Check out our latest communities fighting
AI scams on Reddit and Facebook

business logo of Plenty of Fish

Plenty of Fish

1.5

On SmartCustomer, businesses may not offer incentives or pay to remove reviews. Learn more about our Review Guidelines.

How would you rate Plenty of Fish?
grey stargrey stargrey stargrey stargrey star

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.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
410
value
411
shipping
99
returns
111
quality
444

We monitor reviews for authenticity

Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow Mike D.
Unfollow Mike D.
Share Review
Report Review

DO NOT DO IT
July 7, 2022

I do not even have an account…I tried to sign in forgot password…. Just so I can delete…. They never sent a password reset. I had to delete my entire email account that I've had for years to stop this! I was getting 80+ emails a day…I never signed up…when I reached out for tech support they wanted to charge $1…. It's a scam

Date of experience: July 6, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow Donna B.
Unfollow Donna B.
Share Review
Report Review

Hacker Site
June 28, 2022

Don't waste your time and money on the Plenty of Fish site. I was communicating with several members and their accounts were hacked. I know this because these members accounts profile were changed several times by the hacker in reference to the members location and what they were looking for in a match. I reported this to the POF staff and my account was removed but the so called hacker remained online and sent me a message but I couldn't retrieve it. This site is not worth wasting your time and money on!

Date of experience: June 28, 2022
Texas
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
Follow Chris F.
Unfollow Chris F.
Share Review
Report Review

Eh.
June 25, 2022

As a guy who's used this website on numerous different occasions for men I would say it isn't worth it. You have to come up with something astronomical to say when trying to Mack on a female online that you haven't met. Or she'll just leave you on read. Doesn't matter if you look good or ugly. Women have more success when getting messages and everything, as a man I would definitely say. You're wasting your time if you messaged 3 or 4 women and they haven't replied. Just being honest.

Date of experience: June 24, 2022
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
Follow Luke M.
Unfollow Luke M.
Share Review
Report Review

An online sewer
June 22, 2022

Just rename it plenty of single parents and be done with it. Just a massive turn off to see so many women that have a child up with no dad on the scene, they cant all be unlucky, just all made bad life choices. Most arent even divorced so had their children out of wedlock.

Full of women in their 30s and 40s asking where are the handsome guys, Needless to say they arent attractive yet demand the man must be, I have never seen anything like it, they go online and think they can order a hot guy

All they do is complain they cant see likes from men and you that must message them. Dont they realise that EVERY woman has put the same? Its so tedious reading it. Its not even that hard to work out who has clicked like you but obviously way too difficult for these geniuses to figure out. Again it just smacks of laziness and entitlement

I have nothing positive to say about the site or the people on there

Date of experience: June 22, 2022
California
8 reviews
26 helpful votes
Follow Eric S.
Unfollow Eric S.
Share Review
Report Review

Full of bots
June 21, 2022

A dating site won't get people to sign up if there aren't any users. Some in the past have been busted creating fake profiles just to make their userbase look more active than it is. A lot of the profiles on POF are bots, some are scammers, and some are prostitutes. I've reported profiles before and they stay up. I recommend avoiding this site.

Date of experience: June 21, 2022
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow Nonya A.
Unfollow Nonya A.
Share Review
Report Review

As a lady looking for another man on the site for a long term relationship, The majority of the men all seem to be looking for quick hookups and sex.
The best thing about this site is that it is free for both men and women to get messages and to reply to messages for free.

Date of experience: June 20, 2022
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
Follow Ally Stephanie B.
Unfollow Ally Stephanie B.
Share Review
Report Review

This site is horrible. I can't spend more than 10 minutes before I'm fraudulently flagged by trolls and have to wait 24+ hours for them to check, find I did nothing, and then unblock my profile.
Because I'm a real woman, as soon as they unblock it I get flooded with messages-- that I then can't answer because some troll fraud flagged me again.

I've only been on pof a couple months, but my profile has been fraudulently flagged over 20 times, making it impossible to get to know anyone. And they just keep letting trolls flag it for zero reasons. (They don't even get rid of these trolls, they let them stay.)

Definitely not worth it for women, and I wouldn't pay for a subscription, not unless you want to chat more with their alleged support staff than you do people to date.

Date of experience: June 20, 2022
GB
1 review
24 helpful votes
Follow James F.
Unfollow James F.
Share Review
Report Review

Not sure where to start

The women are mostly

Very miserable
Very picky
Smokers
Overweight
Unattractive
Single mums
Tattooes galore
Low IQ
Bland personality
Old photos from 2012 next to 2022 ones Why?
Tongues sticking out in photos. Why?
Appallingly entitled attitude
Lie about their age
Unable to hold a conversation

The worst specimens society has to offer all hilariously screech there MUST be a spark. Zero self awareness that no decent man would find them attractive or want to be with them

I'm sure there are plenty of dreadful men on there as well but I'm not looking for them so can't comment on that

0 stars

Date of experience: June 19, 2022
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
Follow Lane G.
Unfollow Lane G.
Share Review
Report Review

0 stars
June 15, 2022

Its bad enough you have very low quality women on the site but what makes it worse is they all believe they are a hot commodity and are a 10/10 catch when they are more likely a 2/10/. Its full of deluded women and is pointless even signing up for

Most are too dumb/lazy to fill their bio out but if they do its full of silly demands and how they love tattoos and going out. IF on the off chance you do find someone okay you will find they have tons of kids they expect you to tolerate

Lets be honest you wont find a decent woman on here, why would they stay on here when they are being constantly bombarded with perv requests or simp men? All you have is a website full of women that nobody wants

Date of experience: June 15, 2022
Michigan
1 review
23 helpful votes
Follow kelli k.
Unfollow kelli k.
Share Review
Report Review

Horrible!
June 15, 2022

They need to verify everyone on the site. Verify people are actually who they claim to be. 9 out of 10 profiles I dealt with were fake profiles, scammers, cat fishers! Pathetic! 3 months and not one connection with a real, legit man. You have to spend extra money on verifying sites to protect your self. That's bull$#*! for you pay for the membership! There are ways POF can verify before allowing anyone to sign on and create a profile, And it's not free!

