| Genre | Reviewers Male / Female | Recommend Yes / No | Number of Reviews | Quality of Singles | Accuracy of Profiles | Features, Service, Ease-of-Use | Overall Experience | Total Average Rating |
| General | 52 / 55 | 23 / 84 | 107 | 3.11 | 3.06 | 4.77 | 3.03 | 3.49 |
| Date Submitted: | August 21, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 5 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 2 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | I've half a mind to join PlentyOfFish And half a mind is what you'll need! The site is an ad-infested mess where you never find what you're looking for, and they push you around like sheep. One day I was told to reveal my salary or be disadvantaged on the site. A few days later, they make it MANDATORY to tell them about my longest relationship. When I didn't, I received this message: "You can not view or reply to messages until you update your relationship history below." and was barred from accessing my own profile or messages until I'd done as I was told! Sure there are a lot of people on the site. Think of other ghettos in the world that are very densely populated! I would have complained to customer services, but there is no way of contacting P O F that I can find. Even if you try to resign, they make you choose from their pathetic range of reasons for doing it rather than telling them the real reason. As for me, I swam off. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Peter 51 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: UK |
| Date Submitted: | July 7, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 5 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 4 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | Another take on POF I really resent when men say that ALL the women are subpar on POF. I happen to be above average in looks, I'm educated, I know how to cook and AM NOT FAT. I just started a business so I'm not bringing in too much money and I have a house so I don't have a lot of cash. This seems to irk men because now men are very superficial. After taking you out they think they need payback and I disagree with this. they don't think they should pay for anything because they are no longer men it seems to me. I like an ambitious guy who has a good job, is respectful, and takes care of himself.. and there is nothing wrong with that . Unfortunate ly most men I've met have been fat , cheap, alchoholics or other substance abusers or just don't like women. I think people should take a chance and go on the site..maybe they'll be lucky but unlikely. Comments [ 2 ] |
| Submitted by: | Alexxis 50 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Franklin Square..ny |
| Date Submitted: | July 4, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 8 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 8 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 9 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 8 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | Plenty of Fish is A GREAT SITE - really!! I have not found Mr. Right, but I can say that I have met some quality gentleman on POF and feel that it is a great place to find someone. I am an EE and getting my MS in IT. I have met successful business men, fellow engineers, doctors, lawyers, you name it. And one day I will meet Mr. Right and it very well might be on POF!!! Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Sherry 44 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Canton, Georgia, USA |
| Date Submitted: | June 25, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 4 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 10 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 3 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | Its free, of course there is another story to it, I used this site and came to realize that anyone who says is average is a fatty! I actually met someone and was the biggest disappointment!AVERAGE does not equal 200lbs! It was good to try it since is free, however I find most profiles to be really stupid, Just read some of the girl's profiles! its simple there is a reason why they are there! beware 1 out of 10 is a good find if your lucky, so don't expect wonders. Best bet, get some courage and find people out somewhere, Anyways, try it for yourself and find out if you want, its free anyways. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Truthis good 19 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: USA |
| Date Submitted: | June 24, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 5 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Markus is a masturbating computer geek in a corner I agree with most everything said here, especially the private investigator. Markus is on a power trip, probably for the first time in his pathetic little geeky life. He deletes pics and profiles with no warning or explanation. He doesnt return emails. I hope he gets what he deserves. What a worm. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | AzGurl 36 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: arizona |
| Date Submitted: | June 15, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 5 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 4 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | POF Stinks Most women are married.Member told me most of her married friends are on it.Just a place for married women to play games and chat with each other.old pictures.Very stuckup women.As soon as you ask to meet your eather deleted or emails go unread.Guy's it is a complete waist of time.By the way if your wondering I am an ok looking guy with nice body and a good job!I meet women all the time but none that interest me.Thats why I tried the site.What a joke. Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | Bill 47 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: tamaqua |
| Date Submitted: | June 10, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 5 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 9 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 8 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 10 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | POF OK I have been on POF for about a month and in the Chicago area its good. I have been contacted and been out with 4 different dates and find no scam of any sort with this site in this area. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Scot 51 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Chicago |
