{"id":840,"date":"2017-10-15T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T11:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2017-10-16T10:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:32:01","slug":"plenty-of-fish-pof-dating-site-review-f-rating-on-bbb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/840\/plenty-of-fish-pof-dating-site-review-f-rating-on-bbb\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenty Of Fish (POF) dating site review: F rating on BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-843\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bbb-f-rating.jpg\" alt=\"BBB, F Rating\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Known as POF for short, Plenty Of Fish is a dating site that used to be totally free, much like OkCupid used to be totally free, and Zoosk used to be totally free, and Tinder used to be totally free.\u00a0 Acquired by Match Group (which also owns OkCupid and Tinder) in 2015, Plenty Of Fish currently has an F rating on BBB:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 class=\"company-alert__headline text-uppercase\" style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PATTERN OF COMPLAINTS<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">As of June 13, 2017: BBB files indicate that this business has a pattern of complaints concerning the following issues:\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Problems with Product\/Service:<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">-Consumers allege having their accounts hacked or being locked out of accounts with no ability to contact the company to resolve such issues.<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">-Consumers allege no longer being able to sign in to their accounts or finding their accounts deleted without notification.<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Refund or Exchange Issues:<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">-Consumers allege being charged fees long after membership has been cancelled. Consumers also allege unauthorized charges for upgraded memberships randomly withdrawn from accounts.<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Customer Service Issues:<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">-Consumers allege receiving notifications via email from the company without the ability to unsubscribe or stop contact.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">-Consumer allege their attempts to contact POF are unsuccessful and they have difficulty finding customer support in order to resolve their issues<br \/>\n(via <a title=\"BBB, Plentyoffish Media Inc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbb.org\/mbc\/business-reviews\/dating-service\/plentyoffish-media-in-vancouver-bc-1245924\/Alerts-and-Actions\" target=\"_blank\">BBB, Plentyoffish Media Inc<\/a>)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you agree with the BBB?\u00a0 Check out the BBB page for the company&#8217;s response and to read POF member complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to share if you have any experience\u00a0with the Plenty Of Fish dating site or apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as POF for short, Plenty Of Fish is a dating site that used to be totally free, much like OkCupid used to be totally free, and Zoosk used to be totally free, and Tinder used to be totally free.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/840\/plenty-of-fish-pof-dating-site-review-f-rating-on-bbb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[490,491,492,84,67,496,493,68,495,494,462,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}