{"id":10457,"date":"2025-09-08T22:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/10457\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T22:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:34:06","slug":"commerce-commission-takes-cityfitness-to-court-over-allegedly-misleading-membership-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/10457\/","title":{"rendered":"Commerce Commission takes CityFitness to court over allegedly misleading membership prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">The commission said it also believes that the 3% fee wasn\u2019t related to the cost of processing a transaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEven a small per-person fee can add up to substantial profits for a large business,\u201d Horne said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf a business states a fee or surcharge is for the cost of processing the transaction, this must be truthful and accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">The Herald has contacted CityFitness for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Horne said there was no excuse for false or misleading advertising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cConsumers often shop around for the best deal, so if a business is advertising its prices as cheaper than they really are, it could give them an unfair advantage over competitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis investigation and the charges we have filed should send a clear message \u2013 when we see prices that we think are misleading, the commission will act so that businesses are held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">The commission filed 16 charges under sections 11, 13(g), and 40(1) of the Fair Trading Act against CityFitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The commission said it also believes that the 3% fee wasn\u2019t related to the cost of processing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9092,7818,138,1873,12935,7520,2371,1349,4381,6963,12938,209,4761,12936,111,139,69,1523,12937,1120,61,780,8238],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-against","tag-allegedly","tag-business","tag-charges","tag-cityfitness","tag-commerce","tag-commission","tag-court","tag-customers","tag-fair","tag-filed","tag-group","tag-membership","tag-misleading","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-prices","tag-takes","tag-to","tag-trading","tag-under"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}