Plenty of FishReviews 2,006

POF is a POS dating site. It's a total scam for how many people are on this site. When a search is done, it will show PAGES of people in your area. But when you look closer, they keep repeating the same profiles from page to page. So it may show 10 pages with 10 people on each, but in reality, it's only 10 or 20 TOTAL. And you get what you pay for... as in free brings out the worst of the worst. Do you really want to date someone who can't even afford a dating site? I think white-trash Markus or whatever this dopes name is, is a total con man. There are far better choices out there than this one. You have been warned!

POF is a joke. The men on this site are married, living with someone, or not single. They play way too many games... they will blow you up one day and poof be gone the next. They post pics of them 10 years ago or they post pics of models... the first thing that comes out of their mouth is something to do with sex... lets not forget about all the incarcerated profiles of men in jail... are you kidding? Nope... they have access to cell phones in jail pretty creepy... the men on here are not of any type of substance... they play too many games... They have nothing going on for themselves and some of them has some issues... maybe that is why they are single... i finally shut my account down after dealing with the same old $#*!... why waste anymore time it is really a joke... they are talking to several woman at one time... they are no good cheats and liars... i am done wasting my time

The site itself isn't bad it's just the beasts that inhabit it

Was on here good few years back and when rejoined to see if it's improved (it hasn't it's worse) I immediately saw the same profiles and photos from 3 years ago. So not only lying about their photos they also seem to be serial daters

Most of the women have chips on both shoulders and come across very aggressive no idea why Aby guy would want that. They all claim they're independent and don't need a man they just want one. Feminist talk

This site is totally overrun by single mums. I must be old fashioned but I wouldn't bring a child into the world unless in a loving relationship in which you can financially support said child. Not on POF and society as a whole. Why bother when you get churn kids out & get the state to pay you. I have to roll my eyes when I see profession; Mum
Its not a profession it's a lifestyle choice. I hear them say anyone can be a dad but takes a real man to be a father. Yeah ok. I'll pass thanks
They also feel the need to put my child will. Always come first which I agree with but would put any guy off straight away. You can't tell me they've ALL been unlucky with bad guys? They had kids cos they're feckless slappers who don't care other people's taxes fund their life

Lot of profiles say READ PROFILE FIRST & then follows a whole shopping list of what the women wants. Only missing from the ridiculous OTT list are bananas and muesli.

Beware the only headshot and no body. A few extra pounds normally means they are the size of a small country.

Weirdly the fatter and unattractive they are the nastier their profile normally is.

I actually put no single mums on my profile and lost count I got called a stuck up c*** really classy women soon show their true colours

Horrible women on here. Leave the site alone

Interesting site. A psychologist would have a field day analysing these broads
Got a few messages and then when I replied back it was like pulling teeth trying to have a proper conversation with them so only imagine what kind of social misfits they are in real life

Seems to be full of 30-40 yr old women who are very bitter and trying to get revenge on the fact they're still single and been hurt in the past. Lots of them are mid thirties and still don't know what they're looking for which is rather worrying if you're them.
When you get to they age you can't slam down a whole bunch of boxes a guy must tick. You take what you're given. You're not 23 anymore

One thing that does make me chuckle are the women with their boobs hanging out in photos and then complaining in their profile box they're sick of getting rude messages. Who would have thought by putting pics of yourself half naked as your main photo you'd get tons of guys messaging you rude things?
Just like the ones who put casual no commitment moaning guys only want sex. Change what you want then and don't get me started on the people in their 30s on their looking for friends. On a dating site?

Bottom line is bunch of average broads whose best days are behind them all thinking they're going to get some hunk so they just sit on there for years disappointed and becoming older and more spiteful they didn't get a guy in their younger years. The profiles are full of negative vibes and I don't see any women who seem to be happy and friendly

Was on the site 18 months ago and few weeks on here again didn't take long to see same faces. I read men outnumber women 8 to 1 on these sites so I find it very strange they can't find a man. Obviously setting the bar way too high

No doubt there are shady men are there but with every woman wanting a Sean OPry type you sense they're going to be on there for years to come. They'll be 45 and still not realised there are only so many male models inhabitanting POF;)

Conclusion
Great for women who treat it like an online catalogue for men
Bad for men if you're looking for a decent down to earth friendly woman.

The layout is good, easy to navigate. The apps are equally good. The tests were pretty neat. I received A LOT of messages. I followed all the terms of service and guidelines and I don't even think any of my pics showed cleavage. I was very kind to everyone I spoke to, even in turning them down. 24 hours after being on the site, I went to log in and received the message that my login or password was incorrect. I requested a new password and was told that my email address was not registered. So I re-registered with the same email, password and screen name as previously, re-took the tests, and created my profile all over again only to be deleted once more in less than an hour. There is no reason given and no way to contact them to ask why. I guy that I had given my number to on the site told me that he had not seen anything questionable on my profile either.
I understand a no tolerance on violating terms of service... but I did not violate terms of service. I was not rude, did not post questionable pics or anything else listed on their TOS.
I can only assume that one of the people I POLITELY turned down reported me for something... *shrug* I'll just take at as a note from the Universe.

This site suck. I have used it on and off. I have never got any messages sent to me. No women on here that I message messages me back. This site sends me all the wrong kind of uses to me as matches that think I would like. They don't send me matches base on my match filter settings. I never get a membership here because the memberships are too expensive. This site is not worth your time. When I search for matches base on my filter setting I get a list of women to choose from. When I search again with the same filter settings I get the same women. Even when I wait a couple of days and search again. This site also keeps sending me a message for an event that is happening at a bar miles from where I live. I keep getting the same message for a Plenty of Fish event happening at a bar miles away from where I live. I never get a message from about a Plenty of Fish event happing at a bar in the city I live in. Which is a big city. So there should be at least on Plenty of Fish event happening at a bar in the city that I live in.

