Ethan E.

Been using Canva for the past year

This is my personal review based on experiences

The Good

1. The Paid version is the better option
2. It's really fully loaded & provide Great value for the price
3. Easy to use. Many options. Refreshes graphics options often so not always the same
4. Templates also make work easier & faster

The Bad
1. Finding files - often search does not work well
2. Does not always show completed projects - hard to find them even when organized
3. Sometimes even when set to highest quality some jpg images can be grainy

Overall, Canva in my opinion is a really great option. Not as fancy as Photoshop by any means but much better priced and makes it so anyone can easily create awesome looking graphics.

Recommend it

Ethan

Have had both Very Good & Very Bad Experiences with Home Depot

THE GOOD

Online Purchases
Household Items - Purchase Online
1. Easy to find
2. Easy to Use
3. Communications Updates really Great
4. Products delivered quickly & Free

The Really BAD
In Store Purchase - Appliances
1. Purchased Washer & Dryer units in Store
2. Deliver was scheduled 3 times. 2 of the times they never showed up
3. Lost 2 days of work waiting for delivery that never showed up
4. Service issue was with their 3rd party service provider
5.3rd Party Service was beyond poor even installing the units
6. Home Depot Store staff & manager were powerless to help
7. Will never purchase appliances of any type ever again from Home Depot

Summary

1. Give Home Depot 5 Stars for Online Purchase & Service
2. Give Home Depot 0 Stars for In Store Appliance Purchases

Based on my personal experience. Suggest going to stores that specialize in appliances that take proper care of their clients for major appliance buys.

Recommend Home Depot for Online purchase of regular household items that are not third party.

Years of technical issues have left me frustrated as an organizer.
Been a very active groups organizer since 2016
Really Frustrated with Meetup
Had 30 Meetup groups at one time, down to 12 & planning to jump ship.
Aside from years of frustrations these are the most recent that are my tipping point
1. Price increase in Canada (from 23,99 US to 26.87 US = around 36.00 Canadian $) Too Much!
2. Pages have always been & are still slow across most devices
3. When you edit an event then save, often the event is duplicated on the parent date, each time.
4. Group Members receive notices for events, days after events are completed
5. Editor seems unstable, at least for me, often get #### in front of text on event pages
6. Lack of features, functions & controls - paying for a glorified calendar that is available free elsewhere
7. Years & Years of other frustrations
8. Members always complaining about too many e-mail messages from meetup
9. Meetup is has adds now - ON PAID GROUPS. We pay premium prices & have to see ads as well

Done with Meetup here. There are so many alternatives.

This is one we found that was pretty good & recommending. There are also so many other options. Do some research. I like this one.

https://groups.ezumee.com

1. Free Groups for organizers - members pay 1.75 month to belong or
2. Organizers pay 9.95 Canadian (about 7.95 usd) includes 3 groups, Free for Group members
2. Pages load fast
3. Gives full control over events settings, can customize home page & events
4. Has in groups video chat (extra cost but still lower than Zoom for example)
5. Has in groups games - included
6. Has in groups file sharing - small extra cost for file sharing
7. In groups presentation system - included
8. In groups forums (optional discourse type forums available)

And many other features. Includes control over date, time, frequency that event messages get sent out to avoid the super frustrating amount of e-mail messages from meetup.

Pretty Happy with it & wanted to share this alternative to meetup with everyone. Been frustration free with this one & the lower cost appreciated.

While researching I found so many new options. This one but there are others. Instead of complaining about Meetup, suggest finding an alternative to get rid of your stress & frustrations.

This is my own experience with Meetup. Also my own experience in finding an alternative. Sharing.

Cheers

Ethan