Plenty of FishReviews 2,006

If your reading this and your not using POF already then what are you playing at? It's to single people what cheese is to wine lovers! I mean if your looking for a hidden gem of a internet dating site id say check out one of the great 'under the radar' sites like wejustfit.com but if your thinking of using POF to look for love but havent tried it yet then get on with it already! In fact better yet use the two sites together... that's what I do! Ha!

Refusing refund for personal info compromise:

OKCupid allows users, even non paying ones to opt out of allowing your profile and pictures to auto link to google search.

POF does not, and refuses to offer me this option. I'm a paying member there,

Their advice? To take my profile offline (so no potential dates can find me for a service I'm paying for?), or "hide" my pics. I did hide my pics. Guess what? They're all still on google search. Doesn't offer any privacy or security whatsoever.

I urge you NOT to give your business to this dating site. They don't care about you, or your safety, even if you're paying for their service. Your pictures though you think are hidden, are out there for everyone.

Just signed up with PoF and wish I hadn't bothered TBH, took ages to sift through all 100 questions which are totaly irrelevant and have nothing to do with whether or not any couple "hit it off".
A number of mandatory sign up questions are also irrelevant, such as, are your parents still alive, how many chuldren did they have, were you the eldest, how much do you earn. WHAT?
Furthermore, I cant see where one specifies a geographical radius area for prospective matches & they want one to "upgrade" to see whose interested in you
It's "fishy" alright.
I think I may well look elsewhere

I joined plenty of fish dating site. First the Web site chooses the woman you get to view. The this Markus... favors the woman. I tried to report that I had four woman lied about living location. Offering money for sex..."friends with benifits" I believe the words were. Not one date not one meet not one true connection. I even had a woman say if you want to do that holds do it yourself... she liked to horse back ride. You might think I'm not that good looking or little to offer. Wrong. I'm in great shape. Ex military. It seems the woman that really respond to you or show interest. Have no teeth. Or tattoos where you look and think I don't want to kiss a demon tattoo. Not to mention africa ladies and "if you are a serious man you get on a plane and fly to see me" LOL ARE YOU SERIOUS? AND THE FEW GREAT LOOKING WOMAN GET ON ONE DAY THEN VANISH NEVER TO RESPOND TO YOUR AD OR YOUR MSG. IN NEW YORK THOSE ARE CALLED RINGERS. PLACE THERE TO ENSURE A WIN. GOOD LUCK HA. THE FISHING AT PLENTY OF FISH IS NOT GOOD. WATCH OUT FOR SNAGS AND EELS. TRY TO GET REPORT A SCAM. MARKUS THE FOUNDER. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.

I have had a POF account before, can't seem to create a new one that sticks around for more than a few hours. It will not let you sign in. When you try to reset the password it never sends anything to the email address. I even created a new email account because POF doesn't like you using a previously used email address to set up a new account. I tried creating a Plenty of fish account using PC and mobile browser and the POF Google app. You always get locked out after a few hours. No one will pay for your site if you only give them a few hours to try it POF! They never answer technical emails either. Discusting customer support!

I highly recommend people that if you are looking to sign up to a dating website, don't sign up to pof. I invested a lot of time and effort in writing a decent profile out finding decent upto date pictures of myself, but it led to nothing. I'm not the best looking guy in the world but I'm certainly not the worst. I am a normal decent guy with a s dddent career who is looking for a genuine relationship. Surely that's what most girls want?
You send a detailed message to a girl, she reads and doesn't respond. I can go days without a profile review. A lot of profiles seems to be fake and if they aren't, they just want attention. I thought this might be due to the fact I haven't payed to upgrade. I decided I was going to pay the money to do the upgrade but before, checked the reviews to see if it was worth it. Too my surprise, or shall I say 'no surprise' everyone has said it's not worth paying for the upgrade.

A waste of time and effort!

Most woman/girls on this site aren't looking for relationships or anything else. They are just looking for attention.

How I've come to my conclusion.

They use the meetme feature- wanting to meetme but don't respond to messages

Message me first and i reply but dont message back?

I message and they reply then stop replying randomly/

These are just some thing's that happen on here to me almost with all the girls i've spoke to over a long period of time.

There is no reason that it is necessary for me to put my income range or my parents marital status or how many siblings I have is needed to complete a dating profile. The only possible reason that they would make so many fields required to sign up is that they are selling information. I don't want everyone that looks at my profile to know my income range. Being a female that makes more than the average male in my area it makes it awkward... sure I could lie about my income but then I would have to explain that later if I found someone.

