My 'fixed price' gym membership is going up [LBC Legal Hour]

[@ismayb754]

Can you please do a video about callers who called back later to say how they got on?

[@billyhills9933]

What gym is stupid enough to offer a fixed price membership forever? Also, who was paying £56 a month for gym membership back in 2008?

[@ismayb754]

There are some exclusive gyms today that charge over £400 per month. £56 in 2008 is just an expensive gym membership but not unheard of. It's not what most people pay but it's certainly there.

[@jeffsergeant]

That's the point, they paid a larger amount for a 'fixed price', sharing the risk of future price rises with the gym. Weighed against the fact that most people wouldn't actually keep the membership for this long.

[@NeboReve]

David Lloyd

[@petegrimwood8160]

Also a lot of clubs when they first open have a founding members rate for the first ‘x’ amount of people that sign up. Often the incentive is that it is discounted or will never go up.

[@tomsixsix]

Nice gyms around here are around £100 a month which includes access to the spa and things like that.

[@Rapscallion2009]

It reminds me a little of the "Lifetime Guarantee" I once came across on a pen. It was the lifetime of the pen and not the purchaser and if the pen broke, the lifetime was over.

[@coderider3022]

No way can any company follow through on this “life time” deal.

[@bradreynolds4193]

I have an online PT membership and client membership for financial advice... Both companies have honoured their annual fixed price for over 10 years now.

[@RS20O0]

She's done well to have stretched it out to 17 years. Any lifetime membership/subscription/upgrades programme I've ever joined has resulted in the company going out of business within 3-5 years..... soon followed by a re-launch and much higher prices!

[@tracer1127]

And there lies the crunch, are you seriously going to spend hundreds or possibly thousands pursuing your claim. Very few things if any come with a guarantee of costs never rising.