Or you could just not sign a contact to work out.
Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead
eli@lemmy.world 22 hours agoYou 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.
snooggums@piefed.world 22 hours ago
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?
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.
grue@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
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.
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.
eli@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Look man do whatever you want, it’s not my money, just trying to help