Canceling membership to gym?
polycounter lvl 19
I have a friend that got a membership at gold gym. She hates the place and wants to cancel but the people at gold gym tell her she can't. How legal is this? She got a two year membership at the place.... Seems odd to me that people can't cancel their gym membership especially when it just started.
I did some digging with google and it seems they have a habit of screwing their customers. Any advise would be helpful, and if anyone knows how legal this is... I'm customer service is trained to deny any cancellations. Thanks.
Alex
I did some digging with google and it seems they have a habit of screwing their customers. Any advise would be helpful, and if anyone knows how legal this is... I'm customer service is trained to deny any cancellations. Thanks.
Alex
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She could just stop paying them, but that might hurt her credit.
She could get herself kicked out of the gym. Tell her to go sexually harass people in distasteful but legal ways. Take a shit in the shower. Stuff like that
Gym contracts are a total scam and it's all bs. They should be month to month.
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She could of course look at finding a way of liking the gym. Going at a different time when undesirables arnt there. I wanted to quit the gym once, then I started going at 12midnight and everything was great.
Also look over what the law is in regards to the supply of such services. If you find that the service they provide is not adequate or appropriate (not what you were told you were signing up for) you may be able to get out of it.
or sell the membership on
thats about it
Don't they give you a trial period to see if you like it? How long has she had the membership?
Just stop paying them. If you are within your right to cancel as per the terms of the agreement, don't pay them. Let them know it too. You can shred the bill and mail it back to their office. Send a copy back to their head office as well, and let them know what is up. Then you might try the better business bureau.
Screw googling for info. you get advice from people who will take whatever shit is handed to them quietly without a fight, and then go sit down and post on a board about it, instead of doing something.
Alex
Now LA fitness here in Dallas, I discovered that if you are doing training sessions and you do not call them to cancel after the initial sessions are complete they automatically renew your training sessions and start charging you again. I have 25 sessions remaining from the 37 I paid for. Its been canceled but now i have all these sessions I need to take advantage of in case I move to another state where there is no LA Fitness.
this just smells like bullshit. even cell phones can be canceled with a fee.
i had a Gold Gym membership and also tried to cancel. they are such scum bags. i was talked into getting it with two other co-workers and i was thinking i could make that happen... used it for 2 days, ha. i never really used it, but continued to pay it on the chances i'd use it again. but, i got a new job and flew 2,000 miles away - this was almost exactly a year ago.
i was never able to cancel the membership, it had to expire on it's own (was a year contract) i complained about it in writing and have all the shit i had to do in order to cancel the membership:
that contract i signed that bound me to a Gold's Gym membership had me pretty tied down! the first requirement: Member has to have moved 250 miles away from the Gold's Gym location.
have to write a letter to ABC Financial's headquarters, The company that handles Gold Gym's membership cancellations, requesting they release my membership. along with my "agreement number" which could be found within the contract and request for a draft bill of my $99 cancellation fee.
along with this, since I didn't have a new lease or proof I live in Arizona, I needed my employer to write a letter with official letterhead and return address, proving I am in fact an employee of the company, with an attached pay-stub.
Seriously? They added this shit to their contract, while laughing their asses off, no doubt! I hate them for being so cruel in nature. You can't set these requirements up on accident, like they aren't just following other regulations, they are intentially making it difficult for their customers to cancel a contract. why does it cost $99 to cancel? profit? or expense? it's bullshit man, that's not nice!
I really, really am starting to resent suits. Do they think they're smart for setting up bullshit like this? I mean it works, good for you! i mean statically people won't mail in their rebates, so these people will take advantage of that. wut a fucking twat move. it's unhealthy for the world to think this shit is cool and truly is unethical. i despise forms and contracts and the people behind them, that are intentionally making life needlessly more difficult, just to make a dollar?
deny their gifts as they are ment to harm you. they do not care for you.