LA Fitness: cancellation problem
Cancel online, by mailed written notice (certified mail recommended) or at a club, at least 5 business days before the next billing date.
What does this mean?
Grade A (high: almost everything comes from official pages read directly). 100% of 23 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites.
Collect
- online cancellation confirmation
- certified mail receipt and copy of the letter
- date of the next billing
- bank statement with any later draft
Steps
Cancel in the online account, or mail a written notice of cancellation by certified mail, or cancel at a club front desk. Keep the confirmation or mail receipt.
For mail, send the notice to P.O. Box 54170, Irvine, CA 92619 so it is postmarked at least 5 business days before the next billing date.
MailWritten notice of cancellation LA Fitness, P.O. Box 54170, Irvine, CA 92619If you are billed once more because notice was late, ask for the refund of that billing.
If drafts continue after the cancellation, dispute them with your bank or card issuer and complain to your state attorney general.
More contacts for this issue
Facts you can cite
- Process
"Most club memberships are month-to-month and may be cancelled at any time" by mailing written notice to P.O. Box 54170, Irvine, CA 92619, in person at a club, or via your online account. Depending on your state of enrollment, you may be able to cancel by email.
Source: lafitness.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Deadline
"A mailed cancellation form postmarked at least 5 business days before your next billing date should result in no further billings." If postmarked within 5 business days, you may be billed once more, and LA Fitness "will refund that additional billing."
Source: lafitness.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Fee
If you cancel before the end of an initial term of three months or more, "a termination fee will apply." You may still use the club for any pre-paid time.
Source: lafitness.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Fee
Freeze fees: Monthly Dues members "$10 per month"; Paid In Full members up to 6 months for "a $35 freeze fee"; Bi-weekly Dues members "$5 per bi-weekly billing"; Weekly Dues members may not freeze.
Source: lafitness.com, verified 2026-10-12
Rules in force
- Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA) negative option requirements15 U.S.C. 8401-8405
A seller that charges consumers online through a negative option feature (for example an automatic renewal or a free trial that converts to paid) must clearly disclose all material terms before taking billing information, get the consumer's express informed consent before charging, and provide simple mechanisms to stop recurring charges. The FTC enforces ROSCA.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
3 citable points
- Policy
Before obtaining the consumer's billing information, the seller must provide text that "clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms of the transaction".
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
The seller must provide "simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges" on the consumer's credit card, debit card, bank account or other financial account.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Process
A ROSCA violation is treated as a violation of an FTC rule on unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and the FTC enforces ROSCA with its FTC Act powers and penalties. Report violations to the FTC.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
Rules not in force (do not cite)
- FTC "Click-to-Cancel" amendments to the Negative Option Rule (2024) Vacated16 CFR part 425 (2024 amendments, published November 15, 2024)
Vacated in full by the Eighth Circuit on July 8, 2025 (Custom Communications, Inc. v. FTC, 142 F.4th 1060). The FTC removed the 2024 text effective February 12, 2026 and restored the pre-2024 prenotification rule. A new rulemaking is only at the ANPRM stage (March 13, 2026), with no proposed text as of 2026-10-12. What remains in force: ROSCA (rules/rosca-negative-option), Section 5 of the FTC Act, and state automatic renewal laws (for example rules/ca-automatic-renewal-law, rules/ny-automatic-renewal-law).
Not in force. Do not cite it as current law.
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Written complaint
MailWritten notice of cancellation LA Fitness, P.O. Box 54170, Irvine, CA 92619Card or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
Card or bank dispute for EFT drafts after a cancellation.
Federal regulator
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON:
states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).
Watch out
- The online account and the Message us form need sign-in.
- LA Fitness publishes no customer service phone number; the Contact Us page asks for a ZIP code to find a club.
- Initial terms of three months or more carry a termination fee.
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