ashleymadison.com.au promises customers sex or your money back
by: Angus Thompson
From: Herald Sun
July 26, 2011 12:00AM
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The founder of ashleymadison. com.au, said he would personally reimburse cheats who couldn’t find a fling by following the website’s guidelines. Herald Sun
AN adultery website that has almost half a million Australian members is now providing a money-back guarantee if its customers don’t have an affair.
Noel Biderman, the founder of ashleymadison. com.au, said he would personally reimburse cheats who couldn’t find a fling by following the website’s guidelines.
But Mr Biderman, ironically in Australia to renew his wedding vows, said Ashley Madison wasn’t just about philanderers shacking up. Affairs, just like marriages, had to be worked on.
“I think people sometimes mistakenly assume that Ashley Madison is just an online brothel,” he said.
“If you want to find the right level of success, we think there is the commitment level you need to make, and if it doesn’t work out for you then we’ll give you your money back.”
The dating site’s Australian arm has more than 400,000 members and launched a successful smartphone app last year.
The website claims to protect love rats from leaving a trail of “digital lipstick” by deleting personal communication between users and keeping identities secret.
The website has drawn international condemnation since its launch in 2001, with family groups accusing Mr Biderman of making money from others’ grief.
Family Council of Victoria president Peter Stokes said the website’s success was a sad reflection on society.
“The sheer fact that he thinks there’s a market out there shows how degraded we’ve become in terms what we think relationships are,” Mr Stokes said.
“Yes, some marriages break up, yes some husbands play up and so do some wives, but do we have to normalise it?”
But Mr Biderman said Ashley Madison was just facilitating something that had long existed.
PUBLISHED Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:28 pm EDT
Raptors big man Andrea Bargnani is distancing himself from reports that he is in negotiations to play for Virtus Roma during the lockout, thanks to backing from Ashley Madison.
Ashley Madison, a dating site for people seeking extramarital affairs, is willing to spend €1.5 million (US$2.05 million) to sponsor the partnership between Bargnani and Roma, according to a report on Sportando.
Andrea Bargnani says he’s not involved with the AshleyMadison.com/Roma report. (AP Photo)Bargnani, via his Twitter feed (translated by Sporting News), denies he’s involved in these talks.
“I just want all of my fans and whomever has read stories in the daily papers these days to know that I am totally not connected to whatever has been written and attributed to me for a month.”
A report earlier this week said that Virtus Roma owner Claudio Toti was reluctant to approve the deal with Ashley Madison, perhaps because of the Vatican’s influence in Rome and throughout Italy.
To my fellow readers,
Let me tell you something straight from the beginning.
I’m skeptical about popular online married personals. I really am skeptical about how effective they are at finding new partners.
Seriously, I don’t believe in them. If you give me a few minutes, I’ll tell you why it I think this.
But first of all, let me start by explaining how I got here, and why I’m writing this article…
About a month ago, from the time of this writing, I was on my computer when I received an e-mail message from a friend telling me about his experience with a website that dealt with married personals called “Ashley Madison Agency,” or ashleymadison.com.
I see my friend as a very reliable person that I can trust when it comes to products and services, which is the reason why I clicked on his link at all. And then this brings me here…
“But how come I feel so damn skeptical about popular online married personals and why do I loathe them so much?”
Where I started with Ashley Madison…
But, I have never been a huge fan of “popular” online dating sites – whenever I hear about these popular online dating sites from other users, they often say “It’s a scam” or “There are thousands of fake accounts.”
These websites always emphasize something such as “4,000,000+ users, find the passion of your life now!” as part of their sales pitch – a regular person may think “wow! That’s a lot! I want to subscribe! Here, have my money!”
All of a sudden, the same people who subscribed to the service realize that many of the members aren’t responding to them – only to find out that the online dating website keeps inactive accounts on there to boost their so-called “4,000,000 people” membership. Then they try and look for another website that’s gaining popularity, only to have the same thing happen again…
This is great for the people that are running the websites – but pretty crappy for the suckers who are subscribing.
[Side note: I just want to say that I have used online personals before. I usually used the ones that didn't boast high membership numbers, because I believed at the time that there would be more real accounts on them and that it would be less of a "scam"]
Thus, you can imagine what was going through my mind when my friend notified me and recommended a widely known married personals such as Ashley Madison Agency for my wife and I to use. Like I said before, I only clicked on his link because he’s usually pretty accurate when it comes to products and services.
