Cancelling Gym Membership
Jul 14th 2006, 3:40 am
#16
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Re: Cancelling Gym Membership
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Jul 15th 2006, 2:39 am
#17
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Joined: Mar 2004
Location: Smack bang in the middle of the Bible belt...
Posts: 77
Re: Cancelling Gym Membership
Originally Posted by Rompers
I have just had the following conversation with a rep from National Fitness Financial Systems.
Me: I'm moving back to the UK and I'd like to cancel my gym membership
Rep: You need to send us proof you are moving more than 25 miles away
Me: What do you need?
Rep: Something with your name and your new address on it
Me: I don't have anything I haven't got there yet
Rep: Or a signed affidavit from a lawyer
Me: I'm not hiring a lawyer to cancel my gym membership
Rep: Then you can't cancel
Me: OK. Well I'm closing my US bank account when I move so you will be trying to bill a non-existent account
Rep: After 30 days we will notify our collections agency
Me: Do you think they are going to find me? Do you think they have jurisdiction in the UK? are you going to extradite me for a $40 membership fee?
Rep: I cannot go into their procedures, sir
Me: Goodbye.
Me: I'm moving back to the UK and I'd like to cancel my gym membership
Rep: You need to send us proof you are moving more than 25 miles away
Me: What do you need?
Rep: Something with your name and your new address on it
Me: I don't have anything I haven't got there yet
Rep: Or a signed affidavit from a lawyer
Me: I'm not hiring a lawyer to cancel my gym membership
Rep: Then you can't cancel
Me: OK. Well I'm closing my US bank account when I move so you will be trying to bill a non-existent account
Rep: After 30 days we will notify our collections agency
Me: Do you think they are going to find me? Do you think they have jurisdiction in the UK? are you going to extradite me for a $40 membership fee?
Rep: I cannot go into their procedures, sir
Me: Goodbye.
Yea.. I ended up paying an extra month last year when cancelling.. this was after trying to cancel over the phone but they insisted that I go in and cancel. When I went in they wanted to know why I was cancelling... I pointed out that I was 8 months pregnant and had not used it for many months. At this point they said that I should still be using the gym ... I bit my tongue and said nothing (I realise I should have been but it was none of their friggin business!). They then pointed out that I could cancel if i signed but I would be charged another month per our agreement. What agreement?? It turns out that I needed to give them like 6 weeks notice of cancelling to get out of it without any damage either to my pride or my finances!! I was sooo mad that I just walked out, only to go home, read the agreement (which I had agreed to) and then go back to sign the new agreement to cancel everything!!
So.. next gym, which I was already a member of at the same time and the one of the reasons for not attending the first gym. I at this point made sure that I was not going to be in the same predicament with this gym.. answer was 'no... you will be fine'. I had my membership 'on hold' for 6 months whilst pregnant but was paid up for 9 months which was their policy... I eventually got to the doors of my gym some months after having my baby only to find that they had gone bust!!! They got at least 6 months worth of money out of me!!!!!!
Bitches!
Jul 15th 2006, 3:53 am
#18
UK & US Citizen
Joined: Jul 2003
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 1,276
Re: Cancelling Gym Membership
Originally Posted by jobyone1
Yea.. I ended up paying an extra month last year when cancelling.. this was after trying to cancel over the phone but they insisted that I go in and cancel. When I went in they wanted to know why I was cancelling... I pointed out that I was 8 months pregnant and had not used it for many months. At this point they said that I should still be using the gym ... I bit my tongue and said nothing (I realise I should have been but it was none of their friggin business!). They then pointed out that I could cancel if i signed but I would be charged another month per our agreement. What agreement?? It turns out that I needed to give them like 6 weeks notice of cancelling to get out of it without any damage either to my pride or my finances!! I was sooo mad that I just walked out, only to go home, read the agreement (which I had agreed to) and then go back to sign the new agreement to cancel everything!!
So.. next gym, which I was already a member of at the same time and the one of the reasons for not attending the first gym. I at this point made sure that I was not going to be in the same predicament with this gym.. answer was 'no... you will be fine'. I had my membership 'on hold' for 6 months whilst pregnant but was paid up for 9 months which was their policy... I eventually got to the doors of my gym some months after having my baby only to find that they had gone bust!!! They got at least 6 months worth of money out of me!!!!!!
Bitches!
So.. next gym, which I was already a member of at the same time and the one of the reasons for not attending the first gym. I at this point made sure that I was not going to be in the same predicament with this gym.. answer was 'no... you will be fine'. I had my membership 'on hold' for 6 months whilst pregnant but was paid up for 9 months which was their policy... I eventually got to the doors of my gym some months after having my baby only to find that they had gone bust!!! They got at least 6 months worth of money out of me!!!!!!
Bitches!
