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Germany
1 review
16 helpful votes
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My 1 star review of POF
February 28, 2025

Pof reminds me of the last helicopter out of Saigon.

The women I've spoken to told me the same thing. They get so overwhelmed with the number of messages they receive, most of which are either inappropriate or sleazy, that they just leave the site

No decent woman will stay on there for long if that's the case, which probably explains why there are so few nice women left on pof. They all left on the last chopper.

The ones left behind are those with major issues, those who have baggage, those who are angry unhappy or bordeline deranged and those obsessed with tattoos, gaming or 'fur babies'.

I can't imagine a site with worse people on it. You get what you pay for in life and pof is free to join

It's just nasty

Date of experience: February 16, 2025
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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A very bad site
March 11, 2025

I can't comment what the men are like but the women are either thick, single parents and/or not very attractive what they are good at is being unpleasant rude and extremely demanding. Regardless of what they look like or how old they are they all still expect and demand the perfect man.

Date of experience: February 25, 2025
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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This has to be one of the worst sites on the internet. Its full of dreadful people. Lowest of the low everywhere you look... full of their own self importance. It won't take you long to understand why they're single. Avoid avoid avoid
A horrible experience

Date of experience: March 9, 2025
GB
1 review
20 helpful votes
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From what I can see, it's full of single parents and "plus-size" women who all have oversized glasses and nose piercings which is not for me.

Everyone on that website wants some guy out of their league while offering nothing in return.

No one is simply happy with just finding a good person; they all want the man of their dreams.

It's full of 3s all thinking they're entitled to a man who is a 9 or a 10. Online dating has addled their brains. There's no common sense.
Why would a guy who is hot want to date a 3/10?

Until the women on online dating start to be more humble and realistic, it'll continue to be a waste of time

Date of experience: January 12, 2025
Netherlands
1 review
16 helpful votes
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POF is a bargain basement site, so it attracts the bargain basement type of person. Lots of egos, weirdos, and people with issues who shouldn't be dating.

The headline section is supposed to be the first interaction people have with potential partners, so maybe people would make an effort The people on POF don't seem to know how to communicate
Look at some of the headlines and ask yourself why anyone would bother?

Can't see likes ( every other profile says this)
Liars and cheats keep away!
No timewasters
Don't know what to say?
Will fill in later
Tired of kissing frogs
No t*ssers in tinfoil need apply
Ask
Read profile before liking!
I don't have a filter
Make me laugh
I'm back again

The profiles are usually even worse

If that's the best they can do they don't deserve to be messaged.

Date of experience: February 1, 2025
Virginia
6 reviews
29 helpful votes
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This pof weirdo moves way too fast, he is 61, was in the AF, now disabled and hanging around with 30 somethings. He mentions that he goes to parties where his best friends gf show their boob's. He went to his best friends wedding this December and the bride "Katie" supposedly handed out her nudes to him and the rest of the groomsmen to play a prank on her Groom "Ryan". He continues to go on about how beautiful she is. Ah highly inappropriate. Who gives out nudes at their wedding! And he took them and looked them over. One of the weirdest guys and stories I've heard. 61 hanging around with 30 somethings? Giving off pedo vibes here. Once I heard that he got blocked. He states his estranged brother likes "little girls aka sex offender. He's basically wanted to be a couple with me within hours of talking and move to my area. Creepy! His profile pic is him in a tux in from of a christmas tree. LADIES BEWARE!

His Facebook profile picture
The response in white is him admitting to everything.
Date of experience: December 29, 2024

William Christopher Sheene 53
October 26, 2023
Previous review

Total deadbeat, going through a divorce, only looking for a woman go help him pay his bills. Separated married to a drunk bipolar wife in a rehab center. First date insinuated that his wife is breaking their lease and he needs help paying rent at his sister's and the 1800 rent that he owes to the landlord! Ladies throw this dead fish back! Bald, fat and broke!

Date of experience: October 26, 2023

Willnnn-POF
July 12, 2016
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Billy Thomas lives in Newport news, has a record, total deadbeat, doesn't pay his child support, but has money for cigs and beer and the custom blue lighting kit for his car, 40 years old nothing to his name, but an old car with 100,000 miles on it. Thinks he's the bomb because he's tall and skinny but, he's far from it! He's out for one thing and one thing only. He talks a good game, but he's not even involved with his kids on a day to day basis. He had a child with a woman and couldn't even commit. If you want someone that's just out for a piece of ass, a bum going nowhere, and can't sustain himself in bed this is your guy! Ladies beware. He does carpet installation with a company that is a contractor for the government for a living. A total tool. Learn from my mistake.

