California Gym coach jailed.

[Cwbguy]

I am so shocked that this could happen to such a decent, honest and respectable company.

Coach jailed for using Hong Kong clients' credit cards to pay for others' programmes at California Fitness | South China Morning Post

[shri]

Shocking that the banks allowed one of the victims to go bankrupt.

One of the four victims was slapped with a HK$390,000 card bill that remained outstanding when she was declared bankrupt, the District Court heard.

[Claire ex-ax]

There are still people giving credit card numbers to CG?

[rickyross]

California gym, the PT, and the banks are all criminals in this case. If this case actually happened in California, that gym and the PT would be sued into oblivion.

I am so glad I no longer give my business to commercial gyms in HK.

[jimbo]

I know of a personal trainer who did something similar albeit on a smaller scale.

Clients who gave him cash for PT he pocketed all of it instead of giving a % to the gym so he could bail out his brother who owed money to the triads.

[HK_Katherine]

There are still people giving credit card numbers to CG?

They still have mine. charge it every month and I have not stepped foot in the door for months.... I consider it an option fee mainly!

[Claire ex-ax]

They still have mine. charge it every month and I have not stepped foot in the door for months.... I consider it an option fee mainly!

CG has serious form when it comes to credit card charges and refusing to cancel auto-payments.

[Cwbguy]

They still have mine. charge it every month and I have not stepped foot in the door for months.... I consider it an option fee mainly!

Thanks for reminding me, I'm still paying Pure and haven't been for months since my back op.

[jack55]

Gyms are awesome. They pressure you to sign up for years, then you go for like maybe 5 times and they keep signing up new people. I just use my gym downstairs (quite infrequently as well) and it's only 30 bucks a pop. It's very empty too LOL.

I was tricked into this in the states with California Fitness as well. It was only like 500 bucks for 4 years, so it was a good deal relatively. But at that time it felt like a lot. And they even offered 25 bucks a year afterwards. Knowing I never freaking go!