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Article #1979Re: Bally's Health Club - Ripoff Artists
From: David Zimmerman
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:00
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"Thomas A. Bende" <Mr.Ribit@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >Oleg Ostrozhansky wrote: >> >> They do business in Chicagoland and don't have either a local or 800 number >> here. For anything related to billing you have to call a California number, >> and only Monday through Friday during business hours. Even getting new credit >> card information to them is a nightmare -- they can't do it at the local club! >> >> Also, my girlfriend and I did two contracts at the same time. Hers was ok, >> but mine was messed up (I was being overbilled each month). It took them >> almost a year to correct it! I have been going to President's/Bally's for abut 10 years and have learned to expect the posibility of a screwup if anything changes with my account. I have experienced their hand in my checking account....like an idot I let them take the monthly payment out of my checking account when I first joined. They obviously felt I had given them permission to pull out money for whatever reason they wanted, like yearly dues. I have not found them to be"ripoff artists"....... that would require intelegence. I have been told they have done away with all the 800 numbers except for accounting. In the Dallas area you can not find a number for anyone above the idot at the front desk. Bottom line -- don't give these guys to much crap. The out of town managent that was pointed out to me gave me flashbacks of the movie ' The Godfather'.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1042c7,f4206417c8f6eddc X-Google-Attributes: gid1042c7,public X-Google-Thread: 106e75,f4206417c8f6eddc X-Google-Attributes: gid106e75,public X-Google-Thread: 10e835,f4206417c8f6eddc X-Google-Attributes: gid10e835,public X-Google-Thread: 101dd2,f4206417c8f6eddc X-Google-Attributes: gid101dd2,public X-Google-Thread: 103845,f4206417c8f6eddc X-Google-Attributes: gid103845,public X-Google-Thread: 111282,f4206417c8f6eddc X-Google-Attributes: gid111282,public X-Google-Thread: 10f73f,f4206417c8f6eddc X-Google-Attributes: gid10f73f,public From: zim@dfwmm.net (David Zimmerman) Subject: Re: Bally's Health Club - Ripoff Artists Date: 1997/03/24 Message-ID: <5h6m1k$5la@strange.dfwmm.net> X-Deja-AN: 228032624 References: <01bc28f1$f7f095e0$445594cc@1> <5fl9uk$k2$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> <33336620.549E@worldnet.att.net> Organization: DFW Multimedia Reply-To: zim@dfwmm.net Newsgroups: alt.consumers,alt.consumer.experiences,alt.health,chi.general,chi.personals,uiuc.consumers,uiuc.misc.consumers