How Legitimate is PlentyOfFish’s New Site “eVow”?
PlentyOfFish is one of the most popular dating sites around today. Why so, you wonder? Is it because of the high quality of customer service, easy site navigability, and quality members? Unfortunately, that’s not the case — it’s popular because it’s free. Casual daters flock there, looking for a free way to find a fling.
So when the guys behind PoF announced that they were planning on launching “eVow,” a dating site geared only towards those looking for long term relationships, we were pretty, uh, taken aback, to say the least, especially when they said they were planning on making it a paid site.
Now, we understand that online dating, just as any other type of industry, is a business, and making money is a high (if not the highest) priority. However, when you have your successful free site for casual daters and decide to launch a website thats goals and methods are a complete 180, you’ve got to wonder if money is the only factor.
In his blog post announcing the new site, founder Markus Frind stated that he “looked around the market and noticed that no one was actually catering to people that wanted to find relationships.”
Um. What? I’m sorry, can we discuss the sheer ludicrousness that was just uttered? There are no dating sites that cater to relationships? Let’s see here, eHarmony, Match.com… the two biggest names in the business… aren’t catering to people looking for relationships? Did I miss some sort of breaking news that those sites are actually green card scams? Because as far as I know every commercial for either of the sites shows couples, in love, with their marriage date written directly below their names. But you’re right, Mr. Frind… you found the one niche that no one had discovered yet. Genius.
According to his blog, within a week after posting the link to the new site on PlentyofFish, he had 100,000 new users. So… 100,000 new members, that were PlentyofFish members, who are used to casually dating, and not paying, the two aspects of your new site that you plan on weeding out. Interesting.
As the online dating industry continues to expand, it’s only expected that unique ideas would slowly taper and innovators would have to start retooling the ideas of the past, but by starting a website with the tagline “eVow: it’s more than dating,” we can only laugh.
Let’s just hope that it’s a joke.
eVow… A serious dating site, give me a break. POF and eVow are full of made up people and the real ones should still be in the nut house.
Both are a complete waste of time!
dont renew me after this month I will refuse to pay I just paid for this month I am no longer interested
Ok guys you might know this and i have just reporrted a scam to police and there will be investigation on evow and the person. They might give you premium numbers to call and they will make money with it so please report it if you have found any and don’t let them get away with it
JENIFER VALDAZ IS AN EVOW SCAM. I DONT NO FORSURE BUT I HAVE A DAMN GOOD GUT FEELING . GOOD LUCK
THE 805 CALI
I here what you all are saying about eVow. It really is a scam. Here is what I can’t understand though. How come an honest dating site like Plenty Of Fish ( I am assuming they are honest, cuz I have seen a lot of people really rave bout POF ) would be the parent company of, or have anything to do with a scam website?
I am a paid member on eHarmony and have had more scammers than legit responses. I was hoping that it being a paid site I wouldn’t get the scammers but they are there too. I am about to give up on online dating.
Doesn’t matter what site you are on. There are scammers on all of them. I met several on senior people meet.com as well as match.com So I am sure they are here too. Every person I had met on those sites were scammers. Crazy that so many people fall for their stories. I guess what I am saying is don’t just slam this site and just be aware that scammers are out there every where just waiting for an innocent soul to try to con.
Scammers is all that are on this site. They contact you and want your personal e mai so they can get to know you better and send you pictures of them selves with their phony kids
Always self employed, rich, doing business out of the country and within a week madly in love with you. Never have a phone number you can call. They “trael on business” a week after they contact you then they need money to get home or for a tragic accident to e treated in a hospital.
Make them your favorite right away and then they disappear from the site, is you ask too many questions.
scammers, never give them you personal info, Kelly LOve, Roland, JOhn Phillips are just a few.
If you would like to be scammed from Nigeria or Ghana by an il·lit·er·ate person join EVOW. They are widowed, out of the country, Master’s degree, have children and are in need of help. They play on your sympathy and tell you how much they love you in about two hours of knowing them. And of course you are their soul mate. Baloney!!!
They want money!!! Cellphones whatever…. I have reported several to this site and they just turn up again…THEY DON’T CARE THIS SITE IS BULL SHIT….RUN RUN RUN
Howdy everyone! I have been on dating websites since my divorce in 1999. I am still single. Terrified to actually meet anyone on any of these sites mentioned as I know all the warning signs. My first few days on eVow I got several
forigners looking for a reason to stay here in the US, paid male prostitutes, men who demand I leave the site and get on instant messaging, rave about my beauty and how wonderful my profile is (joke!) it ain’t. I will not pay for fakers, I will not give you 2 minutes of pleasure for 1/2 hour of BS. So what is wrong with these people?
I have been on Evow.com for a while now and I find it amazing that seemingly totally different men, from different parts of the country can write profiles that read basically the same…Bad grammer and all.
I have come to believe that there are no real profiles on there but those that are created in some foreign internet cafe by a few scammers that congregate around the computer to search for photos and snappy attention grabbing headliners.
I am really tired of getting notes from men that have grammer that is worse than my 3 year old grandson and the spelling is terrible as well. Then I go and read their profiles and the language is so flowery that one would think that it came straight from some romance novel….wait..maybe it does!
Anyway…..I am removing my profile from there and going to try meeting men the old fashioned way….in the check out of the grocery store!
Its a complete scam. Little or idiotic customer service, no real features that make it ‘serious’. Half the site doesn’t even work properly. Incredibly hard to delete your profile. Its basically a re-billing scam
I should have read here first. Instead I made the mistake of joining evow.com
Lured by tghe illusion it was going to be a serious website, filled with serious people.
Instead what I found was a horrid mess of sacmmers and total BS.
