I once had a membership at a gym, but lost my job. They wouldn't let me cancel and threatened collection, but I found a loophole that if I moved somewhere more than 30 miles from the closest club that I could get out of it. I officially registered my address to a friend's house that happened to live in the middle of nowhere. It worked. What a complete joke.
I had something somewhat similar. Except it was due to surgery my intestines ruptured. And I'm still off since October, they were asking if I was coming back 💀 I told them I literally can't workout for almost a year. They didn't stop taking money until I got ahold of the Attorney General who told them if they didn't stop taking money they'd send out the state police for questioning
@@ZawZaw-yb3nf No, my experience was with one with 5 letters that started with a B. I'm glad to hear that someone else figured out how to get out of it, too. Good for you.
PSA for everyone, If you need to cancel your memberships just go to your local GP and claim you hurt your arm while lifting or etc. Get the GP to write a note saying you are not allowed to attend the Gym and they Legally have to cancel your memberships. Its in their contracts too.
my tactic is to just be the most dikhead customer ever until they cancel my membership. just take a nap right on the front counter. use their water fountain to fill up 5 gallons of water jugs. dont do anything illegal or bother other members, just piss off the manager enough.
A mate of mine got screwed around by our old gym when he was moving, they tried to f!@$ed him around something wicked, they just pissed him off, he ended up dressing up like Rambo from first blood, headband, a cut up feed sack and a old cord for a belt, he just went around the gym making a prick of himself, it didn't take long for them to shit can his membership.
Called my gym once telling them I was moving and needed to cancel, they told me no. My bank said there wasn't a problem blacklisting them and that was that. Don't talk to the gym, talk to your bank.
I once lied and said I was moving to New Zealand to live with my sister. He asked if I wanted to put it on temporary hold, I told him we were starting our own independent farm business of goats milk products and I planned to stay there indefinitely. He offered a discount for a second membership for my sister and to put it on hold for an extended period. I started literally begging telling him it's not even in my own name I'm using someone else's money and they don't want to pay for it anymore. I did, in the end, get to leave with one cancelled membership. Hope this helps 🙏
When I was looking through my contract to get out of my membership, they had a clause that if I died a relative would need to show them the death certificate and then they could cancel my membership
i canceled my membership a couple weeks ago to save money and workout at home instead and my gym manager/coach that i had a pretty good supportive relationship ship with just instantly switched up and told me he doubted i'd make any progress on my own and that i'd never achieve my goals 💀 thanks a lot for the motivation
The gym manager on the DMs: _I just think that you are being so egotistical right now. This was supposed to be our thing, but you are throwing it all away because "you want to save money"_
Apologies for getting serious in the comments here but guys, DO NOT join gyms that don’t let you bounce on a days notice. Plenty of small, locally owned gyms doing it the right way especially in Aus.
Bad experience with Core24. They were predatory. I'm with Jetts now and I specifically went with them because they've got no lock in contracts. Any gym that has no lock in contracts, is 100% a better experience.
If they wont let you leave the trick is to look into the T&C of the contract and see what will get you banned. I "poorly snuck" 4 friends in using my swipe card and within 2 days I got a phone call saying they have video of me letting a group of my friends in to use the gym without paying. made sure to be as obnoxious as possible eg not wiping stuff down, not putting weights back, talking across the gym, so people would complain and they would review the footage.
my same tactic, just be annoying so the staff but not the people. my last gym didnt let me cancel so i came in with 10 empty water jugs and used the front desk fountain to fill them up, i only got to the 2nd jug before they revoked my membership and told me to leave. didnt have to pay a cent.
@@cIoudbankAll I can imagine is some dude walking in with a ton of those jugs, going “Ahhhhhh yeah” nice and loud as they fill up. Great plan, and hella funny.
Yeah, we moved 3 hours away once and tried cancelling and it was the most comedically difficult things imaginable. We had to print a form at home, fill it out, mail it to them USPS, and even then, still wasnt cancelled. At that point we started badgering them with phone calls at location and corporate. It was legitmately 15-20 different calls, sometimes spanning 45 minutes with different people. There was 3 instances in which we thought it had been cancelled and then we'd see the auto-pay hit our account & we'd start over. It took nearly 3 full months to cancel. Its really unclear how its legal.
as a kid I remember my mom dealing with the opposite. She had purchased a lifetime membership to a set of gyms in our area. Ownership changed hands a few times over the years (without any change in name) and each time they tried to deny her membership. At one point it came close to going to court... seems her contract was pretty solidly worded as they gave up every time
Waited 9 days, after online canceling my gym membership. No contact. So, I applied for a new membership (under a new name) and they called me in two minutes. Made the lady cancel my membership and refund the last nine days lol.
