Plenty of Fish

You can tell straight away from the profile of the women that they get inundated with messages from men
They complain they're sick of men sending them 10 messages and not getting the message they're not interested and they also seem to whine alot about d1ck pics they get.
First I have no idea why a man would want to send 10 messages to a woman if she didn't reply to the 1st one and secondly what kind of man sends those d1ck pics? But then you look at their profiles and they call themselves hotbabe69 etc or have photos half naked so really what you expect to get?

Without wishing to be rude the women should be grateful they are getting any messages judging by the attitude they have on the profile. Rude aggressive and unpleasant, why would I even want to message them? Then you have the ones that can't even be bothered to fill the the section about me out and put just ask. Lazy. You ain't going to find the sort of woman you would take home to your parents on here

I was online dating about 10 years ago and was actually okay as not many people were on it but now its useless for men. Every woman wants a white knight to rescue her regardless how old or out of shape she is and it seems to me there must be 300 men for every woman and that's probably being conservative. So if you're a decent guy you'll get ignored anyway due to the sheer numbers of messages the women get

Lots of the profiles I viewed had the woman longest relationship at under a year. That's hardly inspiring confidence either when they're in their late 30s. Do they have issues making them undateable or have they been riding the c*ck carousel for years and finally want to settle down now their looks are going?

From what I've seen the women are not attractive pleasant or sociable enough to demand what they are looking for. They will be still be on here in 20 years. They are getting hundreds of messages and still being uber picky crying 'where are all the decent men?" Its obvious that unless you are a Male model who is 6'5 tall and drives a Porsche then you will be ignored by the women. That would be understandable if they looked like they were cheerleaders of the Dallas cowboys but most look more like the cows

Pretty much the worse dating site i ever tried. Alot of the guys that contacted me were either in prison, living with their "baby mama" had a girlfriend or were just looking for a hook up. As a single mother, working with a job and a place of my own i signed up for pof searching for a mate who shares my same interests in life and works hard and takes lifes seriously. I was highly surpised as well as dissapointed in the options that seem to be on pof. Alot of the men had no jobs but lied and said they did. If you do not reply back to messages alot of the guys will continue to bombard you with messages. Had many explicit messages sent to me out of nowhere. Alot of guys lying about their age by 10 years plus. Had a guy with extremely old pics of him when he was in shape on the site, when we video messaged he was about 400 pounds. Ive had people message me and when i respond they give me one word answers. I have pretty much gave up on dating because of this site. Unless your looking for a quick late night hook up with someones boyfriend or a random horny guy dont sign up for pof.As a african American woman in her late 20s dont search pof unless your seeking guys that are aspiring rappers, ex cons or the guys with millions of tattoos and a bunch of fake jewelry with terrible headlines such as " im a real one" or im that ni&&a standing in front of a fancy car that does not belong to them. There are also pimps on this site heavily and i have even been contacted by other females asking me do i "Want to join her and her boyfriends "team". Ive given my number to a few people and they will kind of just disappear after a few days of calling or texting then contact me a month later, i had to change my number because of it. I hate to go on a rant but like i said dont use this site unless you like netflix and chill or your not serious about dating.

EDIT: Had to edit this, because my ANDROID phone has dementia! Serious... look it up! Lol

So far I have talked to about 40 or so women on the site. Out of all of them, about 2 of them were real. I'm widowed and I asked them in advance to please just tell me if you're a catfish because I'm not going to send you money and not going to fall for any BS or sob stories, because why are they on a dating site asking for money anyway? LOL
But be warned, there are some cunning ones and they will just continue their little charade because what the hell else are they gonna do? Most are in some third world country ****hole, so what do they care? Answer: they don't.

Indeed there are ways that they can vet their members and actually give you a better experience. But those would drastically reduce their reported numbers of singles on their site, to not put them in the lead, but in a distant LAST, among all the major sites. This is owned by the same jerks that own most of the major sites, so it's not like this will RUIN them, it's a planned FUDGERY... one that they ELECTED to do, so that they would have the maximum number of singles on their site, facts be damned!

