I’m going through this with LA Fitness. They closed their location in downtown Bellevue, WA. The next closest location to me is many miles away, and I’m not going to take an Uber there $10 each way. I’ve been in person and was told to send them a form via mail. I did that 2 months ago. They charged me for March and they just slapped a charge end of April. I’ve called them, was told to come in person again, and told to send another form in the mail. I have no recourse, and I honestly pray these predatory, dishonest criminals have their entire company shut down.
It should be illegal for any gym to force you to come in their physical location or too require mailing in forms to cancel.
I just called my credit-card company to block a company playing similar shenanigans yesterday. The credit-card representative seemed to think it would work.
Many credit card using banks now offer "virtual" credit cards, which are one time or max amount or time-dependant expiring cc account numbers. These do a great job of neutralizing the abuse of power you get recurring payment dark patterns.
It should be illegal for any gym to force you to come in their physical location or too require mailing in forms to cancel.