Now that you have introduced event chat, we don't need a comment section. I am an organiser and spend so much time flipping between the two and then going into DM's! For goodness sake make your mind up. Also when I wish to edit an event this is extremely hard to do and wasn't before the changes were made. Not exactly an improvement as soon as I'm concerned and needs adjustment now!
10 years+ paying member here. I wish I could give zero stars. I can't believe what they did to our meetup group site. It was so much better before they changed around Dec 2017. Their iPhone app is pretty bad too. Meetup.com is a great idea, and used to work to bring people together despite being super expensive. Now it is just awful to navigate and so much simple functionality has been lost or obfuscated. For what it costs me, I wish they would simply roll back!
Extremely slow to load. Constantly glitching. Constantly coming back with "ERROR" pages. When you make an adjustment to an event, it will do something like glitch and triple the amount of events that you then cant cancel? I pay $30 a month for no human customer support, just a pathetic FAQ page. If I don't pay the bill, all of the client base I spent months working to grow goes to whoever wants it, for FREE. All of the men there are the lowest quality creeps looking to date you instead of respect your professionalism. Horrible, horrible website. If the slowness and errors were fixed it would be awesome.
As a Group Organizer, using Meetup is fine until something goes wrong. You then naturally turn to the Help Center for assistance. The name is a misnomer because, in my experience, you will get a polite message by return, but no useful help or advice. Even on going back and explaining the problem again (and again) does not help - the staff just reiterate the same anodine, unhelpful phrases. Very frustrating and a complete waste of time! The one star is for the politeness of the messages from them Otherwise, it would have been zero!
The meetups look good from the outside. But the private ones are exclusionary. They ask for your information, then turn it against you. They do it in a nasty way, pretending to be nice. I would avoid them at all costs.
Once you join Meetup you cant seem to cancel. I have try for the last 3 1/2 hours to cancel nothing works on their web site, the site tells you how to cancel, but of course, it doesn't work.
They keep charging my CC. It looks like I need to charge the number on my card thats about the only way to stop this charge. It hasn't been helpful at all
I have been unfairly removed from 2 meetup groups because some women are jealous of me and do not want me there. They have tarnished my reputation with lies and have damaged my reputation. This started happening in August of 2015. They held meeting to degrade me and talk about me and shared my last name with men who could potentially be stalkers. I have complained and nothing is being done about it. This is illegal..
The first thing I understood after joining Meetup.com is that many of the groups are exclusionary. It just doesn't separate by interests, such as playing a musical instrument, or a writers group, that makes sense, But often groups set about having people join that are exactly like them, certain age, a certain gender, a certain ethnicity, a certain race, a certain religion, etc. How else will we get to know one another. I've gone on walking group meetups where there are almost 100 people and no one talks to each other. They just walk. I tried striking up a conversation on several occasions to no avail. I went to a some movie and lunch or dinner meetups, no one seems to have an interest of getting together outside that particular event. It's kind of sad that people don't want to be around other people who are not exactly like them by race, religion, etc. I guess that's the condition of our country.
They charged my credit card for the highest service after giving me the year free last year and then said their policy is to never refund, without any chance to discuss. I notified them 10 minutes after I noticed my charge
I've used meetup for a while and theirs plenty of fake events... ie people organise events but forget to cancel because of circumstances but when you report this to meetup they do nothing! I've seen same event that I turned up to that was cancelled but yet advertised being again advertised for following week... again wasting people's times. Give this app a wide miss and do yourselves a favour!
Confusing new interface doesn't allow one to just search for what you want. Page organization is also confusing, and suggests other groups which appear to be events related to the group you thought you landed on in the first place. Many groups are suggested, but are totally out-of-date. IMO, no group should appear on Meet-Up that hasn't had an event in 6 months. So many defunct groups now. It's also less clear how to add group profile info, which makes is boring because nobody has a profile. My biggest pet peeve, group organizers that don't fill in their own profile info. Moving on from MeetUp.
I wanted to go an Ableton Users meeting(Ableton is a music creation platform). This particular meeting was intended to give artists a chance to play their music. There was about twenty people there and only one other person played their music. The rest of the people there were organized into cliques, and would openly make fun of me, a new comer. Heh, it was actually funny to see them attempt at looking cool, all while hiding their insecurity about their own stuff. I mean, they want to be gangsters, but turn out to be really preppy. Don't go.
This app is absolutely ridiculous. It always freezes and doesn't allow me to do the technical things I need to do as an assistant coordinator for our Meetup group. The past while it didn't allow me to search people or place them into activities. Now, it won't let me post anything on the discussion board but others can. Meetup doesn't have a customer service telephone number at all. I'm considering leaving Meetup bc of the non-stop continuous technical disruptures it causes when I try to technically do something for my events or when I'm not using the app at all and the technical error messages pop up to disrupt my current app uses that have absolutely nothing to do with the Meetup App. Google ITs should have developed it! Ridiculous!
For the love... It used to be very user friendly and an awesome little calendar to easily check what was going on for several weeks in advance. Now, it's complicated as all get out and organizers are having a lot of trouble figuring out how to update/change meetups and so have been neglecting it all together, to the dismay of members that end up going then to the wrong place. Ugh... Also, it would be awesome for those of us that don't make any money off of the meetup to get a reprieve from the monthly cost of it... It's very expensive for anyone that is not a business promoting themselves.
I think what they have going is good. It gives people a place to go to find activities they are interested in or like minded people to join or learn about. The main reason I gave such a low review is because their cost is outrageous. About $90 for 6 months. Granted you get 3 pages it is still outrageous.
I used meetup.com some time back and just returned to kickstart a professional network in my area. However, I was disappointed to see the site actively promoting a political agenda. I'm so weary of corporations attempting to force a liberal ideology on us and have decided to seek alternatives as much as I reasonably can when this happens. Since meetup.com has chosen to promote a ridiculous viewpoint right from the start on its homepage, I no longer have a use for the site's services.
This site is just horrible and disappointing. I signed up for several spiritual meetup groups hoping that I would connect with like minded people. First of all the organizers, who claim to be shamans, healers or whatever else are full of crap and just want to manipulate others and get your money. Second of all, even when I reported inapporpriate members, I unfortunately attracted really sick people who would stalk me by sending me so many messages or make me feel threatened. When approaching the organizer, nothing was done. I had always had this issue with meetup, not connecting with the right type of people, and I just think the people on there do not have good intentions, see weak lonely people and try to manipulate them. The site is a great site for predators and disgusting men to try to get women.
I decided to organize a music group and paid $19 one week later, I'm still waiting for it to be approved and available to the public. Of course my subscription will be running out around the time it gets any publicity. What a waste!
In my particular area I love the meet-up groups. It has really broadened my social life and it's a great way to meet people. Of course I'm selective as to which meet- up sites I like. You have to find the people that are compatible with you.
It sucks! Has an organizer I find the "new and improved" Meetup.com terrible. It's difficult to upload pictures, make comments, you can't edit attendance, all features we use to be able to use. You can't see the page sponsors. Sorry meetup but it's hard to manage a page from my phone, especially when many of my page files are already on my laptop. Not sure we will continue to pay for the bad service much longer.
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Meetup has a rating of 1.3 stars from 498 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Meetup most frequently mention customer service, credit card and many people. Meetup ranks 500th among Social Network sites.
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