Plentyoffish, well, you get what you pay for. I find the users don't seem to take the site seriously, and the volunteers/staff take the site too seriously.
Girls are flooded with rude messages, and the decent guys get no responses (probably overlooked thanks to the immature/spam msgs).
The volunteers/moderators/staff in the forums (and the developer himself) is apathetic towards feature requests and generally make you feel stupid for even suggesting the idea of improvement.
I'll proudly pay for a real site with usability and a focus on visitors-best-interests, than digest this jungle of ad-supported mess again.
Mark Evans
· 2 years ago
Say what you will about POF's quality of experience but it's one of Canada's most successful online businesses, and - from what anyone can tell - an extremely lucrative operation.
Kyle
· 2 years ago
I honestly don't understand the success of this site. Something ain't right about the revenue this thing pulls in.
I've been waiting for the thing to fall apart and the truth to be revealed, but it hasn't happened. Yet. I'm patient.
Hi Marcus!
Simon
· 2 years ago
I love reading Mashable and I've no problem with you criticizing plentyoffish. They're not perfect but this looks like a personal vendetta masked behind a blog post.
You say they are a "surprise success" which sounds like they should be in the deadpool. Then state that traffic has peaked in just one of the many many countries they operate in.
But as you state, they have higher numbers than match.com for October.
You then state that because there is a user that has their username as "greygoose" (a brand of vodka) this makes you "feel inclined" that the site is a horror story.. full of scumbags?
There's a reason a lot of people don't like paying for dating sites. It screams "desperation".
And the comment from "Daryl". I wonder what dating site he works for.. And Kyle: match.com had revenues of $311.2 million in 2006. Plentyoffish took less than $5 million. Yet plentyoffish recently got higher numbers (stats) in October. So explain why something isn't right about their revenue?
Antonio
· 2 years ago
Kristen, I would find it hard to believe that a pretty girl like you would ever need the service of a dating site.
Antonio
Anna
· 2 years ago
Sounds like the creators of Plentyoffish have hit a marketing dream! Free access and none of those dorky and time consuming surveys to take can only mean people flooding to use the site. However, if the user is looking for a relationship that beats the current statistics, a place like eHarmony or Match.com that utilizes the lengthy surveys I would bet produces better matches. But you could combine a site like Plentyoffish with a book like "Fishing for Love on the Net" (www.fishingforlove.net) by Myles Reed, the Internet Dating Expert, and maybe still come up with a really good match - the site wouldn't do it, but the advice and your own looking could.
A free dating site sounds like a great idea. However, it will attract the lowest quality people in general and a lot of offenders. After all, they have nothing to lose and if they get blocked, they can create a new account in 1 minute and continue harrassing. Personally I think it's creepy to put out your profile for the whole world to see like on plentyoffish and either way, I wouldn't want to date someone who can't afford to pay $20 for a serious site. I wouldn't be caught dead on plentyfofish with its low quality people, offenders and in general, the Kmart of online dating.
kim
· 1 year ago
good day to you. as to your comment.. not all people on POF are scumbags/ verment/ bags of dirt. or anything else you can come-up with. some of us have morals/ ethics/ and are not kmart qualty people. some of us have busness/ wealth/ a good income and so. you shouldn,t judge a book by it,s cover. it just might bite you in the ass someday.
cheers
Jenny Pretty
· 1 year ago
Mr. Markus, he is great and famous to public. We are Asian people know all about him and he is the best sample I personally admire and follow. Plentyofifsh help many singles locally and around the world to connect with each other on the Net. Thanks very much for creating such a beautiful dating service.
John
· 1 year ago
plentyo sucks, lot´s of fakes there, try sexyppl.com - small but beautyful...
John
· 1 year ago
I for one definitely do not believe that subscription fees will help deter "scumbags" as $20 a month is arguably a small price to pay for an extra shot at some pump 'n dump action. What it WILL help with is keeping the Nigeria-based fake profiles used for scams, altho even then i definitely wonder how effective this is. If a user can pay the same $20 to create a profile, then start an online relationship with 20 people, and manage to scam a few hundred $ out of a couple of them, it's a great investment. And if people trust the profiles on a paid site more, then its an even better investment.
Scammers aside, I'm of the opinion that you're gonna have the same issues with undesirable dates online as we had before online dating was an option. It's not like dating horror stories began when the first dating site opened shop...
jim boggiw
· 1 year ago
hi my name is jim i bin trying to get in plentyoffish like i tryed 5 times to get in
can you please help me get in my usename is betaman-1 my pass word is jvc1285
can you help me get in i just cant get in plentyoffish my email is bet787@cs.com or
do you have a toll free number i can call you thank you
alina
· 11 months ago
I hate pof to tell you the truth, you should try www.livedatelove.com anoother free dating site which is better and has more people that plentyoffish.com
John
· 11 months ago
alina, what kind of crap is that supposed to be? More people? It doesn't even compare! Damnit can't spammers even put together a coherent sentence?!?
Juliet Lopez
· 7 months ago
This site is good, but it's the asshole men on it that make it bad. I found someone here. HEY GIRLS, MAYBE HE CHATTED WITH YOU HIS SCREEN NAME WAS: Butchtm, Butch57, Phototaker. Latin photographer from Staten Island who turned out to be a scrumbag. After a year of being together, I caught him still chatting and having webcam sex online. So believe me when I say, if you find a man in a bar, he's a drunk...... If you find a man online, he's a PIG
sexcam
· 7 months ago
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Girls are flooded with rude messages, and the decent guys get no responses (probably overlooked thanks to the immature/spam msgs).
The volunteers/moderators/staff in the forums (and the developer himself) is apathetic towards feature requests and generally make you feel stupid for even suggesting the idea of improvement.
I'll proudly pay for a real site with usability and a focus on visitors-best-interests, than digest this jungle of ad-supported mess again.
I've been waiting for the thing to fall apart and the truth to be revealed, but it hasn't happened. Yet. I'm patient.
Hi Marcus!
You say they are a "surprise success" which sounds like they should be in the deadpool. Then state that traffic has peaked in just one of the many many countries they operate in.
But as you state, they have higher numbers than match.com for October.
You then state that because there is a user that has their username as "greygoose" (a brand of vodka) this makes you "feel inclined" that the site is a horror story.. full of scumbags?
There's a reason a lot of people don't like paying for dating sites. It screams "desperation".
And the comment from "Daryl". I wonder what dating site he works for..
And Kyle: match.com had revenues of $311.2 million in 2006. Plentyoffish took less than $5 million. Yet plentyoffish recently got higher numbers (stats) in October. So explain why something isn't right about their revenue?
I would find it hard to believe that a pretty girl like you would ever need the service of a dating site.
Antonio
This one is growing fast and really free...
a good income and so. you shouldn,t judge a book by it,s cover. it just might bite you in the ass someday.
cheers
Thanks very much for creating such a beautiful dating service.
Scammers aside, I'm of the opinion that you're gonna have the same issues with undesirable dates online as we had before online dating was an option. It's not like dating horror stories began when the first dating site opened shop...
can you please help me get in my usename is betaman-1 my pass word is jvc1285
can you help me get in i just cant get in plentyoffish my email is bet787@cs.com or
do you have a toll free number i can call you thank you
HEY GIRLS, MAYBE HE CHATTED WITH YOU HIS SCREEN NAME WAS:
Butchtm, Butch57, Phototaker. Latin photographer from Staten Island who turned out to be a scrumbag. After a year of being together, I caught him still chatting and having webcam sex online.
So believe me when I say, if you find a man in a bar, he's a drunk...... If you find a man online, he's a PIG