I just cancelled a membership at a gym which utilises these cancellation practices. When I found out that I&#x27;d have to mail a physical letter, I called my bank instead.<p>If you use your credit card, you can wiggle your way out of it if you explain that these cancellation processes are absurd. Call the gym and ask if they&#x27;ll cancel your membership over the phone first. After they refuse, tell your credit card company about it and ask them to try calling the gym with you on the line to get your membership cancelled. If the gym persists in its refusal you should be able to dispute and block the charge.<p>For me though this happened to be linked to my debit card (and I never ever put monthly billables on my debit card so I&#x27;m not sure what I was thinking when I signed up). However, because I had no other services linked to my debit card, I was able to have my bank just send me a new card and that was that.