I go to visit Bailey Gym over on Dixie Highway. They have a special and I am using quote marks over "special", 10 days visit for 5 dollars. Sounds like a nice way to try out a gym. Right? Ok, I go in, they make you sign a waiver against injury, etc... then they sit you down and go over the membership rates. Typical. Now - pay attention, this is what confuses me - they ask you if you want to join and give you this rate of $XXX.xx (of course that I say NO I want to try it out first) well they say INSTEAD of signing a contract, just to INITIAL it at the bottom to show that the employee did attempt to sell the club to me. So I initial it, work out for ten days, and leave. They ask you use your debit or credit card to pay the $5 because they "don't have change for a $20 downstairs."
Now, a friend of mine (who went with me, but never worked out) calls me and tells me that last week he found out that a Bailey in CA was billing him about $78 per month for a membership he never signed up for. Like I, he went and used his debit card to pay the $5 and then didn't work out at all because he didn't like their leg equipment, he just used the tanning bed and never came back after that day. After he tells me about this, I look over my bank records and LO AND BEHOLD there it is - Baileys $65 per month draft. For three months previously. I call them and get the run around. I call the billing office and still no one gives me any answers, so I tell them I am canceling the draft and having my bank recovery the charges. Now I start getting calls back. I just got off the phone with the region manager - only after I called his supervisor and raised hell - and he tells me "well you have signed a contract" Did not. I initialed it. He says "that is the same as a signature" I say "you are full of shit. I never authorized any drafts from my bank, you are stealing from me." He calls back a minute ago and said "we cancelled your membership, but there will be no reimbursment." WTF????? they take three months of drafts from my bank for something I never bought or used and tell me no reimbursment. They told my friend the same thing, about signing the contract (he even gave a fake name and they paid no attention when they ran his debit card through) and they only relented after he had an attorney friend to write them a letter and they still say "no reimbursment". I need some revenge. If anyone works out there, I want you to start stealing some weights for me.
This sucks. Has this happened to anyone else?
Now, a friend of mine (who went with me, but never worked out) calls me and tells me that last week he found out that a Bailey in CA was billing him about $78 per month for a membership he never signed up for. Like I, he went and used his debit card to pay the $5 and then didn't work out at all because he didn't like their leg equipment, he just used the tanning bed and never came back after that day. After he tells me about this, I look over my bank records and LO AND BEHOLD there it is - Baileys $65 per month draft. For three months previously. I call them and get the run around. I call the billing office and still no one gives me any answers, so I tell them I am canceling the draft and having my bank recovery the charges. Now I start getting calls back. I just got off the phone with the region manager - only after I called his supervisor and raised hell - and he tells me "well you have signed a contract" Did not. I initialed it. He says "that is the same as a signature" I say "you are full of shit. I never authorized any drafts from my bank, you are stealing from me." He calls back a minute ago and said "we cancelled your membership, but there will be no reimbursment." WTF????? they take three months of drafts from my bank for something I never bought or used and tell me no reimbursment. They told my friend the same thing, about signing the contract (he even gave a fake name and they paid no attention when they ran his debit card through) and they only relented after he had an attorney friend to write them a letter and they still say "no reimbursment". I need some revenge. If anyone works out there, I want you to start stealing some weights for me.
This sucks. Has this happened to anyone else?