Mark I.
Shady and Dishonest. AVOID IF YOU CAN
I don't typically do many reviews but I felt forewarning potential customers of this gym of their shady practices and overall membership policies. First off, folks should probably should be aware should you decide to join Crunch they will lock into either your bank account or credit card. So be aware that should you have any desire to cancel your membership for any reason, they control your funds (period) I signed up for a basic plan at 9.99 / month (advertised boldly on their site). But in reality, you'll never pay 9.99 / month. The reality is you'll pay around $100+ for the initial signup for this plan. Breakdown will generally be as follows: Monthly Fee: $ 9.99 Monthly Processing Fee: $ 2.25 Annual Fee: $59.99 Enrollment Fee: $75.00 Initial Monthly Dues: $ 9.99 Annual Fee (Pro-Rated). $10.00 Add in taxes to the total and you'll be a bit over $100 If you'll pay attention to what you're being charged you'll see the "Monthly Fee" and "Initial Monthly Dues" are the same so you get charged twice for the falsely advertised monthly fee of $9.99 before you've even used the facility. My 1st issue is that there is absolute zero reasonable justification to double the monthly fee upon signup except to stack up their own revenue. Also, contrary to their "BOLD" advertised $9.99 / month you will continually pay $2.25 additional for their monthly processing fee. So the actual amount you'll pay for the stated $9.99 / month will actually be $12.24 / month. The cost being less important to me than the slick way they raised the monthly amount. Then there's the very "fine" print that they'll use to justify the charge when you realize they're taking more than the advertised $9.99 / month where they'll then state that the monthly fee is $12.24. Also, in addition to the charges you may agree to... if you fail to read the fine print of which they won't be fully transparent with unless you specifically ask it states upon signing up. It basically says that in addition to the pro-rated, non-refundable Annual fee of $10 stated; you'll again pay the annual fee 3 months after you've signed up. IDK but the last time I checked "Annual" meant once per year. So they're obviously redefining the word. So if you're smart enough to do the math, you'll pay the annual fee twice within the 1st year of your signup. Of course, you won't realize it until you see the charge taken from your account and question it. At which time they'll quote you their fine print and you won't have any choice but to suck it up and realize you've been taken. If you get annoyed with the shear lack of transparency and full disclosure during your signup and decide you perhaps would like to cancel. There's yet another portion of their fine print stating that they will take the 2nd annual fee within 3 months of your signup regardless. So if you proceed to cancel and simply accept that 2nd annual charge as a penalty for trusting them and their process, think you'll be done with it?? Well, think again..... Because they will also charge you for every single month from the time you signed up equivalent to a full 12 months. Meaning you will not only pay double on the annual membership on the 1st year of signing up; but for all the months remaining you will also pay although your cancellation will void your use of the facility altogether. Lastly and most annoying, although they have all your personal information in their systems including your picture ID, bank account / Credit Card info and etc .......should you call to cancel your membership you'll be told that you have to personally come in to do that. I asked why and was informed that there is too much paperwork that you'll have to sign in person to cancel the membership over the phone. As senseless as that sounded (since there was hardly any paperwork involved during the signup when they required my banking and/or CC into AND the fact that you can signup online without coming in at all)....... I simply agreed to come in. At which time there was no paperwork required..... it was actually to ensure I knew in person that they were going to take the full amount of my monthly membership for all the months remaining since the initial time I joined equivalent to 12 months from my account; PLUS whatever other ungodly charges they could come up with. So now you've been WARNED of their practices and procedures. Join and they'll lock onto your financial account and you'll have no choice but to watch while they control "your" money and will take from you whether you agree to their practices or not. You'll have zero ability to stop them. I wouldn't recommend them to an enemy and much less to any family or friends. TOO SHADY and DISHONEST. Join at your own risk now knowing what I've already found out the hard way; and trust......you'll also pay if you do. Btw. you can view their BBB rating as well.