These guys are an absolute pissa. I stumbled across them last night and have been bingeing all their stuff. Even thinking about joining their Patreon. Aussie represent!
Rumor has it they are just a pair of Germans studying Uni together in Sydney that have gotten really good at Aussie Accents. I’ve heard they live with like 20 other Germans and an Aussie who got kicked out of his home near the harbor bridge so his parents could sail the world.
It should be illegal for anyone to be able to sign up to something online and then not have the option to cancel online. I was a member of Fitness First for 18 months and 99.9% of the interaction I had with them was after I initiated the cancellation. Made it pretty fucking easy for me to join in the first place though.
This may surprise most people, but we in the western world actually live in a democracy and the government can made laws about what companies can and can't do. So they say, anyway.
Problem is they find ways to weasel through loopholes faster than you can pass those laws. Every company has a legal team who's entire job is to get away with as much as possible at all times; and they have a lot more money to make that happen than the average consumer has to fight back. There is no perfect system, unfortunately.
@@dt99022 The problem is the government isn't even trying to make laws to stop this, because most people don't care enough, or they just feel hopeless about their ability to change anything. "There is no perfect system", but we can certainly do a whole lot better than this one.
@@dt99022 Lawyers aren't magic. If the government doesn't want a company to do something, they most likely aren't going to be able to do it, at least not out in the open.
I recently got slapped with a gym "stipulation" that caught me off guard and I used to work in gyms. I wanted to downgrade my gym membership (after a full year) of never using the tanning bed or attending an aerobics class. I never did. Just lifted weights. So I thought could downgrade my membership to just use the weights. NOPE! They had a downgrade fee for switching to a cheaper membership. I did the math quickly and the downgrade fee would cost the same as keeping the membership I already have! 😂 Well played "Crunch Fitness" well played...
fuck Revo fitness for changing it to only allow 6 weeks of membership freezing a year forcing us to either cancel with a 50 dollar fee or continue paying monthly. so scummy
You just need to email thirty days in advance. Then phone. And then come in. But the manager isn't in on Tuesdays. But then phone, and be told it needs to be in writing, in person
I once had a gym membership that was unused for over a year cause they wouldn't let me canvel over the phone. When i finally got around to going there in person to cancel, my door token didn't even work and it was a completely different company running the gym. They were able to transfer my membership to a new company without my authorisation or knowledge but cancelling required me to be there in person.
If it takes 1 min to sign up, it should take 1 min to cancel, no BS Annual subscriptions, fees or buyouts of a "contract". Literally should just work the same way you cancel a Netflix subscription for a bit until they release something you wanna watch, then you resubscribe at your convenience.
I was moving to NZ and i went to cancel. She said "Oh sorry you'll have to wait to have a cancellation meeting with the manager when she's on tomorrow. I came back the next day and said that I was permanently leaving the country... so the manager offered to put on a 3 month hold
One gym I cancelled my membership with required that I write a letter and mail it to their corporate head quarters. I couldn’t cancel at the actual site. And I couldn’t do it online. I had to write a letter. So, naturally I put pencil to paper and requested cancellation in an olde English style. I even used cursive. Bastards.
The literal opposite happened to my friend. He asked if he was eligible to cancel his membership and they just cancelled his membership instantly. All he wanted was to know if he could cancel not to actually cancel.
I was a member of LA fitness but I work on boats. I was over seas and I tried to cancel. They wanted me to send in a WRITTEN LETTER as a request to cancel which wasnt possible for me. I then proceeded to post the worst possible google review copy and pasted across 40 of thier branches. They canceled it the next day..
