{"id":20598,"date":"2016-07-23T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-cancelled-my-gym-membership-or-so-i-thought-now-virgin-active-wants-1200\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T06:12:26","slug":"i-cancelled-my-gym-membership-or-so-i-thought-now-virgin-active-wants-1200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-cancelled-my-gym-membership-or-so-i-thought-now-virgin-active-wants-1200\/","title":{"rendered":"I cancelled my gym membership \u2013 or so I thought. Now Virgin Active wants \u00a31,200"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAlthough I had stopped the direct debit and spoken to someone at the gym, apparently this was not enoughI am having a problem with the Virgin Active gym chain over its cancellation policy, which has left me apparently owing \u00a31,200. I called my club (Wandsworth) to end my membership last year when I moved out of London and cancelled my direct debit. The membership was way over the one-year contract period. A few weeks later, in July 2015, Virgin Active called me to say I hadn\u2019t paid my membership fee. I told the representative I had cancelled, but that I would probably want to rejoin, so we discussed the possibility of suspending the membership instead. A staff member told me he would get back to me if there were any issues. It was all very amicable so when nobody called me back, I assumed it was sorted and forgot about it. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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