The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership / The FTC’s ‘click-to-cancel’ rule will stop companies from making you take unnecessary steps to cancel a subscription.
The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership / The FTC’s ‘click-to-cancel’ rule will stop companies from making you take unnecessary steps to cancel a subscription.
Maybe it will finally make gym memberships easier to cancel.
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.
Welp... It was nice while it lasted
the jumping through hoops bullshit rigamarole to cancel my gym membership didn't dissuade me from canceling the membership, but it DID ensure that i'd never sign up for a fucking gym membership ever again
i don't even care if it's "click to cancel" now--fuck gyms in general
Pretty much stick to a non-corporate gym like YMCA. Or, find a place that will let you do month to month. There is absolutely no reason why gyms should be requiring a year long commitment. It’s not like they’re giving you some “subsidized” piece of hardware like a cellphone.
Pretty much stick to a non-corporate gym like YMCA. Or, find a place that will let you do month to month.
Many years ago I used to use Planet Fitness because they allowed a pre-paid membership with cash. You pay up-front for a year, and at the end of the year your membership expires with zero action on your part. Because you pay with cash there's not credit card for them to try to charge or any bank account they can try to pull funds from.
Thats an acceptable gym membership to me, but I doubt they still offer that.
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
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.
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.
Yeah but that requires making phone calls, and I'm a Millennial. We don't do phone calls.
But if I don't have to call the New York Times to cancel my subscription, how will they stay in business?! /s
SiriusXM is in shambles.
Thanks. Now do phone call spam.
This one is harder to stop since lots of scams are hosted over VoIP from overseas.
It isn't the calls per se, though I'm not a fan of sales calls. It is the number spoofing that drives me nuts. I'm not an expert but I've got to believe allowing scammers to appear as valid phone numbers on caller id has got to be a solvable problem. Even just an indication that the call is coming from a VoIP relay and not my kid's school's landline has to be possible, no?
god it's nice when government works for the people occasionally, kudos to the many people who made this happen
WTF I needed this 22 years ago with AoL.
If you can’t be profitable without being honest then you don’t deserve to be in business.
Shut them the fuck down.
Naturally, republicans are against it.
Could they please take a position that helps normal Americans at least once, please?
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.
how about we get rid of cancelation or account closure fees!
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