I used to have literally this as a job for a large Australian Gym. My entire job was to answer the phone and discourage people from cancelling with threatening and unfair contract terms
I hate you bro... literally.. My last gym wanted me to pay over 250+ 50+ cancelation fee, and another 15 for ending my contract early.. lmao I walked out and havent paid them one penny
Have had this exact situation happen to me. I just blocked the direct debit through my bank so they couldn’t charge me. Had debt collectors call me for a few months afterwards then they gave up
Ancient conversation: "Hey do you want to move this pile of rocks for money" Yeah I could do that for some payment "No, you pay to move these rocks" Why would I do that?! Modern gyms:
It's beyond stupid how they make you commit to subscribe for a year and you don't even get a discount. It's the same thing here in Norway and I fell into that trap myself at one point. Barely ended up using the membership, thankfully getting it cancelled wasn't too much trouble. But why is this considered an acceptable thing for gyms to do? No other subscription makes you commit to a year, unless you buy a new phone with a plan or you pay a year in advance on a subscription in order to get 2 months free. The thing is, those are both optional. You have the choice of buying a phone on a plan or just paying for it outright. You have the choice of taking the 2 free months, or paying monthly with no commitment. But for gym memberships specifically, you're not given any other option, if you want to go to the gym you have to commit to paying for a full year, and that's BS. Why are they even allowed to do this?
Trick I got to work once: - miss a payment - when they take double out the next time, get a chargeback - they'll want you to leave and will cancel the membership
I'm just trying to quit my gym now! I signed up for 2 years 2 years ago and had them add a clause that if I move away more than 30 km, I can quit any time. So 2 years are up and I'm moving to another country. And they won't let me quit... wtf? "Yeah, the 2 years are actually 24+3 months and the moving clause is actually invalid. Pay up, mate"
Legit had a gym I almost signed up for where I had to call a completely different company that was associated with them to have them SEND A LETTER in the mail to review and sign to send back to them to get them to approve the cancellation. Always ask how cancellation works and the process needed. Don't ever take "oh just come in person and cancel" for an answer!
About a year ago, I went through a gym in Tassie. That you'd prob's know of, Zap fitness and to cancel I had to pay. Which was stupid.. Including not to mention the hidden fees everytime I was involved "in their membership". So now I workout at home.
I'm going to a Zap gym, it's a joke. Everybody leaves weights everywhere, bathrooms never cleaned, they didn't even fix the front door for weeks, and they have a "membership maintenance" fee every few weeks for no apparent reason... apparently they're removing gym fobs too and forcing us to use their app, no doubt to harvest more data.
Only way my gym allowed me to leave was I said I got a job on a remote arctic research station with no service and wouldn't have access to my accounts during that time so I wouldn't be able to make sure to pay them. Even with that I had to additionally tell them I'd only cancel for now but as soon as I get back I'd run straight back to them and sign up again because I love the gym so much. It was one of the reasons I ended up deciding to move to the other side of the country, so I wouldn't run into them.
I find it funny as jackson admitted in their podcast that he has lost HUNDREDS of dollars because first he didn't cancel his gym membership and then when he did, he did it wrong and apparently still had a tonne of money due.
I had this same conversation with the new manager of my gym. They started trying to drive out anyone who used the free weights for anything except bench press. They were literally hiding bars / weight clips in lockers under the service desk. Still, they tried to make it a massive hassle for me to quit. I told them to stuff it, blocked them from being able to take any more money from my account, and eventually had to get the manager of a location 300 miles away to remove all the bullshit fees and cancel my account. They try to get me to sign up again 10 years later.
The gym I used to go to had the best contracts. They were independent, so they did them how they wanted to. All their memberships were paid for up front. There was no automatic payment system at all, so there was no way for them to keep charging people. They used to give discounts to people to renew their membership, too.
last gym I went to got closed down and a new company took over. Everyone at the old gym's membership automatically transferred to the new gym. When I tried to cancel it they told me I couldn't because I still had the old gym's membership and that I would have to go there (the gym that doesn't exist anymore) to cancel it. I had to go to my bank to stop the payments... and then it somehow magically renewed the next year anyway.
Average gymnation experience. They ask for ur doctors prescription, resigning letter, divorce papers, air tickets, heck might even ask a psychology report.
If you wanna cancel your membership @ planet fitness, you can just report a man in the womans locker room, they’ll cancel your membership immediately! 😂
Many years ago I went to a gym where they were offering "Lifetime Memberships" for some ridiculous amount of money. I asked the guy at the desk at the desk 'What is a lifetime membership? Whose lifetime is it?' He wouldn't answer me. A few months later they closed down. Bullet dodged!
Had a similar experience in Toronto about 4 years ago -- had a gym membership that was useless because all the gyms were closed for the pandemic, and they still would not let me cancel. Got so mad I ended up switching banks just to break their auto debit system.
my brother cancelled his membership then a year later they still tried to charge him for "missed payments" because apparently he never cancelled his membership.
