The Manhattan User's Guide is a week-daily email subscription and website offering tips and tricks on all things Manhattan. Today's warnings about Bally's Total Fitness apply to those far beyond Manhattan's borders, as Bally's is a national chain. Cautions MUG:
Misleading sales practices, high pressure to sign a contract, illegal debt collection tactics, failure to provide refunds, failure to provide services and contracts with serious 'gotchas' seemed more the company's stock-in-trade than providing fitness facilities.