Thanks will do, and thanks again for all your help

Hi Slick, I have drafted the following letter to go to CRS/Harlands and would be really grateful if you could take a quick look over it before I send it, Many thanks Dear Sir or Madam, I refer to my membership at Xercise4Less gym in Bristol. My agreement with Xercise4Less was for a minimum of 11 months. The first month's payment was taken on 13th June 2014 and then £9.99 was collected from my account on 13th of every month up to and including 13th April 2015. This amounts to 11 payments, therefore satisfying the minimum contractual period of 11 months. Xercise4Less's Terms & Conditions clearly state that once you have completed the minimum number of direct debit payments "your membership will be extended for one month for each payment received". As no more payments were received after the 11th one, my membership could not therefore have been extended past April 2015. I cancelled my direct debit mandate on 29th April 2015 and this was adequate notice of my intention to cancel. I realise now that I should have given 30 days notice to cancel my membership and so I am offering to pay one month membership of £9.99 to cover the notice period, to you now. I will not pay you any administration or cancellation fees - these are penalties that are unlawful and unenforceable. If you confirm in writing that you will accept the amount of £9.99 in full & final settlement of all that I owe, I will pay you promptly. If you fail to accept my offer within 14 days or you demand any other payment, I will pay you nothing and my offer will be withdrawn. Yours faithfully,

Ok, thanks, I'll offer them one month at £9.99 in full & final settlement. I've found a suitable letter on another similar thread so I'll amend it to fit my case and post a copy on here for you to have a look at before I send it. Thanks again for all your help.

My direct debit payment was taken on 13th of each month, starting on 13th June 2014 and the last payment was taken on 13 April 2015 (11 payments). I cancelled the direct debit with my bank on 29 April 2015. Thanks

Hi Slick I just re-read the original email from Xercise 4 Less confirming my membership, and in fact it says "you are committing to £9.99 a month for a minimum of 11 months" not 12 as I originally thought. I did make 11 direct debit payments to them so in fact I don't think I owe them anything. Do you think I ought to still offer £9.99 as I didn't give 30 days notice or argue that I have paid everything I committed to? Thanks again

Hi Slick and thanks for the warm welcome ! Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post and your help is very much appreciated ! I will definitely let you know how I get on !

Hi, can anyone help please? I took out a one year membership with Xercise 4 Less gym last year but didn't really use it so decided to cancel after about 11 months. I cancelled my direct debit but, didn't contact Xercise 4 Less to cancel my membership (which I now realise was a bit silly!) but I only had a month to go so figured that when my direct debit didn't go through they would just cancel my membership. I had no contact from Xercise 4 Less to query why my direct debit wasn't going through or if I wanted to continue my membership, so I assumed all was fine. However about 3 months later I get a letter, dated 29 July, from CRS Credit Resolution Services saying that "We've been employed by Xercise 4 Less as your membership remains in arrears despite previous letters being sent to you." (which I did NOT receive) "As a result of this, our fees of £102.50 have been added. Therefore, your account balance now stands at £207.47". I then e.mailed Xercise 4 Less giving them notice that I wished to cancel my membership with immediate effect as I was under the impression that it would end automatically at the end of the 12 month period. My contract with Xercise 4 Less was for £9.99 a month so even if my contract continued after the initial 12 months until I gave them written notice of cancellation, the maximum I could owe them would be 3 months membership totaling £29.97 so how they came to the figure of £207.27 I do not know! I also understood from other threads on this forum that CRS's fees were penalty charges and so not enforceable by law, so I decided to wait for a response from Xercise 4 Less and ignore the letter from CRS. I had no response from Xercise 4 Less to my cancellation e.mail and I then received another letter dated 19th August from CRS threatening Legal Action, or passing to a Debt Collection Agency if I did not contact them within 10 days to arrange payment. Again I ignored this letter. I was then out of the country for a couple of weeks at the beginning of September but when I got back there was another letter from CRS dated 10 September saying that if they did not here from me in 10 days they would pass my account balance to Zinc Group Ltd "one of the UK's leading providers of debt recovery solutions". As I only read the letter when I got back to the UK yesterday, the 10 period is almost up. In between these letters I have also had various texts and automated phone messages asking me to get in touch with CRS. A few days ago I also had an apparently automated email response from Xercise 4 less, to my cancellation e.mail (which I sent back at the end of July!) simply saying that they had received my email and would deal with my query shortly. I am happy to offer to pay the one month's membership fee for the last month on my 12 month contract or even, at a push the 3 months' membership up to the point of my cancellation e.mail but I really don't think I should pay CRS's fees as they seem extortionate to me just for writing a few letters, and as I understand it they are not enforcable in law, and these companies just try to scare people into paying them lots of money. Please could anyone advise me on where I stand with all this and what the best course of action would be for me to take. Any advise and help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance Stuart