. . "4"^^ . "3"^^ . . "11"^^ . "I've never written a review before, but after the terrible service I encountered at this gym, I was compelled to share my two cents to help unsuspecting Torontonians avoid a very unpleasant experience.\n \nI had won a \"free\" 30-day pass to extreme at a charity fundraiser. I was shopping around for a gym, so I decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, it's not the kind of \"free\" they lead to you to believe. No, these guys at extreme are pretty sly - they lure you in, get your contact info so that they can proceed to pressure you, harass you to sign up and phone you multiple times a day. You'd think the sales reps would have some ounce of professionalism. I've never seen such aggressive, desperate sales tactics. \n\nAnyway, I dropped in to set up my 30-day trial pass and I told them I didn't want to commit to a full membership without trying it out first. That's when the guy proceeded to go off into a full rant about how they needed to protect their own interests to prevent their \"high-class facility\" from being a loitering area for \"students and bums.\" Little did he know that he was talking to a student, and that's when he corrected himself and said that I was an older, more mature student who wouldn't do that. Still he wanted a PHOTOCOPY of my credit card to hold onto and they made me SIGN a contract just in case. For some reason, I forgave him and the half hour pretentious talk about the money they spent on the facility and their celebrity marketing tactics- whatever. No point being offended, I wasn't going to have to deal with him much anyway right? Wrong. \n\nThe sales manager began to hound me day after day, multiple times a day for a simple piece of paperwork that HE had forgotten to do! In class, I'd see my phone ring, first with a number on call display, a few minutes later a second call, this time an unknown number (as though I wouldn't know who it was the first time). A few days of this, and it honestly started to stress me out! \n\nThey also gave me \"free\" 1-day passes for friends and regrettably, I had brought a few friends. At first my friends weren't even let in without being seen by a sales rep. They had to hand in a piece of ID as well - which was fine until we decided to leave. The girl at the front desk had given all the IDs to a sales rep, who proceeded to hold the IDs hostage unless my friends promised to come back to discuss signing up. That day, my own sales rep followed up with a voicemail....\"I see you brought your friends in today.\" Creeps me out!!\n\nAll in all, it was an unsavory experience to say the least. Nice gym, but I'd much rather have paid for a month elsewhere so I could just focus on working out rather than second guessing whether it was appropriate for the sales team to hassle me."^^ . "2010-10-27T00:00:00"^^ . "1"^^ .