| Date Submitted: | May 30, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 6 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 4 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Wishing for Decent "Fish"... I just joined this site about a week ago and I have to say...I've been contacted by the bottom of the barrel little "boys". I went on one date although it was creative and fun, but the guy turned out to be a complete LOSER, looked nothing like the picture that was posted. (In fact, I still am not sure he was even the same dude in the pic.)...pretty much moved his crap into my car and requested I drop him off at a friend's house after the date. I was unaware I was "fishing" for the homeless. I've already had to block one user from contacting me because he kept sending me emails and wasn't getting the hint when I never responded. As a side note...I actually paid for a 3-month membership today thinking it would improve my chances...Well...now I can't even get on to the POF (POS) website...tells me some error about the web address no longer being valid...GREAT....I'm out $40.00...Rather convenient, don't you think??? Comments [ 2 ] |
| Submitted by: | Plenty Tired of Plenty of Fish... 30 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Colorado |
| Date Submitted: | May 14, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 4 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | My profile is stolen I was on Plenty of Fish....ONE YEAR ago. I deleted my profile and pictures and guess what?? I am still on ol Marcus's site, 'his baby' as he calls it, one year later May 14, 2010. I can not access my profile to delete it again. Anyone that tries to contact me is told "that she does not accept emails with your criteria" So he is using my image and words, basically hawking me as a piece of marketing bait. Time for legal action. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Stolen Beauty 59 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: New England |
| Date Submitted: | May 3, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 9 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 10 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 10 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | I am a new user of POF I am not sure why POF is receiving such bad reviews, I tried this site and within the first couple of days I was already on a date, and it really was a wonderful experience. I am not sure about scammers, I was a member totally free and chatted with real women who were truely interested in me. Yes there are Men and Women who were cheating on their spouses but that was catagorized as intimate encounters, those who were not interested were automatically blocked from receiving e-mails from them. This site to me was genuine in there approach, and cannot be blammed for users who were taken advantage of POF. I recommend trying this site if your interests are above board, smart surfers should be able to weed out the crap to find true love on this site. Comments [ 2 ] |
| Submitted by: | Mikeyseeksmini 40 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Woodland NC |
| Date Submitted: | April 16, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 4 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 4 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Don't Sign Up The dating part of the site sucks. Neocons do not survive on POF Forums. Men get harrassed by players or women who do no live in the country.Some men enjoy the attention, until roped into money or other things. Can't believe the numbe of married people who will contact you if you have no blocker up. The moderators are a bunch of Chumps. Ex moderators who were banned come back more critical than before of posters. Ex moderator Alpha_Spresley even has a girl friend sock pocket. SHe backs him up in everything he saids in forums. My suggestion if you want to meet someone find another site, join a singles group, or any other option. Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | Beenthere 54 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Texas |
| Date Submitted: | April 8, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 10 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 8 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 10 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 10 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | Perfect and free Ok so i have been testing out a number of dating sites and have come across some bad ones aswell as some good ones. This one in my opinion is the best. One it is free and two there is a wide variety of people that use it. Yes profiles can be misleading but that is only the fault of the creator of the profile. Face it, some people will lie on their dating profiles so they can get attention. However, those profiles that are accurate are dependable. I have never come across a fake profile in the 2 years that i have been testing this website. I have however come across real people's profiles who put up fake pictures that are not themselves and thus once reported they were deleted. I would and have recommended this site. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Tek 21 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Newport News, VA, USA |
| Date Submitted: | April 2, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Plenty of Crap The headline sums it up. I did meet one nice gal, but she turned out to be a headcase after a few months. Lots of low self-esteem on that site. I found myself getting contacted by "hot" women who turned out to be scammers. They start by telling you that you are amazing looking, then it leads into some story about a tragedy in their family or loss of income, and then the request to send them money to help get Billy Bob out of prison. This applies to women. They pray on them the most. The other thing I find a joke is the status of "Talk/E-mail". I'm sorry, but if you are on a dating website, you're not there to just find a pen-pal. That's a stupid status that should be removed. Plenty of Fish is a breeding ground for the undesirables and unfortunately the genuine people, those who posted reviews, fell victim to its ease of access. Let's face it, when other sites charge you $34.99 for a month membership, free looks really good. But, the old saying applies - you get what you pay for. Avoid this site like the plague. Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | Mike 40 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: OH |
