I go to 24-Hour Fitness. I bought a all-clubs membership years ago because I travel. I have never had a problem going from one club to another. I bought my membership during their 20th anniversary, so for the last couple of years I only pay $20 for the whole year.
They are okay, they vary from club to club in quality/age of equipment but for a traveler they are consistent. Just don’t use their personal trainers. I received a personal training package for joining and most of their trainers would have a hard time working with anything more complex than a group of Cub Scouts.
The trainers are there to tell the fat chicks that donuts are a good post-workout meal and say things like “looking good” to someone using a machine.
The timing of this thread could not have been better, Just Saturday I recieved a notice of collections reguarding an unpaid debt of $2000 and some change to Gold’s Gym, unfortunately I’ve never been in a Gold’s Gym in my life so needless to say I’ve placed some rather stern phone calls and I’m currently waiting to see how this all plays out. Shitty!
The collection agency that sent the notice has requested a copy of the contract from Gold’s, they said if they can not produce one that is the end of it, other wise? Kinda worried about it though because in college I was a victim of ID theft and had to pay out alot of coin to clear that up and fear this may be something left over from that…
[quote]mazevedo wrote:
This is horse shit. I hate businesses that pull this kind of shit. It always seems to “take 30 days” to cancel anything. Why? All they have to do is punch a few keys on the computer and it’s done. Pure horse shit.[/quote]
Not entirely. At the gym I worked we used a third party company for all of our billing, and they billed on the third. However we had to sent all the billing info out by the 15th of the previous month to them.
So asking for a 30-day gave us about two weeks for a buffer, which we needed because the same office person handled much of the day-to-day stuff with accounts (it was a smaller gym with limited staff).
But it’s well known in the fitness industry (to the point that I’ve overheard other gym owners joking about it at conventions) that contracts are simply a way to get money from people that don’t show up…in fact they count on it.
Another thing tracked by the bigger gym chains is the amount of money you spend per visit. So the soccer moms that put pilates classes and smoothies on their accounts are gold, while those of us that come to the gym 4 times a week and don’t spend money are actually taken for granted.
I’ve been to seminars where it was taught that the top 10% gym goers are actually into fitness and will come to the gym no matter what, so you can almost disregard their wants and you shouldn’t waste your time marketing to them. Talk about irony.
The collection agency that sent the notice has requested a copy of the contract from Gold’s, they said if they can not produce one that is the end of it, other wise? Kinda worried about it though because in college I was a victim of ID theft and had to pay out alot of coin to clear that up and fear this may be something left over from that…[/quote]
It sounds like you just got scammed, my wife had to deal with a lot of this crap too.
"Next, I joined a Gold’s here in town. It was decidedly more ‘dungeon-like,’ and it didn’t appear to have nearly as much chrome. Twenty minutes into my first squat session (and 21 minutes after I’d signed up to join the gym!), the gym attendant came over and told me I had to get out.
Seriously? He said that the next attendant hadn’t shown up and that he would lose his job at Meijer cutting meat if he didn’t get to work.
So what’s worse than getting thrown out on squat day? The next day, the gym was closed for good! So much for that membership and sign-up fee!"
Well, I moved Saturday, and have a lot of settling in here to do.
I went to the Gold’s close to me last night and waited about 50 minutes to speak to someone before leaving.
I was not allowed to work out becuase the Gold’s I signed up at was a franchise and the one I was trying to move to is corporate.
Nonetheless, I left after waiting and was called by a salesman I had spoken to earlier about transfering.
All in all this worked out well for me.
-I pay $10.00 more a month (which is cool with me because they told me if I transfer I may pay more or less depending on the location)
-my contract is now 6 months shorter than the original. The original contract was 2 years and I have only used 6 months of it, and the new contract is 1 year, starting today
I now have access to 15 local Gold’s, as well as any corporate Gold’s across the nation. The old contract gave me access to 2 gyms in the area.
The new Gold’s gave me 2 months free to offset any billing at my old gym, and to make up for the $10.00 additional per month.
Considering everything, this actually worked out well for me.
[quote]Petedacook wrote:
Edders wrote:
Because I was honest enough to give you are true assessment of your failure to actually read a contract BEFORE you sign it?
No, because you are an annoying little boy. [/quote]
No, you see you’re all confused again. Just like the time that you signed that contract without reading it.
You’re still confused I never once said such a thing. You’re just making stuff up now. I said you should have read it. Is reading a contract BEFORE you sign it a bad idea? Is it a put down to tell someone they should do that?
[quote]It is a god dam gym membership twirp, not a 6 figure piece of real estate in Florida.
GO AWAY
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Ha ha…the level of frustration that you are now showing is funny stuff I thank you for the chuckle.
Oh and one more time: READ BFORE YOU SING KNUCKLE HEAD.
I think that Gold’s it is. In addition to the 5 “Gold’s” in our area, they are about to open a “Super Gold’s” with rock climbing, A Water Course, Basketball and Tennis Courts, etc.
These guys, however, are known to be amazing Franchisees and are the best at what they do.
