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- From: jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece)
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness
- Subject: Re: Bally's Health Club SUCKS Read this...
- Message-ID: <BxvH0M.42G@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:07:33 GMT
- References: <69389@cup.portal.com> <Bxo7K5.Ipy@inews.Intel.COM> <17936@autodesk.COM>
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- Organization: Intel - Information Technologies
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- In article <17936@autodesk.COM>, mickw@autodesk.com (Mick Washbrook) writes:
-
- > 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.... 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 have some complaints about how well they maintain their facilities....
-
- The Silicon Valley 24hr club was under investigation by the Santa Clara
- County DA for a while. It seems they switched to having people pay dues
- via automatic bank account or credit card debits. When people dropped 24hr
- would often keep on debiting the account for several months thereafter
- and be *very* slow to refund the unauthorized payments.
-
- After my initial membership ran out it took their accounting & check-in
- computer system about 2 months to register the fact that I had paid to
- renew. I had to bring in the canceled check *every* visit during that
- time.
-
- Speaking of facilities, that 24hr's AC was virtually "under repair" for
- almost the entire 1-1/2 year I was there. They also got in trouble
- with the local police because of it. It seems the only way people could
- survive aerobics during summer months was to open all the doors, blasting
- a neighboring residential area with high-volume, 180 bpm disco...
-
- A few months thereafter I switched to the Western Athletic Club
- chain and have been much happier, though much poorer, since.
-
-
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- John Reece "This lifeboat is full"
- Not an Intel spokesman
-