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

• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Exactly. And, often, if one part of the contact is unenforceable, the entire thing is void.

        So, as soon as they try to do illegal shit in the contract, it should be deemed unenforceable and thus void.

        Should.

        I wish there was a government entity or agency that just went around decimating people’s lives for predatory practices like this. Oh? You wanna be an LLC and try an MLM? Straight to jail. You want to capitalize on teenagers’ insecurity by raping their privacy and feeding them ads? Jail. You think you’re gonna make it big by trapping people in predatory gym contracts and make it nearly impossible to leave without paying a bunch of fees? Believe it or not, directly to jail.

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    • wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’ll never see a real courtroom. Instead you’ll only have access to a kangaroo fake court with a fake judge chosen by the company.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not how it works unfortunately

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