Complaint Review: Pure Fitness - SAN DIEGO California

 Where do I start, well how about from the beginning when I was solicited a flier that said come join our state of the art gym Downtown opening soon. That my friends was the net that Michael London had put out everywhere for his victims to fall into. Knowing that his ailing gym in Downtown was doomed and he needed money to keep it afloat and subsidize his own greedy pockets.

 His scam was to lie and have his employees lie to potential members at the Westgate facility that it was going to open really soon. Show them a gym under construction and have his sales people paint a picture of what to expect when the gym was completed after construction.

 My salesman was George Vasquez he was exited and boasted about how it was going to be a 17 million dollar facility and that they were in the final stage of construction that I needed to join now to get a discounted per-opening membership rate. And also said the club was set to open in 4 weeks. This was on April 15^th 2013.

 I lived close to the Westgate so I went by there every so often and never saw anyone working. I started to get a feeling like I was set up. George had told me that I could use their Pure fitness gym on B Street at no charge until the Westgate Pure fitness was completed in a month. So I did and if anyone was to join the 17 million dollar gym believe me wouldn't even consider the dingy gym on b st. It was creepy with guys over 70 walking around naked for no apparent reason and the stale feeling of an old musty dungeon is what this gym is on the bottom floor of the Merrill lynch building.

 Just the thought of it discussed me. But like a fool I used it for about six weeks on a pipe dream that the Westgate was going to open. I then called George and told him to refund my deposit of $380.00 . He told me he would try and that he was really sorry and was very disturbed about the whole thing. Was he being truthful I don't know.

 Then I received a letter stating that anyone who uses the B st gym will be charged monthly. And that's when I knew this whole thing was a rip off scam. And folks I'm going to lay it out for you how it was orchestrated by Michael London the low life thief that preyed on us all and took our hard earned money to pad his own pockets. It's called the bait and switch, making your investment look like it's for something that its not. Mr. London used his ailing Pure fitness gym as front for this scam.

 He as a practicing attorney (and should be barred) and knows how to manipulate the system. Knowing that his pre-membership members from Westgate would use the gym on B st would give him a legal stance on anyone getting their deposits back. I know this first hand because I took Mr. London to small claims court and the judge charged me for those free visits that I was supposed to get. On June 4^th 2014 My judgment was for 243.00 minus 137 for the use of the gym on b st.

 After 2 months time goes by Micheal D. London still has not paid me so I called the gym downtown, and guess what, it was closed down, oh figure that, uhh. That's when I did some digging up on how all of this came about. It's simple. Michael London did this with every intention of ripping us off and should be punished for it. His plan was to use the Westgate gate for pre - membership deposits, bait and switch them to a ailing club, and then close it. He also covered his scam by putting the Carlsbad gym in bankruptcy. Bravo, bravo, bravo. SCAM WELL DONE.

If you were one of the hundreds of victims here's his information

 His headquarters is located in the Merrill LYNCH Building 3rd floor.  Bar # 51018  619-233-5337 or 619-237-7873

He hides behind his secretary Joan. The poor thing.

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