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I've had issues with gyms and also a cable internet provider where the employees say they've processed your cancellation but I found later that for some reason

I've had issues with gyms and also a cable internet provider where the employees say they've processed your cancellation but I found later that for some reason it hadn't worked and I was still subscribed. A cable provider sent me a bill for $300 of equipment I had returned three months earlier and I was only lucky I kept the receipt from returning the equipment that I could prove I had done it. Since the items had been scanned into their systems on return I could only assume malice or complete incompetence.

tcoff91 5y ago
Sounds like Comcast for sure. That’s their go to move to punish people for canceling.
- jwally 5y ago
  Random observation: Everything NBC / Universal / Comcast gives me an ick vibe...maybe its just me?
dvtrn 5y ago
I used to have a gym membership that I only discovered later on could be canceled by mailing a letter to their HQ four states away. Not an email. Not a phone call to some retention agent in a call center. A signed letter via postage. From the tales I've read in my local city sub, I got lucky in that the billings did in fact stop quickly; others have had resort to threats of legal action after numerous letters, some even sent via certified mail to get the charges to stop.
- Shared404 5y ago
  > Not an email. Not a phone call to some retention agent in a call center. A signed letter via postage. Like in the civil war! Did you go acquire stamps and paper so your children and grandchildren could also cancel their gym subscriptions? (For anyone who can watch content from Netflix and likes comedy, do yourself a favor and watch Happy Face).
  - labster 5y ago
    /pan in: grainy black and white pics of a gym /play: soft bluegrass music /narrate by Peter Coyote: My Dearest Abigail, For so long now, I have not seen your sweet face, nor any other at the gymnasium. I have tried mightily to dissolve the union of my membership, but to no avail. My biceps grow skinnier by the day from our long estrangement. Please, I pray for the day I can be released from this torment, this contract. Most Sincerely Yours, Ephraim Hill
Verdex 5y ago
I've kept my reciept for the cable equipment that I returned when canceling my service. 6 years ago. I plan on keeping it until after I'm dead (don't know what my next of kin will have to deal with) just in case. I don't feel that I'm being paranoid.
kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
Or both.

tcoff91 5y ago

Sounds like Comcast for sure. That’s their go to move to punish people for canceling.

jwally 5y ago
Random observation: Everything NBC / Universal / Comcast gives me an ick vibe...maybe its just me?

dvtrn 5y ago

I used to have a gym membership that I only discovered later on could be canceled by mailing a letter to their HQ four states away. Not an email. Not a phone call to some retention agent in a call center. A signed letter via postage. From the tales I've read in my local city sub, I got lucky in that the billings did in fact stop quickly; others have had resort to threats of legal action after numerous letters, some even sent via certified mail to get the charges to stop.

Shared404 5y ago
> Not an email. Not a phone call to some retention agent in a call center. A signed letter via postage. Like in the civil war! Did you go acquire stamps and paper so your children and grandchildren could also cancel their gym subscriptions? (For anyone who can watch content from Netflix and likes comedy, do yourself a favor and watch Happy Face).
- labster 5y ago
  /pan in: grainy black and white pics of a gym /play: soft bluegrass music /narrate by Peter Coyote: My Dearest Abigail, For so long now, I have not seen your sweet face, nor any other at the gymnasium. I have tried mightily to dissolve the union of my membership, but to no avail. My biceps grow skinnier by the day from our long estrangement. Please, I pray for the day I can be released from this torment, this contract. Most Sincerely Yours, Ephraim Hill

Verdex 5y ago

I've kept my reciept for the cable equipment that I returned when canceling my service. 6 years ago. I plan on keeping it until after I'm dead (don't know what my next of kin will have to deal with) just in case. I don't feel that I'm being paranoid.

kwertyoowiyop 5y ago

Or both.