Plenty of Fish

Since 2021 I had auto-renewal with POF. (plenty of fish). Now 1/17/2024, POF CANCELED my renewal. I have been trying to fix the mess with POF but unable to call to speak with someone. That is very rude WITH POF.

I am a man who put a profile on this site 2 days ago because I am looking for a long term relationship w a woman near my age. However, I am also very street smart and can smell a scam artist a mile away and have reported 5 of them so far to EVow, who does NOTHING to stop these cockroaches from scamming people and this angers me. GUYS! BEWARE OF VERY ATTRACTIVE YOUNG LADIES HITTING ON YOU FROM OTHER STATES. Usually, they have very subservient profiles that crave for attention and usually never married. If it looks too good to be true, then it isnt, because on the other side of the line is some AHole that is scheming to take your money and identity. I read about poor saps that get ripped off all the time! Don't be one of them! Consider yourself warned men!

I signed up and got 10 messages within 30 minutes sadly all fake. The site seems overrun with them

The women who are real think they're gods gift to men but they're either overweight, very very ordinary looking, using photos from 5 years ago or waffling on about how they are independent, there seems to be a lot of them with degrees too (lies)
I messaged one and she replied you live TWO far away, she had a degree but can't spell correctly
Plenty of profiles in which they are typing in capitals saying if you don't have a photo you won't get a reply or if you are not over 6ft tall you will be ignored etc etc. It's almost as if they are trying their hardest to put you off sending them a message
I messaged them mocking them saying "great profile, lovely attitude" and they didn't realise I was doing it. Let's just say intelligence isn't very high on pof,

I messaged one person who seemed okay but she replied "where are you from" - too lazy or thick to read my profile location

In a perverse way it seems the more unattractive they are on pof the nastier the profile is yet they still want Mr Right to message them.

The women are great, superb and gorgeous in their own minds. In reality they are just deluded picky hasbeens who will end up lonely with their 8 cats

The sad thing after all the above I think men are that desperate for a woman they are messaging these horrible females no matter how rude and fat they are. It wouldn't surprise me if the nasty unattractive women get that much mail they can't reply to all. Get some dignity guys -I would sooner be single forever than date anyone off pof

Barrage of fake profiles (despite their claims that they delete fake profiles). Be careful with what data you give them... they will delete your profile (without reason) but keep your data to use to generate other (fake) profiles! Also, there are a lot of obsolete profiles (ones not used in years) kept on the site to make it appear like it has more members!

People don't "rate" the site to "screw with the ratings". They rate it bad because it IS bad.
It's also widespread KNOWLEDGE that POF moderators patrol sites like these (and Youtube videos) praising POF and attacking anyone who thinks otherwise.

POF is full of women who love to complain about "men do this wrong, men do that wrong"... but then do the same exact thing themselves! Unrealistic standards (5'1 overweight welfare women looking for 6'6 muscular rich men), attention whores who get off over recieving messages from guys and rejecting men... and don't forget the infamous golddiggers and dinner daters.!... Also, stay away from the POF forums, especially if you are male.

I have had two unsavory experiences on PoF. The first came under the guise of a 'hopeless romantic' who wanted to connect with friends (and plainly stated he was there to avoid 'hookups' and casual sexual encounters). I thought he was sincere, and I most certainly fell for the guise as he continuously asked me out on dates (not hangouts, dates). It wasn't until, after being introduced to his friends, that I was given the lengthy silent treatment. I am so low-maintenance it is ridiculous and all that I do ask when in a budding relationship is that the line of communication stay open. Nothing, for days. No responses to simple 'Hello, how are things?' messages. I found out he was seeing several women from the website. He was too cowardly to simply say he wasn't interested and I suspect he liked the thought of having other women 'on the side'. The sad thing is I purposely sought out an older male to avoid these juvenile head games. Instead I found that PoF is full of divorced 'hopeless romantics' who are nothing less than emo, wannabe players. I get it, you want to explore casual dating -- at least have the decency to let the other person know you're spreading yourself thin. I would not have bothered otherwise.

The other gentlemen I encountered was just insane. No, really. He still texts me (after my repeatedly asking him not to do so) with updates on his therapy and medications.

PoF is a PoS masquerading as a dating site. They are all there for sex. If you have an account, delete it. Try the old-fashioned method.

Pof is a ok site as it is free to use up to a point, but it has got it problems, you got women on this site that are all about your status, what car you drive, do you own your own house are you solvent.

The women that claim that the want a gentleman that will treat them like a lady is code for looking for a mug that will pay for everything.

You got the women that put up the fake photo, or photo's that are over 10 years old.

You got woman that will only go out with men that are younger then themselves, but as they cannot contact these men they will make do with you.

I was a 48 year old black male when I first joined Pof, I found that I was targeted by old white woman between the age of 55 and 70 years old, all these women had the same profile how they liked reggae, going to night clubs and holidaying in west Indians.

