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 are a man looking for a decent woman this isn't the site for you. Most women are plain, fat, rude and aggressive. Some I talked to should be in a straight jacket. You do get the odd nice one but they can't string a sentence together. Men must outnumber women by around 500 to 1, so unless you are a male model with a big bank balance you have no chance. Internet dating isn't the real world and the women on here are deluded. With all the attention they get they think they are page 3 models when in reality they are trogs. STAY AWAY from this site. Not worth the time and energy and don't part with any money.
Canceled after 2 months and they kept charging my account. Woman on phone got highly. Do not use these people. Charged another 5 months. Will not refund my money
During time I used this service, it was fine. Then they started a "verification"process that I cannot use. They take my money, but won't allow me into my account. They gave this a temporary fix that lasted a short time, but that was then. I can never talk to anyone or get even an on line chat this site, for me, has been a Kafkaesque experience.
Think yourself in a bar with warm beer in a dirty glass and completed with the 3 man Billy Bob band and peanut shells on the floor. Welcome to dating from POF in the time of Covid. This place is vile, scary and you will need to shower several times if anyone from here should contact you. I don't know if customer care actually exists. This is one womans' opinion. The profiles are; lets just say not what you really get, and please turn off your GPS access, because this lot will try and find you. Please try a different pond, lake, stream. At POF you will not find trout, only carp.
Plenty of catfish and foreigners who can't speak English. However, even if you're not a paid subscriber you can opt in for only paid subscribers. The site also provides an option for voice calls through the app. I'm going to try the site out for a month or so, then may upgrade to being a paid subscriber. POF has really improved its website since I was on it a year ago. Have fun and meet someone!
Lots of fake profiles... no refunds if you're not satisfied. I even upgraded to premium waste of money technical error with site.If you are a premium member still restrictions to who you can message... stay away by all means waste of money and time
Poorly managed, If at All. Pervasive Fake profiles and scammers. It is painfully obvious there is very weak, if any nominal monitoring of profile validity and content.
Not free after a few weeks, no messages can be sent or received without payment, before that... I got numerous responses all from fake accounts... some fishing for money... the account in site come up in same city, after conversation... then exchange phone number, has foreign area code... their statement saying oh I'm in another state trying to get to your city... soliciting money... more than once... for me the website is a total b. S...
They recently made changes. I don't much care for them. It used to be you could see users who viewed you. Now they show you 3. If you want to see more - upgrade. I've been on and off this site for a long time and it seems like most of the women "only accepts messages from upgraded users". Well... they'll miss out on me. I'm not willing to pay to message someone unless there is some mechanism that would force themn to reply to the user who upgraded so they could say hello. It would suck to pay money to be ignored. The search seems to ignore the criteria - I specified 57 to 65 and I am seeing women in their 40's and 70's. What I think they really need to do, and the software should be able to do it - if a person only wants messages from someone under a certain age, and you are over that age - don't show their profile as a match or in a search. If they only accept messages from upgraded users and you aren't upgraded - don't put them in the search or match results. Oh yes... the scammers are as busy as ever. "Age is just a number" or "love doesn't care about age" and it's a woman who says she is 64 but in reality is 35 because "I made a mistake on my birthdate and can't change it". It used to be an okay site, but not anymore.
I'd been warned about the fake accounts. But I figured it couldn't be worse than other dating sites. I was dead wrong. The fake accounts are beyond obvious. Pretty much spamming your inbox, and again, looking at the their profiles, you can tell its fake, poor grammer, and sometimes the discription is way off. Then, I was surprised by how rude the guys are, they don't care what your profile says. When you let them know nicely, politely your not interested they either start begging, or I was surprised to learn verbally attack you. I've never been verabbly attacked as much as I was the short time I was on the site. Completely disheartening. POF doesn't do anything about the way the guys behave, so they feel like they can get away with it. POF also doesn't verify pictures, so even if it is the right person, the age can be way off.
After I cancelled my account, I got no confirmation. I tried writing a complaint, I got no reply. Which leads to poor customer service. Other sites I've been on reply someway. If your looking for something serious, keep looking
So far so good, met a lot of potentials on here. Not currently using the app because we are talking to some one but I would use them again.
We have been off and on this site and its not too bad, but not very poly friendly at all. I would say if it was poly friendly that would be huge.
Don't know what else to call it but they have a couple of things that are really frustrating.
One is that they have this thing where they won't let you contact somebody that is more than about 15 ish years older or younger than you. That's not based on a user's preferences, that's just their own judgement on what's ok. So if two people would love to meet up, have their preferences set right... still not gonna happen.
If they want to be prudes fine, I'm sure many younger women probably like being able to avoid us older pervs... But here's the thing, they don't hold back on showing those other profiles. See somebody you like, click on it, and "sorry they only accept emails from certain people" Why the $% do you show me profiles you won't let me contact? HUGE time waster. Over time it gets even worse, their algorithms learn your preferences by what you click so if you like younger or older you will start to see more and more of them... eventually you hardly see anybody you actually can contact.
Another smaller thing is if you Google something like "can I search for people in the Philippines on pof.com, their add pops up saying yes, come see all the people we have in the Philippians... But go to the search function and they don't even have the country listed.
