David Lloyd Gym cancellation period

k5roc

Be warned!!!
If you cancel your gym membership with David Lloyd, then your cancellation notice period begins AT THE END of the month you hand in your notice. If, like me, you hand your notice in on the 7th of the month, then the notice period begins on the last day of that month effectively meaning that my 3 months notice is now 3 months and 23 days.
I have actively chased this with DL membership services and, in their words "the system is inflexible". It is also apparently in the T&Cs which are available on the web but I was inable to find them from a search of the website.

Effectively, they are taking 3 weeks money from me against my wishes.

ANy advice please?

Proc

k5roc wrote: »

It is also apparently in the T&Cs .

ANy advice please?

Read the T&Cs before signing.

marleyboy

They aren't in their T&C, at all!

Cancel the Direct Debit and reply to any further messages with "I will wait for the Judge to decide my fate"

marleyboy

Would advise that anyone thinking of signing up to these gym memberships, go to the park with either jogging or cycling - it has many perks, its FREE, its in YOUR TIME, its as flexible as YOU want it to be, your free to cancel whenever you wish, there are NO T&C's.

timberflake

marleyboy wrote: »

Would advise that anyone thinking of signing up to these gym memberships, go to the park with either jogging or cycling - it has many perks, its FREE, its in YOUR TIME, its as flexible as YOU want it to be, your free to cancel whenever you wish, there are NO T&C's.

I totally agree...............unless you're interested in weight training and putting muscle on in which case a gym is the only realy option, unless you want to train Balboa style by pounding meat in a cold store!

Its also common sense that you have to give a FULL 3 months notice! When you signed up, they didn't say "You have to give 3 months notice, but 2 months and 23 days notice is fine too".

I'm leaving Bannatynes and I know that I have to give three full months notice, so knowing that I'll be ensuring they get my cancellation letter before my membership for June goes out, I won't wait until after my June membership goes out but still expect to be able to cancel at the end of Aug!

marleyboy

Toning up is not too difficult, if you have not got the weights, its far cheaper to buy a complete set than the total payments for any GYM.

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And thats just for starters - Besides which, a big sack of potatoes or bricks followed by some push ups do just as good as any Gym, and cost a hell of a lot less.

nomoneytoday

k5roc wrote: »

ANy advice please?

Your local library will have reading lessons

marleyboy

nomoneytoday wrote: »

Your local library will have reading lessons

Just a shame they don't have the T&C in them, as anyone who knows how to read would have noted this little message-

They aren't in their T&C, at all!

fozmcfc

I joined a David Lloyds in July 2008. The mimimum term was 12 months, which is fair enough.

In the end I decided to leave as it was very expensive for what you got. Unfortunately I didn't realise (yes it is in the T&C's) after the first 12 month period you have to give 3 months notice, which of course just drags it on and on.

My final payment to them was in January 2010 after I cancelled at the end of September.

Lesson learnt to definately read all the T&C's in future.

jdx

marleyboy wrote: »

Cancel the Direct Debit and reply to any further messages with "I will wait for the Judge to decide my fate"

But these b**gers will only pass your details onto a dca and **** up your credit.

Fire_Fox

timberflake wrote: »

I totally agree...............unless you're interested in weight training and putting muscle on in which case a gym is the only realy option, unless you want to train Balboa style by pounding meat in a cold store!

Absolute rubbish, and that is coming from a qualified personal trainer! You can achieve hypertrophy using nothing more than your own body weight if you know what you are doing (plyometrics/ callisthenics :j). Therabands, elastic tubing, Flexi-bar Athletic, Swiss ball and a pull-up bar are all easy to store. If you prefer to use weights you can buy a set of adjustable dumbells and/ or a barbell very cheaply - machine weights are far from the best way to get fitter and stronger.