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Plenty of Fish

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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.

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returns
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Louisiana
1 review
22 helpful votes
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Have met a few guys on here. Met three in public. One was a good woman user. Slept with anything that moved. Second one was a woman user also. Had an arrest record longer than the Mississippi River. Third one was married supposedly getting a divorce. Wanting to have sex. But, never had time to call or text me. Lies and more lies. Users and verbal abuser. I'm not sure how this dating site allows people like they have on that site. Meet your mate in church or mutual friends.

Date of experience: August 17, 2015
Florida
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
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THIS REVIEW IS FOR POF plenty of fish. I am a hopefull romantic and would like everyone to at least have a chance to meet the girl of there dreams that said it is not easy or instatanous but at least there is a good chance here I have a heart of gold and hope Cupid hits you square in the $#*! on POF you will talk to real people meet real people have a lot of interaction and get your money worth l have been on and off this site for 2 years now and just when you don't expect it BOOM here she comes the girl that IS perfect for you and I just found her lucky me finally this site is user friendly and easy to navigate and has many real people looking for love but again I had had many dates made some friends and met some to use the word strange people sex was pretty well available which is cool if you want while searching for that right person Lord knows POF has a large membership and seems more and more all the time give yourself the chance to meet your expectations whether it be just conversation on the site dating or having sex or hopefully the ultimate and finding the girl of your dreams this is the premier site to be on if you have any questions I am always available to help with your profile individual questions on how to land that girl and anything else so good fishing and luck on plenty of fish

Date of experience: August 16, 2015
Louisiana
3 reviews
232 helpful votes
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With POF, you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel. This site is, by a large margin, the absolute worst dating site. The girls on this site (yeah, I call them girls because to call them women is absolute ludicrous... they're simply immature little girls.) are very picky and judgmental, not to mention uneducated, yet they expect us as men to simply accept them for who they are. They all have these insane expectations and basically a grocery list of traits that they require in their ideal match. Like any other dating site though, they mainly are on there for egotistical purposes, especially the really "attractive" ones... I put attractive in quotes because they cake themselves in tons of makeup before proceeding to have a little selfie session. Anyway, most of 'em don't even take the time to read your "About Me" summary. They just skim through your photos & if they like what they see, they'll shoot you a "Hey" vibe, if not, it's simply an 'On to the Next One' thing for 'em. I've had plenty of women hit on me here in real life, but on POF, I must be Frankenstein's monster or something in the eyes of that lot. The real honest and genuine men (who they're all supposedly looking for) are the ones who are always given the cold shoulder. So coming straight from the heart, if you're a guy, don't sign up unless you have Channing Tatum looks along with a Warren Buffett bank account. As for me, I'm signing off of online dating permanently.

Happy Fishing

Date of experience: August 15, 2015
California
1 review
66 helpful votes
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This site is the worst there is, the worst there was and the worst there ever will be. The women on this site are double dippers have both FSF and FSM profiles. Their are women on this site who are Bisexual and are looking for someone to sleep with either them or their man regardess of gender. Sharing is not caring in my book! If you have to add a third party to your relationship to fix things hell just break up now. You got women on this site with kids who want a compnion because "Baby Daddy" ran off and doesn't pay the bills so they look for you to graciously pick up the tab. There are naked picture shares on this site that just randomly send you a picture of their naked anatomy. You have women on this site who are Bipolar, Borderline Personality Disorder, Anxiety Disorders and mental health issues that havent yet been named. The women are either married or seperated and lie about being single. Most of the women on this site want to push you into a relationship after talking just once on the phone. They "need" you ( finacially) they dont want you. So if your looking to be needed and not wanted this is the site for you.

Date of experience: August 14, 2015
Washington
1 review
45 helpful votes
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No customer service
August 11, 2015

Why is my basic an advance search restricted too 38-66 yr women?. Also have e-mail 6 times in one for pof to fix problem, no response? I am a upgrade member paid $45.00 for 3 months

Date of experience: August 11, 2015
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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POF is a poorly designed website that is interested in having you pay more, but get less. The various upgrades don't give you anything that is useful. For example, I would like to eliminate the men I have reviewed and am not interested in. But even if you eliminate them in one area of the site, they still appear in other areas. So you are continually confronted with people you simply don't want to see--and are repeatedly asked, in the meetme section, "do you want to meet him"? And have to again eliminate that person. And next day, there he is again in the meetme section: "do you want to meet him"?