Date of experience: July 12, 2016
GB
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Just like before people click like but they can't be bothered to message you. It's too much trouble for them. It's still full of women who think they're better than you and act stuck up.

If you message first you'll either be ignored or find they have no conversation skills and no humour.

The women are flawed and imperfect yet want someone perfect, tall dark and handsome. It's just 3s wanting 10s. Strong independent woman seeks man of her dreams 🙄

It'll be another 8 years before I bother again

Date of experience: December 17, 2024
Germany
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I met someone through a POF page, but I was scammed by this company, whose name is Bad. I have to complain to ***TRE/ (BLES) /LTD(COM)****, and I'm glad they returned my money. SEND THEM AN EMAIL IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH YOUR FUND, AND THEY WILL REFUND IT.

Date of experience: January 28, 2025
California
2 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Not worth paying for
November 28, 2024

POF was great years ago. Now it has become extremely restrictive as to what you can do without paying and it's not cheap. Just get the free version and you will see that they send you fake views and likes which you can't see unless you pay to get you to bite. 99% of users don't pay and can't see you either. There are very old and dormant profiles, fakes, scammers and plain out liars. I don't recommend pof. It was bought out by Match and takes advantage of lonely and desperate singles, sad.

Date of experience: November 28, 2024
GB
1 review
21 helpful votes
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My take on POF
Supply and demand isn't good on a dating site when there are hundreds of men for every single woman.

From what I saw, there are only two types of females on there: extremely ordinary and really terrible.

The ordinary ones get bombarded with 100s, of messages and start becoming picky, which is understandable, I guess. The terrible ones get very little mail and are on there for years and becoming increasingly bitter.

Simp guys can cop the blame for ruining POF; love bombing anyone even half decent. They've ruined it with their pathetic behavior.
So if you don't get a reply, you now know why

Date of experience: December 2, 2024
GB
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Dumpster Fire Alert
December 9, 2024
Updated review

Pof is just the bottom twenty percent of society all denanding someone from the top 10 percent.
They have absolutely no hope at all but refuse to compromise. It's frankly embarrassing to see such spoilt behaviour.

Pof is full of extremely picky middle aged women who still think they can be as choosy as they were when they were twenty one. It's entitlement city on there and delusion central all rolled into one.

Its just rammed with women who demand the man of their dreams but refuse to upgrade so have to constantly tell you they can't see likes.
I've never seen so many people with blatant issues. This is not a good place to be. It's misfit city, timewaster central.

If you do find someone okay bear in mind they'll be 500 other men messaging too

Date of experience: December 1, 2024

Good if you like angry people
November 10, 2024
Previous review

Downloaded App
Signed up for a free account.

Saw nothing but profile after profile of angry, undateable women.
Decided to give it another go but encountered nothing but rude, tattooed, weird women who spend their whole time complaining they can't see likes (and of course being angry)

Logged out
Deleted app

PS. POF hilariously has introduced something called Prestige, where you can pay 130 a month extra to have your likes and messages appear at the top of their inbox.

Date of experience: November 10, 2024
Virginia
1 review
16 helpful votes
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GaryLee72
February 7, 2025
Updated review

First of all Gary Lee, (his real name) he is 53 and living in Newport News, VA. Ladies, don't waste your time. This guy doesn't own his own business, he works for a homeowners association. His profile picture is probably 4-5 years old and he's gained about 40+ lbs since it was taken.

He's lazy, smokes pot to the point of excess, and has no clothes that aren't stained or have holes all over them. When you look at the Pic of his house on Google it looks like a junk yard. He states he makes 10k-12k per month on his business, yet has no clean clothes, wears no socks, and what he does wear is full of stains and holes, frankly his money must be going to weed sadly. We went on one date and he claimed that he wanted a relationship, but he only wanted one thing and one thing only. If a man makes 12K per month, how does he owe money on a house he bought for 83,000 seven years ago? Im not all about the money or material things, everyone has debt why lie?Just be who you are. I question him about his business, just general questions, about a bathroom remodel that he was working on, he didn't answer the question, started to ghost me and was back on pof looking for his next woman.

After looking into his life and finding out most of it was fake, I was smart enough to throw this fish back within 4 days of knowing him. His entire story is a lie.

What I've always found, if someone's story doesn't make sense it's a lie. This guy has more holes in his story than Spongebob! Lol

Nothing about anything he told me makes sense. Just be who you are and tell the truth. Most of us just want a nice man in our lives, not money or huge homes.
Be careful out there guys and girls, always do a background check, listen to your intuition. Stay safe!

