So, I was off by 492?
A bit back, I wrote of the Ashley Madison hack: The site boasted 40M users. Which is probably 39,999,000 men and 1,000 women. I kid.
Well, turns out, I may have been right:
Only 1,492 of the women in the database had ever checked their messages on the site. Thats compared with more than 20 million men.
Looks like the site mostly was in the business of ripping off men.
August 27th, 2015 at 10:03 pm
I’m laughing fit to bust. I sold girlie mags (and other books too!) for about five years. Even the Playgirls (nekkid men) were bought by guys. This is what women like:
August 27th, 2015 at 10:19 pm
I mean, you where off by nearly 50%, so…
August 27th, 2015 at 10:50 pm
So maybe all those dudes were looking for dudes…all the more profit potential for ransom seekers threatening to out all those closet dwellers.
August 28th, 2015 at 12:01 am
I’m sure that there’s a lawsuit in the works. I’d actually support this one.
August 28th, 2015 at 8:21 am
So now the outed male customers not only have to face the wrath of their significant others for attempted cheating, they get to face the scorn of the world for getting scammed during attempted cheating.
some guys just can’t win for losing.
August 28th, 2015 at 9:10 am
Also it’s not like anybody was going to complain that the super-secret cheating website was a total ripoff, and if somebody wanted to run around on their old-lady maybe they should seek other venues…
August 28th, 2015 at 9:48 am
I wonder, how many of the women, aren’t really women? You’re original guess may have been high, biologically speaking.
August 28th, 2015 at 10:48 am
I assumed that any woman on the site was a hooker.
August 28th, 2015 at 11:04 am
“Only 1,492 of the women in the database had ever checked their messages on the site. Thats compared with more than 20 million men.”
Well, yeah…speaking as a veteran of 15 dating sites in the last 15 years, I can say with experience that this is the norm for ALL dating sites. The simple fact is, attractive women don’t need to “advertise” in order to get attention from men. I’ve given up even trying online anymore. There’s no happiness to be found unless you’re willing to go gay or settle for an unattractive divorcee with a weight problem and three kids in tow. :/
August 28th, 2015 at 11:12 am
@Nolan, no, he was only off by 100 – ((39998508 / 39999000) * 100) = 0.0012%
August 28th, 2015 at 11:46 am
@Bill, Pretty sure I was referring to the number of women, but thanks for being thorough with your math. Got a chuckle out of me for sure!
August 28th, 2015 at 11:56 am
There is no way 20M dudes would pay (some for a long time, according to news articles) unless there was something in it for them.
My suspicion is that female profiles had contact info in them that bypassed the site messaging system. Men paid to access those profiles.
If that is the case, this is pretty much a set-up for a classic prostitution advert site. Men looking for sex contact the women and then they deal outside the eyes of the site involved. See Craiglist and lots of others for examples.
I just cannot fathom a site raking in that many johns unless there was a chance they got what they came for. No way. Word would spread and nobody would pay.
For the record…my wife told me about the site over a year ago when she chased a pop-up that she got one day. Laughing, she told me about it and we checked it out. Right then and there we both tagged it as an advertiser for hookers (we knew online hookers a few years back).
And no, we never gave them our email.
August 28th, 2015 at 12:01 pm
Pretty much all dating services are scams to rip off men.
Oh, and nightclubs as well.
August 28th, 2015 at 12:02 pm
Apropos of nothing in this post but everything in this blog and so many others, today is VFTP blogversary 10 🙂 and my birthversary 61 🙁
http://poetnthepawnbroker.blogspot.com/2015/08/further-to-my-wallowing.html
August 28th, 2015 at 4:25 pm
Are you all using a purely binary gender classification system?
You out-of-date fools!
August 28th, 2015 at 5:14 pm
I’ve seen it described as basically selling the fantasy of an affair.
Which seems both psychologically and literally apt here.
(I suspect Hiding is wrong; men wanting to get a hooker can do that for free via Craigslist.
I think they did get what they were paying for – profiles they could fantasize about without actually breaking their marriage vows.)
August 28th, 2015 at 10:19 pm
“Looks like the site mostly was in the business of ripping off men.”
Yea but it’s the thought that counts. The husbands were actually paying money and TRYING to cheat.
They are getting what they deserve.
August 28th, 2015 at 11:14 pm
Apparently someone had an affair — but then, he was the CEO.
August 29th, 2015 at 8:29 am
There’s an old joke that fits this situation.
August 29th, 2015 at 9:09 am
Again OT, but speaking of Tam, she apparently decided to celebrate her decade of bloggery with a new/old gig:
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-good-sign.html
I’ve used a similar sign since some gun shops started using the circle/stripe symbol saying “no loaded guns” immediately after Fla’s CWP law went into effect.
But I like theirs better than mine, and I’m gonna rip it off; I would encourage other FFL’s to do likewise.
August 29th, 2015 at 11:56 am
so you’re stalking her again? you just can’t stop, can you?
August 30th, 2015 at 10:35 am
ROFLMAO.
This proves many old adages:
“You can’t cheat an honest person”
“Something too good to be true probably is”
Etc.
August 31st, 2015 at 12:11 pm
Why would anyone do that, Hiding in the Shadows On This One, when instead they could simply dial “866-220-0044” and get immediate access to more prostitutes than they could ever possibly use???