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- From: mickw@autodesk.com (Mick Washbrook)
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness
- Subject: Re: Bally's Health Club SUCKS Read this...
- Message-ID: <17936@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:17:14 GMT
- References: <69389@cup.portal.com> <Bxo7K5.Ipy@inews.Intel.COM>
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- In article <Bxo7K5.Ipy@inews.Intel.COM>, jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece) writes:
- >
- > Is Bally's related in any way to the 24-Hour Nautilus chain in
- > California? Their marketing, sales, and business practices seem
- > remarkably similar. To wit:
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- I can believe any stories I hear about Nautilus, though I have to say that I seem
- to have had--on the whole--fairly good luck with them. I bought a lifetime annual
- membership with them back in 1984, and pay only $75 a year renewal with them. The
- membership entitles me to use any of their facilities. However, in 1991 when I
- renewed my membership, they said they'd "lost" my records. I had kept my original
- contract (clever me) and took it in to them. But it took several irate phone calls
- and a letter for them to set things straight. I guess they just hope that people
- will lose their original contracts. I could also show them several years' worth
- of cancelled checks I'd made out to them, proving my membership had been contin-
- uous. I have some complaints about how well they maintain their facilities, but
- for $75 a year, who can complain.
-
- I bet they HATE me. Ha!
-
- --
- Death to all fanatics!!
-
- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
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