I haven’t had trouble cancelling, but do want to give a shout out to the local gym who, when I asked to go on hold due to pregnancy, did not charge me and let me extend the hold until I was ready to come back. I could have cried. I think I did cry.
It's the first time I resolved something with the Karen move of "let me talk to your manager". I guess I was one of the rare peeps that read the small print.
I've tried on numerous occasions to unsubscribe from this channel. Unfortunately I can't afford to, both emotionally and financially. I'll send through another $100 as my 16th installment for trying to unsubscribe. PS. Love your work.
This literally happened to me - I had to go in, sign a paper, the gym guy texted me calling me stupid, I put up a 3 star review and he replied calling me broke. The whole process took like 3 annoying weeks
You missed the Planet Fitness scummy tactic of "You must submit your cancellation request in the form of writing, mailed to our company headquarters.". They put as many barriers up as possible to prevent you from cancelling and it should honestly be illegal. If I can sign up with one click, I should be able to cancel just the same.
Same but with the library. "Can i get my 200 dollar deposit back?" "Sure, you just need to clear your unpaid fines." "Oh, like 2 dollars?" "2777536654 dollars."
I once had a membership at a gym, but lost my job. They wouldn't let me cancel and threatened collection, but I found a loophole that if I moved somewhere more than 30 miles from the closest club that I could get out of it. I officially registered my address to a friend's house that happened to live in the middle of nowhere. It worked. What a complete joke.
Literally did the same. Had a bill sent to my sister in another city then used that to cancel!
does this gym start with a D? I also had to do it
I had something somewhat similar. Except it was due to surgery my intestines ruptured. And I'm still off since October, they were asking if I was coming back 💀 I told them I literally can't workout for almost a year. They didn't stop taking money until I got ahold of the Attorney General who told them if they didn't stop taking money they'd send out the state police for questioning
@@ZawZaw-yb3nf No, my experience was with one with 5 letters that started with a B. I'm glad to hear that someone else figured out how to get out of it, too. Good for you.
@@andrewkehoe521 Ouch, that sucks. I hope you're recovering well.
I'm literally being harassed by debt collectors right now because of stupid gym fees. This hits too close to home.
same bro, $600
Well pay them
@@panicfarm9874 are you stupid?
@@panicfarm9874 You pay them then from your high horse.
I was... until they gave up. Can't get blood from an itinerant stone
PSA for everyone, If you need to cancel your memberships just go to your local GP and claim you hurt your arm while lifting or etc. Get the GP to write a note saying you are not allowed to attend the Gym and they Legally have to cancel your memberships. Its in their contracts too.
This would be great if I knew wtf a gp was. Good points? Gym Protocol? Gay for Pay?
@@vincevvn- general practitioner, your doctor.
Even better, sign up to all memberships using Revolut with a virtual debit card. Then if you wanna cancel just freeze the debit card.
Lmao imagine having a gp
If you live in the US the trip to the GP might cost you more than the remaining cost of the gym membership.
my tactic is to just be the most dikhead customer ever until they cancel my membership. just take a nap right on the front counter. use their water fountain to fill up 5 gallons of water jugs. dont do anything illegal or bother other members, just piss off the manager enough.
That... Is... Genius.
Based.
Take a shit in the squat rack. Easy.
@@wowwhataworld.9590I know right? They are already overstepping basic boundaries, so it's only fair (proper) that you do the same 😅
A mate of mine got screwed around by our old gym when he was moving, they tried to f!@$ed him around something wicked, they just pissed him off, he ended up dressing up like Rambo from first blood, headband, a cut up feed sack and a old cord for a belt, he just went around the gym making a prick of himself, it didn't take long for them to shit can his membership.
I feel like they could just remove you from the building and keep your membership going
I genuinely think people who get out of gym memberships without spending money, deserve to run our country
I expect your vote at the next local election
I managed by just having no money to take out of the account for the duration of the membership.. not on purpose tho lol
Called my gym once telling them I was moving and needed to cancel, they told me no. My bank said there wasn't a problem blacklisting them and that was that.
Don't talk to the gym, talk to your bank.
