kcreviews
map-marker Berkeley, California

Meetup is for fools

Not talking about any local meetup group or meetup community. This is about the company and the platform.

They spread propaganda of "community" and "connection." But in reality, they leverage their paying subscribers called "organizers" by having them do all the work, assume all the risks and liabilities of practically running their own little companies, let them drive themselves crazy marketing their groups. This gives the Meetup platform high visibility, which in turn attracts more members many of which try "organizing" (and paying for) their own online groups. The cycle perpetuates. This has been going on for years.

Yet there's no service. The company is poorly run. In fact, there's no management. Their offices in New York is "organically" self-guided by teams where employees pick only what they want to work on. There's no accountability. There's absolutely no customer service. Organizers are neither customers nor employees nor independent contractors. Nobody answers the phone. No online contact. No immediate email reply (usu. 48 hr response by an intern who can't understand English). They censor their forums. They ban organizers from posting criticism. Their platform has always been buggy.

Now they abruptly change everything yet again to what they call "New Meetup" without warning nor instructions. Everybody is even more confused and pissed. They don't beta test anything. They don't listen to organizers who are their paying revenue base. They downright embarrass them. They use them as guinea test pigs. What pompous arrogant disrespect! Oh there's also a systematic diversion to another website called UserVoice to placate angry customers who try to offer suggestions for improvement. It's all an extremely shrewd, sinister and brilliant scheme. Most scams are.

Top management will continue cheering about themselves as a "tool" for "better communities." This is the most egregious twist. Their investors and parent company (eBay) must be proud. Yet the only source of revenue for them is actually the organizers. They continue to sucker their organizers into thinking their preferences matter.

No wonder their site traffic is going down month over month, year over year. While Yelp, Groupon and BigTent traffic keeps increasing. Check out SiteAnalytics at Compete dot com. And they still don't get it. It's just blind arrogance. They know they've got the organizers "by the balls" and they think that's all they need.

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Guest

I've literally closed down my group and unsubscribed from being an organizer since I managed to find one person that I did not know previously for the group. I know I canceled because money is tight and come for renewal, it was active again.

I sent an email the day of the renewal and again unsubbed to literally still be charged and not hear back from anyone after either of my three emails I sent regarding canceling. I've never done a chargeback with anyone for anything but it's ridiculous that I can't cancel especially considering that I had already deleted the pathetic group I had the sub for.

Guest

New online web services are poping up now Meetup is doomed as long aas everyone leaves and tells their stories about what meetup does to them.

Guest

Amen Brother. Poorly written software has not been significantly improved in years!

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kcreviews
map-marker Berkeley, California

Hilltop Ford service sucks

I think five out of five times is enough. Today, again after so many years, I took my vehicle in for service at Hilltop Ford in Richmond CA. These people don't know *** about their own cars. They don't know *** about vehicle servicing, mechanical issues, automobiles in general... They don't know *** about customer service, running a business, how to be helpful... Heck, these idiots don't know ***, period! With $500 cash in hand, I went in for a tranny fluid change. After some idiotic discussions with the guy in shirt and tie, then again with his big manager sitting at his comfy desk, I was so disappointed and distrustful that I turned around and walked out. On the way out, I had a disgusting "ground hogs day" moment "โ€ร‚ย several years ago, I had experienced the same frustration there! And that was after remembering they had ruined my brakes. Why do I keep giving them another chance?! I had already vowed to NEVER go back, but simply forgotten my vows! Holy crappola. I. Must. Avoid. This. Place. Forever.
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kcreviews
map-marker Berkeley, California

Bosch tankless water heater

I will definitely NOT buy another Bosch water heater. When you call up Bosch for a warranty question, an annoying operator screens your call, puts you on hold to transfer to Tech Support. Then some arrogant lady will ask you about the size of your closet, the size of your incoming vent, outgoing vent, flue diameter, flue length, roof cap type, whether or not you have the particle tray installed "โ€ every conceivable circumstance that has nothing to do with the fact that your heater has been working fine for nearly two years. She will hesitate upon hearing your answers as if you did something wrong to cause it to break. Actually she's just writing down notes and reading off a tech manual, then she pretentiously tells you to do this and that as if it's as easy as clicking items on a screen, as if she's the total pro. Her attitude is like, "if you don't feel comfortable doing it, maybe you should hire a professional." Then, after all that, she tells you to download a tech bulletin and follow those directions. Same thing, but they enjoy herding around *** people who buy their product. Definitely NOT ready for prime time.
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:cry mine sucks 2

Guest

I purchased a tankless Bosch water heater about a year ago and it has NEVER worked right! The company that installed it admitted it was the 1st one thay had ever done and Bosch support is very poor!