| Date Submitted: | March 23, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Plenty of Fatasses The women on there are the biggest ass freeloaders I have ever seen on any personals site. They have pictures that are at least 5 years old and 40lbs. lighter. I think 95% of time when I went to a meet and greet. I was in shock, that was the person, all who wanted some meal for free and tell you about every guy that was chasing their big pimply ass.. Comments [ 2 ] |
| Submitted by: | Plenty of FAT 40 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Anaheim, CA |
| Date Submitted: | March 12, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 5 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | This site sucks! This site has so many scammers and low life. The same people are on forever and most are married men who are cheating. Not a respectful site and I wouldn't recommend it! Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | Sharon 34 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: SF,CA |
| Date Submitted: | February 14, 2010 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Deadbeats and Losers Because you can sign up to the site without paying or truly identifying yourself, these guys harass you if you are not interested in them. You block them and they just go and create another profile! Markus does nothing! This one loser by the user name Rob Roy1 goes about posting up these such bogus profiles of women who are not interested in him. He is rude, nasty and repulsive. POF still has not deleted him or the fake profiles. Be warned ladies and these guys are insane camp rejects. I would stick to a paying site at least they monitor the thing. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Jaden 49 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Los Angeles, CA |
| Date Submitted: | December 1, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | fake women wall to wall I signed up and started to look through profiles and saw how many women were lying about themselves with old pictures. One woman called Maria27 was clearly fat, obese, overweight, call it what you want. She described her body as athletic. Pretty, yes, but still FAT!!!She went on to say in her profile "I AM HONEST". I wrote to her asking, how can you be overweight and call yourself honest? After she read my email, my profile was deleted. No problem, I used the advice in an earlier post to recreate the profile in 5 minutes. I learned, the liers stay, those that call out the truth disappear. The site is a scam. It's a front for harvesting your email and selling it to spammers. I had created a hotmail account just for registering to that site, no one else knows it, and within days, I started to get a flood of spam on that account. Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | Rick 43 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Toronto, Ontario |
| Date Submitted: | November 7, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | never go to plenty of fish There is a lot of abuse,descrimination,no respect there.It means the site is a complete disgrace! Guys are rude and desperate on POF.Racism is a big problem there too. I think the whole site should be deleted,because its not a decent site. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | angel 26 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Wycombe |
| Date Submitted: | October 13, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 2 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Worst men on the dating scene You know POF is free, so the men are cheap to begin with. Most of them are broke, ugly, fat, druggies, users, liars, cheats, criminals, abusers and worse. There may be one good guy on there, but then he would not last long since he would be scooped up. Be very wary of the profiles that have been there for years, or reappear every few months. These men are serial daters and have personality problems, as well as pot or alcholol addictions. Be very wary of a jerk that lives in Calabash, NC and goes to Baltimore, MD often. He is a horrible excuse for a person and is a pathological liar. Comments [ 14 ] |
| Submitted by: | Jennifer 58 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Frederick, MD |
| Date Submitted: | October 13, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 5 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 3 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | For Play Only Short answer ... If you're interested in trading off multiple sex partners with others doing the same thing, POF will provide that for you ... IF as a guy you date down a little bit. Otherwise ... it's a useless site. Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | Realist 42 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: GTA, Canada |
| Date Submitted: | October 2, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 8 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 8 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 9 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | POF Works - at least here in Belfast! Having had an active POF profile for the last three months, I can attest that it actually works. Sure, a lot of profiles are dodgy, but most seem genuine, and applying common sense, I've met several lovely people (and someone particularly special). I couldn't ask for anything more from a dating site, especially something that's totally free. Maybe all the negative comments above stand as testament to the POF userbase in the relevant area (US, etc). Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | driversoft 47 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Belfast |