I once lied and said I was moving to New Zealand to live with my sister. He asked if I wanted to put it on temporary hold, I told him we were starting our own independent farm business of goats milk products and I planned to stay there indefinitely. He offered a discount for a second membership for my sister and to put it on hold for an extended period. I started literally begging telling him it's not even in my own name I'm using someone else's money and they don't want to pay for it anymore. I did, in the end, get to leave with one cancelled membership. Hope this helps 🙏
What complete scumbags.
[Pushy, roided-up coke-fiend, artless predators]
what's ya business called? love to take a yonder down to the ol dairy and pick up some of whatever you've procured
You canceled one membership, but what about the second one for your sister you signed up for?
@@foxsheahan8012 first line of the story was "i once lied" so im guessing he didnt produce shit
Of course they didn't produce shit, they produced goats milk products
When I was looking through my contract to get out of my membership, they had a clause that if I died a relative would need to show them the death certificate and then they could cancel my membership
That means one thing: someone got out of their gym membership by faking their own death. Props to them.
@@redlightmaxBro was cooking
*could*?
i canceled my membership a couple weeks ago to save money and workout at home instead and my gym manager/coach that i had a pretty good supportive relationship ship with just instantly switched up and told me he doubted i'd make any progress on my own and that i'd never achieve my goals 💀 thanks a lot for the motivation
It's
All
Business
The gym manager on the DMs: _I just think that you are being so egotistical right now. This was supposed to be our thing, but you are throwing it all away because "you want to save money"_
You were paying for motivation bruh. Why'd you expect it to persist after you stopped paying?
losers
Apologies for getting serious in the comments here but guys, DO NOT join gyms that don’t let you bounce on a days notice. Plenty of small, locally owned gyms doing it the right way especially in Aus.
then dont plan on quitting 😂
Bad experience with Core24. They were predatory.
I'm with Jetts now and I specifically went with them because they've got no lock in contracts.
Any gym that has no lock in contracts, is 100% a better experience.
It's like trying to escape a cult 😭
“There’s never been more strings attached to anything since Carl took his house up to Paradise falls”
UP REFERENCE!! I LOVE IT!!!
If they wont let you leave the trick is to look into the T&C of the contract and see what will get you banned. I "poorly snuck" 4 friends in using my swipe card and within 2 days I got a phone call saying they have video of me letting a group of my friends in to use the gym without paying. made sure to be as obnoxious as possible eg not wiping stuff down, not putting weights back, talking across the gym, so people would complain and they would review the footage.
my same tactic, just be annoying so the staff but not the people. my last gym didnt let me cancel so i came in with 10 empty water jugs and used the front desk fountain to fill them up, i only got to the 2nd jug before they revoked my membership and told me to leave. didnt have to pay a cent.
@@cIoudbankAll I can imagine is some dude walking in with a ton of those jugs, going “Ahhhhhh yeah” nice and loud as they fill up. Great plan, and hella funny.
would it work to take the weights and stack them on the front desk?
This needs to be a premise for part 2. He just starts trying to get banned lol.
Wow the up reference caught me off guard
Beautiful allegory
'don't try to distract me even though i just dropped a bar'
Yeah, we moved 3 hours away once and tried cancelling and it was the most comedically difficult things imaginable. We had to print a form at home, fill it out, mail it to them USPS, and even then, still wasnt cancelled. At that point we started badgering them with phone calls at location and corporate. It was legitmately 15-20 different calls, sometimes spanning 45 minutes with different people. There was 3 instances in which we thought it had been cancelled and then we'd see the auto-pay hit our account & we'd start over. It took nearly 3 full months to cancel. Its really unclear how its legal.
What’s even more awkward when you bump into owner a couple weeks later after you said your leaving town 😅
as a kid I remember my mom dealing with the opposite. She had purchased a lifetime membership to a set of gyms in our area. Ownership changed hands a few times over the years (without any change in name) and each time they tried to deny her membership. At one point it came close to going to court... seems her contract was pretty solidly worded as they gave up every time
Good for her!!
Gyms have always been dodgy
Joining a gym everyone loves you, leaving a gym you start a war
It's like a cult. lol
even the title had me dying because i just KNEW what a hassle it was
“There’s never been more strings attached to something since Carl took his house to Paradise Falls.”
“Up reference I LOVE IT!!!!”
Waited 9 days, after online canceling my gym membership. No contact. So, I applied for a new membership (under a new name) and they called me in two minutes. Made the lady cancel my membership and refund the last nine days lol.
