try the free sites instead. i've found more fake profiles on paid for sites than i have on free sites. wasn't impressed with the paid sites anyway.
i like pof because the user base is huge, and if you pay for the upgrade it's still cheaper than a paid site and you get all features. paid sites tend to charge extra for the advanced features!
i also like OKCupid for the questions section, you can learn a lot about a potential match from those and i find there tends to be more properly filled in profiles on OKC than pof. pof has a lot of "ask me" profiles, which are my pet peeve
I've only been using the apps on my phone at thr moment tinder and badoo which as you say you have to pay extra for features. But I think I may try a proper site as you have suggested
ahh, i thought you meant the likes of match.com or other pay for sites. no experience with tinder or baboo but both pof and okc have apps. they are free to use and message and charge for extras like seeing if a message was read. match.com on the other hand is pay to message then pay even more to get read indicators!
That sounds expensive lol might be cheaper to get hookers haha