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  • Report:  #264605

Complaint Review: Adult Friend Finder - Palo Alto California

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- Beaverton, Michigan,
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Adult Friend Finder
FriendFinder Inc.445 Sherman Ave. Suite C Palo Alto, 94306 California, U.S.A.
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After using Adult Friend Finder (AFF) for about two months I found that over 50 percent of the members showing up in my local searches had not checked their account in over 1 month, full 30 percent had not checked in over three months. The amount of time lapsed between visits is shown by AFF on the persons profile however, it seems that AFF does not have a time period in which they will delete an account as 'inactive'.

Once an account is created, even by the 'free' members, who can do very little, it is up to the members to delete their profiles when finished. AFF advertises their membership numbers globally and in the state you are seeking dates from so it seems their numbers are likely more than double the actual number of active members.

I complained to them about it and received a short response that appears to be nothing more than a form letter regarding a minor point of my complaint. They only urge you to upgrade to a premium membership (I was a Silver member) in order to search for only the most recent profiles.

Apparently they feel no responsibility to their paying customers to be sure that profiles are current (2 weeks without checking should be sufficient for removal in my opinion).

Karl

Beaverton, Michigan

U.S.A.


6 Updates & Rebuttals

Big Phil

Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
Re: I Wouldn't Be Happy If I Came Back From Vacation And Found My Profile Gone

#2Consumer Comment

Wed, October 31, 2007

I don't agree that profiles should be deleted after 2 weeks. At the same time, I don't feel its fair to categorize individuals as having an "overinflated sense of ego" simply because they disagree with your position. I was a member of Adult Friend Finder off and on for about 7-8 years. I think its interesting you accuse members of thinking AFF is a "call girl service", because thats what it sometimes looks like. When I was a member a lot of womens profiles displayed explicit photos. The profiles themselves were often quite sexually explicit, with women quite graphically describing what they wanted. Now, I have no problem with that. In fact, that was part of the initial allure. When writing women on the site I was always very respectful, and never expected them to "come over right then". I was quite active on the site. After a while I got the feeling a lot of the ads were either fake, or fronts for escort services. When I found out my company wanted to transfer me to another state I began to check profiles there. What I found was interesting. I found a lot of profiles which matched many of the profiles in my own state almost word for word. In addition, I found a few of the same pictures on profiles. It became clear. Many of the profiles are in fact, fake. My suspicion is AFF create them to pad the membership. That is when I cancelled my membership.


Big Phil

Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
Re: I Wouldn't Be Happy If I Came Back From Vacation And Found My Profile Gone

#3Consumer Comment

Wed, October 31, 2007

I don't agree that profiles should be deleted after 2 weeks. At the same time, I don't feel its fair to categorize individuals as having an "overinflated sense of ego" simply because they disagree with your position. I was a member of Adult Friend Finder off and on for about 7-8 years. I think its interesting you accuse members of thinking AFF is a "call girl service", because thats what it sometimes looks like. When I was a member a lot of womens profiles displayed explicit photos. The profiles themselves were often quite sexually explicit, with women quite graphically describing what they wanted. Now, I have no problem with that. In fact, that was part of the initial allure. When writing women on the site I was always very respectful, and never expected them to "come over right then". I was quite active on the site. After a while I got the feeling a lot of the ads were either fake, or fronts for escort services. When I found out my company wanted to transfer me to another state I began to check profiles there. What I found was interesting. I found a lot of profiles which matched many of the profiles in my own state almost word for word. In addition, I found a few of the same pictures on profiles. It became clear. Many of the profiles are in fact, fake. My suspicion is AFF create them to pad the membership. That is when I cancelled my membership.


