The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership
www.theverge.com
Maybe it will finally make gym memberships easier to cancel.
  • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    1 month ago

    It’s been nice seeing the FTC actually doing stuff lately. Guess we’ll find out in few weeks if this is going to continue or if they’ll be taking the next 4 years off.

  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
    231·
    1 month ago

    Idk about yall but it was easy for me to cancel. I just had to call the gym and they told me to call corporate and I got the run around so I just called the bank and reported my card lost and just like that gym membership cancelled

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 month ago

      Gyms typically want your checking information, rather than your card to avoid exactly that.

      So you just have to go to the counter and tell them to remove your payment information and when they don’t, (they’ll say they have but you’ll magically get another change months later) then report them to your bank for fraud.

      They’ll get a hold of you real fuckin fast.

      When they take your checking account details they’re required by law to remove them from your system when you ask.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      Yeah but that requires making phone calls, and I’m a Millennial. We don’t do phone calls.

    • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Another trick is to tell your bank to block charges from a certain company.

      I had to do this because some asshat at a shoe store signed me up for Sport Illustrated even though I declined at checkout. Took multiple calls and verifications it was “canceled” with Sports Illustrated customer support and after the third time it popped up on my CC statement, I just called my bank and they were fine just reversing the charge and blocking all further charges.

      Also I don’t buy shoes from those mall chain stores anymore.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    If you can’t be profitable without being honest then you don’t deserve to be in business.

    Shut them the fuck down.

  • comador @lemmy.world
    41·
    1 month ago

    Now they’ll just fire half of their customer support to make the call times as slow as calling the govt in order to cancel and throttle their cancellations page speeds to do the same.

    Not saying this doesn’t help, it will, but they’ll do anything they can to circumvent this.

  • ManixT@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    Naturally, republicans are against it.

    Could they please take a position that helps normal Americans at least once, please?