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Report: #32703

Complaint Review: Bally Total Fitness - Nationwide

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  • Reported By: San Clemente Ca
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  • Bally Total Fitness ballytotalfitness.com Nationwide U.S.A.

Bally Total Fitness Don't sign it's a financed loan!!! deceptive company Nationwide

*Consumer Comment: Bally Total fitness is worse than the mob

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The irony of this letter is astonishing! I was actually looking up the web address for Bally's to dispute a charge on my credit report when Poof!!!...I found this site at the top of the list.

I signed up at Bally's when I moved away from home to the city in Pittsburgh. It looked great, tons of different machines, 20 treadmills and young faces. My friend and I were stoked, so we sat down to sign up and we were told to it was $45 down and $30 a month thereafter. We signed on the dotted line and rushed to workout.

Six months later we moved, and the nearest Bally's was 35 mins away. Like most places that cancel your membership if you ask, they did. Or so they said. READ ON....

Now 4 years later I have a terrible mark on my credit. A pay-off to Bally Total Fitness in the amount of $1200. I was never sent a letter or anything. I recently called Bally's and they told me that the signature I gave them to "start" my membership was actually my authorization on a "FINANCED LOAN". The trainer must have conveniently forgot to add in that miniscual peice of information. Or maybe it was the end of the month and she had to meet her quota.

Whatever the case, it is illegal to misrepresent, or in my case not even mention, an obligation of a document.

***IF ANYONE HAS A HORROR STORY LIKE THIS PLEASE POST IT***
Then maybe we can stop these corporate a#$holes from making money off of services never rendered!!!!!

Amanda
San Clemente, California

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#1 Consumer Comment

Bally Total fitness is worse than the mob

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

POSTED: Saturday, May 31, 2003

I joined Bally total fitness in Feb. 03 and was told that It was a special where as it was some sort of swetheart deal where me and my mother (who was already signed ) can get free renewal . I also was told that to try it out for 30 days and I can cancel if I did not want it
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So I tried the Rapid results plan , which is really nothing that they made it seem . and decided that I would go to Lucille Roberts which was all females because after going to ballys felt uncomfortable around all these men . So I went back to speak with the sales guy who sold me the crap and wanted to cancel . I was told that I could not cancel and also that I signed this policy - when I looked at the signature it was not mine - this sales man signed my name and intial it ....so I told them that I was not signing this and that I wanted to cancel - so he went over and got his manager . who said that his employee would do nothing of the sort - I was outraged - I called the coroporate office and was told that they would note the account of the situation and then told me to send a letter req to cancel . I did and till this Day I am still paying for a gym that I refuse to go to and now I work out at lucille roberts which is a monthly pay as you go type of thing -


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