Plenty of Fish

No point leaving a review on Trustpilot as since covid POF has gone from a rating of 1 (which is bad) to adding 25,000 reviews from either bots or people with very bad English and their rating is now 4.2 ( great) Which is absolutely untrue. Its tantamount to deception at the very least

If you manage to find a woman who fills their profile bio in (most claim to be looking for a relationship yet can't be bothered to put anything about themselves and say ASK) it'll be full of generic stuff such as they like going out and meeting friends and holidays, the same as everybody, absolutely zero creativity

The women I saw on the site were very average or even below average looks but more importantly the were demanding, rude, aggressive and very very picky. Lots were 5 foot tall yet had the nerve to say if you were under 6 foot and you messaged them you would be blocked. Such a polite happy cheerful attitude. Not only unattractive but also have a huge chip on their shoulders and no class. Not a winning combination
I have never seen so many single mums on here too, it's like they churn out children without thinking or caring, yet in their bio they too are ridiculously demanding
I've yet to meet a man who doesn't see this as baggage.

I got a message from someone who I didn't find attractive and she told me she gets 15-20 messages a day and on the first day alone she got 19 pictures from men with photos of their genitals. Seriously, it's bad enough the desperate men messaging these women but sending those kind of pics? There is no chance at all any decent woman would stay on the site getting that

It did make me smile when a lot of the headlines say 'Covid made me do it' Yes I'm sure when there's no pandemic they must get inundated in the real world by men (sarcasm) wanting an overweight nasty women to date

Total waste of time. Its full of dreadful women with desperate men giving them attention which makes them think they're great. Most seem only on there for an ego boost

Hey :) am an average gal, few extra pounds etc. Intelligent, sense of humor, 2 kids, single by choice until I meet the right guy. Have met quite a few guys through POF, just not the right one yet... IMO ALL dating sites have an issue with fake accounts - OKCupid, Be2 (the worst!), Tinder, etc.

Have read a lot of comments by disgruntled men here... jeez, try being a woman online dating - have had to learn to report/igore/block many because of totally inappropriate (or just disgusting) requests, but seriously, POF is no worse than any others (no I don't pay either). Some people just leave their accounts up and don't check in, not fake, just inactive & I suspect they leave them there to keep their numbers looking better. Learn to recognise the fake ones - poor English, pushing too fast but never available to meet, time zone differences (late nights/early mornings), request for email address or messaging account instead of mobile phone number to communicate. Ladies and gentlemen, if they do insist on emailing you, research how to get the IP address from the email header, then find the IP address online... it can at least tell you which country they are sending the email from, it is in the packet information in the header of the email (yeah, have a degree in IT... said I was smart!). That skill has saved me wasting my time with scammers already. Have reported them too (with some success).

Just be smart about on-line dating. Keep your expectations realistic and don't try dating on-line if you are desperately lonely... it is not the role of some other person to fill that hole in your life... that's your job!

Started chatting with a guy... Tim... his profile was all lies. Met him for a date. His profile said he was 5'11" and he was 5'5" when he got out of his car. He had told me he was Shawnee Indian & was raised in OkIahoma. I asked him his last name and he wouldn't tell me until I did a back ground check on his phone number... which is under a womans name. I confronted him about it so he decided to tell me his last name... which is Cantu...& he admitted he is hispanic, he grew up in Garland, Tx. I was willing to go on another date and it went good. Then came the third date. He wanted to come pick me up & go to dinner. Then he said he cleaned the house so I can come over afterwards. I told him if I'm coming over afterwards I'll just meet him at the restaurant then go to his house and leave when the date was over since he had to work the next day. He lost his head and started screaming at me on the phone and said I was going to spend the night. I told him we never agreed on me staying the night or even coming over after dinner. Then he started getting even more upset. So I told him maybe its better we don't go out until he calms down. He said he doesn't care how I feel about anything. I haven't heard from him since. Dodged a weirdo that's for sure.

I'd been warned about the fake accounts. But I figured it couldn't be worse than other dating sites. I was dead wrong. The fake accounts are beyond obvious. Pretty much spamming your inbox, and again, looking at the their profiles, you can tell its fake, poor grammer, and sometimes the discription is way off. Then, I was surprised by how rude the guys are, they don't care what your profile says. When you let them know nicely, politely your not interested they either start begging, or I was surprised to learn verbally attack you. I've never been verabbly attacked as much as I was the short time I was on the site. Completely disheartening. POF doesn't do anything about the way the guys behave, so they feel like they can get away with it. POF also doesn't verify pictures, so even if it is the right person, the age can be way off.

