other perks. >> sounds great but if you try to quit them it is a different story. here's abc's rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: if your goal of becoming a gym rat in 2015 isn't quite becoming a reality, there's something important you should know before you try to cancel that membership. >> i'm confused. i can't cancel or can cancel? >> reporter: this gold's gym location in oxnard, california, made it so hard for members to cut the cord, the district attorney's office compared that location to the eagles song "hotel california". ♪ check out anytime you like but you can never leave ♪ >> reporter: prosecutors opening an investigation, even sending an agent under cover. >> i'm doing what the contract says and you are not letting me cancel. >> would you like to leave your phone number? >> reporter: the case resulting in a $6 million judgment against that particular gym which has since gone out of business. parent company gold's gym international saying the case