If I had a £1 for every woman on this site who is 5foot tall but says only 6ft+ men only to contact them I'd be rich. As if in real life someone the size of a munchkin could be so picky. As if they were out in bar they'd rebuke a guy cos they're not tall enough when chatting to them. Yet they get on POF and become uber picky with ridiculous demands you must meet before you can even send them a message. Then they have to have a list of dislikes. The usual generic rubbish, bad manners, ignorance arrogance etc but wait you ignored my message? Oh the irony. Have to laugh when I see 'liars and cheats don't message' that's basically asking to be played

The women dont realise the profile is the first impression men get and most of them are very aggressive. What happened to being sweet and happy instead of constantly complaining on your profile?

You must drive is another one only to look and see she doesn't. Yes I'll be your personal taxi for sure

'I don't need a man in my life I'm very independent ' is another thing I read a lot. Well good for you. Why you on POF then?

I always remember what I was told years ago. If a women is single by 30 then there's something wrong with her otherwise she would be snapped up by now and be settled down. If you look on pof that's true, just full of mid 30 year old women all bitter and full of anger and that's just the ones without children. Can only imagine how picky that lot must be

If this is what women have become today then I'll stay single. Before the Internet if you were 2/10 you dated someone in your level. Now with the Internet these 2/10 think they somehow deserve a 9/10 guy and won't settle for anything less. Just ridiculously deluded and immature.

I can only think there must be way too many men who will go with anything otherwise they'd have to amend their ultra picky deluded profiles and face reality.

I long for pre-Internet days when you could chat a woman up in a bar or give her your number in a shop. Now everyone is on Internet dating and it's saturated and a waste of time

I feel bad giving 1 star. That's way too much for the toxic females on here.

Get some humility

I created a profile was on for about 4 months just fishing got interested in some one wrote to them a long and lengthy letter sent it then the site kicked me off would not let me sign on again! So I created another profile 4 now and still the same thing! Try to sign on with my user name and password they say wrong username or password I'm done with the bull$#*! site no response from any one on there about the problem. Guess the creator is to busy fu&$ing his MONEY!

I do not blame the site itself for being horrible. Most of the users, men or woman are appalling. There are trier markets to explore and this company does it well. But if you fine something better and look for a serious relationship, do not upgrade, it does not gets better anyway, with free service or paid membership. I even go problems with scammers. Customer support work on the clock. I am just giving one star because most of the users waste my time.

Just by reading five to ten reviews I get the idea: Wrong Expectation! POF is a free to use dating site and I am surprised to read so many negative reviews. Like I wrote in the beginning I think people have high expectations and for some reason POF was not able to meet their expectations. Let's make clear that I am also not a big fan of POF. I've used it and I rather spend a few bucks on a prime dating site like Mingle2day or eHarmony because in my opinion it gives me plenty of good options. But for being a mostly free to use dating site POF is a great alternative

I ended up going on two dates on the POF website it was absolutely horrible the men on this website are drowning in life and looking for somebody to latch on to and suck the life out of them as well my last experience that I had this guy was very handsome and great in all of his pictures and then when I met him face-to-face oh my goodness I have no words to describe it wasn't just physical appearance his status was illegal he had no car he had no job has lost all of his kids he was a drug addict a meth addict same thing with the last first one I dated on this site I can honestly say the worst ones are on the free site so if they don't have to pay for a membership for the dating app I would highly recommend to stay off of that site because anybody that is a blood-sucking fiends is not going to pay for a dating website lesson learned never ever ever again I just talked texted all of this so if it looks funny that is why good luck everybody stay the hell away from POF

I created a profile with a lengthy well thought out dialog. Browsed the sight for an hour and then "Please Log In". Come to find out the account was deleted. Registered a second time with the same email and username and the same thing browse for an hour and then "Please Log In" the account was deleted for a second time. There are thousands of negative reviews with deleted accounts and people that paid to "Upgraded" and had their account deleted essentially stealing their money. So if they create another account then they have to pay again, only to have the profile deleted again. A huge Red Flag should be the lack of Customer Service emails or Phone numbers they are hard to find or are non existent. There is also race and age discrimination going on. Another thing is if you get blocked too many times they delete your profile. I browsed several profiles and sent no messages so I wonder if those women all just hit the block button causing a deleted profile. Stay away from POF their terms and rules are absurd, the deleting of profiles Is pathetic.
I read a review that said Markus the founder of POF gets paid 30 bucks each time someone registers, that's a great incentive to program the site to auto delete certain profiles. It seems a lot of online dating sites are using scam techniques and what's called scraping of other websites. That's why you see the same females on about every dating site available. I highly doubt that many ladies are going to sign up for 8 dating sites, it's more like one site gets scraped and the fake profiles get created. Also watch out when you register on certain websites like POF because there will be an option that says "By signing up for POF you agree to sign up for our partner websites" again shady. Really a lack of ethics and overall scumbag tactics. I also read that if you create your profile through your smart phone using Mobile Data (Not Wifi) then magically the profile does not get deleted.

You're better off in a bar... the women get on there then get their heads blown up and become immature rude $#*!es... they respond immediately then wanna respond back every ten min then try and act surprised when you call them a rude $#*!,. Even of you get their phone number they want you to wait weeks to get a date... 99% have little kids and no life... Then say their kids come first etc... the women treat it like online shopping... All long looking for Mr Right or soul mate etc. analyzing the hell out of my you... they got little kids their ugly and broke and so on and trying to be picky... then you got your mooching gold diggers... then you got your its their new Facebook...
Better off in a bar instead of dealing with deluded twats...