Plenty Of Fish - Dating Site Review

Actually, I believe POF goes off the IP address. I can not get on the site. It doesn't matter how many email addresses I try, if I attempt to register from my lap top I get booted - within 5 minutes of being registered and accepted. I don't know why. It's more frustrating than anything. I agree with some other comments that the site tends to attract the lowest quality singles. Many are down on their luck and penniless, say they have jobs and don't, say they are younger than they are, say they are divorced when they aren't, post fake pictures, etc. The site really draws the lowest of the low. With one exception - I made a very good friend there who I am still friends with. He too, though, presented himself as if he were rich and younger than he was. Ended up he is dirt poor and about ten years older than his picture. He was so nice I let it slide.

@khan kamacha That is pretty harsh don't u think? I work and supported my children by myself with no child support. So there is a few that work hard and don't ask for nothing.

There is a significantly low response rate for guys on this site. The site is very time consuming to use.

Under that scenario, guys that are pretty good catches won't stick around too long as they can do better elsewhere with less effort. What's left over are the guys chasing sex, the guys in the model range in looks and the guys that are at best average or below.

Women tend to be quite picky about little things that don't really matter much. That explains some of the low response rate. The other reason is just the male/female ratio is quite high. It's actually much higher than simply counting male/female members. The ratio that matters is the number of guys interested in a particular woman ... this can be exceptionally high ... much much higher than that woman would ever experience in real life. That level of competition would not interest most guys who are pretty good catches as they really don't need to put themselves in that situation, to meet women.

The actual number of people on the site is grossly overestimated in effective terms. While there may indeed be 1000's of profiles on the site, the reality is only a small percentage of those profiles are active on the site. In a large city maybe only 300-500 women are truly active, even though there may be 10000 woman profiles. So, you don't actually have access or available a large number of women, but effectively the same number of women you would have access to at any large gathering like a dance hall or event.

In fact, for any dating site, including POF, if you looked at the effective numbers rather than the professed numbers, you would discover there is a lot of smoke and mirrors around dating sites regarding members, effectiveness etc. For the most part it is just a game of BS with numbers.

POF is actually quite good at providing the illusion of a large number of available people and it's intentional. The reality is, for any one person, there are certainly less than 50 people that would be a reasonable match. No more than you would get at any reasonably large place/event. If POF had a cross match facility, this would become very obvious to most people.

I actually ran into a guy that I had went on one date with on this site... afterwards when we parted ways, I did find out he was married.. and still is married. I came across his profile on this website and flagged him numerous times but he is still on there. I deleted my profile... this site is a total scam. If you are in the Houston area, avoid the guy with the ID of csides. He claims to be 48 but he told me he was 48 two years ago and he states he is divorced but he is married. This guy is also cheap and wanted me on the one date we had to pay for dinner...

I joined POF in 205.. you get some rite npb heads on there who stalk you, then they report you, and i ended up getting deleted, i did nothing wrong, but hey it won’t let me sign up again.. no worries there are better sites out there anyway.. it's full of duplicate profiles i know for a fact this guy has 4 profiles, but how do they get away with it...it’s a crazy site!!!!

I was on plentyoffish and it seems there are more sardines on that web site than mermaids. Most of the woman are not really attractive that I would never approach them in public and they all have drama in their lives. If it’s free, you get all the riff raff. Men, you want a woman who does not emails lots of guys on a web site. Find a good woman by a friend, at a church, etc. I found my love by a friend and we are getting married. I'm happy I am out of the dating game. :)

Plentyoffish.com is a piece of crap. I signed up 2 nights ago. Got a response from the cutest girl. Soon as I think things are going right, BOOM, my profile is deleted. I re-registered, making sure I had no offensive material on my profile and still yet again within 20 minutes tops my profile was deleted again. I thought to myself, what a crock!! Tried one last time and sent the girl I liked an email informing her of my prior deletions and sent her my email addresses, but I doubt she received them. Not even 10 minutes after re-registering it was deleted for the 3rd time. F*** that site. Myspace is better.

@Ami I think Plentyoffish is full of players looking for hookups. I met several who said they were looking for a relationship but they are always searching. One man who moved to Chelsea, Michigan named Andy on POF, profile name andy12345. He is a cold blooded player with an addiction to trying to hook up with every female on that site. He was so cheap, he used his job as an excuse that he hasn’t got enough free time to date. lol. But of course he wants to come over to your house. He is almost 40 years old but the age range he desires starts at 20 year old women? He is almost old enough to be their dad. lol. He tries to lure women in with half nude photos on his profile. I don’t understand why POF deletes them, then allows that man to re add them on his profile.. He also added his Yahoo web site address. POF rules say members are not allowed to do this. Just proves to me that POF lets the men on that site get away with anything. The site is garbage.. But I guess that’s what you get for free. lol.