When I got to the Ashley Madison Agency website, I didn’t think much of it. It looked like any other married personals. I signed up as a free member, and thought that the interface looked sort of okay as a quick glance. As I looked into it further, I saw that here were a lot of members. Many of them seemed to have real profiles too!
But then again, I have to be honest to you…
My Beginning with Ashley Madison…
At this moment, I was still thinking to myself “decent website, lots of subscribed members; looks like there could be a lot of potential… but then again, how am I to know the true quality of this website if I became a paying member? – Forget it.”
Then that was it; I left Ashley Madison Agency… but about a week later, my friend sent me another message telling me about his “adventures” with the girls on Ashley Madison. He was telling me how he was able to meet a few girls in person by using that website. He told me that I seriously needed to stop thinking too much about my previous biases, and to just give the website a try. So, I decided to take some of my extra spending money and subscribed to the most basic level of Ashley Madison Dating Site.
Just incase you’re wondering, I only subscribed because… well, money isn’t that big of a problem for me right now (especially with the amount I’m earning), and I was about to tack it on to my list of “things-to-do” if my friend started talking to me about it again (he was annoying the hell out of me until I used the website, since he kept insisting it was a great way to meet new partners for my wife and I!)
So, I decided to give his recommendation a try. To make full use of my new membership, I sat down for an hour and set everything up. I created my full profile, and talked to some people…
But I needed more than an hour…
As I was using this, I realized that the problem with online dating sites is that you can spend hours upon hours chatting and sending messages, but still not receive any good results. That’s a big reason why many people think they’re “scams.” In the right hands though, you can meet a lot of people… in the wrong hands, there’s just no luck…
Does it look possible to even get these people?
Let me explain…
- Let me explain to you how can make the best use of your Ashley Madison Agency membership
- Learn how to best handle married personals so that you can meet people fast…
- …and have many new partners by your side, even if you’re single, part of a swinging couple, or just looking for a discreet relationship.
Keep reading to find out the truth
In the end, it took me less than a week to apply my “real world” dating knowledge to online dating – Less than a week to start getting replies for nights out using Ashley Madison Agency. Believe me, my wife and I were having a lot of fun using these married personals.
Ashley Madison Agency’s Features
1. Priority Mail Feature – When you see someone you’re interested in, you could try and give them a priority message. What this does is it bumps your message all the way to the front of their inbox when they check it. They have to go through your message in order to see the remaining mails they have! This is killer with the right message, which almost guarantees a response; but is also completely useless in the hands of a person who can’t write a good message.
2. Private Showcase Key – This is useful for all the ladies out there: Ashley Madison Agency will allow you to set your profile into a special kind of private mode. No one can view your pictures unless you give them your “key.” This is great if you don’t want creepy people messaging you, and this is also an amazing feature if you’re looking for a discreet relationship. If your wife/husband suspects you of using married personals, and they go onto Ashley Madison Agency to check, they can never prove you’ve been there because they can’t view your profile!
3. The Panic Button – Ashley Madison Agency gives a useful feature for those that are checking their personals at work and for those that are looking for an affair. This panic button is extremely useful because when you press it, you’ll automatically load another page on the internet. If your boss or wife/husband walks into the room, they’ll just think you were shopping! I’ve never seen that on any other dating website before!
4. No time-based memberships! What I hate about most dating sites is that when you buy a subscription, it’s for a limited amount of time (such as 1 month, 3 months, 1 year, etc.) – With Ashley Madison Agency, you’re given a currency consisting of credits instead. When a person initiates a conversation, they use a few credits (when I say initiates, it implies that free users can communicate with other members if they’re not the one initiating the conversation. The reason is that they don’t have to spend any credits). Also, these credits never expire. So if you’re going out with one person for a few weeks and then decide to come back to Ashley Madison Agency, you will not have wasted your money due to the “lost time” you spent with that one person! On other married personals, those few weeks you spent with one person would’ve just been wasted money because of time!
As you can see, there are some useful things you can find an Ashley Madison Agency that you won’t get with another online dating website.
“But the biggest question of all is: have I been able to meet a lot of new people using Ashley Madison Agency? The results are in…”
Ashley Madison Agency’s Results…
While I still haven’t changed my opinion of popularized married personals in general, I did find that the other people on Ashley Madison Agency were quite responsive. With the right online “dating” methods, I was able find many new partners (for me or for me and my wife).
To sum up, the Ashley Madison slogan is “Bored with life? have an affair”, and even if you are not bored with life, have an affair anyway.