As well, POF does falsely bill. I have had that happen to me. When I told them to correct their error they said it would take up to 10 days to do so (it took 2 seconds to make the billing). To date, 14 days after the error was made, POF has yet to respond to repeated email demands to refund my money. Now I will have to call VISA and get the charge reversed.

I have 60 days of an upgraded membership, but I would not say that I have seen anyone new after the first several days. Upgrading did nothing for me.

Date of experience: August 11, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
73 helpful votes
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This site is full of delusional women who think they're such a gift to men. Most of these women are damaged goods, and then they expect a man to really settle down with a borderline mental case. I've talked to several women with delusions of grandeur, and from my experiences where I always end contact it seems to be the best thing as I've probably avoided a world of trouble.

Date of experience: August 9, 2015
GB
1 review
22 helpful votes
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I joined early April and quite quickly got talking to one man who seemed nice. Within two weeks he moved in as was boarding in a run down pub/hotel. Refused to contribute to home or work involved with home. He drank Stella every day, brandy, wine or anything he could get his hand on... or my money to purchase alchohol. I tried to help him, talk to him to make changes this made him very aggressive and nasty. Thankfully the relationship is over now... I was left called all names under the sun, beaten £1000's out of pocket and his belongings which look like a car boot stall that have clearly been carried from one "girlfriends" home to the next. He has six children around the country he doesn't have any contact with yet I'm the rat! Among other things he called me as he left. Lovely man. Never again. Dating sites need warnings for these people:-(

Date of experience: August 9, 2015
California
1 review
45 helpful votes
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This site is totally scam. It charges your credit card without any authorization. Make sure steer away from this guys!

Date of experience: August 9, 2015
Illinois
1 review
61 helpful votes
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Bogus dating site
August 9, 2015

POF is way overrated everything I read about it is one and a half to two stars only for being such a great FREE dating site I know they have to be favored in the paid members I'm not going to pay to find out however I only gotten one chat in over a year I've had several married women that I know check my profile there's nothing wrong with it other than I will not post my possessions and that's the other thing NOT ALL women at least the women have more tech than other dating sites that one on POF ask me my penis size. Lol. I'm sorry to say they fish for the money at least what I have coming to find out I am not that bad looking I'm pretty cute I'm told by many women however I don't want to date in my inner circle I want to date outside my circle that's why I even use a dating site again I've heard nothing but bad about POF if so many people are getting married on POF I have not met one married coupel as many as they claim gets married from their site surely you would run into one? Good luck

Date of experience: August 8, 2015
Illinois
1 review
42 helpful votes
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Beware of POF!
August 9, 2015

I created a profile on POF one week ago after it was recommended by a friend. Today I opened the app and was surprised to see that I needed to login. I was even more surprised to find that I was unable to login because I was told that my email address wasn't "real" I tried the helps but I have to login to to get help! This has been a circle of frustration! The site is closed to me and with no way of addressing the problem I can either create an entirely new profile or delete the site altogether. I deleted the app! Too much trouble!

Date of experience: August 8, 2015
Minnesota
1 review
12 helpful votes
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The men on here are looking for a hook up, or someone to baby them, they are not looking for what their profile states. I have never meet so many shallow men and even coming from the ones that are far from fit themselves. I have been on this site for several years. It's not worth my self esteem to waste anymore engry on this site anymore.

Date of experience: August 7, 2015
New Hampshire
1 review
40 helpful votes
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UX/UI design :P
August 6, 2015

The "user experience" and interface design of POF is terrible and hasn't been updated in YEARS. This makes it unpleasant to "discover" and review new profiles. As a result, POF appears to attract less sophisticated users. Their design approach has created a set of users that I - as a creative and educated person - find unappealing. (I sound like an axxhole but - you know - when your looking for a life partner...)

