Plenty of FishReviews 2,006

I see that most of the negative reviews come from men - for me the experience has been pleasant.
I joined in June. Yes, it's free - Truly free and I like the compatibility tests (although no one is required to complete them).
I have met 3 really nice guys - they have really good jobs and great personalities and although 1 was just "not for me" I have held on to the other 2 and REALLY like both of them!
True, there are some perverts and creeps on the site but aren't those types everywhere? Be sure to read all profiles before responding to messages and always trust your gut!
All in all, I like POF and suggest you give it a shot.
Oh AND I heard Patty Stanger (Millionaire Matchmaker) met her fiance on POF (she was on Steve Harvey recently - saw the interview myself)

I have used the site before and met some really nice ladies. Of course there are all kinds of people on the site. You have to sort out the good people from the bad and the normal people from the rest.

I have heard of horror stories with people, using other peoples pictures or really old pictures. So much different that you don't even recognize them when you meet each other.
( I haven't had that happen to me, so far. Lol)

Site is discriminatory. My profile was pirated twice. Many profiles are fake. In relating to the men as I am female, I notice one man has become younger, his employment is untrue. He writes his kids are his world yet he rarely sees them or has no contact with them at all and it is in my suspicion as many men, has many many others he stakes no claim which is amazes me. He was awarded a 2 million dollars and like my like my ex-husband in past also experienced a several law suits to which he pissed thru sizable amounts in no time which is really a way to payout for their LOST!

As a man's perspective I was on this site few times, this site is free and the quality of women in it are very cheap, meanings, I am a very good looking guy if I go anywhere I could possibly get a date or hook up with whom I like, since I don't go out much and because I am busy I have decided to get on a site like this. The women in it are looking for the guys that have money, nice house, nice car and you got to look like a model, even though they are fat asses ugly more of a lower class with kids! The first question they ask you what do you do for living before they get to know your name, they're looking for a guy to support them even though their ugly and fat! Lots of them they hide their body and show their faces only, they love to surprise you with their ugliness when it comes to the date meeting, other than they are hookers asking to get paid in a way of buying them things and possibly paying their rent. On the other hand, they don't want you to post shirtless picture but its ok for them to show boobs and $#*! lips on their profile pictures and posting just looking for friends nothing more! End of line this site is $#*!ed up. If your Horney save your headache go to a bar pick a whore, or rather use your hand

Registered ok, then the next time I couldn't log in and they kept saying my email wasnt on their database. Finally contacted them and they said they had closed my account and any attempt to rejoin would be detected (as if I would want to after the shoddy treatment!) No explanations from them they say they will not say why they closed account. I certainly didn't violate any of their T and C's or was rude to any other members, so who knows. Really unprofessional responses from them though so I definitely would not recommend!

I would not recommend POF to anyone for online dating. The interface is very slow. I don't understand what kind of software engineers they have hired. Lot of bugs. I am myself a software guy and can tell this site sucks big time. I can make such site or app in 2-3 days myself.
Try skout, datehookup. They are much better.
One issue me and my friend faced is that when we try to approach a girl, if she is not interested and would just block you. If u get any 2-3 suck blocks against you your account is deleted. I mean what the f. They got completely stupid policies. Too much female oriented. I think they should rather make it a homosexual (actually lesbian)dating site, only for women so that nobody would mind from anyone. And atleast guys ego and respect can be saved. I faced this problem two times when I got my account deleted. I never misbehaved, abused anyone. Still they deleted the account then I think the creators themselves have never ever dated. There algorithm is itself incorrect which finds your matches exactly opposite to what you are looking for. I mean c'mon guys are you some school students trying some hands on project and playing with people. I wish I could give it a 0 star. People, there are much better sites out there, please don't stuck yourself into this foolish site.

Thanks,
Rahul

This site used to be pretty good to work with but now it's complete crap. The site is slowly taking away free things and making them available only by paying a subscription. The whole point of the site was to offer a free place to look for someone and slowly it's turning into a pay site one piece at a time. I can't even check to see who I sent mail to, which was something I used to make sure I don't sent more than one letter to the same girl. Such a shame, I used to like this place...

My initial experience with this site was pretty good and I did talk to a couple of women, but there have been some draconian changes recently. When I try to do a search for women ages 18-35 years old, the search range automatically truncates to 35-38. I'm 45 years old but not really interested in dating divorced, older women with kids. For some reason they have deemed me unworthy of even communicating with younger women. It's making me paranoid. In the "help" section it even says something like "zero tolerance for rude messages -- if your account is deleted, you cannot ever sign up again". I'm still awaiting an explanation from customer service.

Do not use this site I was a member and they deleted my account so I tried to setup a new one they sent a registrationon email then wouldn't let me login and when I tried to have a new password sent my email was not in there database the same email that they just sent an email to it seems they pof will delete you profile if you're not the type of person they want on the sit i. E. if you're not looking to get married and if you're looking for anything else then they don't want you don't bother I have friends on pof that I can't contact now because I'm not what pof wants on the site find some other site pof is not worth it DO NOT USE IT

I'm not the most avid user of dating sites, however I knew plenty of people that admitted to having profiles on pof, so I thought the site must be on the level. Now I'm not going to rave about it or anything but it's definitely a legitimate site and I can profess to meeting some normal local girls though it. I think some people assume just because they have no messages, the site must be a scam filled with bots. You definitely need to be forceful and send plenty of (respectable) messages but there are real women who will eventually respond.
A lot of people use this site to hook-up, and while that's fine, I would recommend that you say you're looking for someone to date (or something more long-term) regardless of whether it's exactly true. This is because it seems most women regardless of what they're looking for are a bit hesitant to message someone who explicitly says they just want to hook-up. It makes sense why they would be cautious in this respect and it has the added benefit of making you seem less pervy.