Plenty of FishReviews 2,006

I have been on this site a couple of times. The first time a couple of years agowas ok and I met a few genuine men, although there was a sleazy element.

My experience this time round however is completely different. This site has now become a forum for sexual grooming. There are many attractive, articulate, well educated men on this site with excellent profiles saying that they are seeking a relationship but when you dig a little deeper or have a few dates with them you realise that they are grooming women for sexual purposes.

I rarely write reviews but I feel emotionally drained and feel that unsuspecting women are very vulnerable on this site. I just want to warn other ladies what they are up against.

I've met a handful of awesome guys and boat loads of chumps (yes in person). The interesting ones never wanted to commit longer than a few months; from my experience they never deleted their accounts (or stopped talking to their exs)after we'd meet, and continued to communicate with other "fish" while we were in the pre commitment phase. Ultimately each one found someone else. The chumps... well at least I have hilarious stories to tell. I believe when there is so much to choose from people tend to find it easier not to make a serious decision at all.

1/100 messages sent say hi to women were completely ignored, the one girl started talking but then stopped when I got serious about asking what her main goal/hobby is, fuk that pissed me off badly I almost broke my phone then pissed my dad off about how women don't have a clue what a real man is ect. He did agree btw a real man want love not a quick std, I hate being ignored especially 99 times with sluts I mean girls that don't reply to a happy new year message or how are you, I did have two women that approached me first but they were larger then life so I messaged them back saying thank you for noticing me but I don't think we are matched good luck x, the way I was raised was to be polite and friendly, what a bunch of no life sluts on there, I'm glad no one responded as Im way to big of a catch for them to handle. Pof kiss my $#*!

I decided to try POF to possibly start a serious relationship. Bad idea! Most of the guys on there are looking for a one night stand. A lot of the messages I got were from horny guys asking if I wanted "D" pics and trying to meet up for sex. I even wrote on my profile that I'm not interested in sex until marriage, but I guess they think I'll make an exception for them. I even got blocked by a guy because I told him I wasn't going to do foreplay with him. Even when you look at their bios most of the guys say they're not looking to commit. That's because they just wanna sleep with you! There were even men looking for women to have threesomes with. The rest of the profiles that sound too good to be true, usually are.

Going to hell would be like being a male perpetually stuck on POF begging ladies for a chance to possibly meet them so you could apologize for not being young enough, tall enough, wealthy enough, powerful enough, good enough dancer, golfer, or anything else that each one of them are entitled to have chase after them.
I do not have anything against the site itself. What I do not understand is through life, ladies i have encountered in so many aspects of life, treat me with respect and general courtesy. Why then on POF am I ignored, deceived, lied to, by profiles that state they are thoughtful, sincere, and want the same in a man. I'd love to get fortunate and turn my back on this crappy experience of just never being good enough for the princesses of POF.

Hi yes I have a very unpleasant question?
I originally paid £39/99 which according to my bank account was taken by FESTIVUS name unknown to me. And within a short few hours after that ' someone' took a further £ 51 GB POUNDS AND ALSO ANOTHER PAYMENT OF £7/99? PAY PAL took the 51 amount and a name unknown to me took 39/99 and the 7/99 separately in addition to my initial payment of 39/99? All this results for me in 3 big red flags of something not right? Therefore, albeit your site seems fair and well organised, something is seriously amiss here regarding 2 additional, non authorised by me payments.
I have now informed my bank and they are looking into all these 3 payments due to confusing payments with names and 2 unauthorised payments! The only payment I did authorise was for 39/99 and my bank advised disputing that one also, due to incorrect name of recipient of payment! So,
Please inform me of any new information you discover re this confusion. Thanks Merry Christmas, Michael...

This dating site seems to be filled with fakes. Not only have I experienced this, but also others I have spoken with. They usually start out, "looking for a relationship " when in reality they are looking to hook up with no serious intentions. Beware the "sucessful", handsome, athletic (Aka, gym rat), who drives a luxury vehicle. There is a reason a 40 something year old man (never married) is on dating sites. NEVER MARRIED, big red flag. Why do you think that is?!? Um, can you say, "personality disorder?" Haha. Scary.

I was attracted to the "zero tollerance policy" against married users, under-age, scammers, nudity, overtly sexual approaches etc... it seemed to guarantee a higher standard of user and provide some safeguards against scammers... I paid for an upgraded account, but I was disappointed... Fake profiles... Scammers... Inactive profiles from 1947days!

It seems that the "zero tolerance policy" is self policing by the community with the "rate images" function the users are invited to approve or delete the photographs of other users, which suggests that they are not reviewed by POF at all... I don't know...

My main frustration was with customer support which is robotic and when eventually they do answer it is unhelpful. Queries about payments took 13 days to receive a standard response. They seem to have an automated response to all queries - the deletion of account and a refund... Very impersonal. No evidence of real people reading and responding to your query.

I reported a scammer, with evidence of real identity of person on the photo, This resulted in the deletion of my account!? Maybe the scammer realised that I had rumbled him and he had my profile deleted? That's ok! Saved me the trouble... LOL! I would not recommend the site all in all...

If you do use this site, I would recommend that when you like someone to move communication to email or chat because your or their account could disappear at any time!

Just like many reviews on here state, it's not a real dating site. Most men put that they're looking for a relationship but in reality they are looking for hookups. Some men have even lied about having children. What kind of person lies about their own children?! Disgusting. Even found out one user not only has a pof account claiming to be looking for a relationship but he also has a bunch of profiles on sex sites. Gross! Ladies beware of Misterme812. Keep a look out for these as well, MistermeOR, Misterme81, and Misterme8123. All the same person with multiple accounts.