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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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Arizona
1 review
19 helpful votes
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This website is a FRAUD
September 30, 2014

This website is a FRAUD. FAKE profiles. CATFISHING galore! They stole my pics and info from my website to create a fake profile. I have attempted to contact them to get my pics removed but NO RESPONSE. BEWARE USERS! What you are seeing on line is NOT what you are getting. USING MY STOLEN PICS!

Date of experience: September 29, 2014
Iowa
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I couldn't even start a profile. I feel no need for that dumb website to know if my parents are still together, and its mandatory at sign up! WTF?! I'm not telling some website or any website everything about me. Especially things no one needs to know. Its overly intrusive and pisses me off.

Date of experience: September 29, 2014
Virginia
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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**(UPDATE)
September 19, 2014

**(UPDATE)- upon further investigation, I have made a mistake. Normally I use my mobile phone and mobile app to serach, but when I used my computer. All different kinds of search queries (ladies) as I put in all different kinds of metrics. I was NOT limited in body type at all. I apologize to POF. Perhaps for moblie use it has something to do with phone/app settings.

**(Original post. Not applicable)**
I did some advance searching on POP and found that most female users are all a" few extra pounds", "BBW", "prefer not say" (code for bigger). I selected "thin", "athletic", and"average" all with in a 150 mile radius of Los Angeles. None of the other metrics mattered! I tweaked them all... but when I selected "few extra pounds", "BBW", "Prefer not to say", data/women showed up in my search query. I don't have a problem per say with larger ladies but I think POF should market as such. For many it will waste their time..

Date of experience: September 17, 2014
Illinois
4 reviews
11 helpful votes
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Plenty of fish allows people to find someone local and it is good. But the bad thing is that you have to wait for a response for a long time. It really makes me sad, when you meet someone in public place, it is much easier to find common ground and chum up. From the other side, a lot people found their second half, it gives me a hope and giving another chance to this dating website.

Date of experience: September 11, 2014
GB
1 review
14 helpful votes
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I joined this site thinking it was normal and had the shock of my life.
This site and perverted site allows FULL FRONTAL PENIS SHOTS THAT ARE ERECT!
Perhaps they enjoy looking at ERECT PENIS in their head office in the USA.
But in England it is illegal!

The owner of this site does not care what the content is as he makes lots of money from all the advertising that is placed on his site. That is why the site is free.

This site is full of sick men that are wanna be male prostitutes that cannot obtain any business in reality to supplement their dole money.

They say the women are bad. But believe me their is only a small handful of women that use sexy photographs and personally. I would rather see a pretty girl in a sexy shot then a repulsive BLOW UP PENIS SHOT. Which is very off putting.

Most of the people on this site are just desperate for any kind of email contact. That are not interested in reality i. E. speaking to you on the telephone and just want to collect photoraphs of females to PERVE OVER!

KEEP AWAY FROM THIS SICK SITE FULL OF REPULSIVE AND SICK PEOPLE ON MEDICATION!

THE OWNER OF THIS SITE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF. I understand that the programme 'DINNER DATE' uses this site to obtain single people.
DO THEY USE THE OBSCENE PHOTOGRAPHS TO PICK THEIR CONTESTANTS. I WONDER?

Date of experience: September 11, 2014
Nevada
43 reviews
213 helpful votes
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Plenty of Fish deleted my account for no reason. My profile was perfect. I posted 3 updated nice pictures of myself. I said I am a single woman looking to meet a nice guy to marry. I was on the site for about 2 weeks and I received about 90 emails. I was in the middle of answering them and then Plenty of Fish deleted my account and won't allow me to log in. I'm very hurt as I didn't do anything wrong. I just wanted to meet a nice guy. Plenty of fish also did not allow me to log in and delete my photos and they have no appeal process. This is a bad dating site. Don't join them.

Date of experience: September 7, 2014
New Hampshire
1 review
16 helpful votes
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This site is only good if you want sex with a bunch of strangers. Some moron sent me a picture of his thing. Really if thats all you want get a hooker. Totall waste of time, I closed my account after 3 weeks. Don't waste your time!

Date of experience: September 4, 2014
Washington
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Good sight you can have basic services for free yes including communication. Nice to see a sight that isn't all about the money. Would like them to have a little cheaper membership available it is right to pay something for there service. Thanks pof for your service it is interesting.

Date of experience: August 29, 2014
Virginia
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Why is it that POF continues to let men put up profiles that have used their site to meet women with children or granddaugthers for their own gratification? I met a man on POF and we moved in together. In the time we lived together he kept insisting my granddaughter come stay with us. I found out exactly why he wanted this to go on. When I confronted him he broke my arm? Our case is currently in police hands but when I was searching the profiles there he was again. He has used someone else's photos but it is him and he says he is in Minnesota when in actuality he is in Virginia. They use to have a testimonial section so at least other women could be warned about a man like this but now it is gone most likely because women warned other women about men like this. While POF continues to let him have a profile he can continue to do what he has done in the past. They are enabling him to find women and they share some of the responsibility for what he does when they have been made aware of the situation. Can a dating site be held liable for enabling a man like this?

