The overall reputation of Plenty of Fish (POF) is largely negative, with customers expressing significant dissatisfaction regarding the quality of profiles and user interactions. Common concerns include a high prevalence of fake profiles, rudeness, and entitlement among users, particularly women, who are perceived as unrealistic in their dating expectations. Many reviews highlight poor customer service, including issues with account management and a lack of effective support. While some users acknowledge the site's potential for connecting singles, the overwhelming sentiment suggests that POF has declined in quality and user experience, leading many to seek alternatives.
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If you aren't drop dead handsome with no facial hair and no defects and the same ethnicity as the girls. They just read your messages and don't bother replying to you. And what makes it worse is when they read it and delete it. The site is filled with nothing but picky girls who don't leave you much information on their profiles so you can ask the right questions. And when you do ask them a question about themselves, they ignore you. The girls who use Plenty of Fish rely on the guy to message them, they don't ever message you out of the blue. Everyday I get between 30-50 likes and views but never a message from the girls... Plenty of fish should of be made with the concept that the girl must message you, you can not message them. It made it where girls and guys found love, quicker then the way Plenty of fish has it made right now... There was a site like that a long time ago and it was very successful. If Plenty of Fish made their dating site where the girl must message you to find love, and where inactive accounts with 15days of no activity where deleted, it would cut down on who is using the site from those who don't. And help everyone not waste time sending a message to someone who is not using it anymore. The way the site is set up right now you will be the site for years with a message or reply and as a guy you would find better luck using tinder or eharmony.
If you need cheering up have a look at how out of touch with reality the so called princesses are and you'll be howling with laughter soon enough
Its honestly full of females who are truly ghastly or are just way past their best but still think they can be picky at 40+. I love it how they post pics from 2015 on their profiles too or photos of all their pets as I really want to see 5 pictures of their dog
I just laughed when I saw women who are 2 out of 10 saying things like, if you only send them a message asking them how they are then they'll delete and block you /+how you must be over 6 ft tall to even contact them. Hahaha. Imagine them pulling that trick in the real world
POF = Unattractive women with a rank bad attitude
I've been on pof for 4 months. Plenty of attention, but no dates. All of the guys I've talked to are terrible. Some only want hookups while writing they were looking for long-term relationship. There were a bunch of scammers (read https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/*******/china-born-romance-scam-spread-overseas-cyber-forensics-net-alerts-dating-app-users) pretending to be Chinese American men (at least 20 of them chatted me up). They were all handsome, in mid-thirties, and been in America 5 years, although their English was all horrible, and they all insist on speaking in Chinese. They all want to chat on WeChat or Whatsapp, where you can send money. Their strategy was pretending to be very wealthy by showing pictures of them on vacation, in mansions, and in first class airplane seats. They all claimed to be investment bankers, who loved to travel, golf, skydive, surf, cook, drink coffee and other obviously fake hobbies. When I asked where they have traveled in America, they re-direct and talk about being too busy and traveling in every single country in Asia or Europe. Yeah right. They lie about simple things, such as claiming to cook a fancy meal whose picture they stole, claiming to work while talking to me throughout the day sending one message every two minutes, or claiming to know the area but wouldn't tell me where they went hiking. One hispanic guy spent 2 months talking to me without meeting up, so I knew he was unattractive. When I asked to meet up, he said his profile picture was from 5 years ago. His real picture is of a 50 year old man with white hair, overweight, and looked nothing like his profile picture, which was of him when he was 31. Trying to catfish me! Waste of my time!
A few thoughts about POF
The women are all poor in the looks dept and even worse personality
When you have a website where the vast majority of women are self-proclaimed tattoo addicts & tell you they have dozens of tattoos and plan on getting more you know it's not going to be a very classy place. Imagine telling people you swear a lot too like it's a good thing. I am no prude but it is a shocking reflection on modern society
You can soon see why they are single. Never seen so many women with such a entitlement attitude who think they are gorgeous princesses. To be honest its just an absolutely woeful standard of females who all think they have a divine right to Mr Perfect with a six pack...
You'll do well if you can find a woman that manages to post a photo the correct way round & doesn't put up photos of her 25 cats or pictures of her sticking her tongue out. You'll do even better if you can find one that can message more than one word to you. The ones who have no social skills all claim to love "banter" They all seem to have the personality of a turnip
**They all have a ridiculously overinflated opinion of themselves. How can a woman who has 3 children and has no job sit there demanding perfection?** How can someone who is 20 stone demand someone slim and handsome?
