Plenty of FishReviews 2,011

I have to give this site 5 stars because it is what it says it is. In the many months I've been on (and off) there, I never experienced any misleading gimmicks. Most of the features work (not an easy feat for a web browser based thing). I've met quite a number of really nice people through there. I think a lot of negative reviews are from people disappointed in their ability to get a date. As far as that goes, I'd give *myself* about 2 stars;-) The kind of girl I'm after doesn't need a dating site to attract men...

I was curious to try this site out. I'm a math major and numbers guy. I have heard from many people this site is "rigged" and has "many fake profiles". So my buddy and I decided to join and see what was up.

I'm not ugly whatsoever. (not to sound cocky) and don't have problems picking up women. Nor does my friend.

We created profiles then proceeded to send about 8-12 messages per week (each) to women. After 4 months. We averaged out of the 160 messages we sent to women, ONLY 6 responded. This is unreal.

What does this mean?

This means that POF is not updating their sites profiles. Profiles on the site are still showing up but are either, fake, non -active or have not been removed off the site itself. Ironically, out of the 160 messages we sent to women, only TWO showed up in the "who's viewed me" section. This means, NONE even read the e-mails we sent to them. Because if they did and "weren't interested" or "deleted" our messages. They would still show up as if they viewed our profiles.
POF makes it look like profiles are "online" when they really are not online. I also personally received 3 messages from women on the East Coast saying there profiles were showing up in Los Angeles, even though the NEVER put LA on there profile.

This means POF is purposely manipulating the amount of users in "your area" and the amount that are "online" when in reality they are not whatsoever. Many of the profiles seem to be abandoned and non -active.

POF is set up to purposely drive traffic to their site. Plain and simple. They need the advertising money. They depend on that for survival. Unlike Match.com, e-harmony etc. that make money from paid suscribers. POF has a very low paid subscription amount of users. They realize, people are leaving their site in droves and need the site traffic to make it look like there are more profiles than really exist.

POF is a Canadian ran company. NOT based here in the United States. So they bypass most laws by using peoples pictures without permission or consent.

All in all, POF is more of a marketing gimmick. Sure you nay "meet someone" or talk to someone from your area. But don't get your hopes up that you will find "the love of your life" on this site.

More than plenty of fish they could called this scam, fake dating site plenty of s**t.

Girls can take bikini's photos and if you guys are in a summer pic NO this forbidden, and you profile is trashed without warning. You must be clothed as a taliban's wife. I got my account deleted probably because I had a photo in which I am in the beach here a Cartagena. YES it is very naughty... Ridicouls

Another strange behaviour: There is a lot of fake photo and doubled profiles but the moderators don't care.

I wrote my profile in spanish, I am from Spain, but seems that sometime they deleted account if the language spoken is not english... very racist. This has occured at a friend of mine, with no photo, He only wrote (in spanish) that want to meet some girls. Full stop. And nothing more. They deleted his account.

P.s. Sorry for my bad english

Not sure yet if it's worth spending money on. I've emailed several and have had only two real replies. Most of the women are looking for a mate instead of a casual encounter. I've been on it for a while and had two really big gals wanting to meet but their profiles don't match at all, says they want a single guy and a relationship while I'm only looking for casual sex. They have finally let me show that I'm married, in the past if you select that in your profile they direct you to Ashley Madison which is very expensive to join. They don't have a real time chat either like AFF does which is free for all members to use. Pof let's you email for free but can't send pics. Can't post nudes either, only pics with your face in em, yuck! I've read a lot of reviews for different sites and it's hard to figure out which ones really work to hook up! I have tried several only to find they just want to drain your bank account! My wife and I are swingers and have been in the lifestyle a while so don't knock it till you've tried it, it's not for everyone! We love the lifestyle, very pleased with each other after 26 years and not afraid of someone running off with the other! Sex has been proven to keep us all healthy and that's really important to us older folks! So back to POF, after reading a few others here I think might give it a try, can't read full profiles and don't want to offend anyone sending out emails to hook up if they are not willing to! Don't mind spending a little money to have fun in the bed room but don't wanna get ripped off anymore either! To all of the people here with negative responses about POF, it takes practice no matter what you do in life, and to the ones that have meet someone you like, way to go, you must have done it right! If you read my profile you will get more info there but beware, it's adult content!

What a joke... Marcos is an $#*!. Never responds to questions from emails. I posted something in the forum. About someone who completeky flamed me. Asking what is the right process in dealing with that besides just blocking them. Suddenly. I have my permissions to post on the forum revoked for 5 years... insane. Of no response when I asked what the hell happened... the search function. Or who's online. Says there's thousands online. But if you will notice on everypage they r peat members over and over again... now u can't close you profile. Without upgrading. Have u ever heard anything so ridiculous. Hate it. No customer or hotline to cal..

Not a bad dating site. Most people on there seem legit. It a free site so you tend to encounter younger people in the 18-30 range. Most people seem to complain they can't get attractive girls to respond but I found with a decent profile picture I was getting what I considered a decent amount of responses. Found a really wonderful girlfriend on the site so I can't complain. Site layout can be confusing and overall I found it simpler to meet girls on POF and then move on to Facebook. But its not a bad place to meet new people if you don't mind weeding through things a bit.

I used to live in Canada, but I moved to the US. You cannot move to another country apparently with POF. I never did anything wrong, just moved. I recreated a profile with the same email address but in the US. My email address wouldn't show as valid so yesterday I emailed them. They told me they were not going to discuss it but I violated the terms and it appears I am a fraud. This was after me telling them I moved and my IP would tell them that. They told me I will always be blocked. I recreated a new profile on a new gmail address and I lasted 4 hours before being blocked. I even skipped the photo thing just in case. Obviously it is an IP thing. I am going to try hidemyass.com and create it so my IP is invisible. Why? They kinda got the market cornered, but this is crap. I really moved and did nothing wrong.

Joined it 7 years ago. I Had good experiences. The site is not brilliant but it was good. Speaking of now it is not good enough for anything. It was better before. Now they start forcing you to do their matching test and forcing you to do psychology test., forcing you to do what they think is correct to mach you with. Question set does not reflect every human - each individual has his own life and experiences. You cant judge people based on their income. (for matching off course)

Many years ago it had many more options now it s very limiting and frustrating! Not only that but there's nothing free that s worthwhile!

You find the profile of someone that you might be interested in, so you take he time to write a nice and pleasant message that probably took a few minutes to write and when you submitted it is rejected with some stupid explanation that gives you some lame excuse. Why not tell you this before you wasted your time?

The site is lame if ur not some hot guy with money nobody wants to chat ive been on the site 5 years an have only met a few off of it an that was after giving the women an fbook profile an they wound up turning in to psychos this site is for picky people who do not want a life they just want prettyness an money its all a bunch of crap an it has fake profiles all over it stay away they should have a deal where u have to make a salute if u create a profile on it

I am a female & was bombarded with disgusting & disrespectful men who treated me like I was a desperate whore who had to sleep with them because I was on the site. Mind you, the men were rude & yet my account was blocked I guess. It's gone & the last thing I did was report a man for using bogus pics so he could view women who require men yo have pics. I have emailed them to avail so now I am joining in on trying to bring them down. If you want to be disrespected then go for it but don't rebuttal anyone's rude messages or you'll be deleted for it no matter what the original response was. Markus wants the fake profiles not real women because the fake profules are the ones that make these men think they're going to get luck when in reality they don't have a chance with most women.