Meet ups
Watch this postThe idea of this seems to be good, just click on an interest and off you go, this may be the case for some who have tried but it can also be fraught with rip offs. Apparently Meet Up (faceless/robotic organisation) charge a fee to anyone using them as a launching pad, still trying to find out what this fee is! Then what happens is some individuals have created certain meet ups and charging people a set fee per year. How does this work?
I would look at meet ups as something to possibly delve in to now and again, maybe join a few walks or whatever/whenever. Say for arguments sake someone set up a social group and decide to ask £5 per year from anyone joining, they could get 10/20/30 or more, even at 30 at £5 per head they are making £150 yet they could be here today, gone tomorrow, we may have an email address for them or even met them once or twice, but they could disappear in a whisper, of course reading the Meet up site, they don't involve themselves in any disputes with such things so just when something looks to be good it is ripe for fraud.
I have asked one person with a group who wanted money up front (to cover his costs!!) to tell me how much he has had to pay the Meet up site but fobbed off...Humm Would you pay a sum up front for joining a meet up?
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