La Fitness Personal Training Rep Lied To Me About My Contract. I Want To Cancel After 4mo, But They Are Making Me To Pay 50% Cost ($1200) Of Remaining Sessions. I Was Told No Fees For Cancellation. (wa State)

New Years resolution, I sign up for LA Fitness. Let me just say - NEVER sign up with them. Please DO NOT support this scummy gym. I'll include the details in a comment below to keep the main post short. (edit: I typed up a bunch of bullet points, but apparently I'm not allowed to reply to my own post so forget it, I don't think anyone cares anyway).

Basically I signed up for personal training sessions. I straight-up told the trainer manager guy that I was gonna stay for 3-4months to get started as I don't have much gym experience. I asked him if there would be any fees upon cancellation, and he said (verbatim) "no I wouldn't do that to you, man".

Fast forward 2mo later, I decided 20min sessions once a week are pretty damn worthless. Especially at the prices I was paying. So I came in to cancel.

Came in on 3/7 and spoke with a (different) manager. He told me I signed a 12mo contract and an early cancellation means I'd need to pay 50% the fees of my remaining sessions, adding up to $1200.

Tomorrow I am speaking with the trainer manager I originally signed up with to see what he says. I have a feeling he'll tell me the same thing. I also plan to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I read that gets mixed results, but I figure I got nothing to lose. In the meantime, is there anything I can do about this? $1200 is ridiculous.