This is great advice for signing up for streaming services, and very, very bad advice for a gym membership.

They absolutely will send your delinquent gym membership account to collections and it will wind up on your credit report. It’s part of their business plan.

You’d have to sign up with a false identity, which is technically fraud.

I expected nothing yet I’m still disappointed…

I was really hoping this would go into effect so I could sign up for a gym membership. I’ll never sign up with a gym again…Their cancellation processes are offensive and predatory.

The “click-to-cancel” rule would force gyms to allow you to cancel your gym membership as easily as you signed up for it.

For some reason these businesses are against losing the free money they get for making it hard to cancel subscriptions.

It’s been a law in Germany for three years now:

German Online Cancel Button Law