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

shweddy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• yuknowhokat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t cancel the card, call their dispute department and provide the date you requested cancellation. They will take it from there.

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s assuming it is in fact a credit card.

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• glitch1985@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate to burst your bubble but yes they can. creditcards.com/…/recurring-charges-updater-1275/

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  • shweddy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They can but they don’t do it all the time. I got the run around from planet fitness for a week before I told them to fuck off and cancelled the card. Still haven’t seen a hit to my credit or even a collection letter

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But they’re always out there, waiting, watching.

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      • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yall obs have no exp w gyms. They all have a clause that says if you move they’ll cancel it. Print out generic lease, make address 1234 looney toons, Canada (or as i call it, gay america).

        Its then canceled.

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  • TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    AMEX specifically does this. I had so many problems managing a corporate account with them because dumb salespeople would sign up for bad subscription services they wouldn’t cancel. I’d change their Amex number but they would still carry over the charges from the card we’d deactivated for fraud/theft.

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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even if you remove those places from the “Express List”? But yeah, that sounds typical, they like getting the transaction fees and such. And should you get them to do a chargeback, they take the money back from the merchant as well. It’s a win-win to screw you over.

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      • TwilitSky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They love to give you your money back temporarily and then quietly rule against you and take it back.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They could send you to collections depending on how predictorly they are

  From there they could potentially take you to court. However, I doubt it since that would cost them a fortune.

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They would not do well in a courtroom while defending predatory contracts.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How so?

      The trial will be short as you likely signed a contract. You can’t just not pay because you don’t like the terms.

      The judge follows the law not what is right. We need laws to defend people against predatory companies.

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      • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just because a company puts a bunch of shit into a long contract and you sign it doesn’t mean it’s enforceable. They would say they asked to cancel the membership and there is proof(email). It doesn’t matter what gimmicks a company comes up with to make cancelling difficult. A judge would see right through those tactics.

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      • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The jury, comprised of people who certainly have been fucked similarly, can find in the gyms favor and award them a whopping $1 in damages.

        Good luck convincing regular people bullshit cancellation policy is a gold reason to make someone pay

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• Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because of crazy credit card laws, cancelling the card isn’t enough to end the subscription service. If they were charging a new charge like McMaster charging you for a new part, they would need the card but a magazine subscription or gym membership don’t give a fuck.

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