At first you would tell them that you were not interested, but their replies were how dare you not be interested, these woman I assume were so use to getting attention from young black men when they went on holiday to poor 3rd world countries that they could not take rejection. How did I get to the 3rd world conclusion the only photo of anyone black people in their profile was the holiday photos.

And the funny thing about it was that a old woman from pof contacted me twice, and I told her both times that I was not interested and when I did not reply after she sent me a photo of what she thought show herself looking good I was blocked.

I met like 7 guys on here, the 6 one I went out for a month, ended up back with his X girlfriend if she was his X who knows. 7th guy, first 2 months I thought I met the most awesome man, so I thought "YIKES" His true colors started flying out, or should I say his mask slipped, 100% NARCISSIST, CRAZY WOULD NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER, VERBALLY ABUSIVE, THEN BECAME AN INTRUSIVE FREAK! SHOWING UP AT MY HOUSE, UNINVITED, THEN TURNED STALKER. HAD TO GET POLICE INVOLVED, STILL STALKS ME. PERIODICALLY, NO MORE ONLINE FOR ME. POF MORE LIKE- PLENTY OF FREAKS.COM

Poor fare. I'll start by saying if they werent online these females wouldn't get the attention they do. I doubt these women get wolf whistled at when they're outside off pof.

They say they want humour but sarcasm & wit goes way over their heads. I send one message saying "bonjour" and she said "why are you speaking French you moron!" They go on and on about banter but have no clue
Lots of them haven't got even got a photo but they demand one from you
All act like they doing u a favour & put things like 'let's pretend we met elsewhere' as if they are so stunning they wouldn't be seen on the site. They all want prince charming on his white steed to rescue them regardless of the fact they have low paid menial jobs, have hit the wall looks wise & don't seem to do much exercise. Why would prince charming be interested in them? They might get more success if they looked for someone who wasn't out their league

Women peak at 30 so the vast majority of these women have seen way way way better days but judging by the arrogance on the profiles you wouldn't think it. It isn't 2010 anymore ladies and I don't want to date overweight (although they love to use a few extra pounds) women with an awful personality. They are extremely picky and extremely bitter for what they are offering you.

Oh and they ALL have cats

I was in the middle of filling out the questions, but had to go to work. When I came back, I was unable to log in! Password reset does not send me any link.

There's a list of rules, and when people report you for breaking them, or when the system thinks you might be breaking them. Your account gets deleted without further notice.
It seems to be doing a good job at it blocking most of the bad behaviour, but it's also deleting people with good intentions.

My actual review stops here, since there is nothing more i can review. If you get lucky you might get access, and I hear positive things from the people with access.
There's also a lot of bad reviews, but after reading those I feel that's nothing the site is being to blame, just people having a bad date so "every woman is a youknow" and "every guy only wants your money or is a pig". Oink!

My profile picture might have contained a small piece of my neck, was that too sexual?
The entire site was (badly i must say) translated to Dutch, so deletion because it's not available in/from my country wouldn't make sense.

Or was the question if I wanted to date obese and smoking woman a red flag for deletion?

I've clicked on two profiles that contained no info at all. (haven't even seen a button for messages), was I too greedy looking at two profiles within 10 minutes?

One can only wonder, since i can't contact customer support. There is none :(

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.

Spent a few weeks on here, time i will never get back

Some thoughts
1-you are competing with literally hundreds of other men
2- the women you competing for are literally rejects and undateables
3- Most women were overweight
4- Most women were very ordinary looking at best
5- Most women demanded someone way out of their league
6- Most had some kind of issue such as baggage or mental health issues
7- You will not find anyone decent on here if you are a man
8- Most women were so picky it made me laugh
9-Most women were short yet wanted a tall guy
10- There is a reason they are single and it isnt because of Covid like they claim
11- Most of the women have a truly appalling attitude on their profile

Have used match before, and thought I would try POF. In 2 days i received 4 scammers; I am a guy looking to meet other guys and more than once did the app insist on me looking at a woman's profile... from 300km away at that. I had selected the 75km radius, and checked all the boxes for dude seeking dude. Using km for an American user is a little disingenuous as well, I'm all about the metric system, this is not the place. I also received messages from women, to whom I had to explain, no not interested... but yet when I attempted to message a guy, the app would not allow it based on his criteria? Wtf? The few text conversations I ha with seemingly actual guys came to no good end. I don't think the paradigm of 'increasing your profile's popularity' has anything to do with actually finding somebody.
One week: 4 scammers, 2 wrong gender, 2 flakes, 2 guys peaceably parted ways with because we clearly weren't a match... but I was 'liked' by 69 other... user profiles, hey maybe they were people, maybe they weren't.

Frustrating. Waste of time, effort.

