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Plenty of Fish Reviews Summary

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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GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
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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

Date of experience: August 21, 2022
Indiana
9 reviews
30 helpful votes
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No women without kids
August 20, 2022
Updated review

I have no kids and no family. Found women who have 9 grandkids were interested in me, but found in my age bracket there were only 53 women without kids or grandkids. Even had one not attractive woman in my age bracket tell me I was limiting myself by asking for a woman with no kids and no grands as they are called on their. Gee, I am the one who paid for the membership? After 2 months of getting matched up with smokers as I quit in 83 and having young women in their 20's saying they were 50-60's I deleted it today. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

Date of experience: August 20, 2022

Waste of time and money
June 16, 2022
Previous review

I have been on this site when it was owned by Markus? Now that Match owns its a waste of money and time. I thought one last time and got a 1 year membership for $120. I found the same people with the same pics from 7 years ago. Most have their messaging disabled meaning you have to like them or can't send a message at all. I have also found a ton of young women posting their ages 30-40 years older than what you can see in their profile. It might be OK for younger people, but its scary how many women my age or younger have more wrinkles than a bad pair of pants.

Date of experience: June 16, 2022
NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Oooh, and why can't you read other ppl's reviews?! POF are a bunch of F-ING LIARS! You click on Live Customer Support, and it asks the questions for you. You have list to choose from. I HARDLY consider that "LIVE" Customer Support. Nothing pisses me off more than a FAKE-$#*! Company! I went to log into my account, that has had the EXACT SAME Password that it's had since I made the acct, and POF Stupid f-ing Stundos are TELLIING ME. The owner of the acct, that my password is WRONG! UMM, NO! It isn't. Your website just has soooo many f-king glitches in it. It's probably not recognizing it b/c #1 I haven't logged in in a while, and #2 ur admins are as stupid as the site itself! If I would have ACTUALLY been ABLE to chat with a LIVE AGENT. Like POF SAYS YOU CAN. This issue would've been resolved in about 3-minutes! BUT NO. Those fk-ing BONEHEADS want u to send them a "message" where they pick out the fk-ing questions and answers FOR YOU. Like you're too $#*!ED to type what you want to say in the empty, but blocked-greyed out box PROVIDED, but can't fk-ing TYPE ANY LETTERS IN IT! STUPID FKS!

Date of experience: August 19, 2022
Maryland
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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So I tried Plenty of Fish after several of years being off of this site. I was so disappointed to see so many fake profiles. Pictures included of some of these. It's funny that a site says they have so many members just to gain ranking but in all reality if they took away 50% of the fake profiles the site would be a total flop on ratings.

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Date of experience: August 13, 2022
GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Absolutely rotten
August 13, 2022

Spoke to a woman who messaged me using text talk and who said my sport I liked was boring, absolutely no chat or concept of creating a decent first impression. After that I deleted the app

The standard is low, really really low. I think it's the bottom 10% of women all searching for only the top 10% of men. The women seem to lack intelligence, beauty and kindness. They do however posses plenty of baggage, weight and attitude

Oh and there's about 500 men chasing after every woman and half the profiles are blatantly fake. Good luck you'll need it fellas

I would sooner be single than go online dating again

Date of experience: August 13, 2022
Czechia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Junk
August 12, 2022

The developers of this app got bored a long time ago and just left it running for the cash. There are no real people on here, don't waste your money.

Date of experience: August 12, 2022
Alaska
1 review
3 helpful votes
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They took my money but when I went to unhide my profile it won't let me. I called POF and the lady on the phone was ghetto, nasty and told me she would delete my profile. I had to call apple for a refund- hope it goes through because I will fight these creeps! Don't sign up for this one- or try and co tact them before you do- smoke in mirrors!

Date of experience: August 5, 2022
GB
1 review
8 helpful votes
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There must be 500 men for every woman so they get totally overrun with messages from desperate guys.

The problem is that the women are all of an absolutely dreadful standard. The real undateables, But they get so many messages they think they are a catch and develop an attitude. They are all 2s yet with all the attention they start thinking they are 10s and want a 10 themselves. It really is pitiful tbh.

Never seen anything so pathetic in my life

Date of experience: August 5, 2022
Minnesota
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Gender bias
August 4, 2022

Women do not trust this site they allow me to talk to us so disrespectful and if you respond disrespectful your account will be removed very clear gender bias

Date of experience: August 4, 2022
Oklahoma
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Neither Good Nor Bad
August 2, 2022

I am 70, male, have a degree, widowed, physically fit and financially secure (I put this in my profile). I have been on and off POF about 5ish years. I work and my work takes me out of town thus I don't have the phone app nor do I want it so I use my home laptop... anyhoo, I have met/dated appx. 10+ women on POF. I have never had a bad experience, never met a woman that did not look similar to her photos (maybe a few pounds more or a little older) however fortunately no horror stories to tell. It normally is chatting on the site followed by exchanging text numbers, then texting, then talking then meeting. By then you should have a gut feeling if all is on the up and up.

