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Complaint Review: Extreme Fitness - North York Ontario

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  • Extreme Fitness 4950 Yonge Street North York, Ontario Canada

EXTREME FITNESS BEWARE of SCAM!! MONEY CENTERED DIRTY BUSINESS North York Ontario

*Consumer Suggestion: Check contract before asking questions

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A year or two after high school, I decided to join a gym. Extreme Fitness has very smooth talking salespeople. Frankly, their most competent staff are the salespeople. The receptionists are rude, and the trainers really couldn't care less.

I signed up, went for a few months, then stopped going altogether. I still kept up with the monthly payments, and it was no small stress paying hundreds of dollars monthly. But i figured it was my lesson to learn for so readily signing a contract fooled by the many smiling and caring staff telling me of the physical goals i'd achieve in no time with their plans.

Still a student, i struggled with these monthly payments and 2 cheques bounced, but i always showed up at their office with cash, with the additional late fee.

then, they started to take money out in different days. It would always get taken out around the 15th, then they changed to the first of each month. Then, they tried to take out money twice in one day, incurring bank charges of 40 dollars. I was so furious, i talked to the "head" sales rep or whatever he chooses to call himself. I asked him to fax over to me a detailed financial receipt of all my payment records. He became evasive and asked why i would want that information.

So then i called their head office and no one picks up there. EVER. so i left messages with various people with long titles to fax me over my records. NO ONE ever got back to me. I eventually gave up and stopped paying with a few months to go. They never called me, they never sent me any letters.

THEN! I would figure AT LEAST 6 (SIX!) months later of nothing, WHAM i get a letter from Shellco Credit Systems LTD, telling me in a threatening letter that if they didn't receive a payment of $825 within 3 days my credit would crash.

I AM COMPLETELY DEVASTATED.

I came on the internet to reassure myself that at least this collection company exists and is legitimate so that i am not falling for another likely scam. ANYTHING TO DO WITH EXTREME FITNESS IS very distasteful, and suspicious to me.

When I called this credit company to tell them that Extreme Fitness had never mailed me a bill complaining about anything, he checked his records to find that they had in fact sent out something but had gotten the wrong apartment number.

????? After receiving other mail from them previously , i find that TOO hard to believe. PLUS they have my phone number.

i just accept the fact that i've been ever so stupid.
I hope this will discourage others from making the same mistake. because this is not only just a mistake of feeling embarassed, it is a mistake that has literally cost me thousands of dollars.

EXTREME FITNESS IS THE WORST GYM TO GO TO IF YOU'RE

SIMPLY AN AVERAGE GIRL OR GUY, HOPING THAT THE "GYM

ATMOSPHERE" WILL HELP YOU TO LOSE WEIGHT, GET FIT.

THIS PLACE IS FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK OUT FULL TIME OR FOR

THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF THE PEOPLE WORKING THERE.

now that i think about it, $280 is an outrageous amount to be giving to the gym for 2 lousy 1hour training session in which 20 mins of is spen "stretching" I think even BAlly's is less expensive.

EXTREME FITNESS is not honest. It is a big company with big intimidating men smiling through the sales then getting mean and nasty when you are not satisfied.

jl
toronto, Ontario

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#1 Consumer Suggestion

Check contract before asking questions

AUTHOR: Elaine - ()

POSTED: Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Gyms are notorious for making people sign up for contracts that last a few years. Always check the gym contract to see how long you are committed to the contract. That is how most gyms make their money: they require people to sign up for a few years, and most people think they are going to go and stay with the program for that long. A lot of people stop going, and then people are forced to stay and pay monthly even if they don't go. Breaking your contract usually results in a high penalty and/or goes against your credit.



I know people who have joined Bally's, which requires a 3 year contract. "I'll only pay $6 a month after 3 years" they tell me. But then they are bound by the contract to stay the whole time.

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