i tried to update my credit card so they won’t send me daily fucking emails that i “owe” them $30 (because a gym membership definitely needs to be a cOnTraCt, sure, sure), but the website didn’t work, so I tried calling their “automated” system, whereupon after entering my info to the robot, it gave up and connected me to a guy who i had to speak do and do it all over again.
then they made the poor guy literally ask at the end ‘are you satisfied with my service today’
What do disposable email addresses and spam filters have to do with canceling a gym membership? I don’t see anything on that page referring to banking or credit card transactions.
OP mentioned getting emails, but the topic at hand was changing their card, not hiding from the emails. Any email service is capable of blocking a domain, why would a special email service be of any use in this case? They weren’t spam emails, they were missed payment reminders.
Blocking emails doesn’t stop the payments, either.
So you off handedly throw out “turn off your card” as if that’s the simple and obvious solution, with no other detrimental effects, and then tried to shoehorn a plug for your email service into this?
You just saw the words “daily emails”, the tiniest sliver of a possible opening to plug your thing, and you took it, regardless of it was on topic or not.
In essence, you dropped spam for your spam filtering service.
I was actually talking about my own experience canceling a gym membership. As mentioned, I used a Privacy card, which is locked to one vendor. You can turn off that specific card, and nothing else is affected. That’s how I canceled my own gym membership, when I couldn’t do it in person, because the gym was closed during Covid.
I mentioned my email service because it has a very similar feature to Privacy, I’ve also used it when going as a guest to a different gym, and OP mentioned getting constant emails from the gym. This relates to both their and my experience.
That’s why I was talking about Privacy. Turning off a Privacy card does stop the payments.
If you’re unfamiliar with Privacy, it’s basically like a disposable email service, but for credit cards. You only use a Privacy card with one vendor, so there aren’t any downsides to turning it off.
If you think that my comment is unrelated to OP’s situation, then I really don’t know what to tell you. Maybe try canceling a gym membership and see for yourself.