90%+ profiles are fake. The only good thing is, if you report a profile, the'll likely yank it right off within 24 hours. The only bad thing is, they will do the SAME thing to you, if someone doesn't like your profile or chat with you... so once again... dropping the ball!
I got a year's f****** membership on this thing... Because their order form will automatically default to that, even if you've clicked a shorter membership. I'm probably gonna do a charge back and just take my chances someplace else. They do have a verification process, and some members do that, so that's one way to avoid scammers, but it's also a good way to avoid 80% of the legit profiles as well!
I'm widowed four years now... and haven't been on a single date. I'm a musician and looking for a girl that is into the same thing... that worked for me before, and I joined this site for the numbers and supposedly the profiles were keyword searchable... this is important for finding other musicians or musical people... but turns out they only can search the PROFILE NAME, and not the text in their profile. Once again, they dropped the ball in a big way. I'm cranky... maybe that comes through... lol... but this isn't that hard... even if they lost a few points in their bottom line, they are already owned by the largest company in the biz,... you'd think they would have a little bit of pride in what they're selling... nope! Nada... Good luck out there!

This is garbage go pay money to a homeless then paying to pof, you will at-least get good wishes...

It's basically a site for men to just hook up for sex, I'm very disappointed Never would recommend POF

My complaint of plenty of fish is that they do not allow you to keep the profile of your cheating spouse on the website when you have caught them on the site. I found out when I had a gut feeling that my husband was up to no good. I did a search on POF and found my husband's profile with his picture and I called him to confront him about it, he basically stated what I was going to do about it so I copied his picture and profile and created a duplicate profile of his and username that he had Zohan03 I made it Zohan02 and the headline read Ladies to Beware of this Cheater! I proceeded to write what I discovered and posted his information on there. He didn't have the decency to respect our marriage, himself or me and I thought this would be the best way to get back at him. I found out about him on 11-23-2011 and I posted a duplicate profile of him. He posted his picture on 8/19/2011 and had his profile up several months before with no picture. He thought he was being smart. On 12-20-2011 I found out the profile I created had been deleted. Plenty of Fish should allow a profile up on their site of a cheating spouse if the cheating spouse puts up a profile stating their single on their site. It is only fair and right, plus I know there is good sincere people looking for their future partner on that site and why should they become a victim of a scammer posing as a free single man who in essence is a married man. I am working on a class action lawsuit against Plenty of Fish and Markus for not allowing my profile up on this cheater. This should be part of the menu on their site if a spouse is caught on there. If this was a truly a respectable site, they should allow a post from the spouse who caught their cheating spouse on there! I would very much appreciate anyone who has caught their spouse on the site to contact me to put our heads together and get this feature on there. Accountability is necessary on these types of sites...

Ok so I had an account for a full day. First off, I put in all my info at the registration and some how my birthday and country were incorrect. I could only change my birthday. So for a day, I was stuck being from Australia... should have just left it at that, but all my searches started being from Australia... I'm from Texas, this was obviously a problem. So I found out you have to wait 24 hours before you can delete your account(which is, I found, the ONLY way to change your country... which is bs) soo I waited the 24 hours, had a pretty good time on there, everything ran smoothly. Then I decided to delete and recreate with the correct country. Right off the bat I mad sure my info was correct, just in case I messed it up the first time. Filled out that entire long next page and clicked upload my profile (or whatever) and BOOM all info gone.
Put it all in AGAIN, click. Gone again...
So I get online to see if I can log in... Which I can -_-. So I think, "oh, alright, maybe the app was jamming up for a little" I upload my pics that I had on the first profile, no problem. For like 10 minutes of me searching and messaging. I have no messages or views and I try to go check it out and it freezes... So I wait a sec, few minutes... Few more minutes and nothing. It glitches back to the log in where I proceed to put in my info... Invalid user name or password -_- I go to put my email in to retrieve my password and it says the email isn't found...
I GO THORUGH THIS^^^^ ENTIRE PROCESS TWO MORE DAMN TIMES
Can't get help
I'm pissed someone might be using my pics and info
Done with this site
Can't click less than one star.

