Austin J.

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.