Unclaimed belongings "disposed of" by gym

CoolHotCold

You don't actually state that the gym have taken the items.

Only, there were there when you forgot them and gone when you tried to retrive them, and you assume that the gym empied the lockers.

Any decent Gym will have a logbook of lost and found. If you ask the Gym if they found any items in a locker (I don't know if they have locker numbers or ID etc) and theres three options.

Yes We have them come and collect
Yes we empied the contents and disposed of as per T&C
No we don't have any idea what your on about.


You post here first before asking the gym and you deserve some of the ridicule you get here. Chances are either the gym has them waiting contact from you or you locker was unlocked or broken into or stolen.

Idiophreak

CoolHotCold wrote: »

You don't actually state that the gym have taken the items.

err, yeah, he has...

SebD wrote: »

The gym sort of dried-up when I asked why they hadn't attempted contact, but simply reiterated that the items had been disposed of.

McKneff

SebD wrote: »

I was hoping for some helpful, factual, advice. Isn't there another thread you could be submitting unhelpful, pithy, comments on?

But you cant prove anything, nothing zilch. Mine is the most helpful post on this thread, it will save you a lot of time and hassle.

Factual. It was.
Unhelpful. It wasnt
Pithy - do you actually know what the word means.

You cant prove that anything was actually in the locker, end of, Simples.

CoolHotCold

Thanks Idiophreak, SebD didn't exactly put all the relevant information in the first post and scattered it about.

I still stand by the three options, he should talk to a manager and not a desk jocky, repeating the same policy regardless of what the inquiry is.

The way I suspect the convasation went was
"Hi I left some items in my locker how can I retrive them"
"Sorry, but as per company policy all items left in lockers has been disposed of"
"Why haven't I been informed and how have they been disposed of"
"Sorry, I don't have those details to hand"
"Fine Goodbye"

Like I said, SebD isn't exactly the most articulate person to give information so I suspect he wasn't talking to a supervisor or a manager as they would know how they are disposed of, and probably didn't give any details on the lost items.

Gladys_Friday

If said gym employs transient cleaning people for cheapness then they probably can't guarantee that stuff won't go missing.

In an ideal world lockers would be emptied by 2 permanent staff members for security but realistically that won't happen.

Make claim on home insurance?
Report to Police?
Contact gym Head Office?
Enrol on a course for improving short term memory?

Great thread. Very funny. Probably tosh as gym hasn't been named and people are usually not shy about that when it comes to health clubs.

Gladys_Friday

McKneff wrote: »

But you cant prove anything, nothing zilch. Mine is the most helpful post on this thread, it will save you a lot of time and hassle.

Factual. It was.
Unhelpful. It wasnt
Pithy - do you actually know what the word means.

You cant prove that anything was actually in the locker, end of, Simples.

RE the 'pithy'. I think Seb just spelt the word incorrectly.:rotfl:

Idiophreak

Gladys_Friday wrote: »

RE the 'pithy'. I think Seb just spelt the word incorrectly.:rotfl:

Lol, I quite like the idea of typing phonetically with a lisp

ThumbRemote

The gym surely have a duty of care for the items. It is no different to the threads regarding misdelivered goods.

OP, look at.
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/your_world/consumer_affairs/keeping_lost_found_and_uncollected_goods.htm

or search for threads on these boards about misdelivered goods.

SebD

ThumbRemote wrote: »

The gym surely have a duty of care for the items. It is no different to the threads regarding misdelivered goods.

OP, look at.
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/your_world/consumer_affairs/keeping_lost_found_and_uncollected_goods.htm

or search for threads on these boards about misdelivered goods.

Thanks for that, my thoughts entirely inasmuch that a business (any business but particularly one of which I am a paying patron) must surely exhibit a reasonable standard of duty and care for someone's property that is left on their premises. Simply because my property is not with me makes it nonetheless my property, regardless. For example, even if I left my car door open and the keys within it, that might be deemed careless enough to prevent an insurance claim but it STILL makes anyone taking the vehicle and disposing of it at their whim guilty of a crime, despite my own lack of care. Theft is theft (full-stop) and the permanent removal of another's property is theft, in my book. Forever call me "careless" but my leaving property on another's premises does not assume transferal of that property's ownership from myself to the property owner. Neither does it make me a bad person - let they who have never done likewise cast the first stone(s).

Whew, I'm happy you replied, Thumbremote, as I was getting a little tired of reading posts laying claim that I had not yet approached the gym (the clue is in the OP Title, chaps:rotfl:)or making otherwise unwarranted and/or personal (though ignorant) attacks upon me as a person for almost any [STRIKE]straw[/STRIKE] vacuous/erroneous reason that could be clutched at by members of the Forum Fundamentalist Society (here_ever_after referred as "The !!!!!!'ers" or "!!!!!!", for short).:D

Judge me not until you have walked a mile in my shoes (assuming it is you that now has my shoes) :rotfl::D

McKneff

Idiophreak wrote: »

Lol, I quite like the idea of typing phonetically with a lisp

Don't you mean a lithp.;)