PlentyOfFish is a completely free internet dating service that caters for everyone from 18-80. It is based in North America, but is available to members worldwide. Most of the users are from the United States, Canada and increasingly the United Kingdom.
The main advantage of this site compared to other well known online personal services is that PlentyOfFish is completely free for all its features and there is no membership fees whatsoever. On the front page of the site you can view the list of the latest online members and newly registered users.
The website's search feature offers the ability to search the members list of users by their location, age, description and type of relationship wanted. You can also view people's photos in the search results. Meanwhile, the “Rate people” section of the site allows people to rate photos of members from 1 to 10, with 10 being a “Great Catch”. Any person who wants to have his/her photo rated can submit a photo for free. A list of the 500 Hottest People is also available for your viewing pleasure.
The site also has community forums for its members to tackle different topics such as love, dating, recipes, and of course sex. Moreover, there is also a schedule of events such as speed dating meet-ups. The site also gives dating advice and online dating help to members and visitors.
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 Mike from Canada
| Reviewed: 21 November 2007 |
Why on this earth do people use POF is beyond logic. The dating part of it is dreadful. Most of the people you will find in there are just too cheap to a small amount per month to meet posters who are actually interested in meeting others. Because it’s free, you get liars, crooks, thieves and even sexual predators. All they need is software to hide their IP’s and move on to their victims.
As of my past experiences with POF, I have not met one person who was even remotely close to be honest. That’s probably why one will read so many profiles that claims that they are no longer interested in meeting people from POF and that they use it just for the Forums.
Awww the FORUMS! Forums controlled by moderators who are extremely biased in regards to who will get ban or not. In a past experienced, I saw that OP literally insult a poster on many occasions and once the poster had enough, he called the OP an i diot. Guess what? The poster was banned! How's that for fair play?
I sent an email a few days later asking the reasons for this moderator to ban people while some whom obviously should’ve been before, and he just answered that rules are rules with a link to the site.
This is a gestapo type of forums. They are VERY selective in who stays and who goes not to mention the little fact that some looses their complete profile without any explanations whatsoever. If you were in contact with someone, you just lost her or him.
Also you will notice in the forums that it’s always the same posts that keeps on coming back over and over and over again. Why do people continue to use them is just mind boggling.
Let’s not forget the fact that POF can delete a post or better yet, the thread without any warning whatsoever and even worst…NO REASONS!
I truly dont understand that a service (even if free) can delete anyones profile at any time without reasons. One cant supply a service and play God with it…as far as I am concerned anyway. Perhaps there’s internet regulations out there that would prevent the Nazi owner and his SS troops/moderators…perhaps from different countries? Anyway, I think it’s worth checking and if they are out there, slap POF with them and get that site out of service.
Stay away from Plentyoffish people. I promise you that you will NEVER get anything other than frustration out of it. |
Nicole from Houston | Reviewed: 15 November 2007 |
Never again, I was stalked and harrassed by someone on Plentyoffish, I reported their profile and the site did not delete this persons account or do anything to protect me. Also I noticed that alot of people use this site to troll for sex. I had to delete my profile from plentyoffish. I could not deal with the IM's and emails asking for naked pictures and sexual favors. Maybe I should of sent them to adult friend finder!! |
George from Mass | Reviewed: 09 November 2007 |
The fact that this site is free is nice without any catches. |
Ella Greenwood from USA | Reviewed: 17 October 2007 |
Markus you are really mean!I really hope you read this! You deleted profiles from Romania and even you dare to block all the profiles now coming from Romania. Why?Are you against Romania??!!You advertise your website as free and can you answer us why you delete profiles only based on the fact somebody coming from East Europe?! OK, you will mention about scammers, but to block everybody from Romania is a crime. I hope Canada authorities will see this. I hope your website will dissapear very soon, because anybody can create a website with a stupid name and also is plenty of websites right!
Look for a job soon because you will need! |
tommy from wilmington | Reviewed: 27 September 2007 |
im a well educated guy who loves a good time weither im at a football game with the guys or with a sweet girl at a park i need a beutiful lady in the street and a freak in the sheets im an athlete at wilmington college baby and i party like a rockstar |
Lyrad from Canada | Reviewed: 05 October 2007 |
I am extremely disappointed with POF... "The best free dating site" is nothing more than a usability nightmare. The community of people put little-to-no effort in their profiles, searching for the same parameters in basic & advanced yeilds different results, and the forum mods are unfriendly, unhelpful, and all-around useless.
Everybody on this site carries the attitude "It's free, you get what you pay for"... and that's exactly what's wrong with it. Nobody, not even the mods or admins, take it seriously. |
chris turner from canada | Reviewed: 29 September 2007 |
I was on the site for two months. I was able to chat to many people. However too many false profiles.
If you report too many of them your profile got deleted. |
smiler from Leeds UK | Reviewed: 10 August 2007 |
If this were a paid for site i would say caveat emptor!!
