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2 reviews
62 helpful votes
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If your not an honest guy, troll them they deserve no better. Unread, but you've changed your profile pic, you obviously have the hide profile and have looked and weren't happy, fair one delete the message then. Unread deleted ouch, but ok, so your still on weeks later, searching for the impossible. Read and no responce get use to this one!

I'm very laid back, i have lots of patience, but this site even pissed me off

You read the profiles and its contradicting, longest relationships lasting a year? Hmmmm ok, bin in a relationship for 8yr and your 22 hmmmmm? Dont take drugs well iv spoke to ya and you do hmmmmm? They say dont like the same message when you have nothing written in your profile and you've sent 100s of messages to others, what else is there to put, it gets frustrating spending time and effort for whats going to be read deleted.

Dont waste your time on this site it just pisses you off and makes you lose your soul and time

Date of experience: August 2, 2015
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Sadly confusing?
December 22, 2015

Hi yes I have a very unpleasant question?
I originally paid £39/99 which according to my bank account was taken by FESTIVUS name unknown to me. And within a short few hours after that ' someone' took a further £ 51 GB POUNDS AND ALSO ANOTHER PAYMENT OF £7/99? PAY PAL took the 51 amount and a name unknown to me took 39/99 and the 7/99 separately in addition to my initial payment of 39/99? All this results for me in 3 big red flags of something not right? Therefore, albeit your site seems fair and well organised, something is seriously amiss here regarding 2 additional, non authorised by me payments.
I have now informed my bank and they are looking into all these 3 payments due to confusing payments with names and 2 unauthorised payments! The only payment I did authorise was for 39/99 and my bank advised disputing that one also, due to incorrect name of recipient of payment! So,
Please inform me of any new information you discover re this confusion. Thanks Merry Christmas, Michael...

Date of experience: December 22, 2015
Minnesota
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Scammers galore.
May 23, 2019

I'm tired of the scammers preying on women. Men too I hear. Stinks. I can almost tell you by the first message if they are and most definitely the second. Those that make it to three are damn good but I catch them. Such liars, the reasons they need money from you and such.

I swear I should write a book on the ones I've come across. Good laughs. They usually disappear fast when I tell them my son is a deputy sheriff and I have their IP addy. One guy wanted money and after refusing, blocking and such he finally admitted he was in Africa and how else could he get money. One wanted $10,000 not to kill my family and such. He was begging for $50 by the time he quit. One pretended he was his son and needed money to find his dad. Gotta love the I'm working out of country and need to buy a BD gift for son so buy a new iPhone on your account and after I get it I'll attach my CC to your account to pay it off. Hey if you can pay my bill with your CC buy the phone with it also.

The stories are getting bigger andore demanding so ladies keep your backbone. You don't need a man to abuse you that way.

To the men on here who crab about women. What about the men with tats, no clothes, overweight, sagging everywhere, triple necks, etc. You're not perfect either. Men are just as bad when they state how they want a woman to look. I'm doing pretty good and I've had three kids, what's your excuse?

Date of experience: May 23, 2019
Michigan
1 review
10 helpful votes
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When u get one 5 times a day there's something wrong. Just picture some nasty dude pounding on a keyboard sweating his $#*! off. With Cheetos in his hand. Run while u can

Date of experience: May 13, 2016
Pennsylvania
1 review
41 helpful votes
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POF SUCKS... THEY POLICE YOUR ACCOUNT AND RANDOMLY DELETE ACCOUNTS AT WILL. YOU CAN FOLLOW ALL OF THE SPECIFIED RULES AND WAKEUP AND DISCOVER YOUR ACCOUNT WAS DELETED. NO CUSTOMER SERVICE WITH SITE ADMINISTRATOR. MARCUS IS A CREEP.

Date of experience: January 15, 2016
Spain
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Fakes
May 23, 2015

Why is it so crap I'm on the Spanish one joined up sent lots of polite requests to loads of women along the lines of I would like to met up, since I thought that was the whole point of a dating site for people to met up and decide what they think of each other. I'm not white maybe that does not help me in this context. But am open to met anyone anytime as long as their female. I never got a response ok, maybe they don't like my mug fair enough but I would have thought if these people were real they would just send a no thanks back or something like that, its almost like a basic response is beyond them. I also note that a lot of the profiles I have viewed have no photo so much for PF's rules of no photo no game. It says a women was interested in dating me but when I responded nothing. I would rather get on with hobbies then waste my time on a dating site its sooooo fake and I expect they want fake pictures a lot of the women posing look fake like the whole model shoot thing and within that must be some pretty fakes hired by the company to get men interested in the site.
Glad I wasted time not money on it.

