Plenty of Fish

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.

I have been a customer of POF on and off for many years. After it was purchased by Match.com, which owns almost all on line dating sites, its service deteriorated as there was no need to compete with other dating sites.
Now, POF, though still advertising as having millions of customers, is offering minimum value.
You cannot see who "likes you", or "wants to meet you", unless you pay for premium service.
It ignores customer's preferences as to location, and sends potential matches that live far away, while blocking (intentionally or not, I cannot say) matches that live close by.
In a way it is understandable, because if it was easy to find a good match, two people would couple up and leave the site, thereby POF would lose two customers. It is not in their best interest.
Unfortunately this is true for almost all on-line dating sites.

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!"

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

My view on this site.
If you're a halfway decent person don't bother.
I didn't find anyone even remotely happy to message so I'm not writing because I'm bitter I was ignored. I'm just being truthful how bad it is

The women are second division at best yet are incredibly stuck up, arrogant and opinionated. If you think I'm exaggerating look at the photos and profiles on the site.

There are very few women you'd want to be seen out in public with. They all seem very unhappy and incredibly angry with life and men in general

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

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.