oooooohhhhh I'm RED! Thank you to everyone who has read and rated my reviews thus far, I always try ...
oooooohhhhh I'm RED! Thank you to everyone who has read and rated my reviews thus far, I always try to return the favour. Regards, Logan
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Here's some inside info on Fitness First and how to get the upper hand:
Follow these rules to get the best membership rates.
1) suggest you really keen to join TODAY but you don't want to pay the joining fee. FF sales staff are not targetted on joining fee's so will waver this completely if they think you will join that day. 2) You will always have to pay the admin fee, this is a clever fee designed by the fitness industry as a whole to get more money out of you. sorry 3)Join right at the end of a month. The sales staff are desperate to hit their targets and will give you all sorts of reductions (many will put you onto a reduced corporate rate to get the sale! I've even known some to put people onto an Off-peak membership but give them full use of the gym (This does flag-up at reception but the reception team will not quiz it because it happens all the time!) 4) Ask the sales team for free passes, they will hand them out like confetti if they think they'll get a saler out of it 5) THE BIG ONE ....getting out of your contract within your first 12 months. Anyone that has tried this will have found its air tight. however here's the small print you didn't read.
a) You have a 30 day money back guarantee which if your not happy you can exercise. This is never mentioned by the sales people but is in operation. b) you can quit if you say your moving house and the place your moving to DOES NOT have a fitness first within a 5 MILE radius. Its in the contract so make use of it. c) if you suffer injury and cannot train you can legally terminate you membership provided you have a doctors note.........good time to be friends with someone in the NHS or medical student.
Lastley if you work for a big company, you can get a free membership at FF if you negotiate a deal with the sales staff to Promote FF within your company. This is a farce because usually you only need to get 7+ people to join which generally occurs out of luck more than your own efforts! You can also apply for a reduced corporate rate if 5+ people from your own company are willing to join.
I hope some of this helps, I love keeping fit but hate getting ripped off, I hope this saves you all some money.
PS Comes as know suprise to read about levels of customer service going down once you've joined. FF are well known for this as they are a top heavy organisation (basically they concentrate more on getting new customers in rather than keeping the ones they've got happy! The proof of this is they're one of the only companies in the industry who do not employ something called a retention manager (someone who looks after the current members to keep them happy).
Good Luck
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Bollinger28 29.01.2009 19:16
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