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Ashley Madison

Overview

Ashley Madison has a rating of 1.66 stars from 1,030 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Ashley Madison most frequently mention fake profiles, credit card, and real women problems. Ashley Madison ranks 721st among Dating sites.

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  • Quality
    183

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Positive highlights

  • I tried nostringsaffair.com and was amazed how well I did and then I decided to join Ashley Madison as well.

Critical highlights

  • They double charged my credit card and have no answered a single email request to correct.
  • Their phone number area code never matched from where they were calling and always lead to dead end.
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Top Positive Review

“WORKED GREAT FOR ME”

Sheri O.
7/8/23

I was on AM several years ago and found it to be a lot of fun. I met wealthy, successful, married gentlemen who treated me very well. I enjoyed their company and their money. Each relationship lasted 2 to 3 months. If you're a lady who enjoys fine dining, shopping, casinos and travel then you'll be pleased with AM.

Top Critical Review

“6 months and absolutely nothing.”

Tim F.
1/2/24

Fake profiles and fake emails to get you to keep hanging on. They'll send you emails saying she's interested but they don't respond or look at my pictures for so many tokens and the pictures are the same as her profile pictures. No one responds unless they're trying to sell you something. I could have gotten a good hooker for the money I wasted on this site.

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Thumbnail of user daved224
1 review
14 helpful votes
August 14th, 2019

Above average. Better than some. But not as good as nostringsaffair.com + a few others. 7/10 IMHO:-)

Thumbnail of user maxs439
1 review
2 helpful votes
November 2nd, 2023

The Ashley Madison site is plagued with false female profiles whose sole purpose is to lure male customers to expend credits. However, among the total pool of female profiles there is a VERY SMALL percentage of women sincerely interested in meeting men.

I am 60'ish, married, handsome, well-mannered, very hygienic, and affluent. I first joined AM during April 2012 and within one month had met and slept with a married woman. After marveling over my ability to satisfy her she ghosted me after our second rendezvous. More recently, about a year ago I met another married woman on AM. She is 25 years younger than I, slender and uninhibited...the real deal...together we continue to enjoy the best sex of my life, all while she calls me Daddy and thanks me for providing her what she can't get at home.

BUT...those are the only two women I have ever had any success with on AM while I have had regular success meeting women on other sites. Based upon my experience, AFF is where a man's money is best invested. But back to AM...if you are a man and join AM, count on receiving endless collect messages from women outside your geographical area. I don't know AM's exact business model - whether AM uses bots or independent contractors - but you will receive messages from women who never respond after you answer their collect messages. Oh, and I should not forget to add that I was one of millions of who received extortion threats when AM was super-hacked - threats which I simply deleted with no repercussions. But beware there were actual suicides as well as many divorces precipitated by that hacking.

Among the millions of female profiles on AM

- the vast majority are there simply to lure a man into spending (and purchasing more) credits. Beware when someone you have just met on AM immediately suggests moving to another communication platform "so you can get to know reach other better".

- a small number of female profiles are associated with women who want a small taste of adventure; for many simply having a profile provides them all the excitement they can handle. Others will message with you for an extended period before disappearing abruptly.

- an infinitely smaller number of profiles belong to women looking for action, and who will not run when it finds them.

Don't waste your time on AM...spend your money on Adult Friend Finder.

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Thumbnail of user chrisj219
1 review
13 helpful votes
February 10th, 2018

I've always had much better luck with sites like Ashley-Madison and Saphrina than with Craigslist. Never even had a single hookup from Craigslist. Dating-Apps annoy me but I use them once in a while. But they are not good enoughif you are a married man looking for like-minded women. In my honest opinion: Stick to affair websites! Even if they are flooded with Fake-Profiles you will still find someone if you stick to women of a similar age.

Thumbnail of user jamesa643
1 review
5 helpful votes
April 24th, 2019

All well known affair sites like Ashleymadison, Saphrina, or whatever ain't that bad at all. Only problem is that you will usually have a pretty bad male-female-ratio. Only the very best profile wins. They are still worth checking out though, especially Ashleymadison still has many members. If you ain't lucky also check out fwb sites like Casualsexonly. Works pretty well if you are straight and honest in your profile. Hope that helps.

