I tried multiple times to cancel my membership to no avail even up until today. They did not refund that money for that time they were closed.
Mais when the company closed all of their locations due to COVID.
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Three days later, March 17 2020, they charged my account for the full monthly fee. I would like to add Planet Fitness to the list as I joined their gym here in Tennessee on March 14, 2020. That amount was not even close to the amount I was charged during the lockdown when the gym was not even open. The corporate office did not assist me and told me the only thing they could do was refund me for the amount I was charged for freezing my account. They told me they would not refund me the full amount despite my employment as an essential worker and the fact that I was working with COVID patients and how irresponsible it would have been to go to a gym after coming in contact with COVID. When I got in contact with the corporate office, the representative said they would call me back and they did not so I called again. They informed me to contact the corporate office, which I had already done by email a month prior providing documents of what I was charged and explaining my occupation and that I was not going to be entering a gym to be able to keep my residents at the nursing home I worked at safe. I contacted the manager of the gym at one of my locations (Port Jefferson, NY). I worked as an essential worker during the height of the pandemic and would not step foot in a gym even when they opened until I was vaccinated. After checking my account, I discovered during the months that I was unable to go to the gym since they were closed, I was charged over $180. I had no idea that during the lockdown, I was still be charged. I signed up with LA fitness in January 2020 and was able to go to the gym a few times before the lockdown. The class action lawsuit is also asking for a court order prohibiting LA Fitness from assessing membership fees during periods when it voluntarily closes facilities. The plaintiff is seeking reimbursement of membership fees for himself and proposed Class Members, as well as interest and damages. In addition, the plaintiff describes subclasses of Illinois residents and states with similar consumer protection laws. The class action lawsuit seeks to represent a nationwide Class of consumers who paid membership fees to LA Fitness during the month of March and who have not been reimbursed. The complaint alleges breaches of contract, unjust enrichment, negligence, negligent misrepresentation, and violations of state consumer protection laws. “Notably absent from Defendant’s ‘steps’ is any actual refund of the money it improperly collected, and as of the filing of this lawsuit, Defendant has yet to refund its members the millions of dollars in unearned membership fees it collected in March 2020,” asserts Blanks.
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Instead, the company explains that it extended membership periods covering those which would have expired and offered the free or complimentary memberships While the company acknowledges that it billed members during the closure, it does not indicate it refunded fees, notes the plaintiff. The class action lawsuit points to a statement LA Fitness made on its website about the fees it charged during the coronavirus closure. After collecting the fees for months, the fitness company allegedly offered extended memberships or a free three-month membership to a friend or family member instead of reimbursing the fees.Įven more problematic, says the plaintiff, LA Fitness members who accepted either the free membership extension or temporary membership were forced to release the fitness company from any liability. “Plaintiff estimates that Defendant is wrongfully refusing to refund at least $100,000,000 in unearned membership fees, and potentially even more.”Īccording to the complaint, LA Fitness, also known as Fitness International LLC, is the largest gym facility company in the U.S., with more than 700 locations and revenues reaching $2 billion or more. “Instead of doing right by its members and refunding the unearned membership fees it should have never collected in the first place, Defendant has kept millions of dollars to which it is not entitled,” claims the class action lawsuit.
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