Am I being Scammed or What should I do???
Sorry this might be very dumb, but i feel like i’m getting ripped off big time at LAFitness and i don’t know what to do??
For starters I have been coming to this specific gym since i was 18. I got my membership right out of high school since it was a 4 min drive compared to other gyms which would be a 20-30 min drive.
When i first got my membership, i told them i just wanted a single club and a guest pass, which they told me would be $42 a month with the annual fee of $68. I payed a starting fee of over $200 that day (can’t remember the specific number since it was over 7 years ago, but it was definitely over $200).
Fast forward two months ago, i called to see if i could change my pass and just remove my guest pass since i wasn’t using it as much as i thought i would. The man told me we could do that by cancelling my current pass and pretty much open a new one with the new terms. He even asked me if i still wanted the multi club pass, which confused me because this whole time i thought i could only use one gym since that’s what was on my contract. He explained that i had multi club and the guest pass. This didn’t upset me as much as i feel like it should’ve but i just brushed it off and continued with trying to remove the guest pass. The man told me it would be $19.99 a month with an annual fee of $68, that i just had to pay $180 that day to restart my account…
I agreed carelessly thinking it would all stay the same as before just without the guest pass.
He emailed me the contract and i realized it said “The initial or minimum length of this contract is _______2months______________________, subject to the
cancellation and renewal provisions herein.” i don’t know why when i first read it i thought it meant i had to use it for 2 months until I decided to cancel.
Fast forward to today, i received an email saying my membership is cancelled and if i wanna continue using it i have to pay another initial fee of $150 and my monthly payments would be $38.
All i wanted was them to remove my guest pass, i regret doing this over the phone because i feel dumb for not double checking everything. On the phone, he never mentioned that the membership was only for 2 months. He never mentioned that i would have to pay another initial fee if i wanted to continue going and that it would be $38/monthly after those 2 months. On the phone he even was telling me how paying the initial fee of $180 there would be better in the long run to change my membership pass to $19.99/monthly and to look at it like an investment because now i won’t be paying $42 a month. I didnt even sign the contract, i thought i would go in person to sign it but he signed it and emailed me.
Overall, i feel extremely dumb and disappointed and don’t know what to do. I am going to go later today and see what i can do.
Any suggestions or advice?? i don’t want to change gyms to a far one but i don’t want to deal with this.