The number seemed low to me. Perhaps the person analyzing it screwed something up, but it would be unusual for the male "last_checked_message" entry to be correct while the female "last_checked_message" to be incorrect or inactive. The system isn't likely to work that way.Originally Posted by BetCheckBet
That stat is almost certainly false. It doesn't;t even make sense why guys would continue to use the site. Doesn't make sense to me.
Secondly what are the odds that you just happen to know one out of the 1493 active female Ashley madison users in the entire world (Stephanie)? Because turns out I know a female active member as well... The odds that both of us would know somebody is very minimal if there really are only a thousand women in the entire world...
As a separate issue. I think one thing that is surprising is that lots of people probably have accounts there not to hook up but to check and see if their spouse or someone else they knew were members (those wouldn't be active accounts of course).
I suppose it's possible that something went wrong when processing the data, or the hackers intentionally deleted most of the female last_checked_message entries, hoping this would be found and make AshleyMadison look bad, but these aren't all that likely.
Anyway, I'm willing to question the 1,493 number, but this Daily Mail article is garbage, because it seems to be asserting that there were actually 5.5 million female members, aside from the 70,000 bots, which would take it down to 5.4 million. There's no way that's true, and there's especially no way that there were a large number of female active members.
How did the site stay in business? For one, because these bots were talking to these men and giving them hope. If a guy complained that he didn't actually have an affair, AshleyMadison could simply respond that they are an avenue to meet interested people, but that they can't promise an affair.
Actually there WAS a package called "Affair Guarantee", purchasable for $250, and I think Josh Duggar bought it. Basically you spend $250 up front, and then get all of your money back after 3 months if it fails to produce an affair. But it looks like this was again mostly a scam, as it was filled with a bunch of ridiculous terms and conditions which were spelled out here: https://www.ashleymadison.com/app/pu.../detailsform.p
So basically anyone who didn't fulfill all of these requirements (some of which were tough and/or time consuming) wouldn't get their money back.
I don't think AshleyMadison made all that much money on repeat business, except from chumps who were strung along for awhile by bots.
I think they made money mostly from a constant stream of new members who spent money, attempted to have an affair, failed, and were too ashamed/embarrassed to even try to get their money back.
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