How to contact Bally's Total Fitness At The Corporate Level



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Hi;

I recently called my local Bally's to ask them what address I could use
to make a comment about Bally's to someone at the corporate level.

They lied and told me that their very own local manager was as high as I
could go.

I went to the Bally's web site and dug several links down to get the
name of Bally's CEO ( surprise, it wasn't that local manager ). Still
no snail mail address, but I did use their information request link for
investors to send away for an address to reach their CEO. I am posting
it here so it will be in Google's archives to be found by other people
who may want to do the same thing:

Paul Toback ( CEO )
Bally Total Fitness
8700 West Bryn Mawr Avenue
Chicago, IL 60631
 
"Joe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi;
>
> I recently called my local Bally's to ask them what address I could use to
> make a comment about Bally's to someone at the corporate level.
>
> They lied and told me that their very own local manager was as high as I
> could go.
>
> I went to the Bally's web site and dug several links down to get the name
> of Bally's CEO ( surprise, it wasn't that local manager ). Still no
> snail mail address, but I did use their information request link for
> investors to send away for an address to reach their CEO. I am posting it
> here so it will be in Google's archives to be found by other people who
> may want to do the same thing:
>
> Paul Toback ( CEO )
> Bally Total Fitness
> 8700 West Bryn Mawr Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60631

Apparently it is Bally's corporate policy to have different quality level
gyms. Some of their facilities are supposed to be shitholes!
 
Joe wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I recently called my local Bally's to ask them what address I could
use
> to make a comment about Bally's to someone at the corporate level.
>
> They lied and told me that their very own local manager was as high
as I
> could go.

I am guessing that you have never seen the two or even three web sites
over the past 10 years called "Bally Sucks" that existed for no other
reason than to try to get some justice over the horrifyingly unethical
business practices of Bally Total Fitness. I believe those have all
been taken down now due to lawsuits against them by Bally's, but you
may have some look with Google on that.

Writing to them will do you no good. Your letters will go unanswered.
You may have better luck with some of the class action lawsuits going
on against them around the country.

Bally's specializes in hard selling techniques, lying by sales reps,
illegally ignoring the 3-day grace period to get out of contracts (in
many states), or figuring out ways to evade or mislead people about
what the three days means, pulling money out of people's checking
accounts long after their contracts have ended, ruining people's credit
for many years afterward, not allowing people to cancel when they move
too far away from a club (they calculate it by a straight-line distance
of 25 miles, a distance that could easily take someone an hour in some
areas of this country), and one of the most heinous of all - selling
only 3 year memberships.

I remember my own experience with them back in 1992 - about the 3 year
membership -

"Don't you want to work out for the rest of your life?"
"Yes, but probably not at this club!"

About a year later I did join, grudgingly, with a 3 year membership.
As I predicted, a better Gold's Gym opened up about a year and a half
later, and I stopped going to Bally. I just sucked it up and ate the
cost.

How did I keep my credit out of trouble with them?

By this time, I had already heard the horror stories.

So, I paid for the membership in full, up front, using a CREDIT CARD.
They had no access to my bank accounts. That's the only way to go.

For years after my membership ended, they bombarded me with offers to
join again for life, for $99, with a $6 a month fee. They suck so bad
that I have refused ever since. I have also heard more horror stories
that the $6 a month fees and such have gone up, even though people were
promised "for life." It's just NOT WORTH IT.
 
Joining Bally's is a gamble...just like their casino counterparts...
 
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