Plenty of Fish

I have tried zoosk, match.com, and then plenty of fish. I have a hard time meeting someone since I am a full time student, and a single parent, so I don't have much time to meet people in the old fashioned way. I got a lot of messages right away and thought: "hey this site is great." If you are desperate for attention, are looking just to hook up, or like being verbally abused then yeah pof is definitely for you. I was looking for a real relationship but who was I kidding looking for that on any dating site? So many guys blew me off, were rude, expected me to be online constantly, and a few even played me (acted as if I was interested, and wanted to meet, and then blew me off). Most of the guys only wrote generic "hi" and then nothing in return. Some seemed to just want to play games. The liking features were clunky and useless. I received a deluge of desperate messages. I had a few phone conversations, and only went out with two guys from the site. One was so socially awkward and boring I heard crickets chirping. I only was on pof for a little over a week, that is how upset I was by it. But like any online dating site, I guess it is full of people with insecure attachments, dating hang ups, and neurotic personality types.

A little surprised at the negatives here about this site.
I've been on and off of it for several years. I've met at least a dozen women in that time, dated several of them. True, the features available are diminishing over time. That doesn't stop me from viewing profiles, sending and receiving messages.
I've deleted my account each time and have less features each time I rejoin, but I still get dates. I'm not a millionaire playboy, I meet real women.
As for the quality of the clients, you can't blame the site for that!
No I am not a pof staff member.
I've tried several sites, I always come back to this one.
All in all you get what you put into it.
The automated match feature is based on what info you provide about yourself. I find the matches are age appropriate and within my area.
Sure some gals don't reply, I don't take it personally, they just don't see me as a match I guess, no harm in that.
I have always been respectful and get the same in return.
I recommend it to anyone who asks. I have friends and co-workers that have met casual dates as well as long term partners.
Don't shoot the messenger!

Never seen so many single parents in my life. Now they are past their best they all want to settle down. Why couldn't they do that when they had children? They expect you to take on another man's children and be fine with it

They all have terrible attitudes and are covered in tattoos and smoke as well. Even though they have nothing to offer they still can't be happy in their profiles. Ridiculously entitled too. All think they are 10s when they are more like 3s

Really is easy to see why they are single

I'm sure there are some sleazy men on there as well but the women are terrible and undateable

I just found out from my husband on sept 2nd that he has been talking with a girl on your pof site. They met 3 times in a parking lot. He got gonorrhea from her. Our marriage may not be strong enough to get past this but I wanted to let others know that there is a girl out there on your website spreading this. Her username starts or has Rebecca or becca in it. She is from Aurora, Co. And drives a older blazer or Ford Explorer. My husband deleted his acct and said they never swapped numbers. He could not remember her username unless he don't want to say. My husbands username is 1guy1978. I tryed reopening his acct or making another acct but no luck finding her to report it. I believe he was using a yahoo email. Just don't want this spreading!

POF is loaded with low quality women. I would not give any of these women the time of day if I were to meet them on the street. Yet in spite of their poor condition and quality, due to their extreme numbers advantage, they expect you to be Prince Charming. Guys, it's high time we get off the couch and ditch these types of sites! If you're coming up empty handed it's not your fault.
I can not count how many times I've been stood up at the last hour before we were supposed to meet... and those who send the cancellation text are the ones who have a small shred of decency. Many don't even show up, or bother to let you know anything.
Then you hear the same stuff from the women. They say men only want one thing, sex! What they don't realize is that if they do catch someone out of their league, that catch is temporary and unrealistic. A great looking guy does not want to be seen in public with some fat out of shape nasty woman. If a guy does go out with an average looking woman who lured him with a fake picture like pof is famous for, then he will try to have sex with her. The girl thinks the guy likes her so she puts out. The guy ditches her. The cycle continues.
Online dating is a waste but pof is the bottom of the barrel and the worst of the worst!

