{"id":163464,"date":"2025-08-21T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163464\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:40:17","slug":"la-fitness-sued-by-ftc-over-membership-cancellation-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163464\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Fitness Sued by FTC Over Membership Cancellation Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/13362Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> sued LA Fitness over the gym chain\u2019s allegedly onerous cancellation practices, the latest in a series of government cases accusing companies of making it difficult for consumers to end subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/LAFitness-Complaint.pdf\" title=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">complaint <\/a>filed Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles, the FTC said LA Fitness, operated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2265141Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Fitness International LLC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0016052D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Fitness &amp; Sports Club LLC<\/a>, maintained complicated cancellation practices that allowed the 600-gym chain to continue collecting hundreds of millions of dollars from customers who would have otherwise left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Trade Commission sued LA Fitness over the gym chain\u2019s allegedly onerous cancellation practices, the latest in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[87565,3453,1582,276,89735,94441,454,2961,224,5337,94443,3229,6270,62,94442],"class_list":{"0":"post-163464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-adobe-inc","9":"tag-amazon-com-inc","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-consumer-protection","13":"tag-fitness-international-llc","14":"tag-government","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-pursuits","19":"tag-regulation","20":"tag-retail","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uber-inc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115066099320058657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}