Nice 👍🏻
These guys are an absolute pissa. I stumbled across them last night and have been bingeing all their stuff. Even thinking about joining their Patreon. Aussie represent!
Their early stuff’s pretty good hey
They are pretty relatable.
Been watching them since highschool, welcome aboard 😂
Rumor has it they are just a pair of Germans studying Uni together in Sydney that have gotten really good at Aussie Accents.
I’ve heard they live with like 20 other Germans and an Aussie who got kicked out of his home near the harbor bridge so his parents could sail the world.
pissa?
Love Darcy’s acting as the cancellation fee
One week they charged me twice and you can bet there were hurdles to get a refund…
My gym asked whether I was moving or if I had a doctor’s excuse. Like whatttt
It should be illegal for anyone to be able to sign up to something online and then not have the option to cancel online. I was a member of Fitness First for 18 months and 99.9% of the interaction I had with them was after I initiated the cancellation. Made it pretty fucking easy for me to join in the first place though.
This may surprise most people, but we in the western world actually live in a democracy and the government can made laws about what companies can and can't do.
So they say, anyway.
Problem is they find ways to weasel through loopholes faster than you can pass those laws. Every company has a legal team who's entire job is to get away with as much as possible at all times; and they have a lot more money to make that happen than the average consumer has to fight back.
There is no perfect system, unfortunately.
@@dt99022 The problem is the government isn't even trying to make laws to stop this, because most people don't care enough, or they just feel hopeless about their ability to change anything. "There is no perfect system", but we can certainly do a whole lot better than this one.
@@dt99022 Lawyers aren't magic. If the government doesn't want a company to do something, they most likely aren't going to be able to do it, at least not out in the open.
I recently got slapped with a gym "stipulation" that caught me off guard and I used to work in gyms. I wanted to downgrade my gym membership (after a full year) of never using the tanning bed or attending an aerobics class. I never did. Just lifted weights. So I thought could downgrade my membership to just use the weights. NOPE! They had a downgrade fee
for switching to a cheaper membership. I did the math quickly and the downgrade fee would cost the same as keeping the membership I already have! 😂 Well played "Crunch Fitness" well played...
fuck Revo fitness for changing it to only allow 6 weeks of membership freezing a year forcing us to either cancel with a 50 dollar fee or continue paying monthly. so scummy
You just need to email thirty days in advance. Then phone. And then come in. But the manager isn't in on Tuesdays. But then phone, and be told it needs to be in writing, in person
And then you bring it to their attention it was in wring 30 days ago and I phoned also to let them know I'd be cancelling.
I once had a gym membership that was unused for over a year cause they wouldn't let me canvel over the phone. When i finally got around to going there in person to cancel, my door token didn't even work and it was a completely different company running the gym. They were able to transfer my membership to a new company without my authorisation or knowledge but cancelling required me to be there in person.
If it takes 1 min to sign up, it should take 1 min to cancel, no BS Annual subscriptions, fees or buyouts of a "contract". Literally should just work the same way you cancel a Netflix subscription for a bit until they release something you wanna watch, then you resubscribe at your convenience.
I was moving to NZ and i went to cancel. She said "Oh sorry you'll have to wait to have a cancellation meeting with the manager when she's on tomorrow.
I came back the next day and said that I was permanently leaving the country... so the manager offered to put on a 3 month hold
Yeah somehow every time I contacted them the ‘person who handles cancellations’ conveniently wasn’t working
4 months later we see Locklan absolutely jacked but he is homeless
How ironic i was about to cancel mine today but unfortunately nobody was there in the office
Even if the gym verbally tells you what their fees are, read the contract before signing. I got told one thing and charged another.
I love the "YO MAN THIS IS VERY INTENSE" delivery so much
One gym I cancelled my membership with required that I write a letter and mail it to their corporate head quarters. I couldn’t cancel at the actual site. And I couldn’t do it online. I had to write a letter. So, naturally I put pencil to paper and requested cancellation in an olde English style. I even used cursive. Bastards.
Home gym pays off again
The literal opposite happened to my friend. He asked if he was eligible to cancel his membership and they just cancelled his membership instantly. All he wanted was to know if he could cancel not to actually cancel.
I was a member of LA fitness but I work on boats. I was over seas and I tried to cancel. They wanted me to send in a WRITTEN LETTER as a request to cancel which wasnt possible for me. I then proceeded to post the worst possible google review copy and pasted across 40 of thier branches.
