Sounds like the behavior of a cult leader.Zeke_the_Meek wrote: So it looks like he's doing a two-teired approach - meet at the carpark, then off to the secret venue once he's vetted the group. Nothing surprising there.
My guess us that some past venues have realized after the fact that they rented out their halls to somebody engaged in a fraud. It doesn't seem to me that Peter goes back to the same place twice, but I could be wrong.
The meet-at-the-car-park ploy suggests Peter knows if he publicizes the meeting site all somebody (debunker, dissatisfied WeRe customer, the last pub owner) has to do is send the venue an email telling them what WeRe bank is all about and then he's out in the street.
I hadn't considered the notion that Peter would vet the group to see if their is a non-believer in the crowd. This is in character with his move to make the WeRe forum a closed group. If Peter is worried that a "troll" might join the group then one would figure that he's planned to have the muscle on site to tell the interloper that he's not going to be joining the group.
Speaking of muscle, ya' gotta' figure that out of all the disappointed WeRe bank clients there's going to be a couple who aren't going to take Peter's jive talk about how and why their checks are bouncing and decide to do something about it.
Maybe it's these folks Peter wants to keep out of the meeting.