Thumbnail of user harryc116
1 review
8 helpful votes
August 4th, 2018

I just recognized that all of a sudden I noticed my credits were used faster than usual. So I saw a change from 5 credits to 7 credits per initial message. So AM is becoming more expensive and obviously they changed their pricing?! I don't appreciate it and now I consider to use subscription-based sites like Saphrina although Am worked for me in the past. Great site but they just should not become too greedy.

Thumbnail of user mrj249
1 review
8 helpful votes
July 2nd, 2019

I hav had sum luck on AM but also had long dry spells. Theres lots of good sites now, tonnes of them. Id recommend NoStringsAffair.com as the current best 1 but there r others 2, loads. No need to stay wit a site is it doesn't wrk after 3 mnths IMO. The affairs dating game is a buyers market lol]

Thumbnail of user jimmyp115
1 review
19 helpful votes
March 25th, 2020

I am going to guess that at least 50% of the women on AM are not real. It is kind of suspicious that many have the green dot on, indicating thet are on-line, 24/7. Also I have received responses from women who haven't read my profile and then just disappear. You'd think AM would be trying to do a better job of being authentic after the scandal found that the majority of profiles were fake. Disappointing. There are real women on the site but you are going to burn through a lot of credits finding one.

Thumbnail of user cavinp
13 reviews
228 helpful votes
January 4th, 2016

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.

Tip for consumers:
You can play with AM, but my choice now is nostringsaffair.com-it ROCKS!

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Thumbnail of user jacksonn12
1 review
10 helpful votes
September 28th, 2019

Yes, there are fake profiles. Yes, there are escorts.
And yes, scammers. That being said, these should all be fairly easy to identify when you're on the site. I've been on for a little over a month and have had contact off the site with about 7 women. Get the people you're talking to off the site (go to kik, Snapchat or something like it). Also, so many guys blame not talking to any women on the site just being a scam. Maybe don't post a pic of your $#*!? How bout smiling in your profile pic instead of looking like an angry rapist? Common sense, clean yourself before taking a pic... wear a nice freaking shirt. If you're sending real messages to enough women that don't have shady profiles and take the time to create a decent profile yourself, you'll meet someone.

Thumbnail of user davet147
1 review
4 helpful votes
May 20th, 2018

Read a lot of good things about this and nostringsaffair.com (these two seem to be the main leaders that can be trusted in the area of online affair hookup sites. I joined a couple of weeks ago and ive been impressed. Need to find something soon or ill lose my mind! Thanx 4 reading / Big Dave from the West Midlands:-)

Thumbnail of user itsmenotyou57
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 19th, 2023

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.

Tip for consumers:
Guys, don't pay on this site. Very expensive..

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Thumbnail of user adams508
1 review
12 helpful votes
December 10th, 2018

Quite a few tarty slappers n hot wives on here to ogle, no doubt lolz! Im meeting up with one on thurs so hoping ill be in ball deep by the end of the week. My strategy is to use nostringsaffair.com together with Ash Mad + put some effort into that shizzle. It's the only way, bros! And keep the missus away from the laptop ha!

Thumbnail of user mattt40
1 review
21 helpful votes
April 8th, 2016

Those giving the totally negative reviews are probably guys who click on every message they get believing it to be genuine. There are definately fake profiles on ALL THE SITES but they are definately easy to spot. Why complain about the charge to delete the profile? Why not just stop using it? Unless you were dumb and put something on it that identifies yourself. It is possible to be successful without spending too much. I've had few affairs with women I met on AM and NoStringsAffair.com. Don't be fools and you'll get lucky!

Thumbnail of user tedb43
3 reviews
111 helpful votes
December 21st, 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

Thumbnail of user andrease1
7 reviews
118 helpful votes
January 29th, 2016

After what happened in 2015 affairs sites have changed. I tried some of the other sites while ago and it just didnt feel secure enough for me. I decided to follow some recommendations here and gave NoStringsAffairs.com a try since then as its clear from their messaging that they put data security first. So far so good, but still can't trust this kind of sites :(

Thumbnail of user cubanl
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 27th, 2021

After the site got hacked in 2016, it went to garbage. There are more bots now and it's like 7 credits to send one message and most users never respond.

