• AdultFriendFinder

AdultFriendFinder

Overview

AdultFriendFinder has a rating of 1.93 stars from 663 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about AdultFriendFinder most frequently mention fake profiles, customer service, and gold membership problems. AdultFriendFinder ranks 716th among Dating sites.

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  • Value
    92
  • Shipping
    28
  • Returns
    41
  • Quality
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  • Customer service is beyond pathetic can never get a supervisor on the line.
  • You can pay for a Silver or Gold membership and meet people for sex.
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Top Positive Review

“Not for youngsters”

Seenvik H.
3/7/24

Youngsters, pass it by, it's not for y'all :) Jokes aside this is a great service uniting lone hearts around the globe =) I used it regularly and have no complaints at all. It was interesting for me how things are done here, but now, after testing the waters, I am like a fish in it. A couple of simple steps and you aren't alone anymore, and next day, and the following too. Ha, thank you guys for creating this dating service, for me it's of utmost importance having a such one under the belt.

Top Critical Review

“Illegal site. It is not free. Fake ladies that try to blackmail you. Do Not Sign Up. You regret it.”

Jerry B.
2/11/24

The site states "FREE". Wrong, it's not and the ladies are fake. A fake front to blackmail you. They threaten to post all your information on the web, but don't fall for it. They place very attractive pictures and a chart will start. You think you are taking to a lady but you are not. It's a scam. Do not send any photos of yourself. Avoid this site at all cost. I canceled and deleted all my information within a half hour.

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Thumbnail of user joshuar1140
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 15th, 2024

It can be used for a small talk, but don't expect more.
You have to pay for everything, even for reading messages! But most of the people are just killing time there when they have nothing to do. If you are bored and looking for a small talk or a sexy chat to bring some variety to your life - this site can help you, but don't expect it to take you further on. Is it worth the money they want you to pay for messaging and chatting? Absolutely no!

Thumbnail of user geraldbianchi8
4 reviews
3 helpful votes
February 11th, 2024

The site states "FREE". Wrong, it's not and the ladies are fake. A fake front to blackmail you. They threaten to post all your information on the web, but don't fall for it. They place very attractive pictures and a chart will start. You think you are taking to a lady but you are not. It's a scam. Do not send any photos of yourself.
Avoid this site at all cost. I canceled and deleted all my information within a half hour.

Tip for consumers:
Fake site doing business as FREE, but it's not.

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Dating singles

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Thumbnail of user joec2490
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 2nd, 2024

While there are real people on the site, the operators engage in fraud every day, First, no natter how many times you put auto-renew on OFF, the system will auto renew. Forget trying to make picture private because the function doesn't work. In fact, the site is so poorly designed that I wish you the best of luck on figuring out how to make pics private. I've been on this site for years, on and off, and have finally reached the off side on a permanent basis. Nothing has changed over the years. The people who run it should probably have been prosecuted or fined into oblivion years ago for their fraudulent practices.

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Thumbnail of user ryannatural
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 12th, 2024

It's frustrating. It lacks a lot to be desired.
I will never use it again. My experience overall bad.

Thumbnail of user ipepsung
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
February 29th, 2024

This adds are fake made by the same people that run this site. They pretend to be real people but you soon find out that is just scammers sitting in the Phillipines...you will never meet anyone no matter what you do.its sad that sites have to do this for money...also your credit card information is at risk. Shortly after we signed up we started to get fraud churches in our card. DO NOT UAE THIS SITE IF YOU WANT TO MEET REAL PEOPLE.

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Thumbnail of user catw53
1 review
5 helpful votes
January 3rd, 2024

I'm a woman, I was on AFF for about 4 days. The gender balance must be skewed because I got like 300 messages in that time. I couldn't reply to all of them. Many guys started off mean because they thought I was a fake profile. Many guys messaged aggressively over and over again. Then suddenly my account got reported and deleted. I think it was someone in my inbox I hadn't replied to. Thought it was a fluke so made a new profile and started building connections again, and within 2 days someone reported me and got my account deleted. All the men complain about bots… but report and ban real women for not responding fast enough. I never did anything against community guidelines and all my interactions were polite and flirtatious. The company refused to look into the reason I was flagged. If you're a dude you should know that some losers on the site make it their personal mission to ban real women.

