Gold's Gym

First and foremost I would like to take responsibility for not reading what I was signing with more scrutiny.

Here's my situation. Early September, I signed a Once-a-week personal trainer contract for $120/mo. This is fine, this is what I wanted. On September 24th, 2009, I decided that I wanted to train an additional day a week. I was informed that this would be an additional $120/mo, which was fine at the time. I was expecting to pay $240/mo until next September for a personal trainer. Instead of upgrading my current contract to the 240/mo, they told me that they had to set up an entirely new contract.

I was surprised yesterday when Paramount Acceptance (Gold's billing agency in UT) called me to inform me they tried to run a charge on my account and it came back as "Do not honor". When I asked what charge they tried to run, they informed me that they attempted to charge $1, 440 for the personal trainer contract. I was quite taken aback. Later on that day I went into Gold's and reviewed my contract with my trainer (My trainer is great by the way, he's not the one who set the contract up), and we discovered that the person who had set the contract up did so erroneously. He had set it up for a pay-in-full instead of month-to-month.

I don't want to shift blame for myself not reading the contract, but in all honesty, with my assumption that he set up the same thing, and the final page looking exactly the same, I didn't catch it. The first payment was supposed to happen on the 15th of October. I then called Gold's corporate office to see if they would adjust the contract. Nope. It was like a broken record was playing the statement, "Well you signed it" over and over again. It's not like I'm trying to cheat them out of any money, I just needed it adjusted and they totally refused to help me.

I'm conflicted at this point as to whether to: Get a lawyer, Get Gephardt (local news), or just pay it, learn from it, and never step foot in a Gold's again after the contract is up.