| Date Submitted: | September 24, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 2 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Fakes all the way 'round 1/3 of the profiles here are fake anyway.....ever write to guys too handsome and educated to be here yet you get a read/deleted right away?? Decoys... Many are gags, last week, girlfriend and I created a profile of a 35 year old hot chick who was pure nympho...she had a masters, senior VP of a bank, and liked golden and brown showers, toes sucked, everything under the sun. Yet, none of the 8 pictures of her matched. 8 completely different pictures of women, varying in age 25 - 50 years old...small boobs, big saggy ones, blonde, brunette, hell, we even threw in an asian.... in 24 hours, I read 322 emails from the GTA, all wanting to meet, and no one picked up the fact that there is no way a senior VP with an MBA would prosti tute herself like that, and none of the pictures matched. About 10 even gave out their phone numbers....others yelled when the email was read deleted, calling me names....they got the "Call me then at 41 6 XXX XX XX number that the others had furnished...:laugh: Nothing is ever what it seems in this world my dear...go to daterater.org and read up on PoF, about how the real purpose of this site is to make money by selling that email adress you provided to spammers....did you notice an increase in junk mail lately? They have hired hindus to extrat pictures of people - hot people - off the web and create fake profiles around them...all are in sales, marketing, glamour jobs, severely good looking people who cant get a date? Remember the ones who were on 366 favorites and would never reply.....yeah, decoys to get more to sign up, the ones who add you to favorites but never write, making you think there is someone out there...more decoys... Man, one day, you should see if santa and the easter bunny are real! Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Richard 30 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: GTA, Ontario |
| Date Submitted: | September 9, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 5 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 6 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | Not getting deleted again on PoF! I have to say, this site is interesting for many reasons. Fake profiles? Yes! Losers? Yes! Opportuists? Yes! Moochers out for a free meal and drinks? Yes! Man haters? Absolutely YES! Just read some of the responses here. The bitter angry man hating women who were dumped and want to take it out on the world LOVE the PoF forums, and even here, they spew their bitter venom at any man who calls it as he sees it. Just like real life. Weed through the bad and you will find the good ones. I've had numerous dates over the years. Even learned to play the sex game. Took me a while to figure the place out. School of hard knocks, basically. Take your lumps, learn, and move on. I had my profile deleted many times because I refuse to suck up to the bitter boozehags, defend myself for my words and actions, and *poof*, gone! If 8 - 10 people block you, your profile will get deleted, because it's YOU and not THEM that has the problem, got it? :) :) The site is absolutely full of hateful bitter angry jilted society rejects, and they will take it out on YOU! Here is how to start again. When your profile gets deleted, PoF places a cookie in your computer, in the cookies folder. This folder is generally hidden and even harder to find in Vista. Do a google search on how to find that folder and delete this cookie! Otherwise, when you redo your profile, it will read the cookie, compare it to the list of people blacklisted, and delete you again. Your email has also been blacklisted, so go to yahoo, hotmail or anyone else and create a new email account. Use that email to set up new profile. If you just write fhrgt@cfhvhf.com, the welcome email will bounce back and your account will be deleted for being fake. Upload new pictures. There is metadata in pictures, camera type, date taken, i.d. number such as DCSF4236.jpg, and it compares those to the database as well..and will delete your account. I once had mine deleted because one image showed me in front of a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, a blacklisted country. Some admin saw the mosque and figured I lived there, and deleted my profile and account. I recreated it, using the steps above. A month later, all was fine, I uploaded that picture of me and instantly the account disappeared. Those are the backdoor rules of staying alive and not getting deleted. If your profile is gone, follow the steps above to get a new one, and remember to save the page first, "File --> Save" from your browser so you wont have to remember what you wrote. Also save your favorites list so you can re-connect with the new profile. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | tlk76 51 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Ontario, Canada |
| Date Submitted: | July 31, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 4 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 8 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 3 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | I've changed. Now I am not going to pretend I am not a "loser" by society standards. I am currently unemployed and enjoying my time after years of the crappiest job ever :P ..I am on a deserved break. Also I do not drive. But that END my list of baggage and issues, the end, that's it. I am 29, pretty attractive. Real pics, honest, open, genuine, drug free, alcohol free, child free, not frigid and honestly there to meet love. I support myself pretty well and take care of my looks. I can hold a conversation and do not have a fake bone in my body. I did find many men with good jobs, nice cars, good looks (who cares).. What lies underneath is horrible issues. He can shove his superficial qualities, because I'm out! They all had more than one of these: -Anger problems. -Limp penis. -Massive debt. -Lies on their profiles. -Problems with drugs/alcohol. -Bad parenting. -Woman haters. -Illiterates (someone wrote their profile for them). -Chickens. -Users, you know, pretend to love you for sex. -talk lke ths yo, git bck two me -GREENER PASTURES SYNDROME OF THE LIKES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN! I KNOW am not a REAL loser like these people I have met and have got burned by. I met a man who drove a new car and was a nurse, is he a loser? ...He used me to fix his computer then held my stuff for ransom, calling in a nasty tone, hammered, telling me I will get it back when he feels like it, is he a loser now? I have changed so much! There is a test site where you can do personality tests. Before POF my dating personality was a kind and gentle, commitment girl.. I retook the test after a couple years of POF and now I am "The Sudden Disappearance". The test doesn't know what I've been through lol.. I only recommend it because if you do not take it seriously, unlike other sites, people will actually MEET. Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | Erin 29 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Ontario |
