14 days to withdraw from agreement

WaxiesDargle

you are right there arcon!

My gym offers a 2 year contract for £35 instead of £39 for one year

I don't know where I'll be in two years...the way I'm working out at the gym it might be in a wooden box!!

arcon5

Oh I see.. you would probably have grounds to cancel after 12 months based on the OFT judgement against Ashbourne gym (as posted above).. the problem is with a credit agreement in place it makes it harder to merely stop paying as it will affect your credit report.

Fire_Fox

arcon5 wrote: »

Thanks for clarifying op... I think your interpretation is spot on. Gyms are notorious for locking people in at any and all costs. The recent judgement has deemed contracts lengths greater than 12 months unfair but it seems to me you would have no contractual or legal right to cancel within the 12 months signed up to - unless you challenge their terms which there is actually no guarantee you would win.

Shocking really how health clubs operate!

Whilst I don't condone many of the sharp sales practices of the big chains, actually gyms make a loss on many people who attend regularly, the profit is made on those who stop going after a few weeks. If they were all able to cancel when the novelty wore off in March gyms would have to lay off staff every Spring, charge massively more to the regulars, probably go bankrupt.

If people want shorter contracts and fairer terms they should join a local council, university or college gym (many have memberships for the public too). The more these places are used the more money will be ploughed back into the services and facilities since many are non profit making.

Some of the commercial gyms have quite decent terms for cancelling if you have a doctor's letter, terminating if you are moving away for work and no other club in that area or suspending for a few months. At the end of the day it is not that different to taking out a mobile phone contract and then changing your mind or circumstances changing, you contract to pay for a service and that service is being provided even if you opt not to use it.