Plenty of FishReviews 2,010

Huge disparity on plenty of fish between perception and reality
Reality is the women on there are either low grade 2s/3s or way past the best too old
They however perceive they are amazing and a great catch and therefore have unrealistic expectations and demands. Online dating has created a whole generation of women who offer very little but think they deserve a stunning looking fella. Absolutely insane

I will add One woman on her headline said she is tired of men offering to pay her bills. If that is true the desperate men should hang the heads in shame

Always issues trying to log into this site. They steal your photos and then use them to make fake profiles. Don't waste your time paying for this filth when the majority of other users are free. Many of which are prostitutes and escort agencies posing as regular women. If you ever watch the TV station Investigative Discovery, people have been killed from using this horrific site. Lots of fake profiles, sociopaths and an overall nonreputable site.

First profile I randomly clicked on was a woman who was pregnant with a horrible attitude.

Tons of average looking women who are maybe a 3 out of 10 but act like they're a 10. That's the biggest problem with this site. Women thinking they're better than they actually are.

I despise women with an attitude problem but it's even worse when the one's with the attitude are very very plain looking. Who the hell messages these women?

Dreadful standard of females.

Not even worth signing up for. Free is too much to pay

I WAS on here about 4 years ago and I left because it was awful. It's now even worse which takes some doing and amazed it's got 3 stars. The women are ruder pickier nastier, act more entitled and just worse than 2015. The lists of what you must face to qualify has gotten longer as has the demands such as MAKE ME LAUGH or ONLY SAY HI AND YOU'LL BE DELETED.

I swear within 10 minutes of browsing I saw tons women on POF from my last time in 2015 with the exact same photos as then. So not only are they lying about how they look but how can they be on a site totally overloaded with men and not have found anyone? Are they that picky that they been on here 4 years and not found anyone or are they just on pof for games. They must have had the opportunity to go on hundreds of dates and still not found Mr right. Either they're the unluckiest women ever or theyre standards are stupid. I bet if I log on in 2023 they'll still be on there with photos years out of date

I still saw the women complaining about getting messages about men only wanting sex and they were still in bikinis and flaunting their assets in the photos, What do they expect ffs no common sense

Add in the #metoo movement these days and you've got a website full of feminists all demanding a young Leonardo DiCaprio lookalike and refusing to compromise in the slightest
They'll be 50 soon and bitter with just their cats and it'll serve them all right

Jeez, I've never come across so many rude arrogant disingenuous women in my life. Talk about attitude. No wonder they're single. I find it funny that these tramps get away with being so unpleasant. I can't work out if they're so rude because that's the way they've been brought up or just because there are that many men messaging them but either way I've no interest in this vile site

I did find one person that seemed okay but sadly she had the social skills of a slug and couldn't reply with more than one word each time.

Don't waste your time on here it'll be time you won't ever get back. The women arent worth it. You're not missing out on any decent females. They're all rude, trash and unattractive inside and out.

POF keeps deleting my profile for no reason just minutes after I spend sufficient time creating it!
Men wonder why there's no attractive women on it but the moment there is, they all accuse you of being fake!
POF verifies you at the beginning of creating things, but then just deletes your account with no explanation, just logs you out! Then you can't get a hold of anyone in their office to ask anything!
Done with this stupid site!

After few days in of creating a profile, I was getting over 200 messages a day. My account got hacked and I couldn't login for days and trying to contact support they had me on hold several calls and the calls would hang up after 5 min each time. They then called and said a dude hacked it but they can't delete it unless I have access. He then said I have to pay $15 to do something with my iTunes I'm like ARE YOU SERIOUS? He says I need to walk to a store to get their ip location I'm like wowwwww.After being on the phone for an hour with a hard to understand Indian accent I gave up. So pretty much my identity is being used on POF and nothing pof can do to protect me.

The women on pof are 99.9% very average looking or even worse. That wouldn't bother me if they had a nice personality, a gsoh and were friendly but they're not. They're bitter, nasty, rude and big headed. Plain types on a dating site thinking they are some great catch.

