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This sounds great. Devil's advocate: Would this (or existing states' legislation, like California's) have any means of protecting against e.g. a non-CA user just changing their location to CA and immediately canceling? It sounds like an easy loophole for non-CA folks.
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> treadmills Just go out for a jog. Fresh air is far better for you anyway than stinky gym air.
Tell that to my allergies.
I use the past tense, because getting older means my allergy has abated. It only gets bad if I mow the lawn, so now I wear a mask doing that.
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Health clubs rely on 90% of their members never showing up. If they all cancelled, there'd be no more health clubs.
Or they would be more expensive. Or the same price and dividends lower. Or they would see a price per session, or a price per session tier (0-2 sessions per month, 3-5, then 5-15, then 15+).
Fully in favor of this. I recently had to cancel a subscription that had no "cancel subscription" button and instead forced you to contact customer service so they could try to sell you on discounts and etc. No, just let me cancel and get on with my day. Unfortunately, it seems health clubs(and I assume gyms?) are exempt from this when they are like 80% of the problem.
Health clubs rely on 90% of their members never showing up. If they all cancelled, there'd be no more health clubs.
While the rest would enjoy the freed up real estate and the money saved.
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I had to do exactly this to stop a company from delivering heating oil to my house. This increases the amount of time required to cancel by at least an order of magnitude.
Presumably this friction is built into the price of the service and disclosed. The known friction should stop you from signing up knowing the cost of cancelling (if it's too much).
Or are you always reading all the terms and conditions print on all the software you install?
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Tell that to my allergies.
Being in or outdoors made no difference to my hay fever. It was miserable for 6 weeks of the year, the rest was fine. I use the past tense, because getting older means my allergy has abated. It only gets bad if I mow the lawn, so now I wear a mask doing that.
A mask does help, which I’ve been wearing for… obvious reasons but exercising in a N95 is rough.
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Or they would be more expensive. Or the same price and dividends lower. Or they would see a price per session, or a price per session tier (0-2 sessions per month, 3-5, then 5-15, then 15+).
10x more expensive. I bet that'd do wonders to the willingness of customers to sign up.
Eg. You have to click the "learn more" link and then log in separately to a support forum where you will be DM'ed the one time use link for cancellation, which will only be valid for 5 minutes and require verifying your email and SMS number
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Being in or outdoors made no difference to my hay fever. It was miserable for 6 weeks of the year, the rest was fine. I use the past tense, because getting older means my allergy has abated. It only gets bad if I mow the lawn, so now I wear a mask doing that.
I have broad spectrum allergies to lots of stuff (pollen, etc). I live in the southeast with pine trees everywhere so it isn’t really seasonal. A mask does help, which I’ve been wearing for… obvious reasons but exercising in a N95 is rough.
I'm sure you've already considered it, but move north were there are seasons and no pine trees :-/ The rain in Seattle tends to wash the pollen out of the air, too.
For me its grass. Even walking in grass with shorts on is a no-no.
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Health clubs rely on 90% of their members never showing up. If they all cancelled, there'd be no more health clubs.
Or maybe there would be fewer of them, and the people who use them would pay a bit more. While the rest would enjoy the freed up real estate and the money saved.
It'd basically put the industry out of business.