[avinium]

I co-organize a handful of Meetup groups, and we already pay a non-negligible annual fee. There's definitely money to be made.

Most people seem happy shelling out $100-200 per year for a membership. $2 per attendee per event is simply exorbitant, noone will be able to afford that.

It's so bizarrely extreme, I can only assume it's a psychological "anchoring" tactic - a patently ludicrous number that makes the "real" offer (2-3x fee hike) more "reasonable".

[brianbreslin]

So we started our meetup group before meetup.com existed and rely more on eventbrite. If I had been running our events through meetup only and on this fee structure, I'd be paying $400+/month vs the $15 I was ok with paying before to offer a secondary listing of my event. I think the ceiling of fees people are willing to pay is closer to the $15 though.