Plenty of Fish

Site is used for scamming asking for financial information and copy's of ID
When complaint was made my account was blocked
I paid for use and use was repeated restricted

This site is the worst there is, the worst there was and the worst there ever will be. The women on this site are double dippers have both FSF and FSM profiles. Their are women on this site who are Bisexual and are looking for someone to sleep with either them or their man regardess of gender. Sharing is not caring in my book! If you have to add a third party to your relationship to fix things hell just break up now. You got women on this site with kids who want a compnion because "Baby Daddy" ran off and doesn't pay the bills so they look for you to graciously pick up the tab. There are naked picture shares on this site that just randomly send you a picture of their naked anatomy. You have women on this site who are Bipolar, Borderline Personality Disorder, Anxiety Disorders and mental health issues that havent yet been named. The women are either married or seperated and lie about being single. Most of the women on this site want to push you into a relationship after talking just once on the phone. They "need" you ( finacially) they dont want you. So if your looking to be needed and not wanted this is the site for you.

I chatted with several gentleman on POF. I met a man, I hate calling him a man because now I realize he's far from a real man. After just knowing him less than a week he asked me to marry him, the first time I said no, the second time I said no, the third time I said yes, but not anytime soon because I had only been divorced a year. After such a short time, he moved into my home and I felt that I had met the man I have waited all my life for. To make a long story short, I financially supported this guy, not one day did he work, he would take up to 3 naps a day, when he was not laying in my bed sleeping, he was sitting on the couch to the point, of a friend saying he is making an indention in your couch! After putting up with this for 3 months, and him living off of me financially, I finally decided it was time for him to go! 3 months was way too long with this person, I want to say his name but I don't know if I could get in trouble for it. I feel like he has been doing this to women, and I would like for someone to tell me if I would get in trouble if I mention his name, because I do not want any other ladies going through this horrible experience! He financially ruined me within 3 months! It is my fault, because I should have kicked him out after a week of him taking money from me and living off of me! But let me go back to where we first met, this guy knows the right things to say, he is a smooth talker and Will make you feel like you're the only one that matters and his life, he will show you pictures of cars that he painted that he probably did not. He will say that he owns many antique cars that he does not! He will say that he owns two and three homes that he does not! So ladies please beware! He lives in Milton Florida, he will tell you that he owns 9 to 10 vehicles, but there's always an excuse why he can't drive one at That time. He is supposed to be an airbrush specialist artist, but I never saw an air brush in his hand. I have been to my attorney, & I am going to Take him to court! He's almost 60 years old, and is living With a Family because he is too sorry to work and pay for his own home!

POF could be perfect, but there was one very big drawback I experienced. I live in a rural area and if I wanted to search within 8 miles, there were "not enough matches". There were in fact over a dozen profiles within 8 miles, but POF would not allow me to view just those. If I expanded this to 10 miles, I no longer received the "not enough matches" warning, however my results were artificially expanded to include people from up to 20 miles away. If I set it to 15 miles, my results were artificially expanded to include women living 60 miles away! I am not exaggerating on that figure, that 60 miles is Mapquest confirmed. 59.6 miles if you want precision. I'm a more-than-full-time engineer and part time farmer. I do not have the time to make a 60 mile relationship work, nor do I have the time to comb through a thousand people to find the 20 who are within my range. Yes, the site is called "plenty of fish" as opposed to 20 fish, and they are trying to generate add revenue like any online business. It might not be conducive to this goal if customers only logged on briefly every once in a while to see if they had any new potential matches. Obviously they want you to troll the site late at night until you start to go cross-eyed. But it sure would be a heck of a lot more useful and less annoying if they did not bias the search results in this way. This is a key reason I use OKcupid more than POF, despite the fact that I like everything else on POF better. OKcupid's search algorithm is biased in the opposite direction, it tends to exclude some matches rather than include erroneous matches, but it works better for me because it doesn't waste as much of my time. Perhaps all of this is just the inherent plight of the rural online dater but it would sure be nice to see some changes!

I was curious to try this site out. I'm a math major and numbers guy. I have heard from many people this site is "rigged" and has "many fake profiles". So my buddy and I decided to join and see what was up.

I'm not ugly whatsoever. (not to sound cocky) and don't have problems picking up women. Nor does my friend.

We created profiles then proceeded to send about 8-12 messages per week (each) to women. After 4 months. We averaged out of the 160 messages we sent to women, ONLY 6 responded. This is unreal.

What does this mean?

