POF is a complete scam design to create traffic to their website. Profiles are either outdated or fabricated by POF. There are legitimate profiles but any email correspondence are viewed or blocked by POF as to get the user to upgrade their account at a monthly fee. The website's method to get users to upgrade is based on this statement or question, Did you read your email. Upgrade now to find out. WTF?
If POF didn't block your email then why should you need to upgrade. Do not attempt to bypass their system. If you attempt to include any type of contact info in your email, such as phone number or email address then POF will delete your account.
POF will regularly send users " notification like You have a (12) new matches) in the hopes to generate traffic to their website or they will falsely respond to any emails you send or falsely indicate some one wants to meet you. This is how the website makes money through online advertising. The more traffic they generate the more money POF makes
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS SITE.
I've noticed that the legitimate profiles on this site are blocked by the site, and there is a pop-up message stating that those men only accept messages from paying members.
I, personally, know some of those men, and they told me that they did not authorize such pop-up message on their profile. They said they saw the same message on my profile, which I did not authorize.
The only men that are available to receive messages, are the ones with a fake from profiles of men who live overseas.
Based on that information, some of us are wondering if POF is a legitimate dating site.
I POSTED A PROFILE ONCE A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, MY PROFILE WAS SHUT DOWN FOR INDECENT EMAIL? THEY REVIEWED AGAIN, APOLOGIZED AND LET ME POST A PROFILE AGAIN. HOWEVER, A FEW WEEKS LATER, I D BEING HARASSED BY A MAN WHO SENT TEN EMAILS TO ME A DAY REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT I NEVER ANSWERED ANY OF THEM. HIS EMAILS CONSISTED OF NEGATIVE RACIAL REMARKS AND SLURS. UPGRADE THAT I DON'T RESPOND TO HIS MESSAGES. THEY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ALLOWING ME TO CONTINUE TO BE HARASSED, SSSI I DELETED THE PROFILE. THIS TIME I POSTED A PROFILE, IT WAS UP TWO DAYS AND EVERYTHING LISTED CORRECTLY... WHEN SOMEONE MESSAGED ME THAT HE DOESN'T "DO THE MAN THING"... I WAS APPAULED THAT SOMEONE WOULD TAKE THE TIME TO MESSAGE ME TO INSULT ME FOR NO REASON... BUT TO MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHOCK IT WAS LISTED AS MAN... WHEN I FILLED EVERYTHING OUT ACCURATELY AS FEMALE AND WOMAN AND I CAN ASSURE YOU I AM ALL WOMAN. I IMMEDIATELY SENT A EMAIL TO "MARKUS"... FIX THE PROBLEM, WHICH IT WAS TAKEN CARE OF HOWEVER IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE. THEY CAN KISS MY@$$. TRASHY, UGLY, INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATORS. UNPROFESSIONALLY RAN AND REPRESENTED. I GIVE THIS SITE TWO THUMBS DOWN AND ONE MIDDLE FINGER UP.
Don't do it they are not worth the time. I warned you. They want too much info. They are rubbish don't do it.!
Good because its free, not for any other reason. If you just want to pick someone up, then its great. But not recommended for real relationships.
I signed up last night. Lots of phoney replies and unable to cancel so far; member number: ******* Avoid at all costs!
Made to feel awful as they decided I was a man! Thanks! I feel great now, off to pastures new hopefully wont be wrong sex there
I joined plenty of fish dating site. First the Web site chooses the woman you get to view. The this Markus... favors the woman. I tried to report that I had four woman lied about living location. Offering money for sex..."friends with benifits" I believe the words were. Not one date not one meet not one true connection. I even had a woman say if you want to do that holds do it yourself... she liked to horse back ride. You might think I'm not that good looking or little to offer. Wrong. I'm in great shape. Ex military. It seems the woman that really respond to you or show interest. Have no teeth. Or tattoos where you look and think I don't want to kiss a demon tattoo. Not to mention africa ladies and "if you are a serious man you get on a plane and fly to see me" LOL ARE YOU SERIOUS? AND THE FEW GREAT LOOKING WOMAN GET ON ONE DAY THEN VANISH NEVER TO RESPOND TO YOUR AD OR YOUR MSG. IN NEW YORK THOSE ARE CALLED RINGERS. PLACE THERE TO ENSURE A WIN. GOOD LUCK HA. THE FISHING AT PLENTY OF FISH IS NOT GOOD. WATCH OUT FOR SNAGS AND EELS. TRY TO GET REPORT A SCAM. MARKUS THE FOUNDER. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.
