36 month Gym contracts!
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Morning everyone.
Not sure if this is the correct forum so mods please move as necessary.
We have a good friend whose family member had joined a gym last year.
She has since fallen quite ill and is unable to use the gym.
Problem is that she had been sold into a 36 month contract !
In 20 years of training at gym's I have never heard of a 36 month contract !
The 'finance' company are refusing to cancel the contract even when supplied with a letter from her doctor's.
What would be the best way forward on this ?
Thanks for any constructive advise.
Not sure if this is the correct forum so mods please move as necessary.
We have a good friend whose family member had joined a gym last year.
She has since fallen quite ill and is unable to use the gym.
Problem is that she had been sold into a 36 month contract !
In 20 years of training at gym's I have never heard of a 36 month contract !
The 'finance' company are refusing to cancel the contract even when supplied with a letter from her doctor's.
What would be the best way forward on this ?
Thanks for any constructive advise.
Med1c said:
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Problem 1 right here 
Med1c said:
Problem is that she had been sold into a 36 month contract !
No, shSHE ELECTED TO BUY a 36 month contract. She didn't read it obviously, so tough. No doubt it was "cheaper" each month and so she bagged it without checking the implications.Med1c said:
Thanks for any constructive advise.
Ask them if she can at least suspend the membership until she's better.Oh and tell her to read things before she signs them in future.
If the 36 month contract was sold to her under false pretenses (i.e she was told it was shorter or that she could break it) then she should seek legal advice.
If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
Soovy said:
BrabusMog said:
Could your friend cancel their Direct Debit and then just wait for them to come at them for the money? Once they start chasing perhaps they can then try reasoning with the gym?
What, and get a claim issued for the full 36 months plus costs?Er, no.
Just a suggestion, I personally would have read the details before signing a contract. The contract would have to be paid at some point so when the gym chased for it then the friend would be just as well as settling in full if no agreement can be reached.
Soovy said:
Med1c said:
she
Problem 1 right here Med1c said:
Problem is that she had been sold into a 36 month contract !
No, shSHE ELECTED TO BUY a 36 month contract. She didn't read it obviously, so tough. No doubt it was "cheaper" each month and so she bagged it without checking the implications.Med1c said:
Thanks for any constructive advise.
Ask them if she can at least suspend the membership until she's better.Oh and tell her to read things before she signs them in future.
Seriously though I agree she should have read the agreement but I put it down to been young and naive.
Yep this was the cheaper monthly route but she has not planned on falling quite ill.
I would think the company should suspend membership but they have informed her that she still has to pay for each suspended month !
Inkyfingers said:
If the 36 month contract was sold to her under false pretenses (i.e she was told it was shorter or that she could break it) then she should seek legal advice.
If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
Even your first point doesn't really cut it.If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
If she signed it, she's bought it. It's her own fault. There will be a clause in there which means that any old b0llocks she's told before she signs is irrelevant.
"Mis sold" seems to be the defence of choice of the stupid at the moment.
Inkyfingers said:
If the 36 month contract was sold to her under false pretenses (i.e she was told it was shorter or that she could break it) then she should seek legal advice.
If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
Totally agree - I have trained for 20years in Gyms and never would have signed a 36 month agreement.If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
But young people can make mistakes :-)
Med1c said:
Inkyfingers said:
If the 36 month contract was sold to her under false pretenses (i.e she was told it was shorter or that she could break it) then she should seek legal advice.
If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
Totally agree - I have trained for 20years in Gyms and never would have signed a 36 month agreement.If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
But young people can make mistakes :-)
Is she hot? If she wants to come and train in her pants at my place I'll pay half her membership.
dazco said:
Many Thanks :-)Frimley111R said:
Wow! 36 months! I thought gyms were moving towards shorter and shorter periods (mine is PAYG) as people realise that most people end up only going for a short while.
So a nice long contract means they get subs from people who don't actually clutter the place up. Perfect!Med1c said:
Many Thanks :-)
There is the judgementhttp://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2011/1237.h...
Could the contract be transferred to someone else? IE the gym let someone else attend on her behalf (who may or may not pay her for the 36 months)... call it goodwill.
Inkyfingers said:
If she willingly signed a 36 month gym contract then she needs to seek some common sense. Why would anyone willingly sign such a long agreement for something like that?
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