I'm happy Plenty of Fish gave me my refund back 100% like they said guaranteed if you're not happy it's not their fault it's the women LOL

I am a single woman and I decided to try out POF to see if I could possibly find a good guy to have a relationship with. Well, let me tell you this site is a JOKE. I created my account in Nov and deleted my account in March. Most of the guys intent state CASUAL DATING/ NO COMMITMENT yet they are quick to hit you up even if your intent states WANTS A RELATIONSHIP. Many of the guys on this site don't bother reading your profile and don't care what your intent is. Many guys on here do not take this site seriously in my opinion and you can easily waste plenty of precious time on this site.

You will find ex cons on here and plenty of guys who just aren't in any position to be in a relationship with a woman. I know nobody is perfect but why bother saying you want a relationship when you know due to your situation that it is not ideal?

Remember this site is FREE so don't expect to encounter the cream of the crop. Yes, you may find a good man on here, however, you will have to really screen these guys and pray for the best! Seriously. Maybe you should reach out to guys first as well. I pretty much waited for guys to contact me and I did reach out to a few guys as well but not that many.

I have encountered strange guys, disrespectful guys, ex cons, time wasters, and annoying guys on here. Another thing that I noticed is that alot of the same guys from when I was on this site about two years ago are STILL on the site! Those same guys will still hit you up unless you block them.

Overall, trying to meet a good man on this site was depressing! I think this site is s waste of time for any woman who is serious about finding Mr. Right. I would NOT recommended POF! Try a different site I recommend trying a site where you have to pay money or maybe just try something else completely different than POF and remember to screen screen and screen especially if you plan on using POF!

Good luck!

It's not the site that is to blame. It's online dating in general. Problems:
1) Females get WAY TOO MUCH male attention. As such, women who are a "4" suddenly believe they are entitled to an "8". Thus, women are on there for YEARS wondering why they can't just meet a NICE NORMAL (superhot, ripped, rich) guy.
2) Almost everyone lies. Lies of omission (head shot only people, just saying) and people who mix in older, younger, thinner photos. Men (I hear) embellish about career and income. Weak. Other people just post old pics or ones so far away they are of no use.
3) Selection effect. When faced with so so many choices, people suddenly get extremely choosy. It's a documented psychological effect. Give guests 10 dessert choices instead of two and time how long it takes them to decide and watch the uncertainty!
4) "Profile matching" and comparing similar interests is said to be secondary in importance to how people get along - read: communication styles, personality type, and other things that don't have to do with hobbies, interests, travel, type of music and flavor of iced cream. Pet allergies is useful info though...
5) You have no idea what the other person is REALLY looking for. Men often fiend relationship readiness to try and just "get some action". I also noticed a lot of women have intimacy and trust issues and are in stark denial about it, lamenting over and over how they "just can't find a good guy" and "all men are creeps" etc. etc. Self awareness in the general population seems to be as low as ever.

So I say don't blame POF - it's actually a pretty decent site. It's just that online dating in general has a lot wrong with it. I think I got good value for $84 for 1 year of access. The features are neat, and if you can express yourself well you CAN meet people. But the problem with "plenty of fish" is trying to sort through all of them getting someone who is even close to a match. Most people I meet make for a fun date, but the profile and short "texting" exchange doesn't tell you enough about the person. I think meeting in person, the old fashioned way, might take more time and being OUT there more, but you know RIGHT AWAY if there is chemistry. Trying to determine this online in advance, sorry to say, is a bit of a myth. For me anyways.

Site is Four Stars.
Online Dating is ONE STAR.