They cancel me three times no explanation, the number in the site not working number i had to start a dispute to get my money back
Complete rip off fake pics til u pay then pics change and u can't get to the women. No customer service no feedback if a complaint
If i was you i would never use this website you might mess around a get raped or killed with all the fake profiles or catfish
In order to get to the Top of their rankings l had to give it five stars, but really it is a crap site as although l do recognise a few genuine local ladies l suspect that many ate fake profiles made up from a worlwide info bank that they passoff as local tp me. Some photos show European plug sockets & some usa of girls who are said to be in Uk. Also l recognise one girls photo taken 6 years ago as still being local and avail. But she moved 100 miles away is happily married and with baby.lt is not free. It is hard to find the true profiles and they send me profiles way outside my preference limit. However they left the back door wide open as this blog has let me put my contact details within this report for savvy girls to be able to contact me direct.So if you are a fit, intelligent lady 23-43, ptref a slim non smoker about five four inches to 5 seven. Size 8.10. Then take advantage of this blog as several ladies have done already & texas me on. Oh 75 two, ninety sex, treble Four & 9 sex again. I'm into Tantra, fit non smoker, & multiple orgs are guaranteed, in technicolour if you are lucky.if you have a clit piecing it can enjoy some tongue tennis. L can accom or travel to you & bring my madsage oils with me. Hope you found this helpful.
From a mans point of view I will be fair and set my disappointment to one side. Pof is no better than real life for enhancing your chances to find a companion, however, if you take it seriously and do a sensible profile and upload honest pictures then it's not for the want of trying is it? It's very easy to become addicted to pof, rushing home from work to check messages, staying up later than usual chatting, it can be a real distraction if you are not disciplined. I had three dates, sex once and two coffees that never went any further. There are a lot of people who don't take the site seriously and will mess you around, the art is to not be too needy or come across as lonely as you will be ignored, the women seem quite a fickle bunch, only interested in money, looks, how far you will go to crawl to them and basically what they can get away with! My general impression is that I cannot come into contact with any woman in every day life without being suspicious and aware they are pretty evil things really, I don't genuinely think any of them genuinely want a relationship that might call on them to do some giving as well! Totally selfish individuals, rude and the best actresses ever put upon the planet earth, the ones who have the nice house etc are just prostitutes who probably still live off the ex old man they parted with in the first place... why don't blokes just stop the maintenance? Because you wouldn't want the kids to go hungry now would you? In short the women are filth who should be avoided, get a dog for loyalty and visit prostitutes... all covered... job done! Great for having sex with multiple women, but use a durex.
I am a 30 something man in the UK and have been using this site on and off for a few years. I was permanently banned this week with no explanation. Any new accounts I make are deactivated within a couple of hours. I was not abusive/lewd and had no topless shots etc. I had made a few female friends on there, and feel quite annoyed that I'll never be able to contact them again.
POF seem to change their rules day by day. Lately, you could only contact xx amount of new people a day. This wasn't in the T&Cs I agreed to. They then appeared to stop enforcing that.
Other than that, the site is largely populated by wannabe WAGs. Women just looking for sex. Cheats etc. Not many genuinely looking for a relationship, and those that are soon leave.
The design of the site is incredibly poor. As a web developer myself, I could knock something better than this up in a couple of days. Delete Account is intentionally well hidden. Parts of the site frequently break, and it is often down. They seem to do site updates directly to the live site, which is very poor practice for a company that allegedly makes millions of USD a year.
Also, from what I understand, they have a large database containing email addresses, zip/postal codes, photographs, IP addresses etc. There's no telling what information they have on people, but they should be held to International Law regarding the handling of user data, as they don't appear to apply that.
It's only saving grace is the sheer number of users. Unfortunately, only an extreme few are looking for anything other than "fun" or attention. And in attempting to find these few, you may find yourself banned forever with no explanation. Just awful.
I'm going off how POF was several years ago. I don't know how the site has changed or if people still use POF. Maybe its become unpopular like AdultFriendFinder, but the main contributing factor of AFF's decline was and is membership fees. I'm not going to spend a lot of time complaining about the other users on POF, because it's been proven that Internet dating works best for single people that don't actually need to use the Internet to find a date.