It still does not work right and I cannot afford to replace it! I am going to keep pestering Bosch untill it gets fixed.

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kcreviews
map-marker Berkeley, California

Light in the box dot com [China] is your top loser bet

Want to throw your money away real fast and get frustrated at the same time? Order something from Lightinthebox (dot com)! They are a Chinese company that lures internet shoppers with fantastic deals. I had to gamble with them because I couldn't find a video door phone anywhere at a decent price. My first hesitation was having to use my PayPal account. *** me. But for $140 (compared to $500 elsewhere), I bit the bullet. They put emphasis on pre-sales promises, so you feel good until you commit your money. Product that arrived didn't even have a U.S. compatible plug. It took weeks of delayed email back and forth to clear that one little mistake they made. It took more weeks for them to ship an adapter. It took still more weeks of slow, delayed, annoyingly bottom priority email that they hardly read or understand to get a tracking number for the adapter. Sorry but they got your money already. You get the slowest parcel post mail without tracking. In the meantime, they repeatedly send you the refund form to fill out because that's they first reaction. Or maybe they're so used to it. But you won't get your $40 shipping cost refunded. And you have to pay your own $40 shipping to send the item back. And they won't refund until they get back their *** item. Lo and behold, the rinky *** power adapter arrives. It's the cheapest plastic thingy ever. And still, the device does not work. It compares to a pop-up toy that comes out of a gumball machine. So yes I have to consider shipping it back at my cost because there's no warranty. I'm a loser. I gambled, and I lost.
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Guest

Apparently, light in the box modify the customer reviews. If a review is not favorable, they delete it.

I had a few questions posted where I rated 1 or 2 stars, today, they\'re gone. They kept the 5 star one. Plus the ratings are not true ratings as questions are being posted as 5 star satisfactory ratings. This company is a scam and hopefully people stop buying..

Ocassionally they will pretend to be satisfied customers and post an email address for you to contact them... It is still them trying to bias the market and consumers...

They have some wicked tactics, but consumers are buying and being cheated and stolen from, but we still buy until we learn individually. I bought myself because of the mixed reviews, but I have learned the reality.

Guest

The comment above is scripted and what they tell everyone for every solution. They think the consumers are fools in the first place to buy something based off flashing photos on their website.

I purchased an 8inch epad and Lo and behold the android market is the chinese market. I thought it was a simple fix to convert to the english market but it seems the install chinese android market behaved like its online but not even so. It might be fixed. When I go to google online and try to download an app, I get an error stating that I have no device in my market acct.

Google tells me they will recognize my device if I download an app from the market. Well, the market on the device apparently is not a U.S market hence not recognized when I download apps... I spent hours of frustration trying to download the US market or convert from chinese to english. I emailed them, and the same *** everyone complained about.

But I wanted to give them a try and I did, to the tune of $120.00.. I'll probably throw the pad out so I don't have to see it and get upset, it'll be a figment of my imagination.

Guest

I bought a call phone w007 from Light in the box that came with two batterys and it saying it standby will be 400 Hours but it only lasted 10 hours for both battery combine. My wife say it was junk, and something it will turning by itself, do I get a replacement from Light on the box??

P/s Do light in the box got email address?

Regards

Robert

Chin1958@***.net

Guest

Dear Customer,

On behalf of LightInTheBox.com, I would like to apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced while shopping with us. We very much appreciate your feedback and comments as we are constantly trying to improve our products and service.

I encourage you and all other customers who have any issues with LightInTheBox.com to please contact me at contact@***.com.

Again, we are terribly sorry for the trouble.

Regards,

Diana

LightInTheBox

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