They canceled it the next day..
Can definitely agree won’t say who but The purple gym that you can go “anytime” feels like they make you jump hoops to leave.
The masayoshi takanaka to finish it off is too good
I used to have literally this as a job for a large Australian Gym.
My entire job was to answer the phone and discourage people from cancelling with threatening and unfair contract terms
I hate you bro... literally.. My last gym wanted me to pay over 250+ 50+ cancelation fee, and another 15 for ending my contract early.. lmao I walked out and havent paid them one penny
Have had this exact situation happen to me. I just blocked the direct debit through my bank so they couldn’t charge me. Had debt collectors call me for a few months afterwards then they gave up
Ancient conversation: "Hey do you want to move this pile of rocks for money"
Yeah I could do that for some payment
"No, you pay to move these rocks"
Why would I do that?!
Modern gyms:
It's beyond stupid how they make you commit to subscribe for a year and you don't even get a discount. It's the same thing here in Norway and I fell into that trap myself at one point. Barely ended up using the membership, thankfully getting it cancelled wasn't too much trouble. But why is this considered an acceptable thing for gyms to do? No other subscription makes you commit to a year, unless you buy a new phone with a plan or you pay a year in advance on a subscription in order to get 2 months free. The thing is, those are both optional. You have the choice of buying a phone on a plan or just paying for it outright. You have the choice of taking the 2 free months, or paying monthly with no commitment. But for gym memberships specifically, you're not given any other option, if you want to go to the gym you have to commit to paying for a full year, and that's BS. Why are they even allowed to do this?
I like how you both made the gym guy sound Australian 😂
Trick I got to work once:
- miss a payment
- when they take double out the next time, get a chargeback
- they'll want you to leave and will cancel the membership
Darcy acting as the gym's accountant made me feel like i qas trying to cancel my membership😂
I was in Australia for 6 months and when I went to cancel my gym membership they hit me with this crap…..felt super illegal
Loving Darcy's performance as the gym membership
Lover overused jokes in the comment section
@@jamesherman3750loving guy complaining about using a joke
@@flowerpot1300 make an original joke
@@jamesherman3750 ok
What's grey?
A melted penguin
jump
I'm just trying to quit my gym now! I signed up for 2 years 2 years ago and had them add a clause that if I move away more than 30 km, I can quit any time.
So 2 years are up and I'm moving to another country. And they won't let me quit... wtf? "Yeah, the 2 years are actually 24+3 months and the moving clause is actually invalid. Pay up, mate"
would really love it if they did another PowerPoint video lol
This checks out with real life experiences here.
Legit had a gym I almost signed up for where I had to call a completely different company that was associated with them to have them SEND A LETTER in the mail to review and sign to send back to them to get them to approve the cancellation.
Always ask how cancellation works and the process needed. Don't ever take "oh just come in person and cancel" for an answer!
About a year ago, I went through a gym in Tassie.
That you'd prob's know of, Zap fitness and to cancel I had to pay.
Which was stupid.. Including not to mention the hidden fees everytime I was involved "in their membership".
So now I workout at home.
I'm going to a Zap gym, it's a joke. Everybody leaves weights everywhere, bathrooms never cleaned, they didn't even fix the front door for weeks, and they have a "membership maintenance" fee every few weeks for no apparent reason... apparently they're removing gym fobs too and forcing us to use their app, no doubt to harvest more data.
Legend has it he upgraded his membership that day. He still hasn't gone
It's like that song that goes..."I fought the gym and the gym won"
Hahahahaha this is too good boys keep it up 🤣❤
“Up reference I love it!” 😂
Only way my gym allowed me to leave was I said I got a job on a remote arctic research station with no service and wouldn't have access to my accounts during that time so I wouldn't be able to make sure to pay them. Even with that I had to additionally tell them I'd only cancel for now but as soon as I get back I'd run straight back to them and sign up again because I love the gym so much. It was one of the reasons I ended up deciding to move to the other side of the country, so I wouldn't run into them.
I find it funny as jackson admitted in their podcast that he has lost HUNDREDS of dollars because first he didn't cancel his gym membership and then when he did, he did it wrong and apparently still had a tonne of money due.
