{"id":64408,"date":"2025-08-12T16:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64408\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:48:16","slug":"chinese-man-spends-us120000-on-300-year-gym-membership-seeks-refund-owner-vanishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64408\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese man spends US$120,000 on 300-year gym membership, seeks refund; owner vanishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jin showed the station 26 contracts he signed with the gym for buying memberships and coaching sessions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\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<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jin signed a total of 26 contracts with the gym but later discovered they were not what he thought they were. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/31628afa-fe73-4095-bb3c-c23db17afcc1_62f9b775.jpg\" title=\"Jin signed a total of 26 contracts with the gym but later discovered they were not what he thought they were. Photo: Handout\"\/>Jin signed a total of 26 contracts with the gym but later discovered they were not what he thought they were. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jin, who has worked out at this gym for three years, said that on May 9, a sales worker 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)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[41309,49,48,95,27958,7579,41306,408,407,13105,41310,84,23063,2512,41300,134,41302,21725,41307,41301,5982,41304,39266,8464,41308,41305,41303,1822,12365],"class_list":["post-64408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-brainwashed","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-coaching","tag-customers","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-gym","tag-halth","tag-health","tag-intelligence","tag-investment","tag-membership","tag-money","tag-owner","tag-personal","tag-receptionist","tag-refund","tag-sales","tag-sessions","tag-trainer","tag-transaction","tag-transferred","tag-tutoring","tag-vanish","tag-wealth","tag-working-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}