| Date Submitted: | July 15, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Take A Stand! Hail to the almighty Marcus who sits in his Canadian apartment making life judgments on people he knows nothing about, nor does he care to know so. Unfortunately for us here in the United States all we can do is succumb to his Jack Booted Thuggery because he feels no moral obligation to do the right thing by people. According to articles on the net, here is a man who actually takes pride in the fact that he rakes in thousands of dollars daily from Google and other advertisers. He uses the backs of the wretched masses of people looking for love. Articles on the net state he brags about not having a staff to handle any issues or problems. Is it that he in his God like persona can handle it all? He presses that “Delete this profile button” quicker than an evil despot says get rid of them all. He does not care if you are guilty or innocent. When he gets up in the morning, he does not smell the coffee, all he has is the sweet smell of money up his nose. Have you got the “This will be your only warning” message? Did you wake up to find you were banished to the phantom zone without the benefit of trial, or an understanding of what you did to deserve such immoral arrogant treatment? “I AM THE ALMIGHTY MARCUS AND CAN CENSOR YOU ANYTIME I CHOOSE TO”! This man actually believes he can do “anything” he wants to people. Perhaps its time a class action law suit was filed against him in the Canadian courts or by proxy through the Federal Courts here in the United States? Perhaps we should find a way to boycott Google. After all, they are the ones feeding his grandiose idea he is untouchable. Take A Stand Against Jack Booted Thugs! Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Take A Stand! 55 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Texas |
| Date Submitted: | June 8, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 5 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 10 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | WHO ARE YOU? I am a single educated women and former model. I posted a profile with POF. I begin talking to two men. One sent me an email stating how great I looked-I deleted it after reading his profile. He had no car and went on in 2-3 paragraphs explaining why he did not have a car. The reason: he is her in this country illegially. He walks where he needs to go. How is he suppose to pick up a girl for a date? Use the local bus system? The other guy: I talked to on POF for over three years. Never talked by phone or in person. Just chatted on the POF and via email. He was a good looking character according to his POF photo. Had lots of POF favorite followers. This guy when by two last names from Southern Califoria. He sent me picks of two babies he said he adopted. I had moved out of state and he wanted a recent pic of me. I sent one of me coming off the Sundance Ski lift....this was not "sexy" I assume...as he closed his POF and email acct. and left planet Earth. I am very slow.......and not in a hurry to meet a date....I like information...to verify....nothing lost here....except like "the investigator" states but.......precious time! Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | RED DRESS 55 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Salt Lake City |
| Date Submitted: | March 8, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 6 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 5 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Nightmare I was a member of POF for a couple of years and also participated in the forums, where I met some genuinely nice people. However, late last year I started seriously corresponding with one forum member who gave the impression and appreance as well rounded crafsman and musician, his name was Akimmbo. After a couple of weeks of writing back and forth I said we should meet and he was very hesitate and said he thought it would be very romantic if we waited until Christmas, I thought it was odd, I even offered to fly down to where he lived, but no he wanted to wait. We continued to correspond for the next two months, which in hindsight was very unwise on my part, but I did. Finally Christmas arrived and the person I met was not the person in the pictures and I know that a look of shock was on my face because he asked if he looked like his picture and in being too stunned to answer, I said yes. In his pictures he was a tall man with golden hair and beautiful blue eyes. Well the blues were true, the man who showed up was short, with long hair (as in extensions) except for the top of his head which was completely bald, which I didn’t know because he always wears a hat or some how covers his head. If that wasn’t bad enough, the only way I can describe him is as a dirty old hippy who smelled very musty and his facial hair was so long that he would chew on his moustache. During his visit there were so many horrific moments I was in shock and I couldn’t believe I had such a bad choice. Some of the highlights were: He didn’t flush the toliet, he lived in his car, he had beeen arrested a few times and he had been put in a mental institution and it goes on and on. The reason I am telling this story is because, POF is now going to have an option where you can pay. The only thing you get for your money is a gold star next to your name. I wrote in forums that if the are going to charge they need to carefully screen their members so people like Akimmbo cannot pull his hoax on other women, at the very least no photo shopped pictures should be allowed. As I said I was a member for a few years, but after the nightmare with Akimmbo, I could not longer stomach being on POF and I quit. Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | dmd 45 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Chicago |