I used this app back in August 2016, I was just thinking because I'm watching what to watch in Netflix and I saw a movie about a girl who wants to sue a dating app, and I forgot to ever thank you this app, who made me meet my husband, was the only person I met and date with the app, I met him in person an August 28, and 4 years later we got married an August 28, we quickly deleted the app, because we knew we didn't want to keep talking to other people, so I barely used it, I didn't pay for a premium membership, I know he used it a little longer than me, and he dated other girls, and he did even pay a premium membership, but from my side I just want to thank this app, to lead me to him, I'm happily married, IDK if it was luck or the app, but I really want to thank for lead me to this wonderful man, I want to let people know that no love is easy, there has been many hard times, many times we were about to break up, but we work through it, and here we are today, everything is about boundaries and the willingness to make things work, and If you are in this app, just trying to find someone to screw just talk straight, so not play with peoples fellings.
This app is very misleading. Too many Catfish and fake profiles to the fact that celebrity pics and for some reason they don't care to investigate these frauds. If I said I want to have kids then why am Im being matched with women who doesn't want kids? If don't want to date older women why in the hell are they matching me with older women? If I'm into fitness why the $#*! am I being matched with out of shape woman? Do you see the insanity here?. Overall I wanna see this joke of a dating site shut down. All the nice looking women on here seem bitter. They don't want men, but when a gentleman sends you a message they act like they're too good respond. Do us all a favor and shut this $#*! down.
I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT A SPECIFIC PERSON ON HERE WHO GOES BY TAZZ. HE APPEARS ON HERE IN A UNIFORM
THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN IN A VERY WELL-KNOWN HOSPITAL. AND WHAT'S BAD ABOUT IT IS THE PICTURES WERE TAKEN WITH MY CAMERA. SO I DEFINITELY REMEMBER WHERE THOSE PICTURES WERE TAKEN. HE IS SAYING THAT HE WANTS TO GET MARRIED AND HE'S ALREADY MARRIED. A COPY OF THE SITE WAS SENT TO ME BYE A FEMALE THAT I FOUND OUT HE MET ON-LINE. WHICH IS ANOTHER SCARY STORY IN ITSELF. PLEASE KNOW THAT HE IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR HE SEEKS WOMEN WHO GO TO CHURCH AND WE'LL TELL YOU WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO HEAR IN ORDER TO GET WHAT HE WANTS. HIS MOTHER JUST RECENTLY PASSED SO HE MAY PLAY THAT SYMPATHY ROLE. HE SAYS HE'S ALL ALONE HE'S THE VICTIM BUT WATCH OUT BECAUSE VERDELL WILL ALWAYS BE IN THE WINGS. AND BE CAREFUL HE IS STILL PAYING CHILD SUPPORT FOR SEVERAL CHILDREN. AND IT IS SAID THAT HE JUST RECENTLY GOT ONE FROM SOMEONE AT THIS VERY POPULAR HOSPITAL. ALWAYS THE VICTIM. I GIVE THIS REVIEW IN ORDER FOR THE LADIES TO BEWARE OF THE POSSIBILITIES THAT NOT EVERYONE ON HERE IS LOOKING FOR WHAT THEY SAY. AND PLENTY OF FISH JEFF ONLY HAS ONE ON THERE WHO IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR AND DOES NOT CARE WHO HE HURTS OR USES JUST AS LONG AS HE'S ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF ALL OF HIS BASEBALL TEAM OF CHILDREN AND WHATEVER FEMALES HE PICKS UP. HE WILL ALWAYS ASK IF YOU HAVE EXTRA DOLLARS OR HE MAY HAVE TO OVERDRAFT IN ORDER TO TAKE CARE OF SOME THINGS. SO LADIES BEWARE OF
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This website plenty of fish SUCKS! THEY ASK FOR PAYMENT TO EVEN TALK TO SOMEONE EVEN TO SEE WHO VIEWS YOUR PROFILE? DONT USE THEM CUSTOMER SERVICE SUCKS! DONT WASTE YOUR TIME PEOPLE. GO ELSEWHERE! IF YOU NOTICED MY MESSAGE IS IN ALL CAPS! RUN!
Men of east Tennessee watch out for Respygal on pof.com. She sleeps around and lives on all the dating sites. Is extremely bipolar and all but ruined my friends life! She is from Jefferson city Tennessee her real name is stacy self! She lied, cheated and abused my friend for 2 years. When he walked away she stalked him and even had her married cop boyfriend arrest him all bcuz he broke up with her! He even quit his job and moved out of state. She will sleep with anyone especially married men, and has married cop fwbs so if u upset her you will lose your freedom all she does is lie and play games to feed her bipolar narcissist instincts
I haven't used this site in a decade. At first I figured the notifications were from people who were able to see my hidden profile. Then the msg started blowing up in my email inbox. Now as I try to purge the suspious activity and close the account completely it wants to do a 2 step verification with a number that's even not mine! Customer service is only by email and they are slow getting back to you.
I found the love of my life on here, after 2+ years of being on this site with many, many dates that turned out to be duds. I was about to give up, however, it was so worth it! The funny thing is my boyfriend and I both lived in the same city and never knew about it, but thanks to POF, we found each other :)
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.
Plenty of Fish is an online dating site.