Comments on: More Boston Sports Club Membership Problems

By: Laurent

Laurent — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:03:38 +0000

I’m having problems with BSC Central Square (Cambridge) too.

They charged me for 6 months whereas I canceled in April 2008.
The story detailed here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/boston-sports-clubs-cambridge-2#hrid:4LNYEQSzY9IS291cL230jg

To sum up: I’ve been paying for 6 months because a BSC customer rep. lied and now, they don’t want to reimburse me…

By: lazymanandmoney

lazymanandmoney — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:41:43 +0000

I figured I could do that, but I like to save those calls for the times when I really have no other recourse. Also, it might be tougher because I gave them the right to charge my card and didn’t complain when they charged it for the first year of gym service (as I should have been).

By: Alex - YoungFinances.com

Alex - YoungFinances.com — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:37:12 +0000

Lazy Man,

I was just reading on another blog (sorry, I forget which, or I’d link to it), and the author was talking about how he called up his credit card company to dispute a charge that was $7 or so.

Turns out, since it costs the credit card company more than that to go through the whole dispute process with the merchant, they just instantly credited him. They said they routinely do that for all amounts less than $10.

So there’s a little tip… on an amount less than $10, I bet you can just call up your credit card company and get the credit right away.