Big Phil

Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
Re: I Wouldn't Be Happy If I Came Back From Vacation And Found My Profile Gone

#4Consumer Comment

Wed, October 31, 2007

I don't agree that profiles should be deleted after 2 weeks. At the same time, I don't feel its fair to categorize individuals as having an "overinflated sense of ego" simply because they disagree with your position. I was a member of Adult Friend Finder off and on for about 7-8 years. I think its interesting you accuse members of thinking AFF is a "call girl service", because thats what it sometimes looks like. When I was a member a lot of womens profiles displayed explicit photos. The profiles themselves were often quite sexually explicit, with women quite graphically describing what they wanted. Now, I have no problem with that. In fact, that was part of the initial allure. When writing women on the site I was always very respectful, and never expected them to "come over right then". I was quite active on the site. After a while I got the feeling a lot of the ads were either fake, or fronts for escort services. When I found out my company wanted to transfer me to another state I began to check profiles there. What I found was interesting. I found a lot of profiles which matched many of the profiles in my own state almost word for word. In addition, I found a few of the same pictures on profiles. It became clear. Many of the profiles are in fact, fake. My suspicion is AFF create them to pad the membership. That is when I cancelled my membership.


Big Phil

Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
Re: I Wouldn't Be Happy If I Came Back From Vacation And Found My Profile Gone

#5Consumer Comment

Wed, October 31, 2007

I don't agree that profiles should be deleted after 2 weeks. At the same time, I don't feel its fair to categorize individuals as having an "overinflated sense of ego" simply because they disagree with your position. I was a member of Adult Friend Finder off and on for about 7-8 years. I think its interesting you accuse members of thinking AFF is a "call girl service", because thats what it sometimes looks like. When I was a member a lot of womens profiles displayed explicit photos. The profiles themselves were often quite sexually explicit, with women quite graphically describing what they wanted. Now, I have no problem with that. In fact, that was part of the initial allure. When writing women on the site I was always very respectful, and never expected them to "come over right then". I was quite active on the site. After a while I got the feeling a lot of the ads were either fake, or fronts for escort services. When I found out my company wanted to transfer me to another state I began to check profiles there. What I found was interesting. I found a lot of profiles which matched many of the profiles in my own state almost word for word. In addition, I found a few of the same pictures on profiles. It became clear. Many of the profiles are in fact, fake. My suspicion is AFF create them to pad the membership. That is when I cancelled my membership.


Anastasia

Tulsa,
Oklahoma,
U.S.A.
I Wouldn't Be Happy If I Came Back From Vacation And Found My Profile Gone.

#6Consumer Comment

Wed, September 19, 2007

Delete members after two weeks? Are you serious? Dude, I've been on that site for about nine years now. What I've been finding lately are men with an overinflated sense of ego, such as yourself, who think it's a call girl service for the price of a gold membership. It isn't. My major complaint is, they don't rotate profiles the way other sites do. I feel those with the most recent log-ins should be pushed to the tops of the lists for gold, silver, standard. Instead, those of us who have been there for years get pushed behind the more recent sign ups. Some of whom thought it was a good idea at the time and then thought better of it. On a site that large, until we can convince site support they want to push those who sign on every day to the tops of the list, you do have to dig. Some women have always been standard members, as the site gives participation perks to those who blog, write articles, are active in groups, get their profiles viewed a certain number of times, run their cams. Even if we are just showing our faces, instead of doing porn shows for men who are too lazy to get up and away from the computer and meet a woman for coffee. Now, as far as you feeling we should be deleted from the site after two weeks, what drugs are you on? How would you like it if you paid good money for a site membership, got into an accident or something, was in the hospital for a month or two and when you came back, they deleted you for not being active? Or how would you like it if you went off on vacation or business and found you were deleted because you hadn't signed on in a few weeks? You'd be writing a report about how they ripped you off by taking your money and then deleting you, now wouldn't you? Your experience on any site is what you make of it. If you're sending out email asking women to come over right then and perform sexual acts, or if you're not respectful to us, we're just going to delete your email, block you and pretend you don't exist. It's a buyer's market for us women on there. Who spend our time deleting mail from people like you, who send us mail or even stalk us down in chat to tell us we're fat, old, ugly and don't look like porn stars. And if a man is just looking for a woman to be a porn star for a night and look like one to boot, he's much better off giving his money to a local escort agency.


Robert

Buffalo,
New York,
U.S.A.
I'm a gold member

#7Consumer Comment

Thu, August 02, 2007

I've been a gold member on and off for over 6 years and I'm happy with the services they provide. Your comment about it being up to the member to remove the profile is correct. As I paid member, I can search and get a listing in any order I wish, including "most recently visited."

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