They expect a guy to jump thru 50 hoops and have a checklist of a dozen things you have to tick before you can even message them. No wonder they're single. I swear they're trying to do their best to deter anyone from messaging them. Don't they realise you're meant to be pleasant in your profile? Not complain, throw shade and generally come across as picky nasty and unstable? If they like this now imagine how bad if you met them? I've seen friendlier guard dogs

Everyone has flaws but the severely flawed women on there want a guy that has no flaws. It's utterly ridiculous behaviour

If you saw a girl in the real world and she said sorry you're only 5 foot 10 & I only date guys 6 foot and over despite the fact I'm 5'1 and chubby. You'd laugh at her and walk away

Or if a girl starting snarling at you while asking what job do you have it better be a good one? Do you drive cos I'm not gonna be your taxi then you would point and laugh at her.
But that's how these women are on pof. I don't know how they dare act like they do. I guess it's cos they are in an online bubble and not outside with real people. What kind of men message these women?

Average looking deluded and unpleasant is not a good trifecta

Don't feed their egos by messaging them. The bottom line is there are definitely much better looking and more friendly happy women in the real world in the local bar or even in the supermarket. Anywhere is better than online

The first profile I came to was a 43 year old woman and the headline read 'if all your (sic) going to say hi then don't bot'
I'm guessing it meant don't bother but she didn't realise you don't get 500 characters for your header
This wasn't the last profile I saw with woman with an attitude/ chip on the shoulder either. And we're not talking high class ladies here either.

I came to the conclusion that in order to get away with being so rude to people you're meant to be trying to impress then the site must be overrun with guys desperate for a date. I can only imagine the ratio men to women, I'm guessing 15:1 if not more.

What kind of guy would message a woman that is rude and picky before you've even spoken to her? I think the women must get so many messages from men that they seriously believe they're a real great catch. I noticed a lot in profiles the women demanding things and being aggressive. You'd need a screw loose to have to want to message them. I saw very few warm and friendly profiles, just snarling bitter ones

For the calibre of women on the site it's not worth the hassle. Easier to find a female in the real world

I have been a POF user for several months and aside from the need to recognize and avoid the numerous fake profiles, the service has been adequate until a few days ago. Mid session, I was logged out and unable to get back in. I contacted customer service via email and received a reply: my email address was no longer associated with my account. I have been using this email address with POF and did not forget my password. Followup questions to CSR went unanswered. I recreated my account using my same user name and email address. Things were fine for an hour, then I was no longer able to login. I created an account using a new user name and a new email address. It lasted an hour, then it too was disabled. My photos and profile are all within the TOS. I see from many other reviews posted in the last few days that other customers have had the same experience. I contacted CSR for an explanation. I was informed that the problem had been resolved and I should try again. I created a new profile, uploaded photos, setup my search criteria and was promptly disabled once again. The issue is not resolved. They have clearly implemented an automated profile review that is overly aggressive in deleting profiles without explanation or warning. If you are considering joining POF, don't bother. You won't stay connected long enough for it to be worth your time.

The objective of dating sites is to make money, and dating sites are data driven decision-making scams, specifically, POF.com is the leader of the group.

1. Excessive number of scammers on POF, and based on the trends of scammers that I experienced, I have a good reason to believe that they were POF induced scammers.

2. The purpose of using an online dating site to be exposed to people outside of your circle, BUT POF determines who sees your profile and which profiles that you see. I view hundreds of profiles profiles, but the only women who viewed mine were athletically-challenged women and I hadn't viewed any of them. Using a photo of me dancing would attract women because most women like to dance therefore a photo of a male dancing would certainly attract their curiosity.

3. I have sent emails within POF, and POF blocked the emails, preventing people from receiving them... I know because of tests that we conducted. POF manipulates your communications.

