Review of Plenty of Fish: Don't (Scammers-Fake-Catfish)
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1 review
20 helpful votes
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February 6th, 2023

I've been on the site for many months. I made a mistake at ever going on this site. Black men create profiles and pose as white men in the pictures. They create a white mans face and list them under African American.

I'm not opposed to dating outside my race but not on that website. They are dishonest and it quite obvious, POF doesn't staff enough people on their own to stop this. You end up doing the work for POF should do in removing fake profiles. They are 16th on the list of dating sites for a reason. You couldn't pay me to use this site.

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Plenty of Fish has a rating of 1.3 stars from 1,927 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Plenty of Fish most frequently mention fake profiles, customer service, and credit card problems. Plenty of Fish ranks 712th among Dating sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Just for talking with friends”

Rasher R.
5/24/24

I have a kinda weird experience with online dating because whatever service I face, I am not able to find a good partner for myself. Due to pof, I just understood that I don't need to seek for a partner rather than just for a friend who you can talk to during the whole day. I mean, it's way cooler to have a friend who you can reach out and discuss variety of things and maybe in future I will have relationships with this person. But I ain't wanna make guesses, let it be.

Top Critical Review

“Rude people who wouldn't act so entitled in the real world”

DA L.
9/29/24

The people on the site are either unwilling or unable to fill out their dating profile without being rude or demanding, so it's hardly surprising they can't make their relationships work and are single? It's pretty evident they're on POF because no one else can deal with them in real life yet they act like God's gift, and they're actually doing you a favor by being on POF. They all seem incredibly angry, unhappy and downright rude. So more for creating a good first impression. Can't see likes, hate liars, and cheats; make me laugh; don't waste my time!. No ugly people! Were just some of the headlines I saw and should give an indication of what kind of people you'll encounter if you sign up to this site

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Thumbnail of user lorrip
1 review
23 helpful votes
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September 17th, 2016

I have been on and off POF for several years. God help you if you are looking for a decent educated gentleman over 50 who is not wanting to dating 25 year old females. Most are married men, losers, drug addict, liars, and general low life slime balls. If you are lucky enough to meet a kind educated one, most likely you will find he is looking for a quick roll in the hay and off to the next victim. Many of the males on there have severely over-inflated egos and think they are god's gift to women, but they must have borrowed the wicked queens magic mirror as most were nothing to look at. After being on several different dating sites I realize on line dating attracts the bottom of barrel, social misfits, drug addict, alcoholics, jobless and homeless losers or married men seeking sex. Its fun once you figure this out, but a complete waste of time if you are seeking a true gentleman to date. 4 thumbs down as a dating site.

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2 reviews
48 helpful votes
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June 19th, 2014

Horrible! The profiles seem fake for most girls, they never send anything to you or respond. All talking about finding a good guy or whatever but if you don't look like an athlete or model it's not worth it. It is so bad I can't even delete my profile, such a waste of time. Literally talked to 1 girl for like 4 messages and that was it. And it is not that free, lots of key features can't be used without paying. I would pay a city bus driver to run me over multiple times before I would join and pay for this site. Absolutely worthless!

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14 reviews
206 helpful votes
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June 2nd, 2014

I think maybe 30% of the female profiles are real. The rest are just scammers and fake profiles that pof.com puts up to make it look more like a 50-50 male to female ratio.

Their basic membership is (or at least was) completely free - which makes it OK. However, after contacting about 250 women and not receiving one response, I became a little disappointed. I guess that's where the paid upgrade comes in for some reason.

I have better luck meeting women in bars and the grocery store. Pof.com was a waste of time for me. But if you're young and good looking, you may have a chance at success.

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2 reviews
24 helpful votes
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January 10th, 2016

After making this second attempt at online dating, I have removed my profile once again.

The shady, creepy characters and the perpetual man whores claiming to be "looking for a relationship" is beyond disgusting. After a few dates, I meet what I sense is a needle in a haystack. Only to discover that these players just have this game down to an art form. They know all the right things to say and do and how to position themselves so that they can ultimately just screw you over.

Don't waste your time with this site or any other online dating site for that matter. It's nothing but an opportunity for these whores to be constantly fielding the next conquest. It's a disposable society now and this medium makes it all too easy for them to include you in the pile of replaceable commodities in their lives.

Shame on you men who are taking advantage of wonderful women looking for something real. If that's your objective, at least man up and edit your intent to "looking for casual sex only!"

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1 review
16 helpful votes
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December 15th, 2014

If I could give them no stars I would. This isn't just for Plenty of Fish it's for all dating sites. They ask you for a pic, a profile and interest. Your honest and no one gives you the time of day except obese ugly women who don't interest me. I'm not Joe Bachelor or a wealthy man. I'm simplistic, good looking, christian values, But that's not what today's women want. So don't waste your money on any dating site. Even Eharmony they lie also. Better off going to church and praying you find a good woman. But best bet is look for a foreigner.

