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Short update to what has been a ridiculous saga in regards to Skoah. I have had to write this with aid of legal counsel because I am filing charges. I previously left two reviews, one from a year ago detailing that Skoah is refusing to cancel my membership citing a contract that does not exist; I then left one a year later complaining that Skoah randomly after a year started charging me regularly again. They refused to cash refund this despite their error and it ended in me being handed a gift card mid convo.
I am a public figure and do alot of work for this city, both charity and also free - in Skoah's case, I set up skincare businesses and did free marketing for their past employees completely for free because I am about community. I made a singular Instagram story stating they owe me $300, and that the entirety of the weekend one of their employees had been completely stalking my social medias watching every upload. This was particularly creepy to me seeing as they get all this information off my confidential Skoah membership profile, and serves as my primary point of contestion with what they claimed.
About two hours later (I was not home, neighbors detailed this to us), three VPD officers showed up to my home in Kitsilano in an extremely loud fashion and, by my neighbors exact words, intimidated the neighborhood and their elderly wife specifically (refusing to state why.) My new address is not yet on public records, meaning Skoah gave them my confidential membership information. They did this knowing who I am, mind you, because the branch knows me quite well and I was a multi year regular previously. There was no warrant, subpoena, or anything of the sorts (obviously so since nothing occurred and I have not physically entered a Skoah since 2024.)
Aside from the obvious, which is that this was a fraudulent police report filed in order to stop me from making people aware the brand owes me $300+ and to prevent me from pursuing charges in that moment, I would also like to share a further detail I discovered about Skoah that should just about stop anyone in their tracks when considering a membership purchase.
In order to amicably resolve the situation, I asked my legal counsel to provide me contact information for Skoah's ownership group - on their public website, they list a man and a woman - the man had no public social medias and the woman had one naming Skoah, so we made contact and asked if we could resolve the matter amicably. She turned out to be a very nice, respectable lady who let me know that not only has she not been with Skoah since 2021 (and that her attempts to remove public association have been ignored), but that the man is someone who pushed her out of ownership of the company years ago when she developed stage 4 cancer - something that I am now gonna support her with in my own time because they clearly never did.
I would suggest avoiding this Skoah entirely, it is run by and employed with dishonest people. I plan on resolving this matter through legal channels, and will now have to also address the criminality of taking such avenues.
Something additionally hilarious that occurred: I recently listed the Skoah gift card on FB, just to find out from a potential buyer that they are seeking Skoah gift cards out because the brand consistently charges his card on file extra most months. The jokes write themselves. read more