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CHECKBOOK provides:
- Award winning articles and reports of over 3,900 firms, compiled from more than 191,000 consumer ratings by Consumers' CHECKBOOK and Consumer Reports magazine subscribers who have used these companies and professionals.
- Thousands of hours of undercover shopping to compare prices
- Review of complaints received by local consumer agencies such as Better Business Bureau (BBB) and attorney general offices
- In-depth research.
- No advertising.
- No ballot-box stuffing.
- Nonprofit
- Read CHECKBOOK's free advice on choosing a local health or fitness club.
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Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK (CHECKBOOK.org) will save you trouble, time, and money. It's the independent, non-profit, no-advertising source of ratings and advice on hundreds of types of services you use in your everyday life. See list of services covered.
CHECKBOOK only publishes ratings for a specific firm when an adequate number of ratings of that firm (sample size) is reached. Therefore, not all firms in a given category will appear in CHECKBOOK's ratings tables. |
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3130 E Madison St #104
Seattle, WA
Phone: 206-325-3300
"Even businesses that don't fare well in the ratings have grudging respect for [CHECKBOOK]’s attention to detail."
"One of the best sources of information for consumers is Puget Sound Consumers' Checkbook magazine. It offers ratings and advice so consumers can get the area's best prices and services."
"One of the best things about CHECKBOOK is how thorough its ratings are. At least 10 people must rate a company before it's included in a survey. Staff members go undercover to get actual pricing information."
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Epicenter, Seattle, WA |
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YMCA, Seattle, WA |
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24 Hour Fitness, Seattle, WA |
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La Fitness, Seattle, WA |
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YMCA, Seattle, WA |
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Ballard Health Club, Seattle, WA |
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24 Hour Fitness, Seattle, WA |
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Curves, Seattle, WA |
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Pro Sports Club, Seattle, WA |
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Planet Fitness, Seattle, WA |
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CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).
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As You Can See Below, Some Health Clubs Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Health Clubs.
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