Yep, you read that right, if you need POF or Tinder to find a date then your chances are slim. If you want Internet dating to work better then its best to develop your social life and hobbies. Make your own life fun and develop your best self. If you're using an internet dating site to find someone because you're boring yourself, then you'll most likely bore your date too. However I digress, if you're an angry person or you're looking for perfection then nothing will work for you.
The site functioned fairly well, but there were a few random hiccups from time to time. However, there were other problems such as it was easy to get kicked off POF if your profile was blocked by too many users. The problem here is some people may block a user because they just don't want to date them. Misconduct is not the only reason a user will get blocked.
I was on POF when the site was beginning to find creative ways to charge people membership fees. This wasn't a great idea because the site was built on being free. POF had begun to enforce email limits and taken away a few other perks that free users had. I'm sure things probably got worse after POF was bought by the Interactive Corporation.
At least there are more people on POF than any other dating site. Look at Match.com and Okcupid, these sites are littered with fake profiles of yuppies that have pics of themselves backpacking through the Alps or Skydiving. When Joe or Jane Average sees this they go the other way. The problem is match.com, Okcupid and Tinder are ran by Manhattan Yuppies who backpack through Europe during the summer or go scuba diving. These same Yuppies crap money and don't invest a dime. So they think its okay to write fake profiles based on the type of people they think exist.
Let's be hypothetical here. If a fat person opened up a Walmart dating site filled with people who love shopping at Walmart and they needed to write a bunch of fake profiles to get the ball rolling. What do you think those fake profiles would look like? Probably other Walmart fatties and Jesus freaks. My point is a person is going to write a fake profiles based on the types of people they're exposed to. You have no idea how many times I've heard some Hippie with a Liberal Arts degree go on some Tirade that details how little they know about what and who's outside their Concrete, Brick, and Steel city.
A great deal of these reviews are written by men who tried this site. They put up pictures and tried to write a decent profile. In the end they maybe got a couple replies to their emails. They were lucky if they got phone number. Guys really need to learn to be articulate and focus more on the meaning of what they say, instead of focusing on the lines and words.
Don't worry, women get their Nod for their effort too. Some women end up meeting creeps and perverts. Although, I've done this enough to know that if they were more self aware they might be able to avoid a lot of this garbage.
About the reviews accusing this site of having fake profiles. Nope, the profiles are all mostly real. The problem is you have like 7 men to every 1 women. In some larger cities there are 10 men to every 1 woman.
Think about it, some chicks sign up and in 2 hours they have 30 to 70 emails. Numbers or not, they cant possibly get back to you.
There are scammers on POF, so beware. I saw a profile of a 21yo girl who was looking for Active Military members bank account info. He profile was listed in a city that's right next to a large Military base. She said she was investing and could produce a positive return. Whatever!
Some women get addicted to the attention but they burn out before too long on there. The women who get addicted and have to check their emails once an hour are the ones who spend years online.
The other problem is the 'same old, same old' story of people running when faced with other people who say they're looking for the same thing. If I was to write a profile about how much I want a relationship I would get no emails. If I wrote an articulate profile that candidly told of why I want a relation and what I think it means then I would get emails from women who identify with what I wrote. People don't respond to what you say, they respond to what you mean. Lol, the truth is you have... to gulp... be yourself. However you have to talk about normal stuff.
POF is not a numbers game. You can send out mass emails and the people can spot a fake because the email you sent them isn't personalized. Also, if you have a bland profile then its unlikely anyone will email you back. People are looking for a good time, they're on POF for fun. The fact is this is a psychology experiment, not a math experiment. The would be Authors who write about how this is a numbers game are just Bad at Dating. Is it possible to drive a million miles and be a Bad Driver? Yes. That's the way these people date. You have to figure out what you want and be on the same page with the person on the other end of the screen. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.
Here's what I found that works. You have to focus on one person at a time. If you get caught up in the emails you'll screw yourself. Its all time and energy.
My problems are with the way the site functions and the users.
What's hard to believe is how many people that exist on POF that have been single for years upon years. I think online dating and knowing there is someone a page away has made us picky. We're not giving people a fair shake because the site fools us into thinking there is an abundance of people. In reality there isn't an abundance of people. Its a Fool's paradise.