I lost count of women who proudly bragged of the fact they were extremely picky I don't understand how can they act that way. Don't they own a mirror?
I give POF 5 stars! I met the love of my life and have been with him almost 6 months now. Beautiful smile, comforting hugs, and great $#*!. I now call him my lil grunter. He's so great to me and my kids that I gave him my food stamp card. He can have all the gummie snacks plus more!
This is a hookup and scammer dating site I'm so glad that I didn't spend a penny most of the men are scammers or they are not on their feet or they are only wanting sex. Heck naw avoid this site.
I have had guys on this site attempt to scam me. You'll get guys from hundreds or even thousands of miles away messaging you even though there's no practical way for that person to either date you or hook up with you from that far away. Bottom line, if, you are looking for a real relationship, look somewhere else.
Most of what you're likely to find on POF is at most is guys looking for friends with benefits; but more often than not every Tom-$#*!- and Harry on there is really after that quick easy hookup after which he's likely to just ghost you and you'll never back from them again. The culture on POF doesn't seem to be about "getting to know someone" it gets reduced to being about "getting to f**k someone."
The women are very high maintenance and very low quality. They all seem very low in IQ too, seem to thrive on drama & have a woeful attitude
I got lots of messages but all they said was just hi or hello. Not one of them had any personality. Plus they all were overweight and had children. I wasn't attracted to any of them
It really seems to be the leftovers 30-46 that no one else wants
Ps beware of them lying about their age. I saw many who put they were 36 only to click on their profile when they said they were really 49
In my profile, I didn't want to date someone that has been vaccinated. My choice in dating. I was asked why in a message and replied kindly and respectively why. I was removed off the site without any explanation. Fake profiles and bad experience. Ban POF for taking away freedom!
In the time I have been on POF the majority of the people contacting me were fake/scammers using the same verbage in each of them, as if it was scripted (I'm guessing it is). I went off for a bit then created an account to try again, but out of the immediate 16 men contacting me, 3 were apparently real, the rest were same verbage, fake pictures, etc. So, I still politely said I wasn't interested. But, by the next day, POF admin had deleted my account for violating their rules... not sure what I did, but I'm glad they did. I've tried a couple others in the last three years and met better quality people and remained friends with them even. POF really is NOT even worth going on for free.
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! This site is trash. 80+% female profiles FAKE. As an experiment, a friend of mine a a couple of our female friends git together and messaged ONE HUNDRED different female profiles writing different messages to each one. We got back TEN(!) replies! EIGHT were fake profiles! ONE legit. The other disappeared. You cannot see who liked you without an upgrade. They have a feature were you push an icon and it supposedly let's them know you liked them based on what you saw/read. The site will send you a random profile saying you both 'liked' each other. Problem is you never looked at their profile! Another issue is you write out a nice long message to find out she is looking for someone different. The whole site is rife with fake profiles and scammers. We estimated between 80-85% are fake. Most likely generated by the site itself to boost it's members numbers and attract suckers. There is no real customer service. Emails get no response. A new option is you can report someone just because you don't like their profile! WTF?! AVOID this bull$#*! site!
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
I have about 32 complaints about POF. The most recent is below and carry's over to 7 other problems regarding ease of use. They recently gave their site ANOTHER face lift to confuse users. I now wonder if I have been blocking free users from making first contact due to the use of double negatives in their questions. Note in the screen shot there are also two places to answer regarding whether you only want to allow upgraded users to be able to make first contact. Pure confusion!
This is only one of sooo many dumb things with this site. I'm still very leery that at least half of the members are fake or haven't logged in for years!
I will never pay for a site if it doesn't work or works poorly as a free member!
The biggest thing about this site and why it won't work is that the females are unrealistic
Most of them are old unattractive and have too much baggage. Yet for some reason they talk about not settling
When was the last time you saw a really attractive guy with a woman who was unattractive? It just doesn't happen so instead of looking for someone on their level they keep looking for someone who is out of their league & wonder why they cant find a man
I saw a profile from someone who had children was in her mid 40s and said she was large yet she unbelievably said she refused to settle. I honestly don't get how they can be picky. Even if they do find a man they fancy why would he be interested in her?
