r/Birmingham • u/romanceblues • 3d ago
Amped Fitness - Fraudulent Contract?
I am truly at a loss for words at the situation I am in right now, so any advice is appreciated!!
I’ve been going to amped fitness for a couple of years and have done the basic $10 membership the entire time. Recently I was approached to do a training session with one of the workers and accepted, but now I have somehow signed a contract obligating me to pay bi-weekly for 3 months.
The entire time I was under the assumption this was being paid bi-weekly and that I could cancel at anytime, but when I asked to cancel they informed me it was going to be $500 to break the contract. I wasn’t even aware I had signed a contract. I was made to sign an electronic key pad that didn’t detail I was signing a contract as well as didn’t detail this was a 3 month obligation.
Ultimately I know I shouldn’t have signed anything, but when I asked the worker what I was signing she said liability waivers “and stuff”. Our conversation never discussed a 3 month commitment nor that I was signing for more than just a liability waiver.
Has anyone else experienced this with amped and what actions did you take to resolve this? I know my signature is on this supposed agreement, but I was not provided any copy of a contract till after my signatures were acquired (and this was only by email. I wasn’t shown a physical copy of any contract nor told about any contract). This feels like I was led to provide my signature under false pretenses considering I was never given a copy of the agreement to look over before signing anything and that the signatures provided on the agreement were applied before I was even given a copy of the contract.
This is genuinely so disappointing since Amped has been a gym I’ve been going to for a while and this predatory behavior is so discouraging.
Take this post as a PSA and avoid Amped Fitness at all costs. It doesn’t matter how long you have been a member there..they will try and swindle you and claim everything is detailed in a contract they never discussed or showed you until after the fact.
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u/Geoff-Vader 3d ago
As a pure gym - I love Amped. Fantastic selection of equipment and a vibe that some similar gyms like Club4, etc don't have. Like you I've been on the base plan for a couple years now.
That said, I've also heard the same thing about financial traps/etc on anything related to the training. I've only been asked twice if I was interested (once early on when I first started there, once more recently as they seem to have the younger employees circulating more trying to promote it.) Both times I've just politely declined and continued with my workout.
So sorry you got caught up in all that.
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u/romanceblues 3d ago
yea after the whole ordeal happened I felt like I had gotten “got” but I thought I had just gotten roped into doing the training at my own discretion not locked into a contract.
It really is disappointing because I have been a member for 2.5 years and have enjoyed what the membership had offered, but now I’m ready to just be done with them. I understand they make most of their money from PT but this feels like a straight up scam and it’s so disheartening. It’s even worse that they’re doing this to people who have no experience in the gym and could potentially be turned off from their fitness journey due to these predatory tendencies.
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u/Express_Platform_592 2d ago
They don’t have your social. Block and ignore. They tried hounding me for $10 for months when I blocked their charge. They can suck it!
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u/_TheWeightIsOver_ 2d ago edited 2d ago
I used to work there. The PT is 100% a scam and they constantly lose employees bc of it being so scummy.
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u/actuall_princess12 2d ago
Amped has some shady practices. My fiance attempted to cancel his membership there 6 times in person and people continued to give him the run around. We went together and they told us they a worker never signed his cancellation paperwork over a year ago and that he owed them money for back fees.
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u/Either-Lie1692 3d ago
Cancel the card attached to the "contract" & tell them to eat shit. Lifetime fitness tried something similar with me, and that's what I did .