BALLY HEALTH CLUB - Bally Total Fitness - Asset Acceptance Corporation NEVER SIGN A CONTRACT WITH THIS COMPANY. You are signing away your life Morton Grove Illinois

It's been 5 years now and going. Today we received another phone call from Asset Acceptance who are trying to contact my daughter and have put a black mark on her credit report. I am tired of the weekly to semi-weekly calls to my house and have asked that they do not call here again. Our story is not much different than many of your, but I will describe it anyway. 5 years ago last March my stepdaughter arrived from another country. Started attending college in Chicago for nursing. A couple of her classmates were going to Bally to workout and invited her telling her about a $19 introductory offer. So she went with them. Upon arrival she was told that in order to use the facilities she had to be a member. She mentioned the promotion and was escorted to a salesperson. By the time she had finished signing all the papers (she wanted to get to her friends) the salesperson had gotten her to sign a contract for $1200 and she didn't even have a job. Well, 3 days latter I found out what had happened and called and called this salesperson who never returned our calls (you see he told her she could cancel within 30 days). During that month she got sick at the club and had to go to the hospital from the pool or something. I took her to the club looking for that salesperson upon which we were redirected to a manager who informed us that that person had been terminated. He asked "how can I help you"? We explained our situation and were told we could opt out for $200. What 200 for what I responded and said let me talk it over with my wife. The next time we returned it was "Let me get this approved by the store manager who is not here right now", then we have to check with corporate we will contact you and so on for three months. After her illness there she never again went back. But they continued to take money that my wife & I gave her for college expenses out of her checking account. After 3 more months corporate refuse to the compromise and threatened her with breech of contract. Well you have to understand our fustrations finally we close her checking account and then a short while later a collection agency started coming after her. Now it in Asset Acceptance hands

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