Meetup

I signed up for the seven day free trial. I canceled prior to the seven days ending. They continue to bill me $4.99 a week $20 a month. They have yet to give me credit and continue to bill. What a scam. Beware of signing up for the free trials, not worth it! Show details

Weirdly the guy NF from a Qld Seniors meet up suddenly refunded my money and eliminated me from his group without explanation but if i had broken any rules I wouldnt have gotten the monies back. Never met the guy nor chatted on the phone. Assume jealous single women behind this? Really we are Seniors. Deleted my Meet Up membership wont bother… Read more

for some time as still grieving loss of the best Dad ever. I would only bother again maybe to start my OWN group?

Waste of time, the burger meetup in Brisbane was done once a fortnight and I did not meet anyone.

The platform is unstable, uploading and editing events is time consuming and the site is glitchy- both the ap and the desktop versions. And due to some bizarre error all of my network and upcoming events were deleted and cannot be retrieved. Customer service is COMPLETELY USELESS!!! Apparently they are unable to provide refunds when they make a mistake. Furious. Do not recommend. Show details

The app is quite flawed; I'd confirm the frustrations of various paying users, who, in trying to cancel, are forced to jump through arduous, and maybe impossible, hoops. (It's why there is a widespread reluctance to subscribe to anything nowadays. A prevailing business model of many operators is to get subscriptions for substandard apps and… Read more

services, then to cash in on subscribers who seek to cancel, but cannot, or cannot be bothered to jump through those hoops, phone their bank, which has their own hoops, like being put on hold for inordinate lengths of time; frequently being cut off with no resolution.

Even attending to the meet ups is fraught. The MeetUps (in Sydney Australia) seem infested with people who are really there "looking for love"; normal of course, but incongruous, and particularly unpleasant when certain of them try various ploys to make competing males appear foolish, or otherwise undesirable. I had a MeetUp leader do that to me, leading me to cut my meet up short part way; I have better ways to spend my time. The fool was clearly in it to find copulative partners.

And too often I've felt the women assume I'm there to sniff around their derrières for 'availability'. Very embarrassing! Particularly disconcerting because I know too well that any relationships with "Lo-IQ" types just won't work. (*PS My IQ is high enough to know that it's only one element in what makes a person truly intelligent. For more on this, please google: Richard Feynman's IQ.)

Can't see who you are meeting? DANGEROUS – Can you believe that, given the many issues regarding women's safety, Meetup requires you to pay to see who's hiking with you before you go off into the wild blue yonder? Paywall some features to stay viable, but to deny you the ability to make an informed decision about who you feel safe with is stupidly dangerous.

crazy expensive, crap app – Costs crazy amount to start a meetup group ($99 USD for 6months currently) when most apps or websites let you do it for free (facebook) not worth the money at all

Meetup is a ripoff – As a long term user of Meetup I am frankly annoyed and disappointed at the ridiculous costs associated with managing a group - over $500 aud per year. Add that to the poor functionality, limited usability, clunky and counter intuitive design and you get an ap that is designed to rip people off. Its not a community building tool at all. If you… Read more

are looking to open a social group in Australia - do not use meetup as the platform unless you want to pay $$$$$$$$$$ for limited cut through. Meetup is now just a money funnelling venture for the ap owners.

MEETUP - NOT recommended – Very user UNfriendly app and website. Meetup Inc. is constantly 'updating' the functions in it's app and website, however these only make it harder for the user and the event organisers to use. They should not be called 'updates' they are actually 'downdates' as they cause new and more problems. There are constant glitches and 'error messages'… Read more

when trying to schedule a new event. Meetup Inc. doesn't seem to care. They don't reply to messages, nor fix the problems. Very frustrating to use Meetup. Don't sign up - better to find some other group for organizing social events.

Bullying group leader is contravening Article 19 of The Univeral Declaration of Human Rights – I had many positive experiences with Meetup. Unfortunately I have been severely and illegally bullied by a Meetup group leader and they have made it virtually impossible to report him.

Tonnes of spam email that's difficult to unsubscribe from – I joined meetup. I get tonnes of spam emails. No worries I'll click unsubscribe. It takes you to their web page instead where you have to sign in and not clear where you actually can unsubscribe from. Show details