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Thumbnail of user jimb2997
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 14th, 2024

Chatted with 5 different females. 4 out of the 5 lied of their locations and used every excuse to try to scam money for different reasons and wanting amazon gift cards or other type of cards
And phone numbers they would text from were all false numbers

Thumbnail of user kentw173
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 22nd, 2024

It seems like when you send a message you don't get many responses. I don't see myself as a homely person. I used to do body building. So apparently if you don't spend a $#*! load of money, you don't get any responses. I understand you get what you paid for but you should get something from this. All I can say is i'm going to try another site.

Thumbnail of user geraldg554
3 reviews
17 helpful votes
November 6th, 2023

All of their AIs cannot answer simple yes or no questions do not respond for at least a week or two threatening to illegally sue you if you try to cancel your credit card stay away from this site. Complete joke.

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Thumbnail of user bahmaeredd
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 14th, 2024

Was trying to get a gold membership, which is $24, but they try to charge me $64, DO NOT PAY! SCAM

Thumbnail of user seenvikh
4 reviews
0 helpful votes
March 7th, 2024

Youngsters, pass it by, it's not for y'all :)
Jokes aside this is a great service uniting lone hearts around the globe =)
I used it regularly and have no complaints at all. It was interesting for me how things are done here, but now, after testing the waters, I am like a fish in it. A couple of simple steps and you aren't alone anymore, and next day, and the following too. Ha, thank you guys for creating this dating service, for me it's of utmost importance having a such one under the belt.

Thumbnail of user duluthralphie
1 review
4 helpful votes
November 21st, 2023
Verified purchase

I bought a 3 month membership. I was not happy with it, I got to chat with a few people, which was fun. I found no one I wanted to meet, or to have cyber with.

With about three weeks left on my membership, I wrote on my profile, I was no longer willing to pay for the membership.

Somehow,,,, it was changed to " I am willing to pay for sex" Crooked Moderators? Who knows.

I was send a notice to change my profile. I was working at the time it came
I received a notice I was banned for soliciting an hour later.

I was still working. I tried to call customer support and they told me my profile said "I was willing to pay for sex"

There is no appeal, I asked if I could see what it said on my profile and was told I would need a court order to see it.

It's no big deal, as I spent my time avoiding the bots and scammers when I was there.

It might be an alright site for a young person, I am older, I did talk to some nice people. However, most the sex stuff seemed to be gay orientated, not my cup of tea.

As you can see by the letters they can't even keep straight what they claim I did

Thumbnail of user stayingd
1 review
14 helpful votes
May 25th, 2022
Verified purchase

When I first used this site in 2012 I had no problems whatsoever meeting real people it was just narrowing it down to who I would choose. I started up an account again about a month ago with a paid gold membership and haven't come across ANY real people. They're all fake. A couple conversations went as far as sure we can hook up but I have to pay up front first either with cash or an apple gift card. What a waste of time and money.

Tip for consumers:
Don’t get an Adult Friend Finder account

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Thumbnail of user danam655
3 reviews
10 helpful votes
January 8th, 2022

This site is too hard on men. My husband lets me date on the side, and it's a great life having my home life and then getting to be single on occasion. So I joined AFF to find some fun and at first it seemed promising, but I soon realized the high cost and fake womens profiles were driving single men away from the site, and that affects the number and quality of my local selections. They need to ease up on single guys.