POF design is turning off the very personality types that I am seek for a partner.

I implored them to hire a user experience designer and try to compete with the other sites frequent upgrades in service and experience, attract a more sophisticated set and (if I'm unlucky) I'll check back in a year and see if anything has changed.

Date of experience: August 6, 2015
GB
2 reviews
94 helpful votes
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VERY AVERAGE LOOKING WOMEN LOOKING FOR MEN WITH HOLLYWOOD LOOKS, VENICE BEACH BODIES, AND BILL GATES MONEY!

AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!

Date of experience: August 4, 2015
Kansas
1 review
30 helpful votes
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If you want a "decent" or good quality man or woman you are better off meeting them in person or having known them in person over time. I have met two men off of this site who have blatantly lied about their personal lives, both were ex-cons and for very serious crimes and were literally homeless, no cars no employment... One of these men had almost cost me my life because of his actions, and I am still paying for it today. The other three men that I have contacted off of that site had extreme "women" issues, or trust issues involving women. Just very guarded, jaded, and cynical as if to keep their reason for commitment issues justified. No thanks.

My point is, POF attracts very low caliber and quality type of people, which makes it much more difficult for people that are actually serious and genuine about finding a lasting relationship online that much more difficult. Women be very careful with these types of men on here, because many of them are looking to take advantage if possible. Just to reinstate meet in public places, tell people where you are going to be, and don't "hang out" or "chill" at someone's house that you just met. I know it might seem like common sense, but I've even witnessed some of my female friends fail to do these simple things and run into very close calls because of it.

It's not necessarily the site that's negative, again it's the people that make it negative. But this site has been nothing but trouble for me and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is looking for something serious or long term.

Date of experience: August 3, 2015
GB
2 reviews
62 helpful votes
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If your not an honest guy, troll them they deserve no better. Unread, but you've changed your profile pic, you obviously have the hide profile and have looked and weren't happy, fair one delete the message then. Unread deleted ouch, but ok, so your still on weeks later, searching for the impossible. Read and no responce get use to this one!

I'm very laid back, i have lots of patience, but this site even pissed me off

You read the profiles and its contradicting, longest relationships lasting a year? Hmmmm ok, bin in a relationship for 8yr and your 22 hmmmmm? Dont take drugs well iv spoke to ya and you do hmmmmm? They say dont like the same message when you have nothing written in your profile and you've sent 100s of messages to others, what else is there to put, it gets frustrating spending time and effort for whats going to be read deleted.

Dont waste your time on this site it just pisses you off and makes you lose your soul and time

Date of experience: August 2, 2015
Minnesota
8 reviews
108 helpful votes
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I am rating this site from a males point of view. A huge majority of the females on this site are here for a reason. You notice it in their headlines and profiles, complaining, gripping, moaning. They want you to buy them things even to get a few seconds of their time. That itself shows your not worth anything, only your wallet is worth something. If you don't look a certain way the real women won't respond, and the ones that are real have nothing special about them to start with. They think their special just because they are females.

I never gave this site my credit card or debit card numbers, because of fraud reasons. You hear of it happening all the time. To sum everything up, just look out for dating and social sites all together! Good luck, if you are going to use them.

Date of experience: July 31, 2015
New Jersey
2 reviews
36 helpful votes
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Beware
July 29, 2015

Most men on Pof married involved, nothing but sex offers really low class people, try another dating site here its mostly desperate sex stalkers. Protect yourself please.

Date of experience: July 29, 2015
Virginia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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He is a fraud and will catfish you. I know several women he has done this to. Be very careful. On another note, POF is the worst dating site ever. It attracts a poor quality of men.

Date of experience: July 28, 2015
California
2 reviews
19 helpful votes
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The crappiest dating site out there unless you're looking for catfish, trolls, psychopaths or someone who is about to get out of jail in 5 months
And it doesn't get any better when you subscribe so you might as well delete your profile all together or dont make one with this site at all

Date of experience: July 27, 2015