Meetup

I think that these people in fun Peeps in St. Louis MO part of meetup can learn from me be kind, Be welcoming, Be a true friend Be a person of integrity Because people who want to join needs to feel all those things without being threatened by people there talking about people is down right rude and uncalled for and the leaders be the kind of leaders that you would want because one day the shoe will be on the other foot. Talking about someone who cannot defend themselves is not a person with integrity it makes you a person who does not care who they hurt because what you do to others will someday bite you in the $#*! because it will happen Leaders should be just that leading them in something good not evil. Being intrusive into someone's personal life makes you nosey and would you like it if someone did that to you The leaders of the group needs improvements because what you do is what they do being a bunch of people you judge others and that is wrong for leaders to do when someone says don't get into my personal life it is just that and you being a leader is not being intrusive when your not asked, Intrusive is very kind from me because it is so so bad what these people do

Scamming and charging for services that their saying can be charged in 24 hours if no cancelation. I used it n within the hour was charged 4 different fees@50$ I canceled it soon as that 24 hour turned in the moment I used card. They should have repercussions or be shut down. Nothing good from the short time.I was raped for their greed,overall no one should use this phishing site due to privacy reasons I can't show u the right way so please let me warn others

Do not put your credit card in there - you will not be able to delete the credit card. If any group decides to start charging fees, you will be charged and then the finger pointing begins. Meetup will not delete the card also, although they say they will remove it from the processor strip. Don't believe them. It is still there and will be charge. The only way out is to have them delete your whole account which will take a while. The organizers of the group will say they have no control of the charges to contact meetup and meetup says to contact the organizers. A real scam

Organizer for 13 years. My experience lately, is meetup will not even bother to reply when there is a function problem. I have also been hacked through meetup. It has really gone downhill, and they disable functions, then ask you to pay extra.

I don't know what happened. I'm an organizer for a group with almost 500 people, have to pay them $200/year, and I don't get any notifications! Not by email or push notification. The programmers have completely tanked this site. There are so many glitches, the UI is abominable. We have resorted to building a website specifically for our group.

Meetup.com has become a complete joke. I used to attend and organize events all the way from the early 2000's up until around 2013 or 2014. At that point it was still somewhat decent, in terms of actually being able to connect with people and make friends. By 2020 meetup.com became a totally abysmal company, and had lost all of it's authenticity in being a way for people to genuinely connect with one another.

By the mid 2010's, meetup had already changed massively from what it originally was. In the early days of meetup.com, one could type in many different things into the search function, and often come up with real opportunities to simply hang out with like minded individuals. If you liked Elvis, you could go to meetups with fellow Elvis enthusiasts. If you loved a certain breed of dog, you might be able to hang out with fellow lovers of that breed.

By the early 2010's, meetup had changed radically into something that was much, much more oriented to PAID EVENTS, mostly in the form of classes and teaching. There's nothing wrong with paying for an event, but there's a huge difference between paying a nominal fee to participate in a group meditation, and paying absurd fees for meditation "classes". I used to actually run a meditation meetup in the old days, where we would have 30 or more people show up for group meditations at a place called the Metaphysical Research Society. People could come in and donate a small amount or not, and join with many others in very powerful group meditations.

Now, if you're interested in meditating with others, for the most part you will not find that on meetup. What you will find are all manner of meditation classes and "meditations" that cost $20 or more so someone who has read a few webpages on meditation can "teach" you to meditate. The same is true of shamanism. Type that word into meetup today, and you will find many "teachers" hosting "shamanism" meetups which are nothing more than some idiotic and very rudimentary "shamanic journey" which consists of a very basic guided visualization or meditation.

The point is that terms like meditation and shamanism, or in fact just about any facet of spirituality, are thrown around loosely all day long on meetup as if they represented groups that are there for genuine enthusiasts of such things to join in and participate in. This is overwhelmingly not the case. They are mostly there for profit, not for bringing like minded people together.