Tip for consumers:
shop only Gold members to avoid fakes

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a guy 50 miles away

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Thumbnail of user frankc859
2 reviews
25 helpful votes
March 8th, 2024

AdultFriendFinder it's like taking all the scammers and frauds on earth and putting them in this website. From the day I started on this app I was literally reporting over 20 scammers per day to AdultFriendFinder and their response to me in their email replies were we don't have anything to do with scammers. We don't pay them and we can't stop them. Now had I seen this in an advertisement before I spent money on this $#*! hole site I never would have joined. Like all dating sites you have to expect some ratio of scammers. AFF brings that ratio in my view in my calculations eight out of 10 members on these sites or scammers. The entire messaging protocol for lease scammers is once they receive your message. The first thing they want to do is go to Google chat or Skype get your email or get your cell phone so you can talk in private. Once you tell them no they're gone deactivated account then you have the profiles and the pictures that don't match a profile will say I'm 50 years old and the picture will show a female not even 18. There are also profiles that grammatically embarrass the instructor whoever taught an English class in school, so you know that these profiles are written by foreigners who don't understand the English language grammar. Then there are really stupid scammers who put their screen name up and use the 900 number nine 9909 after their name. This is an indication that this scammer is coming from North Africa, because that is there I don't wanna say ZIP Code, but it is their location code of where they're scamming from. Then of course you have some of the scammers who for instance a female profile will say my name is SophiaJason22, or SuzetteJohn3452, AshleySam7400… these can be prostitutes or scammers who are actually in groups, and this is how they make their money online there are associated with some representation, so they put that in the screen name. People stay away from AFF. It is a cesspool. If you want nasty pictures if you want liars cheats scammers prostitutes, children acting as adults. This is the so-called dating site for you, but if you're a decent human being, I would stay the hell away from this site.

Tip for consumers:
The FBI phone number to report the plethora of scammers and frauds

Thumbnail of user abua44
3 reviews
16 helpful votes
March 13th, 2023

Yes, it's legit but how good is it?
Dont bother with the free version.
I signed up a month ago. My experience is limited. Most of the responses I received were either from scammers or prostitutes. If you were a woman, you would find me very boring and undatable. The few real women I met, stopped communicating with me (as they should) after few messages. Those who didn't, were scammers. They ask you to move to a different platform to get you to send them money. They claim to be registered nurses who volunteered with the unicef to save children's lives. I received so many of those messages/emails you would think there's a special sale going on in the unicef these days. The website doesn't seem to track scammers or do anything about it.
The site suite those who seek wild stuff better. Group sex, couples, sadism/masochism, bandage... ect.
Expect an ample of nudity.
The site doesn't accept prepaid gift cards but accept regular credit cards and stores gift cards. For store gift cards, they'll use the entire balance.

Thumbnail of user jeyr3
1 review
6 helpful votes
March 26th, 2023

A.F.F. Blocks and bans accounts at random for no reason. This has happened to me five times in one month. And they wont tell you why, or what you are doing wrong. After a few days of registering, you'll get a msg. Saying your log in info doesn't match their record when it actually does. So don't purchase a gold membership. You'll be banned after 3 or 4 days and you wont get a refund.

Tip for consumers:
Do not join this site. Do not pay for a membership.

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Thumbnail of user nicks1463
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
January 7th, 2023

This site has been around for ages, and I'm sure at some point in the distant past it may have been "the world's largest adult community", but there's hardly any active users on there. Most would have been roped in to sign up and then realised that the site is barely usable without a paid membership (which isn't exactly cheap). It's anyone's wonder these guys still exist, when there are so many better FREE alternative hook up apps available.

Tip for consumers:
It would be good to know up front that the site is only usable for paid memberships.

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Thumbnail of user howardd243
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 22nd, 2024