I bought a month subscription, it automatically enrolls you in monthly auto pay. After a month I got an email stating that $19.99 was taken from my account, no problem right? Right away cancelled my auto-pay and called and asked for a refund as soon as the phone lines opened. Sarah in billing stated that there are only two physical people to talk to, and they are both in billing, so basically no customer service. I told her my situation and how I called and wrote two emails as soon as I saw the POF monthly charge, her response? Sorry, NO REFUNDS AT ALL. I stated that it was my fault but I called and emailed hours after the charge posted. Too bad, no refunds. I then asked to talk to her supervisor or somebody else, as previously written, no one else to talk to. And that was it, no refund, no one to ask about it. Sarah stated that I can email them but I would get the same NO REFUND response. I totally understand if I had asked for a refund a week or two into the cycle, but I emailed and called as soon as the charge was posted. This was a first for me. Sloppy business practice

Most of the profile headlines are incredibly negative such as "Cant see likes" or "Why Do I bother?" or demanding such as "Make me Laugh!" "Cheats Liars Fakes keep away! That's the quality of women you dealing with on POF

The about me bio section isn't much better, most just say? Or put |"Ask". Imagine thinking that's appropriate. I don't know if its because they are lazy or dumb or just because they know men will message them regardless but its a terrible look if you cant be bothered to put anything. The ones that filled it in either complained or just said they like going out and staying in

One profile summed it up, she was late 40's and very average looking indeed, she said that there has to be s~~ual attraction when she looked at your pics and if there wasn't any she wouldn't reply. Imagine thinking that's an appropriate thing to put. The irony being was I doubt many men would have found her attractive, the delusion and entitlement factor is ridiculous

Without the internet these woman couldn't be so rude and picky

Oh my days wow just wow
Its like all the messed up screwed up nasty women are all on one website. It's like a freakshow on there

* 70% of the women I saw on pof were fakes. They message you with hey there:)
If you reply you'll get a dodgy link to click on

When you find the real ones the 30%

* slobby women who don't take care of themselves but want a man who works out

*women ranting about how bad men are in the profiles. That's always a winner isn't it?

*women thinking they are stunning and wanting someone tall dark handsome when they are short and fat

*the likes/dislikes section just generic rubbish. Such as I dislike ignorant rude people and bad drivers

*Pig ignorant weird types who seem to lack any social skills even behind a computer

*women that been single too long and are way too picky but don't get it. They usually are teachers and they say they are very very independent on the profile

*women getting on in years but longest relationship is under a year. Danger danger alert

*women you wouldn't take home to meet your mum. Tattoos everywhere + happy to put up scantily clad wearing virtually nothing in their photos at the same time in capital letters telling men they don't want fun

Ive been on here for over 3 years, Changed my ad(headline) at least 20+ times and pictures ive gotten maybe 4 people in 3 years i talked to period. I even went so far and put a header IS THERE ANYONE ALIVE ON THIS SITE?. REALLY i did get responses alot but met no one, everybodies a comedian.So far as many Millions of people that are on there and "FREE" you think you get a hit, NOPE, i not ugly just a big guy, girls/woman want weight lifters and big peckers a trophy to hang on there arms, No real men would ever work for them anyways, if they did they would not be on POF.

Not a great site

The women are all looking for the perfect man regardless of how they look themselves. I've seen profiles that say you must be between 29 and 31 must have brown hair and be between 6 foot and 6^3 tall. Can you imagine that happening in the real world in a bar? A women saying no I'm not interested as you have the wrong colour hair? It shows how silly these females are on here

Most of the women are past the best or are really bitter and have seen better days yet they on here demanding the perfect man. A lot can't even put the photo on the right way up. They put childish things for the profession too.

I've just read one profile which said answer 20+15 in your reply so i know you've read this hahaha you couldn't write about how demanding this lot are.

My view is if you're over 30 then your best days are gone so you have no right being so damn picky you get what you're given. I have also noticed females love showing their tattoos and kissing the pets in photos. Not very appealing in the slightest

There are way tons of fake profiles on here. Easy to spot but literally hundreds of them pretending to be real people

You might find some easy lay on here but the women of your dreams. Forgetaboutit

I'll Leave you with this. If these women are as amazing as they think they are how come no guy snapped them up years ago and put a ring on it?

Totally ridiculous website if you're a man. These women ought to date themselves as no man on POF is good enough for them

Sent a dozen messages to women I actally found attractive. I asked how they were etc etc. All looked and ignored me.

So then thought I'd see how bad this was. So found 2 dozen average looking females sent them the same pleasant message
Again all of them looked at my profile and ignored me again. What a joke

WALOFS. Even the dogs on here are picky. As if I'll be ignored by this lot. Talk about freaking deluded ignorant woman
In the outside world these women wouldn't dare have the cheek to ignore me yet online they think they are amazing

They should be grateful I sent them a message. This shows me 2 things. There's too many desperate men on here chasing after too few women and 2/ the women on the site are ignorant and out of touch with reality. Absolutely rancid women all wanting Channing Tatum. I hope the internet breaks

To any guys reading this don't waste your time messaging on here. Much better looking nicer people and less ignorant women to be met offline