Plentyoffish is almost good, but I want to know things like level of education – at the moment you have judge from spelling punctuation, and it does encourgae the “I’m going shopping” approach to dating. One lady, aged 48 (allegedly), wanted to meet a man aged 42 to 43, interested in Russian Icons and able to speak Gaelic. The profile was so carefully written that I think she was serious. And of course, this being POF, only men aged 42-43 could email her.

If you are a man on this site you are going to get ripped off financially!
I have spoken to a number of men who have complained of being “carpet bombed” frequently!
The site enables women to send out the same template to at least a hundred men – so it’s fair to say they wont be reading most profiles! So even the decent, well written mens profiles with pictures dont get great “exposure”!
If you are paying money to an on-line dating site you should be getting maximum exposure!

After hearing about this I signed on as a man, did’nt put a picture up – but wrote the sort of profile that would entice a lot of women.
It worked! (Well I am a woman-and I know what we women like to read, even if there was’nt a picture uploaded!).
Within a week I had received a handful of genuine messages from women who had obviously read “the profile”.
But I received a lot of carpet bomb messages from women who obviously had’nt read my profile – I answered all of them and did’nt get one reply back! What I did get was a number of “views” of my profile from most of these women who were undoubtely looking and possibly reading my profile for the first time – but none of them ever wrote me a “personal” message in response to mine!

After about two weeks I did’nt get any messages at all!
I stuck it out as a “man” for a further two weeks – which is probably longer than most of the poor men paying for the service would!
I unsuscribed after “fruitless” four weeks – and that’s when things really kicked in!!
Within the space of one week – despite cancelling my payments AND taking my profile down – I was bombarded with over 20 (yes 20!) messages from women!
I re-entered the site to find my profile still “active” but when I tried to read the first of my 20 messages, I was told I’d have to pay to read all of my messages.
Well I am a hot-blooded male(well a female pretending to be one!) so I subscribed once again on the monthly plan (£19.99) enabling me to read my messages.
All the messages were there, all of them were carpet bombs, I responded to all of them – did’nt get one reply!

I stayed on for the four weeks I’d paid for and did’nt receive any messages – that was until I cancelled my payment and left the site again!
Guess what! I received – once again within 7 days – a staggering 22 messages!
Undaunted – I subscribed once more! This time half of the messages had mysteriously disappeared – I read the rest, once again they were all carpet bombs! Did’nt bother writing to any of them!

What I did do was write on my actual profile what a scam I thought it was.
The site deleted it off my profile (well they’re going to are’nt they!) and then – interestingly – disabled my capacity to write ANYTHING in my profile!!

I have since left the site as a “man” and wont be rejoining as a woman!
As someone mentioned above (and I have spoken to many others) this is just a complete scam!

If sites like this are going to take your money – they’ll have to be sqeaky clean and provide a proper service.

Bye