Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead

• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Then you chargeback the fee and file a complaint with your credit card.

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• northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ll cancel my credit card and get a new one if that’s what it takes for them to stop charging me.

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  • eli@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You signed a contract. So if you cancel your card and ignore their letters/emails/calls, they’ll keep charging you and then send it to collections, which will then garnish your wages unless you fight it in court.

    There’s been numerous examples of this happening. Please get a copy of your contract and read how to cancel it and do it properly.

    It’s stupid and extortion, but you gotta play the game.

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    • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Common sense would dictate that if if presented with a 30 pages contract in small letters in legalese, your usual folk will not get it. I think that’s a common defense.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think that’s a common defense.

        It’s not. Or rather, it is something people commonly try, but it doesn’t work. The court system is designed by lawyers, for lawyers. The idea that a contract isn’t valid just because a non-lawyer can’t understand it just categorically does not fly with them.

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Common sense” is completely and utterly irrelevant to the legal system. It is simply a matter of who can afford a better lawyer. And LA Fitness can hire a better lawyer than you can.

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      • eli@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Look man do whatever you want, it’s not my money, just trying to help

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or you could just not sign a contact to work out.

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    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What info are y’all giving away when signing up for a gym membership where it could even go to collections? Is this for an annual contract? If you’re not on a contract and rack up unpaid months, it seems unlikely to me. Especially for a physical business where a late payment of $20 would deny you entry until you pay. I guess states with poor consumer protection laws this can happen if you sign up for a year or more and don’t pay I guess?

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  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    careful… this may not (most likely won’t) stop authorized contract payments and will only make it so you can’t use the card.

    they can and most likely will continue to charge the account even if the card is cancelled

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    • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Uh. Good to know.

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      • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I dealt with this shit years ago with LA Fitness as well. I wanted to try it, and they said “oh yeah you can sign up and try it out for x days and if you don’t like it, it’s free to cancel” so I said sure. Well I decided to cancel half way through and the sales guy first hit me with the “but I’ll lose the commission and I already spent it” crap, then said they’d cancel it, didn’t, went in to try and cancel, they said “oh you gotta mail a thing in to cancel” by which time there wasn’t enough time for it to get there. So I cancelled my credit card and said 🖕. Got some calls at first about it, then I guess they sold it to a debt collection agency that tried to offer me a lower fee option to recoup their losses but I just ignored their calls after the first one till they stopped. Never did see it hit my credit surprisingly.

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• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sorry to say but you got scammed. They could have tried to take you to small claims court, but the burden is on them not you. The credit card company sided with you, if they have a problem, then can take it up with Visa or whoever, not you.

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