It doesn't work because they always want better than they deserve
The internet is to blame. This behaviour would just be laughed at offline in the real world. The internet has sent them all deluded
She goes on POF… meets guys. Fuks em right off bat not even challenge… was with her 2 days later something wasn't right… DRD giving b1tch… nd she says she dont like condoms…. But yet she dont want u to cvm in her… confusing b1tch… so watch ur d1cks boys… stay away from her.
I hate POF. Every woman I pick out, literally every single one... is FAKE. By fake I mean a fake pic
And not a legit profile. Whenever I do a search on Google image I find the pic is that of a porn star or a model or an ad for clothing or some other product. IMHO, nearly every attractive picture is a fake pic and fake profile. Big waste of time.
Talk about getting what you pay for
Honestly don't get the hype about this website if you're a man
From what i can see it's full of females who are well past their best who have plenty of faults yet want a man who has no faults at all. In fact they seem to want the perfect GQ man, he has to be gorgeous tall and have a good body, everything the women on pof aren't, they are short overweight and nasty
Add in fact you're probably competing with about 1000 guys for every 1 woman and it's a total waste of time signing up. I think a lot of the women just want attention or play childish games. The women must love getting so many messages. Must be the most attention they've had in their sorry life.
I wouldn't chase these women if they were attractive but the fact they're all unattractive inside and out makes it even worse.
The word trailer trash springs to mind
I deleted my FREE account. This has gotta be the absolute worse dating site EVER! Even for FREE I do NOT want this app. The men on their are such losers, and $#*!s. Too bad I couldn't give 0 zero stars.
This site is run by a butthurting snowflake, another addition to dividing the United States Of America! Keep up the good work Plenty Of Fruitloop you TOO can go down like the rest of this world! Baaaaa Baaaaa = You sheeple. Got you something in the pics POF, it should help with that puckered up bunghole--- Baaaaaa Baaaaaaa! Let me find my pics in another country like I did before and I will sue you and even take your skidmark undies and give them to hairy joe wanna be biden president! Fk Jb.
Every time I find a real person up my ally POF won't let me message says he's looking 4 something different when we match perfect delete him and than pick for me fake guys I think POF is a fake themselves run from China head courtiers
Answer: Oh yes, they want you to upgrade and pay! But when you pay you will see these profiles who you liked or who liked you disappear. They were nothing but bait-and-switch. You gain nothing when you pay, it's the silliest way to spend money. Are you looking for hook up or relationship? I wanted a relationship and I was really frustrated by Pof. Eventually I found what I was looking for on https://j4l.com/402007 But I've lost nearly a year on Pof. Not to mention emotional drain and money!
Answer: I just deactivated my account. This site is a sewer. Do not pay anything for this site or any site. I searched for free on other site( even paid ones you can search for free) and I saw the same guys on most of the other sites as well. I'm gonna grow old alone unless luck steps in and maybe I'll meet my guy IRL.
Answer: Yes its possible
Answer: Delete AND contact the company. If you know who took your pictures be sure to include the name on the profile that your pictures were used on, so they can deal with that person. Once you have deleted your profile, everything is GONE. I have never had anybody use my pictures on any other sites. I'm no great beauty, that could be the reason, Still, once your profile is deleted, everything is gone.
Answer: You cannot do it from the mobile site. You need to use your search, example safari and look up pof desktop version and go to the help in the top left. It will walk you thru it, if I remember correctly. Good luck
Answer: First, write to POF and explain. Now, and I mean NOW call up your credit card company and tell them what happened. I am sure POF will not contact you. Make sure to use the word "unacceptable" when describing the consumer service to the CC company about POF. Keep all emails too. Please keep me posted. Thanks Ann B.
Answer: STAY AWAY FROM THIS SCAMMING SITE! Any good you hear from or about it... DUH ITS THE SCAMMERS THAT WORK FOR EM. I been booted so many times due to unpopularity cuz i wont date trash so i get booted they keep your money they are garbage
Answer: Fake doesn't really describe them... more like downright liars!
Answer: Golden rule #1: Do onto others as you would have them do unto you Golden rule #2: Anything that sounds to good to be true, is not. Golden rule #3: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Answer: POF is not free at all, you have to upgrade; become a paying member to be able to do anything interesting.