Date of experience: May 23, 2015
GB
5 reviews
23 helpful votes
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I think this is an awful website. Good job it's free. First and not least is that you are not allowed to corresond with anyone in their 20s ro 30s if you are outside that age group Forget that it will not happen. Even if you decied on the age range in the advanced feature you are still not allowed to seach for anyone outside 14 years of your age range. Better to pay for a site and know that everyone can see you and make their own decisions than decide on this site for free in my opinion. Go for it.

Date of experience: November 2, 2014
Michigan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ripoff.
May 25, 2019

It is a very bad site. First, they will put you on automatic payment, and there are no way to turn it off. Trust me I tried, or they purposefully made it impossible to be found, so they can ripoff more money from you. I called them, and they told me the money they took is not refundable? Where is the law in this country? Where are the FBI and the consumer protectors? If any lawyer would take this case I am all in and there are millions others.
Automatic payments with one option should be illegal because it is super easy to sign in if anyone wants to renew, and it should not be hard for users to sign out from.
Second, I would say from my experience with that site, at least 80% of profiles are fake. Maybe fake profiles get created by pof to gain members, and there are many Nigerian and all other spams and scammers crooks trying to take your money and waste your time.
My advice, almost all sites do this trick because it is a loop hole in the American legal system. I hope you all who get my money to spent it on your kids health.

Date of experience: May 25, 2019
Colorado
1 review
34 helpful votes
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I was a member of POF for over 10 years, never had a problem till lately when someone stole my identity there, my user name there was stargazers321 which the scammer now uses. He put a photo of himself and a blow up doll on my profile and used most of my info. Three times I hit the "Report User " button and three times my new account was deleted, now I was just deleted again after not even using the button so they have blocked my IPP address now. At first I thought it was the scammer deleting me but now I think its POF being stupid!

Date of experience: June 27, 2016
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I would not recommend this website and their Facebook page to My worst enemy looking for a date.
The supposed women on this site are usually from China, Africa, the Middle East or Eastern Europe. I have read texts with the same question " Could You send Me a 50 Dollar Stream Gift Card?" If not question I usually have gotten requests for Money, sometimes I would get messages from women or better yet so called women asking for My Address claiming to be in My local area, but when I look at their profile they have a bunch of friends from Africa, India or the middle east and no mutual friends of mine and not a single picture on their timeline of anything local, nothing but posing in skimpy bikinis or of a group of people in a foreign country.

Date of experience: September 7, 2021
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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WORST
November 27, 2016

First of all, this site/app does not deserve any star ratings. This is the worst dating app/website ever! There is no other option of what you exactly want as the options is so programmed, so I added what I exactly want under "About Me" section. And Guess what? Men whore around asking me for friends with benefit, and all the $#*!ing sexual desires they want. This is not a real dating site, instead, it is a $#*!ing dating site where men ask u to $#*! them. So? I suggest that they should add an option of "F-u-c-k-ing around" or "Just want to whore around looking for b-i-t-c-hess that I can f-u-c-k" Something like that, all men are $#*!ing ridiculous and too much prostitution going on, Men prostitute themselves and get girls for free. God! I pray that girls will be careful in dating these men. There is also another man who said he will pay money to $#*! him. Haha! This is the worst dating app ever! Please don't even dare download, also, Money ripped off huh? Trying to force u to upgrade so u can see who wants to meet u in person. Ridiculous! And Nasty! What is happening to our world seriously? It's getting disgusting, they don't care if they get HIV or something until they get it in actual. LOL. Men whoring should be the title of this app. The provider and owner of this site should have access and see conversation or something like a police job and delete accounts who abuse the site.

