Gym membership cancellation

MadMat

I've been a member of a local gym for just over 2 years. I've just told them i want to quit, to be told I've got to give 3 months notice, and pay for another 3 months membership that i no longer want.

Are these gym membership contracts legal and enforceable, or can i just cancel the DD.

Mat

tykesi

MadMat wrote: »

I've been a member of a local gym for just over 2 years. I've just told them i want to quit, to be told I've got to give 3 months notice, and pay for another 3 months membership that i no longer want.

Are these gym membership contracts legal and enforceable, or can i just cancel the DD.

Mat

If that's what your contract says and you agreed enough to sign up to it at the start what makes you think you shouldn't be held to it?

I can't imagine it would be classed as an unfair term so I'd say yes, it's almost certainly legal and most probably enforceable.

wealdroam

MadMat wrote: »

I've been a member of a local gym for just over 2 years. I've just told them i want to quit, to be told I've got to give 3 months notice, and pay for another 3 months membership that i no longer want.

Are these gym membership contracts legal and enforceable, or can i just cancel the DD.

Mat

Cancelling a Direct Debit certainly does not cancel the underlying contract.

Is three months notice what you agreed to at the time of signing up?

There is good guidance on the Which website.
Here is a sentence from that:

In 2011 the High Court ruled that terms which locked people into a gym contract for longer than 12 months was likely to be unfair.

MadMat

I don't have the original paperwork anymore, but they tell me i agreed to a minimum of 12 months and then 3 months notice. Don't remember that being explained to me at the time, but it could have been in the small print.

Mat