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Anger as members discover Loudwater gym is up for auction
3:46pm Tuesday 9th February 2010
AN ANGRY gym-user fears hundreds of people will lose their membership fees after a fitness studio in Loudwater suddenly closed down.
All the various weights and fitness machines at The Fitness Studio on Treadaway Hill have been put up for auction, after efforts to find a new owner have so far failed.
A sign at the entrance to the gym tells members the business will likely go into administration on Wednesday.
Furious Steve Conn, 50, paid £150 for a six-month membership in December.
The High Wycombe resident said the gym took on around 200 new members recently and fears they will all lose their money.
“The first we heard about the closure was seeing the sign up in the door. There might even be people who haven't seen it and are still paying.”
The gym's owner Gavin O'Brien told Mr Conn that another company, which collected members' direct debits, had collapsed and he will face a “huge personal loss” as a result.
He told the Bucks Free Press: “After four years of owning the business, this is a desperately sad end and I am very sorry for any members who will be affected by the closure.
“I have been working with a licensed insolvency practitioner for some weeks looking at various options to continue the business as a going concern.
“However, when those attempts appeared to have failed last week, I was advised to close the business and auction the equipment for the benefit of creditors, barring some last minute change in circumstances.
Mr O'Brien would not comment on whether members would be refunded or Mr Conn's claim that the gym recently took hundreds of new membership fees.
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ivor, says...
6:45pm Tue 9 Feb 10
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Have you read Ivor’s blog today? Click on the “YOUR SAY” link at the top of the page then click on “BLOGS”.
phw11, chesham says...
7:42pm Tue 9 Feb 10
readerabc, High Wycombe says...
7:54pm Tue 9 Feb 10
i'd be interested in seeing if this is a business i'd be intertested in buying.... not sure who else to contact!!
please email my business consultant if tyou are out there mr gym owner
info@lawrancejames.c
o.uk
demoness, Hades says...
9:07pm Tue 9 Feb 10
ivor wrote:What like you?
Do people really pay £150 to join a gym for six months? It would be cheaper to go for a walk around Wycombe town centre every day.... ~ Have you read Ivor’s blog today? Click on the “YOUR SAY” link at the top of the page then click on “BLOGS”.
Will we all get a slim and athletic figure like you as well then?
demoness, Hades says...
9:18pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Great place BUT it had communal showers and the changing area was not good.
Shame really cos the people there were great!
Lividov, Marlow says...
11:25pm Tue 9 Feb 10
pidgey7, Downley says...
9:46am Wed 10 Feb 10
I was a personal trainer down there for 2 years and its a good gym......simply its just been hit by the credit crunch.
Oh and to the person who was questioning about £150 for 6 months......thats cheap!!!!
ganstakillerz, High Wycombe says...
10:36am Wed 10 Feb 10
ganstakillerz, High Wycombe says...
10:43am Wed 10 Feb 10
w.co.uk/free_legal_i
nformation/consumer_
law/consumq13.html
Just found this page. Maybe a help to some people? Gonna have to ring my Credit card company and find out!
readerabc, High Wycombe says...
11:53am Wed 10 Feb 10
left messages but no response!
sw: news-hole
!!
demoness, Hades says...
7:54am Thu 11 Feb 10
pidgey7 wrote:By communal I mean that you do not have a single cubicle shower, you have to share it with other members of the same sex. Sorry and all that, call me old fashioned, but I don't really like showing my all in front of strangers , even if they are all women.
The gym does not have communual showers!!! Each of the changing rooms have there own saunas and showers. I was a personal trainer down there for 2 years and its a good gym......simply its just been hit by the credit crunch. Oh and to the person who was questioning about £150 for 6 months......thats cheap!!!!
There was one sauna and one toilet.
As I say, it was a fantastic gym in many ways but the changing facilities were a bit pants TBH.
Member Steve Conn
Anger as members discover gym is up for auction
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3:52pm Tue 9 Feb 10