Don't blame POF for human nature. ;)

What it really boils down to about this site and dating sites in general, from a man's point of view(ladies I'm sure you have yours) is the following:
1) you have these rude over-the-hill heffers that are fakes or with unrealistic expectations that are a 4 or maybe a 5 holding out for a 10! Get real!
2) You have the type who is on here to see how much attention she can get for her looks. To those I say please move on. There are beauty pageants for that sort of thing. You just might not be as hot as you delusionaly think you are if you need POF as a beauty contest that you would probably not win in real life.
3) Then you have the type who have less than stellar looks becoming overnight narcissists due to the attention they are getting in an environment with a 7 to 1 male/female ratio. Ladies get real. There are lots of guys who will tell you anything to get your cooperation. You know what I mean. So keep it real.
4) Then you have the insecure types that have an account to make their boyfriends jealous. Keep looking, and you just might find your current boyfriend on here.
5) And if they've been divorced, they've probably been slapped around quite a bit emotionally and/or physically and now have a twisted vendetta against men and delight in being rude or hostile to them, such as automatically blocking guys for no reason.
6) Then we can't leave out the heffers looking for a boy toy. Hey, if you were all that, your husband wouldn't have divorced you to begin with.
7) You have these kooks who are like 5' or thereabouts, looking for a guy over 6'. Is she going to bring a step ladder on every date so she can kiss the guy?
8) Which leaves us with the honest woman trying to honestly find a decent guy. But they are vastly outnumbered by the others. So good luck in finding her.

There are do many characters on POF I would say it's more of a circus. Most of these clowns should be under a tent somewhere juggling torches while riding donkies

DO NOT join this site if you are a man as there must be 200+ guys to every woman and unless you look like James Bond you will be ignored regardless of what kind of woman you message.
I will be honest and say there are not many decent females on the site but ALL of them think they are a great catch and will normally have a HUGE list of what boxes you must tick before you can send them mail, it is bordering on ridiculous there is way they could be so picky and OTT if they weren't getting tons of messages everyday. Plain Janes cant be picky unless they are on POF

The majority of women are either teachers who have no social life, people with low intelligence and the IQ of a slug or women that say that they are independent and cant understand why are 34 they haven't got a man!
They all love travelling and going on road trips even if they dont drive which always makes me laugh.

What you have is a bunch of plain jane/chunky women all wanting a guy on his white horse to rescue them and give them a life of luxury.

I did send one message but her profile was so long to read fully so I just sent a Hi how are you doing this Wednesday? But apparently her profile contained a keyword which you must say when you messaged her so she knew you had read all her profile, I kid you not, and because I didn't mention this word she abused me then blocked me. This is how I know there are way too many men on this site otherwise how could they get away with being so rude and nasty to a potential partner?

The photos aren't just of the women, they also like for some unknown reason like to put up photos of cakes, paintings and pics of their pets kissing their dogs

I wouldn't recommend signing up to this site but its worth browsing just to see how online dating has made women out of touch with reality. Rename the site Chunkies with attitude

First issue: Many of the potential dates provided by pof.com as available to us thru searches on their site, had communication disabled, so in point of fact, they're
Not in any way available!
Second issue: When we tried to remove those profiles from our likes we found we could not do this. As far back as Dec 2021, POF advised they hope to add
His feature. They never did and obviously rely on any answer to put off their members.
Third issue: They repeatedly sent often self-serving, form letters that don't respond to issues or they asked questions they already knew the answer to and
Followed that with another or the same unresponsive, self-serving form letters not addressing issues. Based on their promises to fix this, and the offer to us
Of a discount, we probably ill-advisedly, acquiesced and paid to become an upgraded member. We continued to have same issues with unavailable women
Showing up on our searches. This might be false advertising but at the very least it's dishonest to consumers.
We paid for premium (service) because we wanted to find available women but about half the ptentials they sent us in our very specific search had messaging disabled!
Even for free service, this is just not prudent or honest.
After repeatedly writing pof.com without resolution we finally asked our credit card company to reverse the charges based on the above.
Forth issue: In response pof.com removed us from their site in 2022. They took the unfair position that anyone who cancels payment was compromised.
A self-serving way to stifle complaints and not make changes. They maintained this position knowing we were not compromised.
A very unfriendly, imprudent response. This is just wrong and hurts consumers.
At the very least they should have allowed us to remain as a (free) member.
Fifth Issue: When we rejoined under another email as a free member they again removed us with this self-serving email:
"Keeping our community safe is our top priority, and we take this action very seriously and therefore we conduct extensive profile reviews to ensure a ban is warranted.
After a thorough review of your profile, I can confirm that the correct action has been taken on your profile and your account will remain closed due to violating our Community Guidelines and Terms of Use.
Please note that the account closure is permanent and any future accounts will be automatically removed meaning that you will not be able to create a new account on Plenty of Fish, nor will you be able to retrieve or reactivate your previous account. We appreciate your understanding."
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
There are many good dating sites out there POF is most definitely NOT one of them.

