Can a company charge my credit card without my authority?
Ok... so here's what happend. I decided to start this weight loss program that I've done before at a new center. This new center charged me for being a first time client. I later found out that I could go back to the other center and only pay a restart fee rather than a new customer fee. I cancelled my plan with the new center (it was within the 3 day grace period). Problem is that the company had already given me their products and I already started using them. When I went back to cancel my contract, they never asked for these products so I kept them and continued to use them. Today, I got a call that they would charge those products $103 to my credit card on their own if I did not answer by Mon. Can they do this? Especially if the 3 day period was on Thurs and it is now Sat.. Is it there fault for not taking the products back before?
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said you didnt want them, but still kept and used them..pay..
Hell no they cant
You need to read any contract you have signed for the membership
Read your contract. Yes they can if it is in your contract and it probably is.
Are you saying that the new company said you had three days to cancel? Even if so there is always some sort of fee to break a contract. And I would totally bet that paying for the food regardless is in the contract.
For one this would be because if you returned the unused portion of the food it would be difficult to sort out and itemize to figure out what you owe for what you used.
Odds are they may be some sort of health regulation saying they can't accept and resell food.
Just call them and ask. Go down and look at the contract if you have to. But it will probably be in the fine print that they can charge your card. And it will be because people could just sign up, get the food, cancel and have free food. So you know they have legally covered that.
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