4. POF's "Meet Me" displayed 4 people selecting me, and minutes later, it indicated 3 people (there were no scammers at this time). As a result, you don't know how people are interested in you.

5. During research, two profiles in the same geographic area and age (different ethnicity), did not have access to the same set of profiles to view.

The real women
-Average at best, at worst unattractive
-Offer very little but expect the world
-Overweight but only put a few extra pounds
-Tons of baggage but demand men have none
-Love to go on road trips to coast despite no car and 500km from nearest beach
-Photos from 1998
-Live in a fantasy world expecting some guy on white knight to save them

The fake
-Add you as a favourite
-Send you messages saying hey there:)
-Pof seem either unwilling or unable to cope with it. Maybe the other has made his money and doesn't care

If you're a guy I wouldn't waste your time. From what I can tell the women get bombarded with hundreds of messages from desperate men every day and I'm going to be totally honest they aren't that great in the first place
So what happens is a woman who is at best average gets 100s of messages and thinks she's better than she really is and starts acting like a diva. In reality the men are to blame for being so needy and messaging women that aren't that hot in the 1st place
I wouldn't bother signing up unless you're a woman then you'll get loads of men desperate for your attention

The women are rude and when you're rude back you get banned. I'm sick of reading saying "make me laugh" "Where's my Prince Charming?" or other stupid demands/requests

Don't worry there are that many fake profiles on here that soon pof will be rendered useless and no men will go near it
Then all the ludicrously picky bitter women with the tattoos and attitude problem will find themselves single in the real world not online fantasy and no man will go near them

Also it'll happen to all the deluded diva types who only reply if you are a 10 on the looks scale. When they're offline and no man wants them they'll realise how stupidly picky they were but will be too late by then.

Same applies to the women who have been on pof for years and years constantly turning down men because they're not perfect

Still they'll have their dogs, the ones you must love or they won't reply lol

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For anyone thinking of joining don't. Here is a bit from a profile I saw. She was average looking and was a single mum YET has the nerve to make these demands... Freaking ridiculous that a single mum can make such outrageous demands from men

* If you're not hilarious and intelligent;
It won't work
*Not attracted to skinny men nor am I attracted to Skinny but fat men (very strange combo)

I would say my 'type' is dark hair (Not shaved), tall- at least 5'11", muscles but not silly muscles just a nod towards the fact that a gym or exercise features somewhere, good dress sense (Not trendy necessarily), smells nice, looks after themselves.

Obviously, none of the above matters if the chemisty is there. Though, it's more likely to be there with someone as described above haha:)

I'm really not into men with zero upper body strength.

I don't read all my messages, nothing to be offended by, if I don't think our profiles match then no point in wasting anyone's time.

Please don't contact me if you smoke, do drugs, don't have a car or job.

I can only guess the site got lots of 5* good reviews from 10 years ago because it doesn't even warrant 2* now

Biggest problem ( apart from the thousands of fake profiles) is the women simply aren't attractive enough yet think they are Gods gifts to men. You have short women 5 foot 2 tall saying you must be tall over 6 foot, you have fat women wanting an slim guy. You have ugly women wanting an adonis. They're not in touch with reality. They put profession as being awesome, being me or secret
They have a 20 point checklist
I'm really gonna go thru that for someone who has no personality and looks like the back of a horse.
And don't get me started on the divorced women in their late 30s acting like they're some great wonderful catch. This is just a site full of rejects no man offline wants

I have to laugh when the single mums talk about how they have morals and standards. Yeah that's why you've got 3 kids with 2 different guys. Gimme a break

Here's how it works:

1) You create a profile on the site.

2) The very instant you click the submit button (even if you did not post a photo or any detail) you have emails in your inbox of people "interested" in you. It's typical for these "people" (fake "robots") to be in their 20's while their profiles reflect 50's or so.

3) This automatic system that sends you fake profiles can be nothing BUT an inside job; in other words, the site is programmed to work this way.

The POF site is not founded on integrity whatsoever.

Authorities should really investigate this online scam.