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Don't waste your money

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1 review
33 helpful votes
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June 5th, 2016

Was assaulted by someone on the site. When I tried to notify POF I was threatened. Not only will they ignore complaints about another user, you can get yourself kicked off their site for reporting it. Their policies put all women in danger and should be shut down.

Note to all men: taking a woman to dinner or listening to her talk does not give you rights to her body. Most prostitutes charge much more than that.

Forcing yourself on a woman hoping she can't get away from you IS assault.

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2 reviews
40 helpful votes
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August 17th, 2015

There are two types of men here. Men who have personality disorders or guys who are waiting for Miss America to contact them. They dont have the courtesy to respond but just ignore messages. Oh wait there is a third category- men who pretend to want to meet but disappear as soon as you ask to get together. I did meet one guy who proceeded to tell me on the first date the rules of our new life together and what type of sex we would be having. I won't mention that he was going to instruct me on proper bowel movements during dinner. You can't make this stuff up!

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1 review
7 helpful votes
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June 20th, 2023

This site was decent 4 or 5 years ago but even better a decade ago. Now that tinder came up. It's absolutely trash. They claim there a free site n now all the sudden they charge n limit messages. What's sad is everyone is moving on. Stupid owner doesn't realize how to compete and move forward

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1 review
14 helpful votes
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June 27th, 2015

Most of the men that were or still on there are users and all they want is a booty call! I was taken advantage of by one user who lied about his relationship status! Then I was caught up with a scammers he said he was in the military and had me open a bank account and send funds to Nigeria! So if you use this site BEWARE!

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7 reviews
75 helpful votes
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September 7th, 2018
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The women on this site want men for a meal ticket although I did meet one who was very nice and insisted on buying me lunch. Admittedly I had some bad experiences which I brought as baggage but "a few pounds" isn't 50 or 60 so I met a lot of overweight women if they were willing to meet at all. If you piss a couple off they are going to give you bad press and get your profile deleted.

Terrible site
February 28th, 2015
• Previous review

Arrogant women, fat women who lie about their ages and post old pictures. I had one contacting me when I accused her of being fake my account was deleted

Tip for consumers:
run Forest run

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1 review
12 helpful votes
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March 15th, 2023

The "dating" site is full of the worst possible humans imaginable. Full of independent "curvy" one parent families all with tattoos and a truly horrible cynical outlook on both life and men. It's little wonder they are single.

If you do find anyone attractive/down to earth and normal you can guarantee their messaging will be disabled so you can't contact them.

The other 99.99% of them are truly the worst the gene pool has to offer. If you think I'm exaggerating then go take a look. You won't stay on there long. Full of time wasters fakes and attention seeking drama queens

You get what you pay for in life. Pof is free.

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Good for a laugh if you wish to see how picky women are in the 21st century

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1 review
5 helpful votes
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October 9th, 2022

Today is 9 October 2022. My last POF review was in June 2022. The site has drastically changed in those 4 months. I noticed that appx. 85% of women have "disabled their chat feature" i. E. you can not send them a message of any type. Also, once you attempt to contact a woman who has not disabled her chat feature, a screen pops up and in order to send a message, you must now pay. Big Change! Guess I'm finished with POF. Please see attached photo's delineating my above comments.

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Good site and reliable.

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4 reviews
81 helpful votes
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May 21st, 2014

THIS SITE IS HORRIBLE from many aspects. 1. Fake profiles. 2. Horrible Customer service. 3. Female members were not attractive to me at all. In my opinion they were desperate. 4. Bad quality all together. BE WARNED!

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1 review
1 helpful vote
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September 12th, 2019

Agree with all that's said below

The standard on this site is shocking. I did speak to one women and she told me she literally gets hundreds of messages a day from men begging for dates and sending things like poetry. It was like getting blood out of a stone. They all seem to lack social skills. If they are unable to converse on mail how bad would they be in real life?

Another one said she was tired of getting messages from ugly men. When I told her she was no oil painting herself she blocked me and I'm guessing reported me as my account got closed. Happy days!

Full of entitled divas and desperate men pandering to them. AVOID

Thumbnail of user jamesf734
1 review
5 helpful votes
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April 24th, 2019

The women on here have huge stomachs or huge egos. Either way both are a turn off
Of course they don't say they're fat they say prefer not to say or curvy they only show their faces not body shots

There is very little kindness humility and happiness radiating from them but tons of attitude anger and demands

I looked and saw extremely unremarkable women thinking they were extremely remarkable. Most of them looked like they had been round the block a good few times as well. From the profiles they believe they're a much better catch than they really are

Welcome to online dating where social unattractive damaged misfits call the shots.