The problem with this Fool's Paradise is people are tricked into thinking they can act crabby and cranky but still find that "Perfect" person for them. There are plenty of Facebook memes that back this idea up. You know the ones that basically say, 'The Perfect man for me will put up with my Cranky attitude.' The problem with POF is the same as why relationships fail in the first place. People think the other person should do all of the work while they act like a Retard because being a Retard is their nature.
The fallacy here is simple, anyone who knows their worth is not going to put of with unnecessary B. S.! They know their value and self worth and they can easily find someone who TREATS THEM WELL.
The other problem is my profile made it to the top of searches based on my email activity. The more emails I send the more my profile was out on the top of search lists. Wow smart. I'm busy with an email, why not make me more busy by exposing my profile further.
The other problem is the site isn't encrypting anything and its security for protecting passwords and other data is outdated. I mean massively. The founder Markus only spends about 40 minutes a day dealing with his site.
The biggest problem is the "Creator" Markus. The guy created the site with not much knowledge on how to build a site or a server for that matter. I admire the fact that he just went out and did it and I have to thank him for keeping internet dating free and cheap. Can you imagine how much match.com would be charging if POF wasn't around? However Markus knows very little about dating, what it takes, how it works, and how people come together. The only reason Markus created the site is because it would look good on a resume. IMO the matching system needs an overhaul. There are compatible people on there who aren't meeting because of how the site works. People aren't connecting because there are too may incompatible and uncompromising people in the way.
Sooner or later a better dating site will come along. However at this time you cant argue with free and the shear numbers. If you're going to date online then you might as well use POF. The paid sites have too many fake profiles to keep up with.
I'm sure my review might rub some people the wrong way. If it does then Good, I'm glad, because you're denial is the source of your failure. I hope what I have written motivates you to think like an Adult. The primary problem with POF is there are way too many people who will NOT take accountability for themselves.
There are people who swear they attract Douchebags, Jerks, and Bitches and blame everyone else for their problems. They're the ones who need to take a look in the mirror because we attract people with a similar mindset. If you're a 45yo who acts like a High School Junior who just got a car and wants to party then don't act surprised when you attract another "Mature" person who acts the same.
Ant that's the problem I'm eluding to. People take to POF in a foolish effort to have a relationship with a Partygoer. They want a relationship with someone who's going to hook them up with a good time. They really think they can have their cake and eat it too. I used to be this way, I loved going out and having a good time. The fact is The Party going Hookup types are either poor Businessmen or they lack Ambition in general. They think like kids, not adults. A person with a childlike mentality is not going to have or find a successful relationship.
My advice, don't get frustrated. Just have fun. If its not working then change it. You have to hold your frame and focus on the people you want to date. Not trying to keep the ones you don't want away. State what you want and what your relationship ideals are, that's very attractive to a like minded person. Take it one person at a time. Keep the texting and phone calls up until the first meeting, show interest. You're looking for someone who's interested in you so why not take the same level of interest in them. It's that simple. However it is time consuming. Internet dating is kinda like living in New York city, those with a weak frame don't make it.
First off, as opposed to men who could be wholesome, never had kids, never married, a woman almost has to be washed up to go online to look for men being so many sharks abound. The obesity is another thing - this and most other dating sites are loaded with such fatness, it can make a man give up on dating by seeing just what's available on-line.
For POF specifically, it started off fine, but got loaded with too much garbage such as the personality assessment, the owner thinking he knows more about what you should be looking for than what's pertinent to you (suppose you never had more than a couple weeks fun in the sack and are age 40, he thinks you should not find a woman compatible with you in extent of experience - so much for his mathematical abilities).
The owner was way so greedy - could have made everything on the site for free as advertisements could support the entire operation. The originator started pushing fees for one aspect or another to the point that it was useless without paying, reducing the claim of it being free. Not sure how many employees there were before he sold it a couple years back but currently revenues are $100 million for 75 employees. Imagine over $1M in revenues per employee. I suggest to everyone to boycott the site. It's 1% for humanity and 99% for greed.
Best for men to look at totally free porn and maybe in real life, find a gal, even if it's 5 or 10 years being alone at a time. Had women chose better, there wouldn't be so many single moms and good men passed up, making the big dating problem. Women do the choosing, not men. Strange, no matter how bad some men are, women still throw themselves at them. Wholesome men have little chance in the United States and what is shown on-line as far as available women, it's laughable that any man would choose them (on the most part).
Going downhill fast. Very poor site management! Even fake supporters of the site here... those that work for pof.com commenting here.
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