I had had a free ("Standard") account on AFF for years, just as a kind of timewaster. December of2023 I bit the bullet and paid for a "Gold" membership". I used a $30 store gift card to buy a month's worth of Gold membership which was supposed to cost $27.99 and AFF took the whole $30. I also think they shorted me a day on the month's worth. A Gold membership is supposed to let send and receive messages to/from other Gold members, but when I started keeping track I found that less than a third of women on the site were Gold members, maybe only a quarter. Gold membership also lets you send messages to Standard (free) members, but it was never clear to me whether they could reply. AFF sells a "Standard Contacts" package (for $35 per month) which is supposed to allow Standard members to send unsolicited messages to you, essentially doubling the cost of a paid membership.
Of the two dozen or so women Gold members to whom I sent messages, only 2 or 3 bothered to reply, and then only to tell me (politely) that they weren't interested. I received "auto-reply" messages from a couple of them telling me that they would get back to me when they got a chance. I did have one nice conversation with a woman outside my search radius, but that's all it was. Several women did contact me who clearly were scammers of some sort, one who really wanted me to send her my cell number.
AFF profiles indicate when a member joined and his/her last login. I noticed a substantial number of women's profiles which had not been logged into since the day they were put up months or years earlier. They had either found someone that quick, or had soured on the AFF experience that quick.
I also noticed that anomalous clusters of women listed certain small towns as their location. It does not surprise me that there are female AFF members in small towns, maybe even two in a town of less than 1000 population, but when there is 3 or 4, I'm betting that at least one is a fake of some sort.
I decided not to renew my Gold membership, and, sure enough, the day it expired, I got a bunch of messages, including one from one of the auto-reply ladies.
It may be possible, were I patient enough, that I could meet an interesting woman through AFF, but I am no longer willing to pay for the privilege. AFF may not be a scam, but it's probably a waste of your time and money.

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Thumbnail of user russellp114
2 reviews
38 helpful votes
March 30th, 2020

I joined AFF last week. Maybe ive been spoiled by HookupHangout but for me this site isn't all that yet. Yes their are women and yes they seem real which is good. But im struggling to get all that many replies yet. I concede that its still early days and I have heard a lot of good things about AFF but its one week gone and still no sex. Will see what next week brings

Thumbnail of user rikis14
1 review
3 helpful votes
September 3rd, 2023

The vast majority of profiles are fake...scammers trying to get details for id theft, or get you off platform and send you phishing links or invitations to dubious websites.

In addition to no vetting process for profiles, I was ironically
suddenly locked out of site two thirds of way through my subscription period, and when I wrote to help desk to get help, after numerous emails back and forth was told I had violated their terms of use and my account was being deleted with no refund, no explanation or proof of what terms of use had been violated, and no terms of recourse offered.

Shameful extortionist racket.
Will see if Australian consumer protection offices such as the dept of fair trading have any advice on taking on a US based corporate scam. In the meantime suggest Red Hot Pie ( also has fake profiles, but fewer, and there is recourse because local, a much better option.

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Thumbnail of user ryank85
1 review
15 helpful votes
May 1st, 2018

Joined this as ive had such an awesome time on hookuphangout recently that I had to see if I could double the fun! It's not quite working out that way, it's not bad but not quite the same level. I get the feeling not many sites will be though. Will give it a bit longer, just in case.

Thumbnail of user galana
1 review
8 helpful votes
June 19th, 2022
Verified purchase

Too many fake multiple profiles. No way to filter out homosexual or tranny people from searches or from contacting you. Too any young women attempting to scam older men. The almost $28 for one month gets you access. Everything else is added purchase including allowing free members to contact you. Should that not be my option if I am paying for full access? By not allowing free members to access me, it denies my purchased full access!

Tip for consumers:
Unless you're a pervert, pass this site up

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Thumbnail of user abgaila522
1 review
3 helpful votes
October 28th, 2023

The site is a scam. They will close your account for reasons such as "violation of terms of use" and never send an email with the terms of use so you can find out what you did that was wrong. They will send notification from interested members to your email, but no emails to tell you that your account was closed or why. They do not refund your money either. If you pay $245 for a year membership, they will not give it back. My account was closed while it was being reviewed for approval. I got only three days of limited use before they closed it and took my money. The phone support is rude and unhelpful. They claim you can not get information about your account without a court order. So, you have no recourse to complain about their predatory policies.

Tip for consumers:
They use predatory policies. They treat you like a scammer even when you verify your identity. They do not refund your purchase.

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Thumbnail of user norteeby49
1 review
4 helpful votes
August 17th, 2023

They lure you in with things like pics and live chat which never work. Then they log you out remotely and when you try to use your password to reenter they reject it. They then reject the code they themselves emailed you. If you complain enough, they remotely log you back in again but it only lasts awhile. When you try complaining they suggest you upgrade to GOLD service. It's a scam. The escorts are not even real. Avoid at all costs!

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Yes, they are truly evil people.

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