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Thumbnail of user mattc126
1 review
2 helpful votes
April 5th, 2018

I'm feelin' a bit meh about this so far. Def not as good as No Strings Affair which is a kick $#*! site for guys looking to cheat for what ever your reason I aint not gonna judge ha ha

Thumbnail of user douglasm187
1 review
26 helpful votes
July 24th, 2018

As a married man with a wife that lost interest in sex a long time ago I think sites like this really help. Would also recomend nostringsaffair.com

Thumbnail of user tomh1030
1 review
15 helpful votes
June 19th, 2020

I switched to Ashley Madison last year after all the hullabaloo with VM. I found it ok and used it for four of 5 months. Had a few interesting chats but in the end decided there just weren't enough new women in my area being added so switched over to nostringsaffair.com at the start of this year and have been using that ever since. For me its about having plenty of options locally or it just isn't worth it, so that's why I ended up cancelling AM and switching over. Good site otherwise though.

Thumbnail of user davidl242
6 reviews
296 helpful votes
January 7th, 2016

Joined AshleyMadison last month and nothing special to report yet. Will keep trying as I had a similar thing on Nostringsaffair.com and then all of a sudden got lucky twice in a week with a couple of very nice married women. Hopefully patience will pay off here too, if not ill be cancelling.

Thumbnail of user maryn1095
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 6th, 2021

I used AM during my divorce one Doctor tried to demand I come to his come Two hours from are I live and get this he rates me as nite good he spent night drunk and walking around an Embassy as though Zi fell for his meds I took train home and he claims as they all do he has an open marriage do Why did he put. Tux picture on profile with her bad in it in Picture. It is pathetic that one even tried to lewer me to his country cabin with disposed college girlfriend he was trying to re date so dad but it was sexy to tie and Peggy him but the basic sad demand and totally nerd facto is to much I was in military as rx spouse so please guys up your game and Do not try to force s skii weekend when you can not pay for s can when your date does not want to be in car with drunk.So not Zi want to play but listen the military guys I dated in past had game not little boy cheap games and bragging they live in, 2.5 Millon dollar home. Clue take a bath and do not put on s designer shirt to cover dad Body oder
O was tired of hearing how there wives would not have sex I felt like s therapist and they Said they did not want hooker but tried to demand I go home with them three dates sex on one.and you criss dresser I hope you ate better behaved
I love cross drsdorys they have game
So many sad men and so much time do not treat this like s brothel and s tip buy dinner and get to know date. I hate men who act like boys before bedroom and the drunk demand date has to go even for PhDs!?

Thumbnail of user phillipb48
1 review
2 helpful votes
May 15th, 2017

I think im close to setting up my first affair on this site but ive been thinking that for a while now. On nostringsaffair.com things seemed to happen a bit quicker but im not giving up yet as I guess not all sites can be that good. Im trying to put the work in and send as many messages as I can every day but it can be difficult in the evenings with the old ball and chain hanging around the place. I think its a good site but so far cant give it more than 3 stars ***

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Tim T.
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
December 2nd, 2018

First, I'm an older married guy. In great shape, not so bad to look at, No hunk either. So I'm torn, give it a 1 for the many fakes, give it a 5 for the 4 ladies I've laid, including 1 one night stand with 4 hours notice. Guys outnumber girls, obviously. I've tried other sites and have also scored on miss travel, POF, and badoo, I've had my longest lasting fling from POF, 10 years and counting. And a gal I met on badoo saw me every time I visited her city for 8 years. It takes lots of credits to message lots of girls to weed through the fakes. Is it worth the money? NO, every guy should stay away. I will gladly meet every one of the real women on here instead of competing with you.

Thumbnail of user vincentb111
1 review
4 helpful votes
August 9th, 2018

Not the best site ive used for meeting married women (thats nostrongaffair.com) but I would say you can sign up an see who is in your nearby area then go from there. I dont think its a scam I just find that I dont get that many replies but prob 'cause in not in a city or some thing like that maybe.

Thumbnail of user joshs162
1 review
4 helpful votes
July 22nd, 2018

It still seems to be the most popular adultery website but it requires a lot of effort if you are a man. But besides Saphrina I don't really see any alternative to AM. So my advice: Stick to it or search your luck offline. It's that simple!

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