Anytime Fitness Membership

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  • rodnichols69
    rodnichols69 Posts: 83 Member
    ortega1990 wrote: »
    Wow... people shouldn't be afraid to try to cancel their gym membership! You are the customer and the customer is always right. There is something wrong when companies do the hard sell and then penalize the customer for not being happy. It makes me crazy. :noway:

    A contract is binding and you're only a customer until you cancel. Gyms aren't about making people healthy, they are about making money.
  • allother94
    allother94 Posts: 588 Member
    edited February 2020
    If all else fails, you can block them from charging you with your bank and dare them to sue you when they call. You can keep going to the gym until they cancel your membership. Once they cancel your membership, they have broken the contract and can only collect for the time before the cancelation in court. Hardly worth for them.
  • SnifterPug
    SnifterPug Posts: 746 Member
    allother94 wrote: »
    If all else fails, you can block them from charging you with your bank and dare them to sue you when they call. You can keep going to the gym until they cancel your membership. Once they cancel your membership, they have broken the contract and can only collect for the time before the cancelation in court. Hardly worth for them.

    Rubbish. As soon as you stop paying you are the one who has broken the terms of the contract. I agree it is unlikely they are going to go to court about it, but the option is there for a bloody-minded gym owner. Also, if there is a daily rate (which some gyms have, though not AF in my experience) they might be within their rights to charge you the even higher daily rate for every day you attend the gym after stopping your monthly payment, were you to follow this idea.
  • allother94
    allother94 Posts: 588 Member
    edited February 2020
    SnifterPug wrote: »
    allother94 wrote: »
    If all else fails, you can block them from charging you with your bank and dare them to sue you when they call. You can keep going to the gym until they cancel your membership. Once they cancel your membership, they have broken the contract and can only collect for the time before the cancelation in court. Hardly worth for them.

    Rubbish. As soon as you stop paying you are the one who has broken the terms of the contract. I agree it is unlikely they are going to go to court about it, but the option is there for a bloody-minded gym owner. Also, if there is a daily rate (which some gyms have, though not AF in my experience) they might be within their rights to charge you the even higher daily rate for every day you attend the gym after stopping your monthly payment, were you to follow this idea.

    They can hold you to a contract unless they violate the terms. Yes, not paying means you violated the terms and they can sue you. However, they cannot sue you if they also break the terms.

    Regardless, I’ve done this and it works. Does not harm your credit. They can only sue you for the amount you owe under the terms of the contract, which you are out of pocket for anyway. But you should only do this if all else fails.

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