Whoop class action lawsuit alleges company auto-renews memberships without consumer consent

On July 29, 2026, Donrick Sanderson filed a class action lawsuit against Whoop Inc., the Boston company behind the Whoop fitness band, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

The suit alleges Whoop signs California customers up for automatically renewing yearly memberships without clear disclosure or consent then bills their cards when the original term ends.

Whoop's alleged auto-renewal practices

California's Automatic Renewal Law requires companies to present renewal terms in a "clear and conspicuous" way and receive affirmative consent before enrolling customers.

The proposed class action claims Whoop's auto-renewal notice is below the scroll on the membership page in tiny gray type against a gray background.

The checkout process does not inform customers they are enrolling in auto-renewal or discloss the cancellation policy, the length of the renewal term or the price that applies once a free trial converts to a paid year, the lawsuit alleges.

What Sanderson says happened

Sanderson says he bought an annual membership through Whoop's mobile site around June 2021 and understood it as a fixed one-year subscription, according to the lawsuit. In June 2022, he claims Whoop charged him $288 for another year's membership.

By fall 2022, Sanders says his Whoop device stopped working. He claims Whoop charged him $239 in June 2023, a renewal he noticed only after a notification from his bank led him to both the 2022 and 2023 charges in his statements. He claims he asked the company for a refund and it refused, according to the complaint.

Sanderson alleges he later found a May 2023 email from Whoop stating it would charge his card but contends the message wasn't clear and omitted the cancellation instructions the law requires. He missed it among the company's other emails, the lawsuit claims.

The legal claims

The San Diego complaint pleads three causes of action:

• False Advertising Law, which is a California statute that bars misleading advertising and houses the Automatic Renewal Law
• Unfair Competition Law, which makes unlawful, unfair and deceptive business conduct grounds for a private suit
• Consumers Legal Remedies Act, which protects consumers against deceptive claims in the sale of goods and services

Sanderson seeks class certification, restitution, disgorgement of Whoop's profits from the practice, an injunction, interest and attorneys' fees.

What the case means for Whoop members

The proposed class covers Californians who bought a membership through Whoop's website and paid for at least one automatic renewal. A narrower "no use auto-renewal" subclass covers members who paid for a renewal term they never used.

There is no settlement and no claims process as of filing. Whoop has not answered the San Diego complaint.