Date of experience: February 2, 2025

ZacharyCarl51
February 23, 2021
Previous review

Zachary Carl Shelden- this guy is a narcissist and user! Steer clear ladies! He's a player and a loser. Lives with one ex gf, 50 years old and has never been able to fully support himself. His first picture is decades old and even though he's 50 he looks way older! He has zero going for him. No assets and a junker of a car. Like the typical emotional vampire everything is about him. He will tell you he's faithful to you while never deleting Pof and still chatting with other females. This one is the worst of the worst. Learn from my mistakes throw this one back!

Date of experience: February 23, 2021
Illinois
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Very poor customer service. Bait n Switch - they charge your credit card then ban your account refusing to pay back money. Do yourself a favor stay away and find another site
Customer service emails for resolution are " RUDE "

Date of experience: November 13, 2024
GB
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Woeful
November 19, 2024

Good luck finding a lady of good breeding on POF.

Heck, good luck even finding anybody even appealing

The 'ladies' are more masculine and uncouth than most men I know. I don't find cursing all the time and being covered in tattoos attractive or ladylike. I guess they don't know any better

Most on POF are incredibly rude, lack any humor class, or even basic decency, but they sure still demand the man of their dreams.

Tldr; POF is full of terribly low-class people. I think the phrase is 'scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Date of experience: November 19, 2024
GB
1 review
13 helpful votes
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PlentyOfFish is a tremendous website if you're on the lookout for a single mother or searching for someone who is crazy and covered in tattoos... it's full of them.

If, on the other hand, you're looking for someone happy friendly and with no baggage, then you'll be sorely disappointed.

Date of experience: November 12, 2024
France
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Don't bother
October 27, 2024

It's not the site it is the people that are to blame

How can you take any site seriously when every single woman on there thinks she is a princess who won't settle for anything less than the men of their dreams. It's crazy

Date of experience: October 27, 2024
GB
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Dumpster fire
October 22, 2024

To be honest I didn't find many of the women on the site very attractive at all. Even the ones who were okay seemed to have a terrible attitude or no personality.

All the profiles are blank or just tell you they don't like cheats and how they can't see the likes.
The funniest ones are those which tell you they're the self proclaimed banter queen yet can't even fill the about them section out.

0 stars. It leaves a lot to be desired. This isn't the way to meet your soul mate

Date of experience: October 22, 2024
GB
1 review
15 helpful votes
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80 percent of the females on POF are utterly dreadful. The remaining 20% are just plain Jane standard. Yet they ALL think they're a solid 10/10. Just look at the state of the photos and the aggressive profiles they put up. You're dealing with the reject bin of life.

The only reason they adopt the picky entitled attitude and make no attempt with their profile is because of how pathetic a lot of the men are on there act.

Way too many simp desperate men who are so thirsty for any partner at all that they bombard every single woman with messages telling them how great they are.
Most of the men are to blame and need to get some self respect. The women must laugh at the desperation
It's utterly embarrassing. Online dating is dreadful. It's full of horrible desperate and rude people.

Date of experience: October 18, 2024
France
1 review
14 helpful votes
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The people on the site are either unwilling or unable to fill out their dating profile without being rude or demanding, so it's hardly surprising they can't make their relationships work and are single?
It's pretty evident they're on POF because no one else can deal with them in real life yet they act like God's gift, and they're actually doing you a favor by being on POF.

They all seem incredibly angry, unhappy and downright rude. So more for creating a good first impression. Can't see likes, hate liars, and cheats; make me laugh; don't waste my time!. No ugly people! Were just some of the headlines I saw and should give an indication of what kind of people you'll encounter if you sign up to this site

Date of experience: September 29, 2024
Virginia
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Full of terrible people
September 18, 2024

I didn't expect much but was still extremely disappointed.
I was only looking for someone okay-looking who was a nice person. No chance. A total waste of time

POF is just full of rude, bitter, angry, aggressive, and unpleasant women who are out of shape and just look really old.

I've never seen such a bunch of misfits and attention seekers.

If, on the off chance, you do find someone half normal, keep in mind you'll be competing with 1000s of other men so it's pointless

POF is definitely not the place to go to meet a nice, well-balanced, happy woman, quite the opposite in fact

Date of experience: September 18, 2024

Overview

Plenty of Fish has a rating of 1.3 stars from 1,955 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Plenty of Fish most frequently mention fake profiles, customer service and credit card. Plenty of Fish ranks 655th among Dating sites.

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