Meetup

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

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.

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

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.

My local Ayn Rand discussion group cheerfully used Meetup for many years for its convenience. That all changed in February 2017 when Meetup management in New York City decided to turn hard left with its anti-Trump #Resist effort. It would have been fine had they simply offered it as another topic on an equal playing field with all other topics charging the same fees. Instead, they offered "free" #Resist groups globally along with front page advertising, all subsidized by dues from paying groups. The result has been a massive loss of Meetup groups and members. My own core group immediately voted with their feet and left before I could even discuss it with them. We have since moved to the politically neutral and financially free Eventbrite tool for managing our events. Meetup may just go bankrupt because of this huge strategic blunder while deserving it richly. Sad!

Dear Meetup,

You ruined it.

Why #resist? I think perpetuating this kind of thinking is more divisive than anything, and definitely not what people in this country, or on your website, need right now.

You also seem confused about the issues. The president rightfully issued a temporary ban on people from seven countries not because of their religion, but because many people in those countries wish serious harm to citizens of the U.S. and the western world. Don't you think that Americans (both natives and legal immigrants) should be safe and able to pursue their dreams? This doesn't happen without laws! Our country would literally fall apart. Without structure and safety, we won't be able to offer any help at all to asylum seekers and immigrants, let alone the children of families who have been American for generations.

#Resist what? National security? Law? Reason? Please consider this - the ideology you are spreading is harmful, not peaceful.

Best,

Shannon

Anti-American rhetoric cannot be tolerated in this nation. Opinions are one thing; encouraging civil unrest and violence are inappropriate. Good-bye before I got started. Anyone want to collaborate to start a decent "meet-up" organization?

Very happily running 2 musical jam groups until they suddenly eliminated file uploading on 1/4/2017. Now we can't share song charts and recordings which is a huge setback. They say it's to allow them to improve the site in other ways, but that's just marketing BS. Keep this in mind before you sign up.

Charged us a subscription without a notice. Can't contact anyone, all support emails come back as errors. Also they lock you in with no way to get out. Someone will eventually put them out of business I hope.

Meetup.com doctored their search engine so my computer would not be able to access all available groups.
This 'playing god attitude' seems prevalent in their decision making, curtailing the freedoms of other users for no apparent reason.
I also note health clubs or anything slightly counter culture get closed down.

I would give no star if I could. Its the ugly club

I have used Meetup.com for Six years as of Nov 2017. They have been a problem ever since I started using them, and the app they just pushed out in Sept of 2016 has taken a bad situation to worse.The only thing this company will understand is falling revenue. They do not even have a contact us button on their main web page. The new logo is more like a blood splatter from a murderer and Rapes and assaults have been associated with this social media site. Be smarter use Facebook. Meetup just sucks. Update: Now they are going to modify the Web-page interface so it looks like the app. Useless non functionality is the goal, Please I beg everyone to just leave Meetup.com they don't give a damn who gets harmed by the unscrupulous organizers who lure people into situations that are not safe. I really wish this social media would have died in 2009, Use Facebook Groups they at least do not cost the owner money to operate.

I have nothing but very negative experiences with Meetup.com. I agree that Meetup.com is for losers who can't make friends in real life. The people who attend events are some of the most insane, emotionally disturbed, sycophants I've ever met!

As a female, attending the singles events are horrible! The men are socially $#*!ed and won't take "I'm not interested" "No I don't want to exchange numbers" and walking away from them as a sign to please leave me alone. They will follow you around the event and even send frightening stalker e-mails after the event.

I've deleted my profile and am trying to find other ways to meet people, because there is ZERO quality on Meetup.com.

This is a really easy way to make friends and meet new people because you know you already have something in common with them. I don't mind pitching in a little bit to keep the groups going, but hope it doesn't get too out of hand. I mean, FB allows Groups for free.

Meetup should allow new attendees to any function a Courtesy of no charge on first time to see if they are at all interested. The purpose is combine what is being presented with opportunity to meet soul that resonates with one's mind pattern and soul frequency. Otherwise, please know that for instance with meditations, youtube provides guided meditations and wonderful other instruct construct scenarios... please give functions without fees and a lot more response-on first time. Also location should not have lumped Naples with Fort Myers area-too far to travel.

I can't pay my organizer dues on Meetup, so I am going to lose my group. This, after I've been on automatic pay for an entire year. And they have no mechanism to take my credit card number other than by computer - and their payment screen doesn't work. Now they are asking me to clear all the cookies off my computer to see if that helps. It's so frustrating. They need some good competition. Is there another website that does the same kind of thing?

I've really enjoyed attending the intermediate/advance conversation group led by Andrei on weekend mornings. The topics are always interesting and the Union Square Barnes and Noble is a great location. Looking forward to going again soon!

Meetup remains a wonderful idea for bringing together like-minded people. Unfortunately, the new web page and its tools for scheduling Meetup events are dreadful. The old system was fine and very easy to use. Like so many other businesses, Meetup has 'thrown the baby out with the bathwater'! A couple of updates and a bit of adjustment would have helped but Meetup techies have abandoned the old web page completely and come up with something which is far from user friendly and has made it much more difficult to schedule and amend events.
The only redeeming feature is that, in order to charge money for an event, you can transfer to the old page!

I have attended a number of meetups. The social ones are ok you meet different people the age group can vary some have certain age ranges those that do not tend to attract older members. Good value for money eg £10 for years membership with unlimited walks. The pub is probably the best part of the walk.

I really wanted to join a book club, but I didn't know how to find one. Someone told me about this site, and I checked it out. I joined a historical fiction book club. The first meeting is today, and I am very excited. This seems like the site to go to if you are looking into social networking in your area.