| Date Submitted: | February 28, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 6 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 4 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 8 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | I like Pof.. I have been on Pof for about 5 months..i have met some great guys and am now dating one.. Yes, there are scammers and players..But how dumb are you If you cannot spot then.. I am not trailer trash or a hillbilly.. I am a smart, well educated, divorced mother..who has little time for bars or other meeting spots.. My picture is me and my profile was honest and truthful.. I had lots of responces..just picked and choose who I spoke to or met.. So I really have not a bad thing to say Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | mikki 40 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: ohio |
| Date Submitted: | February 24, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 3 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | POF uses fake profiles Markus Frind found out the perfect way to keep members and increase members. Frind hired customer service people to create fake profiles. Fake profiles are usually short with no "interests" listed. The fake profiles are filled with grammatical errors. Of course there will always be genuine posers behind fake profiles. Just beware of anyone attractive designated with hundreds of admirers. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | IfoundfakesonPOF 30 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: USA |
| Date Submitted: | February 5, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 8 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 10 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Good Members but terrible ownership. I realize it's a free site thanks to the owner... but just because you own it and offer it for free shouldn't mean you can take a big crap on members. I opened an account in late 2007- they deleted it. I reopened an account in September of 2008, they deleted it. I reopened an account on January 2009, they deleted it. Finally I reopened an account yesterday, Feb 4, 2009, guess what just happened! I use no profanity, no nudity, not even a hint of sarcasm... Honestly, people, how did they become so big if all they do is play stupid games like this!!! Comments [ 4 ] |
| Submitted by: | earsie 32 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Littleton, CO |
| Date Submitted: | January 15, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Plenty of Nothing Basically, it’s trashy. The forums, the admins, the clients are all low rent. I hope people will boycott the site. If your an educated, urban woman don’t waste your time. All you will get is a constant flow of sex laden emails from everyone on the site. The forums are filled with 50+ older women who spend their time insulting men. They look like hillbillies. Here’s their gimmick. They know that women are the bait, so they let women display just the most trashy profiles, pictures and thread posts. I mean your looking at trailer park trash at best. Don’t even bother. The admins look like homeless people, unkempt, illiterate, ugly men. This is how one of them writes .... mY jOb iz tO moRitOr. Totally pathetic site. Comments [ 4 ] |
| Submitted by: | Free Doesn't Mean Good 31 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Indiana |
| Date Submitted: | January 2, 2009 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 6 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 9 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 10 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | PoF: I met my wife on that site The only reason im even taking the time to write this is because i accidentally (through another site not related to dating) had a link to a piece on this site saying that PoF was a scam. Well, i met my wife on that site and have had nothing but good exp with that site. Of course your going to run across ads that aren't entirely true, or maybe someone who doesn't post real pics of themselves. Although this has never happened to me, i can understand a complaint about something like that, that was mentioned in the other review. But lets be honest, you're going to run across that at EVERY dating site. Anyhow, they don't take any personal info from you like a CC# or SS#, they don't spam you, you don't need to sign up for any amount of time, you don't have a very rigid communication method (yes, im looking at you Eharmony), and its free. I dont know how you can beat that seeing as its free. Anyhow, i haven't been on the site since i met my current (and only, haha) wife... so if some of this isn't true 1.5 years later. I apologize. Otherwise, i think this is a great site. Comments [ 3 ] |
| Submitted by: | Hal 35 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Denver, co |
| Date Submitted: | October 9, 2008 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 5 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 6 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 6 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 4 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Not for me... This site is way too messy for me. I don't like the look of it and it's very confusing finding anything here. Same goes for trying to find someone on the site. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | LauraB. 33 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: New York, NY |
