Knowledge = to the square of power

Ha, there have been quite a few blog entries that I’ve not posted since my last update. I would draft up a blog and then come back to it later to  finish, only to change my mind and not post it.

I’ve had a great time joining and cancelling membership at a local gym, ‘Xtreme Fitness’, a bunch of clowns I say. They thought they had a sucker when I walked in but fat chance not with me. There’s even a webpage devoted to bashing this company. I wonder how they’re still in business.

Even the employee’s don’t even know the rules and regulations and I had to educate them that or they were playing stupid. In Toronto we have something called the 10 day cooling off period when it comes to cancelling a gym membership, there’s also a clause that states that proof of fax with the time and date is sufficient without any reason. But the pests don’t want it that way, so I dragged myself into their offices and well, I turned the tables on them.

First off, as soon as bumble gum girl paged staff for a membership cancellation, it’s just a way to inform staff someone is waiting but take your sweet time. So, after observing through the office glass windows I noticed they weren’t busy with customers, I went to bumble gum girl at reception and said to her “listen I I don’t got all day, either I fax my cancellation or someone cancels it now”. She wanted to argue with me that I can’t just fax my cancel request. WRONG! And before you want to look stupid and an ass read the facts. But it’s not even that, they just want to lure you into not cancelling.

But because I wasn’t a happy camper having to wait, they thought that I would of gave up and forget about it.

HA, FAT CHANCE, BITCHES! Wrong Guy!

The management called me into his office, and I sat down in the sunken chair. Now, they had of made that the cancellation office, because it’s the kind of chair where you sink into it and you feel like a little pea which they look down at you. So, I stood up during this process. The clown tried to convince me to not canceling the membership, he tried and tried and tried, but oh no not this time superstar.

They did not cancel the membership. I received a phone call from their accounting office telling me I owe monies. Shit hit the ceiling and they aroused my anger. I had proof of the cancellation, I sent a complaint to the BBB, another office and added my complaint to that Xtreme Fitness (myfit.ca) bashing site and days later I was informed it was really cancelled.

Rules of thumb, know the facts, don’t let people scare nor intimidate you, keep all paperwork and store it in a safe place because they think people will lose it and not keep proof.

I’m not saying people are out to get me, but when it comes to gym memberships they’re really are out to get you.

Another thing, when you go grocery shopping, and the shelf says one price and when you go to pay for it and even if it’s a few cents more, dispute it. It’s the principal, they shouldn’t false advertise and get away with it and expect customers to pay extra at check out. Oh who cares  if I come across as a stiff  or I’m holding up a line or if I’m a cheapo, don’t false advertise and cheat consumers and everything will be A Ok. These corporations make a lot of money and consumers shouldn’t be cheated. Actually, Ontario law says that if the price is more at check out than whats at the shelf, the item is free if below $10. I’ll be shopping at that location more often..lol..

You know what they say, knowledge is power.

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