However its free.....
But just remember all businesses are in business to make money
Plenty Of Fish Creator Mr Markus Frind (BIG BROTHER)is allegedly raking in significant $$$ from advertising revenue.( He needs those HITS )
Through the course of my life i have found that there are those people who believe "the best things in life are free" yet others say "you get what you pay for"
The bitterness of a poor quality service! can linger longer than the sweetness of a cheap price..
To anybody brave enough to enter the POF world and dip their toe so to speak,DO NOT EXPECT THE LAWS OF KARMA TO APPLY.(what you put in might not be what you get back)
There is a significant Majick contingent...openly casting spells in latin and sending pictures of witches and pentagrams...Ladies looking for business in the UK
US based telephone hookers plying secret premium rate international numbers....
(In some countries and mediums that would be looked into)
Since the assylums closed its been a case of care in the community
you may find that community is POF.....
I want all the Ladies out there to know the days of Romance and gallantry are not forgotton however i found myself booted from the site for sending a picture of a bunch of roses to someone who needed cheering up.... c'est la vie.
A recent rule change now dictates all photos used on the site have to be fully framed face shots....Discrimination applies to uk only.....(lol)make of this what you will
Canada and UK two great nations separated by one common language humour.
As the invigilator and creator of this medium was reported to only work two hours a day from his bedroom i would like to recommend he read the book "HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE" by Dale Carnegie i understand it is good for people hoping to find success in the human relations field |
BetterLove78 from Seattle, WA | Reviewed: 29 May 2007 |
I think PlentyOfFish is a nice place to dip your toe into the online dating scene because it is free and allows you to contact people whenever you like with no need to worry about the cost of doing so.
I have found the site kind of hard to use and there isn't as many people who are serious about looking for a meaniningful relationship as I would like.
MY VERDICT?: Try PlentyOfFish and then go and use eHarmony or Lavalife! |
Everyone from Florida | Reviewed: 04 March 2007 |
They regularly ban users for several YEARS... for no
reason. I'm a black male. |
rosebud from mississauga | Reviewed: 02 March 2007 |
Hi,
Yesterday I was all excited about this site. Today, I looked at my profile and I at a loss how my porfile could have been so wrong. Is there a cross sometimes between profiles. You have to be very careful. Today, I noticed that I am a drug user when, in fact, I have never used it and I don't mean ordinary medication. Also my height read 5'11" a far cry from 5'1". My birth sign is leo and I am 56 years. A lot went wrong. Hope some care will be exercised next time. thank you
rosebud |
rosebud from mississauga | Reviewed: 28 February 2007 |
Hi,
I only joined this site last night, Feb. 27. I can truly say, it is a welcome feeling to be able to chat freely with other people without having to pay. It's a wonderful service for those who are people oriented and are not limited to their interactions with others. Thank you |
Sean Lewis from UK | Reviewed: 28 February 2007 |
I know you are not supposed to complain about something that is free but Plentyoffish has some serious problems that really make it quite an unpleasant place to use.
First of all don’t expect to be treated with any degree of equality by the sites owners or the Canadian and American moderators of it. Being a North American site, it is bias towards their way of life and to their sense of humour (Or lack of one) and being from the UK, if you ever cross the mods in any way that is that no leave for appeal at their court.
A ruling was recently brought in where all photos used on the site had to be fully framed face shots and not of pets artistic photos etc. Now I can hear a lot of folks saying “So what! I want to date a person not a pet” very true and I agree but it was a rule that was ONLY imposed on the UK users.
The second major problem with the site is the forums. Once again it would seem to anyone who spends any time reading the forums that the mods come down on posters not from North America with an iron hand in a steel glove. Posters vanish from the forums banned for up to 3 years for (as it was revealed to me from a number of sources) only questioning a mod re a ruling. Once again rules are imposed on UK users that are not enforced on the US or Canada.
All in all most of the UK users questioned have stated that whilst the site is free, the bias rulings from the management leave no room for you to freely express your true personality. |
mary lou king from mississauga, ontario | Reviewed: 28 February 2007 |
I am single, age 56, active, independent, smart, funny and a social butterfly. Looking for males ages 53 to 60. |
diana334 from clinton twsp.MI | Reviewed: 27 February 2007 |
it's a really neat way to make friends and date. |
Brian from Newark | Reviewed: 04 February 2007 |
One thing I dislike about Plenty Of Fish is that they don't resize the images proportionately so you end up seeing all these skewed faces which can be a little frightening.
Also, alot of the people lye in their profiles, well, because it's a free internet dating site, people aren't worried about wasting money and anyone signs up and posts whatever they want. |
Phil from Newark | Reviewed: 13 December 2006 |
Its free, so what have you got to lose?
I think plentyoffish does a lot of things considerably better than the "big" paid membership dating sites, but because it is free, there is a lot of people who are not serious about meeting people for relationships. |
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