| Date Submitted: | April 23, 2008 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 10 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | The Plenty of Fish Romance Scam: The Plenty of Fish Romance Scam: To the person who hypothesized, "Is Plenty of Fish a Romance Scam?" After several months of finding duplicate stolen pics on POF, I tested the question you posed, and in my opinion as a professional Private Investigator, the answer to your question is a 100% "yes." I base it on the following: 1. There appears to be thousands of POF profiles that use multiples of the same stolen pics (remember, POF says that romance scammers will be deleted). 2. Within 24 hours of reporting a pair of romance scammers to POF (and also informing the romance scammers that they were caught), my profile was deleted (remember, POF says that romance scammers will be deleted, but if you turn them in, then you, the one with legitimate pics gets deleted, while the romance scammers profiles remains intact! Why, because the romance scam profiles generate a mega numbers of hits, and if all the romance scam profiles were deleted from POF, then POF would not make the millions it makes off of advertisers, like what that person said about Google for example. 3. Ok, so I tried to make a couple of fake profiles using stolen pics to test the system, and bam boom, within minutes my fake profiles were deleted. What a minute, then how do all those fake profiles keep from getting deleted. Only one explanation. Only the fake profiles that POF appears to posts are the ones that don't get deleted! Disgusting. Its supposed to be free, but unsuspecting legitimate users pay the high price of wasted time! 4. Just for example (out of thousands of examples) check out these two POF members: Both 34-year-old POF " Rodeo Queen " and 27-year-old POF " blueyedgirlnextdoor " appear to be using stolen pics from the same victim! Ok, so what if they are romance scams, but I think POF is the one that posted them because if you tip them off that you know they are scammers, then your profile will get deleted, and if you report them to POF then your profile will get deleted! (I bet if POF reads this then they will delete them to hide evidence) In the history of the Internet, I believe that POF in terms of number of victims and number of romance scammers/spammers, POF could be the largest scam site ever. I guess if POF started receiving a five thousand dollar fine per romance scam (hey, these are the same as spam), then maybe POF would not be such a waste of valuable time. If I had the time, I'd start a website for victims of POF romance scams, dedicated to bringing a class action lawsuit against POF, but at this time, I don't have the time. Anyone else have the time? Comments [ 1091 ] |
| Submitted by: | Private Investigator 29 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Salt Lake City |
| Date Submitted: | February 9, 2008 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 6 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 6 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 6 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | No Upsell Not a ripoff, fraud or scam. Actually free to do it all, no paid memberships available. Outdated DOS like site appearance that is utilitarian. Have emailed and met pleasant females. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | MrJDW1 56 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: San Leandro, CA |
| Date Submitted: | January 10, 2008 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 4 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 5 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 8 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 4 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | My neighborhood is more fun than POF I’ve just deleted my POF profile after only being on it for three weeks. I sent out 29 emails and, though I did at least manage to get four replies that were positive, out of those 4, there was only one who I would really liked to have met outside of the online world. Unfortunately, after she asked me to complete an online Myers-Brigg assessment, which came up as a personality profile shared by 2% of the population, she informed me that she had met somebody through the site that she found intriguing and preferred only to deal with one guy at a time. Well, fair enough, I thought. So I emailed her telling her that she was somebody I would’ve liked to have met offline, told her she had my contact information (I’d given her my phone # and email address) and said that if it didn’t work out, please feel free to contact me. Then I thought about all the time I’d spent getting to that stage, and decided that, with my career interest (and believe me, unlike probably at least 3/4 of the population, I HAVE found my life’s calling and do enjoy what I do), my workout schedule at the gym and an activity completely unrelated to work that brings me joy and peace, I simply do not have the time to waste on this site. Potential coffee dates with strangers online who I will probably never meet? What’s the point? Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | Gene Poole 47 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Calgary, Canada |
| Date Submitted: | January 8, 2008 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 8 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 8 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 8 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | As good as it gets (and free!) I have quite enjoyed Plenty of Fish. There are many ways in which you can search for someone to connect with (personality, infinite interests, drop boxes....lots of drop boxes!). You can also restrict someone from e-mailing you if they don't meet your age/sex/relationship type/location criteria, which is an excellent idea. The inclusion of forums, quizzes and 'rate my picture' means there is other stuff to do with the site besides review profiles. The average quality of the users is high, which I'm chalking up to the fact that this site relies mostly on word-of-mouth rather than advertising. There are, however, parts of the website that aren't so slick, like the fact that they warp photographs in order to make them thumbnail size...but who judges someone in two dimensions anyway? Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | procrastinatrix 27 year-old :: Female Reviewer :: Toronto |