Terribly designed website and app, targeted towards making money over trying to get people together – After being an organiser for 3 years and signed up as a paid subscription for 1 of those years, I let my group lapse with over 500 members because I couldn't afford it anymore. The subscription fees were always in US dollars, so it was always a really high fee to pay, and trying to get any sort of money out of regulars was a chore because people… Read more

don't want to be paying for a service they may not use or believe they should only pay for if they attend an event. Our group was primarily single people looking for friends, not a dating group. There were 2 apps, one for regular users, and one for organisers. Both did some things that the other app couldn't do, both stopped working randomly at different times, which was particularly rough when the only way to message people was via the app or website, so if that was down and people were trying to get info about where to meet on the day then they couldn't attend the event. I found Meetup's true nature when I mentioned we had over 500 people who were just looking for something to do to be beneficial to their mental health and prevent loneliness. They didn't care, they only wanted money from organisers and didn't care about the welfare of its members. When I initially tried to get Paypal set up to allow members to contribute to organiser fees, I found out that only US citizens were allowed to set this up on their own. After multiple emails and support requests with Meetup, they finally enabled Paypal payments to be added after32 weeks. Just a terrible IT-based system they were running. Although it wasn't exactly what I wanted, I preferred to have a membership fee set up for everyone to pay on their own, but for some reason they couldn't even offer this for Australians, so I had to offer individual Paypal event fees. They didn't offer any other option to pay, so those people who didn't use Paypal simply couldn't pay or attend that event. Meetup didn't give an option to do one or the other, it had to be all members using Paypal, or no members use it. I admit that Meetup got enough people together in groups to go out and have dinners and picnics and trivia nights and other fun social events like lawn bowls and drinks, but that was the only positive I got out of it, and the only reason I gave it 2 stars instead of one. Luckily I've found a few friends I keep in touch with which I'm very thankful for, and we use Whatsapp and Facebook to keep in touch because it doesn't charge high fees like Meetup does. I constantly see Meetup groups close every month because users simply can't afford to keep it active, and Meetup doesn't seem to care about cost of living expenses. They are a profit driven company with a website and app they have no interest in maintaining, and a business model aimed at squeezing money out of people over making any real effort to get people to meet each other. They leave all the socialising and organsing up to the members, and don't help in any way. In the end, I can't support a business that can't support me.

No way to cancel subscription and they're ignoring my emails to do so – Created a group and paid for an Organizer subscription at a hefty USD35/month. Decided to cancel after one month but their own instructions on how to cancel are redundant - they point to a "cancel subscription" button on a page, which doesn't exist. In its place instead is a "contact billing support" link which requires you to fill out a form.… Read more

I've done it twice and on both occasions I've received autoresponder emails to say someone would get back to me. I'm still waiting as I write this.

System designed to lock you in – I joined up with a paid subscription so that I could promote various social activities. I was keen to give this platform a go. People expressed interest but few actually came so I decide to cancel. The system repeatedly stopped me from cancelling. It is dishonest and time consuming. I do not expect to have to go into a battle to cancel a subscription. Show details

Please dont think the women there are looking for date, they would be on an actual dating site – This is why I find meetup annoying as a female host: Most of the RSVPs are the rejects from online dating. Meetup isn’t for dating unless specified. No body wants people who dont speak English or desperate old entitled men. It would be better if guys weren’t really on the site at all. They’re more of a pest to the women who use the events purposefully.

Meetup well is ok – Meetup well is ok I have been with meetup for about 12 months What I found out is this The good • Make new friends • Lots of events mostly free • Have been an event organiser for about 6 mouths • Lot of free events but have to pay for you own food and drinks The very bad Mostly 60 to 70% single never married guys that come to events around… Read more

the 45 age group upwards. (more men than women)

Some events ask for a $4.00 fee to attend I never go and just want your money some events can clash some people are very clickey

Over all give it a go look for the groups that interest you

i went to a event 20 guys and 2 women this happens most of the time. too many single guys in Aust

Awful App – I have been an organiser and co-organiser of Meetup for several years now and while I think Meetups are great for meeting new people, the App itself is a bit of a bad joke. When you want to make changes to your profile or profile picture, only part of it changes. Most people now have several photos of themselves, some are sidewise and the old ones… Read more

just can't be deleted. Meetup fees for organisers are well over $300. Come on, you can do better than that, Meetup!!!

Waste of time – I have been going to Meetup, Newcastle & Lake Macquarie for almost a year now and find it more & more frustrating. I am an older educated male. Yes, it is not a singles group but a social group, but it even fails at that. There are a number of reasons why it is not working for me and many men: 1. It is biased towards women who only want to get… Read more

together with other women for endless coffee shop or overpriced cafe food. 2. Member are mostly not very bright and have poor communication skills. 3. Because of the above 2 points, they can be very cliquey and keep new chums on the outer. After all, people want to go out and meet people and talk. Not all hosts are guilty of this, but many are. You’re left with an empty ‘I’m a loser’ feeling after the outing. 4. Most men want to meet someone to form a closer friendship. This is not the setting for you! You will be left with an empty, what a waste of time feeling for all your trouble of going out. 5. At least membership is generally free, that’s the best bit. Guys, if you’re after a lady, go overseas as the women in Meetup will waste your time. Glad I had my fun while I was younger.

Meetup is not good to help organisers, but good to get our membership money! – They have made it impossible to communicate to get an answer from Meetup. Emails get automated replies to look at the range per-digested frequently asked questions! However, they are promptat debiting my card automatically to get their membership. Also, I had to ask for help from another member to be able to become organiser and learn how to set up my event because there was no proper help on their website! Show details