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Leaving a gym....

artie ziff · 2008-01-21 20:38:41

anyone tried this recently? i moved home recently and i now live about 10 miles from my gym, i haven't been there in 3 months as a result and now i've given up on it and i'm joining another one closer to home. the problem is that when i phoned my gym to cancel my membership, they said i was required to fill in a form. when…

21-01-2008 8:38pm

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artie ziff

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anyone tried this recently?

i moved home recently and i now live about 10 miles from my gym, i haven't been there in 3 months as a result and now i've given up on it and i'm joining another one closer to home. the problem is that when i phoned my gym to cancel my membership, they said i was required to fill in a form. when this was completed they informed me that i had to give 2 months notice to leave. have they any claim to a membership fee from me for the next two months?

also when i asked for the form to fill in the people behind the counter looked at me like i'd just shot a child

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#2 21-01-2008 9:39pm

Gillo

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Check your contract from when you joined the gym and see what the notice period required is.

Gym's get a lot of stick for putting in clause's of up to three months required in order to leave, but IMHO people need to actually reed the contract when they join the gym so they know what they are getting into.

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#3 21-01-2008 10:18pm

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Cancel your direct debit - they won't chase up on you.

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#4 22-01-2008 1:35pm

artie ziff

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right so, i think i will just cancel it. although today i found out that a girl in work did the same thing and they pestered her for months. anyways, thanks for your thoughts

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#5 22-01-2008 1:36pm

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cancel it, and if they do ring tell them you dont know what they are talking about you have never been in a gym and please stop ringing.:)

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#6 22-01-2008 3:46pm

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I suggest going with the "No speaky the English" approach.

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#7 22-01-2008 3:55pm

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artie ziff wrote: »

anyone tried this recently?

i moved home recently and i now live about 10 miles from my gym, i haven't been there in 3 months as a result and now i've given up on it and i'm joining another one closer to home. the problem is that when i phoned my gym to cancel my membership, they said i was required to fill in a form. when this was completed they informed me that i had to give 2 months notice to leave. have they any claim to a membership fee from me for the next two months?

also when i asked for the form to fill in the people behind the counter looked at me like i'd just shot a child

Obviously jackie skellies, 2 months cancellation is only after a 10 month period as a member as that finishes your 12 month contract-there not flexible on this unfortunately for you..

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#8 22-01-2008 3:58pm

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I left my local gym last year. They gave me a refund of my remaining fees. On a side note the 2 weeks before I left were spent chatting up the hot burds and getting phone numbers. As they say, make hay while the sun shines.

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#9 22-01-2008 5:17pm

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casey212 wrote: »

I left my local gym last year. They gave me a refund of my remaining fees. On a side note the 2 weeks before I left were spent chatting up the hot burds and getting phone numbers. As they say, make hay while the sun shines.

Anybody else smell that??

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#10 22-01-2008 6:10pm

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Rule #1 for troll-keeping: don't feed them.

Leave be, it's been noticed.

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#11 22-01-2008 6:28pm

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g'em wrote: »

Rule #1 for troll-keeping: don't feed them.

Leave be, it's been noticed.

Duly noted...

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#12 22-01-2008 8:29pm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKH-w7k1h9I

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#13 22-01-2008 9:33pm

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If you signed a contract I'm not sure of the legality of discussing breaking that contract in a public forum? There's a legal discussions forum which may be more apt?

oh and rofl @ Chandler in the gym

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#14 22-01-2008 10:37pm

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i jus left TF -cancelled my DD, no doubt they'll write and ring - they shouldn't after the letter i wrote them - but in the end it's not worth their while coming after me.
Done it before with a host of other yolks like ntl, eircom etc.. it's not financially worth it for them to come after you.

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#15 26-01-2008 8:13pm

artie ziff

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mickoo wrote: »

Obviously jackie skellies, 2 months cancellation is only after a 10 month period as a member as that finishes your 12 month contract-there not flexible on this unfortunately for you..

wrong. the point i'm trying to make is that if they tell me when i join that they require 2 months notice when leaving even after the contract is finished, are they necessarily entitled to it?

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#16 26-01-2008 11:25pm

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Tried to leave TF after about 2 weeks of joining as I had moved and since I had paid up front they would not give me back any money. I had to write off to the english office and was just told it was'nt a valid enough reason and I had signed a contract blah blah blah. However I know a couple of people who have cancelled their direct debits and have not been chased for the remaining amount so plan on paying with dd the next time I join the gym.

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