If you've had any experience with 24 Hour Fitness, good or bad, could you post it? I've been working out for the last 7 weeks or so and I'm thinking about making the jump from the local rec center to someplace with nicer facilities, like a pool and sauna. Just wondering how 24 Hour Fitness is in general.

Be careful of 24 Hour Fitness. The U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit just certified a NATIONAL class action lawsuit against 24 Hour Fitness, alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA).

Friedman vs. 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc., (Case # 06-06282), alleges that 24 Hour Fitness continues to deliberately take monthly payments out of consumer’s accounts after the member cancels membership. The case was filed in U.S. District Court, Central District of California.

The gym insists all members pay their monthly memberships by electronic transfer. It is estimated that 24 Hour Fitness is making $1.6 million a month that it is getting from former members’ bank and credit card accounts by defrauding such companies as Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase, which process payments via the national financial system networks for electronic fund transfers.

Good luck.

I wasn't planning to do a monthly membership, but if that's indicative of how they do business...

Hmmm

Not sure if you have an Anytime Fitness that's local, but I've had nothing but great experiences from the ones in Wisconsin and Iowa in the couple months I've been there. And you can go into anyone in the country once you join, so if you move or travel, it's pretty nice. Plus you can pay them in person every month if you don't want to worry about the whole electronic transfer hassel. But a two year contract was much cheaper where I live.

Some of them are much smaller though, like the one by where my brother lives. Just my two cents. Assuming the TX in your name is for Texas, here ya go.

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