Oooh, and why can't you read other ppl's reviews?! POF are a bunch of F-ING LIARS! You click on Live Customer Support, and it asks the questions for you. You have list to choose from. I HARDLY consider that "LIVE" Customer Support. Nothing pisses me off more than a FAKE-$#*! Company! I went to log into my account, that has had the EXACT SAME Password that it's had since I made the acct, and POF Stupid f-ing Stundos are TELLIING ME. The owner of the acct, that my password is WRONG! UMM, NO! It isn't. Your website just has soooo many f-king glitches in it. It's probably not recognizing it b/c #1 I haven't logged in in a while, and #2 ur admins are as stupid as the site itself! If I would have ACTUALLY been ABLE to chat with a LIVE AGENT. Like POF SAYS YOU CAN. This issue would've been resolved in about 3-minutes! BUT NO. Those fk-ing BONEHEADS want u to send them a "message" where they pick out the fk-ing questions and answers FOR YOU. Like you're too $#*!ED to type what you want to say in the empty, but blocked-greyed out box PROVIDED, but can't fk-ing TYPE ANY LETTERS IN IT! STUPID FKS!

I have been a user of this website for over 5 years. 5 years ago I met someone and stayed in a relationship with them for over 4 years however I left my account active stating I was in a relationship and now just looking for friends.

Having split recently with my ex girlfriend I decided to change my account status and started talking to people once again. However after a short while I was deleted, with no reason and no notification.

I have since signed up numerous times to the website as I felt this may have just been in error however this does not seem to be the case as the website continued to delete my account. I contact POF about this on numerous occasions with very minimal response. The only time their reply felt positive was when they said I should be able to sign up again as the issue has been fixed, however when I did, with 4 hours I was deleted again.

I signed up one last time after staying off the site for about a month, this time I had more success. I spent 6 days signed up before it randomly deleted me again. I find this system to be extremely rude to not only me but to the people who I was talking to as I can no longer continue the conversations with them.

I would like to also say that the support I have received from POF CSR in the recent weeks has been appalling and my queries have not been returned and my issues are unresolved.

I find it also very Ironic that the system deletes genuine people who are single and want to meet other people, however it does not investigate or deal with accounts of people who are currently in a relationship and are falsifying this information on their profiles by stating they are single and still looking.

As a user of the website for over 5 years, I am shocked and appalled that they deal with their users in this way and the reviews on various websites concur with my opinion as there are many other people who stress the same feelings as I do.

5 years ago this website seemed to care for it's users and used to be helpful in assisting people to find friendships and relationships with people who otherwise would possibly never meet. Now this website is sexist and has sheer disregard and disrespect for it's users.

I urge people that if they wish to find companionship, friendship, relationships or any other form of ship that they look elsewhere and not on this website because for Males, we are deleted without cause and are not respected as a user when speaking with their customer service team and Females who are signed up are harassed with sexual comments from some real and but primarily fake accounts.

Think carefully before you sign up to this website.