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Complaint Review: Fitness Experience - Scottsdale Arizona

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  • Reported By: Jessica — Scottsdale Arizona United States of America
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  • Fitness Experience 10155 E. Via Linda Scottsdale, Arizona United States of America

Fitness Experience State-of-the-Art my READ END!!! Scottsdale, Arizona

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: response to original report

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OK, this is good......

They take zip-lock plastic bags, put a few rocks inside them, and add a flier  ('Rock Fliers,' is what my brother says they are called) and throw them out the car window onto your driveway.  I've gotten about 5 of them in the past year from them.

The flier says the membership i  Yes, it's 14 dollars a month, s "As low as $14 a month' and that they have 'State-of-the-art' fitness machines and TV/Entertainment systems.

Well let's clear this up!

1)  Yes, it's $14 month... if you pay $175 up front.  So basically, it's about $30 a month if you average it out with all factors involved. 

2)  State-of-the-art doesn't quite describe it.  They have 15" regular TV's from the 1990s hanging on angles from sticks in the ceiling.  They sway back and forth as the air conditioning hits them.  Their equipment looks like one of the better clubs gave it to them when they got the new stuff.  I haven't seen fitness equipment like this since the early 1990s, and one of their members who has been there for 15 years said it's the original equipment they had when he joined.

3)  The owner, who is clearly obese and never played any kind of sport in his life, told me he would personally train me, but since he's been successful in the industry for 20+ years, he would charge $150 an hour to do so.  When I said that wasn't a possibility, they threw some chubby young guy in front of me whose vocabulary was limited to, "Just do it, we'll get you fit!"  And of course I got sold on some line of supplements that I've never heard of, but they said if I didn't take these 4 specific things I wouldn't get anywhere.


Well, I decided to stay at my gym, which is more expensive but I know what I'm getting.  I figured since I had just completed my 12th marathon, I probably didn't need a 300lb obese gym owner telling me that I wasn't in shape.

Furthermore, within 5 minutes of this gym, there is a Mountainside Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness, and Pure Fitness.... all which have better rates for better products.

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AUTHOR: Brian - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Thursday, February 18, 2010

As per normal i have to respond unwillingly to some individual who can not face me one on one and chooses to complain wherever they can by slinging BS. Nice but also very pathetic. First of all yes we rock flier, computer, print ads, etc... its called grass roots marketing in a down economy, apparently its working. yay!!! Also we have some older equipment and extensive new equipment thru-out the facility. Circa now Duh!!! also we run 36 inc tvs that format with our Cardio Theatre and they are nice tvs. and the sticks for this smart guy are called tv mounts and obviously do not sway. again a sign of ignorance. By the way i am 47 years of age 6' 3" and way 235 hardly obese. come visit and check us out on your own. By the way my trainers have there degrees which rang from masters to bachelors and and also there many trainer certifications. which are posted on the wall for all to see. Again i apologize that uninformed and uneducated individuals without the fortitude to face people one on one choose to use this format to try and injure people and small business owners vrs being positive people. Thank you for your time. in good health Brian Funston Owner

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