Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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Reading over information regarding this gym, apparently this is what happens on a VERY regular basis. According to tons and tons of reviews, they DO send people to collections for charge backs. I...
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I am impressed by your use of guerrilla tactics.
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why waste the paper?
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Sure it is. :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIr5SjE_jO0
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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Called the gym yesterday and they confirmed that my account shows cancelled... hopefully I'm done (but I still feel skeptical!).
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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Here is a post that I just put on their FB page. I am out of contract, paid in full, and no longer in the area. Pulling my hair out on this one.
I have been attempting to cancel my membership for...
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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The cancellation requirements of Golds Gym Oxnard, CA is that you MUST hand write and mail in a letter to their PO Box (That they never check).
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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If a payment is declined, they will send the account to collections. While that may EVENTUALLY get cleared up, I refuse to have my credit hit from this drama.
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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Throw a brick through the window with a cancellation note on it every night until they cancel it?
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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BBB and the local news station's consumer reporter are good ways to handle these types of situations.
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And first time poster who happened to stumble upon a thread about a gym he happens to hate.
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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I canceled via email, no issues
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I was a member of Gold's many different times --- each time was on a 90 day (payment in full) plan --- and each time I got good value
you got know your own habits before you lock in on these long...
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damn maybe you can rent a time machine and let the op know that information to save him the hassle.
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Ok here's an update. I found the owners personal email address and emailed him the details of the situation. Keep in mind that every review that I could find mentioning him states that he screws...
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Yeah I hear that's really the only way gyms pay the bills: get people on automatic billing. I kinda doubt Brian's assessment but who knows with the big chains?
SlikNik you lift in Oxnard? I do...
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Contact the bank / credit card company through which the recurring billing is set up. If you stop paying, they'll stop your membership in a hurry.
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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Sounds like you've answered your own question.
I personally would change the CC or instruct them to not auth the merchant anymore. You have already upheld your end of the bargain by simply...
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I was part of NYSC and they say on their terms & conditions that there must be a hand written notification of cancellation, however, i just went up to the kiosk where they signed me up and asked to...
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Opps...I see that you tried to cancel in person and they told you they couldn't.
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Do you have this required procedure in writing? If so, and if you've fulfilled it and you have proof (signed receipt from USPS showing it was delivered and received), then you've done what you were...
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Great!
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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I would probably put in a complaint to the BBB and the attorney general, and send more certified letters.
I would also send weekly certified letters until cancelled. I read that it takes 2...
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Victor the manager at the Gold's Gym in Las Vegas is arbitrarily charging for fees that aren't listed.
Victor the manager at the Gold's Gym in Las Vegas is arbitrarily charging for fees that aren't ...
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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Do you even lift bro?
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I was informed that the easiest and fastest way to cancel a Gold's gym membership is to do it online. When you complete your cancelation form and submit you get a confirmatio number.
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We've got at least 8 different gyms in this area (7 national chains plus 1 local chain) and they all require contracts. However, all of them, including Gold's Gym, operate on a month-to-month basis....
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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Holy crap, I'm never signing up for a gym membership. My neighborhood and a pair of weights are all the gym I need lol.
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I moved to NP months ago, thats why I needed to cancel.
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:lmao: :woot: Contract gyms . . . :shake:
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Right?!
My situation was resolved eventually (as mentioned in this thread), but fun fact: the gym is being sued by the District Attorney for $75million.
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Beware SeanZ the thread necromancer...
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I only do curls in the squat rack
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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Every gym I have ever gone to requires a 2 month notice to cancel. Here is their member service phone # 800-693-3948. Hope that helps. Also try and find out who the actual billing company is, I'm...
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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i never had a problem canceling a membership in person. I'm assuming there no other gold's gym near you?
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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I've never had anything like this go to collections. If you stop the payment, they will stop the membership. I've had to do this before with shady companies. Since you have proof that you tried to...
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I would just send a certified letter to corporate here:
Gold's Gym International, Inc.
Company Information
125 E. John Carpenter Fwy, Ste. 1300
Irving, TX, 75062 United States
(214) 574-4653
Help! Unable to cancel Golds Gym Membership!
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If the letter gets returned keep it unopened in case of further problems.