Bally Total Fitness On November 30, 2011 Bally Total Fitness sold 153 million dollars worth of thier gyms to LA Fitness. I was told that my Premier

30th of Nov, 2011 by User250099

On 12/1/11 I went to Bally's Total Fitness in Voorhees, NJ to exercise. On the door was a sign that stated Closing 12/8/11, You do not have to sign in. Closing tonight at 6PM. Gathered around the front desk with many others we were informed that on 11/30/11 Bally's sold a large amount of their health clubs to LA Fitness. The LA fitness staff gave vague information on what was to become of Bally's member. They recommended visiting an LA Fitness club and they would be able to find names in the data base, and how the memberships would be converted. I drove to the Mt. Laurel, NJ location. When the staff member tried to find my name it could not be located. The reason is I purchased a Lifetime Gold Membership with no renewal fees for $2,800. For these memberships LA Fittness did not purchase these - they don't accept them, they are not in our data base. What LA Fitness could offer me was to use the gym for December at no cost and then purchase a membership. $680 for the first three years and then $210 a year renewal, or $99 registration and $30 per month. Bally's made $153 million from this deal. Bally's sold anyone with this type of membership a one way ticket to nowhere. This is not acceptable.

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4724 days ago by JeffD32

Bally's charged my credit card they had on file for $180.00 on 11/28. Coincidentally the same day the L.A. Fitness buy out became official. Clearly their scam to sweeten the pot of membership revenue as part of the $153 million they got for selling a majority of their locations. All attempts to address this directly have resulted in confusion and no answers from their staff, and the toll free number simply doesnt have any live human beings avaialble to speak to. This is in the hands of my credit card company now, who by the way seemed all too familiar with this story. I am sure there are thousands of people that have had this happen recently due to the buy out. I will absolutely press charges and would be itnerested in filing a class action suit against Bally's as I am sure this is happening on a large scale.