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Gym memberships are notorious for this, btw.
by ddtaylor 5y ago
Gym memberships are notorious for this, btw.
- ceejayoz 5y agoSaid gym memberships tend to be because you signed an annual contract, with specific requirements to cancel early. Using one of these one-time-use cards won't get you out of the debt itself, and these sorts of gyms will happily wreck your credit by sending it to collections.
- Macha 5y agoI've heard of some cases where the contract auto-renews and requires an in-person presence during a limited time window to cancel when they're quite busy. While I'm sure these places have it in their terms, just making someone sign a contract to agree to it doesn't make it not-unethical or not worth criticising. It just makes it "not illegal in some jurisdictions"
- ceejayoz 5y agoI certainly agree on the ethical front. On the "use a privacy.com temporary card" front, the problem is functional, not ethical. They will sue you or send you to collections over the debt.
- mikro2nd 5y agoFWIW I've been fucked over by Standard Bank in South Africa for just this. It's not just "shady" operators.