I've been a customer for over a year. I put my account on hold in Sept. 2020, by emailing Operations (bogotanning@gmail.com). I signed a Freeze/Pause Request that states an account can be frozen for up to 120 days. To unfreeze the account you simply email.
In Nov. 2020, my card was charged and I had not taken it off of hold. I asked for a refund via email and asked why it had come off of hold. Operations said, "Your account was frozen exactly (2) months as stated in email correspondence." Looking back the confirmation email, it said, "We will freeze consistent with our attached Freeze Account Request Form." But there was a small note at the end of this sentence... "We have froze your Membership for you (2mo)". I missed that small notation.
I was annoyed but simply asked Operations for a refund. She said, "Accounts can be frozen (1-4mo) however our standard Freeze time is (2mo)." Operations then said that they would put a "gift card" on my account, in the amount of $93. (I had been charged $93.50. Why fifty cents less?) Operations said that she would "memo" the account that the credit could be used as/for "the first full monthly payment and or other services or products."
When I asked a few weeks later to open my account and have this credit applied, Operations then said that the credit couldn't be used for a monthly payment. I expected it to be a simple fix. I would just refer Operations to their former email and it would all be cleared up. They didn't respond to the direct questions I asked or to the proof of the former email. Instead Operation offered random dollar amount discounts, twice. Operations also said that I had a $27 hold fee balance when my credit card shows $72 worth of $9 hold fees. None of the paperwork says that this money expires. I was baffled! With nothing resolved I posted reviews detailing the above.
After the reviews posted, and after I contacted the Better Business Bureau, the owner called me and plead with me to take down my reviews. At first, I said I would adjust the reviews to show that we reached a satisfactory resolution once we had done so. He said he would address the concern I had that these things were happening to many other people. I said that as long as he looked into these things, that he had convinced me to take them down and give him a second chance. We agreed that I could always re-post my review if I needed to.
This morning I found out that the resolution sent to the BBB blames me, as the customer, for not understanding, LOL!!! When asked about it the owner stated to me today that they do not feel like what was done to me was wrong. He would not be looking into the problems we discussed.
I informed the owner that because of this our resolution is void, he did not do what I had asked. I will not be returning to any of this owners businesses even to use his "free" months and I cannot recommend anyone else use them.
I would strongly recommend that anyone with an account here check their credit card accounts, their hold fee balances. Most of all, do not accept "gift cards" from them!
This matter has not been resolved. I am owed a reimbursement for the $93.50 charged to my Discover card on Nov. 15, 2020 for services never used and for the $72 of hold credit I have accrued on my Discover card since January, 2020 until now. I have all of my signed paperwork and email proof of all of these charges. read more