Further, the people who run meetup these days are truly abominable in terms of any actual customer service or any real commitment to be of genuine service to the community. They, like most of the people hosting meetups these days, are there to further their own agendas, and very little else. Also, they do not accept genuine, sincere, constructive criticism. At all.

Last year I sent them a letter. A very, very heartfelt letter, spelling out in painstaking and honest detail how my experience of meetup had deteriorated since the early 2000's. I explained every aspect of how it had changed, passionately and from the heart. Guess what their response was: NOTHING. They didn't even bother to respond AT ALL to a letter which took me the better part of an hour to write.

And to make matters worse, this morning during meditation I thought maybe, just maybe, I would try meetup again, on the off chance that just possibly they could have found their hearts and high consciousness again. NOT SO! Just an hour ago, I tried to sign up with meetup once more. I attempted to sign up using two different email addresses. In each case, I received a message saying "sorry, you are blocked from registering. Your email address has been blocked". Well, in both cases these were email addresses I had NEVER used to sign up with meetup. Therefore, they literally must have programmed their software to block my IP address from registering, presumably because I had the GALL to share the honest truth with them about what meetup has become. I used no profanity or anything that should have gotten me blocked. Yet I am now blocked from meetup and couldn't join again if I wanted to!

There is a LOT more I could say about the travesty that this "social meeting" tool has become. But I doubt anyone would keep reading long enough to hear the rest of the details. Just be it known that I am very, very sincere in everything I am saying here, and I in no way wanted this to happen to meetup. On the contrary, I am phenomenally sad that this has happened, and that the world has lost what was once a genuinely useful, helpful, and legitimate way to meet people and make friends.

It's time for us to create something new, something better. Meetup isn't a shadow of it's former self, it is the complete opposite of what it once was. And the obstinate fools who run it seem to be proud of this FACT.

They will charge you for nothing, then the support will tell you it's ok and deny any refund... It's such a scam website, you better avoid it.

I looked to meetup to get out and meet new people, do different things etc. It's been over a year someone took over Meetup. I can't see meetups outside my groups. If I do a search by location (NY), I get meetups from all over America. Everyone I talk to about this agrees: Meetup sucks. Bring back the previous managers. They ran it effectively. I find it sad because Meetup was my go-to place to get out and do something different. Not anymore. SAD.

Meetup keeps taking organizer tools so you'll have to pay for the Meetup Pro App! I'll move to another site before I pay them more money!

The third owners of this website are compensating for sales losses...in the most greedy way.

They invest in PR that first purports you only pay $12.71 for a basic tier charge then when getting to the actual site it says $17 and some change.
Then, when it comes to check out, you've paid $23 without even getting a free trial.
Lastly, I gave in and signed up for basic and decided to cancel after only thirty minutes.

There is NO refund option at the time of this post.
And look out for thee ludicrous "you must step down as organizer" stipulation to further distract you from "officially" divorcing your $#*! from these creep site owners.

I'm out $23 for having a membership that lasted only 30 minutes.

I don't have time to snapshot the website lingo, but I strongly encourage you to upload any absolutely greedy entrapment this site exercises.

Because of the networking disposition of Facebook groups, you get significantly more value than this dump and although they're siphoning all of your face data for Meta AI, it's free.

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!

In my opinion Meetup simply SUCKS. In my opinion they don't care about anyone either. I wish the State Attorney General would investigate Meetup's practices and find enough evidence to indict those who own and/or run the LLP. I believe they are incorporated in the State of Delaware but any States' Attorney General's Office could take them on, and I wish they would. Just my opinion though.