Not sure where to start

The women are mostly

Very miserable
Very picky
Smokers
Overweight
Unattractive
Single mums
Tattooes galore
Low IQ
Bland personality
Old photos from 2012 next to 2022 ones Why?
Tongues sticking out in photos. Why?
Appallingly entitled attitude
Lie about their age
Unable to hold a conversation

The worst specimens society has to offer all hilariously screech there MUST be a spark. Zero self awareness that no decent man would find them attractive or want to be with them

I'm sure there are plenty of dreadful men on there as well but I'm not looking for them so can't comment on that

0 stars

There are already plenty of reviews here describing the type of people you will meet on POF, if you meet any, but that's not what I am here for. I purchased an upgraded membership, which doesn't give you much more than being able to see when the last time a person was online and their "extended profile" if they have completed a couple of personal surveys. My complaint is that there is no way on their site to stop the auto renew charge to your account. I used their internal email, which is the only way to contact them because the customer service number always gives a busy signal.

I sent an email requesting my membership be downgraded back to the free membership. I did not receive a reply so I completely deleted my profile. I received an email, in my spam file a few days later stating I had been charged through the auto renew. I attempted to contact their customer service, but the line is always busy. I read the email and saw that if you Paypal for your payment, you could go to their site and cancel the auto renew and end future payments. Thank God I used Paypal.

I called Paypal and described the situation. The customer service agent was awesome. She cancelled any future charges and captured the funds for the most recent unauthorized charge. It will take a few days for me to see it in my Paypal account, but that's fine. I will never return to that site and I advise you to stay away from it too.

The POF site itself is good. It was created to bring people together. However, bad people go anywhere good people go. It's sad that POF is flooded with scammers, creeps and freaks. I have been on the site on/ off since 2007. Met some nice friends on POF. But as of 2016, All I have came in contact with is aggressive scammers, creeps and freaks. One really creepy guy that I was talking to started talking to me about he worked in a morgue and how he watched a man have sex with dead bodies. How sick is that! Another guy wanted me to talk dirty to him so he could sleep at night. Another guy wanted me to help him out on his rent because he was between jobs, this is only after talking to this man just two weeks. Then there's the African love rat, who create fake profiles, using other people pictures they stole off the Internet. I was talking with a handsome white male from my hometown but when I actually heard his voice he had a horrible African accent. The voice did not match the picture. Plus this guy did not know anything about the town he said he was born in. I tried to navigate through all the scammers, creeps and freaks to find a nice man friend but it was damn impossible to find a good person. And there is the old ugly winkle beer belly men who want to be players going from one woman to the next. Also you got rapists, ex-cons, narcissistic people, drug addicts, alcoholics, sex workers and the mentally ill people all on POF. It's good people on the site but you gotta go through hell to find them.

Unfortunately took my $ and received emaiL

The text conversations within POF were fraudulent. Scammers And no one from POF had a Customer service number or security number… What a joke don't let them take your money

This site lets known and convicted rapists have accounts. When making this fact known to the people that operate pof, they ignored my email. Stay away!

I had two people message my profile. The first had a headline which read TIMEWASTERS DO NOT MESSAGE ME!
Firstly what kind of impression does that convoy to anyone thinking of sending mail? Why would that be an appropriate headline, hardly says I'm a happy nice person does its. Secondly as if you were a timewaster I seriously doubt by seeing that you would think oh I best not message her. That just screams drama. She was 41 and longest relationship was UNDER year. I see why now

Second one was 38, couldn't be bothered to fill the about me section in and longest relationship was over a year. She put she was other ethnicity despite being White. I'm guessing she didn't get what Caucasian meant

This really is scraping the barrel of women. The misfits, the drama queens and the frankly unintelligent

This is a somewhat difficult review because on one hand, Plenty of Fish fails as a dating site, but it definitely has potential in the FWB/hook-up/booty call area. I had a few friends try this website so I thought I'd give it a chance but... I noticed a pattern the very night I signed up. I asked myself, why are there so many creepos/pervs on here? And then I realized it's because it's free. Almost every other message is something obscene. (Not the case at all with other sites I've tried). In fact, I wouldn't even call this a dating site. I think the lesson learned is that if you want to meet a better quality of people, you're going to have to pay. If you want to be matched with people you are legitimately compatible with for the potential to find a meaningful relationship, this is not the site for you. I would imagine it would be great for those looking to hook up though.