Meetup

I been thinking of sueing meetup for mental crap! I joined a bunch three years ago, and it was fine. It helped me with all my depression and activities during my divorce.
I helped this organizer this weekend, felt strange about the situation, she flirted with me, and I didn't respond, next thing I got banned from all my
Meetups, and also some friends on Meetup I was on FB has all unfriended me!
She got two organizers to kick me out of the two popular ones I always have done!
What the $#*! did I do!

This isn't fair. She never ever thanked me, she just left me to be myself in a room of 70 people, awkward and left alone!

They suck

I am the organizer of a Meetup group and I just had a simple question, which I hoped I could email or call to find the answer. The Help page is a total joke with almost no information. It would be one thing if I was just an attendee, but I am a paying member of this service. Is it legal to offer a service with absolutely no way to contact the company? Don't they have some responsibility to assist their customers?

Until this time, I felt very positive about Meetup, but I simply cannot believe their lack of customer service or even anyone that can help me. I guess they have my money and that's all they care about... rather than having good customer service. Maybe customer service is a thing of the past in our new world order of millennials?

It is a stalker's paradise! There are so many obvious fake profiles; people who have been banned just rejoin with fake profiles, then show up to meetup events to repeatedly stalk, harass and terrify the person they are obsessed with. When Meetup is notified of these fake profiles, they do absolutely NOTHING about it even though they are aware through comparing the stalkers IP addresses. I have been told that I need to file repeated lawsuits against the criminal stalker before they will divulge the information. I had Organizers who repeatedly had to warn their membership to beware of this sick man and his repeated presence in banned groups in an attempt to protect me and keep me safe. Ultimately, I had to leave Meetup completely, while the sick, perverted stalker now has up to 8 fake profiles. All Meetup screams loud and clear is that they are a "Safe Harbor"... meaning they will take absolutely NO RESPONSIBILITY for any resulting harm. Meetup is a disgrace to the community.

I'm reading a lot of negative reviews, especially from organizers. It makes sense since many online businesses won't let you cancel or close the account. They want to keep charging $$$ against your will.

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1. Go to the company website
2. Contact the Better Business Bureau
3. Contact the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
4. Check out the Ripoff Report
5. Email *******@uce.gov
6. Try Yelp
7. Post on Planet Feedback
8. Google your attorney general
9. Post on Pissed Consumers
10. Visit Resolver

Source: https://www.salesforce.com/hub/service/how-to-complain-company-online/

Be very careful which groups you join & scrutinize the intentions of the organizers.
In general, the organizers exist to serve their own interests. I have first hand knowledge of one organizer who's created various singles clubs to target the age groups of twenties, thirties, fourties, fifties. He also used fake personas of pretty girls as co-organizers, to kickoff invite to meetups. Now approach a venue / restaurant and offer to bring X people if they can give you a kickback. The kickback varied from negotiating a cheap meal (and not passing it on, in effect pocketing the difference). Needless to say, the pretty organizers always found an emergency excuse not to turn up. This happened in Sydney Australia. Thread very carefully if you live in Sydney and see variations of the same theme, do not take anything at face value.

DISCLAIMER! I'm not associated with the group AT ALL! But I witnessed them in action today at SUTRO Baths SF. About 150 amateur photographers shooting. They took over the entire ruins, beach, rocks like little ants with cameras and their music blaring. The main guy (organizer) asked me how long I was going to be on the beach?!? The entire experience was embarrassing to witness and my experience at Sutro was RUINED. I saw a few guys had flashes on tripods with the ocean. Heheheh. Wave coming...

I've been using it for over 5 years. I've never been scammed or setup. Its a good to use site to find like minded people or support.

One problem is on the site, it does not display the year of events so it's hard to tell if the event is recent or not.

Las Vegas Modeling and Photography... I didn't know it was going to be handled like a professional business as it is only a meetup to help teach, educate, and meet other people in this. The organizer, Gia, seems to be a bit too forward with people if any issues having certain people photos that they like as their favorites same to her photographers but doesn't seem to be fair and reasonable. She tells me after I realized my single photo wasn't out there that this is the way it operates in the industry whether I like it or not, the way she is putting it. Now her last comment back to me was 'no one asked me to come to this' as it only is where anyone can come to this to see if it's a good fit or good group. I"m shocked of her taking charge how she handles customers coming in. Not sure if she's been doing this in charge thing for long or not. She has two other assistance on this program assisting her.

MeetUp provides ZERO features that could be used to track no-shows. MeetUp has zero incentive to keep groups fresh or encourage attendees to actually honor their RSVP and just keeps raising their price. It's clear that many "attendees" RSVP "yes" to signal interest, but have no intention of actually going. Just took over a group of 600+ members. 99% hadn't even looked at the group in a year. Conversion from member to RSVP is abysmal and chance of an RSVP attending is anywhere from 1 in 3 to 1 in 10, but MeetUp's pricing model is built on inflated numbers. I expect social distancing will take out many MeetUp groups... hopefully it will put MeetUp out of its miserable existence as well.

Without a doubt, one of the very worst, most incompetent front-end re-designs I have experienced in two decades. The administrator responsible for this disaster should be fired, immediately.
I maintain the meetup site for 2 or 3 meetups here in Portland, and it was easy to post new events on the old meetup.com site. But this one was useless: non-working tabs, wouldn't let me upload photos, half-finished events would disappear and I would start over, etc, etc. Absolutely the worst.

Since they have sold to wework.com things have gotten worse. Whatever I didn't like about Meet Up, the website function was pretty good. Now all that's gone and the supposedly "mobile friendly" version does not exist. Worse still, they are taking away document storage and calendar. Yet they still expect you to pay for this while they take functions away?!

I suggest that anyone could spin up a Wordpress site for 6.00 bucks a month, add in the social and calendar plugins, Buddypress, and away you go. Caio Meet Up!

Until they fix their new site, or switch back to the old one, I recommend avoiding this service. The new one might be better for the 60% of users on mobile devices, but the old one was definitely better for the other 40% of us, especially organizers. Ive been emailing Meetup support for weeks with problems, e.g. members not notified of meetups, map pins incorrect and unfixable, but Ive only received unhelpful automated responses. Im guessing they are overwhelmed with problems after their premature cutover their new format.

Surprise, surprise, but this is just an extension of the same clique bull$#*! you thought you left behind in highschool. Only an idiot would subject themself to this level of childish disrespect. You deserve better than this crap.