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| - I walked in and mentioned I've tried a few gyms in the area and am currently a member elsewhere.
The woman who was helping me seemed nice and went through the spiel about rates, rules the tour ect. I told her my one gripe was a ~$150 join up fee, I get that join fees are a thing but $150 seems STEEP compared to other gyms in the area but We went through some options about memberships and I must have misheard her, or at least I hope I did, I will get to that later.
They set me up for a week trial to see what was what and if I liked it maybe we could work it out.
I figured that was good. I don't use classes, cardio equipment, pools, saunas, hot tubs or any of that so I could figure the gym out pretty quick.
Now to the locker room. There are a bunch of pried open lockers, so even with a lock I thought that was a little sketchy. One of the showers was taped off and unusable for the full week I was there and didn't seem to change at all of the whole week.
The gym itself is pretty standard in terms of equipment. A lot of the grips are peeling off of things. it gets very busy.
Either way I showed up on the last day ready to commit for two years and talked about what the previous consultant and I talked about and mentioned the high enrollment fee, to which he offered a membership that would end up costing over $240 MORE. What? Now if someone isn't fast on math that seems pretty shady to me.
My conversation with that consultant was very brief, I gave him plenty of time to explain it. He literally laughed at me and said "Yeah that's it." It's not as if I was asking to waive the enrollment fee by any means, just a bit of a "You don't know if you don't ask" type question.
So in short, one consultant was great, and then when I went to sign up and talk about rates again the new consultant offered me a rate that would be over $240 MORE expensive and when I called it out he laughed at me. The gym is okay but I guess they don't want my business.
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