Meetup apologizes for confusion, but will continue testing paid RSVPs

Meetup’s CEO has apologized for “confusion” after the event organization platform faced backlash for testing a fee to RSVP to events. David Siegel, the company’s CEO, said the $2 per RSVP was a “limited test,” but indicated that the test would continue.

Meetup replaced the page explaining this payment test with Siegel’s apology letter. In it, he says Meetup is not in the process of shifting over to a “massive payment change” and that the limited test only applied to a few hundred groups in two US states. The letter also says Meetup is in the process of “exploring many options” to consider how to make pricing more fair for event organizers, and leaves the door open to making major payment changes so long as it gives the community “advance...

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