Ashley Madison Case Study

I joined and purchased 500 credits and got 500 free: 12/28/21 for $149

Thank you for your purchase!

Hi xxxxxxxx,

Your payment in the amount of $149 USD for the 500+500 Credit Package has been confirmed and your account has been updated.

This charge will appear on your statement under the discreet billing descriptor ‘AMDA’, not as Ashley Madison. Have questions? Call us anytime, 24/7, we’re here to help 1-866-882-5409

If after reading my review and experience you still decide to use Ashley Madison, make sure you the buy 500 + 500 or 200 + 200 deal. It is way cheaper.

A little while later I got another email from them:

Thank you for your purchase!

Hi xxxxxxx,

Your payment in the amount of $19.99 USD for the Mobile Access has been confirmed and your account has been updated.

This charge will appear on your statement under the discreet billing descriptor ‘AMDA’, not as Ashley Madison. Have questions? Call us anytime, 24/7, we’re here to help 1-866-882-5409

If calling is not your thing, we have other ways for you to get in touch. Email us, use our online form, or simply reply to this email.

I did not order this, but decided not to complain to see if they’d add anything else without my permission like the special offer at the bottom of the email for “Member Initiated Contact.” They didn’t charge me for anything else, but you should be careful if you’re foolish enough to use their site.

I just sent them this email and I’m curious to see their response. (Sunday, 1/24/21)

Dear Customer Service Team,

I did not order the mobile access and not sure why I was charged $19.99 for it and also

noticed it’s a monthly subscription. Please cancel it, refund the $19.99 and whatever

my credits left in my account are worth. 

I have 802 credits left so that’s equivalent to $120 since I paid $149.

I am extremely unhappy with my experience using your site as a pro-active member who

wrote real messages to the supposed women on your site. 

I have tracked every contact, messages, screen names, photos, and end results, on a spreadsheet

which I am planning to publish on a dating review type site I am building.

In three weeks, though making a real effort, I did not end up talking to a single woman. I have

a tech background and used an IP logger and other tools to find out who I was dealing with.

Most were in Nigeria or Ghana and the fake pics are east to figure out doing a simple image

search on Google. 

I am on my third site, Match, and I’ve already spoken to five women in 1.5 weeks, and they are

real. I have about ten real messaging chats with real women, and have many more possible 

connections in the works.

Please refund me and either way, the result will be published on my case study style dating site, but

at least a refund will look better for you. 

Hoping you’ll do the right thing,

My name and number

Here is a screenshot of the Google Sheet I used to track everything:

So out of 24 contacts by private message 15 were scammers, eight I was never able to continue contact with, and one I suspected might be real only due to something she said in her PM to me.

I have been on eharmony for a few months, but have only used it in a passive way. I have only responded to women who have sent me a “smile,” and “Icebreaker,” or a direct message. I usually get a few a week. Up until today, I have not explored the “matches” eharmony has suggested for me based on their algorithms. Today, I’ve decided to attempt to get my money’s worth for the $419 I paid them, and will post my results here.

My methodology and strategy: I copy and paste this into my initial message to women I am attracted to based on their profile and pics. ” I like who you say you are on your profile and you’re a beautiful woman. If you’d like to talk, text, or email, my phone number is XXX-XXX-XXXX and my email address is: XXXXXX@gmail.com. Warmly, Reid.”

I don’t have time for a lot of back and forth messaging on the eharmony website, and prefer to take communication to the more direct route of text chatting or better yet, talking on the phone.

I will report my results here, and it should be interestin