Plenty of FishReviews 2,006

I have been visiting POF for about six years. In the early years I dated and met a lot of women. Let me say I am NOT good looking. Just an average guy. Even some people might be cruel and say I am ugly. But no matter. In the early years women DID respond to messages. They DID read the profiles and they DID message first. At one time I had 38 unread messages in my inbox. This was about 2011. However, over the years the interest women have shown has declined. That said, even back as 2014, I was still receiving messages (different profile). Not as many as in 2011, but I was going on dates. But all this good stuff has now ended. In 2016 I have had six new profiles. No messages. No replies. And obviously no dates. With each new profile I felt I was invisible. And I probably am. No disrespect to the women on there, but I have even messaged the fat ugly ones and still no replies. Only 9 profile views over six profiles, over 11 months. It's not just POF. Oasis, OKCupid are also DEAD. I put this down to there being far too many scammers, fake men's profiles and of course the women are far too picky. Arrogant and won't even look at the profiles never mind message back. POF, RIP.

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ZIPPO in terms of customer service; no acknowledgement of emails; no acknowledgement of complaints; entirely slanted, biased and double standard moderation (against men); and idiotic for-pay features such as "Meet Me" & and the new even more assine feature of 'Super Meet Me' surely designed to make those rejected even angrier as they expect people to PAY for Super Meet Me's. One would be better off to save their money, NEVER upgrade and use an escort service instead.

I was on POF for years, on and off. Met my fair share of guys. Most were awful, but I never gave up! I met my very best male friend on POF! Even though nothing ever happened romantically between us, we have an incredible friendship! I thought I was lucky to find such an incredible friendship, especially on POF!... Cut to years later, I sent a guy a message. His profile matched what I was looking for and we started talking. Not too long after that, we met in person. It was pretty much love at first site and I was definitely swept off my feet. We have been together just over a year now and I can't imagine my life without him. We are to be married in August 2017. Never in my life did I think I'd find my husband online, let alone on POF. I'm extremely glad that I stuck with it and gave POF one more chance when I just wanted to delete my profile. I have never been happy. It's all because of POF that I met and fell in love with my husband to be! If you're thinking about giving up, don't. Even just one more chance on POF is all you may need to fall in love like we did.

I helped my mom sign up--she's almost 80, but she's lonely so why not?--just a skeleton kind of profile to get her started, her picture, and I told her she could write her own profile, whatever she wanted, at her leisure. Less than an hour later her profile was ENTIRELY DELETED! No explanation, gone! I thought it was some error so we created a new one, had to pick ANOTHER user name, used the same photo from her bday party, her and my brother but very clearly HER!, and AGAIN it got deleted! She emailed them, got a generic reply that they "can't answer every email" and nothing since. She's alone and lonely and I'll NEVER convince her to do this--she's humiliated! POF SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEIR BLATANT, UNAPOLOGETIC AGISM AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE ELDERLY!

Beware of user name "blackerthanblackkk" from he's a scammer, user, manipulates multiple women on the site, claims to be looking for relationship but sweet talks women, sleeps with them, then block them and goes back on the site a repeats the same disgusting pattern. 99% of theses guys on there got ex issues, crackheads, just looking to blow off a load. This site should be called "plenty of hook ups"! You pay for what you get. Free=trash!

Too many women posting FAKE PICS they found on the internet. I use TinEye to detect and then report them, yet they stay up for days. And this site wants my money? Get serious.

And POF shows people as being online for some time after they have logged off, up to 30 minutes in one test I did. Most dating sites do this, to make it look like lots of people are using the site and therefore so should you. Technically this became CONSUMER FRAUD once POF started asking people to upgrade to paid memberships. But the internet is still the wild west so anything goes.

The POF site and app do have some good qualities, but there's just TOO MANY DUDES competing for the few real women on there. I'd like to see them give more serious benefits for those who upgrade to a paid membership, like putting your message at the top of the heap. As it stands now, there will be dozens of non-paying dudes sending messages and it's a lottery as to whether yours will ever be seen, even if you pay for upgrade.

I was under the impression that a membership was $10 and when I put in my credit card lo and behold it charge me $81.40 3 hours later when I noticed it I tried to cancel and they said I can't cancel but they can downgrade me and give me half of my money back if you're reading this stay away from this site it's useless it's worthless is nothing but a money scheme to steal your money and show you hookers and prostitutes no real people hardly are on here I would love to give this site a -10 Buffalo as it goes this one

I was on this site a while, and I've been on dates with some strange men, however I waited and waited and just as I was about to give up, I met this most normal, genuine perfect guy! I didn't think people existed like that never mind on POF... We are now engaged moving in and setting a date for our big day. We just clicked.
I definatly say you need to be careful with who you talk to and who you meet but that isn't pofs fault. Weird people will find a away to get on any site, so that is your responsibility to be safe. So for something that is just internet based and many people can take it for granted, it means so much to me, because if it wasn't for pof I wouldn't of met my soul mate and best friend as neither of us go out or drink to meet new people ect... he also searched me using the advanced search so was a perfect match maker! So thankyou pof!