10/14/2009 4:38 AM (PST)

tehey require a notorize letter to cancel and u have to send it to head quarets .u should certify tho letter to prove that u sent it becuz they claim they didnt get it .u also have to do it a certain day of the month or they wont cancel ur membership for another month. they make it more complicated than it needs to be . carolyn

11/14/2009 4:07 PM (PST)

Run for your life!! DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE SIGN A CONTRACT WHICH ALLOWS THEM AUTO-BILLING ACCESS TO A CREDIT CARD OR BANK ACCOUNT. In fact DON'T EVER GIVE THEM A CREDIT CARD period. Doing so is just a way to agree to let them legally rob you blind! Just Google "LA Fitness Scams" and you will read literally hundreds of horror stories documenting their: * Refusal to cancel contracts * Cancellations dragging on and on despite you jumping through all the right hoops. * Lost cancellation notices (oops, your not cancelled) * Or what happened to me, where I called in to ask about cancelling and the guy said, "I'll print your cancellation policy and send it in with today's paperwork". Now, of course, they deny ever saying that and they are bilking me out of two additional months membership. If you study the way their contracts are laid out, as well as how they require contracts to be cancelled you can easily see that they have strategically set themselves up to rip people off. A Fax is a legally binding document. Insurance companies let you cancel policies by fax. You can negotiate and close a business contract by fax, so why won't LA Fitness allow for faxed in cancellations? Several reason's come to mind: 1. The delay in getting the cancellation to them by mail often causes people to pass their membership date, thereby costing them an additional month's fees. 2. By having people mail the cancellation in, they can lose it, and therefore claim that you never cancelled, and therefore bill you forever. 3. And here is the biggest telltale sign of all -- there is no signature required on their cancellation form! Now how can you explain that? If there is no signature required, then there is nothing legally binding about the cancellation notice. As such, they could, if the wanted to, print the cancellation agreement and send it in for you -- which is what the scamming, lying, conniving #*^#('s said they would do for me. Now of course, they deny ever having said that, and what do you know, there is nothing in my record saying that I ever asked to be cancelled. Yahaira, given the chance, LA Fitness will steal your very soul. And trust me, they could teach the devil a thing or two about doing so. Instead, find a gym that does not require you to sign a contract and does not require you to give them a credit card.