As a manager of a gym, I approve this message 😂
Darcy acting as the portrait behind Jaxon is too realistic
I had this same conversation with the new manager of my gym. They started trying to drive out anyone who used the free weights for anything except bench press. They were literally hiding bars / weight clips in lockers under the service desk. Still, they tried to make it a massive hassle for me to quit. I told them to stuff it, blocked them from being able to take any more money from my account, and eventually had to get the manager of a location 300 miles away to remove all the bullshit fees and cancel my account. They try to get me to sign up again 10 years later.
Jaxon looks blazed asl lmao
When Chuck Norris wants to leave a gym, they pay HIM the cancellation fee
The gym I used to go to had the best contracts. They were independent, so they did them how they wanted to. All their memberships were paid for up front. There was no automatic payment system at all, so there was no way for them to keep charging people. They used to give discounts to people to renew their membership, too.
last gym I went to got closed down and a new company took over. Everyone at the old gym's membership automatically transferred to the new gym. When I tried to cancel it they told me I couldn't because I still had the old gym's membership and that I would have to go there (the gym that doesn't exist anymore) to cancel it. I had to go to my bank to stop the payments... and then it somehow magically renewed the next year anyway.
Average gymnation experience. They ask for ur doctors prescription, resigning letter, divorce papers, air tickets, heck might even ask a psychology report.
I can proudly say I've never been a member of any gym
we can tell by looking at you
@@gankthe literally just looks normal
@@Pepsimaximo1 you say that like it's something to strive for
@gankt Damn your YT account is ancient dude. 2006 legend here
@@gankt have some respect for young Oliver bro, he's on his way to a million subs.
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Australian Gym Bro. 😁
1000%.
Every Time.
This is the way to act when someone tries to break up with you
If you wanna cancel your membership @ planet fitness, you can just report a man in the womans locker room, they’ll cancel your membership immediately! 😂
Many years ago I went to a gym where they were offering "Lifetime Memberships" for some ridiculous amount of money. I asked the guy at the desk at the desk 'What is a lifetime membership? Whose lifetime is it?' He wouldn't answer me. A few months later they closed down. Bullet dodged!
you signed on for a year but it but it auto renewed... for a year. lol love it
I actually did go through with not paying their stupid crap after I quit and their lawyers chased me up for $500 a year later
I used Covid as an excuse to cancel my $900 a month scam membership at a CrossFit gym. Worked like a charm.
“You did a little over a year ago” 😂😂
Had a similar experience in Toronto about 4 years ago -- had a gym membership that was useless because all the gyms were closed for the pandemic, and they still would not let me cancel. Got so mad I ended up switching banks just to break their auto debit system.
I like how your 10 year channel anniversary is on my bday lol
why am i so thrown off by Lachlan yelling YOOOOOOOR
my brother cancelled his membership then a year later they still tried to charge him for "missed payments" because apparently he never cancelled his membership.
I haven’t had trouble cancelling, but do want to give a shout out to the local gym who, when I asked to go on hold due to pregnancy, did not charge me and let me extend the hold until I was ready to come back. I could have cried. I think I did cry.
And now I’m back to going daily. And will probably never leave. That bit of kindness went a long way.
It's the first time I resolved something with the Karen move of "let me talk to your manager". I guess I was one of the rare peeps that read the small print.
This is why I picked Jetts, I've left/rejoined so many times based on where I'm living and how much I'm making
Up reference!! I love it!!!
I've tried on numerous occasions to unsubscribe from this channel. Unfortunately I can't afford to, both emotionally and financially. I'll send through another $100 as my 16th installment for trying to unsubscribe. PS. Love your work.
Men, I keep thinking I need to sign up for a gym, but was too lazy. Now this video is like making sure I’ll never have doubts to not join a gym 😅
I love Masoyoshi Takanaka as the outro music
This literally happened to me - I had to go in, sign a paper, the gym guy texted me calling me stupid, I put up a 3 star review and he replied calling me broke. The whole process took like 3 annoying weeks
You missed the Planet Fitness scummy tactic of "You must submit your cancellation request in the form of writing, mailed to our company headquarters.". They put as many barriers up as possible to prevent you from cancelling and it should honestly be illegal. If I can sign up with one click, I should be able to cancel just the same.
masayoshi is goated
That autorenewal got me!
Same but with the library.
"Can i get my 200 dollar deposit back?"
"Sure, you just need to clear your unpaid fines."
"Oh, like 2 dollars?"
"2777536654 dollars."
Thanks for reminding.
Again, very good you have my blessing
that album slaps hey also good video