If you know me then you know I am a sucker for making a little beer money on the side. So when I learned about GymPact I figured I had nothing to loose and everything to gain by signing up. The idea behind GymPact is you essentially make a bet that you are going to workout X number of days of the week and each day you don't make it, you loose out on $5 or more and each day you make it, you gain from all the others that don't make it out there (their website says typically $0.30/workout). Sure that's nothing but I figured it would add up and plus I don't have to do anything extra since I already work out. Plus they emphasized on their website that they had runkeeper integration so I figured sweet since I walk so much now that we don't have a car there's no way I am going to miss my weekly pact. I typically walk an hour almost daily!
Well it's all great in theory but here is my experience with GymPact. First week is apparently a try out week where you figure out the kinks of gympact and give 'er a try. This would be great if I had known it was a try out week. No where did it indicate this on the website. I had to google and that's what the interwebs told me. So can you imagine here I am doing my workouts for the week and nothing is really changing in my profile. So anyways now it's on to week 2 and I am still doing my work outs regularly except for whatever reason my runkeeper isn't syncing with GymPact properly. I send them an email to try and find out what's going on and nada. I send a follow up email and still nada. I eventually was able to get it to sync on the 3rd device I tried. But get this, I get a notification saying my runkeeper workout didn't count with no explanation why even though it met all the criteria on the website. And the worst part was I couldn't log another workout for the day to compensate. Thankfully I set my pact to working out 6 days a week so my 1 day buffer was taken. I sent an email to GymPact asking them why my runkeeper workout didn't count and are you surprised that there wasn't a response? Well week 2 is over and now we're onto week 3! Except no indication of any money being earned. Another email off to GymPact saying if I don't hear from them soon I would cancel my account. My email it seems fell on deaf ears. And well I did what I said I would do which was try to cancel my account. Their website doesn't let you cancel your account but it does let you take a break from your pact so that's what I did.
So if you're thinking of joining GymPact, NAY I say. If you google, you'll find plenty of others complain about their lack of customer service. However when you miss a workout, they are quick to debit that $5 from your credit card right away. No thank you.
Well it's all great in theory but here is my experience with GymPact. First week is apparently a try out week where you figure out the kinks of gympact and give 'er a try. This would be great if I had known it was a try out week. No where did it indicate this on the website. I had to google and that's what the interwebs told me. So can you imagine here I am doing my workouts for the week and nothing is really changing in my profile. So anyways now it's on to week 2 and I am still doing my work outs regularly except for whatever reason my runkeeper isn't syncing with GymPact properly. I send them an email to try and find out what's going on and nada. I send a follow up email and still nada. I eventually was able to get it to sync on the 3rd device I tried. But get this, I get a notification saying my runkeeper workout didn't count with no explanation why even though it met all the criteria on the website. And the worst part was I couldn't log another workout for the day to compensate. Thankfully I set my pact to working out 6 days a week so my 1 day buffer was taken. I sent an email to GymPact asking them why my runkeeper workout didn't count and are you surprised that there wasn't a response? Well week 2 is over and now we're onto week 3! Except no indication of any money being earned. Another email off to GymPact saying if I don't hear from them soon I would cancel my account. My email it seems fell on deaf ears. And well I did what I said I would do which was try to cancel my account. Their website doesn't let you cancel your account but it does let you take a break from your pact so that's what I did.
So if you're thinking of joining GymPact, NAY I say. If you google, you'll find plenty of others complain about their lack of customer service. However when you miss a workout, they are quick to debit that $5 from your credit card right away. No thank you.