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Title: Penn. bodybuilders - Get in on the class action
Post by: dantelis on March 18, 2008, 02:55:49 PM
Good to see these chains get dinged for their predatory pricing structures.  BTW, both chains are actually owned by Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp.

Consumer Class Action Certified Against Health Club Chains Over Initiation Fees The Legal Intelligencer
A federal judge has certified a consumer class action against two chains of gyms -- Holiday Universal Inc. and Scandinavian Health Spa -- that alleges they violated Pennsylvania's Health Club Act by charging grossly excessive initiation fees to more than 14,000 members since 1998. The plaintiffs lawyers contend in the suit that such fees should never exceed $100, but that the two lead plaintiffs were charged $632 by Holiday and $1,275 by Scandinavian.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1205491406634 (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1205491406634)
Title: Re: Penn. bodybuilders - Get in on the class action
Post by: HowieW on March 18, 2008, 02:59:04 PM
Quote from: dantelis on March 18, 2008, 02:55:49 PM
Good to see these chains get dinged for their predatory pricing structures.  BTW, both chains are actually owned by Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp.

Consumer Class Action Certified Against Health Club Chains Over Initiation Fees The Legal Intelligencer
A federal judge has certified a consumer class action against two chains of gyms -- Holiday Universal Inc. and Scandinavian Health Spa -- that alleges they violated Pennsylvania's Health Club Act by charging grossly excessive initiation fees to more than 14,000 members since 1998. The plaintiffs lawyers contend in the suit that such fees should never exceed $100, but that the two lead plaintiffs were charged $632 by Holiday and $1,275 by Scandinavian.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1205491406634 (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1205491406634)
ANYbody that would pay that fee is damn foolish, sorry  :-\
Title: Re: Penn. bodybuilders - Get in on the class action
Post by: Moosejay on March 18, 2008, 03:00:24 PM
Bally's has been in hot water for years for that kind of bullshit and worse
Title: Re: Penn. bodybuilders - Get in on the class action
Post by: Bix on March 18, 2008, 03:02:15 PM
The legislators should stay the fuck out of it. It's an agreement between two sides. If the one paying agrees to the fees then they have no one to blame but them selves, hell go to another gym if you find ones fees too much to stomach!
Title: Re: Penn. bodybuilders - Get in on the class action
Post by: Moosejay on March 18, 2008, 03:04:04 PM
No, that is not how racketeering laws work-people must be protected-stupid or not
Title: Re: Penn. bodybuilders - Get in on the class action
Post by: HowieW on March 18, 2008, 03:05:35 PM
Quote from: Bix on March 18, 2008, 03:02:15 PM
The legislators should stay the fuck out of it. It's an agreement between two sides. If the one paying agrees to the fees then they have no one to blame but them selves, hell go to another gym if you find ones fees too much to stomach!
I say train at Bixbys gym , no high fees $$ and hardcore! :o
Title: Re: Penn. bodybuilders - Get in on the class action
Post by: Moosejay on March 18, 2008, 03:19:59 PM
thank God there is one left