Date of experience: November 27, 2016
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Someone who shall remain nameless thought I was ready to meet Someone on line. And someone who shall remain nameless decided to fill me in when 2 well known dating sites turned out to be highly overrated and disappointing said I should try plenty of fish. The word plenty was understated. I thought I'll make a very honest not Facebook friendly fake and I'd just be me. I thought it sounded kind of $#*!y instead of the bad $#*! good Christian mom vibe I was going for but oh well here goes. Men 53-61 apparently dig that or at least act like they do. I've been dabbling with this for 7 days with the significance of that and the certainty with which I say it stems from I signed up on my 53rd birthday
Well here 7 days later I have talked to about 20 people 15 did not get blocked. Hey those are good odds
Well here 7 days later I have talked to about 20 people 15 did not get blocked. Hey those are good odds
By this evening I was actively talking to 4 at one time. And they is what started the text stream I posted earlier.
Hold on people the training wheels are off. I am terrified and alive!

Date of experience: November 29, 2020
GB
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Firstly it looks great, free messaging to other people & so forth. But I've made a few profiles & each one kept being deleted for reason what so ever. I never broke the rules or anything to justify such a harsh action. Each time my profile was deleted I was in the middle of talking with someone who was also interested in me. It's very VERY frustraiting they continue to act like this. It's also Illegal for them to operate within the EU because they have no direct contact numbers or email address for people with complaints.

Personally, I would avoid pof because it appear's to me that they delete only the male accounts after a set amount of time & it makes no difference if you subscribe or not, they just randomly delete you for no reason. Just to know if your mail as been read or to view peoples compatibility report. Seriously you can't get any worse for customer service that pof.com & you will have a very hard time getting you're money back if you subscribed & then get your account deleted because they contest every attempt you do to get your money back like the money grabbing fraudsters they are.

That & 9/10 of profiles are fake!

Date of experience: November 8, 2014
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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This is the worst dating website EVER! They have decided that if there is an age gap of 14 years or more you cannot contact each other. This may be dispite the fact that you have both indicated a desire to contact each other. The system generates a message telling you that the person has chosen not to meet people your age when in reality POF have decided you can't meet. When I questioned this policy they said they were a relationship website and through reading members private messages they know that if there is an age gap of 14 or more years it's normally just for sex. SO BEWARE THEY READ YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES. Other members indicate a desire to chat but the POF BIG BROTHER WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO.

Date of experience: January 6, 2015
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I don't remember the credentials I used to sign up and the free platform is no longer free. I have sent so many emails to recover my information with no luck and they still continue to take money from my account. THIS WEBSITE IS NOT WORTH IT PLEASE FIND ANOTHER ONE TO USE!

Date of experience: December 29, 2023
Wisconsin
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Don't use
January 17, 2022

The site is fake and does not let you communicate with others at all!
You must pay in order to talk or get anywhere on that site
Not worth your energy to use
Scam site! Beware!

Date of experience: January 17, 2022
Ohio
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
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Fake accounts
May 20, 2019

The POF profiles are a bunch of spam accounts. Biggest con on men everywhere. You chat with one profile they respond with one liners, and you don't hear from them again. Waste of time and money

Date of experience: May 20, 2019
Pakistan
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I am very much happy and delighted to board on this very important dating site. Here I can have the best of my second half. Who can fill my sexual desires as well and build family.

Date of experience: July 2, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Shock Value
July 13, 2017

I only had POF for two weeks. Got messages from guys but kept myself alert for weirdos. Not going to lie I was real hesitant making a POF because you never know who your meeting online. One dude demanded me to meet him at the park and said I never meet a $#*! like him smh avoided him like the plague and blocked him.

But surpringly after that talked to a guy for two months beforeing meeting him and he was who he said he was. We instainly fell in love which is super rare. 7 months later were together and going strong. I never thought I meet such a great guy especially online. Love you Jellybean and 7 months to us many more to come. When I gave up on love you appeared in my life extremely blessed.
POF is what you make it

Date of experience: July 13, 2017
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A rip off
January 23, 2022

Rhey take your money then u can't communicate with other members. I have tried 3 different time to get a person to help me. No help. By far the worst dating site I have been on.

Date of experience: January 23, 2022

Overview

Plenty of Fish has a rating of 1.3 stars from 1,958 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Plenty of Fish most frequently mention fake profiles, customer service and credit card. Plenty of Fish ranks 655th among Dating sites.

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