Plenty of Fish

I'm a newly single dad of an 8-year old, and I joined POF to see if I could find some companionship. The site itself is functional, but the women seem to be pretty bitter about the whole online dating scene.

My complaint, however is this: I received notice "congratulating" me on my 3-month prepaid membership renewal. Now, I know it was my responsibility to cancel before the renewal date, but with all of my responsibilities it just went under the radar.

IMMEDIATELY upon receiving the notice, I wrote to the billing department, begging for a refund, since I was down to my last $100 with a week and a half before payday. The renewal took almost half of my money.

Their response, "We're sorry to hear that you don't want to continue as an Upgraded Member on POF. Unfortunately, memberships are non-refundable."

Not even the slightest attempt to be helpful. In my opinion, those who conduct business with that level of callous indifference deserve to fail. Yes... I made a mistake, but rather than refunding, or even trying to work with me on reducing the length to a month rather than three, and altering the charge accordingly, they decide that their financial best interest is more important than that of mine and my daughter's.

I recommend you go anywhere else, than POF. In my opinion... uncaring, cold-hearted, money-grubbing jerks, who apparently care nothing about the needs of a struggling single parent and his child.

You message back a guy who you foind equllay attractive, speak online a couple of times, then they don't talk to you anymore. Any guy is on here, are full of $#*! when he says he shows respect. The respectful thing to do is tell someone it's not going to work out. None of these men do that, they have crap on this website. Markcus, the fpunder of POF can spend all the money he wants ads(I was on youtube and saw he put an ad for his website), but the people he allows on his website are garbage. Go somewhere where they don't allow so many jerks! This should be called plenty of $#*!ups!

I was a long time member on pof and over the last couple of years it has fallen in accuracy and worth. Recently they allowed my banking info and email address to be compromised. Whoever hacked my account changed my email address so now I cannot provide their support with data to delete my account! So they refuse to further investigate or reimburse me after 19 ridiculous charges were made through their app. Their pathetic Support now has me Trapped in an endless email cycle saying there they need more information to further investigate. When I tell them a response how my info was changed and now I can not provide data except for my user name, and I supply that, They just follow up with the same email a couple of days later. I'm telling you they are desperate they and will lock you into repeated subscription payments every month where you can not log in and change your preferences to non subscribe. So all in all I used to enjoy this website but now after this experience I have to say The Site is full of fake profiles and bots. There are many way better dating options out there.

Firstly I have used pof several hundreds of times and whilst the system and makeup of the site itself is relatively good the entire ethic behind it is completely wrong. For men instantly we find that the right to use private images and sending them is disallowed but for women it's fine - men have to pay for the privilege. Many women use captions, fake images and non visible face pictures as profile mains but as a male you will be deleted for doing so. Which again is illegal to do, if someone wishes to represent themselves by a caption of thought on line they are well within their rights legally to do so. When asked why pof discriminates against men and goes against the freedom of expression act they simply refuse to answer. It's also laughable that they call this a dating site considered the majority of women use it as a chat site and reserve the right to block and have deleted any male who suspects her of being misleading. Again pof supports that. If this site doesn't start adhering to the laws of equality and human rights sooner or later someone is going to sue the $#*! off them. It's a shame that nobody seems to actually do anything about it. My advice stay well clear!

Why do i give it one? Because it is free...
Well, i want to answer most guys as to why you dont get answers or messages replied and two, why you get blocked for no reason.

Plenty of fish has blocked someone i chatted with from my account, luckily we had exchanged phone numbers and he asked me why he cannot reply my messages and what it is that he had done wrong.

There are very decent guys on this site, serious ones too, i must say on this site. But as soon as POF discovers more than three correspondences, they will either block the other and the worst, yes, delete your profile.

I encouraged three friends to join as i found it really genuine, within about two weeks, accounts deleted, for no reason. I made a new account... all was accepted but trying to log in again, the account does not exists.

Waste of time, you invest a lot of the internet only to have your account deleted or blocking the other so that you still stay online but the other people never receive your messages.

And yes, they selectively delete profiles of people... especially honest profiles looking for serious relationships.

Its a good website but sad the policies spoil all... so guys now you know why you never get replies or you think someone blocked you... its the POF guys who block you

This is a web sight for men to just use women for sex while pretending to want something real. Even the profiles that say looking for long term are really not. I have never been ghosted in my entire life and these people will say and do anything for sex and then disappear like a magic trick. This sight should be shut down. It is likely the reason for more break ups and divorces then relationships. TOTAL WASTE OF TIME REALLY! ALL USERS AND ABUSERS SPREADING DISEASES!

Women do not trust this site they allow me to talk to us so disrespectful and if you respond disrespectful your account will be removed very clear gender bias

You only have to look on social media to realise there is a huge difference between what is happening online and what is happening in the real world. You can't compare the two. People act in a way they wouldn't dare in real life

Its the same on this "dating" site

Of course it's not that at all. It's just a website where irrational, undateable and largely unattractive females sit there shopping online for a guy, write a huge list of what they want ( "I want this, I want that") and wont even entertain replying to any man who isn't a modern day Brad Pitt lookalike
They could get a decent good guy easily but they are all holding out for Mr Perfect~Prince Charming~Christian Gray~Superman rolled into one

I lost count of the headlines which claimed "I'm tired of kissing frogs I'm now ready to find my prince " without any sense of irony or realization that they are frogs themselves and Prince Charming wouldn't be interested in them.

You can't fix deluded

Plenty of Folks sh is loaded with scammers 99% of the ppl on there are fake or scammers the profiles doesn't really explain st I reached out to them on 9/27/23 regarding scammers and the swept it under the rug I screen shot 3 individuals that were totally scammers with fake profiles and they did nothing took my $$$$ for scammers THEY ARE THE REAL SCAMMERS BECAUSE there's no way u can't verify someone there's new technology out to prevent this from happening but it's all about revenue for POF do not sign up with them this is a GARBAGE DATING SITE I HAVE THE PROFF

POF has finally hit rock bottom, After implementing age restrictions, photo restrictions and losing functionality in general, they have recently removed the interest search, and changed emails to block the user name of people who would like to meet you. The site has lost pretty much all of it's functionality, and it would be great for its next replacement to come along to put POF out of business, with all the great features POF had in the beginning.

KnowledgeableOf all of the dating sites I perused, I would have to give PlentyofFish, hands down the award.

I have used this dating site for a number of years. In my college years, I was not as knowledgebale or serious, for that matter, about the site. So my results were mediocre. It wasn't until I graduated and had the understanding of dating sites that I began to receive awesome results.

I am happily engaged to an amazing gentleman and yes, I met him via the site. I have found that the men on this site were in comparison to OKCUPID, much better. As with any dating (FREE especially), you need to understand how to navigate the waters - so to speak.

To close, I would say give this site a month, at least. Don't waste your time on men and women who want to only communicate via the app or website and or who never seem to log on lol.

Cant believe how full of it the women are on POF
Demands left right and center from them yet some of the worst specimens i have ever seen in my entire life

If you are a guy you are wasting your time on there, nothing but the dregs that other men wont touch with a bargepole

Rediculous that people use a TOTALLY FREE dating site and dare to complain about quality of profiles, bad male-female ratio and scammers on the site. If you expect quality join a dating site like Match or Mingle2day but hey, you would most likely need to upgrade your profile to some kind of gold membership in order to use the whole functionality, right?! Oh, and of course you don't want to do that! Instead you use a 100% FREE dating site like POF but complain that you don't meet anyone?! Rediculous! POF is a good dating site. Keep in mind that it is FREE and you get what you pay for. Don't expect miracles.