After I cancelled my account, I got no confirmation. I tried writing a complaint, I got no reply. Which leads to poor customer service. Other sites I've been on reply someway. If your looking for something serious, keep looking

This site is a joke and you should stay far far away from it. I am sure that some of the people on it are real but most are not. I had one profile hijacked by some woman in Australia and I got more messages in two minutes then I had gotten in all the years I was on that site. My phone was blowing up and then I saw that they were all men and I knew I got hacked. It took weeks for them to figure out how to help and they concluded I should set up a new profile, yeah the help department is weak over there. No phone number for customer service and I swear the emails I got from them were bots.
So a couple of weeks before my upgraded status ran out I changed my profile, and said the site was full of fake profiles and I give up. I didn't a single view for my last two weeks on the site. Now that I am a standard member I see they changed the site so you can't see who viewed you at all now the last time they changed you could only see the last three people that viewed you. So now the money grab is complete. Correction you can still send a message for free.
Now lets talk about the meet me feature. I live in Ashburn, Va which is Northern Va and when I click the meet me option 90 percent are more than three hours away easy. I sent them emails but they came back with there is no way to change the distance Sorry.
So what about the Search option, well it's just as bad and maybe even worse. You can select 5 miles and then click search, yeah the site changes it to 50 miles on it's own. I mean why even have the option if you are just going to change it to what ever you want. I mean come on why do I want to see the profiles of women three states away from me?

Ive been using this site since 2010. Its 100% free to use unless u pay for the optional extra features.

Never been scammed on there.

They even have a section on their for members to organise parties u can sign up to and go for free. But that function isnt working right now due to the covid restrictions.

I went to a few of the meetups. My local 1 was at a bowling ally and all we had to pay for was drinks from the bar or if we wanted to bowl which was at a discount due to being a group booking. But entry to the bowling ally was free.
Also went to a pub in a city not far from me as 1 member was holding a birthday party for himself and it was my birthday the same day. As a group of us were going from the same city we hired a mini bus to take us their and bring as back again. And split the cost between us.

Ive never met anyone on there except at the group meets. But thats cause im too shy to send msgs to the women i like or my matches and wait for them to msg me 1st. But ive never met anyone from any of the dating sites im on.

If u use a pay dating site be prepared to get scammed as only the paid for sites scam u the free ones dont.
Yes u might get members on the sites try to scam u but the free sites do watch out for that and kick them off once reported which the pay to use sites dont.

Please do not use, no normal women on this site, after 3 months all except for 1 weirdo was a scammer. DO NOT GIVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND DO NOT CALL THE NUMBER THEY GIVE YOU!

I cannot believe the massive amount of scammers n POF. From foreign nationals to outright fakes who want your phone number or email at hello. It's always the same BS.

They work on an oil rig on the ocean. Or, their widows working as doctors without borders (and with only a Bachelor's degree), Poor English, in a city near you but they are (surprise) working out of the country at the moment. Engineers and doctors with no college or little college but no English skills. LOTS of dead wives lol.

And always a very slow responses to serious and direct questions. That is the first clue that I should just block them. Which I do.

It isn't an accident that POF will not give refunds. If they did we'd all be gone in two weeks and they would have to close the website.

NEVER give out your information at hello and never trust anyone who claims to be working seriously for a relationship but logs off in the middle of a conversation. Or claims they are seldom on the site and want your phone number. They are cheating on someone or working up to rip you off.

I've been on a lot of dating sites over the years, and yes all do get scammers, but this site is the worst I've ever been on. There is even a phone number for them online which is itself a scam. If you can't log on easily they ask for remote access to your computer and magically find a virus (or plant one) and need money from you immediately to fix it. I reported this to POF when I tried to call and they know about it, but of course, are doing nothing about it.

For all the scammers associated with this site, I fear the biggest one is POF itself who takes your money and gives you nothing in the way of support in return.

I will be sure no one I know trusts this site for any reason at all. You shouldn't either.

I created a profile with a lengthy well thought out dialog. Browsed the sight for an hour and then "Please Log In". Come to find out the account was deleted. Registered a second time with the same email and username and the same thing browse for an hour and then "Please Log In" the account was deleted for a second time. There are thousands of negative reviews with deleted accounts and people that paid to "Upgraded" and had their account deleted essentially stealing their money. So if they create another account then they have to pay again, only to have the profile deleted again. A huge Red Flag should be the lack of Customer Service emails or Phone numbers they are hard to find or are non existent. There is also race and age discrimination going on. Another thing is if you get blocked too many times they delete your profile. I browsed several profiles and sent no messages so I wonder if those women all just hit the block button causing a deleted profile. Stay away from POF their terms and rules are absurd, the deleting of profiles Is pathetic.
I read a review that said Markus the founder of POF gets paid 30 bucks each time someone registers, that's a great incentive to program the site to auto delete certain profiles. It seems a lot of online dating sites are using scam techniques and what's called scraping of other websites. That's why you see the same females on about every dating site available. I highly doubt that many ladies are going to sign up for 8 dating sites, it's more like one site gets scraped and the fake profiles get created. Also watch out when you register on certain websites like POF because there will be an option that says "By signing up for POF you agree to sign up for our partner websites" again shady. Really a lack of ethics and overall scumbag tactics. I also read that if you create your profile through your smart phone using Mobile Data (Not Wifi) then magically the profile does not get deleted.

I don't know how these websites get away with this Fakes galore One in ten profiles are real MAYBE DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY

I wish PoF would stop sending me msgs saying someone liked me. The individual hadn't even seen my profile!