Gym double charging making me angry

You know the same thing happened to me 10 years ago I could not get them to stop charging me twice. I cacelled the whole thing, they never gave me my money back. After repeted calls, I just droped it. Sometimes fighting is not worth it.

The sales people make commissions off new accounts so they knew they were leaving and figured they would double their commissions. Bastards! Good luck!

 

This is exactly why Bally's charges more if you insist on monthly mailed bills; so they can put you in their automatic overcharging program.

After you quit, it will take another year long fight to get them to stop the monthy charges.

Avoid the hassle, pay the extra $$ and mail it in.

 

Wow, is this actually usable advice from darth?

Would this be a first?

 

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WHAT !!!!!! DOUBLE CHARGING YOU !!!!??????? i would go up their grab the 25 lb dumbell [ not noah ] and start swinging it around like a retard, knocking some serious heads.....

 

hahaha

 

Bally's are frauds, period.

Google around and you will find several class actions and government suits against them and their fraudulent billing and sham debt collection practices. I just wish I would have known before becoming a victim myself.

 

Who's your gym?

If you're in LA, I've got a great membership at Gold's in Hollywood. They just upgraded all the equipment and the staff is excellent. I also got a yearly membership for my GF last year for $500 for the first two years (paid both upfront) and then she's locked into $200 a year if she wants to renew. It didn't take much bartering to get her those deals. Full access and free classes included.

IMO anytime you can get a membership for under $20 a month you’re doing well.

I'd gotten my membership there about three years ago during a "sign your friends and family up at your rate" promotion. Luckily my friend had worked there, so she'd gotten a smoking rate. They begrudgingly allowed me sign up with the same contract. $120 a year. They groan every time I pay my membership and SWEAR they'll never run that promotion again.

 

Yeah! We'll show them! Let's boycott!

Oh yeah, about lunch, which Pizza joint was that again?

 

A judge is going to ask you where you could have earned a 20% return on your money for the time frame. Caulk it up to a learned experience. If you must give out a credit card for something like a gym, sign up for a card exclusively for purpose. I get ten credit card applications a week in the mail. Open yourself five or six accounts and keep the cars in your safe at home and do not use them for normal daily purposes. When you join a club, gym, whatever, bring one of the non-used cards to open the account.

The concept of double billing is the hope that your monthly statement is ten pages long and you miss the error. Some people use their credit card at McDonalds for a $2.43 purchase, so their statements must require several stamps.

If you have a Discover card that you only use for the gym account, you can simply not pay Discover and still have good credit with your daily use credit card.

 

Hey, now THAT'S using your head! I surely wouldn't have thought of that!

....and after all your whining, you suggest that others act as deadbeats? Who do you email at the collection agency to nag about the calls you get?

What a surprising Discovery!

 

Is that how simple it is? Do you have experience in this field of not paying your debts? I'm sure Discover would love to find out where you are.

Bruce's righthand man.

PS FILL OUT YOUR PROFILE!

 

You do understand that if you do not pay one card, that it effects your TOTAL credit history which will effect your "daily use card"

 

Not if you whine REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLY hard!!

 

how does one whine really hard as opposed to just whining?

 

That's not for me to say.

 

We are not discussing a legitimate charge, so paying Discover 50% of the bill and protesting the other 50% is not being a deadbeat. The time for a chargeback to occur is about 90 days. Your credit history will not receive a strike against it if you pay the legtimate half of the bill and you fight the other half. If you use your daily use card and have such a problem they could turn you off during resolution, thus hampering every aspect of your life. If Discover turns you off, your only downside is the gym and since you already paid double, you have no fears. I never suggested people stiff Discover out of legitimate charges, I simply showed a way to prevent such a problem from hampering your ability to purchase gasoline or groceries if you choose to do so via your daily use credit card. I highly doubt Discover will place you for collection either, since you are paying the part you agree is legtimate. It is much harder to get a refund from the gym than it is to just not pay that half of the invoice. If you feel better paying 100% of the bill and hoping for a satisfactory resolution later, all I can say is good luck with that. If you happen to come across the gym when they are about to file bankrupcy, you will never see the overcharges again. Double billing is a scheme to try to stay afloat when done on purpose, those ideas do not enter the mind of an honest business person making a good profit. In the end, you must do what you are comfortable with, I am more comfortable fighting the invoice and having the money in my account than trying to get my money back.

 

thats why I work out at home.

 

I think there was a special deal at Rick's Haus of Pizza. BTW, why does he have a GERMAN name on his pizza? Why not Casa di Pizza?

BTW, we got those massive chicken legs you recommended, although we ended up with the honey garlic instead... they are very good.

 

call a news station to send out a crew to come out and investgate a fraud. give them the name of the manager and watch how fast your billing gets cleared up once they see their gym smeared all over the news.

 

or just rub mario's wife's new rack for good luck

 

stand in line...

 

hahaha i can imagine it now

wife: mario, they need massaging now just like the doctor told us to
mario: oh do i gotta
noah: no prob mario, I got you covered
noah: john, put on some damn pants!
john: F off, these bolt ons are mine
darth: *insert insult*
matteo: *insert offensive comment*
Rob Lay: Sorry everyone, matteo is banned...again
darth: OWNED!
DM: *insert words of wisdom topped off with a sneer about being old*
Peter: I should start a new thread on this
patty mac: sorry dave for calling you drunk again
bruce: SHUT UP YA PRICK YOU KNOW YOU WERE ON PROBATION WITH US
carbon: come guys, you can't do it right! pretend you are waxing a black enzo
jason: hey noah, i'll let you bang my fiancee if you lemme cut in front of you
Uro: wait til my patients hear about this!
Dane: this is gonna be almost as good as blowing stuff up
Gus: Can't wait til it is my turn
John: F U, you don't like girls!

 

You are a wellspring of information. I'm facinated by your business concept...

"Steal money to gain income until you BK and screw everybody"

Are you from Nigeria?

(not that there's anything wrong with that )