I have a really big request that should be taken to meetups executive office as quick as possible. This is a win-win for meetup.com and organizers because it will grow meetup.com's revenues and make organizers more happy!

3 Parts Here: (in order of importance)

1.) Offer an Upgrade. A "Non-Branded" site option where an organizer can pay an upgraded (monthly) charge that simply allows the organizer to "Hide" certain advertising sections, including:
• the "We're about:" section
• the "People in this Meetup are also in:" section
• and the entire Meetup header and footer bars with all the links to meetup.com's business.

Saying something in the footer of the website such as; "a meetup.com website" and having meetup.com's logo with a link to meetup.com is fine. But, for this upgraded fee, all else should be optional to "Hide". THIS WILL GROW REVENUES FOR MEETUP.COM. (I would pay more than $19/month for this option)

2.) Reduce the standard monthly fees: THIS WILL GROW REVENUES FOR MEETUP.COM because more groups will stay on board, justifying their monthly costs! Less Loss = More Revenues, and option 1 (above) will offset the cost, however, the execution will keep more groups on board!

3.) Give a 2-week free trial period for new groups! I really don't care about this one, but I think it would help meetup.com collectively when new organizers spend the time to build a site, and collectively with the new lower fees (standard option) as mentioned above in #2, it will be an easy transition to keep more on board, as well as, having recruited more groups from the 2-week free trial!

GENIUS!

Please take this to the executive office.
I AM PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN OPTION 1, to have a non-branded site at an upcharged rate.

Terms of Service Section 5.3 (a) (v) "Grounds for Removal, Sanction and/or Suspension. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the following types of actions are cause for immediate removal, repeal and/or suspension or termination of your account:" (v) "advertise merchandise, auctions, services or commercial websites, including offers to trade or charitable solicitations unrelated to the topic or spirit of the Meetup Group or Meetup Everywhere"

However note (just as an example):
http://www.meetup.com/Premier-Co-ed-Sports/events/76674962/
http://www.meetup.com/Premier-Co-ed-Sports/events/51047782/

Emailing abuse@meetup.com seems to be unresponsive and unwilling to help. They mention a "limited inquiry" but there doesn't seem to be any follow up

If meetup is closing some groups b/c of "commercial interests" why do they allow others to continue to operate?

I would like more options when recording membership dues. As of now the only options are to record the members name, date, and $.

I would like to add the start and end date that the payment pays for.
Also I would like for it to auto email when membership is almost due.
Then suspend member when that date arrives and members payment has not been received.

IE:
Mary Smith/
Received payment/
$6/
On june 17th 2012/
Active July 1 2013/
Next due date Jan 1 2013/
Auto email will be sent 4 week prior or when ever organizer sets date.

Rather than charge our members' dues we offer them products for purchase. The money we raise from our events and from selling goods are used to fund the meetup and provide food and beverages at events. There is no easy way to offer products to our members using the Meetup interface. Please add a page where organizers can post goods for sale and a provide a shopping cart service for members to check out using Amazon payments or PayPal. Similar to how they pay for events. Meetup.com can take a small service charge like eBay does when goods are sold as long as they provide some value such as advertising or the ability for us to also sell directly to customers off Meetup.

For some event's the price is determined by the number of guest attending. Generally the higher the # RSVP's that go the lower the price is at the venue. My suggestion is to factor that in, ie event host can set a price that if 5 people attend the price lowers to X amount, if the rsvp's change to 10 people, the price changes again to reflect the new cost. This can also work in reverse, that if you need a Min # of guest to attend and that # is not met then you can set it to cancle the event if X # of people do not rsvp.