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If you can sign up for the gym online, then you need to be able to cancel online. That's how this rule is meant to work for all kinds of merchants. Gyms would still be free to pull their usual car-salesman shenanigans on cancellation if they're willing to only take new subscriptions on location and not online, too.

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None of the LA Fitness gyms let you cancel online, I’ve reported them but nothing happens. This was about ~3 years ago, maybe they changed it now.

Planet Fitness makes it easy to sign up online but you will have to journey to the to the ends of the Earth to cancel your subscription.

print off the form, get it notarized, sprinkle it with essence of rose, put your signature, thumbprint, and a skin sample to prove your identity, sing songs to the machine god to empower its cancellation abilities, send through registered mail to an address antarctica, and follow up with form 2 and a similar process within one month.

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