{"id":64379,"date":"2025-08-13T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64379\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:00:13","slug":"chinese-man-spends-us120000-on-300-year-gym-membership-seeks-refund-owner-vanishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64379\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese man spends US$120,000 on 300-year gym membership, seeks refund; owner vanishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man in eastern China has sued a gym after he paid it more than 870,000 yuan (US$120,000) for memberships lasting 300 years before the management fled with his cash.<\/p>\n

The man, known as Jin, has also sought the help of a television station to expose the Ranyan Gym in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.<\/p>\n

Jin showed the station 26 contracts he signed with the gym for buying memberships and coaching sessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom May 10 to July 9, I bought about 1,200 lessons and membership cards with an accumulative validity period of 300 years, at a total cost of 871,273 yuan,\u201d Jin was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

\"JinJin signed a total of 26 contracts with the gym but later discovered they were not what he thought they were. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n

Jin, who has worked out at this gym for three years, said that on May 9, a sales executive told him that there was a promotion for existing customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in eastern China has sued a gym after he paid it more than 870,000 yuan (US$120,000)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,63,51530,51523,512,4690,13284,51531,13149,51521,554,51529,538,14149,51524,28301,137,51525,27620,5474,413,51516,51533,187,7887,1780,51526,51532,36920,51517,15927,51527,51519,36988,17568,51522,51520,51518,193,13221,37335,51528],"class_list":["post-64379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-binjiang-district","tag-brainwashed","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-sessions","tag-contracts","tag-customers","tag-exercise","tag-finance-department","tag-fitness","tag-gym","tag-halth","tag-hangzhou","tag-health","tag-health-investment","tag-intelligence","tag-investment","tag-jin","tag-membership","tag-membership-cards","tag-money","tag-owner","tag-personal","tag-private-tutoring-lessons","tag-ranyan-gym","tag-receptionist","tag-refund","tag-sales","tag-sales-staff","tag-sessions","tag-trainer","tag-transaction","tag-transferred","tag-tutoring","tag-vanish","tag-wealth","tag-working-out","tag-zhejiang","tag-zhejiang-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}