Date of experience: August 26, 2014
South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Date of experience: August 22, 2014
Washington
1 review
42 helpful votes
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Pof is terrible, woman prostitute selfs and when u report u get deleted. This site is full of whores and gold diggers. Meet 2 woman in 10 years that were cool. If you cant find a sucker on the street there not on pof. Done i think real woman are on street. Whores, and gold diggers is all pof... use to be awesome.

Date of experience: August 22, 2014
California
1 review
49 helpful votes
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I visited the website recently in order to look at profiles of women that met my filters. I cancelled my account two years ago. I was amazed that about 95% of the profiles I was given were of the same losers I saw online two years ago. And I mean seriously stupid, broke, arrogant losers. All an informed consumer has to do is look at the ratings. Two-thirds are ONE star. The guy who runs the site gives women privileges that are not accorded men and doesn't respond if you write him an email saying you got a DEATH THREAT. He has an arbitrary age separation rule i. E., 15 years difference and you can't even write. Who elected this guy emperor anyhow? I had very good success on OkCupid, Match, and Zoosk. After 3 years on POF I had dates with two psychos that were on heavy head meds. Caveat emptor!

Date of experience: August 22, 2014
GB
2 reviews
34 helpful votes
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I can pick up women in public places without any trouble but you never get any replies from women on POF so they must be dormant accounts or shills. Even elderly MILFS dont reply and they have saggy wrinkly funbags so should be up for it but theyre not.
Its a waste of time and trashed my account as theres no way to delete it

Date of experience: August 19, 2014
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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I have used POF for a couple of months. They built up their membership and name brand when it was truly free, and now they are milking it. Sure you can set up a profile and message people for free. But you won't see their entire profile or know if you have contacted them before unless you upgrade to a paid membership. Even badoo gives away better functionality for free. Plus the layout is a mess. POF is a very bad value, whether you use it for free or pay to upgrade your membership.

Date of experience: August 15, 2014
California
1 review
12 helpful votes
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So far I've met 0 people on POF. When I first started using POF nobody ever message me back. Now they do, but I never been successful to ever meeting someone. I know I am a good person by heart and attitude. That is what my coworkers tell me. I've always been a respectful person, whenever it is on POF or outside of POF. I just don't understand why nobody in POF is interested in me. I need help.

Date of experience: August 14, 2014
GB
1 review
11 helpful votes
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The website absolutely rubbish I had to register a few times, when I was trying to log in after a few day keep saying tour email address is not in our database, and a lot of time waster are there most of them are married or have partner and there a lot of loser.
Website rubbish

Date of experience: August 12, 2014
Utah
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Glorified Meat Market... if you just want to hook up with a man who has a 2 word vocabulary or less... Hi, Your beautiful, Your hot, Howdy, Your Sexy... then this is your baby. Just a hookup sex site. If your looking for a serious, respectful, honest relationship then go elsewhere.

Date of experience: August 11, 2014
Canada
1 review
13 helpful votes
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The worst dating site ever. My profile was deleted four times in three days without any reason.
I tried to contact customer support - no response. Better read "Terms of service" before you will give away your credit card information. One star is too generous for this crap.

Date of experience: August 9, 2014
Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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It didnt take me long to meet my love on pof. We are currently engaged and im pregnant with our first bby. If it wasnt for pof im sure wev would have never meet.

Date of experience: August 9, 2014
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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It's feee because it is shockingly bad.
Firstly, site moderation. There is none. You get it all in here. Photos of cats, dogs, cars and stuff for sale but not real pics of single people. Women tell me that most men just post a pic of their dangle. You'll get men dressed as women. All the clues are there in the picture. The big hands, the Adams Apple and in the backgriund a wedding pic of them with their wife. Then the most obvious clue is in their profile where it says "I'm a man who likes dressing up as a woman". You don't have to be Columbo to come to a conclusion however tPoF seems to struggle to compute that one.

Customer service. There is none. Well when I say none there might actually be one person though I think their job is to delete all the emails that come in from angry customers. The payment system works fine though. Funny that. If you need help you'd be better of writing to Justin Beiber to get a satisfactory result.

Matching. From what I can work out if anyone else is registered on the site then the programme sees them as a match for you. So if your Jane in a London looking for a man within 20 miles expect to find yourself matched to a used canoe that's for sale in Oaklahoma.

Apart from that the site's great. Actually, no it isn't. It's awful. It's a sewer. Imagine a prison with no wardens and that's PoF for you.

Date of experience: August 9, 2014