Weights...how to get'em?

[99JT]

I've found quite a few pieces on Facebook marketplace you literally have to constantly look but I have still got some decent deals. Just picked up a another pair of 45lb plates a few hours ago the guy was selling 650 lbs of plates, a bar, and some rubber mats I offered 180 for a pair of plates and dot them by no means a deal which is by no means a deal just the going rate around here. I saw a pair of 25 and 30 lb dumbbells the other day which sold for 50 before I could reply to the ad.

[Gallowmere]

I've found quite a few pieces on Facebook marketplace you literally have to constantly look but I have still got some decent deals. Just picked up a another pair of 45lb plates a few hours ago the guy was selling 650 lbs of plates, a bar, and some rubber mats I offered 180 for a pair of plates and dot them by no means a deal which is by no means a deal just the going rate around here. I saw a pair of 25 and 30 lb dumbbells the other day which sold for 50 before I could reply to the ad.

If you catch a good deal right now, you’ll have found a sucker who doesn’t know what’s going on.
I’m selling mine at cost (which is the same 2/lbs. you paid) to people that I know want to use them and aren’t scalping dicks. Shockingly enough, I haven’t had many move yet, but I’m also not willing to deal with shipping fuckery.

[99JT]

If you catch a good deal right now, you’ll have found a sucker who doesn’t know what’s going on.
I’m selling mine at cost (which is the same 2/lbs. you paid) to people that I know want to use them and aren’t scalping dicks. Shockingly enough, I haven’t had many move yet, but I’m also not willing to deal with shipping fuckery.

I've got a set of plates I ordered when this whole thing started paid around $1/lb plus shipping which was nearly half the price of the weights they were backed up 7-14 days...I still haven't got them probably just going to cancel them. If anyone is looking for dumbbells theirs a company called TDS fitness that has them in stock for around $1/lb and shipping isn't bad on most of them.

[Gallowmere]

I've got a set of plates I ordered when this whole thing started paid around $1/lb plus shipping which was nearly half the price of the weights they were backed up 7-14 days...I still haven't got them probably just going to cancel them. If anyone is looking for dumbbells theirs a company called TDS fitness that has them in stock for around $1/lb and shipping isn't bad on most of them.

They can “sell” them for $0.05/lbs. Doesn’t matter if you never get them.
That’s what’s got people so fucked up right now. Rogue has spent years lowering the bar on pricing, so their steel 45s are roughly $1.16/lbs, so that’s what everyone seems to expect now. Mine were more because they’re urethane coated steel and typically retail new for around 3.75/lbs. also because they’re sold to facilities more than private users.
Buying the lot also had the plates to me in less than a week, versus hoping and praying for months.

[99JT]

They can “sell” them for $0.05/lbs. Doesn’t matter if you never get them.
That’s what’s got people so fucked up right now. Rogue has spent years lowering the bar on pricing, so their steel 45s are roughly $1.16/lbs, so that’s what everyone seems to expect now. Mine were more because they’re urethane coated steel and typically retail new for around 3.75/lbs. also because they’re sold to facilities more than private users.
Buying the lot also had the plates to me in less than a week, versus hoping and praying for months.

Once I found out they were back ordered I drove over an hour to a dicks sporting goods to pick up a 300lb Olympic weight set plus another pair of 45s paid 350 and sold the bar it came with for $100 within minutes of listing it. Now people are selling the same 300lb setd for $6-700.

[Gallowmere]

Once I found out they were back ordered I drove over an hour to a dicks sporting goods to pick up a 300lb Olympic weight set plus another pair of 45s paid 350 and sold the bar it came with for $100 within minutes of listing it. Now people are selling the same 300lb setd for $6-700.

I’m honestly not shocked. Granted, I’m almost willing to bet that the bar is trash anyway, though the plates will serve their purpose fine. Not a bad turnover for you.
That’s one area I refused to compromise in, and ended up going with a Sorinex IWF spec bar. Buying a cheap barbell is like buying cheap tires for your car. Being a cheapskate with your only point of contact is asinine.

[99JT]

Bar was garage, I ordered and allredy received an elite fts one.