Odd and Ugh

[susandennis]

So... The gym with the killer (as in will kill me) pool says on their website that they require membership cancellation to be in person. So this afternoon I went, in person. The woman who always let me in first thing in the morning was on duty. I told her what I wanted. She said Ok and went to get a paper out of a file drawer. She told me all that was needed was my name and signature. I wrote the name and signed it and then she grabbed it before I had a chance to read it. Yeah, I should have read before I signed. But, I didn't.

Then she said. "This is just step one. Next, someone will contact you with questions." She said she didn't know how or when I would be contacted.

Well, ain't that just customer friendly? I'd be spitting bullets except I'm sure that I'm not going to get a dime back and my membership does not expire until November. Still, not impressed.

I went on to Cash and Carry, the last place in town to carry 16 oz bottles of Diet Dr. Pepper. They had 4 six packs left. I got all 4. The woman at the cash register said they had cut way back because of the sugar tax. Yep, no tax on diet soda but the city of Seattle has implemented a $1.75 per ounce tax on all sugared drinks. And now the diet drinks are getting dissed in the process. Ugh.

I'll just start going across the city limits like the rest of Seattle, to get my drink of choice. No biggie.

Comments

[coffeeguy777.livejournal.com]

$1.75per Ounce😱😱 that can’t be right !!! That’s means a 16oz would be $28.00 right??

[susandennis]

"he city recently enacted a tax of 1.75 cents an ounce on surgary beverages. The result: A case of Gatorade that used to cost $15.99 now costs $26.33 — a 65% markup. And a case of Dr. Pepper now costs $17.55 instead of $9.99, according to Costco."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/2633-instead-of-1599-a-case-costco-shows-seattle-customers-just-how-much-soda-tax-costs-them-2018-01-10

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

It's 1.75 cents per oz. Not $1.75. LOL I was confused too! So a 16 oz soda goes up by 28 cents.

[susandennis]

hahahah i missed that more than once. good thing my copy editing days are over.

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

hahahaha I was so confused for a few minutes!

[coffeeguy777.livejournal.com]

Yes me to 🤔

[xina-g.livejournal.com]

Yikes. They really make it hard to quit a gym membership don't they. That sucks. Hopefully you are able to get out of the whole ordeal swiftly.

[susandennis]

Happily, it doesn't really matter. Good lesson, though to thoroughly investigate your out when signing up for the in!

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

It's such a pain to have to jump through so many hoops to cancel a membership like that. My gym requires a 30-day notice, but depending on what day of the month you do it, you could still end up paying for 2 more months. It's ridiculous.

Holy crap! I can't believe they tax it that much!

[susandennis]

It's really kind of a disappointment since that gym does so much of everything else so well. Oh well.

And, yeah. I'm going to have to come to Alaska to buy DDP!

[roasted-beets.livejournal.com]

Might it be possible (and would you be interested) in transferring your membership to someone? There must be a website somewhere.

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

My quit-the-gym mess was enough to swear me off of gyms. I joined a gym near my office outside of Boston. I specifically asked when I joined about what would happen if I quit that job, because then I would have no reason to be in that town (at least a 45-minute drive from where I lived inside the city), and they said they would write in that a "job change" was sufficient reason for me to quit the contract.

Fast forward to when we were ready to move--Jeff finished grad school and we were moving across the country for him to take a post-doc, so I quit my job. I went to the gym to cancel. First off, they told me they couldn't do it in person. I had to do it over the phone with some company in Atlanta. The person on the phone told me that quitting my job was not an accepted reason, and I said, no, I had them write this in to my contract b/c I knew it was likely to happen eventually. Whereupon they told me that it said "job change" not "quitting job" and if I couldn't prove that I was quitting to take a DIFFERENT job, then they would not let me out of the contract. Well, I was not taking a different job, at least not immediately, b/c I would not begin the job search in California until we had moved there.

I argued with them several different times but they would not budge. Finally they told me that if I could provide proof that we were moving for my husband's job that would be sufficient, but for that they wanted all this info like W2s and whatnot, and I was just like, you have got to be kidding me. You think I'm going to give you a bunch of personal financial info? Lol that's a no. So I did not, in fact, quit the gym and had to keep paying on my contract for a few more months until it got to the end.

I would not be so pissed about that if I hadn't negotiated with them when I signed for exactly the scenario that happened.

[susandennis]

Oh man, that would burn off my last bit of nice right there.

I appreciate your telling me that tale because now, no matter what shenanigans these people pull, I will feel better about it than I would about that!

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

LOL. I am still bitter about it, and this happened in 2005. Hahaha.