adult friend finder ? what do you think ?

[zandre]

i just read an article about AFF on wiki

though i do not know how trustworthy the article is, i usually incline to trust wikipedia (anyway... there is no smoke without a fire)

some quotes:

There is some controversy over the true ratios of male to female members, it is suspected that the number of active female real members is very low compared to the number of males. It is suspected that AFF makes no real effort to deal with these problems, as it is in their interest not to do so - the website user has to purchase a membership before s/he finds out the true extent of these problems.

imho, majority of companies lie in their advertisements

It has been claimed that AFF consistently uses controversial advertising methods such as spam and spyware. Some claims suggest that they have hijacked AOL accounts of both members and non-members and used them to send out spam.

hmm... spam/spyware - i believe this might be solely work of affiliates

The most recent criticism to be experienced by the adult meeting website has to do with the use of "decoys". There are several claims that the people in the chat rooms are not genuine people, that they are "plants" or "decoys", the main goal is to start a continuous conversation with their mark. These marks are usually men or women who have not purchased complete memberships and in doing so are not able to access the full features of the website. The goal of the decoy is to convince these marks to purchase the full membership.

... can it be considered as creative marketing (or something like that) ?

There is even a criticism by paying members. Gold members are routinely assaulted with fake communications, requesting e-mail communications and asking to pay for an account on another website. Gold members have complained that 4 out of 5 communications are totally false.

this looks bad

what do you think of this all ?.

[nosey]

[zandre]

yummy pic.