Meetup

I have been an organizer for my group on meetup for about seven years. In June, they jumped their pricing sky high,
$44 for one month, $180 for six months, $300 for a year and encourage us to have members pay this.

Granted, we have 700 members, but that burden should not be placed on them (even 50 cents). When it was about $100 per year, I could justify the cost. At $300, I cannot any longer. And by the way, that is just their standard pricing. Meetup PRO is even more ridiculous than this.

When I tried to reach out to support about this, I literally got the cold shoulder. Not a single person contacted me from Meetup about this issue. That was the final straw.

Sure like most greedy corporations, they will get their money somehow. We just won't be one of their supporting groups.

I was treated rudely by a lead from the Meetup group Kildare / Dublin Hiking & Social, moreover he didn't provide any answers about an event, and coming from another country I had no choice but to book my flights: 375€ thrown in the bin. As the so-called lead decided to provide a delayed and super rude response, cancel the event, and remove me from the group for NO REASON.

I tried to raise my complaint with the MEETUP support team, but their response was vague and did not address the issue. Now, I know the type of platform it is. They contradict their policies and don't take any accountability for wrong practices and the mistreatment inflicted to the users.

I don't recommend Meetup!

Meetup is a great way to meet people with similar interests. I ran a group with 1,000+ members for about 8 years. Fees for organizers got too high so I left.
Now I've re-joined to go to other groups, donating to help cover their insanely high organizer fees.
Now MU is charging BOTH organizers and guests. So, obviously guests will no longer chip in on organizer fees.
MEETUP: CHARGING FROM BOTH ENDS IS BAFFLINGLY STUPID. YOU WON'T STAY IN BUSINESS THIS WAY. BYE.

I've managed several Meetup groups for years, and I can honestly say it's not worth the money or the time. Meetup does little to promote groups within their network, rather, they try and coerce you into creating ($$$) additional groups, rather than try and help you promote the groups that you are already paying them to promote. I'm done with Meetup, never again.

Company makes claims that are not true. They have no Online chat or helpline other than email and they Seem to be very slow responding. Their customer Services is the worst I have ever encountered

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.

Empty shell; NO meetings, groups in my region: that is exceptional! Northern VA is a nest for hiking, acting, reading, etc. among a high density population with high income. You must do it on purpose to have nothing in this region (Washington DC region). But their website doesn';t inform you of hte number of groups before you have paid.
SCAM. Fraudulent practices. I.e: I was charged for a renewal of over $250 in fFebruary 2024 without any warning and certainly without my concern.
They became Fraud Central.

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

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.