, trust me. AshleyMadison.com is not all bad! Only problem: it is too expensive. Credits are consumed easily. Saphrina.com is cheaper at the end of the day with similiar results, same with NoStringsAttached24.com.

BTW: Men outnumber women by far, on EVERY single hook up site! Don't believe any myths they all tell ya! And keep in mind: They ALL place fake profiles. Be smart and don't go for all the supermodel profiles. Go for REAL and AUTHENTIC women instead!

Date of experience: May 1, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
13 helpful votes
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I've chatted with lots of men who found me attractive and then they just drop out of sight. The couple that I did meet assured me they were looking for something ongoing. We had a great time and I never heard from them again. Good thing it's free for women though I will say the emotional price is very high. These are not affairs. These are one night stands.

Date of experience: April 24, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
39 helpful votes
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I've been on A.M. now for about 4 years and have met and had sex with 19 women, 4 of which I still see regularly. I can't believe all of the poor reviews on here, but it probably correlates very well to the horror stories the women I have met have told me. Guys with crazy requests, sending $#*! pics immediately, being stalkers through email when you haven't even talked to or met the person yet! Guys, get a clue! Your horrible profiles and behavior is making it very easy for guys like me. I'm no superstar, average looks, average body, hair pretty thin on top, 41 years old and I'm still picking up 25 year olds because I know how to write and talk in a way that sparks interest. It's about separating yourself from the herd of morons who can't write 2 good sentences in a row and then expect women to come running when they send an email like "Meet me behind the gas station so you can blow me in my car" Yeah, that really turns them on... I probably shouldn't even post this cause either you will say I'm full of it, or I'll be helping a bunch of clueless guys start getting laid and cut in to my results. Regardless, A.M. is definitely legit. I won't say that there aren't some "pros" working on there, and maybe that is more apparent in a smaller area, but in large cities, this is the best thing since, well, I can't think of anything better.

Also, for those of you who complain about the cost of credits, I paid 149 for 500 which lasted 3 years. I'm sure most of you could spend that in a few nights at the bar buying drinks for ladies and still end up home alone. So, think about this, I've been with 19 women for under 150$, works out to less than 8$. I must not be a math major, cause that doesn't seem expensive to me.

Date of experience: April 21, 2015
Canada
9 reviews
64 helpful votes
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Senseless...
April 21, 2015

Many artificial female profiles. Artificial because their profiles indicate they reside in your home town, but after a few text messages when there is good confab, one finds out the female profile is located in some distant land. The site has a Boolean rating system for evaluating a character's profile. This may appear as useful, however there is no provision to rate the profile as "real", or "artificial". Perhaps if the site were to include those two characteristics in the rating system, then maybe the entire online dating act would begin to shape up.

Date of experience: April 21, 2015
Canada
1 review
20 helpful votes
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SCAM!
April 21, 2015

Not only is majority of female respondents fake, any positive feedback on this site is probably written up by them. This site is setup specifically to scam. They have people (male & female) working in the back office to send fake reply messages. Once you pay then nothing happens.

Date of experience: April 20, 2015
Florida
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Scam site
April 11, 2015

Every single profile in this site is fake. They ripped me off. And they do not give u your money back. Do not spend a single sollar on this site.

Date of experience: April 10, 2015
Nevada
1 review
21 helpful votes
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Pure Fantasy - SCAM
April 9, 2015

A buddy of mine (53) joined to see if he could hook up with somebody. He found a couple of girls, both around half his age, that had just broken up with some young boyfriend and they wanted to hook up with an older guy. These hotties even sent pictures of themselves. Really wanting to try out a younger woman (my friend was between relationships also) he courted them via texting for a few weeks. Of course they never actually were able to hook up and there were mysterious long delays in responses. He started getting suspicious and asked me to call on my cell phone to see if I could get one of the girls to answer. Unfortunately I just got some automated answering service. I told him it was a scam. He wrote a pretty vicious text to one of the girls. Her response the next day was 'Hey, sorry I haven't responded sooner. Been out of town. How's it going?" And a funny thing happened. I got a text saying the same thing. And now every few days or so, we both get identical texts from Lisa/Marie. I'm guessing it's a robot or some telemarketer type that's trolling through a bunch of customers simultaneously. Honestly, if it seems to good to be true then it probably isn't, and if it's on the Internet then it's definitely not. Accept of course for that guy in Nigeria that needs to get 300 million out of his country; and he'll be willing to give you 10% if you just give him your bank account number. And as for the positive reviews on Ashley Madison, they are bogus also. No one is verifying my story and I can guarantee you no one is verifying the positive stories either. Unless you know someone personally that has actually gotten some in-person romance (not a bunch of saucy sexting messages) then Ashley Madison is simply a catfishing site.

Date of experience: April 9, 2015
California
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Ashly Madison
April 9, 2015

Unfortunately in this country we have made sex a massive sin. As such we have allowed sites like AM to flourish and take advantage of those of us who may experience a need for sex and think the internet is a way to find it. WRONG. Best to go to your local bar or some other place and do it the old fashioned way. If you do go to this site (or any other for that matter) be VERY CAREFUL about how you allow your credit card to be used. They will make it difficult and obfuscate both the terms and the means of stopping or getting out. They are skillful in getting you hooked and then racking up charges like a drunken sailor out in the red light district. Someone called them a business... they are shady at best. And the 'women' on the site? That is a whole other discussion. I got nowhere. Got plenty of prostitutes and other enterprising 'women' looking for ways to get me to do things for them... all of which involved taking more of your money. You see in the end it is true, women are from Venus and men are from Mars. Women are not just interested in sex. So go to ol' rosy and just deal with it. Or take your chances in the supermarket. Meanwhile, avoid this site and its pimping ownership.

Date of experience: April 8, 2015
Texas
1 review
24 helpful votes
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I'm trying to stop payment to this jackasses.
Worthless POS scammers at best.
Replies were exclusively scams and then want to charge me to delete my membership.
I AM LIVID.
I'll report these pukes every place I can.
Dumbass that I am I used a debit card and almost $300 later I don't know if I can get it back from the god damn thieves.
DO NOT USE THIS SITE EVER!

Date of experience: April 6, 2015
New York
1 review
20 helpful votes
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Spent a year, many hundreds of $ and many many hours massaging my Profile and got ZERO meetings. Many many female Profiles are bots that either message "collect" or send you a "gift" requiring you to spend many $ for nothing. Many other Profiles are prostitutes. Out of maybe 200 online contacts I had in that YEAR, only about 4 were legit women who turned out to be either really shy or inundated with requests from other men or A-M bots.

Date of experience: April 2, 2015

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