The women on this site are also trash, no one has jobs, and they are looking for men to support them. All trash women on plenty of fish.

@MyName Yep, POF is certainly set up to maximize ad revenue over site effectiveness/efficiency. Under that scenario, POF could be nothing other than a hookup site. Very few men will use a site like that for relationship purposes.

POF is also a quite negative environment as well, which certainly isn't a good dating environment. However if a guy actively chooses to date down, it will be a very positive environment for that guy ... just provide the validation for vanity ... it all seems magical after that.

Still, I prefer to think the majority of problems/complaints men/women have with the site is primarily due to how the sites' user base is managed ... favoring ad revenue ... rather than thinking women that are using the site are particularly bad.

Women on there have mental health issues, most of them are ugly or fake and the good looking ones never reply. For women you have enormous choice of guys to choose from. For a man...don’t even bother signing up. Oh yeah and my account was deleted because I exposed a fake profile which was probably set up by the administrators on the site.

Looks like I'm one of the hundreds or thousands that signed up at POF only to find out to have been treated like an idiot. I was able only once to log in again. With a bunch of phony excuses at the site for logins, and after countless attempts to enter my username and password, the entered information was just wiped clean every time and login was impossible.

If they treat new members like that, they should at least have the courtesy to inform them WHY they don't qualify for membership. I also studied all of their rules and regulations but could not find one that I could possibly have violated.

Why does the creator (Markus) even bother to send out WELCOME invitations after registration by email to new members that are being thrown out the next day without an explanation, anyway?

Don't bother to register for this site. It will just delete your profile after you log-off. There is no customer service and your mail will go unanswered.

POF doesn't have the typical toolset in place that dating sites normally do. Yes, this is to maximize ad revenue of course, but it will just devolve the site into a light weight version of MySpace. MySpace isn't a place where you would go for relationships but rather simply hookups. POF is the same thing.

Not having that toolset creates a lot of the problems people complain about. In the end you end up with a bunch of women getting ego boosts from a bunch of guys looking for sex. Pretty pathetic really. I find it unlikely that there are very many men whose self respect is low enough to consider women using POF suitable for relationships. Really what man, would use a hookup site to find his "sweetheart"?

And did you see the self descriptions of women on that site ... and what they are looking for? I hang with a whole bunch of well educated professional men. I know of NO guys that meet what these women are looking for. These women are at best looking for a "sexual prop" or a "male prop".

Ironically, in my short visit to the site, I found it quite challenging to even locate women there that were suitable for me, even though all of these women clearly state I would not be good enough anyway.

It's just a bunch of women starving for attention, living out a fantasy of being in high demand. They're in shock that Mr. Awesome has not yet found them and POF, and is the last step before they accept their own reality.

POF, for me, is just a large collection of women I would never be interested in. They typically lack the strength of character to attract top tier men. While there may be a few women on the site that are suitable, finding them without the toolset mentioned above is far too time consuming.

I don't know why men, who really bring something to the table, would even consider that site.

Plentyoffish is not a bad site at all. The problem is that "free" attracts all the losers in the world, cheap guys looking for quick hookups and tons of rednecks and rude idiots. I am sure half of them are sex offenders. If this is the kind of place you want to meet your someone special, go ahead.

Hi, guys! Don't believe all this nonsense about free dating agencies. The women there are looking just for fun. If you really want to meet a nice, caring woman who'll become your devoted life partner, you should contact some local dating agencies. There are not so many women there, but they are all serious and really want to get married. I can advise you a nice Ukrainian agency MissUA. I've met my bride there!

This site is appears to be a scam and is run by one person. He gets paid for every click on the ads there, rumors are there are many of fake ads...posted by whom? They will NOT reply and delete your profile if they don't like what you have to say. Be concerned about your personal information.

I wanted to try this online dating thingy and I was glad to find a free one. Only thing is, it won't let me register. I've read the forums and there's like a couple of threads there asking for the "already used username" problem but the moderator didn't even give a proper answer or a solution to fix it. What a shame.

It seems that this site is run by a pervert - looks like that anyone getting lucky on it gets booted off

This POF site is run by a dictator who picks on random guys he does not like and boots them off. I would personally like to strangle him for deleting my account several times at the most inconvenient times.

There is no such thing as customer support, email is NEVER answered. Just run by a small minded guy who thinks he is right.

Well I hope you have good security markus because one day you might annoy the wrong guy.