This means that POF is not updating their sites profiles. Profiles on the site are still showing up but are either, fake, non -active or have not been removed off the site itself. Ironically, out of the 160 messages we sent to women, only TWO showed up in the "who's viewed me" section. This means, NONE even read the e-mails we sent to them. Because if they did and "weren't interested" or "deleted" our messages. They would still show up as if they viewed our profiles.
POF makes it look like profiles are "online" when they really are not online. I also personally received 3 messages from women on the East Coast saying there profiles were showing up in Los Angeles, even though the NEVER put LA on there profile.

This means POF is purposely manipulating the amount of users in "your area" and the amount that are "online" when in reality they are not whatsoever. Many of the profiles seem to be abandoned and non -active.

POF is set up to purposely drive traffic to their site. Plain and simple. They need the advertising money. They depend on that for survival. Unlike Match.com, e-harmony etc. that make money from paid suscribers. POF has a very low paid subscription amount of users. They realize, people are leaving their site in droves and need the site traffic to make it look like there are more profiles than really exist.

POF is a Canadian ran company. NOT based here in the United States. So they bypass most laws by using peoples pictures without permission or consent.

All in all, POF is more of a marketing gimmick. Sure you nay "meet someone" or talk to someone from your area. But don't get your hopes up that you will find "the love of your life" on this site.

This site is a fake. It has no real use whatsoever other than bringing in revenue with no real return

Want to see who likes you. Show women who are great distances away. Complete garbage compared to 4 years ago.

I am going to relate a 71 year old guy's point of view based upon my use of the site for about a year. The majority of the women are not very appealing yet they are very demanding. Many are looking for men 10 years younger than they are. The site ignores distance preferences so I was bombarded with profiles of women living all over the world but won't let me contact women more than 15 years younger. There are catfishes looking to take advantage of men but they are easy to spot. Their favorite line is that age differences do not matter and distance is not an issue since they are willing to relocate. I always check pictures of attractive women to see if the photos they post were taken off the Internet to create a phony profile. The major issue is not catfish but women who have no commitment to meeting someone. In other words they are not willing to put in any effort because they could not care less if they meet someone to date. They sit back and peruse POF when Bingo and Mahjong have been canceled. Since there are more men than women even the homely overweight ones who lack education and sophistication can be assured of a steady stream of messages and "likes." Men are there, in their opinions, to amuse and serve.
You can get a free membership or an upgraded membership for a fee. It does not pay to upgrade. You are fishing in polluted waters regardless.
The site is run by people who are mostly honest except for one ploy. When an upgraded membership is about to end I believe the site itself generates tons of phony messages and phony "likes" in order to keep you hooked. I tried contacting the members who messaged me and "liked" me to confirm they were real and none responded. OurTime, another dating site does the same thing. You get more contacts (all phony) at the end of your paid membership in one day than you received in a month. Very deceitful.
One last comment directed to all the women looking for a man who makes them laugh. Please consider contacting Bozo the clown.

99% of the women are looking for rich guys or just to get laid. All conceited women. The 1% are few and far between.

Very dangerous site i checked it out for a month and ended it never met anyone and I didn't want to after being threatened.

So, I initially signed up for this site, and everything was fine... for a couple of weeks. I was exchanging messages with some women, and all was good. Then, when I went to sign in one day, it said my pw was incorrect. I tried again, same response. I tried again, going extra slow, to make absolutely sure I was entering it correctly, same response. So, I requested a pw reset, and was advised that, if my email address was valid, I would be receiving a pw reset email. I never received such an email, even though my email address was valid and I had been receiving communication from this site (notifying me of new messages). I tried emailing POF through their help link. No response. I tried calling. Was told the only tech support was through email. Tried emailing. AGAIN. No response. AGAIN! So, I created another profile. This time, I had my browser save/remember my password. Then, the same thing happened. I tried signing in using the exact same pw (as saved in the browser), and I was told it was incorrect. Tried again, same. Again, same. So, I requested a pw reset. Again. Had to create another profile just to contact those I was communicating with. Again. Just waiting to be locked out of my third profile. But even that is not the ultimate issue. The ultimate issue is that I have received absolutely no response from POF from my repeated attempts to contact them to get help for this site. I was given the opportunity to contact POF through this site before writing this review, which I did. However, based on my experience, I have absolutely no confidence I will receive a response. With so may personal Web sites, and so many free personal Web sites (like POF), this lack of customer service is absolutely unacceptable. It's not the problems... every Web site is going to have problems. It's the complete lack of customer support that has be so discouraged, and inspired me to write this review.