If you Google "Ashleymadison" and "sucks" (or something like that), this one site comes up very prominently:
http://www.ashleymadisonsucks.com/
But if you read the "complaints", even the worst ones couch by saying they're new, and they don't know yet. Or, they say the guys are just idiots and don't read women's profiles before responding, or they're not realistic, blah blah blah. The complaints don’t seem real, and instead seem more like “just try it, it may or may not work, but just try it”.
That's a transparent way to deflect away from the point, that real people aren't complaining because they're not getting responses. We all know how that works, and that one might not get responses on a legitimate site, for a variety of reasons.
They're complaining because they think the sites are actively enticing people to switch from free winks to paid subscripts with fraudulent fake profiles. Or worse, by actively using the fake profiles to wink or send collect emails, to get people to pay to respond.
The reality is, not one "complaint' on the complaint site is actually a complaint. And to top it off, one even randomly posts that they received a link for "another" Ashleymadison complaint site:
http://www.ashleymadisonscam.org/
And low and behold, same posts there, or similar, and not one addresses the REAL complaints from REAL people about alleged fraud.
I just sit back and wonder if the folks at Ashleymadison are just that F'ing stupid, to think anyone buys their bogus "complaint" sites. I can't legally say that Ashleymadison is doing this, but I can give my opinion that it looks this way from all outward appearances.
The thing that really irks me is that sites like Ashleymadison are based on a good solid business model, and they could make a ton of money by providing a service, ethically. They shouldn’t need to have to try and cheat their customers with fake profiles (so it’s appears, but that’s speculation), or by automatically renewing credits without making it clear this would happen (this did happen to me).
I wonder if some U.S. or State Attorney would be interested in investigating this type of fraud. And no, I’m not in any way affiliated with any other site - just a REAL unsatisfied Ashelymadison customer.