Website full of ignorant rude picky women if I'm honest

Was chatting to a female who told me she had just joined & couldn't keep up with all the messages she was getting she was being snowed under from guys. She wasnt that hot yet the men were looking for 'fresh meat' & bombarded her. So unless you're 100% on your game you ain't gonna succeed
But the class of the women dont deserve your 100% nothing special they just get tons of mail & it goes to their heads. Must be amazing if your average and been ignored all your life now you're getting loads of attention from desperate guys

Its a numbers game and shows how desperate my fellow men are. A normal looking woman is getting 100s of messages so it's a total waste of time messaging any women as they going to naturally gravitate towards the hot guys.

Saying that no excuse for messaging someone asking how they are only to be ignored.

I joined this site about five years ago, two years after the death of my wife. The site does not delete members who have stopped subscribing or not logged in for years. There are a very small percentage of active users and very few new subscribers that stay active after a couple of months. The "meet me" feature is computer generated to get free subscribers to "upgrade". I've met about 3 women a year on this site. 70% are asian women looking for a husband to stay in the US. Three were either scammers, or american women using different identities, all were in Florida. The rest were scorned from prior marriages and pigeon hole all ment to their ex-spouses habits, even if you have never been divorced.

After being a member for more than two years, same women are matched over, over, and over again, even if you have blocked them.

Geographical locations don't work at all. Women in my area are shown to be 20 miles away, women 80 miles away show up as 1-3 miles away.

None of the match criteria is considered. I am white, and all my matches are to black, asian, or hispanics.

In short, don't waste your time or money on this site, find an alternative way to meet that person you're looking for. POF is a waste of time, even if it is free, and a waste of money if your considering an upgrade.

I'm a newly single dad of an 8-year old, and I joined POF to see if I could find some companionship. The site itself is functional, but the women seem to be pretty bitter about the whole online dating scene.

My complaint, however is this: I received notice "congratulating" me on my 3-month prepaid membership renewal. Now, I know it was my responsibility to cancel before the renewal date, but with all of my responsibilities it just went under the radar.

IMMEDIATELY upon receiving the notice, I wrote to the billing department, begging for a refund, since I was down to my last $100 with a week and a half before payday. The renewal took almost half of my money.

Their response, "We're sorry to hear that you don't want to continue as an Upgraded Member on POF. Unfortunately, memberships are non-refundable."

Not even the slightest attempt to be helpful. In my opinion, those who conduct business with that level of callous indifference deserve to fail. Yes... I made a mistake, but rather than refunding, or even trying to work with me on reducing the length to a month rather than three, and altering the charge accordingly, they decide that their financial best interest is more important than that of mine and my daughter's.

I recommend you go anywhere else, than POF. In my opinion... uncaring, cold-hearted, money-grubbing jerks, who apparently care nothing about the needs of a struggling single parent and his child.

I was on the site for a few wekks here are my thoughts

1-The vast majority of the women are aggresive and rude in the profile which makes you not want to message them
2- They complain about how rude men are not replying, manners cost nothing they say then you message them and they ignore you. The irony is lost on them
3-Average looking women saying if i dont reply youre not my type. They're average at best yet have a diva like attitude
4-Lots of them are drama queens and play games just immature. You see longest relationship less than a year and you see why
5-They love road trips. But they live in Wolverhampton not San Fransisco!
6-Friends and family are amazing and mean the world to them
7-Lots of them only want guys with beards who are covered in tattoos
8-The chances are unless you are 10 out of 10 in looks you will be ignored no matter what the female looks like
9-They say messages just saying hi or hello will be deleted yet their profile tells you nothing at all about them
10-They all love travelling and going to the gym which begs the question when do they have time for work?
11-Lots claim to have various degrees yet job will be a carer. Lies
12-Most looking for Mr doesnt exist or are bitter from old relationship or on the rebound messing about.
13-Site keeps telling you people want to meet you but you need to pay thats a scam
Cant understand why anyone would pay for this drivel

Cant recommend it and to be honest one star too much

I was being harassed by several people and when I sent an email to POF I received a reply that they do not answer emails unless you are an upgraded user, a paying user. I use the block feature but there are many people harassing people. That allow people to sign up just for the fun of sending people horrible and harassing emails. Do not use them if you want a good experience.
I only gave them one star because I had to select one.