Greedy company that charges huge fees to cancel contract

Dont sign any contracts with this company as they will charge you over inflated fees to try cancel, and then if you lower your package they will restart the the 2 years all over again to keep you paying.

I joined this gym over 2 years ago for my son - he then had to go to a rehab facility for 2 years so I requested if they would allow me to cancel the contract due to the fact he can longer go and that it was a waist of money. There response was no you signed a 2 year contract and we could only cancel if we paid a huge cancellation amount of R 5884. Even though we were paying a lessor rate when you want to cancel they change your current rate because that is a special then the work it out on the non special rate which is far more. See below...

Email from fight club " Month to month: 2395 6 month: 1750 12 month: 1250 24 month: 999

You joined on the 24 month rate, early termination would mean that you only qualify for the month to month rate.

Please see attached draft invoice for the revised fees required for early termination. Payment of this amount would terminate your membership agreed. If no payment or response is received within 5 days of this email your package will continue as intended and this amount would expire. Future requests would be subject to a revised amount. "

Being very upset about this situation they then suggested why don't I reduce my package size to a smaller option - which I then decided at least I wont have to pay as much every month.

To my surprise I sent them an email 2 days ago requesting to cancel ( as it has now been more than 2 years since I signed my original contract. They once again said no I will have to pay R 3400 to cancel again because when I reduce the package the 2 year contract restarts all over again.

See fight club email below "Hi Champ,

Thank you for your request for early termination of your FightClub Membership. All of our packages have the following pricing options; month to month, 6, 12 & 24 month. You joined on our discounted 24 month rate and early cancellation would mean that you qualify for the 12 month rate.

Please see attached draft invoice for the revised fees required for early termination totalling R3400 You can finalise your cancellation and view payment options on the below link: ".

I would be very carefull in signing any contract with this greedy company.