I joined a group on meetup in April 2021 called Hiking Friends & Fun located in Flower Mound, TX. I attended at least 70 events with the group. I became personally involved with the organizer who had only recently become the organizer ten months prior. Whenever he decided to end our "dating/using", I attempted no further contact with him. I continued attending the hikes for another month as usual. After attending a hike on Sat 01/14/23 I received an email that I was removed from the group. In the meantime there was hearsay from a mutual friend of ours which was negative. I never attempted to contact the organizer after we were involved. I left it alone. I attempted to contact the organizers of the group for an explanation & the main organizer who is Ravi had blocked me on meetup. The co organizer who I had attended hikes with several times was very short with me claiming he was not aware & never offered to find out or anything. There was allegedly a post on social media about the organizer which I was never privy to. The organizer & other members (personal friends of his) slandered me after I was removed from the group & attempted to get me kicked off of meetup simply for not wanting me in other shared groups. I am still thinking of filing legal claims against this organizer.

When you're a transplant and often in some states many people are and if you don't have children it's difficult to meet people, I've been doing it a little over a year and met many people but 3 people that I can call outside of meetup and do things with it's a great way to meet people often hit or miss but never had a bad experience

The fee's for organisers are overpriced.
The members complain about paying $5 for an organisers time, value and organisation? Pathetic.
Too many low quality males everywhere.
The messaging system is poor, no option to delete message, the "event chat" is messy, confusing, unnecessary, not private and horrible.
The site itself is often crashing, glitching, not loading.
The site support is selfish, focused on their own wants and needs.
The RSVPs are mostly lonely indian and arab men with poor communication skills, add no value for others in terms of growth or connection.

"You can check out any time you like. But you can never leave"... I registered a group on MeetUp to run some informal evening meetings with our community but it never really got off the ground. It's expensive... there's no "free" option and if you cancel their subscription, they'll email everyone in the group and tell them you've stopped paying and ask them to take over and pay for the group. You can't just close the group. Avoid at all costs.

I belong to several Meetup groups but after I've signed up for an event and am on the list to go to an event, it doesn't recognize me as a member and I can't find the events I've signed up for.

Meetup.com will tale your money as "Meetup Organizer" then approve your groups and then without notice once you have invested time inspiring members to join your groups and register for its events them disable your account for "spam" -- and they have no formal appeal process.

They don't bother with warnings or temporary measures like Facebook.

Specifically, the hiking and beach volleyball meet ups have been enjoyable. Avoid the Salsa and other dance classes-way to serious. I like to dance for fun, and many that attend the classes are regulars, so you pay the cover, and watch the strut, and learning nothing. Received a kickball invitation, only to be ignored or avoided when requesting basic information on joining a team.

I have been a member since 2014. See photo 'I have not joined any group' unbelievable! Why request to join!? I have booked for lots of outings, but not coming up on iPhone. Meetup app use to work on iPhone not any more. Delete and try to install new app. Didn't load. Still working on Computer & iPad. Not happy with the way of uploading photos to our Sydney Photo fun website. The sequence is different on computer and iPad. When you upload first your photos they end up much further up and different sequence when to find them on iPad. Very confusing. Often very slow to get into website to watch uploaded photos. Too time consuming! Not happy at all at the moment with the whole website situation!

I organize two meetup groups myself, and it is IMPOSSIBLE to find any link anywhere to even contact meetup for help, it is so extremely frustrating! Shame on them for selling their subscriptions but never providing any help at all!

I've been trying to delete my account which appears impossible because it keeps coming back asking me to designate other organizers. I've sent an email to which I receive canned responses but no one to contact directly. There is no number to speak to anyone. This is so incredibly frustrating. If you select "Deactivate Account" it makes you give someone else your group. Any suggestions?

Zoom business info/entrepreneurship classes are truly excellent, taught by various experts each week. 100% Free, last an hour, with a presentation and a Q&A. Ability to network at the same time with those around the US & other countries as well.

Yoga/meditation classes via Zoom are sometimes 100% free and other times bait & switch $$$. Free ones thru Dignity Health are outstanding with a top certified instructor.

Meetup org does NOT get involved when there Organizers try to scam members in any way. Some Meetups are presented as social groups or info classes and in reality are attached to high pressure MLM or cults. Beware.

Meetup org also won't get involved if there's any illegal activity. Only tell you to call your local LE. Sad as this ruins Meetup overall rep. Meetup groups have even been banned from venues for wrongful actions.