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By far, the worst Experience that I have ever had with a Meetup Group in Columbus, Ohio was with a Group called, "CBUS Social Professionals 21-45," headed by Organizers, Mark Kido, Ross and Maurice. No one practiced COVID-19 Social Distancing Suggestions, people were extremely rude (Including the Organizers) and the Events were poorly coordinated. The entire Atmosphere was very Immature and Juvenile. I guess it's more a Casual Group for very young people in their early twenties but not one that can be taken seriously as a Legitimate Networking Group.

Worst meeting experience from 21 century

Right now when I write this message I arrive home from a very horrible and terrible and everything you can call it meeting from meetup. I guess this case is worst than anyone here. Take a moment to read. I live in Sydney Australia and an organiser by the name of George was arranging a group in Sydney for social group bla bla bla. Everything seems quite well normal at the first view. I arrive earlier at the meeting and people starting to come. It was planning to be 9 people but the number got increased more so I didn't bother. The meeting was taking place in a restaurant in Sydney. Everything went quite well at the beggining people socialise i listen to them talk to them a little eat drink all good. Then when the meeting was nearly close to the end I ended up speaking with a random guy there about a great opportunity for job which he personally wanted to help me to get involved in industry area while talking relaxing having a drink. Suddenly the organiser took me from the table touching me and was going with me in a different place from the meeting point saying to me that he wants to talk to me. Then fast he humiliates me that I smell so ugly when all the people there was so fine with me and never noticed that and then he said that he personally rejected me from group because of this and after he ask me fast like interrogation where do you live what do you do for living and he looks at me as the last human being from planet like a garbage who is about to throw at the next bin in the street. I ask myself: what is the real purpose of this meetings? When someone in the group tries to help you involving in life having a job the organiser humiliates you in a horrible disgusting way and throw you out like a verm without even doing anything wrong? This meetings supposed to socialise and eventually making friends helping each other with something and this is how you get treated? I strongly recommend when you see this organiser NEVER EVER in your lifetime make deals with him in order to join in his groups. BE AWARE.

I was on MeetUp for a few years but then one day MeetUp just deactivated my account with no warning and would not give any explanation as to why. However I am quite sure that the true reason behind this was because I have had mental health issues, even though they had never caused me to act badly. I just get very anxious sometimes because of traumatic experiences that I have been through, which sometimes people even mistake for being on the autistic spectrum (since the two can apparently get confused).

I also suspect that it may have been related to something that happened on there before when one of the group organisers deliberately spread lies about me to people in an attempt to make me unwell (as far as I can tell). But when I tried reporting this to MeetUp they did nothing about the situation, only to later delete my account instead because it was easier. Making it even harder for me to be healthy by going out and doing stuff.

MeetUp provides ZERO features that could be used to track no-shows. MeetUp has zero incentive to keep groups fresh or encourage attendees to actually honor their RSVP and just keeps raising their price. It's clear that many "attendees" RSVP "yes" to signal interest, but have no intention of actually going. Just took over a group of 600+ members. 99% hadn't even looked at the group in a year. Conversion from member to RSVP is abysmal and chance of an RSVP attending is anywhere from 1 in 3 to 1 in 10, but MeetUp's pricing model is built on inflated numbers. I expect social distancing will take out many MeetUp groups... hopefully it will put MeetUp out of its miserable existence as well.

All Data Engineer's Groups consist of "professionals" who talk for hours on end promoting their sponsors. Best case scenarios are that they would have some freebies from their sponsors and promotional from recruiters to desperate job seekers. That's right. It isn't a group designed specifically for data engineers, no no. It's just bull$#*! marketing. I thought I was going to learn something special. Data enthusiasts are talking of working in Japan, building Rasberry Pis or self driving cars and $#*! is better use cases but these morons cannot stop talking. It's literally tiresome. If you are intelligent, just get your ideas from interest groups on the internet and start your own project to showcase your passion. Don't join groups, there's nothing there.

I went to two meetups in one day. One was fine the organizer a nice guy. The second for happy new beginnings was I thought also fine as it was a drive in movie. That's until the next day when the event organizer Lynne, messaged me To chastise me for not saying hello to her. I had never met her, no idea what she looked like, and as a disabled person not able to walk from car to car to search her out, yet she felt it necessary to ban me from her group bc I didn't formally introduce myself. I should mention she made no effort to come to my car either, just beware many of these organizers are still mentally in high school and full of drama. Which as an adult I don't appreciate so be prepared for a lot of high school theatrics.

"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.

Meetup is expensive and in-effective considering the benefits it provides. I have been a meetup organizer for many years, pay a lot of money and receive very little benefit.

Most people on meetup belong to a large number of groups and are not committed to attend meetings. My observation is even the most popular meetup groups usually only have a few people showing up. $24/month or $200 a year is way too much for what this brings to organizers who end of spending a lot of energy, attention, and money, for no effect.

It is a good concept, but really need better management and consideration for customers.

While we pay around 36.00 Canadian dollars per month for the service it has many technical issues and very poor to little tech support.

Many members have told us they often can't open the app on mobile devices. After having reported this issue many time's, not even a reply to our last reports. Members tend to get frustrated and even leave meetup completely. It affects our ability to retain existing members or obtain new ones. Our group has events everyday and unresolved tech issues over the past year frustrate members who often don't bother with meetup anymore.

After almost 4 years of paying for this service and over 1.400 events held, time to look for something else. They don't even reply these days to tech support tickets created.

In my Personal opinion and experience, don't waste your time building anything with this platform. Waste of your time and resources.