Dela
Cathlete
Ok, picking up from MorningStar's thread about the confusion and difficulty to cancel the Go Wear Fit membership....
So, while I was in between homes I needed a gym, so I signed up at an LA Fitness, knowing it would only be for a few months. BTW, the gym is really nice, big, clean, good equipment, but the people I could not stand, it was such a typical steroid filled, pick up joint kind of place, I really was uncomfortable there. And the staff was the sleazy hard sell kind of people, then once you are a member good luck getting some help or even a decent attitude.
Anyway when I went to the front desk to cancel, it was such BS. So to cancel your membership, you have to print out a form, sign it and send it to headquarters, can't just go to the front desk and say I want to cancel, like every other gym I have ever been to. So I do this, mail it in and a few weeks go by, I hear nothing, so I inquire at the front desk, and she replied (snotilly I might add) "did you send it certifiied mail"? I was like NO I did not, why would I have to do that?? She said well, it probably go lost in the mail, and I should send it certified. So I had her print another one, sent it certified and then magically it got canceled.
So of course I googled this, and so many people had THE SAME experience, so LA fitness is trying to say that the Post Office is SO bad, that they are losing every non certified form that is sent to their PO box? I could not believe this, the tactic here was clearly to get at least another months fees out of the members who were canceling by creating a lengthy and unclear process to cancel to start with, then IMO lying that the forms must have been "lost" (hmmm, rhymes with "tossed").
My other 2 recent gyms, NYCS, I went to the front desk, they print a form, you sign it, and in a month, you are free of your membership. A local gym, same thing. LA Fitness could be great, just way too slimy in their operations.
So, while I was in between homes I needed a gym, so I signed up at an LA Fitness, knowing it would only be for a few months. BTW, the gym is really nice, big, clean, good equipment, but the people I could not stand, it was such a typical steroid filled, pick up joint kind of place, I really was uncomfortable there. And the staff was the sleazy hard sell kind of people, then once you are a member good luck getting some help or even a decent attitude.
Anyway when I went to the front desk to cancel, it was such BS. So to cancel your membership, you have to print out a form, sign it and send it to headquarters, can't just go to the front desk and say I want to cancel, like every other gym I have ever been to. So I do this, mail it in and a few weeks go by, I hear nothing, so I inquire at the front desk, and she replied (snotilly I might add) "did you send it certifiied mail"? I was like NO I did not, why would I have to do that?? She said well, it probably go lost in the mail, and I should send it certified. So I had her print another one, sent it certified and then magically it got canceled.
So of course I googled this, and so many people had THE SAME experience, so LA fitness is trying to say that the Post Office is SO bad, that they are losing every non certified form that is sent to their PO box? I could not believe this, the tactic here was clearly to get at least another months fees out of the members who were canceling by creating a lengthy and unclear process to cancel to start with, then IMO lying that the forms must have been "lost" (hmmm, rhymes with "tossed").
My other 2 recent gyms, NYCS, I went to the front desk, they print a form, you sign it, and in a month, you are free of your membership. A local gym, same thing. LA Fitness could be great, just way too slimy in their operations.