Date of experience: June 15, 2022
Illinois
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
Follow Veronika G.
Unfollow Veronika G.
Share Review
Report Review

Unfortunately, it looks like this company has some political views, and discriminates accordingly. After about 8 years of my on-and-off relationship with POF, my account was canceled w/out any explanation.

Date of experience: June 13, 2022
Texas
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
Follow Marcie A.
Unfollow Marcie A.
Share Review
Report Review

Scammers
June 14, 2022

99% of the profiles are of scammers. Stay away from POF. They all ask for money or gift cards. Stay away.

Date of experience: June 13, 2022
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Chris P.
Unfollow Chris P.
Share Review
Report Review

Scammer site
June 13, 2022

Dont waste your money.
The disappointments are boundless, they start with the devious way the site steals money and refuses to refund, then it just gets worse with fake profile after fake profile.
Go to a reputable site, stay away from POF.COM.

Date of experience: June 12, 2022
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow C C.
Unfollow C C.
Share Review
Report Review

Don't do it they are not worth the time. I warned you. They want too much info. They are rubbish don't do it.!

Date of experience: June 11, 2022
Florida
8 reviews
18 helpful votes
Follow Chas C.
Unfollow Chas C.
Share Review
Report Review

Messages from PoF
June 11, 2022

I wish PoF would stop sending me msgs saying someone liked me. The individual hadn't even seen my profile!

Date of experience: June 11, 2022
Maryland
1 review
5 helpful votes
Follow Kay M.
Unfollow Kay M.
Share Review
Report Review

Disappointed
June 10, 2022

It doesn't give you the opportunity to pay monthly Another thing is the limitations that are placed when we sign up... you really can not utilize the site. A person could feel bullied with those constant flags to subscribe. That turns me off before I get the chance to give my opinion. Why don't you offer 15 days of service then give people an option to subscribe or cancel.

Date of experience: June 10, 2022
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow Tony R.
Unfollow Tony R.
Share Review
Report Review

I am a single male and have used POF on and of with out a photo of myself, I have had issues signing on over the years, asking for my phone number to verify it all the time.
Lately I have been asked for a photo to respond to females, I have noticed a lot of profiles male and especially the female ones do not have photos so why me a male, is it because there are more males on there $$$. Any how every time I have had a problem I have had to explain to POF staff over and over, they take to long to answer emails always saying a lot of people asking for help( why would that be?, the BS we as clients have to put up with while they line their pockets with cash).
Anyhow enough is enough I have cancelled my membership after many years their reaction to this? Could not give a stuff and asked if they wanted to do it for me, I asked them to cancel it and am still waiting for it to happen and still getting matches which I have going into my deleted box now. Never go back to POF again, there are other free dating sites out there as I have discovered.
Dont even deserve a 1 star minimum rating.

Date of experience: June 7, 2022
Kansas
1 review
2 helpful votes
Follow James M.
Unfollow James M.
Share Review
Report Review

LIke all sites structured to compel expending money, always on part of men. Huge percentage of scam/fake profiles (quickly obvious once you spot the pattern of pictures that don't match age accompanied by generic profile text - suspect large number of prostitutes)... remainder are mostly highly unsuitable persons (appearance, age, circumstances). And beware - unlike other sites, this one has real customer service, forces you to pay for three months up front for the "premium" account (which is all but required in order to even try to use the site), and there are no refunds. Jordan Peterson and others have advised single men not to use these sites - now I know why.

Date of experience: June 6, 2022
GB
1 review
10 helpful votes
Follow Jay d.
Unfollow Jay d.
Share Review
Report Review

Lots of females lie about their age. For example They say they're 32 but then you see them admit they're really 45 and don't want to date anyone their own age. Photos from 2016 as well aren't much use either

Its just a conveyor belt of single mums with tats who say " my children always come first" and women who are still waiting for prince charming and demanding men well out their League. Tbh they should be happy to get any man with the way they look

They aren't the brightest either. They still cant work out why they can only send one message a day and every single profile says the same thing "can't see likes". Change the record or pay to see them, I don't want to read your complaining about it

Date of experience: June 3, 2022
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
Follow Gregory D.
Unfollow Gregory D.
Share Review
Report Review

Cellphone
May 29, 2022

What Bull$#*!, I used this site a couple of years ago, And did not need a cell phone in order to have a account on there site, Now when i tried to signup, All at once after i had most of my info put in, It shows to put in a phone number, It was not showing that, It had to be a cell phone number, After i put in my phone number, iI click on to next, It shows a message, They will send you a text, To me this is Dissemination, Agrainst people who are low income earners, And can, t afford to have a cell phone, No other dating site that i have signup to, Has that policy that you need a cell phone in order to have a account on there site, They should be reported to Human Rights, And charged for dissemination, I am going to be reporting, Them to Human rights,

Date of experience: May 29, 2022