Follow up: Manhattan Beach woman's Bally membership finally can...

Do you get the idea that Bally's and the other health clubs are basically pyramid schemes?

Good for her. She should use her lawyer to take him to small claims court if he will not be prosecuted.
He may not pay up but at least make his life miserable.

She should have cancelled the credit card then Bally's couldn't keep charging her. DUH!

I feel her pain, I went to Bally's to renew my membership and the guy who helped me swiped my card twice, thinking it did not go through the first time. But the machine ran out of paper and charged me twice. He said I would be refunded with in 2-3 weeks, after a month of not being refunded they told me to call my credit card company and tell them to give me a credit on the second transaction. Bally's has the worst costomers service EVER!!!! they are good to take your money and thats it.

She signed a 3 year contract with Bally's and should have honored her commitment. The employee stealing her credit card information is a completely different situation than the 3 year contract and should be handled seperately. Obviously her signature, her word, means nothing.

(so true) you are a moron

Now everyone knows why identity theft is so rampant. No real punishment for the individual who stole the information (or the business). This type of theft can be solved if the person/business that takes a stolen credit card is made liable.

Wish they'd have published the name of the crooked Bally's employee.

Al x wrote:

Do you get the idea that Bally's and the other health clubs are basically pyramid schemes?

I know from experience that 24 Hr Fitness wishes it were a pyramid scheme. They offered me a free workout, then collected as much info from me as they could, and would not stop pressuring me to join. Next to the agent's desk was a long list of recruiting tasks they had complete each day. They wanted from me the names of 10 friends/family/coworkers and their phone numbers. I refused. But none of them could top my Amway upline: "Give me that list of names. If you don't call them (raising her voice) I'LL CALL THEM MYSELF!!" Whoa, I already served my time in Air Force boot camp in 1987. No need to repeat it. I lasted 3 days in that organization.

Hmm, Bally's Rip-off Center of the World. They'll take you rmoney, and probably will even bill you...after you're dead.

Only reason why she succeeded was because of the bad press ballys was getting.

Donut Hole wrote:

The crap that passes for new in the Breeze is stunning.
Why is this news? Someone please explain! I rather read about Little League and I have no kids that play!
BTW, all these pop ups and pop under ads on this site are soooo annoying.

Then don't be so stupid all you have to do is not to read this type of news, just read what you are interested on.LOL

So True wrote:

She signed a 3 year contract with Bally's and should have honored her commitment. The employee stealing her credit card information is a completely different situation than the 3 year contract and should be handled seperately. Obviously her signature, her word, means nothing.

You are WAY off mark there, missy. If a company, through their employee, does something so flagrantly wrong as to allow a customer's credit card info to be stolen, I'd say all obligations to that company are null and void. Would YOU want to continue to visit the place where YOUR identity was stolen? Even if they fired the employee, no one should have any obligation to continue doing business there. Your statement "Obviously her signature, her word, means nothing" is hereby declared void. Time for you to log off, Jerry Springer's on now.

Donut Hole wrote:

The crap that passes for new in the Breeze is stunning.
Why is this news? Someone please explain! I rather read about Little League and I have no kids that play!
BTW, all these pop ups and pop under ads on this site are soooo annoying.

Holy moley, where do these people come from? This is news because credit card fraud is a big problem. I am interested and that's why I read the article. I wanted to know if everything came out OK for the victim. I'm surprised that you need to be told this, but DON'T READ THE ARTICLE IF YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED!!! And those pop-ups can easily be blocked, if you know how. Ask a little leaguer to show you how.

Actually, since it was one of their employees that stole her identity, Bally's should have made it right by giving her free membership. Oh wait - good customer services no longer exists!

So True wrote:

She signed a 3 year contract with Bally's and should have honored her commitment. The employee stealing her credit card information is a completely different situation than the 3 year contract and should be handled seperately. Obviously her signature, her word, means nothing.

Come join Spectrum. It's heaven compared to ballys.

Good for her. Hopefully she has learned not to join another "health club". Read and Re-read the fine, fine print, and between the lines. There are always "conditions" to everything that fast talking employee is saying, listen and ask questions. Like, what are ALL of the "conditions" to "cancelling" or freezing my membership. Like many big companies, they arent really looking out for the little guy.

Save the troubles, money and time by doing it like the kid in the movie GUMMO...take a bunch of silverware and put a rubber band around it, turn on some Madonna "like a prayer" in front of some big mirrors, and get your sweat on!~

do it like cabs and run away with your lady and forget about your homies

westsidejesse wrote:

do it like cabs and run away with your lady and forget about your homies

ignore these haters...get ur work out on...