Date of experience: August 1, 2022
California
1 review
9 helpful votes
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SCAM
July 29, 2022

POF is filled with fake pics, fake profiles, bots, and scammers.
In fact, I feel certain that POF employees make the fake profiles and then chat with
People to try to get us to spend more money. The reason I say this is because it was IMPOSSIBLE to get anyone to meet in person... they always had a million excuses as to why they couldn't meet.
What a horrible waste of time and money.

Date of experience: July 29, 2022
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Be careful on here. I tried to reply to someone I finally liked and my phone & laptop wouldn't let me send the message to him. My phone and laptop got crazy hot and I contacted support but a auto reply is all I got no real answer. I am steady getting message thst I cant reply too. Then I noticed they want me to uograde. Upgrade... but I've been on here all week without having to. The last time I put my card info into pof in 2018 my card got hacked by someone in the support team... please watch out. This could turn into a pof lawsuit if it happens to enough people

Date of experience: July 22, 2022
New Mexico
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Not for everyone
July 23, 2022

While I certainly cannot say it is the best site for online dating I cannot also say it the worst. It is just not for everyone.

Date of experience: July 22, 2022
Texas
1 review
11 helpful votes
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I have been a paying and non-paying member often on for several years. They have recently gotten really bad. Then I'll give you women who are not only outside your age range but those you have blocked and those who have blocked you because of age range. I am a retired programmer for 40 years and even IA can you write code better than that

Date of experience: July 17, 2022
GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
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The females spend all their headlines complaining that they can't see likes and don't have meet me. Have they no idea every woman says the same? Nothing like negativity to start your profile off with

Also as bad are the ones who say my children will always come first. Why do they feel the need to say it?

Not to mention the ones who are 56 yet say they are 35 as they don't want to date someone their own age

There are too many in their late 30s/40s who still act like they are 20. They come across as entitled spoilt brats demanding you read their profile and adhere to their every demand

The thirsty men have to take their share of the blame. Most of the women are extremely unattractive yet have a ridiculous attitude. If men weren't messaging them they wouldn't have the entitlement

Date of experience: July 16, 2022
New Hampshire
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Too many fake profiles!
July 14, 2022

There is not much of a screening/verification process to prevent this. Also, I have specified I only want people in my area yet often get ones outside. I really am tired of having to get a message, click on profile only to find that they live too fsr away. Last, pictures are quite outdated in some cases.

Date of experience: July 14, 2022
GB
1 review
17 helpful votes
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It's gotten worse!
July 14, 2022

1st time back on here since 2015 and unbelievably it's gotten even worse! The women all in their 40s with tons of baggage yet remarkably keep talking about refusing to settle and how they know their worth and other nonsense. They're absolutely insane

Saw a lot of people that were on back 7 years ago and they still have the same photos up! The only thing that's changed is they've become even more choosy. If you're on a dating site for 7 years maybe it's not the men that's the problem?

Truly abysmal standard of women. Absolutely the bottom of the barrel. They'd still look woeful after 10 pints of beer. They don't even have a nice personality! Just nasty all round

Date of experience: July 13, 2022
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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POF is ok for showing you people however they only show you who THEY want to show you. You can't look up people in your area. They won't show you that at least under a free membership and that's what I'm rating is a free membership. The women today and this isn't pof's fault but the women today are only after the very top 5% of men the very rich and very handsome or one or the other if they settle. So as far as finding a date that just doesn't want to use you for the price of a free dinner well then you better be in that top 5% or your won't even get looked at. Also they have a meet me feature that you can use but they won't show you who likes you unless you pay them. But if you match with someone like you like them and they like you they will show you that under matches... but these women generally won't answer you if you write them... guess they like your look but not your finances. They will tell you that someone likes you but they blur their picture... but you can see them enough to see that they won't show you that person that likes you in the meet me feature... which I think is a really shty thing to do.

Date of experience: July 10, 2022
Georgia
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Don't do it!
July 7, 2022

This site SUCKS. There are more scammers than real profiles. I have had conversations with eight men so far. Only one of them was a legitimate profile. Unlike other sites POF does nothing to protect their members. They should let their members know if they had contact with any of these thieves. They are awful!

Date of experience: July 7, 2022
GB
1 review
11 helpful votes
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0 stars
July 7, 2022

I dont understand why men message the females on here. They are all 2/10 at best yet think they are perfect 10s. They are incredibly rude and dont even try to be friendly on their profiles

Every single mum in the world seems to be on here and they all have OTT demands, they are mostly all overweight, they smoke and have more tattoos than teeth yet demand Mr Perfect who must be over 5'10 tall

They are all well past their best yet demand a man in his prime. You couldnt make it up

Date of experience: July 7, 2022