PlentyOfFish has all the features that you would expect from an online dating service. This includes private messages, instant messaging, searching and a chemistry automated matching system.
This dating site also has a unique feature which allows you to prevent certain users from communicating with you that don't meet with your specific message or profile requirements.
At a Glance
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| Dating Site: | PlentyOfFish.com |
| Members: | 10 million registered. |
| Cost per Month: | None - $9.80 USD. |
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| Free Membership |
- Yes
- Included:
- Create a Profile (Info needed for profile)
- First Step
- User Information, Gender, Birth Date, Country, Ethnicity
- Second Step
- Location Information, Gender Type Seeking, Physical Information (very basic)
- Looking For, Do you have Children, Marital Status, List of Interests
- Do you have children or a car, Do you smoke, drugs, drink
- Religion, Income Level, Profession
- Headline and essay questions about yourself and what you would do on a first date.
- Picture
- Has option to allow rating of your photo.
- Relationship Chemistry Predictor
- 48 questions about yourself and your personality.
- Each question has 4 possible answers - Disagree - Somewhat Disagree - Somewhat Agree - Agree.
- You are asked questions about things like: If you get nervous easily or if you get angry often.
- Relationship Needs Assessment
- 100 questions about what you require to make a relationship successful.
- Each question has 4 possible answers - Not at all like me - Somewhat unlike me - Somewhat like me - Much like me.
- You are asked questions like: Do you like your partner physically near you while out in public.
- Searching
- Viewing of profiles and photos.
- Favorites
- Testimonials
- Communicating with members.
- Rating profile pictures.
- Not Included:
- Serious Member Profile Upgrade which includes advertising removal on profile page and your profile being highlighted in search results.
- Your profile and photos will be reviewed by a moderator before being displayed on the site.
- You can change your birth date and gender within 2 weeks of signing up. After that it is assumed to be correct and can't be changed. This prevents people
from trying to trick the matching system to give them different results.
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| Costs |
- Free Dating - You can create a profile, view and search for members, and communicate with anyone for Free.
- Serious Member Profile Upgrade
- As of Monday March 9, 2009 new paid features are available on POF.
- Features Include:
- Profile highlighted in Gold, in detailed and gallery searches.
- Advertising removed from your detailed profile page and a large Gold Star is in its place showing you are a serious members.
- Thumbnail picture of profile will include a gold star icon.
- Ability to add Profile Themes.
- Listed before free members in the a Date Night feature.
- Costs in USD:
- 3 months costs $29.40 or $9.80 a month
- 6 months costs $46.80 or $7.80 a month
- 1 year costs $71.40 or $5.95 a month
- Billed in one lump sum and most major credit cards are accepted.
- No auto renewal or billing.
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| Relationship Types |
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| Relationship Status |
- Single
- Married
- Living Together
- Divorced
- Widowed
- Separated
- Not Single/Not Looking
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| Looking For |
- Hang Out
- Talk/Email
- Long-term
- Other Relationship
- Dating
- Friends
- Intimate Encounter
- Activity Partner
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| Regions |
- United States
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- International, English speaking only.
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| Viewing & Communication Tools |
- Photos
- Profiles
- Profiles can be themed (background image only) for 5000 activity points.
- Private Messaging
- You can limit what type of user can contact you. This can be based on profile information including location, if they smoke, and the type of relationship you are looking for.
You can also specify that the senders profile must have an image and that the message must be a certain size.
- There are privacy options which you can enable to prevent people from contacting you via private or instant message.
- Instant Messenger
- Favorites List
- Who has Favorited you.
- Your Favorite List
- Latest users on your Favorites list to update their profiles.
- Testimonials from your Favorites.
- Sending Virtual Gifts
- 7 different images can be sent.
- Each gift will cost you points (95 to 1000).
- New users start with 600 points.
- Every time you log into Plenty Of Fish you get an additional 60 points. (You can only receive a total of 60 points in a 24 hour period).
- Sending Roses
- You get two roses to send when you joining.
- After you send a rose to a member, you must wait 30 days to receive another one that you can send.
- Testimonials
- To create one you must be in that users favorite list.
- You can remove any testimonial about you.
- You can edit or remove any testimonial you have written.
- "Find out if your love interest is a keeper" Dating Tool.
- Answer 28 questions about your love interest to see if the relationship can succeed.
- There are 4 possible answers and the are: Disagree Completely - Disagree - Agree - Agree Completely.
- Example of questions asked: My love interest uses respectful language with me.
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| Search By |
- Who's Online
- Viewed my Profile.
- Users from your City.
- New Users.
- Users who have not sent you emails.
- Profiles who you have not yet viewed.
- Basic Search
- Includes Your Gender, Gender Seeking, Looking For, Age Range, Relationship Type, Ethnicities, Last Visited, Images.
- Postal Code, City, State/Province, Country and distance from you.
- Interest Search
- Includes Your Gender, Gender Seeking, Looking For, Age Range, Location and distance from you.
- Comma delimited list of Interests.
- Advanced Search
- All parts of profile except essay questions.
- Chemistry
- You can be matched with others based on compatibility.
- Needs
- You can be matched with others based on what you need in a relationship.
- User Name Search
- Date Night List
- Every week you can add yourself to the date night list which signals you are free this coming Friday and are looking for a date.
- After every Friday the list gets cleared and is restarted.
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| Other Info |
- Must be 18 years old or older to join.
- Markus Frind is the CEO and sole owner of PlentyOfFish.com.
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