THIS FTC? Under THIS Administration??? Fucking broken clock I guess
Several other good things started under Biden have continued under Trump’s FTC and FCC as well. Trump supporters think Trump is responsible for it though.
Did they not JUST repeal click to cancel laws, like a month ago? Am I making this up?
A judge did, not the FTC.
No you aren’t making it up they did stop that from going into effect.
I’m sure this is an attempt to appear like they’re being helpful while actually ingraining the problem further.
In THIS part of the country
The Trump admin is more about comically open corruption than traditional conservative non-interference in the market. Trump is trying to get Intel to hand over 10% of the company’s ownership. Traditional conservatives are not running the Trump administration.
Instead, their motives are a lot more corrupt. They don’t support corporations in general. Instead, they support corporations that bribe them and oppose corporations that don’t. The gym industry evidently hasn’t placated themselves sufficiently to the Trump regime, so Biden’s lawsuit is allowed to continue. It will be withdrawn the moment they bend the knee and pay up.
Set a VPN to California and you should be able to one-click ubsubscribe anyway. Worked for me canceling Planet Fitness at least
That’s one thing I love about my YMCA.
I decided to cancel my gym membership because I was doing too much work to go to the gym and I didn’t want to waste the money.
Walked in and said “Hey, I’d like to cancel my membership” and they said “No problem. Your membership ends at the end of the month. Please come back when you’ve got your shit together and want to rejoin.”
I probably could have done it over the phone.
“No problem. Your membership ends at the end of the month. Please come back when you’ve got your shit together and want to rejoin.”
This makes me want to join your gym. Direct to the point, no bullshit, and a bit of sass. I like it.
You’re full of shit. We tried to cancel our YMCA membership because it got to expensive and they put us through hell to cancel.
Why are all gyms this way?
Could you describe the process? What, exactly, made it “hell”?
Well they didn’t allow us to cancel. Said we had to give a 30 day written notice. So had to cancel the account it was tied to, and then they still try to send us to collection. Never again.
That’s fucked up, what a stupid amount of hoops to jump through from something so small.
Only had to be an open scam for decades before they decided to do anything about it.
Do nothing about it and nothing gets done about it.
I don’t understand why it is hard to cancel. I would just want to get in shape not be subbed forever.
How do gym memberships work in america? You have to subscribe with a credit card? because everywhere else you pay for a month/year upfront and if you stop going that’s on you.
Depends on the gym. Planet Fitness (a huge chain with gyms literally fucking everywhere) requires checking account info (account number and bank routing number) and they automatically deduct the monthly amount and the annual fee. The advantage of this (compared to credit card info) is that a customer can’t do a chargeback through the credit card company and the checking account info never expires. PF’s basic business model is getting people to sign up for a small monthly fee (either $15 or $25) and then either forget about it or not care enough to bother canceling. They certainly don’t want people showing up every day - apparently the average PF franchise has about 6000 members, which would be utterly unworkable if they all actually used the gym. I’ve been going to PF for more than 15 years on a daily basis and sometimes I lose my mind and start thinking I’m actually a valued customer, when in reality I’m surprised I haven’t been banned.
You see, here in Europe(at least in my country) we have a system where you can allow certain companies e.g. your mobile provider to just take the monthly amount from your account, without you having to bother with setting up recurring payments or worse, paying it manually, but it’s fully under your control, you set the upper limit and you can cancel it from your side anytime.
Your cheese is better than ours, too.
Yeah and in my country quark is widespread, but still because of online influence local content creators keep pushing cottage cheese into desserts (because that’s what you guys do in the US), and I am like fuck off, we have quark here, just make sweet recipes with quark, it’s what it is for.
because that’s what you guys do in the US
Huh? Nobody below the age of 80 likes cottage cheese here. That shit is for people born before WWII to put on their canned peaches.
You probably don’t follow the fitness recipes space online, it’s a cottage cheese epidemic
Ah yes, the secret to dieting: eat food that tastes like shit.
To get out of GoodLife, it cost me $50, and they dared remind me that exercise was healthy as if I was an idiot. To cancel an AMEX card, they had to ask me why. Imagine leaving the grocery store and the cashier asked: “Why didn’t you buy more?” and reminded you that eating was healthy.
I remember during the covid shutdown my gym was closed (NYSC) . I called their main support line or whatever and was like “I need to cancel my membership” and they told me that I needed to go into the gym to cancel. I told them that the gym was closed and I can’t go in. They then told me I needed to get in touch with the manager of that gym somehow.
Called my credit card company. Disputed the charges, and told them to block any further charges from NYSC. That gym shut down before the lock down even ended.
Bought some weights and bands for my apartment. Downloaded a free app for calisthenics routines. Haven’t been to a gym since.
It’s not quite the same as having all of the machines and weights, but it sure as hell is more convinient. If I ever get the pleasure of owning a home, building out a more complete gym in the basement/garage is a goal.
I want to quit the gym!
Yet they got rid of pretty much all the cases against subscriptions and not having “one click cancellation” that the precious FTC was going after. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Just an observation,
Do people really wear on/over-the-ear headphones while working out at the gym, like the lady in the thumbnail is depicting?
Seems like they would be way too bulky and hot/sweaty for gym use.
Not that there is any technical reason they can’t be used, just seems like ear buds of the sporty variety would be a far better choice…?
Women often do so people won’t talk to them
I go to the gym regularly and use airpods but I have seen people wear over the ear headphones. Usually those lifting weights, not doing cardio machines.
They do. I don’t get it. I can’t get them to stay on unless I get a pair with such high clamp force that it hurts and gives me a headache.
Yes. No idea how, mine would be falling off all the time.
I would if anybody made wireless over-ear headphones for giant heads. I have the unfortunate luck of wet earwax and weird ear shape that cause earbuds to constantly fall out.
An affirmative helllll yeahhh here. Ever since I got an earbud piece lodged in my ear that allegedly fit and would never slip - while having a “freedom” gap in my insurance - I plan to never wear buds again.
Let’s put it this way. I’ve seen lots of people wear headphones at the gym.
I’ve also never seen anyone wearing them (any type of headphones/ear buds) doing serious workout.
I’m not judging. Showing up is better than not. Every day can’t be a 100% day. Just my observation though.
This is what they do while they insider trade while working a regulatory position
Or ignoring the conflict of interest that goes along with companies hiring the people who were regulating them.
Wish I could start a gym that is month month no contracts. How come there isn’t a single gym that operates this way?
This administration has 9,999,999 problems but this ain’t one.
I avoided joining the gym because I’m afraid to cancel.