No thanks

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2 reviews
17 helpful votes
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July 20th, 2015

I joined yesterday, I'm a genuine subscriber. I paid £30+ and today I had to cancel because I found out the site auto-sends messages from me to their members. It resulted in a number of embarrassing emails saying thank you for contacting me... from people I'm not interested in, people not appropriate to my filters.
Bad website. Customer service was unhelpful. They can only either keep my profile up or take it down. Nothing in-between, no help.
So the point of the exercise is for them to take money, nothing else. If you've got it to give away, there are better places to give.
-disgruntled ex-customer

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1 review
6 helpful votes
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October 28th, 2021

There's a bunch of douche bags on this site that can't handle rejection. Most of them seem accustomed to paying for sex and when one isn't responsive to their advances they report your profile and try to have you banned from the site. Most of the men are unattractive druggies or have little to no self esteem so if you think they look bad wait until you open up their messages. Their definitely socially awkward to say the least. Don't waist your time with Plenty of Fish; this used to be a site where you could meet a decent guy, go on an actual date, and if it didn't work out that was fine you both could go your separate ways. Now the sites filled with a bunch of little boys who feel like they're entitled to have access to a woman's body. It's weird. You're better off trying a paid site if online dating is the direction that you're looking to go in.

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1 review
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October 13th, 2022

I live in Bergen County NJ, was on pof several years ago, met nice ladies. And free subscription. Can't see why anyone would ever need to pay. Had as many meet & greets as I could handle; calling & meeting was never an issue.

I've been on 4 months. For past 2 months, the site has been worthless. Endless fake profiles, and endless profiles with same photos I recall seeing over 5 years ago. Suspicious that many profiles with attractive photos of women are pof operatives, in other words, fake profiles designed to lure you. However. I've never paid for a pof subscription. But my free account is no longer active. I deleted my profile.

Tip for consumers:
Years ago pof was free allowing up to 50 emails a day

Not any longer. It's now a horrific site.

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Thumbnail of user zigvedab
1 review
1 helpful vote
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April 7th, 2017

I was able to talk freely with other single women. However, over time this website has refused communications unless I purchase an ongoing subscription. At one time the host's of this website's intentions were whole and positive. Now it has become a scheme as all the others.

Thumbnail of user genep11
1 review
12 helpful votes
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October 22nd, 2014

I had no complaints originally but I paid for upgraded membership. All indications were that it was a one time yearly fee and the site says they will only charge you if you elect automatic renewal. Well, THEY LIED... Then they give you the line that they do not give refunds. They have also refused to disclose any information on their business, like address, phone number or owner information for my lawyer...

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Don't pay with a credit card. They will steal from you.

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Thumbnail of user danao13
1 review
4 helpful votes
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August 12th, 2017

I met my wonderful fiance on this site. It is like dating anywhere. You will meet people who are not compatible or you could meet your match. I put myself out there and was lucky enough to meet my perfect life partner. Be cautious, ask questions and don't settle for less!

Thumbnail of user carolynr727
1 review
7 helpful votes
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January 17th, 2023

I had high hopes for this site because I actually met someone who I managed to have a long term relationship with. But that was 6 years ago. Now the site is flooded with men who seem to use other people's photos to attract people.
There is an onslaught of men from outside of the US who cannot speak proper English, hide their true identities by limiting conversation to text, and actually ask for a handout.
There are numerous giveaways.
Don't waste your time. I don't know if the site properly screens people but behind the good looks and initial charm is something far more sinister.

Thumbnail of user jk901
1 review
6 helpful votes
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October 18th, 2022

They allow 1 message a day. Be careful they also have fake accounts messaging you and sending likes when it's actually accounts set up by the company to scam you to pay and see it. Pof has become one of the worst sites out of them all. Try others don't waste your time on here

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Thumbnail of user markot11
1 review
31 helpful votes
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December 20th, 2019

Pathetic women on there

50% are fake
The other 50% are so far up their own ar$e I don't know why they don't date themselves they think they are that wonderful
They all looking for a dream man who must tick every one of the boxes they list on the bio. Not very realistic
90% of them seem to have have some form of degree education which is extremely dubious to me

Got to be better women offline I'm sure of. If not the species will die out. The ones on pof are truly terrible. They want the moon a stick and offer nothing in return

Thumbnail of user jamesp3325
1 review
2 helpful votes
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November 11th, 2021

I signed up one night then cancelled the next day. Not only was there any refund they they continue to charge my debit card. At least Jessie James used a gun. If you want to continue to see your money go sign up and get screwed too

Tip for consumers:
stay as far away as you can

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