\u201cPrices will change and they\u2019ll sometimes raise the prices, and then there\u2019s just a ton of hidden fees that you just wouldn\u2019t know about unless you called someone about it or you looked at the fine print,\u201d Ke said.<\/p>\n
The website comes as New York City moves toward stronger consumer protections around subscriptions and recurring charges.<\/p>\n
The City\u2019s Click-to-Cancel rule is designed to make ending subscriptions easier, including gym memberships. <\/p>\n
For example, if you joined a gym at the front desk, the business may no longer be able to require you to return in person just to end your membership if the rule applies.<\/p>\n
“The gym must also provide me with the option to cancel via email or via a website,” Lorelei Salas, former New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner, told Patch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPrices will change and they\u2019ll sometimes raise the prices, and then there\u2019s just a ton of hidden fees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-313696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}