Is This A Used Car Dealership or a Fitness Club?
Written: Apr 09 '02
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Pros: Cleanliness, quantity of services & equipment
Cons: Confusing membership fees and very pushy, slickster salespeople
The Bottom Line: I'd look around and consider other options first.
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| bowesc's Full Review: 24 Hour Fitness |
This review is of the Springfield, OR 24-Hour Fitness "Sport" Club, although I'm sure most are similar. I'm actually not a member of 24-hour fitness. Why? The salespeople totally turned me off of the fitness club scene. I ended up buying my own equipment to use at home. I went in looking to find a club that I could use on a daily basis for both cardio and weight training so that I wouldn't have to invest in my own equipment. I downloaded a coupon from the 24-hour website: www.24hourfitness.com for a 10 day free trial. I highly recommend you check out your local 24-hour fitness with this coupon (if available at your club) before you commit to a membership.
At first, my only cons to joining were that it could be busy, a meat market, and the fact that it was an 8 mile drive to the club. After walking in, I found those were probably the least of it's problems. While the club was clean and had plenty of machines, equipment, and services to take advantage of, I felt like I was in a used car dealership. The salespeople (excuse me, counselors as they call them) are con artists. I was optimistic going in but after talking to them, and it's required that you do, even with a trial coupon, I felt like I was going to get scammed big time if I joined.
These guys are slick, but so slick that they're greasy. They even look like salesmen with their slicked back hair, bleach white teeth, fake tans, and pumped up muscles. First they seemed unhappy about me bringing in a trial coupon and instead of being satisfied that I just wanted to try the place out, put big pressure on to sign up for a membership before I even got to try it out. It happened to be the last day of the month so they tried to tell me that they had specials that ended that day and they couldn't guarantee they'd be there next month. Yeah right guys! I found out later when they called to harass me that they had...surprise, an even better deal this month. When I tried to find out just how much a membership would cost, you couldn't imagine the complicated charts, smooth talking, and complicated confusion I received. All this talk not only involved a "counselor" but the actual "manager," who I suspect is called upon when a customer doesn't seem like an easy sell.
They were all smiles until I flat out said no, then the smiles immediately faded and the happy voices disappeared. As if that weren't enough, they called several times in the next week to try again to get me to join. The word "no" just didn't sink in. And today, over a month later I received yet another sales call from the club.
Now, when I was in there for my trial period, it was clean. The music was at a good level. It wasn't busy at all (early afternoon) and didn't seem to be much of a meat market. The equipment seemed to be well maintained and I had access to just about everything.
If you don't mind pushy salespeople and being scammed on membership fees, it's not a bad place. Unfortunately those two big disadvantages stand in the way of being able to use the club.
Recommended:
No
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bowesc
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Location: Eugene, OR, USA
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