Most recent correspondence from Gold’s
Gym
Hi Andy,
I did take
this to a corp. meeting and they stated that I would need the cancellation form
and if you do not have the cancellation form you will have to pay the Past Due
Balance amount to GO MORE FINANCIAL @ 1-888-466-6730 and the membership has
already been terminated.
April
Gold's Gym Member Services
My email flame back to Gold’s Gym – I’m getting angry
April,
I do not owe you any money. I have been a loyal customer since you launched
this gym. I've been nice and understanding while you guys figured out what was
going on with your merger.
I am no longer feeling nice and understanding. I do not like wasting my time on this...but I like even less the way you think you can invade my life and call me for collections that I do not owe you.
I've been into the Gold's gym that I signed up for at least 3 times with my contract and paperwork and discussed with management ....all in an effort to try and get this resolved. Enough. No more.
Let me tell you what I am going to do:
i) I'm going to ask that you reconsider your decision and talk with Lauren
about the details of this situation to see if your desire to collect 190$ is
right and worth it.
ii) In the meantime, I've posted about this on my blog and will continue to do so.
iii) I own a company called Judy's Book which has a readership of over 30K people in Seattle alone and is a site designed for customer reviews of small businesses. I obviously will post the result of our discussion to them. Check it out....www.judysbook.com
iv) I hate to say it but if necessary I may be forced to consider more aggressive forms of PR around this story -- the story being company signing consumer up for subscription service and then harassing them even though they tried to correctly cancel their service. Did you hear about the AOL cancel service -- this was a big story. I hate to see your desire to collect 190$ incorrectly blow out of proportion on you ...but your treatment of me is simply wrong. I could send a press release to the
seattle
times, the
seattle
weekly, etc. I could be more guerrilla too -- I'll just print up our story and post this at the different gold's gyms in Seattle so people know how you treat your "valued" customers.
v) If all the above doesn't works, I may consider small claims court....I've never been and this could be a fun learning experience. And by the way -- if all that doesn't work, I still won't pay because you're just wrong.
Why hasn't anyone called to actually understand the situation from my perspective?
Are you sure your firm wants to escalate this more?
I'm tired...and frustrated and annoyed. Can't you we resolve this in some way please...before I actually start to take pleasure in fighting back for my rights?
Thanks for doing the right thing here.....
Let me know what you'd like to do. If I don't hear back from you within by Aug 3rd, I'll assume, you think the value of collecting 190$ is more valueable than the relationship and reputation you with customers in Seattle, online, etc. You know what they say about a negative word of mouth don't you? People are 10X more likely to talk about and blast it out.
It's up to you.
Andy