| Date Submitted: | July 18, 2007 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | just dreadful single users have multi profiles pictures can be downloaded and edited and place else where no customer service Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | grayowl 40 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: toronto ontario |
| Date Submitted: | June 22, 2007 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 4 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 2 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Should be a DATING site and not a forum site A Canadian site, POF forum moderators, show favoritism to Canadian Posters, who bash Americans on a daily basis. The hauty, nasty behavoir only serves to alienate Americans from the site. Two things that normal people are taught never to talk about in debate form....religion and politics. POF has catagories in the forum for these, thus encouraging daily fights requiring them to use MANY moderators. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Al 52 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Baltimore MD |
| Date Submitted: | May 8, 2007 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 10 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 10 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 10 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 10 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | Yes |
| Review: | Great Online Dating Site Everything is free and there are lots of singles to meet. I believe this site and kickbackworld are the best free online dating sites on the internet today. There is no reason to pay for online dating, plenty of fish has all of the options you would want in an online dating website. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Lonely Dater 25 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: San Diego |
| Date Submitted: | May 1, 2007 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 5 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 3 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Plenty of Rejection (and feminazi moderators) Wow. I thought I was just being paranoid about the gynocentric nature of the moderators on POF, but it looks like my suspicions have been confirmed by others rating the site. I got booted off without explanation - it turned out to be a blessing in diguise - POF was a complete waste of time. Lots of girls with 50 to 100 favorites, yet they are still looking for the Bigger and Better Deal. Never before have so many men been so inadequate for so many women. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Th0R ! Hu@$b3rg 38 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Ontario |
| Date Submitted: | April 12, 2007 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Plenty of Throwbacks All the preceding comments are true,,, the site is moderated by a bunch of metrosexual gimps that cant stand the competition so they kick sexy guys like me out :) Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Icall'emasIsee'em 27 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Club Ed |
| Date Submitted: | March 30, 2007 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 7 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 8 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | The mods have absolutely no sence of etic. You start a funny thread everybody enjoy. You are promoting yourself!! They delete the thread and give you restrictions! You start a thread with a line that says something negative about you. Self pity!!! delete, restrict!! Mods look at what you write while you write and they change the section it get posted!! Then you are stuck with a post that you wouldn't have posted if it was going to be there!! Too many rules for the brain to deal with.. and since what human say is somehow maleable they force the rules on anything/anyone as they feel. Very frustrating place to be.. a big big 0 on ethic and they don't seem to be open to hear anything about it. Don't go there to help, they'll tag you as someone trying to pass for a good person and.... Apart etic, the rest is good. It can be a good place if you just want to put on your profile to see what will happen. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Second Impression 33 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Canada |
| Date Submitted: | March 18, 2007 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | plenty of nazi moderators POF moderators ban or suspend people without legitimate reason, show favoritism, and are generally on a power trip. POF has so many rules it's impossible to be familiar with them all, and many of them are ridiculous. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | smith 35 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: midwest |
| Date Submitted: | March 1, 2007 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 1 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 1 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Plenty of Fish. The anti male discrimination site. Plenty of Fish is where all the internet liars, scammers, whiners, and so on hang out. Plenty of Fish have their own rules to use their site, but the problem is their own rules don't apply to female members. Their rules only apply to male members. Female members break the Plenty of Fish rules all the time and get away with it. I've never seen a site that has so many female members who splash their phone number and email address all over the site to guys and then call the police on the guys who contact them. Comments [ 0 ] |
| Submitted by: | Fantome Slashwrist 40 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Kingston, Ontario |
| Date Submitted: | December 13, 2006 |
| Site Name: | Plenty of Fish |
| Quality of Singles: | 3 out of 10 |
| Accuracy of Profiles: | 2 out of 10 |
| Features, Service, Ease-of-Use: | 5 out of 10 |
| Overall Experience: | 1 out of 10 |
| Recommend: | No |
| Review: | Drunks, liars and drug addicts POF is very cliquish. And if you dont fit or agree with them...your banned...period. Mods are very slanted to members they are either sleeping with or want to sleep with. Comments [ 1 ] |
| Submitted by: | LOL 41 year-old :: Male Reviewer :: Alabama |
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