The sitr itself kept emailing me woth fake people interested and fake messages from users.
I actually felt rather used and taken advantage of.
I guess there is little hope in a small town, with few singles, to find a serious lady, whom is compatible with me.
This evow site is sure of no help, its just a waste of money and my time.
i have had scammers try to get me on all the sites including the best known pay sites
Evow flash based picture updater won’t allow me to post any pictures, basically PC user only, no macs or iPad, stupid setup.
Evow IS a joke and a total waste of bandwidth.
Okay, so… Markus decided he’d create a site for marriage-minded singles. Quite a tall order for a site which has no human screeners to interview or teleconference with prospective members to find out whether they really want to meet that special person, or they just want to sneak in and raise a little hell. Usually, the latter is the case.
If you don’t believe me, all you have to do is check out the posts to PoF’s forums and you’ll get an idea of how much immaturity, trolling, and rudeness is out there because no one’s watching the store. It’s not a case of just a few troublemakers knocking themselves out to ruin it for everyone else: probably 3 out of 5 people on PoF and Evow are jokers. Many of them aren’t even single or looking, they just want to troll everyone else on there.
Online dating is the most EPIC FAIL there ever was. The only ones who get anything out of it are the companies who run the sites. If you really want to meet that special someone, then take my advice and start your own singles group on meetup dot com, and then meet everyone in real life. Meetup dot com is a troll’s worst nightmare and the jokers will avoid your group like the plague.
It’s a joke, the people who are in customer service do not read English. You can send them an email and tell them they are idiots and they tell you the benefits of a paid subscription.
Why on earth would a Muslim want to get emails that the site has matched them up with a devout Jew and vice versa? That’s just a joke, seriously!
I say it’s full of fake profiles. A male friend of mine, whom I met through POF events, contacted me today to say he’d seen my profile on eVow. He was surprised as he knew I wasn’t looking and had hidden my POF profile over 2 years ago. Considering I have never signed up on there I was more surprised than he was! Evow had changed my profile name, but used my pictures from my POF profile. I’m still trying to figure out how to make them get rid of it.
Doubtful, PoF just showed up in a new Britney Spears ad today so I’m sure they aren’t closing down. Perhaps the site was just down.
pof.com keeps coming up as unavailable when i try to log on! Why? are they closing it in favor of the evow site which you have to pay for?!!
This dating site (a spin-off of Plenty of Fish, only this one is not free) is a COLOSSAL joke and not worth spending 5 cents on. I recently came across an Ad for it while on Plenty of Fish so thought I would check it out. It claimed to be geared solely toward single who were seriously seeking long term relationships. The following excerpts in the description interested me:
“We only allow singles who are actually looking for long-term relationships to sign up. No more browsing online dating profiles wondering if that person is actually serious about finding someone!”
and….
“At eVow, we use an innovative compatibility matching system that we created specifically for singles who are serious about finding long-term relationships.”
After I created my profile, I did a search for men local to me. What a huge joke. One of my top matches was a man who indicated he was seeking a long term relationship……but then immediately into his profile he admitted to being married and seeking someone married as well for a “discrete adventure.”
His was not the only one.
The vast majority of men are “separated.” What a joke. One is clearly in no position to be seeking a true, long term relationship when they’re still legally married.
This is the same kind of crap you find on a free site such as POF, but on this site, to have access to basic features you have to pay. Now WHY would anyone PAY to have to wade through players, dogs, fakers and married guys?
Took me 10 minutes to DELETE my profile.
Do yourself a favor, don’t waste your time like I did.
annnndddd
you cant even delete your profile unless its 24 hours old talk about holding someone against their will.
Frustrated user…
Its free to be an active member, to search, and to send emails, its free to play the will you go out with this person game, BUT as soon as you want to reply or see who likes you it takes you to a pay with your credit card screen.
I have a few friends who signed up early they have free profiles there they can do anything they want but when you mix in people who need to pay to reply to messages and let them run around the site posing as “real” members ack your playing with fire. You are almost using real people to create fake profiles.
What a mess how do you know who can respond who cant?
I get the idea is to get people to pay but the sign up screen dosnt tell you anything about paying it just mentions free free free, the only way you will find out what it will cost you is to try and respond to an email.
It seems to me this design will create a false userbase in time. There is nothing worse on a dating site then writing to someone and not getting a reply back. Now that I know they are mixing paid users and unpaid users I dont even think I would want to be a paying member. Nor do I want to be a free “fake” profile.
“There are no dating sites that cater to relationships? Let’s see here, eHarmony, Match.com… the two biggest names in the business… aren’t catering to people looking for relationships? Did I miss some sort of breaking news that those sites are actually green card scams?”
eHarmony doesn’t let you search. Its pre-screen test eliminates people it chooses to with no rhyme or reason. It caters to the religious and ignores the atheists and agnostics of the world.
Match.com is a farce. There are numerous stories of various people posting ads where, yes, they do get people who seem to be interested, but Match.com’s pricing model makes it PROHIBITIVELY expensive to reply to any of them.
True.com, another you didn’t mention, is basically a scam site. It will tell you that people are interested, but they haven’t expressed the interest, the computer is assuming they’re interested based on you matching what they say they want, which isn’t necessarily what they want.
OkCupid is just like PlentyOfFish, same with HotOrNot.
They need to bring back the old Love@AOL and Yahoo! Personals. Now those were decent dating sites.
Hilarious and so true. Marcus is a nut, and has for the last year or so been pushing the relationship-oriented “serious dater” concept on everybody. Lame.
Just had a scammer on the site evow who was from another country but in the states… outside of Atlanta – demanded outside email and got mad about personal questions stated he already told me that info kept asking family info like parent names… and how close I was and where I was from and I had I been married and if I had kids